KNOCK KNOCK CHAPTER 17 "PROMISE OF THE PAST"
CHAPTER 17
PROMISE OF THE PAST
PRESENT DAY
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On the other hand, Charles was not
allowed to leave the hospital at least for a week by the doctors. So, Charles
asked to bring all the case details and necessary items from his office to his
hospital room. Jennifer informed Charles about everything that happened in the
past few days in his absence. After a while Harry and Sara came with the news
of another murder and told them the details. Charles asked Sara to write all
the words they had got till then on the board and the names of deceased kids.
KNOCK KNOCK Peter
WHO’S THERE? Edwin
IT’S ME Julie
ME WHO? Zoey
GO TO THE PAST Dylan
WHERE I AM PRESENT
Charles asked, “Did we get any link
between the kids in the past? The same school or high school?”
“No, there’s not
a single thing common between any two” Harry replied.
“But how? We had
security on every spider and snake phobic person’s house in the city?” Jennifer
asked curiously.
“This time it
wasn’t in London, it was in Slough” Sara replied sadly.
Then there was a silence in the room
full of sadness, helplessness and frustration, which was finally broken by
Charles, “And their parents? Any link between them?”
“All are related
to drugs somehow” said Sara.
“No, No, check
their connection with each other in the past, there must be something happened
in the past they all know” Charles ordered.
“Ok then, I’ll go
and check” Harry stood up to leave.
“No, Sara will
go, you have to do another task for me” Charles stopped Harry.
“Yes sir, I am
going” Sara left after saying.
“Harry, go to the
Chief, tell him about these drug dealers and ask him if he knows anything about
these from the past” Charles explained.
“Sure, I’ll be
back soon” Harry said before leaving.
Charles smiled
and said with nostalgia, “These two often remind me of us 15 years ago”
“I think OUR kids
needs a father after this case” Jennifer blushed while saying.
“What?? Are you
serious? I can’t describe my happiness right now” Charles said with intense
level of joy and laughter.
“I said after the
case, save your energy for then. For now, focus on the killer, Charlie!”
Jennifer brought Charles back to reality.
After some time, Sara came back with
good news and the autopsy report of Dylan which was same as the previous ones.
“Sir, you’re
right. Edison, Stella, Oliver, Sophia and Flinch, they were all class fellows
in high school” Sara told them the breaking news.
“Jennifer, go to
John and arrest Flinch right after Dylan’s funeral in the evening” Charles
ordered.
Harry called
Charles from Chief’s office and said, “Sir, Chief is asking me to release the
details of drug dealers to the press. What do you say?”
“Ask him to wait for a day or two more, we’re soon going to get the mastermind” Charles stopped Harry from a press release.
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[Flinch] “What you think you’re doing in my
son’s funeral?”
[Albert] “I am sorry about your son but the
delivery is in two days. We want your payment”
[Flinch] “Ask your boss to use his money, I’ll
pay him in a few days, can’t you see I’m standing in my son’s funeral right now”
[Albert] “You know him, he don’t trust even his
brother in money matters”
[Flinch] “How can I pay you right now? Are you
nuts?”
[Albert] “Here’s your cheque book, go on”
[Flinch} “How?? That bastard!!! Anyways take
your payment and get lost”
After burying Dylan, Flinch came out
of the graveyard where John and Jennifer were already waiting for him.
“You’re coming
with us Mr. Flinch” John stopped him from entering his car.
“What the hell is
wrong with you now?” Flinch inquired with frustration.
“I said you’re
coming with us; we have arranged a free ride for you” John’s tone changed to
aggressive as he held Flinch’s hand.
“You think I’m a
lowbrow, you can’t arrest me without any warrant, officer” Flinch freed his
hand.
Madam JJ pulled
out her revolver, aimed at Flinch and said, “Who said about arresting? You are
going to be shanghaied. Now move!”
“You’ll pay for
it” Flinch murmured while sitting in police’s car.
“Yeah, yeah, we
have a lot of money for that. Now shut up!” John taunted.
