Ronnie Ann – In the end, nobody else than Lincoln and Lucy knew about Haiku so they couldn't be found until Lucy's sudden appearance
Lori – Did you have to put me as a neurotic in that story?
Lana – You where like that! But yeah! Lisa and I told you way more details!
Ronnie Ann – Listen, I just pieced together the stories that matched and were not only related to the case but also the ones that I am sure did really happen
Lola – See Lana? I told you I didn't steal that thing to Lincoln!
Lana – As if you weren't like that
Lola – Hey!
Lisa – However, how does that help us to find who did the felony?
Ronnie Ann – Because the things that I don't know are the ones that matter the most, Luna; what did really happen when Lincoln arrived to see you before your tour?
Luna – What?
Ronnie Ann – Not only that, I'm sure that Luan didn't lie to me when you asked for her opinion in that day, however; I know you didn't follow the script, not only that; you just disapeared from that reality show
Luna – I…
Ronnie Ann – So… what happened?
Luna – I… I didn't do that to Linc!
Ronnie Ann – What happened?
Flashback
Luna is in a big room alone checking her phone but not doing anything until she touches her phone again
Lincoln – Hello?
Luna – Hi Linc
Lincoln – Luna, it's a bad time I'm in class
Luna – It's something fast dude! I have a crisis right now!
Lincoln – Wait a minute… … …I got permission to go to the bathroom but I don't have much time
Luna – Thanks bro, the thing is: I am going to be kicked out of the show tomorrow, the producer wants me to do a big tantrum to make it realistic but that's not how I am
Lincoln – Then don't do it
Luna – But if I don't do it I could not have another chance to make my talents known for the world
Lincoln – Luna, you already played some of your songs in that stupid show, the only reason we watch it is because you are there
Luna – But cha ain't all the rating
Lincoln – And what with that? You have a lot more talent than the other people shown there, you can follow your carrier without having to lose what you want
Luna – But… I already asked Luan, she told me that I needed to create a clear persona for others to know me, and sometimes falling into stereotypes…
Lincoln – Are you a stereotype?
Luna – No
Lincoln – Then… your clear persona is who you are, I'm sure your fans will like you better showing who you really are before seeing you as a selloff
Luna – …
Lincoln – At least, that's what I always liked to see about you in TV, but only you can make that choice
Luna – Thanks Linc, hey bro! What if we go somewhere when I get out of this emo rubish!
Lincoln – Sounds fine to me! Actually I wanted to ask you if you could help me with a song for Ronnie Ann
Luna – Of course dude! Anything for my little bro!
Lincoln – Thanks! See you latter
Luna closes her phone and goes out of the room to another small room with only one chair and a camera pointing there
Luna – Hey Luna here, I know this is outside time and all, but I am leaving here for good. I was asked to fight with the other participants, and ya know what? I ain't doing anything! This show just made me realize I don't need that producer! I will make it great in my own! See ya! World!
A little later in an office
Producer – You are or really brave or really stupid kid
Luna – My family says I'm both
Producer – You know we can't put that in the show, right?
Luna – Yes, and I don't care, I had to bring that out
Producer – Well, we are bringing you out, you won't be able to work in this company ever again
Luna – Works for me
End flashback
Luna – In the end I came back to town asking for rides and walking, when I came back spooky and Linc weren't anywhere to be found
Ronnie Ann – But you weren't that far from town
Luna – It's not far when you have your own car dude, but I had nothing, Chunk left the music the day I accepted to get to work in that company, and I wanted to show that I can be really independent
Lucy – Good, now tell me; why did you flirt with my husband?
Luna – Did Lincoln tell you?
Lucy – I heard in the radio; "you were in contact with a lover before everything started" and "Over the edge insinuations"
Luna – That! Okay, okay I admit it! My manager didn't want me to play before the tour, but when I told him that I wanted to do something to see Linc… he well took it in the wrong way and… asked me to help to create that… misunderstanding?
Lori – Why don't you sound so sure?
Luna – I… I was happy seeing Linc so I didn't think very well what I was saying, and… I could over do it; it was my manager's idea! I swear!
Lola – I don't get why would he want you to create that misunderstanding
Luna – Because he wanted some free publicity, nothing makes people to move around more than love issues… especially with a married person
Lucy – So much to have the only sister that could be in the place and time
Ronnie Ann – Not so fast! You are my latest suspect and I won't let you go like this! You are hiding something!
