||Hello Neighbour: A Better Timeline||

||Chapter 99: Interrogation||

Keith put the book down, sitting across from Gerda who was in cuffs and looked more glum and had tear stains, from her mascara.
"You, Leslie and Leonard will be transferred, but we just have to make sure Gordon is as far as possible."
Gerda nods,"I will be as honest as I can with what I know, any other information should be answered by Leonard.", Keith nods, even though getting anything out of him.
"Why would you target Trinity Blades, was there any motivation?"
Gerda cleared her throat,"Trinity Blades was seen as a threat, as helped The Petersons in the past, leading the school rebellion and so she was deemed as a threat to us and we weren't going to kill her yet, use her for something. . . Maybe to get that notebook.", Keith nods,"You did have someone go back for it; Where is it now?", "I don't know who had it last.", Keith wrote that down, had to look for that too.
"Now, this book; It's filled with notes on people."
"To understand what we were up against and what they're capable of."
Keith nods,"And. . . I understand a lot of pictures were taken without the person's knowledge, but. . .", Keith pushed the book forward to Nicky's page,"Nicky's page has more pictures, not to mention this note here under the page states your cult were stalking him and weren't killing him any time soon; Any reason?", Gerda shrugged,"I don't know. . . Leonard and Gordon kept a lot of the plans quiet until the last minute, some they never spoke of in front of us; I don't think Leonard has interacted with Nicky so. . . I don't know.", Keith nods, pulling the book back.
"And. . . The Petersons."
. . .
"I understand your history with Theodore Peterson, in the notebook his father wrote about it. . . Gerda?"
She began to cry.
"We did it. . . I killed Franklin. . . We use to assault Theodore, he was homeschooled and never fight back, no matter how I tried to get them to stop they didn't and it went too far. . . Franklin died protecting Theodore. . . It was all our fault. . ."
. . .
Keith leaned forward,"Why didn't you guys confess?", Gerda shook her head,"I wanted to, but couldn't. . . Leonard talked us into keeping it a secret and even if I did confess, I had no evidence. . .", they in silence as Gerda cried, Keith horrible she was obviously remorseful for everything.
"Okay. . . I'll look into everything."
Gerda nods.
"If you find anything. . . Please, make sure to put us away for years. . . Life even."
Guess she was always prepared to go to jail. . . Or she was going to confess one day.

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That night in the holding cell, Leslie couldn't sleep.
Too many thoughts, voices were in his head screaming at him and every time he closed his eyes, Franklin was there; Staring at him with a smile.
Leslie sat up, eyes bloodshot, sleep deprived as he stood up.
"Leave me alone!"
Leslie looked around the cell,"I know what I did! I've already lost everything, what else do you want from me Franklin!? Leave me alone!", Leslie fell to the ground, shaking and crying.
!
Crowface was in his cell.
"What. . . What are you doing here. .. ?!"
"You're not going to be able to play. . . And if you've got nothing else, I might as well take your life. . . Put you out of your misery."

Gerda grabbed the bars, hearing the banging, screaming from Leslie.
"LESLIE!?!?!"
Crack!
Blood spilled, the bars destroyed as Leslie lay there dead.
Crowface stepped out of the cell, and walked away like he didn't just kill Leslie.
Gerda fell to her knees and sobbed.