I walked into the kitchen to find Theo already sitting at the table eating his breakfast, watching tv on what with technological advancements had become nothing but a picture on the wall. He was eating his cornflakes really slowly, concentrating on the words that the newsreader was saying. I had never seen my nephew so interested in the news, for he was usually watching something like Pokemon, so I stopped and listened to what the newsreader had to say. Liam, who was not far behind me, said hello to Theo as he walked in the door before he too stopped and listened to the newsreader's words.
The newsreader was standing in the middle of what looked like a green field. There had been no beautiful green fields in Ireland since a terrible drought three years before, so I assumed the man was in another country. He was talking about an ongoing worldwide police investigation, and he mentioned the name 'James Riley' which was what snapped me out of my sleep-induced trance. He read off a list of names from a piece of paper in front of him, a list of people who had been killed by James. Theo began to count them on his fingers, and by the end of the list he had counted 119 girls, all killed by the mastermind of a serial killer that had turned Tommo and Caitlin's lives, and subsequently my own, completely upsude down.
"That was a list of the 119 people that James Riley has killed in the past five years. There are only two people out there in the world, back home in Ireland in fact, that have ever survived the work of James Riley. For their protection, we cannot reveal the names of these two girls, and we cannot tell you any more details about their part in the investigation. The 120th person that James Riley has killed is what has bought us here, to a field, which there are no more of in Ireland, in the southern part of France. Why is this person so special? The answer is because this person is different from all 119 other victims of this man's doing. Because this particular victim is a man. Not a woman like the rest, but a man."
A man?! I thought, Why would James kill a man after he's killed all these women?!
"If the two surviving girls in Ireland could please come forward to the Irish police to answer a few questions, the police would very much appreciate it."
"What does they want them for, Uncle Niall? Why do they need the girls?" Theo asked me.
"I don't know, little man, I don't know. Maybe they think this dead man has a connection to them?" I replied
Both Theo and I had forgotten that Liam was standing right behind us until he said: "it's going to be okay guys, I'm sure it's nothing."
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FanficA young boy senses that something mysterious is going on in his home one stormy night. The next morning his uncle decides to investigate and finds a girl, beaten and weak from hunger, curled up on a mattress in his nephew's old room, to which they h...
