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Chapter 23 - A TALE OF THE HIDDEN TWINS

Peekaboo the other one beckons slowly

Peekaboo comes upon her own like a vulture

Clawing away into the carcass, silent torture

The masters themselves can not help but watch

Upon this needle of death, she has been doomed to touch

It's too late

It's too late

Who will save the messengers from principalities that loom?

While reading through Edward's writings, Collins became more disturbed; both Edward's poems and drawings carried an air of clairvoyance, as he could see beyond the physical.

Collins wondered if this had all been part of the reasons why he became violent at school towards his peers over time.

In one of the images, a fly is holding out a touch.

A big bulky black fly stands at ease guiding a red door and holding out a touch.

He wonders what that meant too.

Upon Edward's warning, he has been trying to reach out to Laura all day.

Unfortunately, all efforts have proved futile.

'Oh, tough luck' he said and he began to get afraid.

Hoping no colossal disaster has happened

All calls to Laura have gone straight to voice mail in the past four hours.

'Hi, I understand it's not yet time for your appointment but we must see; there is someone I want you to meet'

After sending another voice call hoping it gets to her.

He prepares himself to meet his next client.

A middle-aged man who believes he is being haunted by the ghost of his recently deceased ex-wife.

Laura stays in hiding while being protected by her loyal Jamal and the federal men were all on alert under the leadership of Tony.

Bullets begin to spiral all around the scene and more men had fallen by this time.

Leaving a few of Simon's men and Tony's men standing.

Simon himself watches from a small room the events playing out and he becomes more irate as more of his men are shot.

He says to himself

'I think we should play a little game' and flashes back briefly to the first time he killed someone.

It was an irksome neighbor and an older boy called Harry who always tried to taunt him at school.

He would drop pieces of paper conveying dreadful messages in his bag packs and also blocks him everywhere at school.

Simon has had enough of this and did not want to tell his father as he had always been his own man even from a young age.

Simon calls some of his friends and they set traps in the wild for Harry.

On a particular Friday afternoon, he writes a ridiculing letter and slips it into Harry's locker through one of his most mischievous friends.

Chris often accompanies Simon aiding him in most of his criminal adventures and has well shares the same dark mind as him.

Harry sees the note and gets irate.

Simon further tests Harry's temper dropping a location in the note.

Daring him to come if he has the balls.

Knowing fully well that Harry is not one to be challenged.

Asides from the fact that he has a very short temper and fragile ego, he never wants to be seen as a coward.

Thus like a sheep being led to the slaughter, Harry lets his rage gets the better of him as he leaves alone to go call Simon's bluff.

It turned out to be a different ball game as Simon and his friends had everything planned out.

They had set up a bear trap for him which he fell into.

Breaking his legs in the process.

He groaned in agony as the deep gash oozed out fresh blood and spilled rapidly.

Simon and his friends all came with their clubs and with them they beat Harry to a pulp till he was almost out of breath.

Harry kept on groaning ' I will end you runt' he said with all the remaining energy that he could muster.

Simon then sets out his three dogs whom his father named The Triple Tragedy.

Three black pit bulldogs were gifted to his father when he clocked at the age of ten.

The dogs waited excitedly, wagging their tails in anticipation.

With their strong jaws getting ready to feast.

Immediately Simon gave the order.

The dogs pounce on Harry.

Devouring their adversary while he struggles to his death.

Harry kept struggling for his life and he was reduced to mostly bones as the boys watch with satisfaction.

Reminiscing on the memory.

Simon chuckles satisfied at the good old times.

Harry was missing and looked for many months after he was forgotten and was never found.

'You can only run Laura, but you cannot hide from what is coming '

He said to himself as he watches the events all play out from the camera.

He has put his pawns to the test and he awaits the outcome.

His pawns, however, began to fall short of expectations when push came to shove.

Orion can tell that Laura is in a dire situation.

He begins to drift to the point where she is and he can see how bullets are swirling around with bodies dropping.

He can also see the collector there with his eyes glowing red, contemptuously sneering at him.

He immediately begins to move all around the scene trying to create a diversion but his powers are limited.

He is not permitted by the laws of the universe to meddle in the affairs of mortals as a terrestrial and he is aware of this, but he does not give in anyway.

Orion has never been the one to quit not even in the face of impossibility.

He finds a way to get into their head through her visions.

Realizing that danger loomed.

He starts instructing her on the right places to go which he realizes that she follows even though she is visibly scared.

With Orion's guidance, Laura and the rest of the team protecting her can escape in the blink of an eye.

While running as far as their legs could carry them to a completely hideous place.

Laura is shown through her vision flashes by Orion.

As the political race between Alexander and Simon gets nearer.

He begins to realize that someone keeps following him.

He tells Huncho about his fears and Huncho reports back to Via discreetly.

Via responds to him that it is being handled.

Via has been on Simon's trail for a while now.

To a point where she knows all about his major dealings and the people, he has engaged with recently business-wise.

Simon has been infuriated by the outcome of his last failed big consignment delivery.

He has been taking out his anger on his men as she has been hearing whispers.

Simon knows there is a mole in his organization.

A weed that needs to be taken out.

He knows Laura is not his only foe so he gets to work.

He noticed some of his moves against Alex have also been ineffectual.

He is aware this has only been possible because someone has been informing Alex of his moves.

He, therefore, plots another way to get rid of his opponent.

He decides to pay a visit to a long-time old friend.

Chris and Simon had known one another since they were kids and they grew up practically as brothers.

Since Simon had no brother.

He was usually hanging out with Chris and the other guys right from the time they were little.

As they matured over time they became more and more of a force.

Unlike Simon, Chris seems very innocent and calm.

Simon comes off as an open-aggressive alpha male.

While Chris seemed more serene and almost harmless.

He is just as ferocious as Simon which makes them the closest pair in their group.

Over the years both men have committed several atrocities together and have gotten away with it.

Chris went ahead to make a name for himself in the upper echelon of law.

While Simon became eminent in business and politics carving a niche for himself as he rises to the top using every tool at his disposal.

Due to the affairs of life.

It has been years since both men saw eye to eye.

Simon decides to gather all the help he can get now.

He remembers their escapades and how they have taken down different foes.

Flashbacks to when he was in high school.

Simon started a big drug business agency and it ran effectively for a long time.

With Chris being his partner they built a massive empire that began to control affairs from the campus, they named it Spark.

Spark was an organization that dealt mainly with the sale of high-grade illegal drugs.

Simon built the system in a way that he need not even involve himself in the distribution process.

Chris was the one who gathered the army, the ones who distributed the goods every day.

While Simon attended to the calls and communication aspect.

No info on the Spark market bypasses him.

And even when the cops show up, he finds a way to pay them off for their troubles.

All was going smoothly till a certain cop named Austin came and demanded to have a cut out of their sales.

Somehow this cop got wind of who was really in charge of the Spark.

He decided to use the information as leverage.

'You just have to pay me 30 percent profits from all the profits you get from this damn Spark business Simon.

'There are no two ways about it man'

Austin said to Simon as the latter watches him and thinks of a plan to silence him for life.