Intertwined

Loopholes and Rat Traps

A/N: Hello my lovely people. Wow 3K. I'm so grateful for every time someone reads my little fanfic.
Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend. I've been trying to finish this for three days. Sorry for the delay. I'm hoping to have the next chapter done by this time tomorrow at the latest.
Also: I'm not well informed on legal processes that are spoken about in this chapter, this is just my best guess on the little bit of knowledge I have, and to add to the story.

Long after the events of that day people would wonder how exactly these kinds of coincidences happen. Maybe a tipping point in the universe, where too many secrets could not be contained. Perhaps it was to bring the balance back between good and evil? Then again, it probably wasn't that deep.

Just as three people were learning a new truth about their parents and the horror behind it, the earth of their childhood home broke revealing more than anyone bargained for. Although it wasn't entirely accidental that the earth cracked in the backyard of the Knight mansion.

You see, contractors like to get paid for the work they do, and Roger Knight's landscape builder had not been paid for the work he did on the foundations and framing of and enormous new fountain and entertainment deck he started two weeks ago. It was three days' worth of work, truckloads of timber and concrete and should have been another three weeks work on top. After seeing the police tape around the mansion, but no actual police onsite he decided to go through the back double gate and retrieve at least some of the materials.

Upon seeing his work, and admiring it, he also was reminded of the rest of the property; the giant hot tub, the resort style pool, the Maserati, Bentley and a Ferrari parked in the glass windowed garage, equipped with turntable and polished marble floors. The contractor realised that this Roger Knight, was just another entitled rich guy about to get out of paying for the hard work others did for them. He wasn't just angry, he was incensed. He called up two of his apprentices and two laborers, told them where to bring two trucks. He met them and they got to work salvaging as much of the materials they could. He instructed them, that in order to really stick it to the rich entitled guy they would break up the concrete, so the whole project would need to be started again. I mean it would be good if that would bothered Roger, but this contractor was more about letting off steam at the minute.

He was sick of Roger's type trying to get out of paying for his companies hard work. He didn't think the police tape meant that much.

Probably just didn't pay his taxes. That's what rich guys usually get arrested for isn't it?

The five men had been working for a few hours when they decided a break was in order. One of apprentices thought it would be fun to do a running jump in the pool, fully clothed, to cool off before getting back to work in the heat. About half the concrete had been jackhammered apart, the vibrations causing dirt to rise to the surface. As the young apprentice did a run up to the pool he saw something sparkle amongst the broken concrete.

He stepped back towards the shiny object. This was a fancy house and had a garage full of fancy cars, maybe some jewelry someone had forgotten about had been lost in the backyard. As he got closer, he saw a gold band and what looked like a watch face. It was stuck on something. A stick maybe?

He bent down to inspect it closely and as he did a piece of broken concrete shifted and he fell on his arse in the dirt and screamed in pain as something spiked his butt cheek. He heard the laughter from his workmates; someone was surely filming him for a good online laugh later.
'Fuck!' He exclaimed and rubbed his butt as he stood up. The other workers watching this were in hysterics. This was going to be quite the viral video. Suddenly as the young, clumsy apprentice stood up a look of horror took over his face, all colour drained from him and a scream worthy of a teen horror film, escaped the young man's mouth as he ran towards his co-workers.