Ryan was pretty bored. He was so bored that he tried reading a book. A book of all things. I mean who does that; who reads a book?
It was turns out the book wasn't able to entertain him enough as he soon started to feel groggy and his eyelids became heavier and heavier until they were too heavy for him tokeep them open. He closed his eyes and immediately drifted to sleep.
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Ryan suddenly jolted awake only to find himself sitting cross-legged on an infinite field of grass. There was grass everywhere. There were also plum trees planted around that were blossoming.
Ryan suddenly heard the sound of laughter. He turned his head to in that direction and saw a girl probably fourteen or thirteen years old throwing a frisbee towards a man who looked to be in his early fifties.
The girl had long ginger hair and deep blue eyes. She was 13 years old and looked kinda similar to Ryan. Hayden. Ryan immediately recognized the girl as his sister, Hayden Jackman.
The man also had shaggy, dark brown hair and grey blue eyes. The man also resembled Ryan or rather Ryan resembled the man, a lot. The man stood at 6ft2 tall and was just as handsome. The resemblance was really uncanny. Their only difference was that the man looked older and had a bushy beard and a slightly protruding belly. Ryan immediately recognized him as his dad, Noah Jackman.
Watching the two of them, Ryan couldn't help but smile.
"You're happy", a voice suddenly said from right beside him. Ryan however wasn't startled. He turned his head and looked at the woman that was sitting beside him.
The woman was watching Hayden and Noah playing together with the frisbee. Ryan couldn't see the woman's face properly since her long ginger hair was coverings the side of her face. But Ryan didn't need to see her face to recognize her as his mother, Eliza Jackman.
Eliza turned her head and looked at her son. "You're happy", she repeated.
Ryan didn't need to say anything. Eliza looked at the smile on Ryan's lips and suddenly said with a sorrowful voice, "Too bad you can't stay".
Suddenly, what sounded like police sirens started sounding in the distance. Then Ryan also suddenly started hyperventilating. He hastily looked around to look at the source of the siren but couldn't see anything that could make that sound.
His eyes landed on the forms of his father and sister. Instead of them throwing and catching the frisbee, Noah was now lying on the ground, seemingly covered in blood with Hayden, who now looked fifteen, kneeling beside him. Ryan's eyes widened in fear. He immediately tried to run to his father's side but he felt his mother's hand hold him back. He turned his head to look at his mother only to see her also lying on the grass, covered in blood.
Then suddenly it was as if the blaring sirens had gotten louder. He could hear his sister weeping beside his father. His mother's dead eyes were also looking at him, unmoving. As if these weren't enough, he felt tingling sensations all over his body. He looked down at his hand only to see himself turn to dust as if Thanos had snap again.
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Ryan open his eyes as he woke up from his bad dream and he could hear sirens coming from outside. He turned the TV that was playing in the background off and got up. He was curious of what was happening outside. He walked to the window and opened the curtain only to see that several cop cars had stopped in front of the house with about three dozen cops getting out of their respective cars. They all got into position and took out their guns, pointing them towards the house.
Ryan had to cover his mouth to stop himself from screaming. His heart started beating heavily against his chest. He didn't know what to do and was frozen on the spot.
Detective Carlos got out of her car with her partner, Detective Montgomery along with another woman that wasn't with them earlier. Detective Carlos brought the megaphone she was holding to her mouth.
"Ryan Jackman, you are under arrest. You have only a minute to come out with your hands behind your head or we'll be forced to take action. And don't try to escape, we've got you surrounded", Detective Carlos said.
At this time Ryan was freaking out. Beads of sweat were starting to form on his forehead and he was hyperventilating.
Detective Carlos brought the megaphone to her lips again and repeated, "I repeat. You are under arrest. You have only one minute to come out with your hands behind your head or we'll be forced to take action. Do not try to escape, we've got you surrounded".
Ryan's brain was running at picoseconds, contemplating of what to do. He had never been in a situation like this before. He had never been surrounded by the cops before. He had never been placed at gunpoint before and now dozens of guns were being pointed at him. He started pacing around as he continued to hyperventilate.
"You have thirty seconds before we are forced to take action", Detective Carlos said through the megaphone again.
At this time, Ryan's neighbors had started to come out of their house to see what was happening.
Ryan stopped pacing around and stood behind the door, suddenly building up confidence. He breathed in and out heavily to calm himself down. He slowly brought his hand towards the door knob to open the door only to take back his hand and jump in frustration.
"I can't do this. I can't do this", he said, on the verge of tears.
"Twenty second", came Detective Carlos' voice.
Hearing this, Ryan knew that he had to go out and get arrested or he'd just get forcefully taken either way. At least, going out on his own, he could avoid the unnecessary violence. He talked towards the door again but he still couldn't bring himself to open it out of fear.
