AFTER A FEW more moments of silence, probably to collect himself, Dylan said,“They had but we don’t”“What does that mean?”I asked puzzled.“You know that locker which is there?”asked March pointing to it. I nodded. I had seen it plenty of times and not a minute ago, March did actually mention about it.“We tried to break that locker but it is too strong and to open it we need the key. Unfortunately, only Mr. and Mrs. York had it. What’s more... that is not a normal keyhole.”paused March. I looked at it again. He was right, it was not a normal keyhole and it looked bigger and odd, as of how I realized when I looked at it first. It had the shape of a heart for the keyhole.“Inside that locker is all the records of this investigation.This would have been a lot easier if we had those documents.”explained Thomas to which Dylan added,“Which means we have no clue again.”“Like no one else had the key of it?”I asked again. It was a kind of odd that those two reputed Intelligence Offi
IN THE NEXT six months, we exploited a tremendous effort to find out the organization who did the murders but failed fantastically ticking out most of the underworld organizations in the list and yes, arresting pretty much too. A lot of territories were captured and our victory flag swayed in those. That was the only good thing that happened and was the only fair reason we could sleep at night.There were quite a lot of adventures and I will say that six months of time sharpened my talents and trained me to be a part of the Intelligence and made me trail how they work. I never actually got trained properly with them as an officer because for one, I was already trained and two, the time I joined was not actually an easy time for them but… I will always say going with the Front Team of Intelligence around the field for six months was the best training I could ever get.That time was full of Underworld territories and the city had more of them than the actual civilizations. That day, we
AT FIRST, BOTH of us exactly calculated where the sounds came from. We literally avoided all the shots. But… at the very end of getting to the end of the hall I heard a sound from somewhere else and I looked at it. I knew they did such things for distraction; I was aware of it but I think my mind didn’t calculate that enough. That single mistake was enough to end the perfection. I lost focus. Instead of running I leapt towards the large door of the exit from the hall so I could avoid getting shot but… I was too late. I heard a sound very closer to my right ear and I closed my eyes unintentionally.When I opened my eyes… I saw myself lying fine on the floor due to the leap but instead, March was drained in blood. They shot two more on March and those were on the leg and the next second I immediately grabbed him to where I was and covered him behind the walls. He had taken the shot for me. The first shot was on his shoulder which I guessed the gunmen aimed at my head. March was unconsci
HOWEVER, A DAY came which the whole team didn’t tell me where we were going. I asked Allison like thousand times to which she replied that soon I would know. They were all acting a lttiel bit strange as if they did not know how to face me and that made me even more nervous because that only meant this was not going to end well for me. But I did realize where we were going when our route took the familiar bends towards the Catastrophe territory.I remember myself throwing a tantrum saying Catastrophe didn’t sell drugs nor they murdered and I remember them replying that they already know it but couldn’t just turn a blind eye on Catastrophe even though it didn’t kill. Because by then, we had already inspected most of the territories except a few and the killer should have to be from a territory we never think of. I also knew that. But still I did not like their idea of investigating Catastrophe because I knew pretty well they were not responsible.Catastrophe was a part of my life and it
AT FIRST, THEY pointed their guns to us but when we got closer to an extent that we could see each other really well, I could clearly see the two guns of my two friends nearly going down due to the shock which they barely avoided but their hands on the guns shook due to uncertainty of decision to shoot me or not while their eyes were big and helpless which made my heart sink. Before any of us could hurt each other,“Tell him we’re here.”I shouted and they agreed in flash going inside the building immediately. It was as if they were relieved and I knew how exactly that well. None of us wanted this.“What do you expect them to do?”I heard an angry voice behind me, belonged to Thomas, I guessed.“I bet they will come back with more troops to end us.”hushed someone else with a kind of an energetic voice. For sure it was March. I knew it. He was the only person who could say we were going to die in a lively voice. That time I turned back.“Don’t forget I’m still their leader’s younger s
I KNEW WHAT Dylan wanted me to do was not investigation. He wanted to give me and Levine a little reuniting peace time.But… there I was, not knowing what to say and what to do.“You chose that path.”Levine said softly.“Huh?”I replied.“The path to go for Forces and you’re holding it again.”he said pointing at my gun smiling. Both of us chuckled. The thought of how I couldn’t let that gun go even though I was so desperate, bought a little strange smile to me.“Yeah. Old habits never die, I guess.”I replied.“I’m so sorry.”I said. I felt ashamed to say that after hurting him so much.“That’s okay. He or me never thought of you as a traitor. We knew you would venture out someday and we trained you for that.”“Dad….”before I could finish“He passed away.”Levine said. Unintentional tears filled my eyes.“Don’t worry Cod. The love for you even at his death bed was still at a higher level than for me. You’re his younger son no matter what and you’re my younger brother no matter what
“DURING THE TIME I was talking about until now, there were no Police, Forces or Intelligence in this city. The whole city was fenced and was like a huge prison civilization but later… due to modernization, the city also eventually became a normal place and Police, Forces and Intelligence established in it and normal people too started to settle down. Now the name “Jailbirds” doesn’t make any sense. But those days… it did. I think you agree with me”I nodded. Never in my life, I thought why our city was named Jailbirds. I have to admit, I was quite amused at it. Levine continued despite my amazed face.“When the Security Departments came here, they realized the situation of this city and up until now, their utmost priority has been eliminating the territories. As you can understand by the story and by which you already know, eliminating territories is almost like totally impossible to do because the underworlds are so perfectly established and stable unless…… there is someone like you
CATASTROPHE WAS OUT of charges. Obviously. All in all, at the end, because of me, Catastrophe which stood years and years gloriously went down in a single day. There were no fights and no arguments. Levine surrendered to the Intelligence and explained that there is no need for a territory since all the others are down already. He explained to them that Catastrophe was made for people to survive when there were no Security Departments in the city.The members of the territory were arrested, interrogated and then released because Dylan decided that it was useless imprisoning any of them because none of them actually had any charges against them. Thus, Catastrophe kept its full stop and blended up in the normal society; each and every one of them trapped for years, finally getting their freedom.That day when we headed back from Catastrophe, I never thought the investigation which was nowhere getting solved will start to make sense or will incept to unriddle all of suddenly. But I’m glad