Sanity Lost Chapter 1
Sanity Lost: Mystery/Horror/Thriller
"I will fucking kill you, mark my words."
A Chance to Change
A/N: I don't like how the first part was written. :( Anthony is a bit cold in the first parts, but it's in the plot. I'm sorry.
As a light on the ceiling blinks itself on and off and the rain continues to fall outside, Joshua 'Joven' Ovenshire looks into the eyes of their top detective, scanning his movements to see if he had the answers. Joven jumps back as the other male suddenly raises his head. "Dude, at least tell me when you're gonna scare the crap out'a me!"
Anthony Padilla scoffs and rolls his eyes. "Scaredy-cat." He mutters as he places a hand on his chin. "As for the crime scene..."
The room they were in was a bit dim, located at a school in mid-California. It looked as though it hadn't been occupied in weeks, and from all the investigation, it seemed that it hadn't. There were men everywhere, scanning and pointing out random places of evidence. In the middle of the room was the victim, 'nothing on him, no identification'- the men had said to both Joven and Anthony when they asked.
"What've you got?" Joven asked, grabbing a pen and notepad from his jacket pocket. "I'm not expecting it to be correct, by the way, judging from the fact that you just got h-"
"The victim is in his twenties, obviously single- judging by the array of clothes he's wearing: not too formal and too casual to be kept seen by someone we know cares about his appearance-," Anthony interrupted him and carried on, starting to do a 360 turn around the victim. Joven sighed and started taking down his notes." He's got a scar on his left cheek, possibly only 2 years old, not too fresh and not too old, so it isn't a part of this attack." Anthony pulls himself closer and rubs a naked finger through the surface of the victim's blue tee. "His clothes are only slightly damp, so that means that he has been here long enough to get that dry."
Joven watches with a bit of discomfort as Anthony brushes a piece of the man's hair back and smirks. "What the hell is there, Padilla?"
"'Nothing on him', that's what they want you to think." Anthony gestures for Joven to come closer.
Joven hesitates a bit before letting himself near the dead body. As he leans in, he can see nothing. He squints and looks further and finally sees what Anthony was talking about. Right there, on the neck, but near to the chin.
"Sweet Mother of God."
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"Mari! Get your analysis on this, stat!" Joven barks as he pushes a covered test tube towards the woman working on a microscope.
"I'm guessing that Anthony found this?" Mari Takahashi asks with a sly smile as she puts on some gloves and pops the tube open.
"Don't even start," warns Joven with a snarl.
Anthony walks into the laboratory and slips on his own pair of gloves. "Mari, place that on a slide, would you? Don't touch that liquid. I have the suspicion you already know what it is."
As Mari prepares the slide to be viewed, Joven sneaks in a question of his own. "So what is it exactly?"
"Just wait and see, Joven." Anthony answers and hands Joven a pair of green gloves. Joshua huffs in reply but snatches the pair from his coworker's hands anyway.
Mari slips her head into place and adjusts the HPO before gasping, "You- You've gotta be kidding me!"
"I know you'd flip out." Anthony smiled and pushed Mari slightly on the shoulder. "Now move."
Mari grumbled a bit before backing away. Joven's eyes shuffled back and forth between the both of them.
Anthony smirked as the information grew and connected with the hypothesizes he had. "It's VX ."
"The chemical?" asked Joven.
"Yes, the chemical." Anthony answered. He pushed the microscope to Joven and started talking. "The mark we saw was obviously tattoo'ed on. The ink that was used contained VX. As the man was killed, it was probably inked on. It's one of the most deadly chemicals in the world, banned by the United States and wiped clean by the board. Only a few ways to find more of these things and they're extremely scarce."
Joven furrows his eyebrows and says, "So that means- Whoever killed this man had a shit ton of cash with him, just being able to obtain that amount would be insane."
"Exactly." agreed Anthony. He shook his head before saying, "Check the logs, I think I know who this bastard is,"
Joven's eyes widen at the tone of voice his friend was using, also sure of the suspicion. "No, No, you've gotta be joking."
"Yes, the Triad Gang, They're back."
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"If they find us, it's perfectly your fault."
"And the chances of them finding us and putting it in ratio to us being murderous serial killers, is about 1:2.5 easily."
Matt Sohinki and David Moss look over to the other man who is pacing at the other side of the room, going back and forth with a hand on his chin.
"Ian, are you okay?" Sohinki asks.
