Fan Fiction |
by Jenny Tran
Ted and Erin were taken in by one of the fellow firemen from the Sa Tin Fire Department “It’s been a slow morning for us.” The fireman named Jerry advised with a friendly smile. He took them up the stairs where they lived. The red truck was below them in the garage waiting to be driven.
When they got there, they noticed a group of men were sitting around playing cards. Ted smiled as he took a step up “So is this what our hard earning tax money goes to?” he teased.
The men looked up and a few chuckled at the truthful words “Ted!” Eric quickly greeted and got up to shake his hand “Erin.” He nodded at the quiet girl beside Ted “What are you two doing here?”
“We need your help.” Erin began “We figured out who Brad’s killer is…” she explained briefly about the guy’s background “I saw on his record which says his home was burned in a fire. I wanted to know if you can somehow find any records about that fire.”
Eric brows knitted thoughtfully “I can’t help you.” The two looked disappointed “But I know who can.” He smiled when they looked up with hopeful eyes. He nodded for them to follow him out to the long hallway of doors “My father is the Captain here. He has all the connections to find old records. I’m sure he could help you two. Plus I want to help catch this psycho.” He led them to the end room. Inside was a man well in his fifties. But he was distinguished looking with the gray weaved into his black hair.
The man smiled at his son and at the guests “Eric, what pleasure do I owe this greeting?”
“Dad, this is Erin and Ted. They have a few questions about a fire that happened right here in this town over 20 years ago. Is it possible we still have records?” Eric asked his dad.
Erin held her breath as the man hesitantly nodded solemnly “If it is too much trouble…” she didn’t want to bother the man.
“No, no. It’s not that.” He assured her “But I am a little curious as to why you need this information.”
Ted turned to Eric “You didn’t tell him about the P.R.A.?”
“Oh, is that where you two are from.” Mr. Leung nodded “Why didn’t you say so. Since Eric told me about it, I’ve become such a fan of your agency’s work. I’d be glad to help. Just give me a few minutes to do a search.” Erin and Ted exchanged smiles. At last, this was getting somewhere. They gave the man the address on the computer and after a long moment they had found the answer “I remember this fire…” Mr. Leung’s memory was vague but the case was a peculiar one that he knew it would be hard to forget “I worked on this home that one day. It was actually a double fire.”
“A double fire?" Erin was on the edge of her seat.
“It means two homes were contained.” Eric explained. He looked over his father’s shoulder “It says here that a home was burning and the home next to it also came down.”
“Does it say the homeowner’s name?” Erin asked anxiously.
Mr. Leung checked his computer “Looks like a married couple. Mr. and Mrs. Yeung Ga Wai. Investigation showed that it was actually an arson, but the person was never found. Police indicated at that time that it was a kid playing around with candles and matches. The flames devoured the home and the fire spread out to the neighbor’s home causing it to go down too. Four people killed.”
“Four…” Erin’s eyes dazed glossily.
Ted looked at Eric and back at Erin worriedly “Erin…are you okay? Do you know those people?”
A chill ran through her spine “They were my parents. Darren dug up the information for me about 9 months ago. I couldn’t forget the names. What’s the names of the neighbors?” she asked Mr. Leung.
“Keung Siu Yu and his wife Lam Bui Lan. It was very sad, they had a son who had to be taken away. The boy was only 12. Lucky for him, he was taken in by his Uncle.” Mr. Leung sighed sadly “But I felt most sorry for the little two year old girl that had to be put in an orphanage.” His eyes landed on Erin’s earnestly. Her eyes were brimming with tears.
“Keung…Tay Keung. You think he was the 12 year old kid?” Ted asked with a gentle hand rested over Erin’s hand.
She looked up and a tear fell from her eye “Maybe. But the fire had nothing to do with my family? Why would he revenge now? After all these years?”
“Maybe there is something else that we don’t know about? Let’s wait for the others and then we’ll discuss what to do next.” Ted smiled assuring her. He turned to the father and son “Thank you very much for your help.”
“If you need anymore information, you know where to find me.” Eric offered.
