(Chapter 01)
(Scene 02)- PRESENT
Date: 18th June, 2027
Location: a City
Time: 08:00 PM
"Sweet Lies"
Raindrops are dancing on the leaves and making their way through the narrow paths
of glory to the nearest river for their long lasting freedom. The breeze of victory is
endlessly cheering throughout the city. The scent of being free feels sweeter than first
love. All the dead streets are finding their rhythm once again. And the drums of
liberation are echoing through the sky again and again with a single news—
-THE NEWS-
"The fear is finally gone.
With the help of the Special Security Squad,
We finally have found peace in our beloved city.
After 13 months of continuous horror of getting killed,
we can now finally breathe in peace!!!"
The sound of festivals and cheering from the people of the city, can be heard from
the mountains, miles away. Everyone is happy. But some street animals like — dogs
and cats are looking sad while staring at some bread from a shop. Can't even share
their feelings as they can't talk. Looking at other so-called human beings as they are
enjoying only by themselves just thinking of their own selfish gains.
Suddenly, the crows on the trees start singing with a breeze of hope. That time
someone walks up to the dogs, puts some breads in front of them, smirks and says to
the dogs with a soft sad voice,
"You all miss him?"
Then the man looks at the TV—
-THE NEWS-
"After murdering over 180 people in just 13 months,
Our force was finally able to track down the serial killer-
and then brought him to justice.
During this mission,
some of our elite officers became martyrs.
So we should always respect and remember their name-
As the HEROES of not only this city but of the whole country.
And we should be careful and strict with our children.
So that they don't become twisted,
Like the WORST VILLAIN— Amir"
As the name mentioned, the howling sound of dogs pierces through the sky along
with people's unconscious hearts, pausing their thoughts for a moment, not out of
shock but out of fear as something— seems off.
(Scene 03)
-Less than 12 Hours Ago-
-3 hours left till Faruq's Birthday-
Date: 17th June, 2027
Location: Interrogation Room
Time: 09:13 PM
(Beginning of the Interrogation)
(Interrogation Part I)
A dark small room with just a yellow flickering bulb at the center of the ceiling.
No windows. No furniture. No fan or air conditioner. No visible door.
The walls are black. Feels like being trapped inside the stomach of a giant creature
from a shadowy mythical world. The air is filled with the smell of rusty metals and
blood. Dried bloods have painted new designs on the dirty floor- who knows since
when.
Only a small table with two chairs, one each at the opposite sides, can be seen in the
middle of the room. Someone is sitting on one of the chairs on the right side, whose
head and face are covered with a black clothes. His hands are tied behind his back to
the chair.
Another tall man walks to him and removes the black cloth. Faruq finally can takes
deep breaths as the cloth is removed from his face.
The other man walks towards the other chair, placed on the opposite side of the
table from Faruq. Then he sits, wearing full black clothes with a black mask and a
black cap.
TAP, TAP, TAP- He is tapping his fingers on the table with a slow rhythm.
Faruq is sitting with his hand tied to the chair while staring at him. Sweats are
dropping on the floor drop by drop from his body. The man in black removes his
mask and a creepy evil smile, that doesn't reach his eyes, is making the atmosphere
creepier with different layers of fears.
Faruq doesn't even look at him, thinking of something else without giving a single
fuck about his own situation.
The man smirks at Faruq, puts a bottle of water in front of him and says,
"Nice to meet you, Dear Mr. Faruq.
I'm the SPECIAL SECURITY SQUAD Leader,
They call me— 'The Leech',
And you can also call me that— I don't mind."
Faruq doesn't care slightly, just staring at his own feet silently, his face is also looking
gloomy. Sweats are climbing down his pale face and dropping on the floor, drop by
drop with trace.
The Leech says in a calm voice,
"Look at me~"
But Faruq is still in silence, just staring at his sweats on the floor, with no reaction of
violence.
He looks like a lifeless doll, frozen in time with no goals.
The Leech furiously bangs on the table, and the bottle falls on the table.Then says in
a soft but intimidating voice,
"Hey— you know— I'm talking to you, so look at me!"
