Within the Shadows by J.D MCG (book recommendations .TXT) 📗

DI Miller and DS Wright entered the room, placed a tape in the recorder and waited for the loud beep to stop before speaking.

'This is Detective Inspector Ally Miller with Detective Sergeant Jacob Wright, interviewing Felicity James on the 25th of January at 5.07 pm. Felicity James, do you know why you are here today?'

Felicity shook her head in response, too afraid to speak.

'Can you confirm for the tape please, Miss James?' Ally asked.

'No,' she trembled.

'Okay. On January 24th, myself and Detective Chief Inspector Joseph Barnes, entered a premises just outside of the N.E.C grounds, where we discovered at least twenty women locked inside a farm shack. You then approached the farmhouse and entered the room where me and DCI Barnes were hiding with the women. We then arrested you at the scene. Do you not remember any of that?'

'No. That wasn't me,' she cried out.

'Then who was it, if it was not you?' Ally continued with her questions.

'I don't know.'

'Do you know what's going to happen now?' Jacob asked calmly.

'No.'

'You are going to go to prison for abducting these women, one of which escaped, only to be strangled to death,' Jacob continued.

'These women were starved and almost left for dead. Do you enjoy seeing women dying of starvation?' Ally raised her voice.

Felicity just sat there and cried, not knowing what to say. They didn't believe her, and why would they. It would sound crazy to her what she'd have told them.

'Felicity, have you ever heard of D.I.D?' Jacob asked.

'No, what's that?' she asked between sniffles.

'It stands for Dissociative Identity Disorder. It's when a person has another personality they sometimes don't know about which can be brought on by many different reasons. We took a look through your medical records. We know you used drugs, which can cause Dissociative Identity Disorder,' Jacob explained.

'You think I have another personality?' she asked.

'We do, along with two other people who have been involved in our current cases,' Ally informed her.

Felicity burst into tears, unsure of what was going on. What are they telling me? Am I crazy?

'Felicity, we need to know if you remember anything about your other personality? Their name? If they met anybody else?' Ally threw questions at her.

'I don't know,' she continued crying.

'I'm sorry, I know it's a lot for you to take in right now, but there is someone else out there, that is going to endanger other people's lives if we don't find them,' Jacob explained.

'I don't know,' Felicity repeated. 'I don't remember anything.'

Jacob didn't want to freak her out anymore than what she already was, but they needed her to remember anything she might have witnessed while her other personality was in control.

'Have you ever heard of the four horsemen of the apocalypse?' he asked.

Her solicitor gave him a funny glance from across the table, wondering where he was going with his questions.

'Yes, from the movies and stuff.'

'Well, one of our suspects seems to think he is one of the horsemen.'

'Which one?'

'Death and we really need to know if your personality has another persona they like to go by?' he braved the question.

Her headache got worse as her hand started to shake more violently. Unsure of what was happening to her, she tried to cry out for help, but her lips wouldn't move. She just stared at Jacob. One tear formed in her eye and trickled down her cheek.

'Miss James,' her solicitor spoke. 'Are you okay?'

'Felicity?' Jacob called out.

'Jacob,' Ally whispered in his ear. 'Do you remember the interview with Jack Roberts?'

'Yes.'

'She's doing something similar. I think we're about to meet personality number two.'

And within a few minutes, Felicity stopped shaking and sat still in the chair. She was calm. The back of her hand wiped the tears from her eyes calmly as she stared blankly, then placed them back by her side. She seemed distant and emotionless.

'Is this Felicity we're speaking to?' Ally asked, hoping for the answer she wanted.

'Felicity is gone,' she answered, remaining calm and still. 'My name is Ruth.'

'Hi, Ruth. It's nice to meet you. I'm...'

'I know who you, DI Miller,' she interrupted. 'I'm always there, listening in the background. What do you want with my siblings?'

'We want to know why you're here?'

'Why we're here? You should know why we're here.'

Jacob remained silent, just observing what Ruth had to say.

'Well I don't, so why don't you fill me in?' Ally remained calm too, folding her arms and leaning back in her chair.

'Have you both even figured out how we got here yet?' Ruth asked.

Felicity's solicitor seemed even more freaked out now than he was before, not knowing what on earth was happening in this tiny interview room. The room filled with silence while Jacob and Ally stared at Ruth waiting for her to answer.

'I'll leave you both to figure that one out,' she continued.

'I'm guessing it was you and not Felicity who held those women prisoner in that run-down shack,' Jacob finally decided to pipe up.

'Oh, you do want to speak to me after all, DS Wright. Yes, it was me who captured all of those women. Have you guessed which one I am yet?' They both kept their eyes on her.

'I'm guessing by starving your victims, you like to think you're Famine?' Jacob announced.

'Correct!' Ruth shouted at the top of Felicity's lungs. 'So, you have me and my brother, Damien. Which means you either have Cain or Esther?'

'Your turn to guess,' Jacob joked.

Ruth smiled. 'I'm guessing you've got Cain? He was always too stupid, thinking he knows better.'

'Just like me, you've guessed right. Which one is he then?' Jacob asked.

'Well he held your DCI against his will, didn't he? So it's got