Case #3 (Part 2)

ALFRED POV

"We're back, what do you got, idiot?" Alice shouted, slamming the door behind her. The respected idiot looked up from his mountain of papers. Alfred had become used to sensing her mood on how she closed doors. Today she was beyond ready to murder someone. He could instinctively tell that he would probably earn most of her wrath in an instant. She rounded the corner of their shared hotel room and looked at him, expecting an answer.

"I ain't got anything." He said, purposefully misusing the grammar. She either ignored him, which she never did, or didn't realize that he had said it wrong. Instead, she promptly throttled him for the fifth time this week.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T FOUND ANYTHING! WE NEED TO FIND THIS DEMON SOON OR-"

"Wait… we're looking for a demon?"

"YES YOU BLOODY IDIOT!"

"Oh, that information would have been helpful. I was looking for signs of monsters indigenous to England, not a demon sign. Now I have to start all over again." He whined. Alice slapped him on the back of the head and flopped down onto her bed, covering her eyes with her arm. He watched her. She had been holding herself in a stiff fashion since their plane had landed yesterday and had immediately gone on an 'errand' coming back very late at night, tired and immediately fell to sleep. When he had woken up that morning, she was already up and cooking for them, which never happened. Alice was being plain down irritable and taking it out on everyone (i.e. why she was cooking). He was starting to get concerned. Was it something he had done? He hoped not. He liked it when she was happy.

Seeing the glares that she was giving him, he promptly went back to his papers, scanning for any sign of supernatural occurrences. Then he found it. "Hey, listen to this. 'Early this week another strange accident occurred near Ladykirk Church, north of River Tweed. Witnesses say that there was a strange man in the middle of the road which caused a crash as cars swerved to avoid hitting the man. Later, when the wreckage was examined yet again, there was no sign that there was a man even there. Authorities are still puzzled and tell people to be aware on the road since this is the third accident this week. If anyone knows what is going on, please let the authorities know,'"

Alice swore colorfully, jumping onto her feet. "Why is he intent on torturing me?!" She screamed at no one in particular, pulling her coat on. "When I find him I swear I will make sure he can never return from the dead!"

"Woah, woah, woah. What are you going off about, Alice? You need to calm down." Alfred forced her to sit down. Sitting next to he wrapped her in a hug. She smells nice, he thought for a split second before shaking his thoughts as she fought him off. Where had that come from?

"Don't do that you bloody wanker!" She hissed, glowing a bright red. Her eyes were bleary and tears were starting to form.

"Alice, I-"

"Alfred? I need to speak with Alice- Did I interrupt something?" Tao asked, entering the room to see the two adoptive siblings.

"I'm going out with Tao. Bye." She hurriedly said, grabbing the confused Asian woman in the process. Alfred sat there for a while, almost as confused as Tao had been. Then he pouted. Why did Alice want to hang out with Tao more than him?

"Alfred?" Ivan's voice called out from the hall. Alfred went out to see the other boys staring at him.

"What?" He asked in a normal voice, trying to mask the fact that he was upset..

"Where did Tao and Alice go off to?"

"I dunno. Alice just stormed off."

"Vhat did you do now?" Ludwig came out of the room he and Ivan shared.

"I didn't do anything! Why do I always get blamed?!"

"Because you do not alvays see the mood of the situation."

"Da." Ivan agreed. grinning as the American seemed on the edge of exploding.

"I don't like either of you right now." Alfred pouted, folding his arms. Silence.

"Right now Felicia would tell us to be nice, da?" Ivan whispered forlornly. They nodded. "I miss наш итальянский друг." Ivan only spoke what they all thought. Being the secondary kid of the group, Alfred being the first, he immediately switched gears. "Let us go watch television."

"I won't say no to that," Alfred said, pulling the stiff German after them. They all sat down on one of the two twins in the room, Alfred and Ludwig taking one while Ivan used up most of the other. The news was about the only interesting thing on, so they watched as the news took a sudden turn for the worse.

A woman was standing near what seemed to be a crash sight. Four cars piled on top of each other were smoldered into near unrecognizability. "We bring you breaking news," The woman on the screen said, "Another accident has occurred near Ladykirk Church. Being the fourth accident this week, authorities are now caution you and your families to avoid traveling on this road since it seems to be a cause of many accidents. There is still no news on whom or what is causing these strange accidents. Back to you Michael."

The scene switched to the main broadcasters. Both seemed shocked by this turn of events. "Wow. I haven't seen this many accidents in a row since that one time six years ago. On that same road even! Something strange is sure going on around there."

Ivan turned off the television. "That must be what we are dealing with, da?"

"Yeah, Alice exploded when I told her about the accidents from the paper. Something about someone being intent on torturing her or something." Alfred shrugged, a frown on his face.

"Did she say vhat Azazeal meant? She mentioned the names earlier."

"No, she didn't even tell me what happened while you were gone."

"She seemed very… what is word in English?" Ivan looked to them for help.

"Troubled? Upset? About ready to kill her brother?" Ludwig suggested.

"Wait! You guys saw Seamus? Or was it Dylan? Oh, I know, it was Peter!"

"Who's Seamus?" Ivan asked. "Or Dylan? Or Peter?"

"Alice has like four half brothers, one of which, I can never seem to remember the name of, and I'm the adopted one. Which one was it?"

"The guy from Scotland Yard, Angus, I believe." Ludwig said.

"Really? She avoids Angus at all costs I wonder why she would talk to him." Alfred trailed off into his own thoughts.

"We are confused. Could you please explain?" Ivan interrupted his thoughts.

"Sure. There isn't much to tell. Angus is the oldest, his mom was Scottish but she died when he was two. He is now part of Scotland Yard and tries to avoid any type of magic since that is what killed his mom. Then there is Seamus and Dylan. They're really close because Alice's Dad, Arthur, was double dating to the extreme, so they are basically twins. Dylan is now a writer and Seamus is going to college to be a doctor or something. They don't really talk to us much. Alice is the second youngest, and the only girl. Angus, Seamus, and Dylan are a lot older than her so Arthur and Elizabeth, Mrs. Kirkland, had another kid. That's Peter. He is such a pain and is always trying to be better than everyone. Anyways, The Kirklands wanted another boy, one who could do magic unlike the rest of them, so they adopted me. I may not have magic, but I could sure fool them with my magic tricks. And that is the Kirkland family."

"That is a lot of kids." Ivan mused. "But why are we not meeting rest of Alice's family?"

"I don't know. Once Alice was eighteen she just up and left the house. Doesn't talk much with them. They haven't really gotten along very well since she was fifteen. I think there was a fight and both sides are still angry. It's best not to talk about it with her. She can be… sensitive about it."

"And by sensitive you mean…"

"Really angry."

"Of course."

Translations:

наш итальянский друг- our Italian friend.

Author's Notes:

By the way, for future reference, if I genderbend a character, then their parent of the opposite gender is going to have their normal human name and the one of the same gender is going to have one of the less used versions of theirs. Anyways I hoped you liked this chapter. We will eventually find out what happened between the Kirkland family. I don't really have anything else to add to this so let's go onto the next chapter.