Healing (Damaged Sequal)

A Criminal

I'm putting a warning in affect. This chapter will contain uses of words towards p********a and human trafficking of children and drugs. I don't go into much detail, but I'm warning people who find this offensive or will have trouble reading something like that please refrain from reading the chapter or try to skip over those parts. Everything in this chapter is pure fiction. I thank you for reading.

Jessica’s POV:

        Damien stayed by my side, but David and Daniel came in and stayed by my side. They were talking to me even though I really could not make much sense of what they were saying. Felt like I was listening to a radio while I was underwater. 

        Half an hour later dad and Anthony come back in with a bottle of green looking pills and a glass of water. I was fed the pill by dad and Anthony put the glass to my lips. I know what they gave me. It was a sorano pill. It is used for when witches become sick with a cold like me. 

        It would take at least a half hour to kick in. I laid there waiting for it to take effect. Everyone left except for Daniel. Dad seemed to talk to Daniel and give him instructions. 

        After a while the pill hit and I suddenly felt tired. Daniel had changed into plaid cotton pants and a white wide strapped tank top. He shut off the lights. 

        He slid into bed with me and helped me out of my hoodie since the symptoms went away for a while. He pulled me into him and held me in place. My right leg between his and my left leg on top of his right. I felt oddly comfortable. I fell asleep instantly.

        I was sick for two days. Daniel took care of me during his day. He made sure to give me my pills. He got me food and we laid in bed watching movies all day.

        Damien took care of me in his day. He read to me and we watched movies and I was still stuck on bed rest. Damien cuddled me Saturday night. Elias slept in my bed the night after. I feel like a w***e at this point. I can’t help it. They just want to take care of me, but it feels like I’m with them all.

        Two weeks pass. It’s been fun hanging out with them and they have also warmed up to Jaime. Today was the day. I called my grandmother up and told her everything about Richard Waverly. She’s coming over today to have a look at the information on the thumb drive I received. 

        I lied to myself and looked at everything. I. Was. Horrified. It looked into illegal drug deals in the Hunter community. Worst of all it had child pornography. I was disgusted. It’s not okay to touch children. He had pictures of real children and I don’t want to know what he does with them. 

        I had to vomit after looking and crying at the photos I had seen. I immediately called my grandmother up. I also called Tallia up and also had a conversation with her husband. They were coming here also to have a look. 

        I made sure no one could come into the dining room. I set my computer up with the thumb drive holding down my vomit. I didn’t eat because I knew I would vomit again.

        A knock on the door from the hallway pulled me back and I moved to unlock and open the door.

        All three of them stood in front of me. Tallia had her hair in a ponytail wearing light makeup and a black pencil skirt, and white button up blouse. Her black stilettos with thin heels stood out to me. Her husband was wearing a black suit with no vest. 

        Grandmother was wearing a casual black dress and stiletto's. I will let you know now that Hunters are pretty much immortal. Females stop aging at the age of twenty-five. Men stop aging at thirty-five. It’s the same for witches as well.

        I led them in closing and locking the dining room door. I did not sleep well after seeing what I saw. So I looked half dead. 

        “Before saying anything please have a look at the computer first,” I said. They immediately went and sat by the computer. I watched as they looked through my computer. I watched as the deeper they looked the more horrified and sick they looked. Tallia looked green. I grabbed the bucket I kept just in case they were to get sick. I brought it over to Tallia who gratefully looked my way. She vomited in it. Knew it. 

        I saw tears leave my grandmother's eyes. Theodore looked horrified. Talia had to walk away from the computer as she wept. I’m not going into details of the pictures all I know is this man needed to be taken down.

        Finally it ended. My grandmother had sent the information to each and every high council member. She looks at me.

        “We finally have evidence to put Richard waverly away for good.” 

        “A girl named Tillie who is staying here. Her family was sick of her trying to run away. Come to find out Tillie’s family and Richard waverly are friends. He helped them out when they were in a crisis. Tillie doesn’t like the way he looks at her and wants to marry her, but she doesn’t and that’s why she has been trying to run away so many times. I smelled something funny about this. So I called in a favor from a friend. She’s a normal human and I helped her out one time. So she owed me a favor. She doesn’t know and will never know about this. She was the one who hacked into his system and gathered all that information. I have a plan in action right now. Richard Waverly is coming to me. Today.” They looked shocked.

        “He’s coming here? Why?” Tallia asked.

        “He came to me in a dream using a witch. I don’t know what his motive is, but I plan on making him confess. All the while my sister, brothers, father and uncle subdue the witch that’s with him. To make that witch answer for his/her crimes. I have a camera set up here and you all will take my computer to another room and watch the show. It’ll also be recording it. I want to leave evidence of his confession,” I said.

        “So that's why we were called here,” Theodore said.

        “Witnesses,” Tallia said.

        “Exactly,” I said grinning. “The high council needs to take this seriously. Children and a drug created by         Hunters and distributed to humans are involved.” I’ll explain this. There is a drug specifically for Hunters. It’s not addictive to Hunters and is used by elites. It’s meant to boost their strength against strong opponents when they lose strength. This drug when given to a normal human is against Hunter law. For one, humans will become as strong as Hunters and will eventually lose their mind overtime. Hunters will get involved and have to take them down. Kill them. Hunters have been wondering how this drug trickled its way to humans. Second, humans can get really addicted to this drug. Like any other drug they will crave it a lot.

