I apologize for the slow updates. I ironically I'm more busy in the summer than during school. As a heartfelt present to you guys, I will make this a long chapter, because I love you guys. (づ￣ ³)づ
By the way there are some Gruvia moments on the way, don't think I've forgotten. Enough of my blabbering! Onward with the story!
Chapter 7:
Lucy's P.O.V.
I sat looking at the TV, not completely comprehending what was actually going on. She really couldn't be gone, right? Yeah, I hated her with every part of my body to the deep depths of my soul, but I always pictured her there. Sure I told her to go die sometimes, but I didn't think she'd really do it. Though I loathed her very being, I'm not the type of person to be happy because of someone else's death. It's not like only one person died either.
"Miss Blakely was pulled ashore by neighborhood fisherman at 5:00 A.M. this morning. Cause of death and time of death are unknown at this time. We will keep you thoroughly updated," the reporter said.
"Hey Lulu, I'm going by my house. You wanna come?" Natsu asked swinging his keys around his finger.
I nodded absentmindedly, "Oh, yeah sure." I got up, threw on some sweatpants, and walked out after him.
My mind was going a mile a minute as we drove to his house. Madison was not the type to commit suicide and she was pregnant nonetheless, so I ruled out that possibility. The only thing that came to my mind was that she fell over on accident. But how?
"Hey Natsu did anything weird happen yesterday?" I asked trying not to badger him with questions.
He looked at me funny, "What do you mean weird? Like the world's fattest man swimming with purple dolphins or a dog dressed as a man while buying bananas weird?" I rolled my eyes and glared at the side of his face determination.
"Okay fine, fine. Nothing happened really. I think the boat was a bit faulty though, we had to evacuate," now that perked my curiosity.
"They knew there was going to be a lot of famous people there so why wouldn't they check? Do you think anyone fell off?" I asked. If this was the case then maybe that's what happened to Madison.
"I don't think so. It wasn't shaking that much, people were just being over dramatic because they were drunk," he said just as he pulled up to his house.I stepped out after him admiring the beautiful flowers surrounding the house.
"Who planted these?" I asked running up next while swatting bees.
"Igneel," he said nonchalantly.
"Who's that?" I asked, but he remained quiet. I simply shrugged my shoulders and followed him inside the big ass mansion house that made mine look like a countryside shack.
"Are your parents multi-gazillionaires?" I asked only half kidding. He ignored my question and proceeded to tell me about who I'm going to meet.
"Igneel might be in there. He's who I live with," I was waiting for him to tell me more about Igneel, but he just continued to stroll up the gravel path. That's when I realized that since I've met him, Natsu's never told me anything about his family, or anything personal for that matter.
Natsu opened the door and lead me inside. I was immediately greeted with the most handsome man that has ever graced the earth. He looked like Natsu for the most part, but was one hundred times more beautiful. I literally clasped my hands together and gave him my puppy dog eyes.
I turned to see Natsu glaring daggers at him. How rude! I nudged him in the side and gave him a surprised look. "Introduce me," I snarled quietly and jerked my head to the side.
He gave me a hard glare, "Bradley, Lucy. Lucy, Bradley." I wasn't in the mood to question his funky attitude.
"Hi, Lucy Heartfilia. It's so nice to meet you," I said sticking my hand out while Natsu stalked upstairs.
"Ms. Heartfilia I've heard so much about you. You're so beautiful just like your mother," he said in a smooth, sexy voice that fit him so well.
"Catch me I'm swooning! He called me beautiful," I said feigning delicacy. He let out a big hearty laugh that warmed me to my core.
While Natsu looked like a wild party boy, Bradley looked like a handsome, sophisticated man. I was too busy imagining my wedding with Bradley to notice the evil smirk or the look in his eye as Natsu returned to the foyer.
"Natsu, how glad we are that you have returned to us," Bradley said.
"I could say the same for you," Natsu replied snarkily. I was in too much of a daze to realize the situation brewing and too busy hearing wedding bells to pay attention to what they were saying.
"You've grown up know very well we haven't seen each other in twelve years, so why are you trying so hard to avoid me, we're all we have left after all," Bradley said with a sad smile.
"How'd you find me?" Natsu asked harshly.
"I've been searching for you for years. You were my baby brother I couldn't let anything happen to you," Bradley said with kind eyes, but Natsu didn't respond the same way.
He snorted and roughly dragged me out of the house. I said a quick goodbye to Bradley before protesting with all my strength.
"What in the actual fuck is your problem?" I screeched. I planted my two feet on the ground and refused to be moved.
"Lucy I'm not in the damn mood, let's just go home… please?" I complied, not because he begged, but because he said my name. I followed with a confused and calculating look on my face. It's the only time I'd seen him so serious. He looked grim and pitiful. It was then that I realized why he asked me to come with him, he didn't want to go alone. I realized that I wasn't exactly any help. I wondered about the true relationship between Natsu and Bradley.
