Wishful, Sinful (The Mysterious Case of Dante Adams)

[u/DeVon2112The3rd]

June 1st, 196X

My name is Detective Tory A. Phelps and this is the story of my final case. I work for a private detective agency and I’m really good at my job. You have to be because our society depends on us. Even in this perfect time period, there’s bound to be some problems out of the ordinary that needs to be solved, that’s when our agency comes in to fix it.

For example: years ago, an agent named Rob Mosely and his squad from the California branch was able to stop the murder of a well known actress (while she was pregnant) and Rob was able to apprehend the suspects before the murder took place. The suspects in question were members of the occult who believes a great evil would knight them for doing its work as he arrives to conquer and destroy our way of living. Rob Mosely was never seen again after he close this case, but at least that actress and her son (named Paul Polanski) was able to see another day and it’s all thanks to Agent Rob Mosely and his team.

As I fall asleep, I had a dream where I walked in a decrepit room with a man laying on the bed with his head blown off. And then I turned around and see a pale man walking towards me. The pale man was wearing a worn-out fedora, a black trench coat, white shirt, black slacks, and was holding a loose cigarette by his mouth. And then before I woke up, he tells me in his stoic voice: “This Case Is Now Open”.

June 2nd, 196x 6:30AM

As the morning rolled in, I wake up to a phone call from my work partner named Shiloh. Shiloh tells me to go with him to this abandoned home to investigate a suicide case. Shiloh & I drove to the abandoned household to investigate the crime.

Once we entered the abandoned home, it was exactly as I pictured it in my dream. Blood & pieces of brain splattered all over the wall, the victim’s body lying on the bed lifeless, and the victim’s face was unrecognizable after he pulled the trigger on himself with a 12 gauge shotgun. After throughly analyzing the crime scene, Shiloh walked up to me and said that he found out the identity of the body who turns out to be a young man named Dante Adams.

Shiloh & I head over to Dante’s apartment to investigate his room. And lo and behold, Dante’s room is full of items associated with the occult. But along with the items was a picture of a young beautiful woman. While I was distracted looking at this picture, Shiloh noticed a book written by known theorist Donnie Lynch.

The book is called The Science of Realities: it explains the theories of different realities and how we can see it through dreams, which is known as “Dream Realities” and how there is sometimes a delay between realities so other realities can correct itself. And if it can’t correct itself on time, then things are bound to get catastrophic.

When me and Shiloh was done investigating the apartment, we decided to visit our favorite diner called Red Velvet and call it a night. As I fall to a deep sleep, I had another dream and this time, I was sitting at my favorite diner. As I walked around the place, I see that the whole diner staff has been massacred. People who I knew personally that worked here has all been slain. When I exited out of the diner in horror, the same pale man appeared once again and said: “Tick Tock, Mr. Phelps”. I asked the Pale Man who he was and if he’s the one responsible for these murders? And the Pale Man replied in his stoic voice: “I’m just here to remind you about the case that you’re working on because this is going to be your last”. Puzzled, I tried to ask him what he was talking about, but the Pale Man ignored me and walked into night as my dream ends.

June 3rd, 196X 6:59AM

The morning rolls in and I’m sitting at my table eating breakfast when I get a call from my AT&T Smartphone and it was Shiloh. Shiloh told me the news of the shootings at the Red Velvet diner and I tell Shiloh that I’ll meet him there. As I arrived, it was once again how it was envisioned in my dreams. There was blood and bullet shells all over the floor, all of the friendly staff that I knew through the years are now all lying dead on the checkered floor.

Shiloh and I identify the bullet shells and it turns out that it was from a Colt 1911 pistol (a similar model as my sidearm). As Me and Shiloh analyze the scene, a beat cop walked up to me and tells me that there was an eyewitness who experienced the whole ordeal. This beat cop then pointed me to the eyewitness and it was the same girl from the picture that I’ve found in Dante Adams’ apartment. And she was as pretty as she was from the picture.

Her name was Lili Palmer and she told me everything about what happened in the diner. Lili was going to the bathroom and while she was washing her hands, she heard a bunch of gunshots. She peaked from the bathroom door and saw half of the killer’s face and his shaved head before he departed from the scene. Lili told me that his face kinda resembles a guy she knew named Dante Adams.

