DARKSIDE of the FAE WORLD

Cont'd Chapter 12

TJ POV

We checked to see if Jamar was home and he wasn’t, so we headed to his place of employment at the grocery store. The manager in charge of the day shift said that he hasn’t seen Jamar in 3 weeks.

“Do you know who might know where we can locate him?” Kevin asked.

“Yeah, once a week he has an appointment at the VA for therapy” the manager responded.

I gave him my card and informed him if he finds out or remembers anything to call me. We got to the VA and was directed to his therapist Tim. We sat down with Tim to get an understanding of Jamar.

“Listen I know you’re just doing your jobs, but I can’t violate patient doctor privilege.”

I rolled my eyes when I looked at Kevin and caught a whiff of fae coming from the doctor.

“So, doctor”

“Please call me Tim.”

“Tim what kind of Fae are you?” I asked.

He froze staring at us like we have two heads. I’m not going to lie but I love that look on their faces when they realize we can tell what they are.

“Do I need to repeat the question, Tim?”

“No detective, I’m a ferret like fae” he finally answered.

A ferret type fae is harmless, they are more for therapy than anything. That’s why a lot of them become therapists. We asked Tim if Jamar Gomez was a fae as well, but he doubled down on the patient doctor privilege and just told us to get a court order. With that we left but not for long as we came back with a court order subpoena for the documents and notes that Dr. Tim had on Jamar. Once at the station we had one of the rookie cops put the files in the conference room while we go talk to Tara. Before we got to the lab, we got a call about another body.

We arrived at the scene within minutes because Kevin needed to get there. When we walked in with our lovely victim hung from another ceiling and our wonderfully corky Tara getting the answers, we needed to connect the two.

"This is the second person being hung" I pointed out.

"You are not wrong but this time this one here put up a fight. You can see the defensive wounds around his knuckles" Tara explained.

One of the officers there informed us that our victim is named Kyle Brown, a lawyer which sounds familiar, but I know it will come back to me once we just do a little more digging into his background.

"What's that in his hand?" Kevin asked.

"It's white fur and it's the same white fur as the other victim but the type I won't know till I get back to my lab" we nodded at Tara as she and her team took the body away.

We thanked Tara and looked around for any more clues. We noticed that this lawyer likes to bring work home and it just so happens that I don't need to look up his background because I figured out why his name sounded so familiar. He was Daniel Copper's lawyer in the trial for the s****l assault of Rose Gomez.

"Ok, so this man is just not killing people for the heck of it. He wants revenge for his sister because after losing the trial against her attacker she committed suicide" Kevin pointed out.

"And according to this the judge that ruled in Daniel Copper's favor is Judge Myers" I said.

"Wait, Judge Myers? No, wonder she lost" I looked at Kevin to elaborate on that and then he continued. "Judge Myers is one of the most bias pro male dominant judges I have ever witnessed. He always sides with the men on his docket" me Kevin explained.

"Well since we know that this judge is next let's go pay him a visit.”

As we headed to the courthouse Tara called and informed us that the white fur was yeti fur. Which would explain superhuman strength. Once we arrived at the courthouse, we were lucky enough to see Jamar entering the courthouse and we rushed him, both Kevin and I tackled him to the ground, arrested him and brought him back to the station.

"Jamar you are truly a hard man to find" I stated.

Jamar just stared at us like he wants to kill us.

"Do you see these two men here?" Kevin asked.

"No, why? Should I?"

" Yeah, these are the guys that caused your sister to take her own life! Do you not even care?" I asked sticking a nerve.

"Don't you ever ask if I care about my sister because I would’ve moved the mountains for her if that means she will be happy! Those monsters destroyed her! She wanted to be a nurse because she wanted to help people and that guy was one of the patients she helped as a PCT in the ER department." He started crying before continuing "she was just doing her job and became obsessed with her. Started following her, stalking her etc."

"If that's the case, why didn't she go to the police?" Kevin asked.

"Don't you think she did? But they just turned her away and said just ignore it. Then that night he cornered her after she got of work and r***d her. What the judge and that lawyer did, they covered it up by claiming there's not enough evidence to charge him and the case was dismissed. That wasn't what made her give up."

"What made your sister take her own life?" I asked.

"He said that he had the judge in his back pocket and if he wanted, he would find her and r**e her again. After that day she broke and took her life."

Kevin and I looked at each other before asking "So you got revenge for her by killing two out of the 3 men?"

"Yes, but also for me because my baby sister was my world, and they took her away from me!"

After confessing we booked and charged Jamar for two counts of murder. We did some digging on Judge Myers after the interrogation, and we found out he has been letting a lot of the serious cases go with the help of that lawyer just to line his pockets. Let's just say he won't be residing over anyone any time soon.

Venom POV

Looking at my grampa look so weak in his bed breaks my heart. He slowly motioned us to come closer but Peri stead by the door to give us a little bit of alone time.

"Venom, I'm so happy you came. I know I must be quite the sight but it’s just a part of life." He said as he brushed my cheek.

"Grampa you're still handsome as ever and no one can convince me otherwise" trying to lighten the mood.

"Listen my little Ven, I don't have much time give me your hand.”

I did as he asked, and he hovered his hand over mine and a bright light shined out of my grampa's hand which started to burn. I wanted to yank my hand back but something inside tells me not to worry. Once he was done, I looked at my hand to see the mark of our family on the back of my hand. I looked at him stunned for I didn't know why he given the mark of our family because this means that I'm the next head of the family.

"Grampa what is this?"

