The Killer's Game

Nicks POV

Tuesday January 14th, 2018 -10:48pm (PAST)

Nicks POV

As soon as Dillion leaves she's starts to put another pack of gum in her mouth. She wasn't interested in talking to me, I could tell. She continues to chew her gum loudly.
"Spit your gum out." I told her. She wasn't taking this case seriously. Maddie knew exactly how to get on my nerves.

She looks at me, angry.
"Now look Maddie, cut the act. This is a serious case. You will be my lead suspect if you don't change your attitude. I'm going to ask this again and I don't give people chances. Why were you talking to Nickson?"

Her facial expressions changes as she looks around the room.
"Are you looking for something?" I asked. She places her face down on the table as she loudly begins to cry.

"I'm being blackmailed", she cried.
This is new. I thought. Definitely an act.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
" I...I... I was forced to talk to Nickson. I had to lie about me knowing how to block hackers. It was the only way to get him to notice me."

"My job was to send these pictures to him and love notes. My job was to make it look like he was cheating. All with the help of the hacker. He wasn't responding after the pictures, so the hacker took over his account and responded to make it look like Nickson was cheating. The love affair is all an act."
"Whose the hacker? Who gave you that job!"
"I can't tell you " she cried.
"Why did you play his game?" I asked.
"He was going to kill my family if I didn't. The person gave me 900 hundred dollars in cash to send dirty pictures and keep my mouth shut. I needed the money to pay rent!"

"Why are you telling me this now? Why tell me this at all, you were suppose to keep your mouth shut aren't you?"
"Because, the truth is I used to be best friends a long time ago. She deserves justice like you said. She didn't write that suicide note you showed me earlier. Alison always spelled love, L-O-V-3-Z. With a Z at the end and a 3 for the E." She pauses for a moment recollecting her thoughts.

"When we were younger. I would always ask her why she would write Love with a Z at the end and a 3 for an E. She said imagine this: A robber comes into your house and forces you to write a suicide not. Everyone would believe it, because it's your handwriting. They'd think you actually did it. There wouldn't be any evidence of someone forcing you Right? If I wrote the word correctly, I know you and the people who know me would automatically realized...wait this isn't Alison. She always spelled the word Love with a Z and a 3. Then you can tell the police that to solve my case! Alison was so smart. I wish I didn't betray her for all this money.

"That make sense, however, her finger prints were on the laptop and your story is just a story that might not be true. We won't be able to follow up on that"

"She must of did it on purpose then!", I looked at her confused. Was she listening to what I said?

"Just like the story she once told me. Alison left out the Z and the three so we'd know that... so we'd know she's being forced to do it."

I thought about the situation as a whole.

It was all starting to make sense. Nickson was being hacked for a couple of weeks and need help to block the hacker.

He went to Maddie who knew he was already being hacked and she pretend to be this smart tech girl who knew how to block hackers. But instead she becomes his fake secret mistress. Sense Nickson had no real help of blocking this hacker, the actual hacker gained full access to his computer replying to Maddie's dirty messages to look like Nickson into her.

And of course, when things started to die down, the devil turned things into his own hands killing both of them, staging it to look like a love affair. If Alison old friend is right about the spelling of love. This might not be a cold case. But of course, I shouldn't be foolish, that's not enough evidence.

How does this prove that he did this? He can't force someone to kill another human and then have them commit suicide... all the evidence leads to her killing him and killing herself.
Fuck, this monster was definitely above our pay grade. He was always one step ahead.

NO I WON'T GIVE UP!

Monday October 22nd, 2018 1:50pm (Present time-Now) Nicholas Parker

LAIM POV

"Nick, workers say you were yelling at Maddie in the investigation room, why?"

-Silence-

Tuesday January 14th, 2018 -10:48pm (PAST)

Nicks POV

"Tell me Maddie, who is it? Who blackmailed you?"
She starts to cry. "I can't, I can't tell."
"No ones listening. I'm the only one here in the room. You can trust me. Is he here? Is he one of us?"
She doesn't answer. She turns away.

"Is he one of us!?"

"For Christ's Sake Women, he's going to murder more people if you keep this a secret! WHO IS HE!" I yelled. Someone knocks the door.
"Nicholas?"

"Nicholas what's going on in there?"
She grabs my arms as I'm about to get the door.
She whines, "please, please don't tell anyone I said this please. You'll get me killed, no one can help me. Not even you. Just promise you won't say anything to anyone."

"Your proof that this case isn't a love affair because of you this doesn't have to be another cold case."

She starts to cry again, as she begs for her life.

"Please, he's everywhere. His eyes and ears. There everywhere. He'll know. He always finds out. You can't hide from him. You can't lie to him. He's everywhere. When you think your safe that's when your not." She let's go of my arm, drying her tears.
The door opens.

"Robert uh...?" I said speechless.
He sighed. "Always making them cry. This is why you'll never get any information out of these people." He says.

"You can go home now Maddie, your parents are here to pick you up. Thank you for your time." Robert says. She leaves

"You can't be investigating people this late. She's still young!" Robert says. It was quite for a moment.

"Never mind that, anything new?" He asked.
"Nothing. Same information." I told him.

"Are you not worried about Mark?" I asked him.
He looks at me. "You know how Mark is, he'll come when he wants too"
"What if he's missing? Killed? Kidnapped?"

He laughs. "You work to hard son. Don't jump to conclusions." He says padding me on my back.
"Go home now Nicholas. It's late. We'll talk tomorrow".

A real investigator never takes a break.
I sighed.

Her words spoke to me in my head. "He's everywhere".

I'm starting to believe it could be one of us. It's someone that has access to everything. My guess is Mark.

Monday October 22nd, 2018 1:52pm (Present time-Now) Nicholas Parker

LAIM POV

"Prefer to keep silent. Fine with me. Did you know Mark was missing?", I asked him.

"Yes, I did. Everyone knew he was missing", Nike said.

"When he didn't show up for the two first murders, why didn't you look for him?"

"I thought he might be the one causing this chaos", Nick explains

"What is your relationship with Mark, Nicholas?"

"What does this have to do with anything?" He asked.

"Nickson and Alison love affair case, lets touch that topic again. Whose job was it to track down the person who blackmailed Maddie? Did you know that Maddie was being blackmailed?"

-Silence-