On my next day off I'm home alone, Krystal is out of town visiting her parents and I'm stuck at home with nothing to do and still paranoid as fuck about everything. Krystal ends up texting me just to check up
"Hey babe how are you doing?"
"Aside from the paranoia and anxiety… I would say everything is pretty good"
"Well just relax"
"It's kinda hard when this guys is out here killing everyone from the department"
"I can help you relax a little"
"How you're not here"
Krystal sends me a picture of her tits
"I just got my nipples pierced 😉"
"🫢"
"You like them?"
"Yeah 🥵 but aren't you supposed to be visiting your parents"
"Yeah but I wanted to do something I've always wanted to do and I did it"
"Well they do look good on you"
"I know 😉"
Before I can text back my brother is trying to FaceTime me
"Hold on my brother is calling me"
I answer and screams out
"What's up bitch!!"
"You can't say hello like a normal person"
"Nawww"
"What do you want?"
"Damn ok rude ass"
"Sorry man I'm just stressed"
"I could imagine, that's crazy how that gamer guys girlfriend got killed"
"Wait you know about it?"
"Yeah it was all over social media"
"That was quick, how did you know him"
"I used to watch him play in the tournaments online"
"Oh ok, yeah he wasn't there luckily, he was out with his team"
"What team?"
"I don't know the fucking team he plays with, he told me about it before"
"But… he's not even on the team anymore"
"What?"
"Yeah they kicked his ass out a while ago"
"Really?"
"Yeah, I remember the leader of the team posted a video about it. he said the guy was getting weird and they told him to get some help"
"Damn….you're into all that gaming shit what was the team's name so I can look it up. I kinda want to see this"
"The Sands Of Time"
I just stop in my tracks
"What's wrong ant?"
"Say that again.."
"The Sands of Time"
"What was their logo?"
"It was an hourglass"
"Son of a bitch…"
"What's wrong?"
"Every crime scene the body had an hourglass carved into them"
"So?"
"Think about it, this guy starts acting weird, he gets kicked out which was his life, on top of that his fiancée was an unfaithful hoe… you don't think that would've made him snap?"
"Now that you put it that way, I can see it"
"Is there anything else you know?"
"Hmmm he did have a youtube channel but he hasn't posted in a while"
"What did he post?"
"Just normal gaming stuff, he would also just stream and listen to music"
"What kind of music?"
"Mostly rock and that type of shit"
"Oh my god.."
"What?"
"I think it's him.."
"You think mark is the killer?"
"All signs are pointing to him.. now that I think about it, he had the same build as the guy in that video also"
"Holy shit… you're right"
"We need to watch some of these videos and streams, if I can find songs that match what I found at the scenes I think I can convince the investigators that it's him"
Me and Dame spend the next few hours looking through last streams and videos mark posted, every lyric that was written in blood, the song it came from was played multiple times in almost every video or stream
"Dame… I think we figured it out"
"Naw this is fucking wild, what are you going to do?"
"This could be a big help but I doubt they'll listen to a rookie, especially since I'm only an officer"
"You can't try?"
"This new captain is already watching me, I think I should keep this to myself and see if I can catch him in the act"
"Well just be careful man"
"I will, thanks for helping, you should be a cop"
"Nawww I'll let you do that"
"Why not it's a good job?"
"Ehhh after all this, I'll stick to my office job, a lot safer and there's bad bitches everywhere"
"Yeah alright, I'll talk to you later"
I hang up on the call. I just sit there in silence for a little bit, I can't believe this is happening. I think a little about why would mark do all this. Then it finally comes to me, what Krystal first told me about Elena and what I already know.
"Mark is killing every person that Elena's ever cheated with, Elena was possibly his final target and that's why he wrote "End of Heartache". It all makes sense now, after losing his career and then finding out Elena was unfaithful he just snapped, maybe he told me not to be a hero on the phone call because he knew I didn't do anything with Elena, I wasn't a target"
Oh man this is fucking crazy, but I don't really have actual solid proof, it's just all speculation and I would just be laughed at, maybe I should be let it go, maybe I shouldn't be a hero….