The Dark Streets

Chapter Six

Willow looked at the body and ran to the bathroom and threw up, she came back to the room,
"Looks like the man that was following you, is our killer... The blood looks a little dry, he must've been murdered at around midnight." I looked at Willow, "you're very lucky Willow, this easily could've been you." She couldn't stop staring at the body,
"Who could've done something this awful?" I put my hand on her shoulder,
"Someone sick, crazy and insane in the head." We heard sirens blaring towards our location,
"Fuck! We need to leave now or we're going to be arrested for a murder we didn't commit!" We ran out of the room and down the stairs and out of the door and we got into her car, she turned it on and speed away from the house,
"That was closer than it should've been, no where are we going Jack?" I rubbed my chin,
"Jack it is time to introduce Willow, to me." I nodded,
"Let's go to the docks." Willow looked at me,
"The docks? Why there? Isn't that where John was killed?" I nodded,
"Yeah he was... There's someone their I want you to meet." We drove towards the docks and we arrived at the parking lot, "okay let's go and follow me." She turned the car off and we got out, and we started walking towards the warehouses and after a while we made it to the warehouse where John was murdered, "you first, milady."
"Jack I don't understand why we're here, this has nothing to do with our investigation."
"Like I said I want you to meet someone, someone that will lead us in the right direction and someone that has been leading us the whole time." She closed the door and looked at me,
"Who Jack." I back away from her and close my eyes,
"Stake I demand you come out and make yourself known!" Just then I blacked out and fell to the ground,
"Jack!" She knelt down to my body and started crying,
"Hey now sweetheart, Jack is fine he's just... Indisposed at this time." She stopped crying and wiped her tears away and looked at me, I opened my eyes and smirked at her, I got up and pulled Willow up,
"What the fuck is going on?! Who the fuck are you? And what did you do with Jack?" I started to chuckle,
"You use of the English language is... Very creative, me and Jack thought it was time to for you to meet me, my name is Stake and Jack don't worry he's safe inside my... I mean his mind and well what's going on is a man with an axe and an entitled personality is going around hacking and slaughtering people like he's a butcher in a meat house." Willow shook her head,
"I don't believe this, what are you?"
"Well through the years I've been called multiple things like monster, beast, once I was called a unicorn because I strapped a rhino horn to my forehead as a prank, but most recently I've been called a demon and I quite like that title so I guess I'm a demon for the time being." Willow took out her gun out and pointed it at me, "umm exactly what are you going to do with that, if you shoot me, you're actually shooting at Jack so I wouldn't do that and I know this is all very surprising but if you can trust Jack, you can trust me Willow I'm not out to hurt you, me and Jack fight for the same cause... And it's also time for you to join that same cause."
"What cause?" I started taking off my clothes, I had my shirt off,
"Our cause is to bring order back to this world, like it was in the years of the past, where the good receive power and the evil ones get executed, where the world stood as a united entity and fought together and not against each other... And it starts with me, Jack and you, Willow." I took off the rest of my clothes, and I was standing naked in front of her,
"So to join the cause I have to have sex with you?" I nodded,
"Yes it is crucial to our plan, you must give birth to the Lord of our new world... Besides I know this is something you and Jack have been wanting to do for a while now... Jack's been wanting to do this since I met him." Willow blushed,
"Well that is true and... Really?" Willow started taking her clothes off and she was in her bra and panties,
"Well now I see why Jack is attracted to you." I walked up to her and started kissing her and then everything went black. I awake and I see Willow's naked body laying next to me,
"Don't know why you have feelings for Laura because Willow is an absolute beauty." Willow opened her eyes and looked at me,
"Oh my god Jack, that was the best I ever had." I got up and put my clothes on,
"So now you know one of my dark secrets... Do you want to stay?" She got up and looked at me and smiled,
"Of course, I love you and the baby inside of me will be the leader of the new world." I smiled,
"Good, let's get dressed we got a lot of work to do." She got up and got dressed and we left the warehouse and walked to her car and we got in and buckled our seatbelts in, she turned the car on and drove out of the parking lot,
"So where to now Jack?" I looked at her,
"We're going to 2790 Kenmore Ave." She nodded,
"So... Stake he's... A demon living inside of your mind?" I nodded,
"Yes he is, he came to me at my darkest time in my life." She nodded,
"What happened during that time Jack?" I sighed,
"I haven't told this to anyone since it has happened but while I was in college, I ran out of my college fund and needed money... So I got involved with some gangbangers, I started selling drugs and... I did things I'm not proud of, I wanted to kill myself and that's when I met Stake and helped shape me into the man I am now." I looked out the car window and back at Willow, "I may not be proud of the things I've done but at the same time I'm glad I did do them because they've led me here... To you." We reached the address, it was a house she parked in the driveway and turned the car off and we got out of the car,
"Well here we are... Looks a bit sketchy." We walked towards the back door and I tried to open the door and it didn't open, "here let me try." She took out a bobby pin from her hair and started lock picking the door, after a while there was a clicking sound and she pushed the door open, "ta da!" I chuckled,
"Okay nobody likes a show off... Ladies first." We walked in and the house was completely empty,
"Looks like whoever lived here before doesn't anymore, we should look around to see if there's any evidence of the person who lived here before." She nodded,
"Okay let's take a look around." We walked around the bottom floor of the house and found nothing,
"Nothing down here, let's go upstairs." We walked up the stairs, to the top floor,
"You go that way and I'll go this way." She nodded and walked to the left side and I walked to the right side, I walked into the first room and it was a bedroom, it was completely empty and I looked in the closet and saw a bunch of hangers,
"Jack! Come here I think I found something." I walked to where Willow was and she was in the master bedroom, she had a picture in her hand, she handed me the picture, the picture showed a girl and a guy smiling and holding each other,
"This is Elizabeth, Mr. Cajan's sister and this must be her boyfriend, they must've lived here before she died a week before my father."