“Thank you.” Erin whispered as she nodded to Ted. The two returned to headquarters to report with Chuck.
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Shelly walked into the bar but she had lost track of the other four. The placed was crowded and noisy. Not to mention the awful stench of cigarettes roamed the air. She waved her hand in front of her face while standing on her toes to search for her friends “Little girl, this is not a place for you.” A man spoke up from behind her. He’s watched her the whole night and she stood out from the rest.
She turned to face him. He had a friendly smile and his eyes wrinkled at the edges “I’m not here alone. I’m looking for my friends.” She said.
“Really?” The guy nodded “Do you need help? I know almost everyone in here.”
Her smile beamed “Yes, please! Their names are Mia, Becca, Darren and Doug. Do you know them?”
“As a matter of fact I do. And you actually just missed them, they had left about five minutes ago. But they told me where they were going. Do you know where the Sa Tin race track is?” he saw her shake her head “Well, I do have something to do tonight but I don’t want you to be going there by yourself. How about I take you there?”
Shelly smiled with a nod “You are such a nice man!” she gushed “What’s your name? I’m Shelly.” She put out a hand while he led her outside.
“They call me T.K.” his smile was wide. She turned away and the grin grew slyly.
“Do you see him?” Mia asked Ah Bat. Darren’s hand was on the back of his neck just in case he wanted to try something funny.
The guy didn’t answer Mia and Darren quickly shook his neck “The lady asked you a question!”
“No! I don’t see him.” He cringed painfully “But it’s a big bar. Let’s keep looking.” He offered and began weaving through the crowd. He nodded a couple of people he knew and they looked at him strangely “Hey, I need some face too. Can you let go of my neck?”
“No.” Darren replied flatly.
“I won’t run.” He tried again.
Becca’s nose flared angrily as she took over for Darren “What part of NO do you not understand?” she pushed him roughly “Now come on!!”
Doug and Darren looked at each other with smiles “The dominatrix.” He whispered to Darren with a fearful look.
Ah Bat had seen Tay Keung talking to a girl but he decided to have a little more fun with the four. He didn’t like being threatened. He came upon a guy in a group and reached up and tapped him on the shoulder “TK!! Man, how have you been?”
The guys quickly held onto the guy Ah Bat was talking to “Hey…what are you guys doing?” he asked.
Mia’s eyes wandered around and she glanced over the exit and quickly caught the back of Shelly’s head. She was following someone outside “Becca.” She nudged her friend “Is that Shelly?”
“Where?” Becca followed Mia’s finger pointing “It looks like her. Who is she following? Do you know that guy?”
She shook her head “No, but something stinks if you ask me.” She turned to Ah Bat who had a sneaky smile plastered on his face. Suddenly, her stomach knotted up “Guys, that’s not TK. That guy is!!” she yelled and began running towards the door. Becca tailed after Mia and the guys gave Ah Bat some threatening words before going after the girls.
“Stop!!” Becca yelled while pointing to the guy.
But it was too late, they were already in his car. Mia was positive the guy looked up at them and smiled crookedly “Shit!” she cursed under her breath. Darren and Doug caught up to them “He’s got Shelly.” Mia’s hand lifted over her forehead as she lowered her head “Oh my God…Erin.”
“She’s going to kill us.” Doug said and then anger over took him “That damn sleeze! I’m gonna kill him!!” he yelled and prepared to run back inside to get Ah Bat.
“No.” Darren stopped him “We’ll take care of him later. Right now, we have to tell Erin.”
“I don’t think it’s our fault.” Becca spoke up. Her eyes bulged out “I mean, we did warn Shelly not to follow us and she did anyways. How would we know that she didn’t know how to listen to orders?”
“So YOU wanna tell Erin?!” Doug blurted out “We may not be responsible but we are partially responsible since we were the last that saw her.”
They were about to walk back when Mia received a call. She looked at the name and her eyes widened “Is it Erin?” Becca asked.
“No, Ryan.” She let out a sigh and answered the call “Ryan? What’s up?” she tried to be casual.
“Nothing. I had a dinner date with Shelly tonight. But I’m over at the apartment and no one is answering. I thought you were with her or something?” Ryan wondered.
