Secret

It was a golden brown colour diary. It had a beautiful key in the middle of it and it does not open so easily . Alphabet A was coined on the corner of it.

"This is the third time we find this kind of book near the crime scene and we have no idea ..."

This was how detective Anton, described the scenario for his team ."Same modes of Operandi and same mutilation, the perpetrator had tortured the victim and watched his or her victim suffer !"

"What makes you think it could be her too?", one of the colleagues asked, any DNA, "any signs of it being a woman .?".

"No nothing!" , "that's what makes us police blindfolded, no signs of any struggle, not disturbing nearby areas, no DNA. Except for the diary ' Anton told 

Susana asked Anton "did anyone read the diary ...?"

"Oh, yes it is the diary of ..Her ...she wrote it, It starts from 1990, She wrote, today is my first day in that place, I barged into this place as a stranger, I want to call it a planet, people were staring at me, I have a different skin colour, I was neither dark nor too white, I spoke in a different accent and they all were seeing someone different. I loved them and they loved me from that very first moment. I was at that group home a pretty large one to look after them. The name was unique Eden ....and it was a paradise "Anton talked and read the book.

"Hmm," Susana said, "so she was some one who came to look after the people at a group home and it started with that ."

'Man.."Anton told .."that is a hell of a story that woman wrote. She just wrote about several happenings there. She was there like two eyes watching all the events that took place there. Brutal and against all human convictions ."

Lilian interfered" where is this place ..Eden ...is it functioning .. still "

"No, "Anton said, "not anymore just after she finishes, there was a fire there and the so-called eyes ..we can call it, she just had this premonition and she mentions it in this book. She was burnt alive in it. No inmates were harmed."

"Oh, my God ...does any one of its inmates remember anything .?" Lilian asked 

"That's secret, nobody knows or remembers her, the diary, any event many died later in age, some are having senile dementia and are in facilities ".

"But we find that these people who are killed, they are not connected, never mentioned connected to the group home. Nor to anything...

 ."Anton replied and continued 

"One is a judge retired, the other is a psychologist, and the third person a model. The person who does this is just connected to this Diary and this has the secret why or what prompts him or her to do it ."

"Can I have it, Anton," a senior man Gregory asked for the diary and He held it, opened it and told "it has a picture of a Claddagh ring on it ...

Does it make any sense ?"

Anton said "no "

Gregory said .."it says I give you my heart with these hands, crowned with my love...it is an old saying!!" ..Irish saying 

"This diary has something to do with it ."

Anton told .".good observation but it is a blind end old friend ...where do we go with this Irish ring and Indian woman "

What ...this diary is the story of an Indian woman ..Team just exclaimed and Detective completed 

It is her dreams, her aspirations, her ambitions, her love. Nothing to do with ...a murder ".

The next day they had to be in the middle of a swamp and they found a different act of homicide, this was another affluent person in the society a philanthropist and a doctor ...

Now the case started affecting the entire force, media was all over and everyone wanted an answer, who is doing this.

Anton, Gregory told," is there any inmate who is Irish, the woman was involved with, ?"

"No it was group home for young girls...nothing to do with an affair...that too an international.no.."Anton said in his special way of talking.

Then he told "since you told I will check register for any Irish connection"

Anton kept reading the diary which they found at the scene again..it was their evidence, every copy looked the same ..his eyes caught on the 50th page and it had a picture of a juniper berry sprig ...and it read 

"She is an angel, Annet ...the day she came in I never thought my life would change, I was the favourite of all, now people started hating me, I dont mind, I believe in doing the right thing...

Anton thought to himself I have to solve this mystery, the secret of this diary in oak colour with golden hue.

before a fifth murder happens 

He called Gregory and Lilian and took off to the place where Eden was situated in the city.

Gregory kept reading and on the 70th page he read, "I know they would take the twins away from her, Madam Valentina is in fury how could I hide it from her all these 9 months ...I was not just a caretaker, I was her friend, but they would just do anything to wipe this ..and I must protect the twins for him. For the angel was all her dad had ".

Anton stopped the car and looked at Gregory, "I need someone to check all the old staff who worked there "

Lilian told "no one called Valentina worked there ..."

Gregory told, "this is a secret that she hid from others ....Angel ...and her twins ."

Anton told "this needs great digging and we are understaffed with not much time in our hands"

Gregory just read, "I never thought Angel will take her life, She knew me nor her dad will let anything happen to her.

Lilian just came up with her findings, the model who died Benacca ...was the warden at some place and her pet name was Valentina...

It all makes sense now 

They reached Eden and the whole place looked eery ...half-burned building which was never renovated, there were maple trees and birch trees with some bushes where they found a wild deer and rabbits.