        The children now. I’ve come to find out not all children make it to this safe haven David and Daniel have created. Half of the children have been disappearing or marked as dead. Even though there is nobody to claim dead. It makes me cry thinking about this. I don’t know a lot, but seeing as how I have been given this information I can piece it together. This man was really sick in his f*****g brain. He’s either using them for his own purposes or he’s into human trafficking involving children or the worst case scenario is that it’s both. I want to kill this bastard right on the spot, but it’s not just him that’ll be punished. His family has been covering for him for a long time and they will also receive punishment. He will go down.

        I texted Jessie to get into position. I had them take grandmother’s and Theodore's keys and moved their cars along with everyone else's, but mine.

        “You all need to go to David’s study down the hall. He’s coming,” I said. I rushed them out of the room and David brought them to his study and locked the door.

        Everything ready? I texted David.

        Yes and computers recording the feed. David texted back. 

        Jaime are you guy’s in position? I texted.

        We’re ready. She texted back.

        I put my phone back in my pocket as the doorbell rang. I took a deep breath exhaling hard. Here we go. I went to the front door and opened it to reveal the man from my dreams. Just as disgusting in real life. He wore a very nice suit for a man who looked disgusting. I smiled.

        “Can I help you?” I asked internally, vomiting at the sight of this man.

        “Yes,” his voice sounded raspy. Whatever drug he was taking was f*****g with him. “I’m looking for Jessica Delaney,” he said. My name coming from him made me cringe internally.

        “I’m Jessica, though you’ve been misinformed. It’s not Delaney it’s Stone,” I said. It’s true. I took my father's last name after graduating highschool. Also dad told me my name was actually going to be after his late grandmother. In his family it’s traditional to wait a couple months before naming their children. I think it’s stupid. We were going to be named when we disappeared. 

        “Oh, sorry,” He said, looking very unapologetic.

        “It’s okay. You were bound to find out anyway. What is it you need from me?” I asked innocently.

        “Can I come in and speak with you?” He asks. I smiled. I wanted him to come in anyway.

        “Yeah,” I let him in. “Follow me,” I said, leading him to the dining room. Once he comes in I shut the door and I lock it discreetly. I turned back around. He had perched himself by a window. 

        “What is it that you wanted to talk to me about?” I asked.

        “Cut the bullshit,” he said. I looked at him with confusion. 

        “Excuse me?” I asked.

        “I want the information you stole from me.”

        “I have no idea what you're talking about,” I said. He gave a chuckle of frustration.

        “Don’t play this game with me. You have no idea who I am,” He warned.

        “I seriously have no idea what you’re talking about,” I said confused. He came at me quickly trying to hit me. I blocked him. “What the hell?” I yelled angrily.

        “I told you not to play this game with me,” he said. I pushed him off me.

        “I really think you’re stupid,” I said.

        “I am not,” he said, offended by it.

        “You really are,” I said before I cast a bubble around him. “You came here thinking I’m alone, I’m weak, but what you don’t know is who I truly am. With a flick of my finger you could burn to death. I could drown you. I could bury you in the earth. Or I could put you into a perpetual flight for a while. I could cut you into little pieces, but because I believe in justice I will make sure you get what’s coming to you.” I ranted feeling the burning rage in my heart.

        “You didn’t think I’d come alone did you?” He asked rhetorically. I smiled.

        “I was hoping you’d bring your little witch. She or he will stand before the council. What they did to me was illegal and hanging around you? I’d be willing to bet they’d get the death sentence.” 

        “You really think it’s that easy,” he smirked. That’s when I heard a ping on my phone. I pulled it out and smiled. A picture of the witch in magical handcuffs and gagged. We got her. Was texted underneath. I showed it to him.

        “I’m not alone. Never expected that did you?” I asked, smirking. His smile had dropped and he hung his head. “You thought you could get away with this for so long. Now I want you to confess everything you have done, how you did it. Don’t leave out a single thing you pervert.” I threatened him.

        He didn’t say anything. He was quiet and I wasn’t going to torment it out of him. I pulled up a chair and sat down. I crossed my right leg over the other. I leaned on my right arm and my elbow dug into my leg. I looked bored. I pulled out my phone and started playing a word match game. I spoke aloud for an hour as I was finding words and finally I got words out of him.

        “Just shut up,” he said. I looked up at him.

        “Are we ready to talk?” I asked.

        “Yes, just god that voice is annoying. Dammit, how can you be so annoying that it’s torturous?” He asked desperately.

        “Years of practice,” I said, smirking.

        “It started years ago. I was low on money and my parents refused to give me any. They cut me off because I have been using human drugs and drinking. I was partying night and day. My family owns the rights to the Hunter drug. My great great grandfather came up with it. It’s made out of very strong ingredients created by witches. Or as you like to call them rogue or evil witches. They helped with the drug using witch ingredients.” I looked at him wide eyed.

