The Mirror

Part 8

The Detective kills Jason

“Give me all the evidence. I’m going to take him on myself.” Carnes gives John all the evidence and the recorder.
“Be careful, Detective.”
“Awe, don’t you worry about me, Carnes.”
“After we close this case, maybe I’ll take you to dinner.”
Barkley said, “Wait! What about me? I eat too!:
“Oh, my bad Barkley, I forgot to tell you that I don’t give a damn!”
Barkley mutters under his breath, “I helped with an investigation and put my life on the line and this is what I get in return!? This is some bullshit!”
“WHAT!?” shouted John.
“Uh…… Nothing, don’t you have a case to solve?” said Barkley
Barkley and Carnes went into a separate room behind the mirror of Jason’s interrogation room.
John walked into the room where Jason was held. As soon as John stepped into that room he felt darkness swallow him whole; he felt there was another presence there besides Jason. Jason woke up and looked the detective square in the eye, but his eyes were sad and pitiful; John knew it was the “weak” Jason, but he needed the “other” Jason to come out.
“Jason, do you know who I am?”
“Yeah, you are the detective who is searching for my wife’s murderer. It’s Mike, isn’t it? He killed my Lily; I know he did!”
John sighs and sits down across from Jason. “I just want to let you know of your Miranda rights. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have a right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, then the courts will provide one for you. Do you understand these rights as I have read them to you?
“Yes, detective, but I did not need them to be read to me, I am well aware of my rights. I did not do anything,” said Jason.
John starts showing Jason all the evidence he collected.
“I took a trip to Mike’s house; I found the door to his kitchen was broken into. The doorknob was taken off by a rock; I found a nude picture of Lily and Mike in his trash can, and a note written by Lily. I’ll read it- "[My love, our time together has been unbelievably romantic. I think I am going to end it with him. My time with you has helped me realize that I want and love you. I will contact you when it is done. From your beloved- XOXOXO.”]
John slid the note over to Jason to see the note for himself, so he did not think the detective was lying.
Jason looked at the detective and said, “That note was forged.”
“No Jason, this note that your buddy Austin brought in to try to frame Mike is the forged one, and you know that because you wrote it and planted it in Mike’s house. You also planted Lily’s pearls in his room. Austin knew that and he tried to make it seem like he innocently found these items, but I am not stupid. Now, let me tell you what I found at your house.”
“You went to my house?”, said Jason.
“Is that a rhetorical question? Of course, I did. I found pictures of you and Lily on the stand in your living room faced down and when I went to lift them, I saw that only Lily’s face was scratched out.”
Jason's eyes looked even more sad as the detective went on with his story. “Are you saying, detective, that I am the one who scratched my wife’s face out of our pictures? I would not do something like that. That has Mike written all over it!”
“Shut up, I’m not finished. I also found that you moved a bed from the guest bedroom to the master bedroom. Why? Were you remodeling? Were you looking for something? I’ll answer for you. You were trying to cover up something by getting rid of a bed in the master bedroom, so you moved the bed from the guest bedroom to the master’s. Also, Lily left all her clothes there, in the closet; why would she do that if she had planned to leave you? To top it all off, Jason, I found Lily’s phone. It contains all the videos and pictures of Mike and your beloved Lily.”
Jason starts to cry. “What does any of this prove, Detective? Are you saying that I had something to do with Lily’s disappearance?”
John said, “Not only am I saying that, but I am saying that you killed your wife and had Austin help you frame Mike because you found out about the affair he was having with your wife.”
Jason is sobbing uncontrollably, but it is interrupted by John’s outburst.
“Come on, let’s skip the act, Jason. You may think you have everyone else fooled, but not me, you son of a bitch! I know you do not have MPD; you just fucking snapped! You are crazy, deranged, cold-hearted, motherfucker!”
Jason abruptly stops crying. He looks up at John, smirks, and says, “Hello, Detective John.
John looks into Jason’s eyes and sees nothing but a deep dark abyss.
“Jason can’t come to the phone right now, Detective, can I take a message? See, you and that whore of a doctor that looks similar to my bitch of a wife, think that you can bring something out of me, but in reality, this is me! I did kill my wife! I bashed her fucking face right the fuck in! My only regret was that I couldn’t bash her face in while Mike watched!”  

Jason suddenly jumps out of his chair, hits John in the face with the metal part of the handcuffs, and knocks him out; He shoots John in the chest, which causes the guards to rush into the room, but before they notice, Jason shoots and kills both of the guards. Jason walked into the room where Austin was.
“Jason, Austin shouts, I didn’t tell them anything!”
Jason said, “It no longer matters, you were never going to be a part of this ending.”
Before Austin could rebuttal, Jason shoots Austin in the head, twice.
Mike heard all the commotion and tried to break free from his handcuffs. He saw a paperclip on the table; he quickly straightened it out and picked the lock on his handcuffs. Jason walked into Mike’s room and found him sitting down with his hands behind his back.
“I know you are not handcuffed, Mike; I’m not fucking stupid.”
Mike stood up with his hands in the air and they both walked out of the room; They walked to the room where both doctors were and Jason made them leave the room as well with the gun pointed at all three of them. John finally woke up; thankfully he had a vest on, otherwise, he would not have risen again. He saw the two dead guards in the room; he stood up and left the room with his backup gun in hand. He sees Jason by the exit with the three hostages.
Jason! John shouted. “Let them go and I will not kill you!”
Jason allowed the two doctors to go toward the Detective because all he wanted was Mike, so he could kill him slowly. Carnes and Barkley stood behind John, but they gave him enough room to move. “Go in one of the interrogation rooms and don’t come out until I say so”, said John to the two doctors and they followed his order.
Jason walks with Mike in front of him with a gun pointed directly into his spine. Mike is sweating balls and John is trying to find an opening. Jason stopped ten feet away from the Detective; Jason and John were staring into each other's souls. John saw Jason’s eyes move to look at Mike before he shot him; John shot Mike in the leg to make Mike fall to the ground. Jason was caught off guard, which led to John shooting Jason in the chest three times.