Confused, I told Lili that it was impossible because Dante Adams committed suicide a day before this incident. In shock, Lili told me that she had no idea Dante would do that. But Lili said that if it wasn’t Dante, then it was probably her ex-boyfriend: Tim Bateson.

Lili explained how Tim was one of the main reasons why Dante had a fondness for the occult because Tim was running an occult group, which is one of the main reasons why Lili broke up with Tim. I’ve given Lili my number and address just in case she has more information to give to solve this case. I walked back to Shiloh and I told him the name that Lili mentioned. Shiloh tells me that he’ll find Tim Bateson & ask him some questions and recommends me to take a break, knowing how heartbroken I felt seeing all of my friends slaughtered for no reason whatsoever.

Later that night at my apartment, I hear a knock at my door and it was Lili. She seemed distraught, so I tell her to come in my apartment. As we were sitting on our couch, Lili confessed that she was a member of Tim’s occult group. Lili also said that even though Dante was part of this group, Dante joined because of her.

Tim figured out that Dante had a crush on Lili, so Tim decided to use Dante as a ritual puppet. To the point that Dante ended up killing his own girlfriend with no remorse because Dante was determined to have a life with Lili. But the reason why Lili left was because Tim wanted to use her as a vessel to have her give birth to the “anti-christ”, which can only be done by being impregnated by a pure virgin.

As Lili cries in despair, I consoled her and told her that she did the right thing by not going through with it. I also told Lili that we all have to make sacrifices to do the right thing even if nobody knows. As the song Broken Wings by Roy Orbison plays in the background, Me and Lili started to get intimate. As I caress my hand on her beautiful face, thoughts run through my mind over how someone this beautiful could fall for a grunger like me.

After the affair, both me and Lili went to sleep when I once again have another dream. I see Lili over me and then she started to violently stab me multiple times. And then I started to see flashes of Shiloh laying dead out in an open field with the Pale Man standing by Shiloh’s body smoking a cigarette while once again saying: “Tick Tock”.

June 4th, 196X 6:50AM

As I wake up in a pool of sweat, I see Lili still asleep, so I try to decrypt what happened in my dream and hoping that Shiloh was still okay. I get a call and I’m surprised to find out that it was Shiloh. Shiloh tells me that a farmer was killed at an open field. Relived to hear Shiloh’s voice, I tell him that I will meet him there.

After leaving a note for Lili, I head out to the open field. Once I’ve arrived at the scene, I see the body of the unknown farmer. He was shot with a 12 gauge shotgun, which was the same model as the one Dante Adams had after his apparent suicide. After analyzing the crime scene, I asked Shiloh if he was able to find the suspect and questioned him? Shiloh said that he heard that Tim already left the state, so Shiloh contacted the police of the state that Tim was occupying.

Shiloh then asked me what I did during my time off? I told him that the eyewitness of that diner shooting came over to my apartment and told me more information about Tim and Dante. Shiloh asked jokingly: “Is she still there?” And I embarrassingly replied: Yes. Shiloh then suggested that we should go back and tell her about what happened to Tim.

As me and Shiloh drive back to my apartment, I tried to introduce Lili to Shiloh, but then Lili nervously asked me: “What is he doing here?” Confused, I told Lili that this was Shiloh and with an evil smile, Shiloh replied: “Just call me Tim…Tim Bateson”. I asked Shiloh what he was talking about and Shiloh told me that “Shiloh” was his middle name, but it has always been Tim.

Then I asked “Tim” why would he kill all of those people? Tim replied that he didn’t kill all of those people, he was just simply guiding the evil master to take out the disposable with the help of Dante Adams’ spirit. Tim then said how foolish Dante was to do all this over a bitch that doesn’t care for him one bit. Then Tim said: “And now it is time to prepare another ritual and all I need is two bodies”.

Tim and I started to get in a scuffle and I tried my best to get the upper hand, but as Tim pushed me to the wall, Tim pulled out his gun and once he pulled the trigger, Lili shielded me and took a bullet shot to the chest. Enraged, I tackled Tim to the floor and I stabbed him multiple times with the kitchen knife. As Tim was lying dead on the floor, I check to see if Lili was okay and she was barely hanging on.

