The Repairman 11

The Repairman 11

John stood over Janet’s now lifeless body and wondered if had gone too far this time and really had killed her. He never wanted to hurt her but he could snap without any notice. This seemed to be getting worse over time and so were the headaches that seemed to come much more often now. This whole thing had just gotten out of hand on him and he no longer could see the way out of it. It was fun at first to be paying them back and seemed cool to see he could get away with it. The power was amazing that he felt from each one but he always hoped the current one would be the last one. It always seemed so perfect and then something went wrong and he had to pay them back. He couldn’t just let them walk away. They had done that to him in high school like he was some geeky little boy who deserved no attention. They thought they were so much better than him but he had gotten into their hearts now, at least till something went wrong. He would not let them make him feel bad again. He just wanted to be loved and now that he found that with Sarah he just wanted to let everyone go but he knew he couldn’t do that. He looked at Janet and decided that she needed more help than he alone could give her so he needed to go grab Melissa and get her in here to help. She had only been here about 4 months but she was a nurse and she could help Janet. She was so sweet and a little sneaky it seemed but he would have to be careful of her but he could handle her. He left Janet to go talk to Melissa.

 Detective Raines was explain to Sarah about these missing women and how they all had went to the same high school in the same time frame. The girls were all missing now and two of the three of them had multiple visits from a computer repairman. That repairman was the same in each case but they could not determine if it was also part of the third case because that girl had been living alone. So they were not able to determine anything other than she was from the same high school. Sarah looked at them with a kind of confused look on her face. Not really sure what this had to do with her and Detective Burma noticed this and interrupted his partner. “Sara, let us get right to the point here. Have you had a computer repairman named John Teaberry come to your home?” Sarah looked at him and said “I have no idea what you are talking about or who you are talking about.” The Detectives looked at one another trying to decipher why Sarah would lie about this simple question they had asked. She didn’t seem to be able to piece together that they followed her from John’s and likely already knew she knew him. Detective Burma smiled as he looked at Sarah, “If you don’t know him then we are sorry to bother you. We just wanted to try and help you keep safe. Oh, and maybe find out what happened to the other girls. But sorry to bother you.” He opened the door and got out to open Sarah’s door. As he opened it Sarah’s face went from smug to beginning to show the signs of fear. The Detective waved for her to get out, “Come on, we got work to do. We won’t tell your husband.” Sarah did not move from the car as her mind raced to find an answer to all of this she had just heard. They couldn’t be talking about her John. There was certainly no way he could be this devil of a man they were looking for now. He could never ever hurt anyone. So maybe she could try and answer their questions to help them understand that John was simply not capable of this and they were just barking up the wrong tree. And that they were looking at the wrong man. She loved him and would not have fallen for any tricks. He was real she kept telling herself even as those feelings began to creep back into her. She quickly cast them aside as stress from sitting in the cruiser with two Detectives who just scared the hell out of her. Detective Burma was still motioning for her to get out of the car when Detective Raines spoke to Sarah, “You know, why don’t we go grab a cup of coffee around the corner and then just sit and talk. I mean you were there too at the school during the time frame we are looking at. Maybe you can help us in some other way. We would appreciate it.” Sarah thought that sounded really good but couldn’t seem to get the words out. “Let’s go Sarah, get out, we gotta get going if you can’t help us out”, Burma quickly added. Sarah looked at him and then back at Raines before telling them she would go with them to get coffee and see if she could somehow help them. It was the least she felt she could do for the families of the women that were missing. Burma closed the door and returned to his seat. Raines started the car and slowly made her way down the street towards the local coffee shop. Both Detectives knew to sit and not talk to Sarah or to each other. It was better to let that silence and the thoughts inside Sarah’s head keep racing and searching for answers that just would not be coming unless she asked them for them. They were confident she would help them. Sarah though was not thinking the same way.

John unlocked the door to Melissa’s room and saw she was sitting on the couch just watching the TV.  He decided to give her access to a little more than Miranda and Janet because she had just been much more civil to him here and was always trying to talk to him. Trying to help him understand what he was doing and tried to talk him into letting her try to love him again. He had thought about it but could not trust her as he didn’t forget she was supposed to be working but he had followed her to make sure she went to work. Well she didn’t go to work but met a man for a few drinks. He was so upset by her lying to him that it didn’t matter who he was or why she did it. She had been dishonest and that was enough for him. Later after he had drugged her and put her here she had told him he had taken it all wrong. She went to meet her brother who had called because he was suicidal after his girlfriend had just dumped him. She hadn’t meant to lie to John but needed to be there for her brother. She didn’t want to explain to John about her brother feeling that way so it was easier just to say she was going to work. John wanted to believe her but why would she drink with someone suicidal? He just couldn’t make sense of it at all so he decided she needed to stay here and that she was just trying to get him to let her go. Even when he didn’t though she was still very kind and gentle towards him. She had always been the sweet smart girl in school and even talked to him a few times but was never into him like he was into her. He had fantasies about her a lot and was quite pleased that she was more than anything he could have imagined back then. They had taken things slow and when they finally made love it felt like he had dreamed it would. She had grown a little distant though before the incident anyway so he had started to watch her. And well, she did what she did and he did what he needed for revenge. She noticed him and smiled as he neared, “John have you come to let me out? What a good man you are John. Let us go to the beach today!! Get out of this house before fall gets here John. Just the two of us and then we can come back here and you can cook for me. Then we can go make love John.” John still loved her and had not been violent towards her at all but knew she was kind of sneaky or at least he felt she was sneaky. John smiled at her, “Not today Melissa, maybe soon my love. I need you to do me a favor Missy. I need your help as someone is hurt. I need you to help them, okay?” “Who is hurt John? I will help them. What happened? Where are they? Lets go John!!” John was not exactly sure how to do this because he had not moved them about from place to place. He had not been mean to Melissa and did not want to start now so how could he get her in there but still have control of her? He knew he just needed to trust her enough to get her there and then just be ready for her to try something. Janet certainly wasn’t any threat right now to him but he did not know how Melissa would react to seeing what he had done. Melissa knew this was a rare opportunity to take a look at the outside of this little prison of hers. If she could help someone then that was great but she would be helping herself as well. She would be looking for the opportunity or at least storing information for later usage. She knew if she was nice to John then she likely would not be hurt and could live beyond this terrible mans plans. Someone would find her and she just needed to be patient. John was after other girls and he would slip up!! She just had to be patient. This was a great way to earn more trust and maybe more freedom. She walked towards John and he took a couple steps backwards. “John hug me before we go.” John smiled and hugged her tightly. Then they left the room and headed down the hall away from the stairs. John opened a door and pointed for Melissa to go in. She walked in and saw Janet on the floor motionless. She looked at John and shook her head as she ran to Janet’s side. She knew who Janet was from the TV and papers. She felt for a pulse and found a very weak one. She was not sure she could help Janet but she knew she needed to somehow. Janet didn’t deserve to be here either but obviously saw a different side of John then she had thus far.
“John do you at least have a first aid kit here?” John turned and left the room. The lock clicked after he closed the door. Melissa put her hands to her head trying to remember everything she had just seen in the hall, the number of doors, and the direction, anything and everything. She moved Janet and began to try to see what wasn’t injured on her. She knew Janet needed a hospital if she had any chance to live. Somehow she needed to convince John of that as well.