Faruq looks at him, for the first time in this creepy room and smirks.
Then he leans towards The Leech and moves his head in a way as if he is signaling
The Leech to get closer to hear something that he is going to say. The Leech comes
closer with a creepy smile and says,
"What do you want to say?"
As he was getting closer, Faruq spits on his face and starts laughing with pleasure by
showing all of his teeth.
Then Faruq says in a sarcastic tone,
"The Leech? My ass!
Go brush your teeth, they smell disgusting.
My balls smell better than your breath!"
The Leech starts wiping his face with a handkerchief, his face looks furious.
His mouth is shut. Eyes are wide open as if they would eat Faruq alive if they get
the chance.
Then Faruq sarcastically laughs out loud and says,
"You know— Leeches can suck really well,
I got a bum on my ass, can you suck it out for me.
It really hurts.
But don't worry I won't fart!"
Then The Leech after finishing wiping his face, gets up and walks towards Faruq
with a scary face and creepy eyes full of revenge.
Faruq glares at him from top to bottom as he is getting closer. Then in an apologetic
way- he says,
"Wow, you look scary, man!
I'm sorry, I really am.
Forgive me this one time.
And can you please help me to drink some water?
I'm really thirsty, man.
If you can't, then untie me, I'll help myself~"
After hearing that, The Leech takes the bottle from the top of the table, but still
staring at Faruq with a creepy look. He opens the bottle, puts and holds the bottle on
Faruq's lips.
Faruq takes some water in his mouth, but instead of drinking, he spits out the water
at The Leech's face and starts laughing again.
The Leech grabs Faruq's throat angrily, but Faruq keeps on laughing in a sarcastic
way endlessly.
The Leech then presses Faruq's throat harder and says with a voice more colder,
"I would have already sucked up all your blood out of your body,
if I wasn't told not to hurt you as you are a special sheep-
But there's a limit for everything you know."
Faruq smirks like he doesn't care about any affairs. Then he mockingly shares some
words with hidden layers,
"Look at my hand, I got something for you."
The Leech peeks at Faruq's hand behind the chair while holding his throat and sees
that Faruq is wiggling the middle finger at him. Instantly, The Leech gets annoyed
and looks back at him. Faruq spits again, smirks and says in a provoking tone,
"Pussy~"
The Leech now gets really mad, he pulls out a small knife from his pocket's end, and
shoves it into Faruq's left thigh with pure strength. Blood starts dropping on the floor
slowly, and mixing with his sweats violently to create a new fragrance carefully.
The Leech smiles creepily and says,
"Got the order not to damage your face,
But I can fuck up your body right?"
Faruq doesn't flinch at all. With a straight face, he replies in a cold voice,
"You can cut me alive into pieces,
mix salts with my flesh to feed to your dogs a tasty meal,
before you can dig out any information about Amir from me!"
The Leech gives an evil creepy smile and says,
"Ow really?!
Maybe you don't know yet,
Your dearest nearest friend- Amir is already in our hands.
If you piss me off one more time,
the next thing you will be sitting on-
is your friend Amir's corpse."
Faruq's smile fades away and his face gets serious.
The Leech smiles with pleasure in his eyes and says,
"This is exactly the face I wanted to see,
a serious face for a serious conversation!!!"
Faruq glares angrily at The Leech's wicked smile, with a serious tone he says-
"You think— I will trust you.
You got Amir? Huh— Don't make me laugh."
Suddenly a loud demonic laugh from another room shocks and freezes both of them.
-A laugh that even the Devil himself would be afraid of-
-A laugh which shivers and pierces through their vessels of blood and goes right into
their bones veins-
The Leech gets shocked and looks around thinking someone else is there in the
room.
The laugh stops. Faruq takes a deep breath with pleasure, smirks and says,
"Well now I trust you, That's Amir for sure!"
The Leech gulps in fear with his dry throat. Then with a cracked voice he replies,
"That creepy laugh was his?"
Faruq stares at him and nods his head with a smirk.
The Leech with a nervous voice says,
"Well, that laugh didn't last long though,
I'm getting worried for no reason"
Faruq keeps on grinning and with a taunting tone he says,
"You sure?
