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I die once yesterday but not twice

the perfect dinner to tell a secret or two

the perfect dinner to tell a secret or two

Mar 01, 2021

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the days after the Craftsman call the police were days of dread and a sinister silence could be hear everywhere but even in the darkest of days there was some hope for some of them for a better future, for a day without fear.
even when everything was a chaos some tried to live pretending that there was no evil, but even when it is a lie, that is the lie they wanted to believe.
Richard was still at Martha's side even when he wanted to leave her, his desire to do some right was bigger so at the end he stayed at her side. once Martha was out of the hospital she told Augusto that she didn't like him in a romantic way so she couldn't be with him. Augusto told her that he wanted to stay with her and make sure that nothing happens to her now that he knows about the man who tried to kill her.
in the meanwhile Alexander has been trying to help the detective Fisherman to find the "Craftsman" but he is bassically a ghost. even after all the things that has happen the detective Fisherman doesn't know the whole story, he haven't talk with Martha. he is so obsessed with this case jet he only knows about the side of the criminal organization but he doesn't know about the other side, the whole thing about she dying and coming back to life.
at the moment Martha isn't sure about Alexander nor Augusto. she has found already who is the man who killed her but she doesn't know jet who is the other man, the one she saw smiling in a creepy way in the shadows. the one who saw her dying. she needs to know and she needs to do something about it. 
Martha invited everyone to her house to have a peaceful dinner and to celebrate that they are alive. they all accepted. the detective Fisherman was the first one to arrive, he knocks on the door and a few seconds later Augusto also arrives. Martha opens the door allowing them to enter. they walk towards the dinning room. someone else knocks on the door and Martha goes to open it while the detective and Augusto are talking about their day. Richard and Alexander get inside of the dinning room with Martha. the five of them are sitting in there eating in silence. they all look at each other awaiting for the first one to speak, when the silence is starting to become kind of awkward the detective decides to be the first one.

"hello everyone, you all know who I am but not why I am in here.... I am a detective who commit a mistake on his work and I almost lost everything. since that day I had try to redeem myself by doing everything human possible to solve any case on my hands."
said the detective looking at everyone around of him.

"may I know the name of your mistake?"
asks Augusto with curiosity.

"there was a case two years ago.... it seems like another case in which the husband kills the wife in an act of jealousy so I put the husband behind bars but it is not there when the story ends, but there is where it starts.... the husband was badly beated on prison and died. the day after his death the daughter was brutally murder and the killer left a letter confessing the murders..... since that day I become obsessed with the case until I was in a moment in which I either solve a new case or I was kick out of my job.... foftunately I solved a case a few weeks ago, with that case my career was again in a good position but when Dolores died I told myself, not again, I won't let another killer walk free on the streets so I had dedicated this days on investigatin everyone who worked with her and until now I have the proof that I didn't dedicated this days in vain, because I finally know who kill her and why."
said Darwin with a broken voice looking at the ceiling with so much pain in his eyes.

"well I think I am next. to be honest I don't know how to start..... when I was in my school I fall for this young teacher, she was beautiful and she was nice, yes indeed she was nicer than anyone I had ever met.... I had this crush on her and she knew, even when she knew she treated me with kindness and she was friendly. I has always being good at using computers so one day when she didn't come back to the class I did the impossible to find her when I understood that the cops didn't care if a young lonely teacher goes missing. I spend many days behind my computer until I found her and the people who took her.... I was able to find dirt in many of the guys who took her and I make sure they were send to jail, then I walked in front of the organization and I told them about my abilities and I asked for the freedom of the young teacher. she was free and unharmed and I was working for them but her smile was worth it, it was worth that smile the deal that I did with the devil and I would have done it again if I could, but people don't usually get a happy ending and she was murder by them, they make it look like a suicide..... since that day I had work for them and at the same time I had taken revenge in every single one of those who were directly involve with her death..... the craftsman is the last one, he is the last one so my revenge can be fulfil and I didn't know about him until the day his identity was revealed, someone told me he was also part of it."
said Richard with teary eyes looking directly at Martha.

"when I was a teenager I saw a woman being attacked by my brother and I couldn't sleep for a while.... I told my father and he beat me up and he told me.... a real man does what a real man has to do, while he was kept beating me and I cried and I yield and the more I cryed the stronger the beating was until I stopped crying and he look at me while he said..... I real man never cries nor shows weakness because a real man has to be strong and he has to work till his hands bleed, that is the way of a man, a real man. like me or your brother..... he force me to watch many times what my brother used to do and I couldn't help not even one of those girls...... one day he told me is time for you to prove that you are a real man and if you failed I would beat you till death..... that day I did it, I didn't wanted to and I asked mom for help but she told me that no bastard was her son so I did it and then the next day my brother was cought and brought to justice..... that same day I killed my father and mother...... I took his gun and I shot him in both legs..... then I burn the house with both of them inside, I can hear till this day those screams every time I go to bed and I had to confess that the smell of bourning flesh and the screams are strong enough to wish to never sleep ever again...... that is all I can confess at the moment."
said Augusto Medina holding his tears while looking at his empty plate.