"I chose you to be my heir."

"What about my dad? I mean he is your son. Or Auntie Sasha?"

"I choose based on action, not blood and he knew this but chose to ignore our families’ traditions and my daughter has no interest in becoming head of the family" he coughed before continuing "Venom you have to save this family before my son ruins us. I love my son, but I don't trust him, and his entitlement has clouded his mind. For right now wait till the family dinner to reveal the new head of the family"

Then he began coughing again. I gave him some water, kissed his forehead, and tucked him in his bed to rest. I walked out of the room covering my hand in my pants pocket. As me and Peri left for the Uber back to our hotel my mother tried stopping us, but I just told her that I will see her tomorrow night at the family dinner. She agreed and let me be.

As we ride back to our hotel Peri just lays my head on her lap stroking my hair. She would do this when I get overwhelmed and or upset. We arrived back at the hotel and the moment we walk in we headed straight for the bar in our room.

"So, how do you feel about what just happened with your grandfather?"

"To be honest I have so many questions. Like has he always been feeling like this about my dad and what if he chose me because my sister is dead because if never was choosing dad, then Snow would have been next in line because my aunt's two kids are younger than us."

As I rambled on while taking shot after shot Peri decided that I had enough to drink and escorted me to my bed. The morning full blown hangover luckily it didn't last long once I ate and drank water. We got ready for the family dinner, Peri wore a black simple mermaid gown with a slit in the back of the dress, black beads from top to bottom. It also had a sweetheart neckline for she has the chest size and curves to pull that dress off. She topped it off with hair in a long low braided ponytail, black platform heels, and a simple black diamond necklace. I was wearing a metallic and sheer mint green dress. It had a strapless metallic like sequence corset that hugged my small curves just right, sweetheart neckline, a mint green sheer fabric the drapes over my shoulder like a cape, and lastly mint green sheer fabric flowy bottom. I topped it off with my dread pulled to a low bun with a pearl decorated hair pin with matching earrings, and simple necklace with a single pearl attached and metallic color platform heels. When I say we look badass I meant that s**t. My family dinners are like going to the red carpet.

We made it to the venue where the dinner was held, and we saw mom and dad.

"OMG, I knew those dresses I picked out for you girls would look great on you!" Mom gushed as she was hugging Peri and me.

When mom didn't hear my dad compliment me as well, she gave him that stare she does when she wants you to be polite when around people in public. Her eyes would turn into this gold color when she's getting annoyed. My mom has mood eyes all the women on her side of the family has it. It's like wearing a constant mood ring. Like right now her eyes are turning gold because she was irritated with dad's lack of manners towards me in public or like when me and dad got into that argument when they came to visit me, and her eyes were both blue and red. Sad for me and anger for my dad.

"You clean up nice Venom and Peri. It's good to see you" he gritted out.

I just replied with a thank you and same to you spiel. I excused myself and took Peri to do some mingling with me. I see my aunt as such a lovely person as always, but her kids have a different story. I swear they act like my dad, sometimes I think we all were switched at birth.

"Hey cousin, still writing parking tickets?" My arrogant cousin Stephen asked.

"I was never writing tickets I was too busy with my partner solving murder cases," I calmly responded.

"Oh, what a fine ass partner you have" he said, like I warned you before no manners switched at birth.

"Thank you for your input on my appearance but a simple pretty or beautiful would have surface" Peri clapped back. She can insult you or correct you so smoothly you wouldn't know she was really insulting you.

"Well, it looks like the black sheep has arrived and apparently she can actually look decent" Carol arrogantly comments.

"And what's apparent is that even though you can't seem to stop spreading yourself thin you can actually look like a decent faithful housewife."

Stephen and Carol's mouth just dropped, and they had these shocked looks on their faces. Then I grabbed Peri's hand and ushered us to a waiter with a glass of champagne before she made matters worse and laughed hard in their face. Listen don't judge me I was sick of that b***h and her backhanded compliments.

As we were saying our hellos to everyone my dad pulled me away to introduce me to some man named Derek Stormrider. The Stormrider family are one of the richest families and have invested in multiple business projects with my dad and grampa but mainly my dad.

"Good evening, Derek this is my daughter I was telling you about Venom" my dad gushed while saying introductions.

"Hello there Miss Venom"

"It's Detective Venom" I immediately corrected even though he was correct in his introduction to me I was annoyed and felt like being petty.

"My apologies Detective" as he smiled at me.

He is a very handsome man don't get me wrong, but he is nothing compared to Jeffery or Cino so dad if you're going to play match maker find someone that I will like because this ain't it. We all sat at the table, Peri on the right and Derek to my left. He tried to break the ice with me, but I just wasn't feeling him by any means, but I had manners and was being polite to him. Once dinner was over, we all headed to an auditorium like room where we saw my grandpa zoomed in on the big screen.

"Good evening my family thank you all for coming this year. Now it's time for my yearly speech but all I have is an announcement to make. As you can see my health is deteriorating and that is because I was just diagnosed with ALS, and I only have 3 years to live, maybe less and no there's no cure for it. So, I will announce the next head of the family when I die."

Everyone looks around in shock and hope that they will be picked because as he expressed to me yesterday, he doesn't go by bloodline he goes by actions. So, all the family members think they have a shot at taking over even my dad was looking like a child who saw a toy he really wants.

"The next head of the family will be my granddaughter Venom" and then the zoom video chat was off.

Everyone was in shock and angry but not as much as my father. If looks could kill I would be six feet under by now.