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A/N: guess where i got the idea from! a cookie if you get it right
A Murder by any Other Name…
The year is AC 201, April, the month before the ESUN had dissolved from political influence. Inflation had threatened the economy and to make matters worse, war was beginning to wedge its claws back into view.
Many of the political offices were slowly being emptied, threats of assassination drove the nations into frenzy, but the year would only get worse…..when they key figure of peace goes missing after a strange phone conversation.
Early morning on April 3 the day before her disappearance, Relena Peacecraft was currently working on her impending retirement that would take place in May. Her workers at the office described her as agitated and restless. Her secretary, Angie Smoak, figured that her boss was stressed by the upcoming resigning and didn't think much to it. Relena was cooped up in her office that day, constantly asking for beverages of any kind.
Interview- Angie Smoak
I had figured she was dehydrated or something. She wasn't ever forthcoming when it came to personal issues. One time she even lasted the whole day with walking pneumonia; working constantly. It was a trait to be admired, even though it was unhealthy. That day didn't really seem out of place.
Lunch time came, and Relena had left her office for the first time in four hours of coming in. She had talked to Smoak about canceling a meeting held later that day-insisting she had a doctors appointment to attend. As instructed Smoak canceled her meeting. Relena had then contacted one of her friends, later known to have been Hilde Schiebecker. Smoak overheard her boss's conversation, remembering terms "test' and "minus". When her call was finished, Relena then left her office for lunch.
Being a high ranking public official, an escort was assigned to her, Heero Yuy, who worked with the Preventers. They had apparently been dating for the past two years, no signs of problems or troubles were indicated. They left the building at 12:32 taken from the security cameras, and returned at 1:15. Relena had then kissed her boyfriend and they said their farewells. The security guard, Frank Costello, at the front desk of the lobby reported a slight change in demeanor to the Vice foreign Minister.
Interview- Frank Costello
Ms. Relena is nice by nature, never likes to upset anybody. She always says hello to me when she returns from her outings. When she returned that day, she seemed very upset. She didn't say hello to me that day, and to me it felt a bit off. She gave Mr. Yuy a peck on the cheek - something she didn't seem too happy to do, like out of obligation. They may have had a fight during their lunch break.
Angie Smoak had greeted her boss on her return, and gave her boss the news that she had visitors while she was away. Smoak had written down the names of several political advisors, but one of the names stuck out, Kai Trent. Relena seemed very perturbed by the name and told Smoak to contact Trent and send it through to her office line.
Interview- Angie Smoak
This really caught my attention. Ms. Relena never requested private calls unless it was with Heero. The man that came in, Kai Trent, gave me the creeps. He had some kind of anxiousness to see Ms. Relena, he even brought a vase of flowers later that day for her. I couldn't see Ms. Relena having an affair, but the evidence pointed toward it. Then again I tend to read too much into things.
Relena had been in her office on the phone with Mr. Trent for a half an hour, several co-workers said they heard a hushed yell when she was on the phone. As if she were arguing and wanted to be silent about it. One of her friends stopped by during the phone call, Hilde Schiebecker. Hilde came to the office carrying a grocery bag, Angie Smoak said she identified its contents immediately: A pregnancy test.
Once Relena finished her call with Trent, she and Hilde left the office for the day. Hilde later explained why they were so covert on the contents in the grocery bag.
Interview- Hilde Schiebecker -
Relena had an idea that she may have been pregnant. She was upset from an argument she had with Heero, I assumed she had brought up the prospect of having a child with him, and didn't get the answer she wanted.
We went to a café across the street and she used the pregnancy test I had gotten for her. I didn't see the actual pregnancy stick, but she told me it was negative. I left it at that, we went back to the office with an escort in tow. That was the last I spoke to her.
Relena left her office for home at around 6:42 that evening, after shutting down her computer she told Smoak to come later tomorrow, because she didn't plan on coming to the office until noon. She left with her car service and returned home.
At 7:39 p.m, a call was received on Relena's cell phone. It was the same man she had been speaking to earlier. The number of missed calls with his name attached to it tells us that she didn't want to speak to him. Another call was made out at 8:05 p.m to Heero Yuy's phone, they talked for a bit, Heero was insisting on coming over, but Relena still angry over their previous encounter told Yuy to just stay home tonight. Some time after this, Relena took a shower and then went to bed.
The next morning, a 911 call was made one of the maids. She described the scene:
911 recording
-Yes, senior! Hay sangre alrededor de la ventana! No sé qué hacer!
-Please calm down miss, now tell me what happened.
-Fui trabajar, and I couldn't find my boss. Ella no es aqui! I looked in her room and I couldn't find her, then there is blood de la ventana! -
-Please tell me your location.
-Trabajo at the Peacecraft mansion, she a muy importante person. No sé, No sé!
-Calm down miss, we will have officers out there immediately.
When the maid discovered Relena Peacecraft missing, and blood on the window- she could have done no worse than involving civilian police. Such incidents involving public officials were in jurisdiction of the Preventers.
The reason for this is to keep evidence in tact, and suspects close to the crime scene and out of public eye. And boy did people know, the record time for a tabloid to have a coverage on this case was 3 hours after the police arrived. On it was the classic image of Relena Peacecraft, beautiful and poise, when people read the caption underneath it: Missing - it set the nation into panic.
A/N: I was watching Court TV when i was writing this, well now its' TRUTV how stupid is that?
