2019-07-14 - Are These Deaths Related?
Alexander and Byron converse over text message after finding out what happened to Penny.
IC Date: 2019-07-14
OOC Date: 2019-05-14
Location: Bayside Apartments/Penthouse Office
Related Scenes: 2019-07-13 - Bathed In Blood
Plot: None
Scene Number: 662
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: Thorne.
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: I suspect you've read the paper.
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: Dr. Faust? Yes. Her aunt texted me. She is in ICU.
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: That's terrible to hear. Unfortunate about her brother too.
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: Yes. I'm looking into it.
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: First the murder of Susan Addington. Now this. Do you think they are connected in any way? In both cases the victims were killed or injured by a blade.
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: I wouldn't rule it out. Erin Addington's parents also died, but that was a car crash. Likely staged.
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: Erin's parents? I knew that there were more Addington deaths, but I didn't realize it was her parents who died. They were staying with her at her apartment and left before the meeting the other day.
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: Fuck.
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: Might need to send Erin somewhere safe. If such a place exists.
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: With these Addington deaths, what does all of that have to do with Faust and her brother?
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: If this sonofabitch can get into your complex, I don't know where she'd go. Maybe the addington estate. .
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: I don't know. I wish I did.
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: We're still trying to work out how the killer entered and exited the complex without being seen. Now, do you believe that a dream could have killed them all? Susan Lewis, Erin's parents?
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: Two murder scenes that share victimology, two that share mo, but they aren't the same two. Dream? I don't rule it out, but. It would be unusually aggressive for the lost places. Especially in summer. Unless this is what I've been feeling. .
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: What you've been feeling?
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: Like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Like something's building. But it could just be a bout of paranoia. The last few weeks have been a bit intense, even by my standards. And everyone else seems fine.
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: Lilith wasn't fine. Though whatever made her accident prone, curse or not, it seems to have passed.
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: Reading about Faust in the paper, I can't say that I wasn't the slightest bit concerned that the incident was brought on because she, like the rest of us, had contact with those bones.
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: Doesn't fit the rest of the pattern. The other Addingtons.
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: And we know the proximal cause of Miss Winslows ailment, if not the mechanism. Is she all right?
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: Could those be isolated incidents? The Addingtons.
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: As for Lilith, I believe so. She's looking a lot better.
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: Could be. Would not put money on it, but it's possible.
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: I'm glad. And relieved.
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: Is there any possibility that Henderson family are of Addington blood?
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: Yes. There is always a possibility. Possibly a good one.
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: Now, do you believe that what happened at Dr. Faust's place is something that the rest of us need to be concerned about. And I am not dismissing Derrick Henderson's death or the fact that Dr. Faust was found in a pool of her own blood. But should we be concerned that a similar action may be taken against us?
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: I would calculate the risk to be low but not nonexistent. I wish I could give you a better hypothesis. I lack data.
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: If you hear any news on Faust's condition, keep me informed. I don't like it that so many have died in such a short span of time. Now, I will need to offer my condolences to the Addingtons for a second time within a few days.
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: I'm sorry. This is probably not what you signed up for when you came back.
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: Why are you sorry for that? Why would you care?
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: Why wouldn't I care?
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: (There's no bouncing dots of any sort, just a long text silence)
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: Because we're strangers, despite my your relationship to my father.
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: I suppose. But I do care. You can take that for whatever it's worth to you.
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: (Now there's a series of bouncing dots. Then they stop. Then they bounce. And stop.)
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: If (The way that's cut off, he may have tried to erase it)
(TXT to Alexander) Byron: You're an odd one, Clayton.
(TXT to Byron) Alexander: Yes.
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