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“What about the reason you were at the bar to begin with?”
He shrugged. “It didn’t matter anymore. I was married. My only thought was bringing her home with me.”
I snorted at the word married. “You had no formal paperwork. It’s not even legal.”
“When you’re in love, none of that matters. We’re wed in our hearts.”
I really couldn’t take much more of this crap. “The stake, FNG. Tell us about the stake.”
“It was…” He cleared his throat, glancing away uncomfortably. “It was a fence.”
“A fence,” I repeated.
“Yeah, we were just across the border and I wanted to impress the lady by jumping a wooden fence. But…it was rotted and when I jumped…it cracked and I impaled myself.”
Out of all the stories he came up with, that was actually the most believable. “Well, I can see these stories are really helping us with our current problems. In fact, I feel so good about this, I think we can make an arrest.”
“We’re not cops,” FNG answered.
“No shit! I was being sarcastic.”
“You know, I think you would greatly benefit from some meditation.”
I glared at FNG, turning back to IRIS before I blew a gasket. There was a time that I thought IRIS was the biggest pain in my ass. Now, he looked like the normal one.
“Where’s the other suspect being held?”
“The basement.”
“Good, let’s go question him.”
“What about me?” FNG asked.
“You stay with this guy.”
I walked away without another word. The last thing I needed was another story that FNG would undoubtedly tell that would get us nowhere.
“Do you think he was telling the truth?” IRIS asked.
“About which part?”
“Any of it.”
“I feel like maybe there are kernels of truth in his stories, but I can’t believe any of it. And where does that leave us? How do we move forward with him on the teams when we can’t trust him?”
“Maybe he’s telling the truth about the classified parts.”
“So, he just made up a bunch of stories to cover for what really happened?”
“He’s done crazier shit than that,” IRIS chuckled. “Hell, Fox has done crazier shit.”
“If Fox had told those stories, I might actually believe them.”
IRIS stopped, grabbing my arm lightly. “Hold on a minute. This is FNG. He’s the epitome of an unconventional employee, and that’s coming from the man that loves to blow shit up. Isn’t it possible that some of this actually happened?”
The more I thought about it, the less I believed any of it was real. “Let’s just talk to this guy and figure out what’s really going on.”
As soon as we got to the basement level, I switched to interrogation mode. I was done with the wild tales and the drawn out stories that got me nowhere. Right now, I just wanted answers.