I looked out the window and immediately lost my train of thought. There in the flesh, on the street, was Gray Fullbuster. Leisurely strolling down the street looking perfect as ever. I wanted to believe that he was miserable and dead inside like I was. I wanted to see him in pain and suffering, but of course he was too beautiful for that. It would hurt me more than him to see him in pain.
He looked like a model in head to toe designer clothing. The way he walked with my his hands in his pockets made my stomach clench. God, how I missed him. Trying to forget him was chopping like off my own right leg. I smiled as I watched him, even though I should be filled with rage and betrayal, I still loved him.
I was grateful when the light turned green and we drove off. Staring at him for too long would make me fall deeper and deeper in love. I was grateful to Bradley too, he helped me forget Gray for a few blissful moments.
"Hey Natsu-" I said when we got inside, but since he was suddenly on his man period, he completely ignored me and all I heard was and huff and a slammed door.
"You should get yourself checked Natsu! I think you're growing a vagina!" I screamed at his door. Threw myself on the couch voicing a string curses that would give my mother a heart attack.
Lisanna's P.O.V. :
My heels clicked on the expensive tile as I strolled down the hallway. My hands were clenched into fists and I was shaking with fear. He was going to kill me, he was going to wipe me off the face of the earth. My knees knocked and my heart rate sped up. I've never been so afraid.
I paused in front of his office door dreading the moment I had to enter.
"Enter," he said from inside, he knew I was here. My shaky hands pushed open the large oak doors. The cold, uncaring eyes that stared back at me would decide my fate.
"Did you find it?" His tone sent a shiver down my spine. My lungs refused to work and I settled for shaking my head 'no.' I flinched backwards when he snarled at me.
"Stupid bitch! You came to me asking for help and when I give you help you can't even do what you agreed to do!" He yelled slamming his large hands onto the desk as he stood up.
"You will find it, and if you don't," he let out an evil, maniacal laugh that made all my hairs stand on end, "you can bet every hair on your head that you won't live to see another day." My heart stopped. I didn't even have to look at him to know he was completely serious.
"Get the hell out of my office before I just get rid of you now and find someone else to do it," he snarled. I bobbed my head up and down and practically sprinted out of his office. The only thought running through my mind was how I was going to get it.
Detective Johnson's P.O.V. :
I rose from my desk and slammed the stack of papers on my partner's desk. I was beyond frustrated with this case. None of it made any damn sense!
"How the hell does something like this happen?" I yelled pulling at my hair.
"I don't know! Why do we always get stuck with these types of cases anyways?" He sighed slumping at his desk.
"Are they done with the autopsy yet?" I asked hoping to shed some light on this case.
"We should probably head down there now," he said getting up and walking out. I hadn't had any sleep for the past few days. I was racking my mind for how a perfectly stable teenage girl could fall over the side of the boat when no one else did. The railings were over four feet tall!
When we reached the morgue, the people with the lab coats whose job I forget, were looking at us with odd looks on their faces.
"We believe this was a suicide," they said gesturing to the body.
"Impossible," I said simply. This was anything, but a suicide.
"We found traces of anti-depressants and alcohol in her system. We believe she was a depressed teenage girl who was drinking herself silly at a party and then killed herself," they said. I couldn't believe it, something in me told me that this was not what really happened and they wouldn't be telling me the truth.
"Alright, we'll go talk to the family," my partner said. As we went to leave, one of them told me something that would strengthen my resolve more than ever before.
"Detectives Johnson and Tennet, Ms. Blakely would want you to work hard to find out why she went over the side of the boat, but be careful," he was trying to tell me something and I didn't know then but I would soon find out. I gave him a smile and a nod of the head.
When we had gotten far enough away from the morgue I asked Detective Tennet what he thought, "You don't really believe that was a suicide, right?" I had to know that my partner was on my side.
"Of course not," he said smirking at me, "I'll be damned if I don't find out what really happened."
"Lets go talk to her family to see who exactly she was involved with," I said and we hopped into my car.
"They live on west-side of town right?" He asked as I pulled out of the station.
"Yeah, 146th street," I said drumming my fingers on the steering wheel. I soon pulled up to the large mansion overlooking the sea. Geez, rich people these days, can't wait to flaunt their money in our working class faces.
I stepped up to the door and gave it knock. An older woman holding a broom came to the door.
"Hello ma'am we're from the city police station. We'd like to speak to the Blakely family please," Richard said. She gave us a timid nod and lead us to the living room. We sat down on the couch pulled out our notepads. I examined the room that cost more than my whole years salary.
Soon a forty year old woman and a middle school age boy entered the room. The woman had fresh tears on her cheeks and she looked like she was having a hard time. I made a mental note to not make this meeting any longer than it should be.
