Miss Vengeance

Simpler days

1 month later

Eda has been digging for a month now, and she's finally found the first solid clue on the people who murdered her parents. She grabs the file that she had just gotten through the mail, and opens it. The content inside is a two-page document explaining the basics about Turkey's most powerful mafia, a ring called The Triad. She stops, and murmurs:
— Mafia?
She freezes. Not in a million years she imagined what she would find out when she first started secretly investigating on her own a month ago. She couldn't imagine in any way any of her parents being involved with any kind of mafia, even less imagine the reason the mafia would purposefully take her parents' lives. Innocent, good, hard working people with a family. Maybe she should ask Zeki if he hadn't sent her the wrong file, she thought. Nah, she knew he didn't. Zeki was a hacker... well, not just a hacker. He was a technology geek, a walking software, a human robot, the source of any and every kind of information about anything you can think of. She met Zeki through one of her brother's, Yiğit, friends. She had discreetly pulled Mert to a corner and asked him if he knew somebody that could help her search for some sort of classified information. Of course, she made Mert vow to never discuss their little chat with anyone, especially her little brother Yiğit. After she got his contact, not even 10 days ago, he quickly answered, and within 5 days found what she's been looking for in almost a month. She didn't know his means to do so but she was sure it was not approved by the law.

A month ago, after her parents' death, Eda was lost and angry. She was vengeful. She vowed on her parents' grave that she would find the responsibles for taking their lives. When she let this insane thought slip to Yiğit, he made her promise to leave this alone and not insist on any kind of revenge, as they didn't even know who was behind it.
— Eda, are you crazy? Do you think you're some sort of superhero? – he yelled at the time – Ablacim, let this go. Lütfen. Promise me. – his tone was of a beg.
— Tamam, I promise. – she sighed.
Good thing he didn't see when she crossed her fingers at that moment. Yiğit would have to forgive her, but she owed this to her parents, to herself and to her brother. And she got particularly more determined after the investigation case on her parents' murder was closed by the PD. They said there was nothing more to do, that the case would lead nowhere. "The Chief told us to dismiss the case due to lack of information", the cop responsible had said to her at the occasion. "The people who murdered your parents are very clever, Eda hanim. They had left us no clue, no trace, not one dust grain to pursue as a lead to continue with the investigation." She remember she left the police station fuming in anger. She got home sobbing to a worried Yiğit, and both cried as they held each other, realizing they'd probably never have an answer on why their parents were taken away from them so unfairly and so soon. That was when Yiğit told her a friend invited him to a party that night, and he asked if she would like to come too. They needed to clear their heads off. And thank God she did. She didn't clear her head, but she got more determined instead. On that party was when Mert gave her heart the first spark of hope for justice and enlightenment.

Zeki became some sort of friend. Well, he had no friends, he said. But Eda's captivating energy made him somehow get comfortable around her, and even occasionally make jokes with her obsession. "When you're the next Wonder Woman, please spare me an autograph!", he'd say once. "You're gonna destroy the mafia, debunk the incompetent cops, my queen!" She laughed. He was a clown when he wanted to, in that geek way of his. They'd met a couple of times and he teached her some methods to research on her own too. She found a lot of classified information that the police kept from her family on the reports, such as surveillance footage and details from the weapons used, such as blueprints, caliber of the guns and the type of bullets used. Actually, that was how Zeki got on The Triad's tale. I guess they weren't so clever after all. Or the police was covering for them, which Zeki said it was totally possible. "Eda, you can't trust none of those cops. They're all dirty. The bad guys always have connections in places like this, to cover for them, sweep their mess under the rug", Zeki alerted her. He gave her great advices, overall. And taught her more about the system from an insider perspective.