For Better And For Worse
Chapter 111

Krist’s home.

This morning, Stella calls Yves!

Yves: yes Stella!

Stella: hello Yves, how are you?

Yves: I’m fine Stella, and you?

Stella: I’m fine, thank you. Can you come to my house now, please?

Yves: I would have liked to but I can’t. I’m going to my internship.

Stella: ah, are you doing an internship then?

Yves: yes.

Stella: and what time do you finish?

Yves: 12:30 p.m.

Stella: can you come by at this time?

Yves: ok, no problem.

Stella: thank you, have a good day.

Yves: the same to you.

She hangs up.

Stella: he’s on training, he finishes at noon and he’ll be there.

Krist: Okay. In the meantime, I’m going to go out for a walk.

Stella: I’m going to my internship.

They have breakfast and she leaves. Krist stays for a moment before going out.

Claire’s home.

This morning, Claire wakes up Séverin and asks him for explanations.

Claire: darling, can you tell me what happened to you yesterday?

Séverin: Krist’s ghost took me away.

Claire: what, are you delusional or something, ghosts can’t touch a solid body?

Séverin: I’m telling you the truth. He took me to the cemetery and he disappeared.

Claire: why would he bring you there?

Krist: He demanded that I release his wife because his soul cannot replace peace.

Claire: That’s what I’ve been telling you to do for a long time. Aren’t you going to work today?

Séverin: no, I will take care of this matter. I have to shower.

He showers and goes home to change before going to his lawyer’s office.

Renaissance hospital.

Madame Clémence receives a call from the modern laboratory doctor and she goes there to get the results of her husband’s tests. She later brings them to the doctor at the renaissance hospital.

Clémence: doctor, here are the results of the exams.

Doctor: I see, the illness is still in its early stages, your husband has a good chance of recovering.

Clémence: that’s all I hope for, doctor.

Doctor: The treatment is very expensive.

Clémence: it doesn’t matter, doctor, I just want my husband to get healthy again.

Doctor: very good, we can start treatment with chemotherapy.

Clémence joins her husband while the doctors prepare a room and the necessary machines.

Clémence: darling, the doctor says that your illness is still at the beginning so you have a good chance of getting through it.

Roger: Glad to hear that.

Clémence: I don’t want to lose you.

Roger: don’t worry, it’ll be fine. It’s been three days since you left for work.

Clémence: don’t worry, I took some time off. What is work compared to my husband’s health?

Roger: how much can the treatment cost?

Clémence: the doctor said it’s very expensive.

Roger: I’m almost out of money.

Clémence: don’t worry darling, just fight the illness psychologically, and I’ll take care of everything.

Roger: I am very lucky to have you as my wife.

Clémence: in the best or the worst, I will be there my love.

The doctor arrives.

Doctor: ma’am, we need to bring him in now.

Clemence: okay.

The doctor and his nurses bring him in to undergo treatment. Patient clemency.

Master Luc’s office.

Séverin goes to his lawyer’s office.

Séverin: hello master.

Luc: hello Mr. Séverin. Take place !

Séverin: thank you master. We need to speed things up. The divorce must be finalized today.

Luc: I was actually going to call you today. The judge wants to hear from both of you today at 10 a.m.

Séverin: excellent, I’ll get her so we can go there.

Luc: I’ll meet you there!

He returns home.

Leon’s home.

This morning, the two men that Corneille had hired go to the address he gave them to do spying before the operation. They approach the commander’s house and he takes out the trash. Seeing him, they turn away from their objective but the commander feels that these people are suspicious so he puts his trash in the trash bin and continues his way towards the guys who change direction. One saw him and noticed that it was Commander Léon.

Roc: Damn dude, the guy sent us into the den of the wolf. It’s Commander Léon.

Rom: We’ll let it go. Let’s run away!

They begin to flee and the commander begins to pursue them. They separate and he pursues one of them, leaving the other. He finally catches up with him and points his gun at him.

Léon: what are you looking for in me?

Rom: Nothing, I was just passing by.

Léon: I am a commander and an investigator, I know how to recognize someone suspicious. Speak !

