Back wit' 'nother chapter, yay!
I was actually kinda struggling with how to do this one; like, how are they gonna all confront Gaston, you know? It gets difficult. Anyways, on with the story I guess.
DREAM Labs
Presentation Room
11:34 a.m.
Hiccup, Anna, Jack, Rapunzel, Elsa and Merida were all currently seated at the big, round table in the presentation room, watching one of Anna's favorite shows The UneXplained, which was being broadcast on the giant monitor that was usually used for surveillance. Anna and Rapunzel were the only ones watching with a great amount of interest, with the redhead writing down what she was watching on a notepad.
"That one was really good Anna," Rapunzel said, smiling at the pigtailed girl beside her.
"I know, right?" Anna exclaimed. "Did you like the 'Things That Go Bump In the Night' episode?"
"I did-ooh, ooh! Things that go bump in the night! That's a good one, write that one down!" Rapunzel suggested, to which Anna scribbled furiously on her notepad.
"This will be good for my blog!" Anna told Rapunzel, her eyes beaming at the prospect of more information.
Elsa, sitting on the other end of the table next to Jack, shook her head in displeasure. "Really, sister? You and that silly little blog thing again?"
Anna, hearing her sister's exclamation, turned her head at her and frowned a bit. "And what's wrong with that?"
Elsa furrowed her eyebrows, forming the next response in her head. Despite the events of last week, and the months following the Great Wave, she was still having a bit of trouble coming to grips with the things she was seeing. "N-nothing is technically wrong per se about it.. it's just...I don't know how to put it."
"Yer steel havin' a hard time believin' all o' this, arn't ye?" Merida spoke up, sitting on the other side of Hiccup. "Seein' all dis crazy shit happenin' you still can't believe it?"
"Is that really how you feel Snow Angel?" Jack asked, looking at Elsa, who was playing with the hem of her blue dress a little bit.
The platinum blonde woman ran her right hand through her hair and sighed. "Look, it isn't that important, all right?"
Hiccup, hearing all of this conversation, took the moment to jump in. "From the sound of your voice, it does sound important. Listen, I'm just as perplexed as any other person who sees things like us-"
"Not me," Rapunzel interrupted.
"-thanks for that tidbit Punz," the brunet sarcastically added. He got back to the point at hand. "But it's natural. I mean look at my reaction when I first met all of you."
"Oh yeah, I do," Jack said, a big smile on his face, remembering the prank he pulled on the poor guy last week.
Hiccup looked at the time on the wall. "All right. I'm gonna go meet up with Dr. Hiddleston, see about those fingerprint results. I'll tell you guys about it when I come back."
"Hurry back Hiccup!" Anna exclaimed as she watched the brown haired male walk, not run, out of the presentation room, the doors sliding apart then sliding back together. When Hiccup was gone, everyone turned their eyes to Anna. "What?" she said, confusion laced in her voice.
"You have it bad," Rapunzel remarked, smirking at her friend.
"F-for what?"
"E'rybody can see it. Ye like tha' Toothpick, don't ya?" Merida said, a smirk also on her features.
Anna blushed at the implication. "W-well, um...uh, d-define like..."
"You wanna kidnap him and do all tho-" Jack began but was interrupted by a smack on the head from Elsa. "Owww!"
"Stop being so perverted, Overland," Elsa scolded.
"Gee, thanks for the advice, Mom!"
The Analysis Room
Dr. Hiddleston held the right side of his face up to prevent himself from falling over as he stared at the table in front of him; on the silver table lie the pistol that Hiccup acquired from his scuffle last night, with blue wires attached to it, which the wires led back to the computer on the other side of the table. The paraplegic scientist scowled at the machine before him.
"Come on, come on. Bloody piece of shit," he grumbled, looking at the progress on the screen: 79% it read, and it wasn't getting any faster.
"VREEESH*
Hiddleston looked behind him and saw Hiccup Haddock standing in front of the slide in doors that he entered. "Hey there Doc," the brunet stated.
"Oh, Hiccup. I was just about to come looking for you."
"Really now?"
"Oh yes." The dark haired scientist wheeled toward Hiccup, his face stony. "The man who broke into your home, did he say anything to you?"
Hiccup sighed and looked at the one speaking to him. "He did-I can't remember it all too well though."
"Just think Hiccup; think of the most important thing he may have said."
Hiccup followed Hiddleston's urging and began to think about the intrusion last night; so many things were broken, knocked over (the most important being his film collection) and the shouting between them-wait!
"You dare go up against the mighty Gaston!"
"H-he said his name was Gaston," Hiccup replied, prompting Dr. Hiddleston to narrow his eyes. "Gaston you say?"
"Yep. Fuckin' weird name isn't it?"
"The name though-Hiccup!" the dark haired man blurted out, slightly startling aforementioned male. "Go to the file room and look in that box on unsolved cases and the like. I think I may have something."
"Sure thing." Hiccup used his super speed and fled all the way to a room that was down the hall, to the right of the analysis area. The room was a dull beige, and it was dominated by nothing but file cabinets. Hiccup spotted the box on top of one of the silver file cabinets and looked inside of it. At break neck speed, he shuffled through all of the papers within the box, mentally checking off 'no' for every one that did not pertain to the situation at hand. At the last few files, he willed himself to stop and found what he was looking for.
"Aha!" Hiccup called out to himself before he sped back into the analysis center, stopping right next to Hiddleston, who turned toward the brunet male.
"Did you get what I asked you?"
"Oh of course I did! I mean, it's the whole box, but...look, I got what was important, all right?" Hiccup rambled as he handed the file to Hiddleston, who took it from him, opened the beige folder up, and analyzed it greatly. What Hiddleston saw was like any other police record out there; mugshot of a man with black hair, ponytailed, red-shirt, scowl on his face, The description he read was located underneath aforementioned mugshot.
Name: de Villard, Gaston
DOB: 09-09-77
List of crimes committed: Larceny, theft, assault on 56 occasions, disturbing the peace, death threats, breaking and entering, stalking.
Possibly mentally ill; described by law enforcement officials as sadistic, arrogant, and likes to sing.
Currently a suspect in three unsolved homicide cases.
Hiddleston furrowed his eyebrows at the report of the man who allegedly broke into Hiccup's abode. He placed the file on top of the scanning computer and looked up at Hiccup. "Hiccup?"
"Yeah doc?"
The aforementioned scientist's face was like stone as he prepared to say what he had to. "This man who broke into your home: you're lucky to be alive and uninjured. What I've read about this Gaston character, it...it unnerves me. This man has possibly killed and maimed people." Dr. Hiddleston took a deep breath before he continued. "And if you say he has these, these mirror jumping abilities as you say...I advise you and everyone else to be cautious."
Hiccup's face was one of anxiety; whoa! Who knew that there was more to a simple house intruder than he thought? Well, aside from the mirror based abilities, that is. "O-of course I will. You know it."
"I hope you can find this madman and put an end to him."
And here's the next chapter for you. I know it wasn't action packed and stuff, but it doesn't have to be all about action, you know!
Still, third issue storyline hint: the first appearance of Astrid Hofferson! What do you think?
Read and Review, and give me some great ideas guys.
