"I got you!" He screamed then moved the clothes that were hung up on hangers to the side and raised the meat cleaver.
Anger filled his body as he seen no one was in there. He moved more clothes around and still didn't see anything.
"Where are you? I know your here!" He yelled with his face balled up in anger.
Ms. Redberry had listened to what her daughter had told her in the movies and books the bad guys always check the closet and up under the bed first. So, she emptied all the toys out of the large plastic bin she had bought just for her daughter’s toys to keep her room clean. They got in and curled up tightly together and closed the top lid with barely any room to move. She opened the bin a little and peeped through the slight opening. But, she couldn't see anything but darkness, but could hear him searching for them and screaming. Somehow she was able to see the shine of something and knew it was his knife or some type of weapon. She realized where he was standing and built up enough courage and knew what she had to do. She jumped out the bin and ran towards him and pushed him with all her might putting her body weight into it.
The S.N. Killer was caught off guard with his back turned and the force sent him flying and crashing into some curtains and crashed out thought the window.
"Ahhhh!" He screamed as he hit the hard concrete.
Tears were streaming down Ms. Redberry's face and she was breathing hard and trembling as she stuck her head out of the second floor window to see the S.N.
Killer lying face down on his stomach and surrounded by broken glass. Lights from cars that had crashed in the street made it able for her to see outside. She noticed that he was still moving then turned his head and looked up at her.
"Ahhhh!" Ms. Redberry screamed then he was gone and disappeared into the darkness.
"Oh lord! Oh lord!" She shouted as she ran and grabbed her daughter out the toy bin.
"Mommy, did you get him? Did you kill the bad man?" Her daughter cried as she carried her in her arms.
"No baby, I think he's coming back in for us." Ms. Redberry said while running through her apartment in the darkness.
She knew where everything was. She had lived there for almost five years. So, it was easy for her to move around in the apartment. She tripped on something uneven on the floor. She knew it was one of her dead friends. She unlocked the front door with one hand while holding her daughter with the other. She opened the door and ran out into the hallway and up one flight of stairs to the third floor and knocked on her neighbor's door.
"Open up! Open up! It's me, Red. Please, open the door!" Ms. Redberry yelled while her and her daughter cried hysterically.
The door opened and a man stood there. Light had come from his apartment from the candles he had lit all throughout his apartment.
"Red, what's wrong, baby?" The man said.
"My apartments not safe there's someone after us." Ms. Redberry replied shaking then felt hands grab her shirt and pull her backwards.
"I got you!" The S.N. Killer yelled.
Ms. Redberry struggled and pulled away ripping her shirt and ran into the apartment with her daughter in her arms. Mr. Martin shut the door. She screamed and put down her daughter. A syringe flew into Mr. Martin's chest and he was unable to move his limbs went weak and his body dropped to the floor.
"No!" Ms. Redberry screamed as she ran to the front door. She could see Mr.
Martin's body being dragged out into the hallway. She grabbed his legs and tried to pull him back in, but there was no use.
The S.N. Killer pulled even harder dragging Ms. Redberry along with the old man.
"Mommy!" She heard her daughter cry and knew she had to let go or she would be in the hallway as well and it will be the end of her and her daughter.
She released her grip on Mr. Martin's ankle and stood up straight and pushed the door closed, but the S.N. Killer stopped it by jamming his arm in between the door.
He tried to reach her and grab her, but couldn't. She pushed hard with her body weight squeezing his arm in between the door.
"Ahhhh, you bitch!" He screamed as he pulled his arm back and she shut the door and locked it.
The S.N. Killer knew he had no time to waste and chopped off what he wanted from Mr. Martin's body and grabbed his garbage bag full of body parts and took off running out of the building to his car.
Ms. Redberry held her daughter and they both cried uncontrollably while rocking back and forth praying the S.N. Killer couldn't find a way in.