Ian Hecox turns around, a glare on his eyes. "Can you two just please, keep yourselves quiet."
Sohinki and David cross their eyes. Sohinki starts to speak, "There's something off about you, Ian."
"It's definitely about the last kill," says David.
"I know who's on our case," Ian spits out, "And I'm sure that he has his shit under control. "
"We've killed a lot of people, sounds right that we finally have someone that has their shit in hand," David rolls his eyes,
"There's something bad about this particular detective," Ian reaches into a drawer and pulls out a file.
Sohinki scans the cover, "Anthony Padilla?" David's eyes widen a bit.
Anthony Padilla
CONFIDENTIAL FILE
"That's not all," Ian opens the file and flips to the third page,
A. PADILLA
DETECTIVE
16-08-09
VICTIM INFO
Name: James Forcant
Age: 21
Found: 14-08-09; 04:32; Sacramento, California.
Suspect: Anthony Padilla
"No fucking way." Sohinki mutters. "James Forcant?!"
"That's what I thought," says Ian, sighing and dropping himself on the couch.
"So when you meant he has his shit under control..." David's words trailed off.
"I mean that he has experience in this field, literally ." Ian finished.
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"Are you alright?" asks Joven as Anthony collapses onto the bed. "It may not seem like it, but I care for you, Anthony. Your past is a secret I care about."
Anthony sighs and rolls over until his head is pushing on the pillow. "You're wasting your time."
"That's bullshit." Joven says. As he spins around in his turning chair, his phone starts to ring. Joven's eyes squint as he removes his glasses and presses the answer and speaker button. "Hello?"
A young man's voice, deep and warningly, could be deduced from the other line. "Tell that little friend of yours that he's unprotected. His life will end soon, we know his secret." A silence starts before the voice starts speaking again. "You have nine hours or he dies."
As the static starts, Joven looks behind him to meet the broken eyes of his friend, who rose from his position to lean on his elbows. Anthony can feel his past pushing back towards him, the guilt as he pulled the trigger, the feeling of the blood splashing towards his face.
Joven watches as Anthony strides over into the bathroom, tripping in his tracks. As Anthony steps into the other room, Joven quickly springs into action and grabs his work partner on the sides. "Anthony, Anthony, slow down, please."
A silence again, before Anthony raises his head. Joven physically reels back as the dark charcoal eyes meet his own.
"Faults are faults. And I've made mine."
--- :3 Do you like the story so far? I don't really like it tho.
Mari could still remember the time where their newest recruit was being introduced, just a normal day at work until both her and Joshua were called over to the Scientific Forensics head's office. A day which Mari will probably never forget.
A day back in '09.
"This is Anthony Padilla, he is skilled in scientific and deductive forensics. I want you two to keep an eye on him, it’s most likely that he will be in this field for a long time.” Marcus, their chief’s assistant said to them with a man on his right hand side. “The chief will be arriving shortly, so I shall leave you three here until he arrives.” And with that, Marcus left.
It was a bit odd back then, a new recruit.
It didn’t seem like the type for the California Forensic Unit to recruit new members at this time. They usually made it so that they could get new members by the start of April. Now at June, Mari begins to have suspicion for the man in sight.
As the man steps forward towards Joven, he raises his hand as says curtly, “Anthony Padilla, pleasure to be meeting your acquaintance.”
Joshua has the same suspicion on his face as he shakes the man’s hand. “Joshua Ovenshire,”
Anthony then turns toward Mari and says with a small and assuring smile, “Pleasure.”
Mari shakes his hand and replies with edge to her voice. “Likewise.” As they both drop their hands, the door flies open and a man who looks to be in his mid-thirties enters the room, his bright smile meets the three immediately.
“Ah, I see you three have met Anthony.” He says with a grin. “You two will be working with him until we have more recruits to join into his area.”
“Yes, sir.” Joven and Mari answer simultaneously.
“Now, if you two could excuse us for a bit- Anthony, I just want to have a little chat with you outside.” The older man’s gaze shifts to Anthony.
Anthony nods. “Of course, James.”
Joven and Mari seem more perplexed now. Joven coughs out, “Ahem, um, Sir, with all due respect- Aren’t the employees supposed to call you with a title?”
James Forcant grins wider before putting an arm over Anthony’s shoulder. “Anthony here has special permission, an old friend has all his access.”
And with those words, they left the office, Marcus escorting Mari and Joven out with a blank expression.
--- Surprise, surprise! So, you’ve finally met James Forcant :D
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