Rom: I’ll explain everything to you. Someone gave us money to kidnap your family.

Leon: who?

Rom: I don’t know him.

Léon shows him a photo of Corneille in his phone?

Léon: is this the man?

Rom: Yes, it’s him.

Leon: what did he tell you to do?

Rom: We must kidnap your family and bring them to the abandoned slaughterhouse.

Leon: next?

Rom: We need to call him to inform him and he will give us further instructions.

Leon: very good. I have an idea. Here, call your friend and tell him to come help us arrest this man and you will be free, otherwise he will go to prison when I arrest him.

He picks up the phone and calls his friend who agrees to come back too. The commander brings them back and puts them in his car then takes them to the anti-drug squad.

On the way.

Krist parks his motorbike and decides to go and buy some appetizers to eat and he sees a headline on the front page of a newspaper: DIRECTOR OF KOMER PRISON ARRESTED. Amazing ! He buys the newspaper and reads. He decides to go to the anti-drug squad for more information.

Séverin’s home.

Séverin returns and tells his wife to prepare to go to court. Isabelle therefore prepares herself quite quickly and he takes her in his car to go to justice.

Anti-drug squad.

Commander Léon brings Rom and Roc to the brigade. He hands them over to an agent who locks them up. Boris joins him to chat.

Boris: who is it?

Léon: guys that Corneille hired to kidnap my family.

Boris: he never lets that one go!

Léon: no, but this time, it will definitely be over for him.

Clemence: okay.

The doctor and his nurses bring him in to undergo treatment. Patient clemency.

Boris: what are you going to do?

Léon: he told these men to take my family to the old slaughterhouse. We’re going to use this to nail him once and for all.

Boris: excellent, that’s a good plan.

Justice.

Séverin and Isabelle replace themselves before the judge this morning. Master Luc was there too.

Judge: Mr. Séverin, you filed for divorce between you and your wife who were married only three months and a few weeks ago, why?

Séverin: that doesn’t fit in the household, Mr. Judge. Once we got married, I realized that my wife doesn’t love me at all. She hasn’t fulfilled any of her marital duties and obligations, I’m really tired of living under the same roof with a stranger who doesn’t make me food and who refuses to make love with me.

Isabelle: sir, I judge, this man spends every night in the arms of another woman with whom he is expecting a baby, I cannot bear this infidelity and this adultery so please pronounce this divorce so that we can put an end to it .

Judge: So you are categorically opposed to an attempt at reconciliation?

Séverin/Isabelle: with all our strength!

Judge: very good, in this case, I no longer see any reason to continue the procedure. The divorce will be finalized tomorrow at the same time.

Séverin: why not judge now?

Judge: the divorce must be pronounced in public, not behind closed doors!

Séverin therefore brings Isabelle home. She calls Stella to inform her.

Anti-drug squad.

Léon and Boris were still talking when Krist arrived at the brigade and went inside. Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at him in amazement. Commander Léon didn’t understand anything.

Léon: why does everyone stay frozen, who is it?

Boris: this is Mr. Kristian, previously deceased.

Léon: deceased like…

Boris: yes, dead and buried.

Léon: so how come he’s here?

Boris: Excellent question!

Krist gets to the commanders!

Krist: Hello Commander!

Boris: It’s impossible!

Krist: What’s impossible?

Boris: it’s impossible that you’re here, are you dead?

Krist: ah commander, you disappoint me a lot for a commander. You buried a charred body, what proved it was me? Hello Sir.

Leon: hello.

Boris: how come you are alive?

Krist: Ask the prison director, he will be able to explain it to you very well. He is Gauthier’s collaborator in the prison.

Léon: so he lied to us.

Krist: But of course, lying is what criminals do best. Let me talk to him for a moment.

Boris: OK.

Krist: are there cameras and microphones in the room?

Boris: Yes.

Krist: Great, so you can listen to our reunion conversation.

Boris: follow me!

He takes him to the interrogation room. Krist stays at the wall near the door and an agent brings Hector. Boris brings him in, so Krist is behind him. He and Léon join the technique to see and listen.

Krist: hello Mr. Director, surprise!

Hector turns around and gets scared.