Never Should Of
Ames:
We catch Nathaniel in the act. He gives money to a man before walking back to his work. I know he man from the news. The wade of cash is huge, probably around two hundred dollars.
We got him.
I didn't want to catch him. But I need to stay on Mike's and Luke's good sides. So I follow them into Nathaniel's office.
"Mike." Nathaniel stated as we walked in. "Luke, Ames."
"We have the checks." Luke put paper on his desk. "Almost a million dollars payed from your account to a man who lives down the street."
"You have some gut. Virtue-" Mike stated.
"Virtue is not a word I would use in this situation." I walked around my younger brother.
"A Zodiac stealing the planets funds." Mike help his hands up for each word, like a headline. "We will talk with the news writer. I can almost see the headline, your future is done. Forget about your lead."
"Hold on." Nathaniel stoped him. "You don't have any proof against me, you have nothing. Unless...."
"Unless?" I said.
"If I can prove to you guys that I never broke the law," Nathaniel went to his desk. "Do you promise not to tell another anybody what you saw? Or just forget about all this?"
No one else was in the office room where Nathaniel worked. But I could feel the presents go Azun in the back of my mind. I could see Nathaniel dying by Luke's hands. I am a piece in this game. Luke still doesn't know what I did to Azun, nobody does. This is bad, I am seeing history repeat itself.
"Do we have a deal?" Nathaniel placed his hands onto his Net-pad.
"Yes." The three of us all stated at the same time, I leaned over to see what was on his device.
Nathaniel pulls up a message from a voicemail. He handed it to me, I listen the words out loud for everyone to hear.
Dear Sagittarius,
I am very disappointed, but here is a time for people like you to give money to people like me. You see that is my daughter that you decided to-
"Uhhh." I stoped the track, knowing it was worst that Luke knew this instead of his theory on the money situation.
"She brought me to her room, had me cornered." Nathaniel explained himself. "I didn't know he was watching. I didn't know what to do, I hid this message and rushed over, I payed him weekly, continuing to see his daughter. Azun never really taught me about this, neither did any of you. So I did what felt right and I followed my desire to see her. But, believe me, I never spent a single coin that wasn't mine."
"Wow." Luke stated, the gears of blackmail working in his mind.
"Check my accounts." Nathaniel dared. "You will see I didn't steal anything."
"This is quite something." Luke said.
"You won't tell anyone right?"
"The people may figure out what we know." Luke mocked.
"Mike? You won't use this against me next time we go head to head?"
"I don't know Nathaniel." Mike began to leave.
"Mike!" Nathaniel begged.
"We all know what we know." Mike and Luke left the room, I began to follow. "Besides, if I was in your shoes, I wouldn't of shared this information with us."
"Ames." Nathaniel began to tear up. "I thought we were on the same side."
"We still are." I said, leaving him alone in the room.
I hate playing a double agent.
I never should of lied to Nathaniel.
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