When James arrived at Grande, Zach was dealing with some small... conflicts, boring conflicts in the living area.
Didn't Grande arrange a replacement shift schedule to give old employees time to find new housing? Today was the first time it was implemented, and when the work was handed over, one of the new employees who had just come out of prison unintentionally complained, "What is the difference between this and prison."
This is true. Everyone's life is no different from a prison. Everyone has a schedule that must be followed: work, study, rest... It's just about how much autonomy each person has in arranging this time.
People who have just come out of prison may not understand the nuances, or their expectations of life in a halfway house are too high. It's understandable anyway.
However, the old employees were not happy. I don’t know which guy had a brain attack and suddenly came to a conclusion: "If these new employees are sent back to prison, we won’t have to leave Grande to start a new life!"
Neither side is a good person, and conflict is about to break out.
From the beginning, Hank looked like he didn't want to care. There was only Bane, a human, watching the living area, and he had to protect his own family at the same time. It was useless at all.
When the people on both sides began to have intense physical contact, Zach appeared in the living area. It was too troublesome to pull them apart one by one, so Zach directly used the Charming Eye.
"Those who think there is no difference between the Rio Grande and the prison should go west and report back to the prison by themselves." This is what he said to the new employees. "Those who think they can stay in the Rio Grande by killing the new employees should go west and report back to the prison." , if we are lucky, we might be able to report to Grandry again in a few months.”
It's quite understandable. This isn't even a false memory, it's just the truth. It's just using the Charming Eyes to forcefully put this logic that everyone understands into the minds of these people who are currently losing their minds.
James, just in time for Zach to say this with his charming eyes, was already behind Zach and was about to pull out his gun as a warning and retracted it.
Zach handed over the affairs of the living area to Bain again, turned around, and pushed James, who still wanted to supervise the ex-criminals, out of the living area.
Wes also came, but he looked too lazy to harass Zach with James. He sat quietly behind the counter in the showroom and chatted with Siris.
"Are you okay?" Zach asked James.
In fact, Zach has some speculations about the reason why James came here.
The husband-and-wife team of James and Kate have been trying to control public opinion about the North District Police Department's attitude towards the protection of Indian culture.
The carnival incident has been in the past for some time. Director Darcy can safely say that his western identity (with a background of deep-rooted discrimination against Indian culture) has not affected his career in Patton. Thanks to James and Kate, the issue of Indian culture gradually faded away in Patton.
Of course, it is undeniable that those who originally harbored ill intentions toward Indian culture in Patton were those from the west. Nowadays, those people are dead, possessed by fallen angels, scared away and scared away... There is no so-called 'problem' to pay attention to.
But Zach believed that Director Darcy was not having a good time these days because Lutre Sembula died.
The vampire who promised Darcy eternal life is dead. The inheritor director is worried about his future. Although he is freed from the affairs of Indian culture, hehe, everyone understands.
Zach speculated that James came to Grande because of Darcy. After all, Darcy is the highest representative of the Barton police. If Darcy starts to give up on himself, then Barton's law enforcement system will be finished.
To summarize, Zach thought James was asking Zach to serve as a Sabbat vampire to give Darcy new hope in life.
Zach was wrong.
As soon as Zach finished asking what James was doing, he stared at James and saw James cuffing his hands.
Zach tilted his head, looked at his handcuffed hands, then looked at Wes who was still chatting with Cyrus, then looked at the car that James and Wes were driving, and finally looked at James and curled his lips. , "Can't you grow up?" He raised his handcuffed hands and waved them in front of James, "Isn't this fun?"
Tsk.
James wants to catch Zach
Your partner is chatting with my employee. The car you drove didn't even have a siren on. You two humans are the only ones coming to Grande. Are you going to handcuff me
Grow up quickly! James Lance!
James stared at Zach with a sullen face for a while, took out the keys and let Zach go, and at the same time, "One day!"
Someday what? Uh, forget it.
