Chapter 2: Suspicious
They all were still shocked at what they saw and it took a bit for it all to process for them. "I can't believe this!" Mallory said.
"Not again, how could this be happening again," Wildwing second.
Duke looked at the writing and began to read it out load, for everyone to hear, "…Four jewel thefts that have been committed in the same week are connect to local NHL team…" He then looked up, only to find everyone looking at him, "What…oh come on you can't think it was me?"
"Well let's look at the facts," Mallory began. "One they're all jewel thefts, two you're only jewel thief out of all of us, and three and most important is that everyone here has an alibi for what they've been doing for the last few days…except you."
"Don't do this again."
"What have you been up to?"
"Enough!" Wildwing shouted, breaking things up. "Now before we go and accuse each other lets go and talk to Klegghorn and see if he actually has any evidence that suspects us. Come on let's go!" With that everyone got up and walked to the hanger. Mallory and Duke both gave each other a look before they left.
Captain Klegghorn had parked his car in the police parking lot and got out. Putting his keys in his pocket he turned and jumped when he saw the Ducks right behind him. "We need to talk," Wildwing spoke.
"Huh I wouldn't have suspected see you all here," Klegghorn responded after calming down.
"What is the meaning of this?" He shouted as he tosses the paper in the captain's hands.
He looked at it then looked back at them with a smile, "It's exactly like it said here. Four jewel thefts have happened and we recently found evidence that connects you all to the crimes…mainly him," He answered as he pointed at Duke, who was shocked at the accusation.
"I knew it!" Mallory said.
"Just hold on a sec," Wildwing said as he turned back. "And just what kind of evidence do you have against Duke?"
"Easy," He responded as he opened the briefcase he was carrying and pulled out an evidence bag. "This was found at the last crime scene." He held it up for all to see and inside the bag was a gray feather, which matched the color of Duke. He put it back and fished out a few photos, which had the images of destroyed security cameras on them. "And if you look closely at the cameras you can see slash marks on them, which looks like it was done with a blade of some kind," He added hinting to the saber on Duke's shoulder. 'That's impossible' Duke thought to himself
The info sunk into their minds as everyone then looked at him in confusion. "Duke…we just need to-" Wildwing began but was interrupted by Mallory
"Where have you been going these past nights?"
"Nothing, I've never been anywhere near any of those places how can you all do this to me again!" he responded, taken back at what they were doing.
"Well the evidence is hard to uh…dispute," Tanya stated.
"Plus you won't tell us where you've been," Nosedive second.
"Look Duke we just need to know where you've been these last few nights," Their leader asked.
Silence was between them as they were waiting for a response. "Out…" Was all he said.
"Well you're lucky I don't arrest you right on the spot," Klegghorn said. "But I can't at the moment but I promise you that I will once the right amount of evidence turns up." He finished and turned to walk into the police station, leaving the Ducks in question.
Once he left they all looked and saw Duke walking off, "Hey where are you going!" Wildwing asked.
"I need to be alone!" He responded and was soon out of sight.
Sighing after seeing Duke leave Wildwing turned back to the team, "Come on lets head back."
Making their way back to the Migrator Mallory spoke, "You think that was a good idea?"
"Let's not do this right now."
"Why not, they have evidence and it's pretty clear who's behind it!"
"Something is disturbing by this," Grin responded.
"I kind of agree," Wildwing responded as they all climbed in the vehicle. "But for now let's just drop it." They soon drove off, thinking over what was said to them, but for one it was clear for them.
Sometime later, after they all got back, the door to Duke's room open and Mallory and Tanya walked inside. "I don't think this is an uh…good idea," Tanya stated.
"Positive, if he did do it then the jewels should be somewhere in here," She responded as she looked around.
Duke's room was fairly neat, everything in place, but not too much was visible. She started looking through his dresser, moving all his clothes aside but still keeping things neat. "What if Duke comes back and finds us?"
"Don't worry, chance are that he won't be back for a while," She responded as her search in the dresser resulted in nothing. She then moved over and checked under the bed.
"I'm not so sure about that," Tanya said as she leaned against the wall, a small thud coming from the spot.
Mallory stopped what she was doing and looked back at her, the sound the wall made sounded almost…hollow. "Tanya tap that spot you're leaning on."
"Why?"
"Just do it!"
