Dark Angel

CHAPTER 11

"Urgh, I'm an idiot." A groggy Alexander said to himself as he came to in a dark room with a faint glow. He tried moving and realized he had been restrained; shackled to the chair he was sitting in.  
He was too careless. He got discovered by Dake and got tranqued in his own home.

"You're awake!" A voice called and he focused his gaze to the fire in a barrel that was dimly illumiating the room. Behind it and tossing papers into the flames was a disheveled Dr. Dake.

The files!

He tried to move but his restraints wouldn't allow him to. All his hard work to prove that that monster did all this evil was turning into ash.

And the only thing he could do was clench his teeth in anger and frustration as Dake smiled sadistically and tossed them into the flames.

"Why did you have to be so stupid boy?" He asked in false sympathy as he dropped the final document into flames that ate it greedily. "Why did you have to stick your nose where it didn't belong?" He took measured steps and crouched in front of Alex before continuing. "You have the same fire as your mother."

"Is that why you had her killed?"

Dake stepped back, amused and responded. "Y'know let me tell you a strange story..."
"I don't want to hear it." Alex responded but, he continued anyway.

"I was in some pretty bad company and found myself peddling drugs and being a part-time 'fixer'."
He said 'fixer' like it was a shiny toy he had gotten for Christmas.
"One thing led to another and I found myself in a bit of debt. Well, that was before I worked with your mother.

I was on the rocks and she was my saving Angel. She respected my brilliance and requested that I help her in some top-secret research in her company on some really dangerous diseases. My previous employers caught wind of it and decided to let me pay back my debt in... services. It started small y'know,
'Pick this up, drop this down, steal company secrets from your lab partner..."

He trailed off to see the rage in Alex's eyes, smiled with pleasure and continued. "Your mother finally found out and kicked me off the project and I didn't blame her. God bless her for not giving the medical community a reason to strip me of my liencence.

She just requested that I be transferred to medical care and whatnot because the "work put a strain on the physical ability of Dr. Dake. And I got the magical job of prescribing very special drugs for those very special ailments! But you see, my debt still needed to be paid.

So, I was ordered to sell some of those drugs and a few other non-legal stuff... y'know, meth and shit, where I could get some money for me. But, your mum found out, confronted me about it and said she'd report me. The dumb bitch was going to ruin everything!"

"So, you poisoned her? Made us think she was sick?"
"Nonono!" He laughed. "This is where it gets interesting! A few days later, she gets mysteriously sick and do you know the cause?

One of the diseases we were working on together to cure.

She had discovered the cure alright but, only to get infected by the something we were trying to fix? If that wasn't a sign from God, I don't know what was! But I didn't want her to die that way. She had done everything to cure that disease and since I controlled the flow of all the drugs from the company, I called to ask what I should do about it and you never guess what they told me!

To feed her the wrong drugs!

You see Alex, I wanted your mother dead. But, not that way. So at first, I said no to it but, they were going to expose me! Tell the police about the drugs and my association to criminals.