FAKE Triple Drabble: The Worst Part
Title: The Worst Part
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee, OMC.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Dee and Ryo talk to a crime victim.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Account’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.
“All this time I thought we were good friends as well as business partners. We’ve known each other since we were kids, and now it turns out he’s been funnelling money from the business I set up for us into an offshore account,” the victim, Roland Blackwell, explained. “I never saw that coming. I’d have happily helped him out if he was having money trouble, that’s what friends do. Instead, he stole from me, then tried to burn the office down with me inside. Guess he figured that way he could claim on the insurance too.”
“I’m sorry, Mr Blackwell,” Ryo said. “This all must have come as a terrible shock to you.”
“It did.” Blackwell, eyes shadowed with pain from his injuries, leaned back against the pillows of his hospital bed with a heavy sigh. “I already suspected my wife was cheating on me, but I never for a moment imagined it was with Arthur, or that they were plotting to get rid of me and run off with everything they’d managed to embezzle from our business. If she’d asked for a divorce I wouldn’t have stood in her way. Always figured she only married me for security.” He shook his head in bewilderment. “You think you know people, and then they turn around and pull the rug right out from under you.”
“People suck,” Dee agreed. “Not all of them, but…” He trailed off with a shrug. “As cops, we see this kinda thing a lot, friends and family turnin’ against each other. Money can bring out the worst in people.”
Roland nodded. “Everything seemed fine until the business started showing a decent profit.” He smiled crookedly. “You know the worst part? Not content with taking my wife and destroying my business, he tried to steal my dog.”
The End
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee, OMC.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Dee and Ryo talk to a crime victim.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Account’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.
“All this time I thought we were good friends as well as business partners. We’ve known each other since we were kids, and now it turns out he’s been funnelling money from the business I set up for us into an offshore account,” the victim, Roland Blackwell, explained. “I never saw that coming. I’d have happily helped him out if he was having money trouble, that’s what friends do. Instead, he stole from me, then tried to burn the office down with me inside. Guess he figured that way he could claim on the insurance too.”
“I’m sorry, Mr Blackwell,” Ryo said. “This all must have come as a terrible shock to you.”
“It did.” Blackwell, eyes shadowed with pain from his injuries, leaned back against the pillows of his hospital bed with a heavy sigh. “I already suspected my wife was cheating on me, but I never for a moment imagined it was with Arthur, or that they were plotting to get rid of me and run off with everything they’d managed to embezzle from our business. If she’d asked for a divorce I wouldn’t have stood in her way. Always figured she only married me for security.” He shook his head in bewilderment. “You think you know people, and then they turn around and pull the rug right out from under you.”
“People suck,” Dee agreed. “Not all of them, but…” He trailed off with a shrug. “As cops, we see this kinda thing a lot, friends and family turnin’ against each other. Money can bring out the worst in people.”
Roland nodded. “Everything seemed fine until the business started showing a decent profit.” He smiled crookedly. “You know the worst part? Not content with taking my wife and destroying my business, he tried to steal my dog.”
The End