Edited by: Waning_Crescents
“I won’t let you do
that, Cal.” Sigal stared at him earnestly. “There is another way, don’t do
this.”
Cal shook his head before he gazed into Sigal’s eyes with a serious expression.
“Sigal, Axis was right when he said you don’t know anything about me. I did deceive you and hid information, not only from you but also from the Conciliators.”
I never meant to; I just had no choice…
Sigal narrowed his eyes.
“Everything I did was out of selfish reasons,” Cal continued, “You had every right to suspect me, it was the only logical conclusion. Who knows in what or who I am involved with?”
That’s a lie…
“Besides, why bother with me? I mean, there was never a close relationship between us to begin with. All we did was bicker and argue.” He paused for a moment. His lips quivered, so he tried to stabilize his breathing before he added, “I never cared about you. The only reason I tried to reason with you was because I had to. You…mean nothing to me. So why should you trouble yourself?”
That’s not how I feel at all…
“So, give it a rest. At the very least you should be relieved. You always wanted to get rid of me, so here you get what you always wanted. You should be glad.”
I’m sorry…
Sigal listened to all he had to say without interrupting him, taking every detail in. Who are you trying to fool here? You are barely keeping it together and yet you take it that far?
“Are you done?” Sigal asked. “Do you really expect me to believe that?”
Cal struggled to his feet and almost tripped because of the cuffs around his ankles. “It doesn’t matter if you do, but on the other hand, can you be certain that none of that is true? The fact that you don’t trust me remains, believe what you want, I don’t care.”
Not waiting for Sigal’s reply, he glanced at Axis and said, “Let’s go.”
“I will be there in a second. I just have to make sure he won’t follow us, but rest assured I won’t harm him. That was the deal after all.” Axis handed the leash to Killian.
Cal hesitated for a moment, but a tug on his collar made him move. He only could take tiny steps, the chain between the cuffs was not long, so he had a quite hard time walking.
You idiot. Sigal gritted his teeth. “Cal! Don’t go! Don’t be stupid!”
Cal stopped in his tracks and yelled at the top of his lungs, “Forget about me!!”
Just forget and live, please…
As much as he tried to not shed tears, his eyes still dampened as he whipped his head around one last time. “This is goodbye.” A smile tugged on his lips as he soundlessly worded to him afterwards, ‘Thank you for everything.’ Just that this smile wasn’t quite a smile. It was full of sadness and despair as if he made peace with his fate, walking right into his death of his own accord.
He turned away and kept moving onward.
Cal’s expression, those hopeless eyes full of fear and sadness, froze Sigal in place. The cold evening breeze wafted by and in this instant everything around him disappeared, he just shut it out. Only Cal came into view, who turned and walked away and all he could do was watch, helplessly. There was nothing he could do to stop him, nothing he said reached him.
No, this is not goodbye. Sigal knitted his brows. “Cal! I won’t give up on you either!”
Cal’s eyes shot wide open. With this, the purpose of what he said lost all meaning. His attempts to keep him away failed, but deep in his heart rekindled a little flame; a feeling of relief washed over him as these words echoed through.
Axis clapped as he walked over to Sigal. “Wasn’t that quite a performance. I kind of liked it, although maybe a bit cheesy.” He smiled and crouched down to Sigal. “Say, how does it feel being unable to save him again? Aren’t you feeling quite useless?”
Again? Sigal frowned.
As Sigal remained silent, Axis continued to elaborate on the matter. “You know Lester got him real good too. I almost was afraid you wouldn’t make it in time. I almost swooped in myself.” He laughed amused. “Maybe at that time you actually wouldn’t have cared if I took him away.”
Sigal’s eyes darkened. “So, you were associated with that man?”
“Associated? It was my idea,” Axis remarked with a chilling tone in his voice.
Putting another piece together, then Asher was right about the Lester case at least. It all started from there and it was connected to Cal in some way. His brother instigated all this, but why? And how did it connect to the other case?
Axis sighed as he continued his rambling, “It was a pity that you killed him though. He was quite capable.”
Sigal had no time to spare to think too deeply about the connection between the cases for now as his concerns lay somewhere else. “What are you going to do with him?”
“Hm?” Axis glanced at him in silence for a moment as if unsure what the other meant by that. “Oh, right. Sorry I went off topic. Actually, you will find out soon enough.”
“What do you mean?”
“What my dear little brother doesn’t know is that I actually will hand him back to you when I am done.” He smiled satisfied. “I just don’t know in what condition he will be, but that makes everything more interesting, right?”
Uneasiness welled up inside of Sigal. He already guessed that anything this maniac would do to Cal couldn’t be anything good, but these words left him worried even more.
Aside from that, Sigal wondered why Axis would go through all that trouble to just let Cal go in the end. This just didn’t make any sense. What was the purpose of all this then?
Sigal narrowed his eyes and asked, “What are you planning with all this?”
“All in time, Mr. Crawford, all in time.” Axis straightened up. “Just keep in mind that I am just lending him to you for the time being. I still have some preparations to see to. So, take good care of him until I collect my property.”
The word ‘property’ in connection with Cal angered Sigal beyond belief, “Say that one more time and I’ll add some more inhuman ideas of how to deal with you into my repertoire.”
Axis shrugged. “Anyway, when I am done, I will send his location to your phone. I will use his phone to do so.”
After Axis explained, a slight piercing pain shot through the side of Sigal’s neck. The man behind Sigal, who had his gun the whole time pressed against the back of the investigator’s head, had removed the muzzle a while ago. However, instead of a gun, he held a syringe in his hand, which he pulled out from under Sigal’s skin. He had been drugged!
It took only a few seconds for the narcotic to unfurl its effect. Sigal’s vision blurred, and his body grew heavier.
“When you wake up, all will be over.” Axis reassured him.
“I’ll kill you!” Sigal threatened as he swayed from one side to the other while he tried to stay awake, but to no avail. His whole body just gave in, losing all strength and his eyelids grew heavier by the second. In the end, only darkness engulfed his vision; he lost the battle.
“I’m looking forward to it, Mr. Crawford.”
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