All That Glitters Is Not Gold

Part 2

Chapter 4

The Interrogation

When Ian and Lannan got into the interrogation room, Jennifer just ignored them and went outside thus leaving Ian with guts to even talk to the suspects. First, he met James 'Claw' Law and asked him that what was he and his gang doing on the night of the bombing and "Praying to Christ" he answered with a dirty smile and even though Lannan tried to get something out of every claw, all of them answered just like their leader with an old fashioned dirty smile. Lannan had even got an answer "Kissing a toad just like you" which he took in so badly that he kept on muttering those words throughout the remaining interrogation. At last tired of not getting any information out of The Claws, Ian decided to interrogate the remaining three of Lazam. One was what looked like 40 years old. The second one was in his late teens and the third one was about 25 years old. After interrogating the first and the second, he learned that they had a father-son relationship and that they had gone hunting for geese together and although it did not seem to be possible, the lie detector proved that the father had taken his son for hunting geese. At last a disappointed Ian and Lannan went to interrogate the 25-year-old man. He had the most criminal like face as possible. All scarred and burnt with a piece of flesh missing from his nose. Looking at him gave Ian goosebumps and he somehow resembled Ted Kaczynski.

"And what were you doing on the 24th of December when your town was destroyed? Walking? or performing some ritual or something"

"That's none of your business. You all are idiots if you have not cracked this case yet. Honestly speaking, this case is so simple that I would call it closed"

"Just answer what I was asking otherwise, I am going to get a stick up that ass of yours and you would be in jail before you even understand it," said Ian with a raised tone. Lannan coughed a little and then the man spoke with not even a single change of attitude"

"Ah! These detectives. Can't you see my brother turned Christian and started worshipping that Jesus thingy! The evil has given us what we deserved and that is death. I had prophesied this years ago and so I started living away from that place but that is not going to keep me safe. It is not going to keep anyone safe. I bet that old man and his son are also going to be slaughtered. The dark will come soon. NOBODY IS SAFE."

"Can you just shut up that evil theory of yours and give me my answer. I am telling you I would not be able to hold my anger long so just give my goddamn answer you asshole" said Ian angrily.

"You are going to have to be Hanns Schraff to get information from me" he replied with an even dirtier smile than that of The Claws.

"I am better than that and anyways who is this goddamn brother of yours," said Ian confidently.

"Who are you? The Noodle from Perth who can catch any chopstick he can wants"

"How do you know about that? And besides, I am the rope and anyways just tell me who your brother is?" said Ian now with his glass of confidence on the floor in pieces.

"Looks like I have become a nasty maggot for the famous 'Rope'. Well, Arthur Rutherford was my brother. They had named him Arthur, Arthur Rutherford in the name of my grandfather telling that he would honor them someday and he runs away and becomes a priest or what he said 'Child of Jesus' anyways that's all you're gonna get from me and if you want to know my name then just fuck off with it. It's Colin Rutherford"

Lannan spoke at once "That's not possible. I went to his house and got the papers of identity he had. There, it was written that Arthur was born to an Australian family in Detroit and now he had settled in Perth and mind your language. You are talking to detectives."