Snippet #1683147

The small antique chime clock resting peacefully upon the shelf just behind him broke the silence of the coming midnight hour, a moment of time that has seen Scott awake here lately. The brown folder fell to the desktop gently as tired hands released it and move up and rubbed over a set of bloodshot eyes. A soft sigh escaped over his parching lips. It’s been several years now that the case of he Black Rose has ended, but still to this day it haunts him. There was something he was missing, something that was just slightly beyond his sight. Leaning back into the soft support of his office chair, he allowed his gaze to fall into darkness as he slowly closed his eyes.

“Why Scott? Why do you do this? There is nothing different, it’s all the same.” his mind stating the facts, but his inner voice being the devils advocate continued to snap at his heels telling him that he was missing something, something small that would lead him somewhere on this unsolved case, a case that he has been working on unofficially since it was pushed to the side, and in that fact itself was bothering him, how easily the upper brass dismissed it. “Why? Why was the upper brass so fast putting this case on the back burner?” His fingers tapping the folder as his mind raced with the possibilities, in which was more numerous than he really wanted to dive into at this moment of time.

Scott slowly opened his eyes and took a gaze about his office before looking back down at the folder, the words classified and still active stamped upon it. “Still active.” This statement brought a tired chuckle out of him. He wished they would give him the resources to continue to investigate this case, but as the brass pointed out there was no more leads at this time and the cost in man-power couldn’t be explained rationally. A few more taps upon the folder followed by a tired sigh, Scott placed the folder back into the safe. “Another time.” he whispered as he closed the door and spun the knob. With that he rose, grabbed his briefcase, picked up his trench coat from the chair and moved to the door as another day at the office came to an end…