"You're drinking off your worries?" Asked Vivana getting to the bar counter where Jessica was seated with a bottle of beer.
"Are you stalking me now?" She inquired turning a gaze at Vivana.
"Buy me a beer." Snapped Vivana.
"Why?" Chuckled Jessica. "Why would I buy you a beer?"
"Because I asked you to. Can't you? You don't like me that much?"
"Alexander. Please get the lady what she wants. It's on me." Asked Jessica from the bar tender.
"Alright Ms. J." Responded Alexander.
"Should we talk? About your unusualness?" Inquired Vivana from Jessica.
"What? Why would you insist on knowing me?"
"Because the person who made you is my Father Jessica. He asked me to keep an eye on you before he passed." Explained Vivana.
"Here Alex. Keep the change." Said Jessica paying for the drinks then taking Vivana by the hand. "You're coming with me."
They both walked briskly out of the bar as Vivana kept looking at the way Jessica held onto her hand.
"You came with your car?" Inquired Jessica.
"Yes. I parked over there?" Pointed she.
"Okay. Hand me the keys then."
"Why? You want to drive my Car?"
"Just hand me the key doc."
Vivana then picked into her pocket and placed her car keys in Jessica's palm. Jessica then got a hundred dollar note from her pocket wrapping it around the keys then calling up a name.
"Casey." She mentioned when a lady standing at the door replied.
"Yes Ms. J."
Throwing the keys at the lady, she muttered. "Keep that precious vehicle for me till tomorrow. "
"Alright ms. J. Have a good night." Answered Casey walking towards the car.
"You're coming with me Vivana."
"Yeah. I see, do I have a choice?"
Jessica opened the car door for Vivana then led around to her driving seat starting the engine off. They drove throughout the journey with Vivana keeping her eyes on Jessica who had yet said nothing until she arrived her apartment. She parked the car inside the garage then caught Vivana by the Arm leading her to the house.
"You're tougher than I had imagined." Mumbled Vivana.
"I know. Come in."
They both led inside the house having Jessica lock her door and Vivana looking around the apartment.
"This is a big place for one person." Uttered Vivana.
"Yeah, it wasn't for me alone back then." Sadly answered Jessica.
"Was she your wife or girlfriend?"
"How did you know?" Gestured Jessica for her sexuality.
"I can notice one from a far. I am one so don't get embarrassed. "
"I wouldn't be embarrassed." Answered she walking to her kitchen. "She was my wife and two sons."
"I'm really sorry, what were there names. If you don't mind?"
"I won't tell you that. Tell me about your father. You want coffee or a beer?"
"A beer please. Where should I start from?" Sighed Vivana taking a seat.
"From the important part. Your father was Dr. Jonas."
"Yes. Jonas Carter. He though never used his surname to keep me safe. He was a great doctor. And before he passed, he told me that he had let one of his experiments go loose intentionally. He believed that you had come out as the soldier they wanted but he told the officials that you had not performed in the tests. He trusted me with his work and asked me to look after you and your health. That's why I have been keeping tubs on you."
"For how long? How long has it been?"
"For a year now. I'm the doctor who provides your boy Mickey with your medication."
"You know Mickey?"
"Yeah. I know him but I don't think he knows me."
"And why are you telling me this? Huh?"
"Well, because I'm tired of acting suspicious and also, My father begged me to keep you safe, he taught me everything about you so I can protect you. Even at his last breath, he made me promise to always look after you. What I want to know is why he cared so much about you that he even asked me to risk my own life for you."
"I don't know, maybe because I was his successful experiment?"
"No! That's not all of it. There's something and I know you know it. Now please tell me. My father died thinking of you?"
"Look Vivana, we didn't ask the government to experiment on us, it wasn't on our will. I was talking to my men and all of a sudden, we started suffocating. Now whatever your father's intentions with me were, he took it to hell with him. I'm not interested in knowing what your father did to over fifty innocent soldiers. What I want to know is the motherfucker who killed my family."
"I just know that your father knew about all those officials who asked for this experiment to be done. And he was brilliant enough to keep record. Those records are what interests me. Where can I find them?"
"I don't know, his house laboratory perhaps. You can check at the house. Wait. You expect me to sleep here in your house?"
"Yeah. On the couch by the way."
"No. I will take a cab back to my place. I don't sleep on couches. Not for once or twice."
"Of course I can't make you sleep on the couch. You will use the guest house."
"And what will I wear tomorrow?"
"My wife's clothes I guess. You somehow have the same test as hers. Let me show you to the guestroom."
Walking passed her room a few steps to the right was the room she led Vivana in showing her the restroom and everything she needed.
"I need pyjamas. I never sleep in working clothes."
"I will get you mine then. " said Jessica walking out of the room then returning with a pair of pants and shirt throwing them on the bed then bidding her goodnight.
They both slept well through the night and in the morning, Jessica woke up to a surprise of Vivana preparing breakfast in the kitchen.
"Good morning. " snapped Jessica. " what are you doing?"
"Making us breakfast. You don't always eat like normal people. Do you?"
"Why ask. I'm not normal after all. Let me take a shower. By the way you look good in that top. Though Amber looked better in it." Said Jessica walking away.
