A Broken Promise Costs A Broken Heart

The Killer

Amelia doesn’t trust her temporary coworkers at all. No matter how tired they are or how hard this guy is to catch it just makes no sense to her that they would ask a complete stranger for help. Also the hushed voices and conversation that seem to abruptly stop after Amy enters her room only help her case further. It’s obvious they want to keep an eye on her for suspicious behavior, so Amy is going to be on her best behavior so she can return to her sad pathetic life as soon as possible. They already got to close snooping once and she cannot take any more mistakes. If this all ends well her file will be sealed and the voices of the past, will remain just that, voices.

- Okay people, this man is still out there hunting for his fourth victim so from his previous murders we know we have a time frame of one week to catch him. So far all we know is his victim’s type. Young brunette women, distanced from the world with no one that would miss them. – the leader, who introduced herself as Maya says.

- His preferred method of abducting these women is drugging them with fabric dipped in chloroform. He tortures them and 24 hours later he dumps the bodies. – Mike, the douche from the interrogation room adds.

- Classy, - Amy mumbles.

- What was that Miss Hudson? – Mike asks sending a cold stare her way.

- C’mon Michael, we’re in first name basis aren’t we? – Amy knows she’s supposed to stay in their good graces but by god she can’t help pissing off the angry short man and it seems worth it when she hears a chuckle from the rest of the team.

- What I’m saying is the guy is a classic kidnapper. The old chloroform method hasn’t been used in a while for abducting people has it? Sounds like a shitty 90s cop movie.

- You’d know all about the methods of a*******n woulnd’t you, Amelia? – Mike says poking the sleeping bear.

- No Mike, - Amy answers not one to step down, - my kidnappers just killed my parents in front of me and then forced me to join them unless I wanted to be next. So no, not really used with chloroform, but I’m glad my tragic teenage life has you amused.

- Hudson, - Miles starts, - makes a good point. The killer might be old or has an obsession with the classics so that’s another clue to add to his profile.

Alright, I’ll call your brother and let him know if there is anything he can find. – Kara, the blonde woman says and walks out of the room.

My brother is our tech guy at HQ, - Miles  explains, - and Kara’s got a crush on him but it’s a secret.

Amy and Miles share a giggle over his theatrics and the other agents start to roll out of the room. Mike, approaches Amy with an apologetic look on his face.

Miss Hudson, - he starts, - my behavior was totally unacceptable and I hope you can forgive me. It’s no excuse but this case really has all of us strung out and we just want to go home. Either way, I apologize for my insensitivity. You are still a part of this team, however temporarily and I should treat you as such.

Amelia takes her time looking at Mike, he’s not a bad guy and she can see he’s tired and although not trusting of her he is trying her best to adapt to the changes in the team.

- It’s fine, Mike, I get it. And I get that you don’t trust me, I wouldn’t trust me either but please respect that my past is something that I want to forget not something that I want reminded every day. Anyway, I accept your apology and I really hope that we can talk in a first name basis if that’s okay with you too.

Mike nods and smiles and watches as Amy starts reading the case files again.

- Thank you, Amelia, I’ll go get us some coffee and we can work on these together.

When Mike comes back with all of his coworkers in tow holding coffee and snacks they find Amelia laying on top of the desk with her eyes close.

Um, Amy-

Amy’s eyes suddenly fly open scaring the rest of the team.

- The only thing consistent about this guy is the torture right? Like not that’s good but even that isn’t really consistent you know what I mean like even the method of torture is different every time so if that’s not going to be the same then why is everything else the same?

- Amy, sweetie you’re rambling, - Maya says so Amy takes a deep breath starts explaining.

- Every Sunday, when the torture and the murder happens there was a twisted show on a Russian dark web stream of people k********g women and torturing them. Every weak it was young blonde women going through a different type of torture and at first I didn’t realize but this is the same torture that happened to me. Mine was only softer as to not kill me. My abductors did this every Sunday for two whole months and kept notes on it. There was this one guy who always went the extra mile and always was so ready to kill me but he had no permission from his boss. Around the third week he even dyed my hair blonde.

- Amy that sounds horrible, - Kara starts approaching Amy wanting to hug her.

- No, no I know that but your guys aren’t getting it. Whoever is doing these killings had a connection of sorts to either that stream or the guys who kidn*pped me.

- Hudson take a breath this can’t be easy for you to talk about. – Miles says with hurt in his voice.

Amy raises her head and looks around the team who have concerned looks in their eyes and it’s only then she notices the tears streaming down her face.

- I have to talk about it eventually Miles, it seems it’s the only way to catch this killer, cause if we don’t he’s not going to stop at four victims.

- Well okay, how about you sit down and have a drink and then you can tell us all that you’re comfortable with telling us that can help us on this case.

Amy looks up and surprisingly finds that soothing voice came from none other than Mike. So Amy sits down, grabs her Americano and a stuffs her face with a donut as the team looks at her weirdly.

- I’m stress eating okay there’s a lot of things going on just let me process.

- Anything you need sweetie. -  Maya says and joins her sitting down along with the rest of the team.

Miles calls his brother about the fact that the killer may be Russian or related to the stream.

- The stream was shut 5 years ago, consistent with the time of Miss Hudson’s escape. The last time anyone tried to enter the stream after it was shut down was a man with the name, or nemesis, Dimitri.

Amy starts chocking on her drink and all eyes turn to her.

- I know who the killer is.