Chapter 24

It's been a few days since Leon and the Harry, things but after D gave him the butterfly he had a new view on perspective of things. If he had it his way, the end result will still be the same but the other way around. But today would test D's relationship with his family. It was suppertime and already D and Leon were arguing. Kuri already was getting a headache. "Mr. Detective, will you kindly refrain from reading the newspaper at meantime?! What are you doing here this late? Don't you work today?!"

Leon said, "I took the morning off so I could have breakfast with you, Kuri, and Chris. I'm glad I did too. What are you feeding them?"

He out some food on the table. "Chris is a growing boy. He needs plenty of protein."

That's when Leon found something in the news section. "The former defense minister of Corona, who fled from his country last month, will undergo heart transplant surgery at a Los Angeles hospital tomorrow. And get this…they're gonna give the guy a baboon's heart. Fitting, considering the guy comes from a banana republic."

Kuri asked, 'Why a baboon?"

Leon said, "The operation is a quick fix until they find a human donor. It's impressive, but until they're able to give our friend D here a personality transplant, I'm not all that interested in medical science."

D said, "If you ask me…I'd say that each successful step mankind mankind manes in medicine and science…is like a moth to a flame."

Kuri asked, 'A moth to a flame?'

Later that day, it turns out someone stole the money and the dude is now VERY upset. Leon was swamped and didn't know what to do. Of course he thought it was D that took it since he's an animal lover, but who knows. While Leon walking out of the office, he spotted Kuri. "Come to pick me up huh?" She nodded. "Guess now D's my babysitter." As they walked home, they spotted someone that looks like D. Leon ran to the person. "Hello D! How about you and I take a nice little trip to the station." Kuri made Leon let go and both saw a woman who looks EXACTLY like D.

The woman asked, "You know Count D?"

The 3 of them arrived back at the shop. D saw Leon and said, "If you're looking for Chris, he's at Catherine's birthday party and won't be back until tonight."

Leon said, "Nope. I'm looking for you. And so is someone else actually."

D asked, "Do I have a customer?"

Leon said, "No, but I think Kuri now has a sister-in law."

The woman walked and hugged D. "Da geh…I've found you!" While she was happy, D wasn't as well as Kuri.

The next day, Leon was pondering on D's reaction. "The weird thing is that it was like the first time they'd met. Like the Count didn't even know he had a little sister."

Jill said, "Well lay off. I mean Count had the same reaction when he saw Kuri again. Don't worry about it."

Leon thought otherwise. 'Probably but the Count isn't one to freak out. He looked frightened and this girl did that to him when I'm worried…because I've never seen the count frightened before. Not even when Kuri's legs were crushed.'

After work, Jill and Leon arrived at the shop. Jill said, "Hello you 3!" She saw how the 2 twins were dressed. "On my! You do look alike. Why it's like holding up a mirror! How adorable." Kuri was getting red. Jill tried to calm her down. "Calm down Kuri. You're still cute. Never I thought the girlfriend would get jealous of the sister."

D stood up. "I'm going to go make some tea."

The girl said, "Da eh."

D said, "It's all right. I'll be back soon." Then he left.

After a few moments of silence Jill said, "Don't look so worried. We're your brother's friends. We both work for the police department. I'm ill and this is Leon, Kuri's brother."

Leon sweat-dropped. "We've already met. So what's your name?"

The girl asked, "Name?"

"Yeah. Your name." said Leon.

"Nue ehr." said the girl.

Leon asked, "Then what's your brother's name?

"De geh."

Jill said, "No, you idiot! The first one means daughter and the second means older brother in Chinese. It's amazing what you can learn when you don't spend hald your evenings searching the net for free porn." Then she asked, "What's your name."

The girl said, "Daddy always calls me…his lovely nue ehr. And my brother has always been called da geh." Her English wasn't very good and mentally she seems hardly more then a child.

Then she started to flirt with Leon but it didn't last very long. D punched Leon in the face. "What are you doing to my sister?!"

Jill decided enough was enough. "Don't worry about him D. We need to get going anyway. We just stopped by to check on you, your sister and Kuri. Bye." Then they got out of there.