Chapter 22
"Ahhhh! Ahhhh! No! No!" Lauren jumped up out of her sleep screaming like a mad woman.
Out of all the nightmares she has had of the S.N. Killer, this was by far the worse one. She felt everything, seen everything, even tasted the raw flesh he devoured.
"Ahhhh! Ahhhh!" She screamed.
Agent Williams sat up.
"Lauren, what's wrong? Lauren!" He repeatedly said over and over.
He tried to wrap his arms around her to console her. She just flinched and continued to scream and move away from his touch.
"Lauren, what's wrong?" Agent Williams shouted.
His voice snapped her back to reality and she looked around and realized she was still in her bedroom. She grabbed her iPhone from up under her pillow and dialed Alexis's number.
Alexis picked up on the first ring.
"Yeah, partner, what is it? I got your text. Was it any good you freak?" She said with a smile on her face.
Lauren eased up off her bed and walked into the bathroom to have a private conversation with Alexis so Agent William wouldn't hear what she was about to say.
"Alexis, this isn't a social call. I had another nightmare and it was way worse than any of the others I've had. The S.N. Killer has murdered more than ten people tonight." She stated.
Alexis got quiet then turned her head and looked at Agent Vincent sleeping on his back with his mouth opened and the sheet covering his body from the waist down and sweat slowly dripping off his chocolate body. Alexis eased off the bed and walked into the master bathroom in her hotel room she had been staying in for three weeks with Agent Vincent. She shut the bathroom door.
"Lauren, how could you? We caught the S.N. Killer, the two brothers. So, it's impossible for you to still be having those nightmares and you're not over working this time because I haven't." Alexis replied.
"Listen Alexis, I'm telling you he killed over ten people or more in a building on 143rd Street. He sent a virus that blacked out half of Harlem killing the power. I know it's not just a dream, Alexis. Please, trust me." Lauren responded.
Alexis opened the bathroom door and walked out of the bathroom into the master bedroom. She grabbed the T.V. remote control off the foot of the bed. She looked at Vincent who was still sleeping with his mouth open. She smiled at the sight and then turned on the 52 inch flat screen T.V. that was on the wall.
"Lauren, if there was a black out, it would be on the news." She said as she changed the channel to the news and her mouth dropped open in shock as she watched the news reporter talk.
"There was a black out on the east side of Harlem. The power was completely cut off for more than three hours. Traffic was jammed and cars were crashing into each other because none of the stop lights were working. This has been one of the worse power outages we have had in New York City. There were robberies and raiding of stores. A virus was sent to the city's power system by a hacker." The brown skinned reporter said then stopped talking and touched the white ear piece in her ear.
"Oh okay, we have breaking news. During the blackout, ten people were murdered by a crazy killer and leaving three survivors, a mother and daughter and an elderly man who's in a coma with pieces of his thighs cut off." The reporter stated.
Alexis dropped the phone out of shock.
"But how? We caught the S.N. Killer and how did Lauren know?" She mumbled to herself.
The sound of the phone hitting the floor woke up Agent Vincent making him jump out of his sleep and looking around. He saw Alexis standin
g at the foot of the bed in front of the T.V. with nothing but boy shorts on and her voluptuous thick butt cheeks hanging out.
"Baby, you okay?" He asked in a concerned tone.
"No! I think we made a mistake. The S.N. Killer is still out there somewhere."
She replied and picked her phone off the floor.
"Hello, hello!" Lauren said over and over into the phone.
"Lauren, you were right. I'll call Lynise and meet you at the crime scene in a half an hour." Alexis responded and hung up the phone. She didn't want to talk about the nightmares Lauren was having in front of Agent Vincent or he would think Lauren had gone insane.
"What's going on, Alexis? What you mean we got the wrong men?" Agent Vincent asked.
"Get dressed, baby and I'll break everything down to you on the way." Alexis replied as she started to get dress.
Agent Williams didn't know what to do. It freaked him out seeing Lauren waking up out of her sleep just screaming like a mad woman.