"How did she die?"
"She died of a heart attack." I put the picture in the breast pocket of my jacket, "looks like we will pay Mr. Cajan a visit." We walked down the stairs and out of the house and we got into her car, and buckled our seatbelts in and she turned the car on and she drove out of the driveway, and down the street towards Mr. Cajan's bar.
"So who's are top suspects right now Jack?" I rubbed my chin,
"I have no idea, this case is definitely a mystery, what do you think Willow?"
"Well that Marcus seems like an asshole, blaming you for the murder of Johnathan." I nodded,
"You don't know the half of it... There was this time, it was when I first started, he was yelling at my father and it was a week before he was murdered and I think it was about a case my father was working on and was from my understanding hot on the killers trail but Marcus ripped the case from my father and told him to leave for the rest of the day, and I saw my dad at Mr. Cajan's that night and he told he was quitting and going to continue the investigation himself but he was found by me murdered in an alleyway."
"Why did Marcus just take the case from your dad?" I chuckled,
"He was jealous that my father got all the attention for the case from ten years ago and since he was his boss he just took the case from my father and made it so he wouldn't solve it." Willow pulled up to an empty parking space in front of the Cajun's, she turned the car off and looked at me,
"Do you think he was involved with your father's murder?" I shrugged,
"I don't know, he doesn't seem like a man that would kill... He's got blue blood and follows the Blue Code." Willow gave me a questionable look,
"The Blue Code? What's that?"
"It's a secret code that a select few cops follow, those cops are part of a secret society of cops called The Blue Brothers, my father told me about this club and he said that people have been murdered for in the past for breaking this code but he said it has stopped happening for years." We got out of the car and started walking to the front door of Cajan's, we opened the door and saw Mr. Cajan behind the the counter cleaning mugs,
"Hey 'detectives', how goes the battle?" We sat down in front of him,
"It's going pretty good, we're here because we investigated a building." Mr. Cajan stopped cleaning the mugs and put the mug he was cleaning down,
"Why did that bring you here exactly?" I put the picture on the counter in front of Mr. Cajan,
"We're here because your sister loved in the building and she died a week ago before my father, my question is who's this man in the picture?" Mr. Cajan picked the picture up and looked at it, tears started selling in his eyes and he started shaking,
"My sister was a sweet girl, she always helped anybody that needed it... Then she met Tony Brooks, his family is known for being criminals and junkies, I told her to not get involved with him but she did anyways, she said she was helping him but in reality she was his bitch, selling drugs for him and doing drugs for him, the last time I saw her was to lend her money no doubt to support their drug usage and then... She died of a heart attack no doubt because of the drugs, it's all Tony's fault if it wasn't for him she'd still be alive." I looked at Mr. Cajan, and put my hand on his shoulder,
"I'm sorry to hear that Mr. Cajan, but before she died was there any signs that maybe she was being followed or anything?" Mr. Cajan rubbed his chin,
"Now that you mention it she did seem a little bit paranoid but I know someone that might have more information on this matter, his name is David Jonson, he was a good friend of Elizabeth, and tried to get her away from Tony." I nodded,
"David Jonson isn't that the son of Marcus?" He nodded,
"Yes, he lives at 90 Sheffield Ave." I noticed that was one of the addresses on the list,
"Thanks Mr. Cajan, and don't worry I'll get Tony for you." We walked out of Mr. Cajan's bar and walked towards Willow's car and got into it and buckled our seatbelts in and she turned the car on,
"I can't believe that someone as sweet as Elizabeth could be menpulatied like that or even get attached to someone like Tony Brooks, I know the Brooks family and their horrible people."