I would be really worried if I were you.
Specially after hearing that laugh~"
The Leech scratches his own head and says with a cold tone,
"Normally I would be,
But he is with 'The Tick', so no worries"
Faruq keeps on staring at him with words hidden behind his eyes.
The Leech pulls out a small clock from his pocket, and puts it in front of Faruq.
The time on the clock is 09:15 PM. Then he says sarcastically,
"It's all thanks to you that he is in our custody now,
And ofcourse he's getting all the torture for you.
We also got an order from the boss that-
if you - don't tell us - anything,
before the clock - hits 12:00 AM,
we will - surely - kill him."
Faruq's eyes are slowly filling with wrath from breath, but still keeping a straight face
with a hidden pace to play chess. Then The Leech points at the clock and says,
"You got less than three hours, don't fuck it up"
Faruq looks up at the yellow flickering bulb, takes a deep breath from the inner hub.
Then looks back at The Leech and says in a sharp tone with ease,
"What you want to know?"
The Leech giving a creepy smile brings out a recorder and places it on the middle
of the table and turns it on.
Then The Leech clears his throat and starts speaking like a news reporter,
"Thank you Faruq for your help to catch the worst serial killer Amir,
who has killed over 180 people in a brutal way in the last 13 months"
Faruq looks up sadly, suddenly tears are falling from his eyes slowly, he replies,
"No! He is Not!"
The Leech leans forward, stares right into Faruq's soul through his eyes and says
with a confidence,
"We got all the proofs against him,
so there's no point in covering up for him"
Faruq's eyes are filled with rage like an animal who just lost his prey.
(Scene 04)
-AT THE SAME TIME IN ANOTHER ROOM-
(Beginning of Torture)
Date: 17th June, 2027
Location: Torture Room
Time: 09:13 PM
(Torture Part I)
The smell of dried blood and rusty metals fills the small hidden room with no
windows. The air feels heavy as if it has seen and heard countless people's dying
voice begging for some mercy and help.
Rats are running in the corners and licking dried blood and small pieces of bones
from the messy floor. Ants are hovering here and there making new homes,
surrounding rotten small pieces of fleshes with no souls.
A box filled with various rusty tools for torturing such as— knives, scissors,
hammers, saws, razors– etc are on the top of a table at the corner. Bottles labelled as
ACID, POISON, GLUE, SPICES, PATROL are beside the box.
In the middle of the room, Amir's hands and feet are tied with a rope hanging from
the ceiling. He is half-naked, wearing just a black trouser. Someone is beating him
with a thick iron rod which was rusting. Then he stops and starts breathing heavily to
recover some energy. Amir opens his eyes, smirks and asks with a sarcastic low voice,
"Out of breath already? Tall~muscular~milk, The Mighty Tick~~"
The Tick grabs Amir's hair, pulls him closer and angrily whispers into his right ear,
"You think you are a big deal after killing over 180 people?"
Then he pulls Amir's hair harder and whispers into his left ear,
"You first raped them before killing,
Then drained out all their blood,
cut some of them to pieces,
mixed them with salt to feed the animals,
Left just their head with a deep scar on their faces-
according to their races!!!"
Amir is silent but his eyes are locked at The Tick. Then The Tick kisses on Amir's
forehead and says with a creepy smile,
"That's a child's play to me and-
you know, I'm gonna do worse than that to you—"
Amir smiles and asks him with a soft voice,
"How do you know about the salt?"
The Tick's eyes changed from creepy to shocked. He moves his hand from Amir's
hair. Then grabs Amir's cheek, presses hard and pulls closer to his face. He glares
at Amir's eyes and says with a smirk,
"A monster is trying to act smart, huh?"
Amir grins and spits on his face and says,
"Whom— you calling a monster?
I'm just a human being, but not insane like you guys."
The Tick gets angry and keeps punching on Amir's face several times and yells,
"Where have you hidden the blueprints?"
Then The Tick stops punching , grabs Amir's hair and aggressively says, "Tell me!!!"
Out of nowhere, a sound freezes The Tick.
