“I’ll be there as soon as possible.” I dashed to the medical unit knowing as much as he loved playing games with people, he wouldn’t have contacted me for nothing, his ego wouldn’t accept it.
“Sir, it’s so nice to see you on this beautiful afternoon. I’ll show you what I found and then go to lunch.”
I nodded. “Dr. Avery.”
He studied me as if waiting for me to say something and then snapped into action. “Right. This way, Sir.”
We took a hall I knew about but almost never walked through, the one that led to the forensic/pathology room. This was in fact a room he’d asked for as a gift for a favor I asked him for long ago. It was where he kept the dead bodies he used to “play with.” I didn’t know what that entailed and I didn’t care to know as long as they were already dead. As soon as we entered the room the temperature dropped to the point that even I shivered. He pulled on the handle to a cabinet and out rolled her body on a table. It was stiff, and pale.
Two hours passed as he showed me every detail he found on the body. He spilled so many words I didn’t understand, medical or scientific gibberish but several things stuck to my memory. The rope had broken her neck but also almost every muscle in her leg was broken or sprained.
“This victim, like the others had something inserted into her rectum but there’s something new. And I think it will be easy to figure out whom this obtuse predator is because of thispurchase.” He paused. I stood to the side with my arms crossed over my chest, listening while Dr. Avery turned the body over. I saw the sutures he’d made between her butt cheeks. “What’s that?”
“This time, besides the ginger, he also stuck a type of pepper that’s been organically engineered so that the pungency can be of the most extreme. It’s patented and made only by one specific company. Pepper X. Because of the increased pungency and the amount of time she was exposed to it, the most superficial tissue lining her orifice was dissolved away where the chemical touched.”
“So, even though we haven’t see a murder in months, he’s escalating,” I stated.
“Most likely.” He nodded as he confirmed my suspicion.
“Anything else? DNA?”
“Right. I collected fingerprints from all over her body and not all of them matched Lord Adler.” No one else knew about the whole gang rape that took place that night so this information confirmed what Adler had told me.
“Did anything match?”
“Yes, Lords Calvin, Barrington, Black, Thomas, and strangely, Dr. Lansbury. Perhaps there was a contamination in the case of Dr. Lansbury.” He paused and we stared at each other, both knowing that was not the case at all. “And this is also true for the DNA from the sperm.”
I sighed. “So... Let me get this straight. Last time, there were no matches on the DNA but this time there were several?” The difference this time was that I’d secretly collected the DNA and only trusted it to him. It had been Dr. Lansbury who’d lead the previous investigation. That motherfucking sick bastard.
“Affirmative... Sir.” He nodded.
“This guy is toying with me.” I sighed with frustration while wondering if this would be enough to convince Master into allowing me to execute the doctor. “Anything else?”
“That’s all.”
“Well, I and the Master thank you for your efforts.” Then the idea came to me. “Dr. I need your help on this. Can you please cross examine the new DNA I collected for this sampling to that of the other cases? Is that possible?”
“I would first have to check that the older samples are intact.”
“Please do. Thank again for taking the time to do all this,” I said as I walked out.
Later that night, I was sitting on the edge of my bed when I textedhim.
Me:We need to talk.
Master:Oh, Tristan, yes. You must have read my mind. I’ve been meaning to tell you, I need you tocome to Portugal. The weather is so nice here and I’m having the overlords over next week.
Me:I’ve been trying to investigate who is killing the slaves.
Master:Has there been another murder?
Me:No, but it’s only a matter of time. I’ve narrowed it down to five men, including Dr. Lansbury. I have more evidence that proves it’s him.
Master:Do you have live feed of him doing it?
Fuck. How many times was I going to tell him whoever was doing this was breaking through our security system?
Me:No.
