Wizard Barrister Uh Oh
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and what if a few months after the end of the Series, a new trouble pops up. There's a serial killer on the loose and he has a fascination with Cecil. Which leads to a lot of trouble. AU OOC some femslash some bashing)
"Ugh another one? That's the third murder this month alone." Quinn said looking annoyed and a bit upset as she arrived on the scene to look at the corpse that was found earlier that day. As soon as she was cleared for field work again she had went back to the office and had gotten saddled with this murder case that so far had spanned across a few months now.
"Yeah. Same guy too. Purple hair, blood writing on the wall, definitely the same perp." The other investigator on the scene said nodding as he looked at his superior.
"That's his sixth victim. What does the writing say this time?" Quinn asked sighing heavily, these cases were messing with her and the victims resemblance to a certain someone she knew was really starting to get to her now.
"Butterfly you're beautiful. You deserve your own picture frame." One of the uniformed men reported dutifully making Quinn tense and her head snap up.
"Hey there's something else over here, it was under the victims hand." Another uniform who was marking the body line called making everyone turn towards him immediately.
"It's a picture of some girl who looks like the Vic." He said sounding confused as he looked at the picture he had found.
"Let me see." Quinn said as she walked over and looked at the picture, her heart freezing for a moment as her blood went cold.
"Shit we're dealing with an obsessed stalker/mass murderer." Quinn managed to get out through her suddenly bone dry lips. This couldn't be happening. Why did it always happen to that kid?
"How do you know?" The other investigator asked alarmed and making Quinn scowl heavily as she dug out her cell phone.
"Because I know the girl in that picture. Shit. I'm going to get to her now." Quinn said hitting a button on her cell and placing it to her ear as she turned to walk from the scene of the crime, snatching up one of the photographs of the scene as she did so.
"Listen Ageha it's me. We have a very bad situation here. No listen. Get that caterpillar of yours and keep her at your office. No one goes anywhere until I get there understand? No one out and sure as hell no one in. Yes this is necessary. Look I'll be there in about thirty minutes just…everyone stay there and kick anyone who isn't a Butterfly Worker out of there ASAP." Quinn was talking rapidly as she climbed into her car and started the engine.
"I'm stopping by the precinct real fast to get something and then I'll get there as soon as I can. Just…look Cecil is in danger alright so just keep her there!" Quinn snapped as she slammed the door on her car and sped off.
In less than thirty minutes Quinn was near sprinting through the doors to Butterfly Law Office and looking around worried.
"Good you kept her here." Quinn said looking relieved at the sight of the purple haired girl who looked confused as did the others while Ageha was hovering behind Cecil protectively.
"Of course I did. You call sounding frantic telling me to blockade the office and shut down for the day, and then telling me that Cecil is in danger…What did you expect?" Ageha asked giving the officer a look and earning a snort from the smoker.
"She's in danger? You just told us to get everyone out and stay here." Hotaru asked beginning to get into overprotective mode as well as she stood beside Cecil, glaring around the room dangerously as if the danger was already there.
"I only figured it out earlier when we were investigating a crime scene and found this." Quinn said tossing something onto the table and making them all look at it.
"Hey that's from last week when I was at the gym with Nachi." Cecil said looking at the picture of her in workout cloths running on a treadmill with a smile on her face.
"Why was this at a crime scene? I don't remember anyone at the gym having a camera." Hotaru asked confused and looking worried for her fellow rookie.
"That picture was in the hands of a murder victim. A murder victim with purple hair." Quinn said making their heads snap to her, Sasori quickly grabbing Cecil's shoulder as Quinn put down the picture of the most recent murder victim.
"An obsession then?" Ageha asked her face going stony and making Quinn grimace as she set down the other five pictures.
"This is the third victim with that M.O. this month alone, the sixth overall that we know of." Quinn admitted with a wince while they all looked horrified at that except for Hotaru who had noticed something else in the pictures.
"They'll turn out the lights but you won't disappear. Fall to your knees and they'll overlook you. Save your complaints till they're gone and won't hear. Play along they'll move onto somebody new." Hotaru said as she looked at the pictures closely with her brows furrowed as she altered which picture she was reading from.
"That sounds familiar." Cecil said frowning slightly in confusion as she looked at Hotaru who looked at the pictures of the blood writing and continued to read.
"You used to fly so high, so high. Once the song is done my love shall be mine. Can't help but wonder why. Let the song begin for my loves sake. Butterfly you're beautiful. You deserve your own picture frame." Hotaru read looking at the newest picture and making Cecil jerk a bit.
"Now I get it!" Cecil said looking at the pictures that were scattered around the table.
"You can make sense of this nonsense?" Quinn demanded looking at Cecil who nodded distractedly as she grabbed the pictures of the words and brought them all together.
"They aren't nonsense. The way Nachi was reading them and how they were arranged here was. These are lyrics." Cecil said as she began placing the pictures in order with the newest one being last.
"See it's supposed to go like this." Cecil said as she finished putting the last picture down and then began reading them off.
"Fall to your knees and they'll overlook you. Play along they'll move onto somebody new. Save your complaints till they're gone and won't hear. They'll turn out the light but you won't disappear. You used to fly so high, so high. Can't help but wonder why. Butterfly you're beautiful. You deserve your own picture frame." Cecil read off the lyrics without hesitation, already knowing them almost by heart.
"And if these are lyrics then that means that this is…" Sasori said looking at the other picture with the message that wasn't part of the lyrics.
"The first murder victim. Her message was 'Once the song is done my love shall be mine. Let the song begin for my loves sake.' That's why we couldn't work it out. It wasn't part of the lyrics." Quinn said looking at the stand alone picture of the group.
"So once the song lyrics are over then this guy is going to come after Baby Girl?" Sasori asked pulling Cecil into a small hug so that the girls head rested against her chest. She had learned that if Cecil heard a heart-beat or felt one against her then she was a lot calmer. Don't ask her how she learned that, it had pissed her off the first time and had Ageha joining in a cuddle pile of sorts with Sasori and Cecil.
"That's what it looks like. Kid you know this song right? Can you tell me how many lyrics there are going to be?" Quinn asked looking at Cecil who dug out her cell phone and quickly googled the lyrics.
"If this person sticks to two lines of the song per murder… that'd be about twelve more murders before the lyrics are done." Cecil said after a moment.
"I need to put out a broadcast for women of your general description to be on the look out and go nowhere alone. Kid I don't want you on your own without at least one or two others around you until this guy is safely behind bars. I know you can defend yourself but so far it's better to be safe than sorry." Quinn instructed Cecil firmly making her nod slightly.
Hotaru's next remark earned nods from the others, the Macalu incident still fresh in their minds.
"We aren't letting anything happen to Cecil. Not ever again."