'Why the beautiful ones are always crazy on the low.' He thought to himself as he got dressed and she came of out the bathroom.
"Lauren, what's wrong? I've never seen nothing like that before." Lauren looked at Agent William and wanted to cry as everything she seen through the S.N. Killer's eyes played over and over in her mind.
William looked at her and felt sorry for her and knew it wasn't the time to judge her and ask questions. He walked over to her and looked at her standing naked with a blank stare on her face. He wrapped his arms around her hugging her tightly.
She hugged him back.
"Thank you, I so badly needed this." She said as a tear ran down her cheek.
"It was just a bad nightmare I had. That's all, but we got to get ready to go to a crime scene, even though I really don't want you to let me out of your arms.
William kissed her forehead then lifted up her chin off his chest and slowly placed a kiss on her lips deeply and passionately. The softness of his lips seemed to ease away all her concerns and fears she had in her body.
Chapter 23
Detectives Alexis and Lauren looked around at the crime scene in apartment 2F
and couldn't believe their eyes.
"This was a blood bath." Alexis said as she watched forensics take crime pictures, collect any evidence, and place the dead chopped up bodies in black body bags.
Lauren went from room to room and stopped at the bathroom as her mind replayed how the young woman and man were killed in there. She walked to the master bedroom and looked around noticing the dead bodies of the victims had been taken away. She looked down at the floor and could see the shell casing from the 3.80
handgun. A flashback of the man's face came to her mind. He had a terrified look on his face as he realized none of his bullets hit its target, but hit an innocent woman instead. He knew his life was over. Lauren stopped herself from screaming as a flashback of the man's face being split open in half from the meat cleaver. Alexis stepped into the room behind Lauren and touched her shoulder.
When she did, Lauren flinched and turned around in a panic.
"You okay, partner?" Alexis asked in a concerned tone.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Lauren lied as they stepped out of the bedroom and walked back into the living room where Agent William was talking to a few other officers.
As Alexis and Lauren approached them, they looked at them and began to speak.
"It's the same ‘M.O.’ and profile of our S.N. Killer, but how could that be when we got both of the brothers locked away?" Agent Vincent questioned with a lost look on his face.
"Maybe it's a copycat killer." Agent William responded.
"We all know this wasn't any copycat killer. It's him, the S.N. Killer. There are syringes everywhere and thighs and body parts were chopped off of the victims.
There's something we're missing like how V.J. and Hedy are connected to the real S.N. Killer or is it just three killers, not two or one." Lauren stated.
"You're right, but we have no witnesses. We took the woman who survived with her child to the precinct to ask them questions, but I doubt she’s seen anything and the elderly man that was on the third floor of the apartment they ran too is unconscious in a diabetic coma and had lost a lot of blood when his arm and thigh were chopped off. I don't think he's going to make it. So, we have very few leads and like the other crime scenes there are no finger prints or D.N.A. left behind, but the dead victims." Agent Vincent stated.
Lauren remembered something from the nightmare of what happened in the apartment. She walked over to the couch and felt around with her hand around and under the couch until she felt what she was looking for and pulled it out. It was Prince-Mack's iPhone that flew there when it was hit out of his hands by a syringe.
She touched the touch screen and scrolled through it and opened up the last picture took. Her eyeballs quivered in fear along with the rest of her body. Alexis walked over beside her and looked at the picture and her face balled up in disgust and horror as she looked at a man next to two dead bodies, a hoodie covering his whole face, dressed in all black with black gloves, and surrounded in darkness. The only part of his face that could be seen were his teeth that looked like they belonged to an animal or wild dog with pieces of flesh and brain tissue mixed with blood hanging out of his mouth from the person he was devouring.
Agent William and Vincent both walked over and looked at the picture in the phone in Lauren's hand to see what had them both stuck in a daze. Agent Vincent, William, and Alexis's mind was all thinking the same thing. How did Lauren know the phone was under the couch, even more so, how did she know that the picture was in the phone? But, they decided not to ask or mumble a word about it.
