Stare at the liar🥀
"Peter?" Chris called when he heard a knock on the door
"Yes" peter answered
"Come on in" Chris invited after opening door for him
"Carl is upstairs, she's up" Chris said
"Thanks man" peter thanked him as he left for Carl, Chris felt sorry for him even though he didn't get along with Peter that didn't mean he hated him. Carl took Jennie's death hard she was still not over it, still traumatized by it, and for peter he took it so hard he refused to believe, even though deep inside he knew it was true..he had this "what if" with him and that was the part that was keeping him sane. Half way through the stairs Chris asked
"Would you like coffee"
"Yes please" peter replied
"Carl" peter called
"Peter?" Carl called back from inside. She sounded confused and surprised that he was there
"Yeah" peter answered
"Come in" Carl said letting him in
"How are you" peter asked with a smile as he pushed the study chair and sat beside Carl.
"I'm just exhausted" she said with a sigh as she sipped her coffee
"You know this shouldn't get to me, I'm supposed to move on and look forward to new things, they can't know my weaknesses, I'm suppose to be strong and I'm supposed to protect people but look at me pathetic" Carl added with a dry humorless laugh at the end before ruffling her already messed up hair, tears Flowing down her face again.
"It's okay Carl that's what makes you human, the weaknesses.. you're strong enough fighting through the odds, now look at you a police chief. You gave little Jen the justice she deserve and a thousand other" Peter said as he pulled her into a hug, Carl just cried more, drenching his shirt with tears. After she calmed down Peter decided to let her about his own package
"I received a package too" he said after a moment of silence
"You too?" Carl asked with a frown
"Yes" Peter answered nodding
"What was in yours" Carl asked getting up
"It was just photos of Jen, she's so cute" Peter said with a longing smile
"No… bad ones" Carl asked
"No just one of her grave yard" Peter replied
"With a letter" Peter added
"What was in your letter" Carl asked she was being frantic, opening drawer, pushing things, looking into corners
"Carl" Peter said holding her shoulders, stopping her frantic searching
"What's in yours" Carl asked
"you know how she always talked about buying a teddy bear for me?" Peter asked and Carl nodded giving him the go ahead to continue
"The letter said.."if I'm a little older than 14 I'll buy you a teddy'" peter continued
"She's suppose to be 14 next week" Carl muttered to herself but peter heard it
"Mine is bad it's awful.. she was naked, she was tied up, she was bleeding, she.. she was crying , she was dead" Carl said between sobs as she threw herself into Peter's arms
"And she said "the monsters are coming for me'" Carl added
"It's okay Carl, stop crying or you'll give yourself a headache" peter said trying to coax her to stop.
"Whoever did this.. wants to see us cower but we won't.. tomorrow we'll go to work as normal and investigate this on our own, pretend like nothing happened and continue to be normal" Carl said after finally calming down
"Just read my mind" Peter said agreeing
"I'm scared Peter, I'm not scared because some shit hole is trying to mess with me but the only people that were exclusively on this case our my team and I don't want to have doubts about them but-" Carl said intentionally not completing her sentence after a deep sigh she continued
"What if that's this person's motive is, to destroy and disunite the team" Carl asked but more like said
"That sounds like a motive behind these packages" Peter agreed
"Since after Mario was brought to justice and you were given a higher rank and the Authority to make your own team.. the whole police force has never seen a team this united it's hard to believe one of them did it but...people do change" Peter added to the conversation
"This is just too much" Carl said to herself
"Coffee" Chris said knocking on the door before letting himself in
"That took forever" letter murmured to himself
"Be grateful it's not poisoned and just drink it" Chris said with an eye roll
"Considering the time it took, I won't be surprised if it is but thank God we have a detective here" Peter shot back with a sly smirk
"Well if you don't know.. she's my girlfriend and would take my side" Chris said sitting beside Carl and putting an arm round her neck
"I'll like to believe she's a woman of justice" Peter said sipping his coffee
"Okay, fine cut it out" Carl said trying to hold back her laugh. After the three analyzing the issue more and having dinner together, Peter decided to leave for the station
"Has to be as normal as possible" he said getting ready to leave
"Thank you Chris, dinner was um… eatable" he added
"Your not so welcome, no offense just letting you know" Chris shot back with a smirk
"No offense taken" Peter said with a smile
"See you tomorrow Carl and see you whenever I do Chris" Peter added walking out the front door.
"He's bearable" Chris said to Carl and she just laughed
"Movie night" he asked following her to the living room
"I'm down" Carl said.. she needed her mind off things for a bit.