sherlockbbc_fic | Prompting Part XXXIV

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Eventually, he stumbled onto a website for alumni from another secondary school Dr. Statham had worked at. One of the users had uploaded scanned pdfs of all of the quarterly alumni newsletters from the past twenty years. In an act of desperation, John downloaded the file. It was mostly upbeat rubbish about teacher awards and reunion happy hours.

John was about to dismiss the file as useless, but decided to scroll all the way to the bottom. Suddenly, he froze. A headshot of a blonde boy smiled from the page. John skimmed the short paragraph below. His heart plummeted to the floor when he read, “…the second tragedy to befall his family…only four years after his sister died in an automobile accident…” He read the article more closely. The cause of death was suicide. John took a photograph of the computer screen with his phone. He scrolled through the rest of the newsletters. The next suicide occurred four years later. Again, the boy was blonde. There was a quote from the mother about the dangers of suicide from sufferers of childhood-onset schizophrenia. John took another photo then scrolled further. His heart was pounding. There was a pattern to these deaths. John suspected he knew what it was.

In the end, he found two more suicides, both blonde boys, both at either age fifteen or sixteen. One had survived a house fire only two years before. No tragedy had befallen the last boy, but John could almost guarantee that he had a reason to visit the school counselor.

Four deaths. He was responsible for at least four deaths. John looked at his phone and memorized the names on the top of each paragraph. Next, he memorized the names of their mothers and fathers. He knew how death could shatter a family, especially the loss of a child. He hadn’t just destroyed the lives of four children, given them years of suffering before they were finally driven to suicide, he had destroyed the lives of their parents, their siblings. He had seen the wreckage that the deaths of eighteen-year-old barely-adult soldiers had wrought. Collapsed marriages and haunted siblings littered the rubble of the killing fields along with the bodies of the fallen.

Amid the guilt crashing through his brain, turning his breath short and his stomach to lead, a thought wormed its way to John’s awareness. The man had never been caught. He had continued abusing children and all of his victims conveniently committed suicide before they were old enough to stand up to him. John could come forward and accuse him of abuse, but there was no longer any physical evidence. There was no reason for the police to believe him. However, that did not mean he was completely powerless. There was one thing he could do. He brought up the tab with the real estate records and photographed Dr. Statham’s current address.

Prompting Part XXXIV

Fill: No Refuge from Memory: 20b