Two broken souls (Lams)

twenty six

Peggy goes over the note all night in her head, twisting and turning in bed. Kenzie turned over to face her "baby?" She says, grabbing her hand. Peggy looks at her sighing "It's nothing ok. Just can't sleep." She says then rolls facing away from Kenzie still holding her hand.

Alex wakes up around five and can't go back to sleep so he makes his way back into the basement. He turns on the light and uncovers the body. Running his hand over the tattoos then looking at his fingers. A shade of black was left on his finger, he srunches his eyebrows and starts to rub a finger over the tattoo. He hogs over to the shelves "rubbing alcohol. Rubbing alcohol." He mumbled searching the shelf "here we go." He grabs a bottle of it then a cloth. Pouring the alcohol on the cloth then starts to rub the tattoo. Piece by piece the tattoo starts to fade "oh my God." He walks over to the other arm and starts to rub in that tattoo. Nothing happens "ok ok." He mutters setting the rag down. He starts looking at the bruising in the neck, running his fingers around there "broken but not enough to be noticable by x ray I guess." He walks up the stairs and over to John. "John." He pushes him until he wakes up. "Alex is to early for this." He rolls back over. "John please it's important." He says pulling John up.

They walk down to the basement and Alex shows John the tattoos "Gone." John says staring at Alex. Alex nods "fake. Rubbed off with alcohol." Alex grabs John's hands guiding it over the bodies neck "feel." Alex places his hand right over the broken part "You can feel how there's a bump. Either this is to small for an x ray. People are keeping it quite or it's not that big of a deal." Alex says letting John's hand go. John looks at Alex then removes his hand "wow." Alex walks over to the steps "Im going to go get Peggy."

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Peggy runs her hands over where Alex showed her on the neck She scrunched her eyebrows then walked over to grab a scapula. She start cutting over the stop of the spot "Holy shit Alex." She says looking up waving her hand over. Alex looked and felt sick "How the fuck is that possible." John rushed over and stared in disbelief, It looked like a tiny bomb blew up in there, bones where scattered everywhere, muscles where barley recognizable. 

Peggy run up stairs and brought back Kenzie "Listen this is fucking unbelievable that no one noticed." John stepped back to let Kenzie lean over at look, She stepped back eyes wide "How." peggy shrugged "I wish i knew. Only way for this to be possible if-" She runs over to the shelf "Jefferson." She brought over a needle with a red liquid "Jefferson had me make these years ago for a clean kill could make it look like a natural death if no one looked. In this case a suicide." She hands the needle to John "come here." They walked over to the body "Give the shot to his foot." John stabbed the body. They waited about two seconds then a tiny pop filled the air, Peggy grabbed an x-ray showing them the foot bones where destroyed. "But you notice that its broken." Alex points at the foot bent in many ways. "Thats why you do it somewhere like the neck. cause once dead you don't control your head so it wouldn't be weird if you head was flopping every direction." She says throwing the dirty needle away. 

Then she noticed the tattoo "Alex did you?" Alex walked over grabbing the towel "Rubbing alcohol." he throws her the towel "The other is real." Peggy looked at the faint numbers left on his arm. "Worked at a tattoo parlor for a little use to do fake ones. Only sometimes the artist is good and you can't tell." Alex says rubbing the other tattoo "This one is real." He looks at it a little closer "Peter Jefferson." Alex says staring into the wall. "what?" Kenzie steps forwards. Alex shakes his head "About six months ago two boys came in each tall, slim, puffy hair one however had a pony tail, the same face. They came in and ordered my co worker that day to tattoo something and the other already had it and showed him then." He broke contact with the wall looking at Peggy "We need to go to Boston." Alex turns around to face everyone "Massachusetts." John nods "Okay." he says looking at the body. Kenzie and Peggy look at each other "umm I don't know Alex." Kenzie says. Alex raises an eyebrow "This could set us back or leap us forwards I'm willing to make that sacrifice." Alex looks at the clock then back "I know the owner there and if he still owns it then we will be able to find Angelica Schuyler and Eliza Schuyler they will be able to help." Alex says looking at his ankle smiling then looking up at Peggy again. Peggy put her hands up "You know maybe we should just give up. Murders happen all the time it won't hurt us to just let the police I'm friends with some they can-" Alex shakes his head "Only way for this to work is if we find Angelica and Eliza." Peggy leans against Kenzie, Kenzie looks down at her then frowns "It's going to be ok. we can pretend." Peggy nods "They will have to get over it one day." Peggy sighs "Sure only if they stop listening to dad." Kenzie bites her lip "well maybe they have changed its been what three years." Peggy nods "Yeah maybe."

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