When Darkness Falls

"Good idea, if he makes an aggresive move, or i see a gun, I'll burn him down." Dahmnall said, his face clearly showing that he would.
 
Amelia

Amelia stopped and pulled him to face her.

"Don't you even think about it. I'm serious. If anything happens we try to get out without a shot fired. Do you realize how much trouble would come down on our heads if either of us shot down an officer, let alone a high ranking police officer? You may not have to live in this world but I do and have to deal with the consequences. If that hasn't convince you then remember that I'm a cop and I can't let you shoot him."
 
"But I cant let him harm you, if hes working for the vamps he might try." Dahmnall said, it was strange he thought, that he was getting so apologetic over someone being mad at him. What was it about her that got him like this? he wondered. "I cant let him hurt you Ami, I will protect you with my life, i have to." If only she knew how he felt before a couple nights ago at the purple dragon, when for some unknown reason he got up the backbone to ask her to have a drink with him. The nothingness and the pain he felt, for years the only thing that kept him from suicide was its status as a mortal sin. The feelings that he had for her, gave him some small spark of something deep in his heart, and he couldnt bear to lose it.
 
Amelia

"Well, maybe I don't want just your archaic sense of duty." She said to him. She knew she was being mean and began to question why she was choosing right now to try and get a rise out of him. She realized that she was getting tired of not knowing what was going on between them and all of the mixed signals. God, like he feels like he has to protect me like it is his job, she said to herself, he doesn't feel anything.

If he tries then he tries. Shooting him isn't the first option. And I'm not completly defenseless. He is human isn't he, then I think I can handle him. If not, I can always punch him with my cast. No shooting cops, make that a rule or stay in the car. She said and then walked away towards the church.
 
Her words hit him hard. Archaic? he thought to himself Am I archaic?
She certainly knew how to hurt him, that much was clear. "As you wish, Amelia." he said. "As you wish."
 
Amelia

She heard him use her full name and that stopped her in her tracks. She closed her eyes and tried to sort out what she was feeling. She was stuck in a place where she knew that she felt hurt because he might be hurt and wanting to slap him for giving in so easily and not arguing. He fights everything else why not when she was attacking him? What did she want from him?
 
Dahmnall sat down on the threshold of the church, and lit another cigarette. What was he feeling? he wondered, If he had a guess he would have said love, but no that couldnt be it, she would laugh him out of town if he even mentioned love to her. It was a most perplexing situation. he thought as he puffed silently.
Why did he care so much for her? why could he not even argue when she called him archaic? these were all questions that needed answering. Soon.
 
Amelia

Amelia stepped forward and tried the church doors. They were unlocked but Amelia let the fall close. She looked through the reflection in the glass and saw Dahmnall sitting on the church steps.

"Please come with me, Dahmnall. I can't do this on my own."
 
Dahmnall heard Ami's request. He immediately put out his cigarette, and got up and before he knew what he was doing his arms were around her and he kissed her savagely, a kiss that seemed to yell, "of course my love, ill do anything for you."
 
Amelia

Amelia let go of her insecurity and anger and kissed him back just as violently. Between kisses she said that she was sorry and pulled him closer.
 
Between their kisses Dahmnall said he was sorry as well, and pushed her up against the church door kissing her harder then it came before he could catch himself "I think i love you Ami," he said
 
Amelia

Dahmnall's confession brought Amelia back to reality. She kissed him lightly a few more times and turned him so that she could step back away from the door she was press against. Now being at a safe distance she said, "Dahmnall, we are going to have to talk about what is going on between us at a later time. As much as I wish it were, this isn't the place for this." She stepped forward and kissed him quickly and said, "Lets go in and get this over with as quickly as possible." Amelia took his hand and let him into the building.
 
Amelia

Amelia gave Dahmnall's hand a squeeze and led him further into the church. She looked around trying to see if a trap had been set.
 
The two waited, keeping a watchful eye on everyone and everything. Eventually, close to 10:20, Lt. DeSoll appeared in the doorway. DeSoll was a short man, standing only about 5'5"with jet black hair and deep green eyes. Neither knew if they could trust him completely, but Amelia knew that he commanded alot of respect and 'street smarts' from his time as a patrolman. Unlike her, DeSoll had come up through the narcotics division and had even done a two year stint as an academy instructor.