"Ten seconds",
At this time, Ryan's hand involuntarily grabbed the knob and opened it and walk out with his hands in the air. His heart was still beating like hell. He didn't want them opening fire on his house. When he walked, all the cops became highly alert, ready to fire at any sudden movement.
"Hands behind your head", Detective Carlos commanded.
Ryan immediately stopped and gulped before bringing his hand behind his head.
"Please don't shoot", Ryan said with a weak and shaky voice.
"Turn around, slowly", Detective Carlos shouted. Ryan did as she said and slowly turned around.
"No sudden movements or we will fire".
Ryan was now scared to even breathe.
Seeing that Ryan was complying, Detective Carlos grabbed the handcuffs on her waist and slowly and cautiously walked towards Ryan who had his back turned. Once she was close enough, she strapped the handcuffs on Ryan's wrists.
"Ryan Jackman. You are under arrest", she said as she dragged. "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you".
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Ryan was now sitting in a interrogation room with his hands cuffed to the metallic table to prevent him from trying to escape. His wrists had already become red and sore because the handcuffs were too tight around them. There were cameras set around the room, capturing different angles of the interrogation room.
Ryan looked at his reflection in the mirror that he was one hundred percent sure was two way and sighed to himself. How the hell did he get into this mess.
Just then, the door opened and Detective Carlos along with Detective Montgomery walked in. Detective Carlos sat down on a seat opposite Ryan while Detective Montgomery chose to stand when there was an extra chair next to his partner.
"Gonna play Good cop, bad cop?", Ryan chuckled rather sadly.
"There won't be any need for a bad cop as long as you answer our questions. Now let's begin shall we begin". Detective Carlos said. "Why did you kill those people?
Detective Carlos waited for Ryan to answer but the answer never came out. Ryan instead just kept quiet and refused to say anything. Detective Carlos sighed. She had been expecting Ryan to react like.
"You can make this easy for both of us and just admit to killing those four men", Detective Carlos said.
"Like I said last time, I didn't kill them", Ryan said.
" ", Detective Carlos asked.
" "
"Okay. Let's say you didn't kill those people. Then who did?", Detective Carlos asked.
"How would I know? I told you, I was drunk last night. I don't even remember going back home", Ryan said.
Detective Carlos sighed and said, "Quit the act. We already know you did it. You were caught on camera".
Ryan scoffed after hearing that. Why would he believe that? He knew he didn't do it so he wasn't going to admit it.
"As if I'm going to believe that", Ryan chuckled.
"Oh, but we do", Detective Carlos said, calmly looking at Ryan with a smile.
"She's not lying", This time, Detective Montgomery who hadn't talked till now, said.
Ryan looked at the male detective's face to see if he was trying to trick him too. Detective Montgomery on the other hand hand serious. Seeing this, the expression on Ryan's face immediately fell.
For a second there, Ryan almost fell for it. He almost believed that they indeed had a video of him killing those four men but he immediately threw that though away. There was no way they had the video because what they were accusing him of never happened.
"Let me see it", Ryan said. "If you really do have me on camera, then let me see it".
The two detectives shared a look before Detective Carlos suggest for someone behind the two way mirror to bring something.
Ryan wasn't fazed, even after an officer walked in with a tablet in hand. The officer handed the tablet to Detective Carlos and left the interrogation room immediately after. Detective Carlos opened a file and then handed the tablet to Ryan. Ryan took it and the file started playing. His face immediately fell after what he saw when the file started playing.
The view was from a grocery store from across the street and it showed Ryan being surrounded by four big guy, each wearing a different colored tracksuit. All four men suddenly took out knives from wherever they were hiding them making Ryan gulp. Then they starting talking about something but Ryan shook his head and then the guy in red who seemed to be the leader attacked Ryan but Ryan deflected the knife back to the man in red, stabbing him in the torso. The other three were taken aback as they all took a step back before attacking Ryan together. Ryan retrieved the knife in the leader's torso and pushed him aside before fighting the other three at the same time. He made deep cuts and light cuts at precise places on the three all while effortlessly dodging all the attacks. In a minute or two, the three were now lying on the ground, all paralyzed and bleeding.
After dealing with the three, Ryan walked took the other knives and walked over to the leader in red who was scared shitless of Ryan. Ryan crouched down and talked to him for a while and after confirming something, he started to walk away leaving the leader alive. The leader seeing this, took out another knife from his sleeve before getting up and rushing towards Ryan to stab him but Ryan who seemed to have sensed him coming sidestepped making the leader fall to the ground. Ryan didn't waste anytime and slowly slit the leader's throat, making him choke on his own blood.
After killing the leader, Ryan took the other knife too and walked away from the scene, leaving the paralyzed three to bleed to death. Then the video ended.