Mr. Identity has no friends

Chapter Four

The officer that was in charge of this case was Officer Slydying, such a fun name to say you know? Like you're talking with someone and you say 'yo who's the guy that has to save you from dying' and you go 'Officer Slydying'. That would be such a fun conversation! Anyways this guy, Officer Slydying, is my favourite character because he literally has no clue who I am and he's supposed to be the one to find out, like jeez man you sure this is the right job for you?

Back to the story, Officer Slydying was obviously also in charge of the questioning, which also didn't make him very popular, but hey somebody had to do it, so the guests decided to just not make a fuss out of it. He started the interrogations with Jasper's mom.

-"Miss Arkmon- "Call me Jean" she said interrupting the Officer -okay, Jean, tell me exactly what you did that night"-"All right then, let's see if I remember...oh yes, after dinner I walked up to my room which has an ensuite and had a nice warm bath, for an hour I think, then I curled my hair and put some pyjamas on. I stayed in bed until midnight-ish and then realizing I wasn't gonna get any sleep I decided to have a walk in the garden. I went into the garden, where I met Jacqueline which was smoking a cigarette. When she saw me she put out the cigarette and smiled. I sat next to her chit chatted a bit and then left her in the garden deciding to give another go to sleeping. When I got to my room it must have been 3 or 4 in the morning, and I fell asleep. I woke up at 11-ish and dressed for breakfast. Seeing that there was no one downstairs, I went to knock on Jasper's door. He didn't answer so I went in, his bed was untouched and the bathroom door was open, I looked inside and then"- Jean stopped and started crying-"he w-w-as just there lying, and I screamed" - "It's okay Jean you don't have to go on if you don't want to, but we still have a few questions"- said the Officer, Jean nodded as to tell him to continue the questions -"Good, then ehm... so as a first impression would you say it's homicide, suicide or an accident?" - "Oh, definitely a homicide, Jasper was too clever and careful to accidentally overdose with some random medicine and I don't think it's suicide because he seemed happy and finally contacting the real world" -"So are you saying that he was killed by poisoning and not through physical violence?"- asked suspiciously the Officer -"Well I assumed it was through poisoning because I couldn't see anything that implied an attack". The Officer thanked Jean and let her go. The next person to be interrogated was Tristan, Jasper's brother. 

"Alright Mr. Arkmon, tell me your version of events"- Tristan told him that after dinner they all went to the conservatory to have some after dinner drinks -"All of you?"- asked the Officer interrupting his story -"Yes, all of us, apart from my Mother which left after the first drink saying she was tired and I think she went up to her room. Anyways after she left, we went outside in the garden and sat on the benches, there were beautiful stars, so clear and bright, but anyways after that". After that Tristan said he went to bed and fell asleep right away and only woke up when his mother screamed. Next up was his wife, Jaqueline.

"So Mrs. Arkon, after dinner did you go to the conservatory for drinks?"-"Yes we all did, my husbands' mother left after the first drink though. After a bit that she was gone, we went outside in the garden and sat on some benches, after that everyone went up to their rooms but I stayed outside to smoke a cigarette. When I finished smoking I met Jean. She told me she couldn't sleep which I found strange since she left early because she was tired. Anyways, we talked for a few minutes about nothing but she did say something that bugged me, it's probably nothing to do with the investigation but she said that she didn't like how the waitress looked at Martha which is a bit strange since the two of them didn't even exchange a single look."- "At what time did you leave Jean?"- "I didn't, she left at 2 am saying she was going to the toilet. I smoked another cigarette and since she didn't come back, I went up to my room where Tristan was sleeping and went to bed"-"Did anything at all happened after that?"-"No, I slept the rest of the night through and woke up when Tristan woke me up, he told me his mother screamed and then ran out of the room to go check"-"Did you not hear the scream?"- the Officer asked -"No, I take sleeping pills so I sleep very heavily"-"Can I see your pills please"- Jaq took out a box of pills from her poket and gave them to the Officer. He took out a pill and photographed the box, then gave them back to Jaqueline. 

The next person to be interrogated was...Martha! Come on Martha! It seems like it's a TV show, sorry...nah not really sorry but anyways it was Martha's' turn. –"So, do I even have to ask the question?"-said our favourite officer. –"No it's pretty obvious what you want to know. I'll begin then. So, we had dinner all together and then went to the conservatory to have a few drink, after one or two drinks my mother left to go to her room. We stayed up another half an hour or so, I think, I'm not sure you see, because we drank quite a lot so yes I was a bit tipsy. To be totally honest I was as drunk as a sponge, so it was a miracle that I remember anything. Anyways other than what I told you I remember going up the stairs with Oskar holding me. Then I pass out on the bed and wake up to mother screaming. That's all."-"Alright seems real enough, call your husband in please"-said the officer without giving Martha another second of his time. Which is fair enough for him, because Martha is (or was), a really attractive woman and our dear Officer loves women so to not be tempted by her, he believed whatever she said and let her go. He obviously did not realize that she might be the killer. Going on with our interrogation, Oskar came in the room.-"Officer I don't think that my testimony will help you in any way."-he said–"Well that is my job to decide, so would you mind telling me what happened last night until now"-"Alright then. We had dinner and then we went to the conservatory. We had a few drinks and then Martha's mother left to go to her room, then after a lot of drinks I helped Martha get to our room and she passed out on the bed. I tucked her in, had a shower and went to bed." he then stopped, the officer stared at him and then said-"Did you get woken up by the scream?"-"What scream? Martha's?"-"No, Jean screamed and the whole household woke up, apparently"-"Did Martha get woken up by that?"-"No, she said she didn't hear anything"-nice tactics officer, messing up relationships, oh man this ought to be good-"No I didn't hear anyone screaming, probably because our room is far from Jaspers one"-"Okay, thanks you can go now"-. Now it was Trevor's turn. –"So, what happened?"-asked our friendly officer. –"Okay, so we had dinner. It was actually really nice and then waitress is really good looking you should see her! Anyways, I'm getting a bit off topic sorry. So, after dinner we went to the conservatory and we had drinks - a lot might I add – but Jean left after the first few saying she was tired. We, much later, went to our rooms. I fell asleep and woke up to Jean screaming."- Our dear officer liked Trevor, he was confident not too much to be arrogant and his testimony was the only one that confirmed the events properly. –"Okay Trevor, is it alright if I call you Trevor? I can't pronounce your surname sorry" – Uuu humble our officer. "Yeah yeah sure, call me Trev. Do you know what happened to Jasper yet? How did he die?"-"No, not yet. We have a few theories though. Might be poison"-"Oh, so was it a homicide?"-"Yeah, I'm sorry. Did you think he died of natural causes?"-"No, not really, but I hoped"-. Officer Slydying pat him on the back and left the room.