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Chapter 4 – Lucia Harrison
Phoenix quickly replayed the testimony he just heard again in his head.
"It was about 5 in the evening; this is normally the time that I serve tea to the Henderson house hold. Max was acting especially strange that day.
Will suggested that I serve some tea to Max to help cool him down. It was earlier than usual, by about four. After serving the tea, I went to do the rest of the house work. Grace helped me; she is such a sweet girl.
She got worried since Max wasn't coming down after about an hour, we decided to go check on him. His room door was locked, we called out to him, but he didn't reply. We asked the butler to break down the door, and we found Max lying in a pool of blood with a knife protruding from his chest."
"Traces of cyanide was found in the cup of tea that was served to the victim your Honour." Harrison said, alerting Phoenix back to the present.
"Hmm, well from this, I could say that the defendant is the murderer, and the cup of tea is the decisive evidence." The judge said, he was about to bang his gavel, when...
"OBJECTION!" Phoenix shouted from the top of his voice. Mia saw Harrison smile, she was sure that the young prosecutor was about to protest to the judge's decision.
"Yes Mr. Wright?" The judge asked his eyes widened.
"Please if you could turn to the court record, you will notice that the cup of tea did not have the victim's fingerprints, but more importantly there were no lip prints, which mean that the victim did not drink any of the tea. Furthermore the victim did not have any food or drink from the house." Phoenix replied triumphantly.
"Ah, I see where you're coming from, Mr. Wright, but you cannot ignore the facts. As you know the victim was poisoned with cyanide, the same stuff that the defendant used. As the defendant is a doctor, there are other ways to get the cyanide into the victim's body, do you not agree, Mr Wright?" Harrison asked pleasantly.
Phoenix blinked stupidly for a while, Wow I think the world is going to end. A prosecutor was just nice to me!
"Ahem." Mia fake coughed.
"OBJECTION! That is...um...objectionable!" Phoenix said pointing his finger at Harrison.
Mia slapped her head. Harrison sweat dropped. Matt stifled a laugh. Maya's jaw practically dropped to the floor. Even the defendant was trying his best to suppress his laughter.
"That's it! I can't take any more of this. The court is adjourned!" The judge banged his gavel and left.
"I made him mad, didn't I?" Phoenix asked Mia nervously, who glared at him so strongly, that he gulped and stepped back a bit. At once, Mia's spirit left Pearls' body, and an unconscious Pearls fell into Phoenix's arms.
Phoenix breathed in relief and carried Pearls to the defendant's lobby. The others were waiting for him there. Maya's face currently mirrored the face her sister sported a while ago. Matt and Will on the other hand were smiling. Before Maya could say anything Matt spoke up.
"Mr. Wright, good going there, buying us more time. You knew we didn't have enough evidence to win the case. This will give us another day to find all the evidence that we need." Matt said enthusiastically.
"Ah-ah, that's right." Phoenix laughed nervously, rubbing the back of his head.
"Um, Mr Wright I hope you don't mind but I thought I could stay over at Maya's place, because... well I didn't want to go back to my place." Matt said nervously, as Maya forgot her anger and blushed slightly.
"Of course not. Why are you asking me? I'm not her guardian, but be careful both of you." Phoenix said smiling as Matt and Maya blushed.
Maya and Matt left for Kurain village with a reluctant Pearl in tow immediately after Will was taken back to the Detention Centre. Phoenix sighed and buried his head in his hands tired. He looked through the court records again trying to find a piece of evidence that will help him solve the case. However to his dismay, he found none.
Dejectedly, he packed all his things and left. As he was leaving the building, he heard someone shout his name. At first he thought he was just imagining it and kept walking without turning around to look, but then the voice just got louder, and footsteps accompanied it, which finally caused him to look back.
His eyes widened in surprise as he saw that the person calling out to him was the young female prosecutor that he was battling with. The battle that he was loosing, quite pitifully at the moment. He stepped back lightly, wondering if the prosecutor had come to insult him or to threaten him about the case.
"Mr. Wright!" The young prosecutor panted. She bent double trying to regain her breath. After a while she straightened up, fixing her skirt, she held out her hand, smiling.
"It was great working with you Mr. Wright. You're different from what I expected." She said smiling.
Phoenix reluctantly shook her hand. "Um...you too I guess."
"So is that in a good way, or a bad way?" Seeing Phoenix's confused look, she laughed. Phoenix smiled.
"So you're not here to threaten me, or insult me?" He asked hesitantly. Harrison had a blank expression on her face, then a smile broke out.
"Of course not, Mr. Wright! Why would I threaten you or insult you? As long is the bad guy is behind bars, or the innocent is set free, I don't really mind who wins prosecutor or attorney." She said smiling. "Uh, well I have to go now, but I'll probably see you tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" Phoenix asked confused.
"Well, at the victim's girlfriend's house. You were thinking about her, right?" She asked expectantly.
"O-Of course, I was. I'll see you there." Phoenix said nervously.
"Right, then. Bye, Mr. Wright."
