The Criminal's Child// #Wattys2016

Prologue

Somewhere on London's outskirts, 5.57 pm

"I'll say this once more, who sent you?" boomed a man's voice. He had a strong voice, rather rough and harsh. His name? Thomas Drake.

"Why ask, when you already know?" came a reply from the other end of the room.

"I just want to make sure" the first man responded.

"Make sure of what? The only thing you can be sure of, Tom, is the fact that you will be caught. And when you do I'll make sure that I am the one to put you behind bars." the chained man retorts.

"It appears that you have forgotten who is in charge here. You see, if you look to your left and right, you will see that your limbs are chained to a brick wall. Oh wait, I'm pretty sure that you do realise that. What you don't realise is the fact that above you are 50 deadly Brazilian Wandering Spiders, imported by yours truly." Tom said, gesturing to himself.

The chained man looks up and begins to thrash about.

"Now if you don't mind, let's start over. Who sent you?" Tom says, without the slightest hint of anger.

"Again, I told you already, you know who I work for, then why are you asking me." the chained man cried.

"Just kill him already, honey." came a woman's voice.

It was Marina Drake, Tom's wife.

"I can't, not yet at least. I have to find out who he is working for."

"Well then, hurry up. This guy is the least of our worries. If this guy knows something, then those people who he's working for might as well. Find out quickly, then dispose of him."

At hearing the word 'dispose', the chained man knew he would die. He thought of all the things he would miss in his life. His house, other possessions, friends and family. On the topic of family, his thought of his 4-year-old daughter, whom he'd never see again. He took this as his chance to maybe escape out alive, and see his daughter once again.

"Ok fine, fine." he faintly uttered. "I'll tell you who I work for if you do me a small favour."

"Go on." Tom said.

"If I tell you who I work for, please let me see my daughter once more before you kill me."

"We'll see. Now, tell me before I lose my patience."

"Okay, okay. I work for the Secret Service. More specifically, I work for a Special Agent Task Team assigned to bring you down when we found out about the human trafficking business you run. Although there wasn't enough evidence to prove you were in it, there was enough to take you to a private court hearing. The Head of Operations decided to discreetly spy on you. Keep enough tabs until we found substantial evidence to take your criminal empire done for good. Now please, let me go."

Tom paused for a few moments, taking everything just said and analysing it in some way. He then asked his wife:

"Should we let him go, honey?"

"I think not" Marina replied.

With that, Thomas pulled down a small lever, which unleashed 50 poisonous spiders over the chained man's body.

Thomas and Marina left the room and bolted the door from the outside, yet you could her the man's screams from miles away.

2 hours later

"This is Channel 4 news reporting to you at the 7pm news. Outside an army training camp, was found a body belonging to a 'John Doe'. Quick medic examinations on the body show that the body had been bitten multiple times by an unknown insect or arachnid. The bite marks show that the man's attacker(s) were poisonous as all around the bite marks is red, inflated skin. This has been the 7pm news to you."