The Painters Killer

Chapter Three

Taylor and Rick went to the gay club but were unable to gain anything useful apart from a list of names of gay painters,their contacts and their characters.

They left Greenwich village the next day after staying in a motel for the night.

Rick drove them to Greenwich village and back to Manhattan borough.

While at the village,Marcus called Taylor to tell her that Sophie had been sentenced to twenty years in prison with hard labour as a result of her manipulative lawyer laying her out as a weak fragile woman who killed her husband in defence.Taylor was secretly happy that Sophie had not been sentenced to death or given life sentence.

When they got back to Manhattan,Rick dropped Taylor at the police department and left because he had things to do.

When Taylor walked into the police department,she was greeted by everyone.As she sat on her seat,she noticed that Andrea who was a big chatterbox was unusually quiet.

Taylor wanted to know what was wrong because Andrea had become a good friend to her since they were the only two females in the Manhattan borough.

When she asked Andrea what was wrong,Andrea gave a nervous almost hysterical little laugh and said that nothing was wrong.

Taylor was not convinced so she huddled towards Andrea and encouraged Andrea to tell her what was wrong with her.

Andrea was at first not very forthcoming till she burst into tears and stood up to leave.

Taylor hugged her close and refused to let her go insisting that she tell her what was wrong.

While all this was going on,all the police department male officers stood closeby watching the exchange.They hadnt realised how close Andrea and Taylor were and some even began to insinuate that they were lesbian partners.

"Tell me...tell me what happened",Taylor urged Andrea.

"I cant...it hurts too much",Andrea said.

"Andrea we are bestfriends and you can tell me anything",Taylor said.

This was when Marcus came into the room and though he could hear everything they were saying with his vampire hearing,the others couldnt.

"It happened yesterday,he followed me home and wanted sex but i was in a shitty mood and i refused but he didnt want to hear any excuse so he raped me till dawn then left me",Andrea said.

"I'm so sorry sweetheart...now tell me who it was",Taylor said.

When Marcus heard this,he stopped the officers from leaving the room they were standing in.

It was when he saw the pulse beating heavily in James' neck that he knew who the culprit was but he waited for Andrea to confess.

"It was...It was James",Andrea said.

"I'm so sorry sweetheart...now take your car and go home and rest",Taylor said.

Andrea walked out of the room and Taylor controlled her anger till she heard Andrea's car zoom off.

Then she turned a blood thirsty eye at James and she started walking to him in silent,sure and angry steps.

Her eyes were no longer their normal light brown,they were now violet.

Electricity zinged the air furiously as Taylor stood in front of James.The other guys had huddled far away from Taylor at the other end of the room.They had never seen this kind of scary Taylor.

"You did it to her...you raped her...you this bastard",Taylor said.

Then she dropped to the ground and screamed.It was a scream filled with so much pain,agony and anger that it hurt everyone's ears especially James.

Suddenly the air was cracking with touchable energy as Taylor stood up.

An invisible field of energy separated Taylor and James from everyone.It was when Taylor released a very husky and hysterical laughter that Marcus knew that this was not Taylor.

"I will Punish you for this...you this bastard for doing this to a beloved",Taylor said it in a voice that sounded like hers but was not hers.

She held James by the neck and held him far above the ground while strangling him but she stopped.She threw him to the ground and something like electricity started to form in her hands.

The air turned acidic as a long sword like bolt of white lightning stood in Taylor's hands.

She was about use it to pierce James' heart when Marcus stopped her.

"Taylor stop...this is not you...wake up...get out of that trance",He said.

She hesistated then swung the bolt to bury it in James' heart when Marcus said something that woke her up.

"You told me you dont want me to know who you really are but you are already showing me what you are",Marcus said.

Taylor's bolt gradually disappeared from her fingers and she dropped to the ground in a faint.The field of energy around Taylor and James eventually dropped.

James wanted to carry Taylor but the look he was given by Marcus stopped him.

Marcus told the officers to hold James down then carried Taylor to the p.d. sick inn where he put her on a bed.

The nurse smoothed her hair to the back and told Marcus to go that she would be alright.

Marcus refused and sat by her side,holding her hand.He didnt know what to think.Why had Taylor reacted like that?

He called Taylor's friend Rick with her phone and he came bursting in with a worried expression on his face.

"What happened...why did she release that much energy into the air?",Rick said.

"Her friend was raped",Marcus said.

"Oh shit...Andrea",Rick said.

Rick held Taylor's head and placed it on his laps.He held Taylor's head then said,"Taylor...baby wake up"

Marcus was mightily jealous when Taylor murmurred Rick's name.Suddenly Taylor sprang up with a yell of no.

Rick held her head down.

"What happened Taylor...Why did you lose control?",Marcus said.

"Didnt you see that he raped her?",Taylor said.

"Yes i know but it happens",Marcus said receiving a glare from Rick.

"It happens...its so easy for you to say you dont know the physical pain and emotional pain involved...soon she'll become like me",Taylor said in a whisper meant for herself.

Marcus was concerned now because it seemed like as though she was speaking from experience.

"Baby...if you talk about it you'll feel better",Rick said.

"It was horrible...they were four men from my police training school and when they saw that i was so good they decided to punish me for taking their own glory...so they entered my room and took turns raping me...then they threatened to kill me if i told anyone...everyday during training i saw them with those silly grins on their face but when i came to my power i killed them all four of them and i enjoyed killing them",Taylor said in a cold voice then she buried her face in Rick's chest and cried soundlessly till Marcus told her she had the day off.Rick took her to an amusement park and they had fun together all day.Taylor was slightly disappointed that it had taken learning one of her secrets to send him away.

That notion disappeared when Marcus came to her house and knocked her bedroom window.She opened the window for him and he stepped into the room.

"How did you climb up here?",Taylor asked.

"Through the fire escape...look Taylor i'm so sorry...so sorry for what those bastards did to you",Marcus said hugging her.They stood like this for d minutes before saying goodbye and Taylor watched Marcus drop down from six story building and walk away unharmed.

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