Alicia—Okay, once again, sorry about not including you in the last chapter too much...if it makes you feel any better…well, you'll have to read and find out! And I'm writing this HUGE scene with you and Eddie later. It's going to be awesome!
Jenna—Go weasels! Go weasels! Go weasels, oh yeah! *does a cheerleader dance, then falls flat on face* Ouch…okay, no weasels here, but there will be later, I promise! Every time the weasels show up, there is going to be record-breaking levels of awesomeness! I think I'm starting to fall for Greasy, too…don't worry, my heart still belongs to Smarty!
greatbigsealover44—Aw, thanks! I'm glad that you think I'm keeping them in character! You're doing a good job keeping the characters in character in your story, too! By the way, do you want for me to Beta your story?
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Chapter Seven
Lulu and Jenna followed Eddie up the stairs to his apartment-office. "What was that stuff that the judge dunked that shoe in?" Jenna asked.
"Some mixture of chemicals," Eddie replied. "I use them sometimes. But together, they can kill a Toon. The Judge called it the Dip."
"Took you long enough," Alicia's voice rang out. They looked up and saw her waiting outside of the apartment-office with a stroller. "He made me take him here," she continued. "I told him that I wouldn't let him in because it's against the rules."
"This isn't the time for the rules," the Baby said impatiently, puffing away on his cigar. He blew a ring of smoke around the girls' faces. They coughed.
"You really shouldn't be smoking that," Lulu cautioned.
"Don't baby me," he replied, taking a long drag on it.
"Gomez Addams started smoking when he was five," Jenna said, remembering the live-action movies she had seen with Lulu.
"We're getting off-topic here," the Toon interrupted. "I wanted to talk to you about this whole murder incident."
"What about it?" Jenna said, folding her arms.
"This whole thing stinks like yesterday's diapers! The newspapers have been saying a bunch of poop about Marvin not having a will! He promised to leave Toon Town to us Toons in it!"
"Well, where is the will?" Lulu asked. "Does anybody know?"
"No, but he always kept his promises! And he did say, for a fact, that there was a will!"
"Well, what happens to the town if it doesn't go to the Toon population?" Alicia mused.
"Judge Doom," Eddie answered at once. "He was telling me that the town is under his jurisdiction now. And Santino says that he has enough supporters to buy whatever elections happen."
"We need your help!" Baby Herman told him sternly—surprisingly stern, for a baby. What an enigma. "And I don't believe for a moment that Roger killed Acme. He's a dear friend of mine!" Eddie shook his head, and he started to open the door to his apartment. "I could pay you!" Herman offered, and that really struck a nerve with both Eddie and Alicia.
"Can't you do ANYTHING on your own?" She shouted, pushing the stroller down the stairs. "Leave us alone! Go bother the Toon Patrol you were telling me about!" She followed Eddie into the apartment, but Jenna and Lulu lingered outside for a few more moments.
"Mr. Herman…WE QUIT!" They called out, slamming the door. The last they heard of the baby involved him screaming and crying because he had dropped his cigar.
"Don't you think you were a little harsh on him?" Eddie asked, mocking Lulu from the night before.
"He's a celebrity. He'll be fine," Alicia said, thinking about the many ladies that would love to look after Baby Herman. Jenna smirked.
"Man, infants are such babies!" Lulu complained, slumping against the closed door of the apartment.
"I'll say!" Jenna agreed. "I'm never going to have any of them!"
"That's too bad," Eddie chimed in. "You'd make a wonderful mother."
"I'll take that as a compliment," Jenna shot back, folding her arms and scowling at him a little.
"What are you girls still doing here?" He asked. "I've got better things to do than baby-sit three teenagers." He walked over to his desk and began to slip out of his jacket.
"I'm eighteen, thank you very much," Alicia told him coldly. "And we're not in a hurry to go and take care of some washed-up cartoon celebrity."
"Yeah, especially since we just stopped working for him," Jenna muttered.
"And just because we're not working for him anymore doesn't mean that we're not working for Roger," Lulu added. "We're going to help him, and you're going to help us."
"Why do you want to help him?"
The three girls looked at each other, and then they shrugged. "I don't think he did it," Alicia said. "He seemed devastated, not murderous."
"And aside from the freak that killed your brother, how many other Toons have been known to murder people?" Jenna asked. "Something tells me that it's not in their nature."
"You'd be surprised," Eddie commented, taking off his jacket and preparing to slide into the chair by his desk. He hesitated, his eyes inches away from a glass of booze and the newspaper.
"What? What is it?" Alicia asked, walking over.
"It's the will!"
"What? Where? I want to see!" Jenna said, running over and leaning over the desk. On the front page of the paper there was a large photo of Marvin playing patty-cake with the seductive Jessica.
