Bullet 5
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She held his jaw before reaching hers and squeezed his lips with a hateful gaze, her blue eyes were darkened with gloomy looks that made him scared for a second. His face expressionn turned from fear to disappointment and sadness, then he asked her with a cracked voice: "So, there is no way for us to return back together?.."
"I pity you.." she murmured
"We can not love each other again?"
"No.."
"Do you hate me?"
"No.."
"Then, what?"
"I need the information you have, captain.."
"Ah, sure."
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On the other side of the agency, Mehmat was frustrated for what the captain had done for his beloved woman, he was burning with jealousy from him and curiosity controlled his mind just to know what they might be doing together..
"So, what is our senior doing with the captain?" he started
"Probably kissing?" teased Flora "Hugging? Cuddling? Going smoochy smoochy? Adult stuff that you are so innocent to know.."
"Or maybe they are chatting about the past," joined Joseph "and making up together to return to be the ultimate couple!"
"Is this real?" shouted Mehmet
"I am sorry, mister Lewis," answered Flora "but our senior is a bit of dirty and perverted.."
"And oh, sorry, the one behind the door loves her deeply!" stated Joseph "No one can guarantee what they might be doing their.."
"What were they like before?" asked Mehmet
"Married!" stated Flora
"Slept together!" answered Joseph
"Oh my God, stop it both of you, are you enjoying teasing him?" yelled Johan "Our senior is not a dirty one, she is different from other girls!"
"What do you mean?" asked Mehmet
"All of the girls fall in love with the captain from the very moment they look at him and hope to sleep or have a relationship with him for his ultimate beauty, however senior is different, she does not see hik as appealing. Although they had some kind of relationship but we do not know yet what specifically it was, yet those two are trying to tease you."
"I do not like Emina," claimed Flora "but I am pretty sure she is getting some important information from him and not going wild."
"What is their relationship?" wondered Mehmet
"No one actually knows," assured Joseph "we only know that they used to visit each other alot, laugh, go on dates, play chess, golf and soccer, solve cases, work together and go out at night. But, did they love? Had an affair? A friendship? A relationship of benefits? Or engagement? No one knows, you can ask the mysterious woman…."
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Back to the captain's office, Thomas showed her many data of that hard riddle. Alot, of pictures of disappeared people from Houston were shown on his monitor and all of them had a visit to St. Louis before vanishing away, the dates varied from 2021 til 2041 with many disappearing incidents. The victims ranged from black to white, men to women, adults to children, and even from different nationality, however they all disappeared in St. Louis.
Since twenty years ago, the USA had recorded more than one thousand disappearance cases of people from St. Louis and other cities in America and out of the country, when even the Canadians, Brazilians, Arabs, Africans and Europeans had disappeared suddenly through the time they went to St. Louis. Some of them disappeared individually, others in couple and some in a whole group, their whereabouts were still unknown and their bodies were yet not found, and the criminal showed no clues about its identity, as if it was planning carefully.
The number of cases started to be one per month in 2021 when in total there was twelve disappearance cases in St. Louis in one year, it was considered normal as the city was full of crimes, kidnapping, abducting and stealing, in addition to having the neighboring cities with more numbers. The number increased normally in the first seven years until it reached 347 cases in only seven years. It started to worry the police station when the number increased swiftly to become 70 cases per one year until it recorded one thousand disappearance cases in St. Louis.
The phenomenon was considered yet normal as the agents interpreted these occasions with many logical reasoning such as committing suicides, running away with a lover, being kidnapped, falling in a valley, drowning in a river, losing their way in a forest or even being eaten by a beast. The policemen kept searching for any trace of these one thousand people without finding even their bodies until the case was closed by the random reasoning.
Until 3 June 2041, a young woman reported the disappearance of her husband in Houston and insisted on meeting captain Christen, she told him that her husband could not have gone anywhere nor left her for another women as the policemen claimed, so she insisted on him to take this case. After collecting the data and checking the cases, he understood that they were all related and located at St. Louis. The cases were confusing because they were not recorded all in the same city but recorded in many separate and far cities which made them seem as normal occurrences distributed all over America.
"You mean that there are one thousand odd disappearances within 20 years under my eyes and I kmew nothing about them?" startled Emina "Why weren't we told about this as the agency of St. Louis? We must know from twenty years, not now when one thousand person were killed cold-bloodedly!"
"Calm down, Emina.." started Thomas as Emina interrupted him
"Do not call me Emina! One thousand people were killed and I get to know coincidently when six people had disappeared from the same city within one month! Because all of the people consider them as normal disappearances!"
"Just calm down for a second! Do not shout anymore! I want to hear my voice‼ We did a search by ourselves and we do not have the right to tell people about these occurances as we had no proof about the criminal, also the cases were considered normal ones since all of them had reasons to disappear, many of them were requested to stop the investigation by their families and other of them were reported too late so we could do nothing!"
"Yes! You could never had told me to do my own investigations, to trace and track the criminal, to warn my people and to notice abnormal phenomena, because you do things on your own without sharing them to right people, all you do is thinking how to increase your fame and reputation without caring about people who are dying! You are selfish, you want to keep the credits all to yourself, you could not had told the woman that you did not know where her husband was and you did not want to ask for help! If I did not come here on my own will searching the cities and to ask you for help, you would not have told me the truth!"
"Emina.. I.. I am lost.. I.. I do not know what to do.. All I know that they are all done by the same criminal… Bu.. But.. I.. I do not know who he is.. Emina!"
"So.. You are asking me for help? I pity you, you selfish rat.. But I will help you out, thank you for spitting the truth and telling me thise information!"
"Emina.. Do not tell anyone about this.."
"I will get into contact with the girl's grandfather, then go again to the rest of the cities, then ask people of St. Louis if they saw any of the victims.."
"Emina.. Do not tell anyone.. Act like you knew this on your own or like you discovered this from collecting datas and talking to other agencies.."
"…"
"Emina! Please do this for me! Please!"
"Gather all the information, documents and pictures for me, I want to get them all together in one file.. With a usb too.."
"I am sorry… Do not hate me.."
"I will take a room and start a video chat with the victim's grandfather, so, no one shall annoy me.."
His eyes were full of despair as his heart ached too much that it could explode and burst out off his chest, however Emina remained rough and keen that she had to solve that mystery of the transparent criminal!