Lunar Eclipse

Chapter 6

"ADMIT IT" Elijah roared as he slammed his hands on the table.

Elijah and Luna were interrogating the suspect. Elijah was playing the bad cop and Luna the good cop. That tactic usually worked with every interrogation they did.

The suspect just looked Elijah dead in the eyes and didn't say anything.

"Okay. If you're not going to say anything we need to take drastic measures" Elijah stated getting closer to him.

He grabbed his shirt and lifted him so they could be face to face.

"If you don't admit it, I swear to god, everything you have and love will be gone" Elijah declared.

The suspect was still emotionless, giving him a smirk.

Luna grabbed Elijah's shoulder, moving him away from the suspect and sending Elijah signals that she got this under control. She put the pictures of the crime scene in front of the suspect.

"Are you familiar with this?" Luna calmly said.

The suspect had a a quick reaction but Luna was quicker to notice it.

She sent Elijah a look that said 'We got him' as she started to ask him questions about where he was on the night of the murder.

The suspect tried to act calm, but he was so perplexed from the picture, it was like he woke up from a trance. He couldn't think of some alibi and just started crying so they could've pitied him.

"I d-didn't mean to. I-I was forced to do this. I didn't t-think he would fall for it" he whimpered.

"Stop crying" Elijah said slamming his fists on the table for the second time today.

The suspect just started crying more intensely after that.

 Luna being a weak hearted person, tried to calm him down. She got closer to him and patted his shoulder, which was a very bad move. They weren't allowed to make contact with the one they're interrogating.

Then everything happened in a second.

The suspect got out a knife from his boot, grabbed her arm that was on his shoulder, twisted it and stabbed Luna right in her stomach. She bent down in pain holding her wound. 

 When Elijah saw what the suspect did he froze for a second and didn't know what to do. Then he saw Luna in pain. Rage piled up in his guts as he rushed to him, took his knife and pointed a gun towards him. Luna saw this interaction and pleaded Elijah to spare him and not to shoot. The suspect was just laughing maniacally, looking around as more cops came in the interrogation room and took him away to a prison cell. 

After the incident Luna was rushed to the hospital to treat her wound where she had to stay a couple of weeks because it wasn't a really deep wound. Luckily, he didn't stab her in a dangerous place.

She knew that this kind of thing would happen eventually. It came with work.

Elijah started screaming at the guards.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU CHECK THE SUSPECT FOR WEAPONS?" he yelled.

"I-I'm sorry sir. W-we forgot. It was just... It.." one of the guards cried.

"SHUT UP! I don't want to listen to your excuses." he cut them off angrily and rushed to the hospital.

"Excuse me. Where is Luna Rivers located at? She was brought here an hour ago." he asked the reception lady in the hospital.

"And you are?" she asked.

 He was desperate to see what has happened to Luna so he decided to lie.  

"A close family" Elijah declared.

"Let me check." the reception lady said as she looked through her computer.

"She's still in operation" she answered.

"What? When will it be over?" Elijah impatiently asked.

"I'm sorry Sir. I don't know. You can wait in front of the operation room" she said as she pointed to some chairs.

"Ugh, Okay" he groaned.

After some time, the operation ended and the doctor came to meet Elijah.

"How is she?" Elijah quickly asked the doctor.

"She's fine. The operation went well. She's sleeping in her room now. Visitors are allowed so you can see her" he answered.

"Thank you. Thank you, so much" Elijah thanked the doctor as he rushed in her room.

She was laying in her bed, sleeping, receiving an infusion.

He got closer and sat on a stool next to her bed, grabbing her hand and just holding it, hoping she would get better soon.

Elijah was with her every day after work, entertaining her. This was the scariest moment in his life. He was afraid that he'll loose his life long friend because of some lousy murderer.