"Hello Mrs. Blakely, we know you weren't exactly expecting us today. We would like to ask you a few questions about your daughter. We know this is hard for you, but please try to bear with us and tell us everything you know," Richard said in a kind voice. She gave us a small nod and I slowly started asking her questions that would inadvertently tell me what I wanted to know.
"Did Madison have a lot of friends?" I asked.
"Yes, she was very social, but as her mother I could tell she wasn't very nice," she told me. I cocked my head to the side and raised my eyebrow, if she had enemies, it could make this a homicide.
"What do you mean ma'am?" I inquired.
"Whenever she had her friends over she would control them and boss them around. They would cower and agree to everything. I assumed it was just because she was rich, but she once told me that she had information on everyone in the school and that everyone was scared of her. I asked her how she could live like that and she told me …she told someone once told her that to live life happily you must control those around you, because you never know who will betray you. I was shocked to say the least," she said looking off into the distance.
"Did you begin to notice a change in your daughter? If so, when?" Richard asked.
The lady nodding furiously, "It was a few months ago. My daughter was always a conniving person, but she gradually became like a criminal. She was always planning on how to wrong someone who refused her demands. She killed the neighbor's dog when they told us she snuck out at night. Though, there was a day when I became truly afraid of Madison."
"What happened?" I asked. She hesitated, opening and closing her mouth like a fish out of water.
"She killed someone," the boy said. All eyes snapped towards him. I looked into his eyes and a shiver went down my spine from the look in his eyes.
"She was a murderer. I don't give three fucks who says otherwise, but she deserved to die. That bitch didn't kill herself, her shit just got back to her," he said before stomping out of the room.
"Mason!" His mother screamed chasing after him.
She turned to us with broken features, "Please leave. It would be best if you didn't come looking for us anymore." We nodded and complied with her requests. We sat in silence in my car for a while, contemplating what had just happened. Madison was no longer an innocent teenage girl murdered at a wedding, she was now a potential murderer. I know a suicide when I see one and this was in no way a suicide. I was determined to unravel this case even if it killed me in the process.
"Call Shane and get a copy of Madison's phone records. Find out where Mason goes to school, he's our main witness right now. We have to check the tapes on that boat, don't forget the warrant," I said driving away from the Blakely house. Richard nodded and got down to business.
We reached the dock in no time and I was determined to find out what exactly happened on that boat. I marched right up to the doors and walked inside.
"Sorry, but this boat is off limits," some kid in a janitor's uniform said.
"We're here to investigate," Richard said showing him his badge.
"It's already been investigated. I'm going to have to ask you to leave," he said walking up to us. There was something odd about this kid, but I couldn't put my finger on it.
"We have a warrant, kid," I said glaring at him.
He suddenly broke the bottom off of his mop and pointed at us. He was smirking like he could kill me with a twitch of his pinky finger.
"I don't want to have to hurt you grandpas, but you should leave," he said. I was flabbergasted! Was he gonna beat us with a fucking mop stick?
"We're 23 you miniature twat and your gonna get your ass kicked if you don't skedaddle," Richard said with a threatening glare. He ran at us and launched his ninja stick at my head. I easily side stepped him and tased him in his back. He flopped down to the ground like a giant fish. I almost wanted to prolong the fight simply because I haven't seen action in weeks.
Richard swiftly handcuffed his arm to the door handle and strolled down the hallway. I followed him down the way, searching in every room. When we found the security room it was locked. Of course, I thought.
"Fucking hell!" Richard yelled kicking the door. We eventually broke the door in, but I could hear footsteps.
"Get the tapes, I'll stand guard. Hurry the hell up though," I said pulling out my gun. I had no idea who the hell we were dealing with and I didn't want to be under prepared. The footsteps were getting closer and closer and I felt my stomach clench and heartbeat race. I counted five pairs of footsteps. Could Richard move any slower?
"Found 'em!" He yelled. I quickly kicked him out of the room and started bolting down the hallway. Now I was not the type of detective to run from conflict, but I had a feeling that if I confronted these guys, it wouldn't be good for me.
"Stop them!" I heard from down the hallway. It was then that Richard finally began picking up his feet. We were going full speed down hallway.
"There's only one way out of here David! They're gonna beat our asses to Sunday and throw us in a lake!" He huffed as we turned a corner. I pulled us into on of the rooms and waited for them to run past. We gave each other a slight nod before turning and running back the way we came. We threw ourselves out of the building and jumped into my car. I didn't even wait to catch my breath. I sped away from those docks like the devil was on our tail.
"Who the hell are we dealing with?" Richard asked, wheezing. I couldn't answer him, because I didn't know either. All I knew was that this was going to be our worst case yet and it was going to test every single ability we had.