        “You i***t. Humans can’t handle ingredients grown in the witch communities. Even witches know enough not to give them to humans. It’s very toxic for them.” I charged my anger towards him.

        “Do I look like I care. I stole little by little and started selling it in the human black market and from there it spread. My family doesn’t know I’ve been taking little amounts at a time. I’ve also sold them to drug dealers (humans). From there it was a hit and I kept getting orders from it.”

        “What about the children?” I asked after he stopped for a few minutes. “I know there's more to it than that,” I said. 

        “You’re right,” he smirked. He continued to stare at me with that smirk.

        “Sicko,” I cringed away from him and my face scrunched. “Innocent children and you go and put your dirty hands on them.” Disgust colored my voice.

        “Witches under my control and other Hunters that work for me have been killing families for those children. I won’t go into detail, but most of them have been sold into slavery around the world and I would keep at least one for myself. Those photos are what I do to them,” he smiled wider. 

        “You have seriously lost you f*****g mind,” I gagged. “You're going to pay for what you done.” I walked to the door and unlocked it, opening it to these three people. His eyes went wide. Behind them were what looked like Hunters, but dressed in a uniform. I couldn’t exactly tell. The computer may have recorded the interview, but it was also sending the live stream straight to one of the high council members. Hence the soldiers behind them.

        “Richard Hale Waverly, you are under arrest for illegally selling Hunter drugs to human beings. You will also be charged with counts of murder, You will give up the names of those witches and Hunters and you are also being charged with counts of child trafficking and pedofillia.” The words came from a video on the computer. A man with a buzz cut and stubble for a beard and mustache. He had hazel eyes and a small nose. Soft pink lips and looked extremely buff.

        Soldiers poured in and I put down the bubble. Richard fought with the soldiers, but lost and was knocked out and cuffed. They dragged him out.

        “Jessica Stone,” I turned toward the gruff voice. He had a perpetual angry face. “I have you to thank. If not for your involvement, we would not have caught the culprit of this madness. How did you catch onto this?” He asked.

        “Someone who was going to be forced to marry him. An underage Hunter. The way she spoke about him made me think this guy was a creep. I just wanted to make sure of things. I never thought he was this criminal.”

        “Things are never as they seem. We won’t need to have a trial, because that video confession is enough to incriminate him and have him locked up. Though we will be seeing you soon. We have received yours and Jaime’s certificate of birth from you father. The council has been deliberating about what to do. Also we’ll need to hear the explanation of how this happened. Your father will have to come before us as well. We will keep in touch through your grandmother. Thank you again, bye.” The screen went black. I stared at it for a minute. I now have caught the attention of the Hunters high council. Now just one incident left and then we will be dealing with the Witches high council.

        I looked away from the screen. Things are finally in motion. Things will become more difficult along this road, but to bring about peace on both sides I will walk this path.

        Everyone cleared out and left. I gave the thumb drive to grandma or as she likes me to call her Connie. She doesn’t care if I call her by her name.

        Dad came in and I told him what I was told from that man. I didn’t get a name, so this situation is serious or we may not hear from them for months. 

        What happened today was the talk at the table and I looked at Tillie who gave me a bright smile. Also her situation is clear and she can go back home. After dinner we met back on the rooftop.

        “So, planning to go home now this situation has been taken care of?” I asked her.

        “Actually, I asked my parents if I could stay here. My parents are actually quite strict. They control my every move. They told me no, but David and Daniel told them I would be safe here. I told them I don’t want to go home. They fought me, but I can’t be under their gazes forever. They want to sell me off to another Hunter for marriage.” She stopped and I looked at her smiling sadly. “All my parents have ever done for me was prepare me for marriage. My brother gets to take over as head of the family. He is treated better and I’m always getting yelled at. Being in a prominent Hunter family sucks. After I met you, I realized I want to protect people. I’m going to train and become part of the Hunter force. Like the police, but I want to become a detective. I want to protect Hunters from people like him. It’s all thanks to you.”

        “Me? Why?” I asked in disbelief.

        “If you hadn’t gone out of your way and listened to my story. Promised to get me out of this situation and helped get that man arrested. You didn’t have to, but you did it anyway. I feel free and happy now,” she said happily.

        “I didn’t do that much,” I said.

        “Jessica, you did more for me and for those children and human beings who are being eaten away by that drug,” she said.

        “Compared to what's coming, this was small. Big changes are on the way,” I told her.

        “I look forward to those changes.”

        “Me too,” I said.

        “Jessie, I hope those children are okay,” Tillie whispered.

        “I hope as well,” The high council will figure out where they are. Then they will be rescued. Those witches need to be caught. They must face their punishments against the Witches high council,” I said mostly to myself.

        After awhile she left to go to bed. David and Daniel are going to start training her. Maybe I’ll help too. I laid out my sleeping bag and laid on top of it. The stars twinkled in the night sky and the crescent moon hung in the sky.

        I wanted to cry. Afraid of what's to come next. I don’t think I’m brave enough to face it, but I will with determination and strength. I fell asleep underneath the dim night sky.