Chapter 24
Ms. Redberry sat in Alexis and Lauren's private office with her daughter on her lap as she tried her best to answer the questions, but felt like she answered the same questions a thousand different times. She didn't know how many times she had to tell them that she didn't see the killer's face because of the blackout. The only one that truly understood her was Detective Lauren.
"Don't worry sweetie. I won't let anyone else question you. Do you have a place to stay?" Lauren asked.
"Yes, I do. I'm leaving Harlem for a while and going to Boston to stay with family. I'm waiting on them to come get us now." Ms. Redberry replied while holding her five year old daughter who was fast asleep.
Agent Vincent and William entered the private office dressed in their all black suits.
"We interrogated V.J. and Hedy again and they didn't say nothing or act as if they knew anything." Agent Vincent stated.
Lauren couldn't take it anymore. Her body filled up with rage. She knew that there was more that V.J. and his brother Hedy were hiding. She looked at Alexis who was already reading her mind after working with each other for so many years that became natural to them. They both got up and left Ms. Redberry and her daughter with Agent Vincent and William along with Lynise in the private office.
Alexis went into the interrogation room and drug Hedy out of the room and took him into the next one where his brother was handcuffed to a stainless steel table.
She handcuffed Hedy next to him then looked at Lauren.
"Listen you assholes, a lot of people are dying because you two fools won't talk. I know your holding back something. I don't fucking believe you two are the S.N.
Killer!" Lauren shouted.
"We don't know anything." V.J. replied nervously.
"Why the fuck are you two lying? Maybe I should just put a bullet in your heads myself and save the world the trouble of having monsters like you in it." Alexis said as she drew her 9mm heckler and aimed it at V.J. and Hedy's heads.
"Please no, don't!" Hedy and his brother shouted in fear with their hands up covering their face.
Lauren eased Alexis's arm down.
"Listen, why does the S.N. Killer hear a voice in his head? I'm desperate right now and know you know." Lauren asked.
Hedy and V.J.'s eyes both g
rew in shock.
"How did you know about the voice?" Hedy asked in amazement.
Lauren sat down in a chair on the other side of the table and Alexis did the same.
She looked at her watch that read two a.m. and wondered what Lauren was talking about. She never told her about the voice before and even if she did she would had thought Lauren really had lost her mind until now.
"I'm going to bear with you both because in my heart I know you two know what's going on." Lauren said taking a deep breath then looked at Alexis.
Alexis shook her head no because she knew what she was about to tell them.
"I have to Alexis." She said then looked back at V.J. and Hedy.
"I've been having headaches and nightmares, but there’s more than that. I can see and feel everything the S.N. Killer is doing. Then I will wake up. So, tell me, what the fuck is going on?" Lauren said and looked at V.J. and Hedy in their eyes for any reactions.
"Don't do it!" V.J. yelled as he looked at his brother and knew he was breaking down and was about to talk.
"V.J., we're dead anyway. He will come for us, sooner or later, but maybe we can tell them to protect our wife and kids." Hedy said.
"No one can protect them from him. If he wants them, they’re dead no matter what just keep your mouth shut. They won't believe you anyway!" V.J shouted.
"You shut the fuck up!" Alexis yelled while pointing at V.J. then stared back at Hedy.
"We will put your family in protected custody if you talk and tell us who the S.N.
Killer really is." Alexis stated.
"Okay, but are we alone? Is there anyone behind the see through mirror?" Hedy asked.
"No, we're alone. It's just us." Lauren responded.
"What I'm about to tell you will be hard for you to believe, detectives. But, I know Detective Pittman will know my words are true. There are no lies in my words just by me speaking I'm putting my wife and child in danger. I have to repent my sins and make things right." Hedy began while V.J. looked at his brother as if he wanted to choke him himself.
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