Remember Me 2

by Ian C. P. Irvine

  Hamish pressed the red button gently with his thumb.

  Chapter 57

  Wednesday Evening

  The Scottish Parliament

  Dining Hall

  Edinburgh 19.00

  By the time Stuart arrived, the reception was already underway.

  As soon as the CRFT had released him he’d been bundled into a police car and driven down to the Scottish Parliament buildings beside Holyrood Palace.

  His own car had been destroyed in the explosion which he too had almost been killed in.

  Apparently, just a minute later, and he would have been toast. Or at least, little pieces of toast. Charred and black.

  A terrorist had blown himself up, only metres in front of his car.

  Wrong time, wrong place.

  The universe was obviously punishing him for telling lies.

  He’d tried several times to reach Marie, but she wasn’t picking up.

  Stuart was going to tell her the truth.

  She was either fed up of him and his excuses, or was already busy chin-wagging with the First Minister of Scotland.

  He managed to make it through to his personal assistant and told her he was on his way, and she in turn had informed him, that the situation was now even worse than before.

  The Queen had decided to stay another night. She would now be in the Dining Hall with the First Minister.

  Both of whom knew him by his first name.

  He’d arrived at the Parliament building at 7.15 p.m. Fashionably late and slightly char-grilled.

  As he’d walked into the Dining Hall, all eyes had turned to him.

  “I’m so sorry.” He’d announced, hurrying across to the table at which six places were set. The Queen. The Duke of Edinburgh. The First Minister of Scotland and her husband. Marie McDonald, and an empty space for himself.

  The look of relief on Marie’s face as she glanced over her shoulder and saw him arrive, was incredible.

  Her face lit up. Her eyes sparkled. She smiled.

  And then it happened.

  The Queen coughed. Marie looked back at her. The Queen smiled and sort of waved and said, “Hello Stuart, did you forget your watch tonight, you naughty boy? You’re late!”

  Followed quickly by a laughing First Minister.

  “Stuart, we’ve been hearing all about you. Apparently you’re going to live in Poland for a while?”

  Stuart Nisbet stopped in his tracks, bowed slightly to the Queen and turned red in the face.

  Almost ignoring the First Minister he turned back towards Marie McDonald, whose face was now as white as a sheet.

  “I guess, I’ve got a lot of explaining to do.” He said, sheepishly.

  “Don’t you worry,” the Queen said. “The Minister and I shall just talk amongst ourselves for a moment. We’ll give you the opportunity to explain to this beautiful young lady, just who you really are! But make it quick, the soup’s going cold!”

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  Thursday

  The Old Portobello High School

  17.00

  DCI Campbell McKenzie, his wife and her large Little Bump stood outside the portacabin, looking over and up at the towering blue hulk of the Old Portobello High School.

  All the roads had been closed off and all the necessary diversions were in place.

  The crowds of onlookers were smaller this time around, since very little notice had been given about the impending demolition of the school.

  McKenzie was determined that it should happen today.

  Hamish Hamilton was dead. He’d committed suicide and evaded capture and they would probably never know the true nature of the relationship between Hamilton and Maggie Sutherland.

  But did it matter?

  Perhaps it did, but that could wait until another day.

  For now, McKenzie wanted to fulfil a promise he’d given to Gary Bruce. That they’d let him finish the job he’d started the week before, and help him to do it before he too became a permanent victim of a case that had already claimed five lives, including the murderer himself.

  In a few hours, press releases would be given out to announce the deaths of David Weir, Ronald Blake, Mark McRae, Daniel Gray and Hamish Hamilton. No mention would be made of Maggie Sutherland. Or the book ‘Remember Me?’, the reason they had all been killed, or the injustice that may or may not have been done to Maggie Sutherland. That part was DCI Wilkinson’s decision.

  Everyone involved in the case was now dead. There could be no benefit in dragging up a past that could only remain in the past if there was no way to shed any further light on it.

  Everyone had agreed that before the announcements went out, the Old School should also be allowed to die a dignified death, without becoming a mecca for tourism for sick individuals who thrived on the suffering of others.

  Portobello High School was, for the majority of pupils who attended it, a wonderful, much-loved home for over six years of school life.

  It had shaped lives, created lives, and fostered and nurtured dreams that had lasted whole-lifetimes.

  The building was loved by tens of thousands, and would be remembered warmly by all those who had once walked and been educated within its beloved walls.

  Portobello High School had been the centre of a warm community. And now it was time to lay it to rest.

  Gary Bruce stepped forward, his final checks now complete.

  He nodded to Fiona McKenzie, and held out his hand, gesturing at the big red button on the desk in front of her.

  “It was your school. It’s time to say goodbye.”

  Fiona turned, and looked around at the team of people present that had saved her life, and the life of Little Bump.

  Sergeant Anderson, DI Dean, DS McLeish, DS Wishart, PC Lynch, DI Brown, Sergeant Galbraith, DI Mather, and her husband.

  Smiling at them all, she looked back for one last time at the towering eight floors of the school that had once been such an important part of her life, and then she pressed the button in front of her.

  Just then she felt Little Bump kick. Fiona laughed and grabbed her husband’s hand, pulling it towards her and letting him stroke their ‘Bump’.

  DCI Campbell McKenzie smiled, and kissed his wife on her forehead.

  There were tears in his eyes.

  A moment later, when they both glanced upwards, the school was gone.

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