She sighed as she did was she was told, sure enough a hollow tap could be heard. Moving to the spot Mallory carefully knocked on the wall several times. Looking more carefully she could see cracks in the wall, "Aha, a false wall!" She carefully stuck her nails in the crack and managed to pry a piece of the wall off.
They looked behind and were shocked at what they found, "A wall safe!" Tanya said first.
"This must be definitely where he has them stored," Mallory stated as she placed her ear against the safe's door and then turned the knob. "Keep quiet I need to hear. She started working at it but had trouble hearing the clicks, they were so distracted by this action they didn't hear to door to the room open, or the footsteps that were coming towards them. She heard a loud click and then smiled, "Got it!"
Suddenly the tip of Duke's saber hit the door, keeping it closed. Both of them hesitantly turned and saw an irate Duke right behind them. They both expected him to blow up right in their faces but what come out of him surprised them, "Get out…" was all he said.
Immediately they both ran out of the room, with Duke watching them. After they left Duke let out a sigh and relaxed himself, 'I can't believe she did that! *Sigh* well I can't blame her' he thought. True he was angry for what they did, trespassing in his room and searching it. He should have been furious with them but for some reason he let them off easy. He looked back at the safe and was relieved to see that they didn't get a chance to open it. When he saw that they found it his heart rate raced as he thought they would find it, but thankfully they didn't. Going over to the safe he opened it. Reaching in pulled an item out and looked at it…a depressing sigh escaped as he looked at it.
The rest of the day went off normally, Duke didn't even bring up the incident with Mallory and Tanya, which was a big surprised to them since they thought he would bring it up. He stayed away from Mallory and avoided all contact with her for the whole day; mostly he stayed in his room so no more intrusion would happen. But later that night he went out again, much to Mallory objection. She wanted to follow him but was stopped by Wildwing, who didn't want any more tension to happen between the team. She wanted to search his room again but couldn't since she found the door locked, so she just forgot about it for the night.
The next day everyone was on the ice for practice, things were normal for now, and thankfully nothing happened so far. Everything was smooth as they played but Wildwing could sense the tension between Duke and Mallory, and it seemed that the tension grew even more. He was currently keeping his eye out on who had the puck but was secretly eyeing on Duke. He seemed to act normal at first but found him favoring his right wrist every few minutes. He kept looking at him, wondering if something was wrong, but didn't see the incoming puck, "Bro watch out!"
He turned only to feel the puck slam against his stomach, knocking the wind from him and sending him on his back. Groaning he sat back up, "What have I told you all?"
"Yeah we know, but you weren't paying attention," Nosedive pointed out.
"Sorry but…" He began but trailed off as he looked at Duke again, this time he saw him rubbing this wrist again, only to wince as he did. "Duke what's wrong?"
Hearing his voice Duke immediately stopped and tried to make it look like he was doing nothing, "What do you mean?"
"I saw you wincing as you rubbed your wrist, what's wrong?" He asked again, this time with more of a command voice.
"It's nothing," He kept protesting but it was not working. "Hey stop!" He shouted as Mallory grabbed his arm and pulled the sleeve back.
They all gasped as they saw his wrist bandaged, with some blood soaked on it, "What happened!"
Yanking his arm away he covered the bandaged wrist,"I tripped yesterday and cut myself on broken glass, ok," He responded but it looked like they weren't buying it. "Oh come on everyone trips once in a while."
"How can we be sure," Mallory started.
"Oh what now I need to have proof of my activates now?"
"That wouldn't be such a bad idea now, wouldn't it?" She responded as Duke gave her a glare.
"Enough, both of you stop it!" Wildwing commanded, stopping him from making a comment. "If that what happened I'll believe it for now, but as-"
"Uh guys!" They all heard Phil shout. They all turned to him and were surprised to see captain Klegghorn right next to him, a not so happy look on his face. They all skated towards them, wondering why he was here. "Uh Captain Klegghorn here would like a word with you all."
"What is it now?"
"Another theft was committed last night," He responded, folding his arms. "But apparently the crook made a small slip up."
"What do you mean by that?"
He smiled, "The perpetrator managed to cut himself on a broken window and left some blood at the scene." That hit them all hard as it made them think back to Duke and his cut wrist. Suddenly things started to point in Duke's direction and it wasn't looking so good.
A/N: Hope you like, i'm trying hard on this but i think i need more research for this show. Hockey isn't my best suit so it was cut short. If there is anything you want to comment on please send me a message. Next one will be out soon.