They walked around and a little further they found a hair saloon a very small one only people with less fortune could afford..and they went in

Anton. ..told the bit loudly to seeing "Detectives.,"..an old man came out. He looked at police officers through his glasses and just said "after all this time now ...."

"I am Gary ", he said and told the officers to take a seat and make themselves comfortable.

Anton did not find a place good enough to sir, he could say the man lived on SSI and not by working he could say as no one would visit there.

Anton showed the old man the diary 

He looked at the officers and his face changed as though he saw a ghost but then he reverted back to his normal face 

He asked, "what about this ...?"

"Do you recognize this, it is from a crime scene ...?"

He nodded negating them and his own thoughts 

"We will be in touch," Anton told and they walked out of the room and the old man said.

"They were very rude to her and she never bothered, she herself was like them and understood them better. She was there here and everywhere, everyone knew her and she was a warrior type, this tiny little woman ..."

"It was the good old days, but they hated her, and John knew everything, she told him everything. 

"How do you know him, her, anyone," Anton asked

She would say ..old man continued this word" Tabula Rasa !"

Gregory told means to a blank slate, means people when they are born they are all alike and data fed changes them.

"Interesting "Lilian exclaimed 

She was ...officer Gary the old man said.

"You have to give your statement" ...Mr Gary 

"Don't drag me into it...I have nothing to do with all this ."

The officers left and on the way, Gregory told they called from the main station, they are all connected,the judge, who was people's advocate then, the psychologist an intern and the doctor, a then-owned Eden, now it all makes sense 

"But the woman is burnt, Annet hanged herself .. where is John?"

Lilian asked ...

"We need to talk to the old man "

They returned back ...Anton told the man had something to do with her.

They just entered the old saloon and found the old man dead on his bed and there was the diary with the Key ....laughing at their faces

They did all the procedures and while returning Anton told someone is so close to us ...knowing our moved 

He asked Lilian when did these murders start and why this year .our answer is John ...what John we have no idea so let us look for Annette's suicide and the old police officers who dealt with it.

The next day was born and Anton looked at the Diary, he read, twins are safe. John smiled and kissed my forehead, I can never give it to Annette..nor can she have the twins ...I was summoned ...I feel scared

He got a coffee from Starbucks on the way and when he reached his desk, Susana rushed to him We could trace John., he knew Gary well they were from the same beach area.

But John is no more, there is another interesting thing you should know she told John was in love with the woman, many told they have seen her once or twice. It is a very old matter.

Lilian told the "old officer Heising dealt with the case and according to him, the whole case was so haunting and a bad omen ...John was killed ...people say but his neighbours told Mr Heising he would never do that ."

Anton felt overwhelmed and he thought the secret of the diary is revealing and for the first time, he felt it is revealing by itself !!

Like the truth want to come out and show itself.

He suddenly felt a thought where are the twins of the story. Are they alive?

According to the Diary, it is the twins that took a twist on everything. 

So where are they, they must be young adults now.

He wanted to talk to the IT profiler and he asked Lilian where he find Joe.

Aston walked into Harrison Joe's room and he waited there and then his eyes fell on the small photo there it was Lilian and Harrison the twins in the Department ..then he peered into different photos there the redhead kids with blue eyes...

He just came out and tried to talk to Gregory and they said him officer Heising is no more...he suddenly asked where is Lilian 

Susana told she accompanied Gregory, now he asked "where did Lilian go with her brother for vacation last year, "Susana told "Ireland "

Now he was getting closer he felt now he realized the story better, the twins who know their story, who do the murders without any traces of DNA and knowing each move of the police.

He checked for Eden home twins, they were a boy and girl they grew up with foster parents, Mccarthy Joe and Ethen Joe. He then looked for John, Harrison and John Joe...

 they looked so similar Harrison. Joe and Mccarthy Joe was none but John's sister according to the records.

The secret left him dumbfounded, yet he had no strings to connect it to Lilian Joe or Harrison Joe. Aston sat on his chair and tried to fathom the story of John and Anamilka and Annette and twins. But it is just a secret. a hypothesis without proof.

Heising was the last part of their loop that they wanted to be erased. Now no more killings will happen if his theory is right.

He opened the Diary and read when Lilian entered the room ..he went on what goes around comes around, Me, John, Annette and all these people we know we are doing this to save them ...for them to live we should die ...but truth can't be hidden, they would one Day see each one of the legends and Do what a true Viking would do ...

Lilian smiled at Aston...

And Aston told her ..".it is a cold case this diary ...it's secret 

"What secret .?".Lilian asked 

Aston replied ."..the code ...the twins ..."

"Brilliant "was her reply and it reverberated in the room.