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Flinch was taken to the hospital
where Harry and Sara were already present in Charles’ room. Charles began the
discussion, “First of all, I’m sorry about Dylan and also for bringing you here
like this but trust me, we wouldn’t have done this if it’s not an emergency”
No response from
Flinch except frustrated expressions.
“See, the point
is we know about you all class fellows of high school. Your son was murdered by
the same person who had killed your friends’ kids. You have to help us Flinch
to stop him from killing another kid of some of your another high school
friend” Charles continued.
Flinch’s expressions changed from
anger to shock and then fear as he suddenly remembered something from the past,
which stopped him from saying anything.
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JANUARY,1995
Every face in the hideout was
showing heinous expressions, because they had done it, they had killed William
and his family according to the plan. There was no guilt, rather a tranquility
and happiness was present in their hearts.
[Edison] “Now we all are going to hide just as a
precaution”
[Oliver] “And what about business?”
[Flinch] “We are going to have our managers
from now on which will deal on our behalf”
[Stella] “But how can we trust our managers?”
[Andrew] “We can’t and we won’t. After every three
years, we’ll kill them and hire new ones”
[Sophia] “Now that sounds cool”
[Andrew] “And the last thing before leaving,
everyone will promise not to contact each other by any means possible. You can
send message through managers but no direct contact and from now on, we all are
strangers to each other no matter what happens”
[ALL] “I Promise!!!”
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PRESENT DAY
Flinch quietly kept listening to
Charles who was continuing his conversation, “Did something happen in the past
with you and your friends? We are sure now that your kids’ murders are linked
to their parents’ past somehow”
“No, I don’t
remember any specific thing and I had a lot of fellows in high school and I
can’t remember all the names now. My son’s death is important to me right now
than your assumptions and drama” Flinch denied everything.
“Ok tell us about
Dylan, was he afraid of spiders or snakes?” Harry asked bluntly.
“Whaaat??? He was
arachnophobic, phobia of spiders” Flinch replied annoyingly.
“What happened?
Why are you so annoyed?” asked Harry.
“What does
Dylan’s phobia had to do anything here??” Flinch responded in a high tone.
“You don’t want
to talk about your past, your buddies, your son, what do you want to talk?”
Jennifer got aggressive.
“I think he wants
to talk about his business. So, Mr. Flinch what’s your business?” John jumped
in the conversation.
“I…I have a
shopping mall in the city” Flinch stammered.
“Oh sorry! We
thought you have a drug business like your friends” Sara gave the final blow.
Flinch’s face
suddenly turned pale and he started sweating.
“Should I speed
up the AC for you?” Harry asked and put his gun on the table in front of
Flinch.
Flinch’s mind suddenly made up a
plan and started executing it without thinking about the consequences. He
immediately grabbed the gun from the table and aimed at Charles. Harry stepped
back while John, Sara and Jennifer aimed at Flinch.
“No, put down
your guns everyone. He can shoot me” Charles ordered as he had seen Harry’s
wink.
“Ok so Mr.
Flinch, tell us about your dirty business now” Harry asked teasingly while
others were looking at the scene in shock because Charles was at Flinch’s aim.
“I’ll shoot him.
Just let me go” Flinch threatened.
“Yeah, go on and
kill him. He’s so annoying all the time and bossy as well” Harry said boldly.
“What are you
saying Harry?” Sara asked the question everyone else had in their minds at the
moment.
“Are you mad
Harry? I’ll die here” Charles pretended to be scared.
“That’s what I
want. I’m tired of your leadership. Flinch, just finish him already and then
I’ll take you outside myself” Harry said annoyingly.
Jennifer came
forward to stop Flinch but Harry stopped her. Everyone was shocked to see
Harry’s behavior.
“I’m serious,
I’ll shoot him” Flinch reconfirmed.
“You have my
permission, just go on” Harry gave the confirmation.
Flinch eventually pulled the trigger
in confusion and tension. Nothing happened. The revolver was empty. Flinch
dropped the revolver, Harry and Charles started smiling while everyone else
took a sigh of relief. Then Harry said while handcuffing Flinch, “Mr. Flinch,
you pulled the trigger on a police officer on CCTV camera, that’s more than
enough to arrest you now I think”
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