"There, in his pocket," Alicia pointed. Sticking out of the pocket of Marvin Acme was a piece of paper that clearly read LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.
"Do you think he had it when he died?"
"They would have found it…"
"Aw, who am I kidding?" Eddie shook his head, laughed to himself, and went to lie down on the bed. The girls stood over him, biting their tongues and trying not to laugh…not at Eddie, but at the person lying next to him.
"Hello, Roger," Alicia said softly, and Eddie's eyes shot open. He and Roger stared at each other, yelped in surprise, and hopped out of bed.
"Howdy, girls," he said, smiling at the three teens, then focused on the steaming detective.
"Anybody know you're here?" Eddie demanded.
"Nobody, not a soul…except, uh…"
"Who?"
"Well, you see, I didn't know where your office was. So I asked the newsboy. He didn't know. So I asked the fireman, the green grocer, the butcher, the baker, they didn't know! But the liquor store guy…he knew!"
"In other words, the whole town knows you're here!" Eddie shouted, grabbing Roger. "Get out!" He was going to literally throw the bunny out of his apartment, and Roger sure was putting up a fight.
"Please, Eddie! I never killed anyone! I swear! My whole…purpose…is…to…make…people…laugh!" He was losing the fight towards the end, but it ended in a draw. He remained in the apartment for a little while longer.
"What happened after I left you last night?" Lulu questioned, growing a little frantic.
"I wanted to go home and wait for Jessica, like you said! But the weasels were waiting for me, so I ran!" He explained tearfully.
"You were going to talk it all out with her," Lulu said, relieved that somebody had listened to her advice instead of ignored it.
"Nope, I wrote her a love letter! I found a nice, clean sheet of paper!" He produced the paper, which was covered with red lipstick and big words. "Dear Jessica," Roger began reading in a lovey-dovey voice. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." He began bouncing on the bed, giggling like a child. "One-one thousand! Two-one thousand! Three-one thousand!"
"But why do you need MY help?" Eddie said, going back to his desk for another drink.
"He's the one who got you into this mess," Alicia protested, now getting sick of the rabbit's presence.
"Yeah, but he also solved all these other cases and helped all these Toons!" Roger pointed out, looking through the scrapbook of memorabilia. He sank into the chair across from Eddie's.
"GET OUT OF THAT CHAIR!" Eddie exploded. Roger froze, and slowly lifted himself from the chair. "It's my brother's," Eddie said sheepishly in a quieter voice.
"Where is your brother? He looks like a sober fellow," Roger commented with a sly, knowing glint in his eye.
"That's it," Eddie reached for the phone. "I'm calling the cops!"
"Go ahead! Call the cops! I come here for help and what do you do? You turn me in! No, don't feel guilty about me! So long, and thanks for nothing!" Roger had delivered this dramatic speech as he made his emotional exit stage left…and into—
"That's the closet!" Alicia called out.
"Sheesh," Eddie said, hanging up the phone. Jenna opened the closet door…but the movie star was nowhere to be found.
"Eddie, he's not here."
"What?" Valiant poked his head in, only to have his hand grabbed and handcuffed by the figure hiding in his coat.
"Mr. Valiant! You're under arrest!" Roger giggled. Eddie swung Roger onto the bed and glared at him.
"I don't have keys for these cuffs!"
"Where are they?" Lulu asked, worried.
"I don't know!"
The screech of sirens roared outside, and they all walked to the window, wondering if there was a fire accident or a car chase…but what they saw made Roger scream and the stomachs of Lulu and Jenna turn cartwheels.
"YIKES! IT'S THE TOON PATROL!" He leapt back, dragging Eddie under the bed. "You gotta hide me, Eddie!" He dove into a desk drawer, pulling the real person with him. "Remember, you never saw me!"
"Get out of there!" Alicia said, exasperated. "If we're going to hide you, we need a better place!"
The shadows of the five weasels appeared outside of the main door, and they rapped sharply on the wood. "Open up in the name of the law!" The voice of the leader yelled, and Lulu smiled a little, in spite of herself.
"I'm as good as d-d-d-d-Dipped!" His teeth chattered. "What are we gonna do, Eddie?"
"Don't make us play rough, Valiant, we just want the rabbit," the head weasel called out.
"What's all this 'we' stuff?" Eddie asked, staring at the trapped rabbit. "They just want the rabbit."
"You're not serious," Lulu hissed, staring at the closed door. The Toon Patrol was growing impatient.
"Please, Eddie," Alicia begged. "Hide him. We can't do this."
"You saw what they're going to do to that him. Don't let it happen to anybody else," Lulu pleaded, and Eddie furrowed his brow.
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