Zach touched the wrist that was touched by James' deliberately ungentle movement, "If you have anything to say, please tell me quickly. I have something else to do."
Zach is busy and has a date with Jessica. Zach didn't go to Mary's Church yesterday after being stopped by an angry newborn demon. Because the new demon brought a message for Jessica, saying that he would go to Harrison's new shelter in Newton today to talk in detail about the 'Angels' of the Republic.
James deliberately turned around and walked towards Grande without saying anything.
Zach followed, went up to the second floor, and entered the office. Seeing that James 'consciously' took the main seat, Zach didn't bother to say anything and sat in the guest seat.
As soon as he took his seat, James threw a notebook over.
This is a notebook that police detectives usually use when interviewing possible witnesses at crime scenes to jot down anything that may be useful at any time.
Zach turned it over and glanced at James speechlessly, because most of the pages Zach turned over were full of messy graffiti. It shows how bad James’s recent work status is...
Finally, there are words. Zach raised an eyebrow, "Uh, Ford called the police? Accused me of murder?"
James was rummaging through Zach's desk, and Zach continued to read James' notes without paying attention, "Ford said I killed his employees in front of him?"
Why did Zach repeat the contents of James' notes in a questioning tone? Because, Zach was a little worried about Ford's mental state.
Zach looked at it for a while and began to shake his head, "Ford was unwilling to disclose why he and his employees were still working at the funeral home at midnight." It was all in the notes. The homicide detectives were handling the case, and no one questioned James. "Ford also refused to cooperate in explaining why Zachary Grande appeared at Ford's funeral."
Zach was right, it was time to worry about Ford's mental state.
"Ford obstructed law enforcement by refusing to cooperate with the search for evidence..."
Why. This note is painful to read.
Here's the thing
You are a human, and you have recently learned that vampires exist in this world. Unfortunately, your relationship with this vampire is not very friendly. There is little time for you to soothe your collapsed worldview and mood. You need to survive, so you do some things that are not in line with your character under the instigation of some well-intentioned people to fight against this huge thing that appears in your life. monster'.
Then one day, this vampire appears in front of you, and instead of killing you, he kills someone else.
what would you do
You are probably like Ford, looking at the shattered pieces of the world around you, standing there in a daze for a while, then squatting down and crying for a while about how your life ended up like this.
Finally, tired of crying, I reached out to pick up the broken pieces of the world, trying to piece together a life that I could never return to...
Good or bad, the world Ford first put together was, well, calling the police.
If that wasn't sad enough, he calls the police for a murder, so goes to Barton's star homicide detectives, James and Wes.
Zach put down the note and continued how James trampled Ford's world to pieces again. It was so bad, "So, what are you going to do?"
James was still rummaging through Zach's desk.
This behavior made Zach unhappy, "What are you looking for?"
James glanced at Zach and said, "Look for Madison's manuscript."
"I didn't." Zach curled his lips and replied, "All Madison's relics I found are in his coffin." Those speechless and colorful hair. Tsk, this makes no sense, "Why are you looking for Madison's manuscript?"
James continued to flip through it, then suddenly waved his hand and stared at Zach, "Because now I don't know how to look at you at all!!"
Zach was confused by this sudden outburst. Look at me
"This is Ford!" James snatched the note from Zach's hand, "The only man in this city who cares about his job!!" Well, in Madison's story, Ford's former 'persona' . "And you! You destroyed him!!"
Wait a minute... What is James so excited about? ? Does he have anything to do with Ford...
The relationship is coming
"It's like you ruined me!!" James glared at Zach, "Ever since I met the real you, my life has been shit!!" James' excitement continued to rise, "You really like it Is it right to ruin the life of any decent person!!”
Gee, how many times will this topic be brought up? Zach is a vampire. Vampires live among humans. What can everyone expect? ! The beginning of this story is not that vampires massacred the city, but it was already blessed by God. It just ruined the lives of a few people. What is it called
Uh... I'm sorry, everyone still remembers me. Madison is still in purgatory now. The author of this story is in a bad mood!
