Stare at the liar 🥀
"Peter" Sam called out as he approached Carl's office
"Everything okay" peter asked
"Xavier's in-" Sam answered
"He came, direct from the airport" Sam added
"Where's he" peter asked
"Interrogation room" Sam answered
"Good" Peter said, he looked at Carl's office door he contemplated where to tell her about it but decided to handle the Xavier himself and give Carl time to grasp the information he dug out.
"Come with me to interrogate Xavier" Peter said to Sam, who nodded.
"Xavier" Peter said with a nod as soon as he opened the door. Xavier gave him a nod as an acknowledgement
"We have a few questions for you" peter said taking his sit
"Okay" Xavier answered
"Sorry about the lost of your friend" peter said
"Thank you" Xavier said with a small smile
"What relation do you have with miss Jenifer" peter asked
"She's...a good friend, we meet in highschool and became good friends, she was my lab partner and study buddy" Xavier answered with a sad smile, his eyes looked distant as if he was reminiscing their high school days
"Any romantic relationship" peter asked, Xavier knew what peter wanted him to say so he just said it
"Yes, I liked her but she always pushed me away, turns out that was because her friend,Charon liked me, I know there won't be any chance for me so I asked Charon out and we started dating then-" Xavier began but suddenly stopped as he started getting emotional
"It's okay...take your time Xavier" Peter said in a calm voice
"Here" Sam who have been quite this whole time, taking notes and recording said as he passed him a glass of water
"Thank you" Xavier said but he didn't drink the water both Sam and peter noticed but didn't comment on it.
"At a mutual friend's engagement part we got drunk and....we did something we shouldn't and then" Xavier interrupted himself again, this time he took the cup of water and downed everything
"After that ,she started avoiding me but then later at the friend's wedding we kissed and then after that I moved to Enfield for some work but then when I came back we started seeing each other secretly..I was going to break of with Charon, I truly didn't want to hurt her, so we stopped but Denna found out and Scarlet and Sophia and it became a whole thing" Xavier said taking a deep breath, Xavier and Sam looked at each other then at Xavier
"Can you elaborate on "the big thing" ' Peter said
"Scarlet started avoiding Jenifer, which made her feel really bad and guilty and Sophia threatened to tell Charon" Xavier answered
"What about Denna" peter asked
"She didn't say much or do anything but she always gave me that "I know" look as if she's UpTo something bad" Xavier said
"We stopped seeing each other until she came to pick me up at a bar one night and we sleep together then days later, Charon got a video and she found out and everything just went wrong" Xavier said as he held his head in his hand as if blocking an incoming headache
"All this is my fault" he muttered
"Any ideas who sent the video" peter asked
"Denna or Joshua" Xavier answered looking up, peter raised an eyebrow before asking
"And why do you think that"
"Because it happened in Joshua's Bar and Denna, she's just suspicious always giving me that look..I don't know,it's complicated" Xavier answered
"Where were you on the night of August
7th" peter asked
"I was at work all day and in the evening went to see my mom then Charon called me to meet up around 6 then she found out then she broke up with me, at night that was when Jennifer texted me, telling me she needed a place to crash and I came to pick her up" Xavier explained
Did you see her on the 8th" peter asked
"No I woke up and she was gone, I tried calling and texting but she told me she needed alone time the blocked me, she sounded distressed but I didn't think much of it beacause it was probably the stress, I tried talking to Charon but to no avail" Xavier answered
Where were you on the eight" peter asked
"I was at the gym until around 1pm then I had to fly to Xanders for a business meeting" Xavier answered..after 2hours of interrogation Xavier was finally let off to go home and to come back tomorrow for a lie detector test which he agreed to.
"Check all his Alibis" peter said to Sam as soon as Xavier left
"On it" Sam said leaving himself, peter took the recording and headed to Carl's office
"What do you need a DNA test for" miller asked over the phone
"Miller, this is personal and as a friend please help me" Carl said her voice wavering
"Carl don't scare me, tell me already" miller said anxiously
"I need you to do a DNA test to confirm whether the Anderson's are my real parents without them knowing" Carl said,miller wanted to ask why but he knew now wasn't the time. He trusted Carl and knew she wasn't the one to take rash decisions. She always thought thinks through, he was silent for a few seconds before he said with a sigh
"Send over a strand of your hair"
" I'm risking my life for you here" he added playfully,
"Thank you so much miller, thank you" Carl said genuinely grateful, Carl put strands of her hair in a bag, properly sealing it. Knock knock, she heard as she put the hair in her bag, she composed herself before answering
"Come on in"
"Everything alright" peter asked
"Yeah" she said with a small smile, Peter walked over and gave her a hug
"Everything is going to be fine" Peter said as he patted her head, she hummed with a smile as she tried restraining her tears but failed
"I'm going to do a DNA test" Carl said
"Go ahead and your mind at ease" peter answered after Carl calmed down peter told her about Xavier and his interrogation passing her the recording
"I'll listen to it" Carl said nodding
"Did he look guilty to you" Carl asked as she fumbled to start the recording
"Actually..no" Peter said, Carl just nodded..in this case everyone looked hella guilty and she had no exceptions.