"Yeah. She was Amber after all. She did have a great test." Answered Vivana smirking.
In a few minutes, Jessica was done and they were on there way heading to the station when they found a group of people standing in the middle of the road. Men and women distressed. They both walked out of the car leading to see what was happening.
In the midst of the crowd laid a dead old priest with a bible in his left hand. In his right hand held a black big rosary that went rolled around his palm.
"Please walk away. It's the police. " stated Jessica showing her badge to the people having them all extend.
"I know this priest. " muttered Vivana. His name is Antonio Andrade. He was a good man.
It was in a few minutes when an old nun came passed the people rushing towards the corpse.
"Please call the station?" Asked Jessica from Vivana who immediately walked away a few steps to make the call. The nun also had seen her way through to the corpse trying to touch the dead man when when she was instantly stopped by Jessica.
"Father Andrade. He couldn't have done it." Cried the nun having Jessica questionable.
"I'm really sorry for your loss sister. What didn't he have to do?" She inquired.
"He killed himself." Snapped she.
"This is not a suicide ma'am. Someone killed the father." Confirmed Jessica as she watched Vivana walk back to the scene when immediately, the sister recognised her.
"Lady Carter?" Uttered the nun in surprise.
"Sister constance. I'm really sorry. I know he was a good friend to you."
"Yeah. He was a good person." Remarked the nun pissed. "What are you doing here Lady Carter?"
"I work with the police sister. I work with her." Pointed Vivana at Jessica. "I know how much Father Andrade meant to you sister and you were his closest friend. You have to help find justice for his murder.
"No! Father wasn't killed, he killed himself. I'm sure of that." Confirmed the sister wiping the tears off her face.
As they kept looking around the scene, Dannie arrived with an ambulance at the front that parked in the middle of the road as they started marking the murder scene.
"It's a tough time for you sister but I want you to come with me at the station so you can make a statement." Told Jessica to sister constance who was still shading tears.
"And you two? Did you arrive the crime scene together?" Inquired Dannie from Jessica and Vivana.
"Shout up you." Shaded Jessica boldly walking with the nun to her wrangler as she left Vivana who was expected to go along with the ambulance.
She sat the nun in the back of her car then set to the station showing her into the interrogation room.
"Hey stacey. Two cups of coffee." She called on the receptionist. "I hope coffee won't do you bad sister?" She inquired from the seated nun.
"No. Of course. Thank you." Responded constance.
"As we wait for the coffee, I want you to tell me why you think Father Andrade committed suicide."
"Well, Father wasn't okay for the passed one month. He was acting weird. Oh lord have mercy." Snapped she crossing with her rosary.
"Acting weird. how weird?"
"He insisted that the lord was coming for him, to make him pay for the sins he committed. He hasn't been performing the mass as the way he used to. Ever since he was nominated as the new bishop."
"So, he was expected to be the new paris bishop?"
"He was the most loved among all priest. But then a day after, he demanded that he didn't want to take up the position."
"Do you think he was threatened by one of the priests?"
"No! No man of God would do that detective. That's not the wisest thinking you know. God have mercy on us."
"Power is something else sister constance. Can you get me the names of those other priests who were nominated. I would love to talk to them."
"Of course. But that list is at the church. I can't remember all of them."
"You wouldn't mind getting it for me, would you?"
"No of course. But I don't think it will be off any help."
"Okay. Thank you."
Dannie walked in on Jessica after the nun had left seating at the top of her desk picking a conversation but She just stood walking out of the office to the forensics laboratory where Vivana was busy examining the dead body.
"You remember that psycho case you worked on two weeks ago?" Inquired Vivana seeing Jessica coming in.
"Yeah. Jonathan Joseph Williams. What about that?"
"This killer is even worse."
"How do you know the dead priest?" Asked Jessica.
"Am I being interrogated?"
"Yeah. You can name it as such."
"He was friends with my Dad. I didn't think he was transferred to los Angeles. He was a priest in Chicago at St. Andrews church. It's were I used to go to church there and sister constance always moved as his companion. No question she is with her here. Is that all?"
"No. The old lady was surprised to see you here but not only that, she wasn't happy to sight you."
"Yeah. Those are personal issues. "
"I might need to know about them." Insisted Jessica.
'Alright. I had an affair with a young nun at the church. I actually made her fall in love with me because I was in love with her. Sister found us kissing naked in her boarding room after we had made love. She got punished and I was stopped from going to that church ever again. She didn't tell father though."
Ain't that shaming. " chuckled Jessica. "How could you Carter. You're something else."
",well, it's not funny. I have never seen her ever again. And never have I slept with anyone else again."
"What was her name? The sister you had an affair with?"
"Diana. She wasn't a nun yet. She was a noviciate."
"Either way, that was quite a scene you committed there." Joked Jessica.
"It isn't funny. She is the only woman I've ever loved. And I've lived hoping to see her at least once again. But it's so impossible. "
"Sorry. Anyways. Thank you for trusting me with such deep secrets. "
"It's alright. I hope you do the same."
"I'm not planning on doing that." Remarked Jessica.