Chapter 30: A Surprising Alliance

 Ray looked at Loki as he was finishing up with the press conference. He thought of the best way to tell one of the most influential leaders on the globe that they just got threatened to either fuck off or have hell served to them on a silver platter. When Loki was leaving the stage he noticed the stare from Ray and knew that something was up. Ray ordered to have the president to be moved from those premises through the underground parking. He'd rather risk a full on assault to the president rather than have Loki in a chopper,a much more risky situation.

"What's wrong?" Loki asked

"New development, and it isn't good news. I'll update you as soon as you are safely out of here." Ray answered

The president was taken from that floor and under high security presence who were on the alert after being told that there was a potential threat situation. Once in the presidential car,Loki stared into Ray's eyes looking for answers.

"No need to look at me like I ate your last piece of cookie. I received a call and it was really disturbing. More of a threat" Ray said

"A threat?" Loki asked

"Yes, a threat. I have reason to believe that I was personally called by the Russian roulette" Ray replied

"Roul... Did you just say Russian roulette???" Loki asked out of shock

"Yes, or so I think" Ray answered

"What did he say?" Loki asked

"Well, apart from giving me a brief trailer on a hundred ways of killing the president" Ray replied

"He threatened me?" The president of Panem? How dare he?" Loki asked again

"It's not about who we are to him. He doesn't care our social status. This guy is even ready to go after our families." Ray told him

"And how are we supposed to know that these aren't just cold threats..."

"That's because immediately after he ended the call he sent me a message" Ray said

"Let me see it" Loki said as he stretched out his hand for the phone which Ray handed to him. After going through the message a few times he realized what he was looking at

"Ray, why am I looking at IP addresses of my private house and your house?" Loki asked as he looked at them over and over worriedly

"Exactly, does that look like a bluff to you? This is not an ameteur we're dealing with. So for now my best advice, keep of from this guy until we have better info about who he his and if he is alone." Ray said

"If you say so, but get your best men on this one. No one gets to threaten me or my family and still get to walk free. I'm giving you a week" Loki told Ray

"Or what?" Ray asked

"Or I'd get my person squad of special ops sweep this city until I get my hands on that roach" Loki said

"Don't underestimate him. He obviously has a motive, and currently we are the people who are just got in his way and so he had to deal with us" Ray advised Loki

"You are saying we're mere pawns in his game of chess. What an understatement to use on a president" Loki said as he sat back giving Ray his phone

"I'm not going to take any such chance yet, not till I know who we're up against" Ray said

Meanwhile in Jason and Athena's office there was a knock on the door. And in walked two men who had slightly similar resemblance to each other. They walked to Jason's desk and took a seat. When Jason raised his eyes and saw them, he immediately recognized who they were. It was the Krovacic brothers.

"Hello, what can I do for you?" Jason asked

" We're here to inform you that the case set for next week has a fixed date. It's on a Friday. Don't forget that." Mikhail said

"Let me just mark it here" Jason said as he marked his calendar. As he did this his eyes slowly went to the brothers who were still seated and looked so damn serious. He leaned back and looked at both of them directly,

"My best guess is that you are not just here to remind me of a hearing a week from today. So what are you really here for?" He asked

"You're right. We're here about your former partner back in Europe." Djokovic said

Immediately Jason's nightmare came back to him in a flash and he was seeing it again but now in midday. He kept his cool.

"What about him?" Jason asked

"It's our reason to believe that you know our relation to him" Mikhail told him

"Yes I did. I ask again, what about him?" Jason asked again

Djokovic looked at Mikhail, who then looked at Jason

"I don't see any reason why we need to beat around the bush anymore, what happened to our dad?" Mikhail asked

"It was an accident" Jason answered as he tried to avoid anymore questions

"An accident? That's what the police said, that's what the postmortem said, that's what everyone said. But you know whatever happened to our old man was no accident. You know that exactly happened but you're not telling us." Djokovic said

"So Mr Ghost, why are you here in Sin City?" Mikhail asked

"I'm just here for work" Jason answered

" No you're not!!!" Djokovic shouted as he slammed the table." What the hell happened to our dad and what in the hell are you doing here and don't feed us some bullshit excuse because we can read through your lies"

"You really want to know what happened??? You really want to know why I'm here. Well he's a brief summary since I know that you won't go commando about what I tell you. Your dad, my partner, was one of the closest people that I had. And then one day, some guy decides to fuck me up, takes your dad and uses him as leverage. But even after I did as he said, he ended up killing him, in cold blood. And there was nothing I could do about it. So everyday that I went to his burial site and look at his tombstone,Yuri Krovacic, edged on it. So I made a vow to look through every crack and every hole till I find the man who did it, and that's what brought me to Sin City. Your dad's killer is here, hiding but not for long." Jason said

"Why was he killed?" Mikhail asked

"Not now" Jason answered

"Why wasn't it you then?" Mikhail asked

"Not now" Jason replied again, this seemed to get under Djokovic's skin but Jason didn't care

"Then, who killed him???" Mikhail asked now shouting

"Not now" Jason said once more, he too getting tired of the questions

"You better tell us why and who killed our father or else...!!!!!" Djokovic snapped as he rose to his feet but unexpectedly Jason to rose with him and stared at him dead in the eye and gave him one of the coldest stares Djokovic has ever seen,

"OR ELSE WHAT?!!! HUH!!! OR ELSE WHAT? YOU'RE GONNA BEAT ME UP TILL I TELL YOU WHAT I KNOW? I DARE YOU BECAUSE I BET YOUR SORRY ASS THAT I CAN TAKE BOTH OF YOU OUT WITHOUT BREAKING A SWEAT!!!!! So here's what you're both going to do, you are going to help me on the Slayer's case and then, only then will you have any answers that you are looking for. If I so get a whiff of that you know outside these office walls, the deal is off. If you try to do any PI (private investigation) shit, the deal is off. And lastly, if I ask you to do something for me and you do otherwise, the deal is fucking off" Jason said as had also reached his snapping point.

"So here's the first thing that I need from you. I need you to get out of my office and get back to work because this case is not going to solve itself" Jason said as he escorted them out.