"Welcome to the slums, where good people become wicked people." She started driving,
"So David Jonson, the son of Marcus Jonson... I wonder if he's anything like his father if so, I don't think I'll like him that much." I shrugged,
"I don't know but the further we go down the rabbit hole, the more this mystery unravels." Just then everything went black and I was sitting at a table, "why am I sitting at a table Stake?"
"I have something to tell you Jack... Something you need to know about me."
"What's that exactly Stake? If you don't know we're getting close to solving this case."
"It's time for you to know who I truly am." I sighed,
"Stake what's gotten into you, I already know, you're a demon." He shook his head,
"No, I only say that because I've been saying that for about a hundred years now, I am a mortal man from the eighteen hundreds, I was an expert in occultism, alchemy and dark magic, I combined my knowledge of all three to excel my spirit higher and what happened is I became what is known as an Anomaly, which is a being that exists in all realities, timelines and dimensions at the same time, for over three hundred years I've been working on trying to come back but haven't succeeded until I nearly gave up and found you, you've been the most successful... So with that information, do you still trust me?" I rubbed my chin and looked away and then back at Stake,
"Stake you've been apart of my life for a long time now and you've made the man I am now and I am grateful and for that I will continue to help you."
"Jack! Jack!" I awake to Willow shaking me,
"Yes, what is it?"
"We've arrived at our destination, time to interrogate a detective's son, this should turn out well." I nodded in agreement,
"Let's hope daddy doesn't accept his son." She turned the car off and we unbuckled our seatbelts and got out and walked towards the house,
"By just looking at his house, I'd assume daddy supports him."
"Either that or he's paying for it some other way." We walked up the steps to the front door and I knocked on the door, I heard footsteps on the other side of the door and it opened to a tall intimidating man,
"Hello what can I do you for?"
"Hi my name is Jack Darring and I'm an investigator investigating the murder of Detective Rick Darring, is David Jonson home?"
"He's actually on his way home, come on in and you can wait for him." The man opened the door and allowed me and Willow to come in, we walked into the house and the man led us into the dining room and we sat down at the table, "so is David in some sort of trouble?"
"Well no, but he may know something about the murder and a few other murders that may be committed by the same man." The man nodded,
"I heard about Officer Darring's murder, I'm so sorry about that, Marcus told me he was a good man and an even better detective." I nodded,
"So how do you know David?" The man smiled,
"Well we were highschool sweethearts and we married last year... But his father hates me and even disowned his own son, when he found out that he was gay and marrying a man, the last words he ever said to David was 'you're not my son and you can die for all I care', Elizabeth was a friend of ours but that poor sweet girl met Tony and we told her that it was a bad idea to get involved with him but she said she was a grown woman who can take care of herself, and when she died of a heart attack we both knew it was because Tony got her into drugs and before she died she told us that she was repeatedly seeing a man with an axe outside of her apartment and then she died a few days later and then after she died, me and David started seeing the man outside of our house... I couldn't sleep for days, I'm scared we're next." Just then David walked in, I turned around and got up,
"Hey David, my name is Jack Darring." David walked up to me and shook my hand,
"Hey Jack, sorry to hear about your father, so to hear about your father and getting kicked off the force." I shrugged,
"It is what it is, but I have the freedom to investigate my father's murder, my way." David nodded,
"So what brings you here?"
"I have some questions for you." He nodded and we walked back to the dinning room table and sat down,
"Yeah no problem, go right ahead, ask whatever you need to and I'll answer it with the best of my ability."
"Okay firstly, how did you meet Elizabeth?"
"We were friends in highschool, and even then she was a nice person, she was always went out of her way to protect the weak, then she met that Tony, he had a reputation because of his family and he definitely lived up to his name, in my eyes he got her killed." I nodded,
"I see, do you believe that Tony could be involved with the man with the axe?"
"Yes I do believe that he's involved but not the actual killer though."
"Before Elizabeth died was there any sign that she was targeted by the man with the axe?" He nodded,
"Yes there was, the last time me and David saw her, she was looking around like she was being followed, at one point she even looked me in the eyes with concern, when I was going to ask her about it she said goodbye and left and then... She died." I nodded,
"I'm sorry about that, last question do you know the whereabouts of Tony Brooks?" He nodded,
"Blake honey can you a piece of paper and pen." Blake nodded and got up and got a piece of paper and pen from a drawer and walked back to the table and sat down and handed the paper and pen to David and wrote the address and handed it to me and the address was 1120 LaSalle Dr. "This is the address I last knew he had." I nodded and stood up and so did Willow,
"Thank you David, you've been very helpful, that's all I need of you, you have yourself a wonderful day and you too Blake." Me and Willow walked out of the house, and Blake shut the down behind us,
"I'm driving." I motioned for her to throw the keys, she did and I caught them, I unlocked the car and we got in, "we got alot of useful information but the man with the axe, is still unsolved but we have two more addresses to go to and then we have the last known address of Tony Brooks."