"well I am next, lucky me.... everyone seems to be sad so I would tell you a tale before my story..... once upon a time a boy saw a dog bleeding because a drunk hunter shoot at the dog mistaking it for a deer. the boy took the dog to his father and the father who was a veterinarian saved the life of the dog and the boy kept the dog for two years until one day in an accident both the hunter that shot the dog and the dog, both died at the same time..... for one strange reason the boy looked at the hunter and he smiled in a creepy way that scared his father who was also there, the father could tell that the boy didn't felt anything but joy to see the hunter dead, then the boy looked at the dog and he cried like if a part of his soul was taken and the father felt some sort of relief when he saw that his boy was human enough to cry...... the father was scared because the boy seem to have a lack of apathy for most living things, specially humans so he took the boy far from their home around the country in search of a doctor and the father found one, the boy was eight at the time so he couldn't understand that something about him was off..... the specialist lived in an old town lost in time with a population mostly of old people but in there was a girl about his age, they became friends, in that town there was a total of only four kids whom were loved by the old people.... he felt something for that girl, that was his first love..... one day they walked around the woods, just the boy and the girl..... that zone in which they walked was dangerous and the boy fall..... the girl tried to saved him and she fall with him.... the boy survived but she died.... before that accident he was making progress but after that accident he lost his soul.... after the funeral the boy left with his father, the trauma was so severe that the father felt guilt and the father cried every day telling himself "is my fault" "what have I done to my child" he couldn't forgive himself, he never forgive himself and he eventually died...."
said Alexander who stops for a moment to cry and he yields looking at everyone around of him. he pushes the chair and he hits the table as hard as he can until his fist bleeds.

".... as I was saying that was the tale, now my story. I haven't found anything similar to happiness, well not until I met Martha and I fall for her, I fall in love and I started stalking her because I fall in love with her but I knew I wasn't goot enough for her nor of her liking so my world was reduced to the life style of a stalker who followed her around, I was like that until January, then I stopped stalking her to stalk someone else."
said Alexander ashamed of his true nature.

"everyone else has tell his story so now is my time to tell the last dark secret that would be revealed tonight..... when I was a child I used to have a sister who was bigger than me and my parents used to loved her more than me until one day there was an accident in a mountain, that day my sister, the favorite child died and my parents blamed me for some reason but even when her death was an accident deep inside of me I was glad that she was no longer alive so I could be the favorite child..... I pray for that moment until it actually happen and with time my parents treat me different with love, they forgot about her.... but for some reason I feel like the one whom they forgot was me because they started to call me by my sister's name and when we visited her tomb they used to said my name.... my real name isn't Martha but Mariana.... Martha was the name of my sister..... I believed that after some time I also forgot my own name or who I was.... sometimes I think that Martha wasn't the one who died but it was me Mariana and I am no longer me but my sister's replacement."
said Martha crying looking at the detective with a smile.

everyone was in complete silence until a cop nervously entered on the house running and he looked at the detective, he gave a look at the detective that was enough for everyone to know what was happening. they had finally found him. they had found the location of the most wanted man at the time Raul Palacios AKA The Craftsman. everyone stands up and they all walk outisde, the cop gives to the detective the location and Martha follows the detective to his car. the detective looks at her nervously.

"are you sure about this? he is your cousin. this might not end well if I am honest."
said the detective concerned for her.

"I had to go, because he is my cousin and my killer, I had to make sure that he is stopped and that he doesn't hurt anyone else in the future."
said Martha looking at him with anger.

Richard was talking at the time with the policeman and he got the location, he shared the location with Augusto and Alexander. each of them entered on their own cars and they all went to the same direction. the man they all wanted so badly to capture or killed was in a cabin in the middle of the woods. he was there sitting in a chair awaiting for his lovely cousin, it turns out that he couldn't fulfil his promised to his cousin or the detective and he has decided to end what he already started once and for all. in a table he has put a black leather bag with his tools, the tools that he wants to used for his final masterpiece. he wants to show to the world why is he called the craftsman and he has some brutal twisted plans.
Raul is laughing in the darkness talking to himself about his plans for the future. he wants to be remember forever as an artist. of course he knows that the cops are coming but he doesn't care, he has planned everything to perfection, there is no turning back from what he wants to do, now is too late. at any moment they can arrived but all depends of how well he is prepared and how well he can deal with unexpected surprises.

"it is a shame Marianita, it is a shame that you are so beautiful if it weren't for your beauty maybe you won't be destined to such a dark fate but don't worry it would be completely painless, well it would be a little painful but I would do my best to make sure that you die fast so you can't see what would happen next because my craft tends to be too graphic for some and I wouldn't want you to see that..... I am sorry cousin but this is the man who I am now and there is no way that I can stop now, I enjoy this too much, once you taste blood you can't stop drinking it... I wish I could control myself or that you weren't part of all this, that you weren't involved in these dreadful situation because of me."
said Raul to himself looking at the darkness that surrounds him in that cabin.

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the killer is out there. the victim is alive. and there are still some secrets to be revealed.

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