Litigant (Very Slow Updates)

4. Now

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Nathan helped Andrea to sit on the chair after Nathan cleaned the mess up and set the furniture back in its place. As a precautionary step, Oliver got Nathan to drug her. Her outburst didn't hurt or caused much damage to anyone or anything due to the handcuffs but still it was destructive enough.

"Yeah, now you tell me about this Chris guy," Nathan breathed sitting on the chair before her.

"Chris Terrence. I met him four months ago on a train back home after I shifted to my new apartment. He approached me for help. He didn't have a cell phone and he had to call someone urgently so he wanted to borrow mine. I told him the truth that I didn't carry a cell phone around. He was so anxious that he borrowed a dollar from me to call at a calling booth.

Now that I recall, he kept looking at some direction. I thought that he was looking at something or someone. I was tired so I ignored my suspicion and carried on my way.

That was the first time but later on we bumped into each other a lot and I felt this weird feeling like he was hiding something. He was always worried and constantly kept scanning the area around him. I felt that he was crazy and perhaps paranoid but then he started saying things to me, things that gave me goosebumps. At first I thought that he was insane and told cock and bull stories but then I realised that he was serious. Whatever he told was true, the deeper I dug, the more shocking it turned. At last, two months ago, I started experiencing the same. But it had stopped for him. I don't know why or how, it had stopped for him but started for me. They left him alone and started replacing me. And strangely, the procedure continued from that very step where it had stopped for him," Andrea said dizzily her voice slurred.

"Andrea, you need to explain me clearly. Who are they? Where does this Chris Terrence live?" Nathan questioned.

"They are dangerous, that is what Chris said." Andrea's head ticked back and forth due to the drug.

"Andrea, where does this Chris live?"

"Beside the comic stores down the lane of my house," the last few words slurred into distant as she fell forward and slumbered on the table. Nathan quickly got up from his place and marched out of the room. Oliver was leaning on the wall while Nathan stopped before him and held his collar. Oliver's boring expression turned into a confused one.

"Why the hell did you get me to drug her, Oliver? You know it very well that we aren't suppose to use it without permission from court! Look at her! She is unconscious! What will you tell if someone sees her like this?" Nathan demanded through his clenched teeth.

Oliver pushed Nathan away from himself and straightened his shirt.

"You saw her, you saw how wild she had become. She's a lunatic here, Nathan. And loons tend to behave in that way. I did what I had to do. I am trying to keep the building from being destroyed while a very sick person is in it and you ought to respect my action," Oliver poked his finger into Nathan's chest before adding, "oh, and don't worry about others. They are smart enough to not waste their time in this part of the building unlike us. No one is going to come around here anymore until the court gives it verdict. So you don't have to worry about anything."

"You are insufferable!" Nathan exclaimed throwing his hands in the air.

"Breaking news, you are worse," Oliver retorted moving away from Nathan.

Nathan knew that he was just wasting his time here bickering with a dispecable person, he needed to find who Chris Terrence was and what was his role in this case.

Commanding Oliver, "get me Andrea's house address, I'll go pay a visit to this Chris Terrence," Nathan walked out of the place.

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Nathan knocked at the door for fifth time as a irritated sigh escaped his mouth. He had been standing there for fifteen minutes and no one was bothering to respond him.

"Do you need any help mister?" A voice caused Nathan to whip his head towards the direction of the voice. An old lady, in late eighties stood behind him carrying a bag of veggies.

"Yeah, please. I'm from Wichita police department. Does anyone named Chris Terrence reside here, ma'am?" Nathan climbed down fleet of stairs to stand before her.

"I'm afraid no one by that name stays here, officer. In fact this is the first time that I'm hearing that name," the lady replied.

"You sure ma'am? Someone's life depend on this," Nathan explained.

"I'm hundred percent sure. I have a very good memory. I would have known if any person by that name lived around here but unfortunately no, there is no Chris Terrence here," the lady replied as she started climbing the stairs and pulled out a key to open the door.

"Please come in officer. It's so rude of me to keep an officer standing out here," the lady chuckled.

"It's alright ma'am. I must get going but if you ever hear that name, please give a ring to me. Here, this is my card," he handed her his card and took a leave. A frown had edged into his features. There was no one called Chris Terrence? Was Andrea playing a trick on him? Were others right that Andrea was mentally ill? Was he just wasting his time behind a loon?

His thoughts were disturbed as he heard a tsking sound, "pssst....pssst..."

He turned around to see a hooded guy with more than half of his face hidden, hiding in the alley. When Nathan's eyes met him, he curled his fingers calling Nathan. Nathan was baffled as he looked around him to see no one else in the street. He pointed a finger at himself and looked back at the mysterious guy confirming if he was calling him or not. The stranger nodded confirming causing Nathan to walk toward him and demand, "What?"

"I overheard your conversation with Mrs. London. And I wanted to tell you, that lady is hiding something. She is playing you but will not reveal anything until you have something upon her," he whispered while his head kept scanning around the area for any bypassers.

"Why are you telling me this?" Nathan asked curiously.

"There are many things happening around here and it is time that someone gets into this matter. I've been waiting for this moment for a long time and I wasn't going to lose a chance like this."

"Why didn't you inform this in a police station before?"

"I want to live, officer. Coming to a police station would mean signing my death contract," with that he swiftly ran out of the alley before Nathan could question him any further. Nathan knew something was terribly wrong and he had found a lead to it. Chris Terrence and Mrs. London were a part of it, no doubt.