A sound that shivers the bones from the core,
A sound that stops the heart from beating,
A laughing sound that takes away the air from your lungs.
A laughing sound that the devil himself runs away from.
It's Amir— who's laughing. The Tick lets go of his hair out of fear, and takes a few
steps back.
"What's going on here?" A question from his soul that's blurring his thinking,
as much as that he forgets what he was doing. Just staring at Amir's face with
wonders in his eyes.
"Is this even a human? Can a human laugh like this?" The Tick just stands still.
No words are coming out of his mouth as his mind can't find any words to explain.
A soft but deep voice whispers to him,
"The Blueprints? Ow, that's easy, Look at my hands~"
The Tick looks up at the ceiling where Amir's hands are tied and sees— Amir is
wiggling both of his middle fingers. The Tick smiles with fear and says,
"You are making fun of me right?
Let me teach you about fear—"
Then he walks up to the box of tools on the table and pulls out a knife. The knife is
rusty but sharp on its edges. Seeing that— Amir says,
"I was kidding man.
Don't take it– that seriously,
You don't have to bring out those,
I will tell you!"
The Tick walks up to him with a smirking face and says,
"Now you are taking this seriously.
Humans are fragile when they face fear!!!"
Then he pokes Amir's throat with the tip of the rusty knife and asks,
"So tell me, where are the blueprints?"
Amir with a serious face replies,
"I don't like talking with others,
Because it makes them closer to me,
Then it becomes hard for me to kill them!"
The Ticks glares and says,
"You think I'm here to joke with you?"
Amir stares and says with a smile,
"Inside a luggage with password–"
The Tick now presses the knife against his throat a little bit deeper and asks again,
"Where's the luggage and what's the password?"
Amir coughs with a smirk— Then says,
"It's a poem of two lines— hard to understand and remember!"
The Tick gives a devilish smile and says,
"Tell me the poem!"
Amir stares at him and says with a serious tone,
"Can you really understand the poem?"
The Tick gets angry and says,
"Don't test me one more time!"
Amir chuckles and says,
"The poem is-"
The Tick is listening carefully with all his attention.
Amir with a serious face says,
"The poem is-
The Tick got Sick,
After losing his Dick"
Saying that Amir burst out laughing.
The Tick gets furious and slices the rope that was holding Amir on the ceiling. Amir
falls on the floor, sits on his feet and looks at The Tick. The Tick throws the knife
away and with a cold voice he says,
"Don't run away, you piece of worm!!!"
Amir smirks, looks at his eyes and says calmly,
"What makes you think— that — I will run away— from the likes of you?"
Then The Tick looks at his watch and says,
"It's 09:19pm, So I have got two and half hour more to torture you–"
Amir looks into his eyes and says with a smile just like a curious kid,
"So, what's next?"
The Tick get closer towards him and whispers in a chilling voice,
" Can you handle it?"
Amir looks at him, smirks, spits at his face and says with a softly,
"Try me, Tick the Dick–"
The Tick wipes off his face and stares at Amir angrily. Then he starts punching and
kicking Amir, while Amir is laughing like a kid who's having fun. The air in the room
is getting heavier and colder with every punch and kick. Amir falls on the floor while
smiling, but The Tick is still kicking.
After Amir falls, The Tick starts kicking his head with every bit of strength he has.
But the laughing sound of Amir is making him dizzy, sweats have started dripping
from his body. However there's no change in Amir, his face and body are still the
same as it was before.
On the other hand, The Tick is getting exhausted. He has now started breathing
heavily. But he doesn't stop beating, he starts kicking Amir's stomach and face. The
room which was used to hear people's desperate screams, is now getting filled with
the laughing sound of a monster.
(Scene 05)
Date: 17th June, 2027
Location: Interrogation Room
Time: 09:18 PM
-Back in the Interrogation Room-
(Interrogation Part II)
Light is flickering.
Faruq is sitting with an angry face like a wild animal, staring at The Leech.
The tap recorder is recording.
The Leech smirks and asks,
"Our report says, you and the serial killer Amir were childhood friends"
Faruq angrily replies,
"Don't call him that!!!"
