| Fan Fiction |
by x.shuang.dao.x
Friday 1005h
“Your life sounds really sad.” Ashley remarked.
“Shut up, bitch!” Heather glared at her. “You’re the one with the sad life! Any life lived without a purpose is a life wasted! And you’re wasting yours away. It’s just too bad you don’t have time to make amendments.” She said smugly.
“What makes you think so?” Ashley rebutted.
That wasn’t the reaction Heather was expecting, so she responded with a very weak ‘Huh?’ as she kept her knife pressed on Ashley’s neck.
Ashley took the chance to grab her gun from the holster tied around her waist. She knocked Heather’s knife away and pointed the gun at Heather’s forehead. “You’re dead,” Ashley announced.
The front door was suddenly flung open and Owodog was the first to run into the apartment, followed by Chief Investigator Matt, Landon, Ben, Fabien and two other officers. They were all holding guns, except Fabien.
“What the…” Heather gasped.
“Surrender now, and we could let you die a less painful death. Or don’t surrender, and you’re going to suffer.” Ashley said, still pointing the gun at her.
“You can’t let me die. You don’t have evidence!” Heather retaliated.
“I do.” Ashley whipped out a tape recorder from her back pocket and pressed the ‘Play’ button.
“ ‘I killed Eleanor and Dennis first. They were like my disgusting parents. They cheated on me, cheated on—’ ” Ashley clicked ‘Stop’ and tossed it to Owodog.
Owodog caught it swiftly and waved it at Heather with a smile before keeping it away safe in his pocket.
Heather was starting to appear horrified.
“Sarah Heather Zhng. We sure had a hard time trying to identify you. And of all surnames you had to have one that started with Z. But anyway, now your time’s up. Any last words?” Owodog asked.
“Son of a bitch!” She shrieked, on the verge of losing it all already. But she managed to regain some of her cool. Then she pointed to Fabien. “Him. I want to talk to him.”
“Okay, do talk to him then.” Owodog said.
“I want him to come here.” Sarah stated, pointing to where she stood.
Ashley kept the nose of her gun pointing at Sarah’s forehead, but she looked worried when Owodog signaled Fabien to go ahead.
Fabien approached cautiously and stood beside Sarah, right where she wanted him. “Sarah, Alicia wants you to know that—Ugh!”
From nowhere, Sarah had produced another knife. And she stabbed Fabien in the stomach.
Then before anyone could react, she thrusted her foot with the heels from Toby’s into Ashley’s guts.
The last thing Fabien and Ashley knew before they blacked out from the excruciating pain was that a gunshot rang out in the air.
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Friday 1100h
Owodog sat behind his desk with his head buried in his hands. He should have reacted faster; he should have thought faster than Sarah. He didn’t guess that Sarah would have hidden another knife on herself. In the first place, he shouldn’t even have given Fabien the go-ahead. He should have foreseen that Sarah would have more tricks up her sleeve, but no. He had to make that mistake.
And of all things, he should have realized that if Sarah once used her heels to kill, she might do it again.
He didn’t even want to imagine the pain Ashley must have felt.
Owodog wished he had done better, or perhaps he was so harsh on himself this time because it involved two people who were very important to him. Sighing, he decided that it was still a case solved, and he did not do worse for this case than he did for any others.
But still, he wished that Ashley didn’t have to go through the living hell of being stabbed by a high-heel shoe in the stomach.
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Friday 1500h
Alicia sat across the table from Owodog as he did some interrogating.
“I wanted to ask him out tonight, to give him these three presents… And to tell him that I could finally move on. I didn’t expect Sarah… I should have known something was wrong when she frequently came to work late for a period of time. And when I spoke with her, she was often dazed and her eyes were bloodshot. It’s just that… I didn’t think Sarah would be such a cold-blooded murderer…”
Owodog nodded. “Did you know about her background?”
Alicia shook her head. “No… She was reluctant to tell me anything about it.”
“Yeah I would guess so too. Who would? With that sort of background, I’d probably become some psychotic shit too. One father, two brothers, four mothers. And all of them had sex with each other and a lot of other people. And her too. OH MAN! This is so totally insane. They’re a whole family of hookers and gigolos, really.”
“I wish I had known earlier… I might be able to help her…”
“Ah, oh well. She’ll probably get sent to a mental hospital. I hope the doctors and nurses there aren’t playboys. She might just kill them too.”
“Uh, can I ask you a question?”
“Yeah, go ahead.”
“You said… Sarah wanted to kill Ashley too because she saw her together with uh, Fabien… What does ‘together’ mean?”
Owodog chuckled. “Well, last night we staged a show for Miss Heather. We knew she rented an apartment opposite Yu’s. So we made Ashley go and put up an act for her where she could see it.”
“So Ashley and… Fabien aren’t really…”
Owodog shrugged. “That’s all we know. The night was long.”
His implication behind that short sentence was obvious.
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A Month Later
Owodog gave his boss Chief Investigator Matt a high-five as they left the court, satisfied with the sentence the judge gave for Sarah Heather Zhng. She would be imprisoned for life. It would have been death by hanging but her mental health was taken into account and so her sentence was lighter.
Then Matt said good-bye to Owodog and rushed back to the station to deal with more work.
Owodog had a smile on his face as he sat into his trusty old Honda Civic and made his way to the hospital.
He went to see Fabien first. “Yu!” Owodog greeted as he entered the ward.
“Hey Quan!”
“You’re looking good, eh?”
“YEAH! Good as ever. In a while more I’ll be out there seducing girls with my sexy scar.”
Owodog made a face at Fabien. “Right… Aren’t you afraid of psychopaths anymore?”
“Er, well, A BIT. But not enough to deter me!”
Then they both laughed.
After a while, Owodog suddenly asked, “Then what about Ashley?”
Fabien kept quiet.
“Okay then… That night…” Owodog glanced at Fabien.
“If you’re thinking if we crossed the line, then no, nothing happened.”
The air was stagnant for a moment and it appeared there was going to be some awkwardness between them. But Fabien continued, “Man, I think I cut my life by ten years just because of all the willpower I used that night.”
“Only ten? I’d say it took fifty years of all the willpower you have against women.” Owodog laughed.
“I don’t like you. Go away.”
“Aww! Stop pouting! You’re giving me goose bumps!”
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Some Time Later
Ashley chuckled as she watched the two boys sitting opposite her.
Owodog and Fabien were really like two boys. What they were doing did not match their ages at all.
“Guys, please stop comparing the length of your tooth-picks. The both of you are going to continue squeezing with each other there while I have my whole long seat to myself.”
“It’s not fair!” Owodog complained.
“Yeah, it’s not fair!” Fabien echoed.
“What isn’t?” Ashley rolled her eyes.
“I don’t know. Everything?” Owodog looked at Fabien.
Fabien nodded. “Yeah, everything!”
Ashley groaned. “You two are seriously too cloying for my liking.”
“Not me! Him!” Owodog pointed a finger at Fabien.
“I’m not cloying! He is!” Fabien snapped back.
“SHUT UP!”
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->shuang.dao
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