Kuri sighs. 'I'm going to bed D. Got a headache from Leon.' She smiles at the 2. 'You 2 catch up on things.' Then she went to bed.

The girl said, "Brother, I'm so happy! You called me sister. Say it again."

D said, "Sister."

She hugged him. "I love you brother. Ever since daddy first told me about you, I wanted to meet you."

D thought, 'Father…'

She continued. "He talks about you a lot you know. Daddy's always saying how he wishes he could see you again. It got to be too much. I had to sneak oer here and meet you for myself. Only, now I'm worried about daddy. He's going to be very mad when he finds out where I've been."

D said, "Sister. You don't have to go back to daddy. You can stat here. From now on…you can live the rest of your life as you see fit." He brought her to the back room. "Sister listen to me. From now on, it's okay for you to live any way you'd like. you don't have to answer to anyone."

Sister didn't understand. "But what about you? Daddy always said…grow up soon for your brother's sake. For my beloved son grow up soon. Never forget it was for him that you were born."

Now D was worried and scared. "Sister! That's not true. I didn't even know I had a sister until a day ago. I never asked for such a thing. You must not believe it."

Sister asked, "You don't need me? You don't love me like you love Kuri?" Then she started to cry. "Why?! Why don't you need me?! Do you hate me?!

D said, "That's not it sister. That's not it at—" Then he nearly collapsed.

Sister went to him. "Brother?! What's wrong? Are you in pain?" Then she said. "So it's true. Its just daddy said. Brother is sick. I'll give it all to you brother. My eyes and lips, my bones, my blood, my flesh, my heart itself, if you need it. I'll give it all to you. Anything you wish—"

D yelled, "Stop it!" He stood up and pushed her to the ground.

Something snapped in sister's head. "Brother doesn't…need me? Then what should I do? My purpose in life was to provide you with whatever you might need."

D hugged her. "Sister I'm sorry. Now listen to me very carefully…"

But he didn't have the chance. Sister attacked him in the neck. Her nails grew long and her teeth turned sharp. "Well, if brother doesn't need me, then I don't need brother! With brother done, maybe daddy will like me the most!" Then blood started to fly everywhere.

Leon went inside only to find the door was locked and he heard screeching. Thinking the worst, he bust open the doors and ran inside. He checked on his sister and saw she was sleep and was out cold. He ran through the halls until he found a room where D was. In the room, there was an animal dead and 4 others were attacking it and was eating. it. In human form, it was sister that was dead on the floor. D got inside and saw the carnage. "The hell is this? What the hell is going on here D?! How could you let them go wild like this? Jesus!" Then he saw the animal. "What is that thing?"

D said as he held it, "This is an orangutan. It's a type of monkey from ancient China."

At the end it turns out the one that still the baboon was just a man that need him to save his daughter. Of course when they arrest him, his daughter didn't know what was going on, but it turns out that she and the baboon were actually great friends. As for the minister, he had a different transplant but then a snapper killed him. So they used the baboon to save the little girl and the father was arrested but his is just on probation. Leon walked in somewhat content. "Well, it's official. Our friend Golan was pronounced dead at 5 this evening. Go figure. All that fuss over the transplant. All the threats…and some terrorist from his own country goes and shoots him, just like that. And with the general dead, guess who the heart's going to? That's right the daughter of the guy who stile the baboon." Then he asked, "So how's your sister? With all the excitement, I forgot all about her."

D said, "She has returned him… to father."

Kuri said, 'Shame. I wanted to give her a chance. Guess I fucked up.'

Chris said, 'Yeah, Count, I was really looking forward to meeting her.'

D said, "I'll tell her that if I see her Chris. It will probably make her day. And don't worry Kuri. Maybe next time you 2 can get alone."

Then he poured something in a class cup. 'What's that? It looks like cranberry juice.' said Chris.

D said, "This? No, it's just juice. This is…my medicine. It's strong and bitter." Then he thought. 'But the wound that I must heal is very deep. So I drink this in her name and I savor every drop.'