The Leech gazes at Faruq and says,
"So, since when have you known the serial killer?"
Faruq is silent and without blinking, staring at The Leech with anger, breathing
heavily.
The Leech grins and asks him again,
"So from when you have known Amir?"
Faruq makes a deep sigh and replies softly,
"Since we were 10–"
The Leech leans forward and asks him,
"So for 15 years!
Now tell me,
did he start committing all these crimes since childhood?"
Faruq also leans forward, locks his eyes with him and says coldly,
"He didn't– commit– any– FUCKING CRIMES!!!"
The Leech now burst out laughing. Then he pauses the tap recorder, gets up from the
chair, walks behind Faruq and stops, then puts one arm around Faruq's neck then
slides to shoulders, and whispers with a confident voice,
"LEECHES RUN CLASSES. Hahahah.
And- Please–Don't be afraid of Amir,
He is in our custody,
So, he can't harm you anymore."
Faruq is silent, staring at the tap recorder with a sad face.
The Leech smiles and whispers in a manipulative voice,
"Don't worry,
All your rewards are ready as promised,
just tell me the truth!"
Faruq looks up at the ceiling, smirks and says with a cracked voice,
"As promised, you sure?
Tell me how much?
Let me see if you really know–"
An evil smile rises on The Leech's face as he can't hide his motive from his face.
He grins and says excitedly while raising his hands in the air,
"Too much!!!
Enough for your six generations—
to surf and dive into the tides of luxury."
Faruq stares at The Leech and says,
"Not enough!!!"
The Leech smirks and says,
"How about two billions?"
Faruq laughs a little bit and says,
"Don't be cheap?"
The Leech grins and says,
"Cheap? We don't need money to save.
If we need them, we print them, Just name your price"
Faruq smiles and says,
"TEN-BILLIONS!!!"
The Leech smirks and says,
"Let's do FIFTY-BOLLIONS!!!
We are generous for allies you know—"
Faruq laughs and says sarcastically,
"I can see that—"
The Leech says,
"The money will be here before 12 AM,
sounds good?"
Faruq smirks and nods.
The Leech then goes back to his chair, sits and turns on the tap recorder and smiles
at Faruq. Faruq also smiles back at him.
The air of the room feels lighter than before, as if, there are no more enemies, just
two human beings with the same goal talking with each other.
The recorder is recording every word that Faruq has started saying with a smirk on
his face while leaning his back on the chair.
The smells of dried blood on the floor are listening as they are already used to hear
the words and smiles of thousands more betrayers.
Cause in this twisted world,
"When Money calls,
Betrayer talks from folds"
(Scene 06)
(Faruq's Testimony)
-Few Weeks ago-
—12 DAYS left till Faruq's Birthday—
Date: 6th June, 2027
Location: A bridge over a river
Time: 12:30 AM
Rain's falling heavily as if it's trying to wash away all the pain from Faruq's weak-
numb soul.
Wind's roaring like a beast as if it's crying for Faruq's unbearable pain. The moon
hides behind the clouds filled with Faruq's agony.
Thunders are screaming like they are complaining to The Lord on behalf of Faruq's
wrath.
The smell of death is slowly but surely approaching Faruq, waiting to wrap his lost
soul once it leaves the weak mortal body.
Faruq is standing at the corner of the bridge, thinking of jumping on the river to end
his life. His eyes look like dead fish with no hope for life.
He is standing still like a lifeless doll wishing for someone to push from his back to
take the final leap of his life.
His mind keeps remembering how helpless he was when his step father closed the
door on his face saying,
"Never ever set foot on this home again!!!"
He looks at the sky and laughs helplessly. He doesn't know if he is crying or not
because of the raindrops, but some drops taste saltier than the rest. He takes a deep
breath and is about to jump, but a sudden thunderstorm reminds and echoes a few
words of his friend Amir to his mind-
"Come to me if you got no place to go–"
Faruq smiles and says to himself,
"I have no place to go— Just like Amir said!"
He gets off the corner, wipes his face and starts walking within the cold wind and
pleasing drops of rain in search of new hope.