“No…she’s not with me.” Mia was reluctant to tell him.
“Is something wrong, Mia?” Ryan caught the hesitant in her voice “Tell me, please…is it Shelly? What happened to her?” Mia had no choice but to tell him. She told him to meet them at headquarters.
They decided to head off to headquarters to talk to Chuck first. But to their shock, Erin and Ted were already there talking to Chuck. He turned up to greet the four and noticed their long faces “What happened?” he asked.
“Damn, this is not a good time to be face- readers.” Becca snickered.
Erin’s heart fell when she saw the dodged eyes “Mia…” she said but the girl couldn’t even look at her in the eye “Darren. Tell me.” The four didn’t move, it was Erin that pushed her chair back as she walked towards them. They took baby steps back “What happened? TELL ME!!!” she cried.
“I’m sorry…” Mia began with a guilty look. Her head was glued to the floor “Shelly was kidnapped.”
“But the good news is that we found TK…I mean Tay Keung.” Becca nodded at Erin “We know that he’s been buying these firearms.”
“Shelly?” Erin had blocked out everything from the minute Mia said her sister’s name “How…why?” she shook her head. The cold feeling moved through her body like the wind. No, she couldn’t lose her too. She already lost Brad.
“Erin…” Ted was quickly by her side when she slumped back on the chair “Erin!” he yelled her name when she had no answer. The last thing they needed was for her to freeze up.
“He’s got her.” Erin whispered. Her head moved over to Ted, who was kneeling beside her “He’s got her!!!” she yelled “What the hell does he want???” she gripped on his shirt until her fingers turned white “Why??”
“Calm down, Erin.” He soothed gently.
“Calm down?!” Erin shrieked. She let go of his shirt and got up as she turned to the four “How did it happen??” she demanded.
Mia, Darren and Doug took a step back leaving Becca in the front to answer. Becca turned and saw she was the leader, she let out a sigh “Okay, cowards.” She turned back to Erin with an earnest look “It was an accident. If that guy didn’t play us…” Erin wrinkled her brows in frustration “Okay, we found this guy named Ah Bat, he’s the so called ‘messenger’ because he knows who and where everyone is. He was supposed to take us to find TK but I guess he was pissed that we beat him up and threatened him. So he mislead us. Shelly was at home and before we left to find Ah Bat, we told her NOT to follow. But she did anyways. So if you think about it…it’s not ENTIRELY our fault.” Becca took a step back as she moved her lips to the side “How was that?” she whispered to her three backup singers.
Mia rolled her eyes “I couldn’t have said it any worse.”
“What?” Becca turned to her in shock “I thought it was very good.”
Erin was in total shock but she told herself not to get carried away “It’s okay.”
Darren wasn’t sure he heard right “Excuse us?”
She took in deep breaths “It’s okay…if she looses even a strand of hair, I’ll make sure he’ll rot in hell.” Her voice was low and her eyes cold as ice.
Becca shivered “Any of you guys scared?”
Chuck clapped his hands to get their attention “Okay guys. Let’s get back to business. Everyone sit down.” He ordered. They quietly took their seats as he continued to stand “We have to get Shelly back. But it seems we are not dealing with a simple guy here. He knows us and it makes us in grave danger. Especially you, Erin.” He nodded at her.
Suddenly, the doors of the conference room burst open, it was Ryan “We have to get her back!!” he yelled.
Chuck turned to the interruption “How did you get a key to get inside?”
“I stole my brother’s.” Ryan explained shortly while taking a seat next to Becca “I want in.”
“What do you mean you want in?” Mia asked “You’re not an agent.”
Ryan shook his head “I don’t care. I want in. I have to save her. You guys can’t stop me.”
Chuck turned to Erin “What do you think?”
She looked up at Ryan who was begging her with his eyes. Erin turned to Chuck calmly “I have no disagreement.” Ryan sighed with relief while Chuck continued on with the plan. Darren, Ryan and Doug’s job was to retrieve Ah Bat. The girls were to look around and ask questions about TK’s whereabouts. Ted was to dig up more information on the guy since his leg was still healing.