Zach looked at the excited James. He really didn't want to respond to anything about 'whose life did he ruin?'. There was nothing to say, but Zach was still a little confused. "What does this have to do with Madison's manuscript?"
James almost lost his breath at first because Zach's focus was completely shifted, but soon, after taking a few forced deep breaths, Zach's eyes broke away and he stared at his hands gloomily, "I said, I I don’t know how to look at you, your face makes me sick!” Well, this kind of ‘look at you’, “So I want to review how I faced you before! Maybe I can feel a little calmer!”
Zach sighed, "James, you have never been calm when facing me. Madison's manuscript cannot help you."
Isn't it? If James' appearance frequency had not decreased recently, 'gloomy' could have been fixed as James' exclusive adjective.
Zach waved his hand, "Stop talking about these meaningless things." Zach pointed to the notebook in James' hand, "Ford's employees are dead. You should already know that people have become demons in Mary's Church. Okay. So, what are you going to do?" Zach said, raising his hands again, as if he was ready to be cuffed. "Ford didn't lie. The reason why he couldn't cooperate with your investigation and collection of evidence is You also know that he is illegally trading corpses, another thing that cannot be explained to the police. But he did see me killing his employees with his own eyes. I admit the crime I committed, what are you going to do?"
Zach's hand was hung in the air.
"Don't take matters into your own hands!" James moved from his heart and looked at Zach gloomily. "The autopsy has been done. There are no external wounds. The employee was not killed by a vampire attack at all!"
Yes, it was indeed not Zach who killed him, but Sam.
"Many organs of the body fail at the same time, and physiological functions are lost. This is a typical case of sudden death from overwork!" James finished.
Zach retracted his hand and narrowed his eyes, "Sem~ It's okay~"
Knowledge point, when a wizard forcibly tears your soul out of your body, you will die from symptoms of burnout.
Naturally, James heard Zach praise Sam, and said gloomily, "Ford was fined half a month of community work for maliciously reporting the crime!"
Zach stood up, clapped his hands, and the matter seemed to be 'perfectly' over, "Thank you Detective Lance for specially informing me of the progress of the incident. As I said, I still have an appointment." Ready to leave.
James moved quickly, stepping across the desk and grabbing Zach, "I'm not finished yet!!"
Zach pushed James away and straightened his wrinkled clothes to show the politeness of the difference between himself and James: "Please tell me."
"I want your blood!"
The words he spoke made Zach too lazy to respond. Zach nodded politely, "Goodbye, James." Ready to leave again.
James grabbed Zach again, "I buy your blood!!"
Zach still pushed James' hand away and straightened out the wrinkles, "James, I remember that you personally called your father to make him the first person on the human side in the West to refuse to trade vampire blood. ." Remember. 'Honeymoon' time.
"Then give me a bottle!" Well, James said again.
Zach faced James, looked at him, and moved his hands to grope up and down James' body.
It wasn't until James pushed Zach away in disgust that Zach spoke again, "You're not hurt, so I won't send you away."
"Not for myself!" James grabbed Zach when he showed signs of leaving again and stared into Zach's eyes, "I need something to control Darcy now!!"
ha. Zach's previous prediction about James coming to Grande was indeed not in vain. Although James' behavior is still so childish, his thinking has finally grown somewhat.
Zach's mouth curved slightly, "Give Darcy hope. You don't need to come to me for vampire blood. Let him come to me on his own..."
Zach didn't even finish. The smile on his face was locked by James's firm gaze, James "You?! No! You already have enough control in this city! I want to control Darcy myself!!"
Zach's locked smile continued to extend, "You want to control Darcy?"
"Yes! I want to control Darcy!!" James approached Zach's smiling face, gloomy? No, no, no, it is an order that does not allow resistance: "Give, my, your blood!!"
Zach decided... to pamper this 'kid' who wouldn't grow up.