17. Little angel
January 15th, 2024
Harri Olli was in his car drinking some hot coffee from his thermos bottle. It was a very cold night, with stars and a bright moon. His jacket was closed, his hat was covering his head until his eyebrows and he had dark green wool gloves. He was in a street where they were plenty of detached houses and he was spying the windows of one of them. When he saw some movement behind the window of the living room he took his camera with long zoom and used it as binocular. A couple was quarrelling. He took some pictures to have evidences. It was not a normal couple quarrel. They were fighting. He looked at his phone and decided to interact only after ten minutes. He just hoped that it was not too much. The woman was holding an object and beating the man with it. It seemed to be painful. He checked that the pictures were good enough, hid the camera under the passenger seat and left his car.
He walked silently to the door of the garage which was opened. He knew that it was the only way to enter. From the garage he pushed a little bit the door and looked if the way was free. There was nobody but he could hear the quarrel. He crossed the room quietly and opened the other door. He looked to the living room and saw the fight. He took his phone and recorded a video. After less than thirty seconds he pushed the door and walked in the corridor to the living room. Suddenly the woman screamed when she saw him. She thought that he was a robber. “It’s too late Piia. Everything is recorded. Now you will have to pay for what you did during years,” Harri said without compassion. He was disgusted that a woman beat her husband without good reason. And there was no reason to justify such behaviour. He knew that when husbands beat their wives they were immediately punished. But when it was the opposite people were just laughing saying that it wasn’t possible. But yes, it was. Unfortunately. “Are you okay Tami?” he asked and his friend acquiesced. “Let’s go.” “You will regret it. You will go to Hell,” Piia threatened. But the two guys left the house without looking at her or answering.
Harri drove his friend to a little flat in Vuosaari, at the extreme East of Helsinki. There was only a room with a tinny kitchen, a bed, a table, two chairs and a very simple bathroom. “I’m sorry but I didn’t have time to find a better place,” Harri said. “No, it’s perfect. Thank you,” Tami replied. When he observed the room he noticed that there were some clothes and personal stuff. “Are you living here?” he asked. “Not yet but I’m moving my stuff here little by little,” Harri explained. “What is moving under the bed...?” Tami asked a bit worried. “Oh it’s my baby!” Harri sat on the floor and looked under the bed. “Come to say hello to daddy,” he said and Tami smiled. Harri got up with a strange animal in his arms. “What is that? A lizard?” “No, it’s my iguana. Cleo, say hello to Tami.” Tami smiled but didn’t answer. The iguana seemed to be stressed to see an unknown person. He just asked Harri to keep it in his arms. He had no envy to carry it.
“Take off your clothes.” “What?” Tami was a bit surprised. “Come on. I already saw you naked. I will take some pictures of what she did. Tomorrow we will give them to the police. I promise that she will never touch you again. It’s over,” Harri answered, totally decided to help his friend to get rid of his wife. He turned on the coffee machine and took his camera. He looked at the body of his friend and he felt really sorry. His back was covered of bruises and other strange marks. When he took all the pictures he needed Tami had a shower. He wanted to erase these marks but they would stay for a couple of times. He knew it. But at least there would not be new ones.
After a cup of coffee Harri decided that it was time to sleep. “Are you not going home?” Tami asked a bit surprised. “No, I sleep here. You don’t mind? Nobody is waiting for me at home and I’m too tired to drive back home.” “Don’t you want to call your wife? She must be worried,” Tami added. “Worried? Are you kidding? She probably doesn’t remember that she is married with me. She prefers the thing that is hidden in the basement.” They took off their clothes, went to the bed and switched off the light. “Harri, you’re a little angel. You saved me,” Tami said in the dark. “I did it for someone who counts a lot for me. When I’ll be sure that you are safe and that you can start the divorce procedure, I’ll do the same with my marriage. The documents are completed and signed. I just need to tell it to her and see if she accepts. If not I’ll ask for a lawyer. I will also discover what is in the basement even if I’ve to break the door with an axe. And then nothing and nobody will separate us. We will be finally happy.”
The next morning once the pictures were developed the two friends went to the police station to tell their story. “Look on the picture!” Harri insisted when the fat policeman said that it was the man who was beating the woman. “I want to talk to a competent policeman. Not a ... whatever. Not you,” he replied and the policeman, angry to have been qualified as incompetent asked if someone wanted to serve them. “Harri calm down. If it doesn’t work, we...” “No, Tami. I will not give up. I want that these fucking idiots of cops bring her to jail!” There was a huge silence and everybody was looking at them. “What?” Harri asked quite angry and Tami insisted again for him to calm down.
Some minutes later an older policeman arrived and they told the same story again. He took the pictures and looked at them carefully. “I hope for you that it’s not manipulated pictures. Otherwise you’ll get a huge penalty.” “I swear. I have the memory card here you can see that the pictures are the same,” Harri said to prove his honesty. The man also checked in the database how many times Tami went to hospital for injuries linked with that situation. “Why did you lie to the doctors for the real reasons of these injuries?” he asked. “Well, I was afraid to tell the truth because they would probably not believe me and they would call my wife which would be worse when I would be back,” Tami told. “Now we want that she pays for what she did. Don’t hesitate to be very severe,” Harri suggested but the policeman didn’t answer. “Okay, your complain is registered. You’ll be informed of any progress,” the old man concluded and the two friends left the police station the heart lighter.
_________________
|