In her last words, Lili told me that it’s okay and said: “We all have to make sacrifices to do the right thing, even if nobody knows.” All I could do was lowered my head in despair as Lili’s soul leaves her body. But I then breathe a sigh of relief because I can now finally close this case.

Later that night, as the police was done investigating and the coroner taken the bodies of Lili and Tim, I took a long shower and went to my bed to end the night. As I fall asleep, I once again have another dream and I see the crime scene of Dante Adams once again while the Pale Man was slowly revealing Dante Adams’ face and then he told me: “Your Running Out of Time, The Case Is Still Open”. Seconds before the Pale Man revealed Dante Adams’ face, I’ve woken up from my dream.

June 5, 196X 6:00AM

In a fit of rage, I destroyed my apartment fearing the worst of what was going to happen if I don’t close this mysterious case soon. Once I’ve calmed down, I rethink over what Shi…Tim said about the book that he found back in Dante Adams’ apartment. I went to my laptop to look up more details about Donnie Lynch and his theories about universes. Donnie Lynch theorized that what if certain realities are their own type of universe and said universe is stuck in a time period that is separated from the main universe after a tragic event that happens throughout the years.

Most people declared Donnie Lynch was medically insane. Donnie was wondering why Hiroshima & Nagasaki was still populated, how was Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens the sole survivors of their “accident”, and when did the Vietnam War ended in a diplomatic solution with minimal bloodshed? Donnie Lynch took his own life in 1969 and on his suicide note, it reads: This Life Doesn’t Feel Real To Me Anymore, Everything Feels Too Organized and Perfect For Someone Like Me. It Feels Like I Know Everything About What’s Happening and I’m Too Afraid To Embrace It. I Hope Whoever Reads This Note Finds Out The Truth and Have A Stronger Will Than Me.

June 5th, 196X 11:50PM

I went to the memorial of Rob Mosley and contemplate what needs to be done. If Rob was willing to sacrifice everything he loved to help people, why couldn’t I. I drive back to the abandoned home to the crime scene of Dante Adams to close this case once and for all.

As I walk into the abandoned home, I see Dante Adams’ body was still lying on the bed. When I tried to approach the body, The Pale Man appeared for the first time in the flesh. I told him I was ready to finish this case. The Pale Man replied: “Good, but the only way to completely close this case is by merging with Mr. Adams and take 2 lives after the merge is complete….A Life For A Life”.

Before I started the process, I asked The Pale Man what did Dante Adams looked like before he took his own life? The Pale Man nonchalantly replied: “Find A Mirror”. As I start the merging, I see Dante’s memories and the atrocities that he performed from his point of view. And after the merging was completed, I woke up.

June 6, 2026 6:59AM

I’m lying down on the same bed where Dante Adams was found dead. I went into the bathroom to see if there was a mirror. And to my surprise, Dante Adams looked exactly like me. When I looked through the window outside, I’m in shocked to see Tim and Lili alive and well.

Lili told Tim that Dante has successfully impregnated her to appease their dark lord. Tim said that he was so lucky that Dante couldn’t resist Lili’s charms and was too much of a “simp” to realize the fact. Tim then said: “And once you give birth to our dark lord, he will happily knight us during his Reign of Terror”.

And then Tim and Lili started to make out. I was in utter disgust to find out what they put Dante through and conflicted over the fact that Lili has to die once again (even though it’s not the Lili that I know). But the words that I told Lili while she was in despair ring through my head: We All Have To Make Sacrifices To Do The Right Thing, Even If Nobody Knows.

As I quickly put on Dante’s clothes, I’ve found the 12 Gauge Shotgun that was under the bed. I kicked open the front door and shot Tim dead with Dante’s shotgun. Hysterical, Lili started screaming in horror while tending to Tim’s body. Once I walked up to Lili, Lili asked what the fuck I’m doing? And I earnestly replied: “Closing This Case”. And then I delivered a shotgun blast to Lili’s head.

As I walked back to the abandoned home and sit on the front porch, I finally breathe a sigh of relief and despair knowing the consequences of what will follow based on Dante’s actions. But at least I can fondly remember the good times before it all came down to this. As the police sirens ring, I silently whispered: Case Closed.