"WHERE IS HE?!" shouted Kitty as she walked into the entrance hall of the T.U.F.F. building. The hall was empty.
Not even somebody was on the reception counter. Kitty ignored this fact completely and walked to the elevators.
She first thought about taking the stairs but that would led to the problem that she would let too much steam off.
And she wanted to save her anger for Dudley. As she stood in the lift an she knew that it was the right decision
because the annoying elevator music made her just angrier. The doors opened and she tramped through the office.
She saw a cluster of people standing in front of the chief´s office door.
"I bet this idiot is there! Maybe he´s also the reason for this crowd!" She surged through the people and
saw the chief standing on his rostrum with Keswick beside him. Both had sad looks on their faces.
"What´s going on here?" asked Kitty with anger in her voice. Suddenly everybody turned to her with that sad look on her face.
Around thirty faces with the same expression looked at her face. It looked like somebody copied that face and
passed this copy around so everyone could pin it on their heads. "Why, do all of you staring at me?"
"Kitty…" the chief raised his voice softly. "There was an accident…" Kitty´s heart sank into her boots.
"…and Agent Puppy was involved in it. He…" the chief´s voice cracked. "No. Please no! God no!" begged Kitty.
"he died…"
"NO! YOU LIE!"
"I´m sorry Kitty."
"That´s just a joke, isn´t it? Dudley will come around the corner in a second. I know it!"
Kitty began to cry and screamed. "Come out Dudley! It was funny but now it´s over!"
More and more tears ran down her cheek. She rushed through the building and searched for Dudley.
In the chief´s office, in the lab in the garage and in the office. She searched under every desk in every corner in every room.
"PLEASE COME OUT!"
She finally stopped searching and leaned back at a wall with her face buried in her hands.
The other agents surrounded Kitty, luckily the chief called them back from her. "You others! Get back to work!"
The crowd dissolved fast but Kitty stayed on the wall. Keswick walked to her and took her hand.
"Kitty, come with me to the c..c..chief´s office"
"No, I have to wait here for him. He´ll be here soon." Keswick pulled her into the chief´s office and closed the door.
Kitty looked at Keswick and the chief and wiped the tears out of her eyes.
"What happened?" she asked.
"Dudley drove yesterday on a road near the c..c..cliff and he lost control of his car and fall into the o..o..ocean. His corpse…"
Keswick stopped as he saw the tears that arose in Kitty´s eyes again.
He felt bad for what happened and he knew that he was the one who´s fault this was.
As Dudley didn´t returned from his mission yesterday he hacked into the network of the military station again.
And saw a tape of the security cameras. He saw how Dudley destroyed the room and walked through the portal.
Keswick knew that the chance that Dudley survived this was almost 0.0001 percent. So he used the last part of the night to
fake a death for Dudley. He knew that Dudley had a date with Kitty, so he searched for the best spot to fake an accident.
The cliff road was perfect.
He drove the T.U.F.F. mobile over it and that was all he had to do except of deleting the tapes of the security cameras
from the military server but kept one copy. Nobody would expect to find a corpse because the currents under the cliff drag
everything into the ocean. It wasn´t the perfect crime but very close to it and every average sociopath would be proud of him.
"I waited for him… I was so angry… I said these things…" Kitty covered her mouth with her hands.
All what she said and thought about hurting Dudley or even killing him and then...
"Kitty, his dead isn´t your fault!" The chief tried to calm her down. Kitty didn´t looked at him. She didn´t want to talk to anyone
now and the chief knew that. He sighed and turned to Keswick.
"Keswick, please call Mrs. Puppy and…"
"No!" shouted Kitty startled. "I´ll tell her."
"No Kitty, I don´t think that it´s a good idea…."
"But she deserves more than just a phone call!"
Even if this was a standard T.U.F.F. procedure the chief knew that someone should tell it to Peg personally.
She deserved more than just a phone call. Damn, Dudley deserved more!
"And you fell strong enough to manage that?"
"No, but somebody has to do it. And no one knew him better than me." Kitty admitted.
"Then go." Kitty walked out of the door and Keswick said. "Why did you l..l..let her go?"
"Because I know her. She always closes herself in such situations. Maybe a confrontation with Mrs. Puppy helps her to handle her pain better."
"I hope you´re r..r..right chief. Otherwise we will h..h..hurt Kitty very much."
While she drove the T.U.F.F. van Kitty always looked at the passenger seat. Normally Dudley would sit there and get on her nerves.
But it was so quiet. She heard just the sound of the engine. And she hated that. She never knew how she would miss
Dudley´s pointless talking and just wished that somebody would start to talk about that stupid ball-in-the-cup game.
Then a bitter thought came slowly to her mind. "I will never see him again." She thought and immediately tried to repress that thought.
But the more she tried to repress it the greater impact it had. "I will never see him again" she now spoke out. "
No more chew-toys, no more 'hey Kitty', no more fighting crime together… no more Dudley!"
As she turned the van left into the Petsburg-avenue and stopped in a free parking space she tried hard to fight the tears.
In moments like this she preferred it to be alone. Nobody would see her crying if she would be alone and
no one would judge her for her tears. But this had to be done.
Kitty got out of the van and walked to the house. As she stood in front of the door she finally asked herself the question.
"What should I say to her?" That was not a bad question. I mean how to tell a mother that her son died.
You can´t say 'Hello. Son dead. Goodbye'. For that these sentence is just missing too much auxiliary verbs and pronouns.
Kitty thought about how she should start the conversation as Peg Puppy opened the door. Kitty looked confused at her
"How did you know that…"
"I saw you walking up to the house through the window. You´re Mitsy I think?"
"My name is Kitty." She corrected Peg. "Can I come in?"
Peg stepped away from the door and let Kitty space to go through it.
"Just go straight into the living room." Said Peg to her. Kitty walked through another door and stood in the living room
with its two couches and pictures on the wall. She sat down on one of the couches and waited for Peg.
While she still tried to figure out how to start this conversation Peg flopped on the couch on the other side.
"So, Kitty. Where is Dudley?" This was like a stab right into the heart for Kitty. She couldn´t fight the tears anymore.
She took one of her hands to hide her eyes and began to cry.
"Oh, what´s wrong sweety?" asked Peg surprised from the sudden emotional outburst.
"Is it about Dudley?" Kitty just nodded. "What happened?" Kitty pulled herself together as good as she could
to say the next words with a clear voice. "Dudley had an accident."
"What happened?!"
"He had a car accident last night… he´s…" Kitty couldn´t continue her throat was too constricted and
the expression on Peg´s face didn´t made it better. Peg stood up, walked towards Kitty and sat down beside her.
And then she hugged her. Kitty was surprised but not because of the hug, she was surprised because this felt so good.
"Let it out, sweety. You´ll feel better." Sobbed Peg and also in Kitty all dams broke.
"I knew that something happened… I knew it this morning as I stood up." Meant Peg after a while.
"Something felt so wrong… And I wondered what could have happened. And now…" She let her head sank on Kitty´s shoulder.
"First my husband… now Dudley. That just shouldn´t happen… Something was always against us."
"What do you mean with that?"
"Just a feeling sweety… "
Together Kitty and Peg cried until their tears dried up.
-Okay chapter 6 is up and I think a quarter of the story is done now. I will update Chapter 7 as soon as I can and because of this fantastic sleeping disorder I´m very productive ;D. And of course I´m curious how do you liked it so far. So write it in the reviews. By the way, Dudley is of course not dead ;)-