He was still in uniform, probably having come straight here from the office and after a quick look around, headed right for Amelia. His expression was not a pleasant one.

"Detective Callahan," he began, but his frown deepened as his eyes took in the two of them. " Who's your friend and what the hell happened to your hand?"
 
Amelia

Amelia left Dahmnall and walked towards DeSoll, meeting him half way down the aisle. At DeSoll's question, Amelia glanced back at Dahmnall and said,

"He's a friend of the family. My hand was broken while I was kidnapped. Do you have the tape?"
 
DeSoll looked Dahmnall up and down for a moment before continuing.
"I have a copy of the tape and some transcripts, and I had to do alot of dancing just to get that. Now, tell me what's going on?"
 
Amelia

Amelia caught DeSoll looking over Dahmnall. She ran her hands through her hair and sat down in one of the pews and said,

"Do you have the tape with you? Fry gave it to me shortly before he was killed. What was your take on what was said?"
 
"I have it." he answered. "Couldn't say much at first glance. 911 call by Sarah Fry regarding the abduction of their kids, but no kidnapping complainst were ever filed. Fry had been AWOL for months, no contact with his family or home since before he got killed. Lots of possibilities but how does this get you in the same building as Fry, before the whole house gets shot to hell by what seems to be some sort of assault, but not before Fry gets his skull cracked."

"Blood everywhere, but only a single corpse to be found...Fry's. I need some answers, detective."
 
"Fry's kids had been threatened so he was going along with what he was told. I don't know what he had been up too for the last six months but I walk out of the hospital last night and saw Fry standing across the street. I followed him into an alley and he pulled a gun on me and had someone with him. Some creepy blonde guy with a good left hook. Knocked me out and I woke up in a house somewhere. Fry was there with his kids. I don't know but the only thing connected to the fire at the church last night and this incident is him." Amelia nodded towards Dahmnall. "Both cases they were after him or his family or information about him."
 
DeSoll was listening as Amelia told her side. "So are you suggesting Detective Fry set the chruch fire in order to lure you out? That doesn't make sense. Even if he's been following you, he'd never be sure to get you alone at either the church or the hospital."
"And why keep Fry for months and then use him to bag you? Why you? More importantly, who are 'they'?"
 
Amelia shook her head and took a glance around the church. "Fry didn't have anything to do with the church fire. I just was there at the wrong time. I had been invited over for dinner. Whoever they were they had been after Dahmnall's uncle. I don't know what they had been using Fry for and why it took them so long to make a move. I think they only came after me because of my recent connection with Dahmnall. When they got me, they only asked me questions about him. The case Fry and I were working on may have something to do with all of this."

Amelia took a look at Jack and tried to judge his reaction to all of this. She was going through her head about how much she should tell him. If he was working with the vampires then this wouldn't be anything that he couldn't find out from them. If he wasn't working with them how much could she tell him before she looked crazy. Amelia reached into her jeans pocket and pulled something out and handed him two little pointed teeth.

"I took these from the house. The woman in charge threw them at me. Her name is Leola, I don't know the names of anyone else that was with her. They look like the teeth from some kind of dog."
 
DeSoll, took the two teeth, looking them over for a moment before removing a tiny plastic ziploc bag and tucking the teeth away.
"I can take them to the lab for analasys, maybe get the type of dog. I take it that 'Dahmnall' is the big guy over there?"

"So then this 'Leola' is the one behind everything? Do you know anything else about her?"
 
Amelia

She looked up and said,"Yes, that's Dahmnall." He had been walking around the church and keeping an eye on them. She gave him a smile then turned back to DeSoll and said, "I don't know anything about Leola except that she is a little mentally unstable. She isn't who I'm worried about though. There was a man with her. He called me last night on Fry's cell phone. We could call the phone company and see if they can find out where that call was coming from."
 
"If your willing to part with the cell, then I can run a trace in it easy enough."

He leaned back, his eyes flicking between Dahmnall and Amelia.

"You know you're leaving a damn lot out, and you're not the only one here with a degree in criminology Amelia. So who killed one of my detectives, kidnapped another one and messed up your hand? Who attacked the house andhow did you just happen to wittness everything and not get a bullet for your troubles, the place was riddled with automatic weapons fire. And what is this Dhamnall into that got two of my detectives into deep shit?"
 
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