"Ah what a beautiful day it is! Right, Louis?" Harry says stretching his arms in the air
I nod my head. "The sun is shining bright and the sky is clear. It would be a lot more beautiful if we could stay out here instead of going in there" I say looking at the building in front of us.
"Hanwell Pauper and Lunatic Asylum. I can think of a hundred different places I'd rather visit." Harry says sighing
"Don't worry Harry we're only here to gather documents." I say patting Harry's back. "But some of them walk around in the gardens. Careful and don't go looking for trouble."
"You're telling me that" Harry says clicking his tongue.
We open the doors and walk inside. For someone reason there's no light.
"Great we've been in here for 5 seconds and it's already eerie." I say
"There's a lot of candles but none of them are lit. And there are lamps here but don't seem to be working." Harry said poking them "and where are the windows geez!"
"It looks like the candles can be removed." I say
"Okay then Louis give me your lighter" Harry says holding his hand out. I reach into my pocket and hand it to him. "I told you smoking is bad and you should stop." He lights a 2 candles , picks them up and hands me one.
"Well Thanks to me smoking I have a lighter on hand. When can I smoke and it'll be okay?" I say sighing
"Never Louis , never." Harry says and starts walking through the corridor. "Eek this place gives me the creeps."
"There's a door."I say pointing. I open it and it leads to another corridor but it has a few windows letting the light in.
"Ah light! Thank heavens!" Harry says standing in front of one of the windows
"Let's get a move on the office should be straight ahead." I say
We walk and pass a bunch of rooms they use for the patients. More like prisoners. The whole place seems like a prison.
"Sirrr" a lady's voice says. I turn to where it's coming from and an old woman has her hand on Harry's arm. Her eyes are opened wide and she's staring at Harry directly in the eyes. They look bloodshot like she hasn't slept in days. "Come play with me" she said tilting her head. It was very creepy.
"Ahh!" Harry says running to me and hides behind my back.
"Agnes!" Another lady's voice calls. "Don't bother people! Go to the garden!" She says pushing the lady away. "I'm so sorry! I'm nurse Annie"
"Oh it's alright. We're detectives from City of London. We're here to speak with Doctor Egerton." I say
"Right this way!" She says and starts showing us where to go
"You should really fix the lighting from the entrance. We could barely see anything" Harry said
"I apologize about that. We had an incident with the patients and they ruined our new lamps. They will be fixed soon enough" She says "here you go"
"Thank you miss" I say and knock on the door
"Who is it?" A mans voice says
"It's Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles City of London police" I say
"Come in" He says
We open the door and walk inside and see a fairly big office with 2 big square windows. The office was full of bookcases and shelf's of jars with labels.
"Are those brains?!" Harry whispered to me sounding disgusted
"Are you doing research on these Doctor?" I ask
"Yes we are currently studying how certain mental illnesses effect the brain and we are experimenting ways to permanently cure certain mental illness's" the doctor says "those are from previous patients who passed away as old as 2 years ago."
"I see. I hope all goes well. Well anyway Doctor Egerton we're here on Detective Reid's behalf. We'd like to discuss a few things with you. We're also here for that folder we requested." I say
"Of course have a seat detectives." He says and grabs the folder and hands it to me. I open it and Harry and I look through the papers.
"We're looking into any people that could be suspected of being Jack the Ripper. Some of us think he could've been enrolled in an asylum so we're going around looking." Harry says. Doctor Egerton nods.
"Samuel Arnold 35 years of age was in Hanwell asylum 2 years ago for alleged mental illness causing him to stab his wife 3 times in the stomach and once of her chest. Was released on April 15 1887. But was readmitted for murder in September 5 1888." I say reading the paper aloud
"Hmm well it's a suspect. He was out during the Mary Ann Nichols murder." Harry says
"But it's unlikely he's the killer considering he was readmitted and the killings are still going on. But he's a suspect nonetheless." I say looking through more Papers . "What mental illness does he have?"
"People say he would talk to things that weren't there and would have violent outbursts that on multiple occasions ended ugly. On further evaluation we diagnosed him with schizophrenia." Doctor Egerton said
"I see. We'll take this back to the station. Thank you for your cooperation." I say
"Of course." Doctor Egerton says.
We leave his office and walk through the asylum.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Someone screamed
"What?!" Harry and I say at the same time. We hear the scream again and run to where it's coming from. We see a room surrounded by glass walls and see what seems to be a patient running around frantically away from a nurse. Another person enters the room and catches the patient but he gets loose by biting the persons arm. The nurse jumps him and gives him a shot and he calms down.
"U-uh. Let's go..." Harry says and we walk away.
We leave Hanwell Asylum and head to Whitechapel. In the carriage we go through more of the files.
"There's nothing special in here." I say
"Detective Reid is gonna be disappointed." Harry says
"I'm disappointed." I say sighing. We exit the carriage and go to metropolitan police station and give Detective Reid the folder. He looks through it and as expected he's disappointed.
"This is the fifth disappointment I've had today. No one had brought me any strong leads." He says covering his face with his hands. "How are you guys? The asylum must've been tough."
"It wasn't pleasant to say the least" I say
"Never ever going back there." Harry says frantically shaking his head.
"Anyway good work boys. Even if we don't have any strong leads things like this could help eventually." Reid says
"More like not helping right now and probably won't." I say
"Ahh don't be so down in the dumps Louis. Its not over till it's over." He says
"Right. We'll take our leave then" I say. We leave the station and walk around Whitechapel.
"Ahh how about we get something to eat I'm starving. Look over there." Harry says pouting to a small pub.
"It's quite dangerous in there Detectives. I'm not so sure you'll leave the way you came" a voice said from behind us says
We turn around and I see Amelia smirking at us leaning her back against the wall her arms crossed.
"Don't worry Amelia we can handle ourselves." I say smirking back
YOU ARE READING
Rookie Detective
FanfictionIt's London 1888 and Louis Tomlinson is a smart young man who has won the heart of every girl in London from his handsome face to his kind, gentleman personality. But Louis wants nothing more than to win all the hearts of London by catching a new se...