Lynn – Calm down! Listen I'm not someone that could understand everything that is happening but you are crazy gal, who in her right mind would set Lucy and Lincoln up?
Ronnie Ann – Someone that is not in her right mind
Lynn – Lori?
Lori – Hey!
Lynn – Please! Is that all that one person needs?
Clyde – I think Lynn refers to the motive, what could bring someone to set a trap like this?
Ronnie Ann – Do you want to hear the entire list?
Haiku – Do you have a list? And here I thought you were doing the assumptions right at the moment
Ronnie Ann – First Lily
Lily – You suspected me?
Ronnie Ann – You could have misunderstood the objective of the pills back then and think about using them to do something to Lana's horse, kill it even, however; this theory is refuted as soon the medicine in the bottle was supposed to be a anti-stress medicine, not only that; you were in your friend's house when most of the incident took place
Lily – Well, duh!
Ronnie Ann – Lisa, you are a genius and as far as I remember; you don't have any control when you want to experiment with your siblings, you even asked Lincoln if he could be your ginea pig
Lisa – Exactly, I asked
Ronnie Ann - Not to mention how Leni told me about the moments you made your experiments disguising them as something else to make your siblings being your testers without their consent; because of this you are my prime suspect
Lisa – I have to admit that makes me look guilty, however; the need to experiment that with someone like Lincoln was not needed after I saw the other horse, not to mention… I didn't know that Lincoln would go and take some anti-stress medicine
Ronnie Ann – That's what you claim, anyway I have to go on, Lola
Lola – There she comes
Ronnie Ann – You wanted that pass beyond anything, and you are well known for being controlling and Machiavellic, you could have thought about drugging Lincoln to force him agree to give you his pass, may be as a way to forgive him
Lola – Really!
Ronnie Ann – However, knowing Lincoln; he is capable to actually do a deal as the one you described when he gave it to you, still; the event could have been a case where you didn't deactivated your trap after getting what you wanted
Lola – As if! I didn't know about what where those things back then! How would I think in doing that!
Ronnie Ann – Lana, you were very childish and exited about the bringing more babies to the world, you could have thought in a moment that you could even have another sibling if setting your parents up
Lana – What!
Ronnie Ann – I'm thinking in the motives and possible misinterpretations of reality that each one of you could have in that moment; anyway, the trap for your parents was interfered by Lucy and instead of a sibling you got a niece, of course you didn't know about her until Lucy's return; Lucy
Lucy – …I knew this would happen
Ronnie Ann – Something that I didn't say but I could figure out from Haiku, is the fact you were kicked out of your gothic group because you went to the dance; not only that, having Lincoln as your partner could have triggered something in you wanting to keep him for you, even if that was for a night; however, at not knowing what the stimulant could do you got more than you could chew
Lucy – That doesn't even describe that moment of craziness my husband had to pass
Ronnie Ann – Lynn and Luan, this event looked like a prank, what describes you two when dealing with Lincoln; however, you two were too far away to do something; and I checked
Luan – Glad I'm not a suspect for been Mrs. Gore
Lynn – Hey! What about Clyde and Haiku?
Ronnie Ann – Clyde is Lincoln best friend but I have seen a lot of cases where good friendship becomes a torture where one of the sides decides to end the other, however; Clyde was in his grandmother's house in those days not knowing she leaving meant in her going to Nebraska
Clyde – It was embarrassing
Ronnie Ann – As for Haiku, she was solving her legal problem for being in a cemetery the day of the incident, not to mention she has never in your house
Lucy – You never told me you were caught
Haiku – You were more interested in staying with Rocky than hearing our problems
Ronnie Ann – going further, Luna; even if you just claimed the… overdone flirting where because some kind of publicity, we are not very sure that's it and furthermore; If you really came by taking rides, you are more likely to get here in times when no one could tell, may be you went to the house, and made sure everything could be done to make Lincoln "yours" for one night
Luna – That's insane dude!
Ronnie Ann – However, how would you know about Lisa's experiment and Lincoln's stress issue is not contemplated in that theory so I really needed to know a lot more about you
Luna – Well, I didn't do anything dude!
Ronnie Ann – Leni, she is not here but the theory is practically the same as Luna with exactly the same problems, she is so slow that even if she heard what were the stimulants, she wouldn't have any idea of how to implement them, not only that; but she would still be investigating about how to give Lincoln those things; which brings me to the last suspect
Lori – Now you are talking about me
Ronnie Ann – Being very nice; you are very controlling, you don't like when a guy or anybody don't do what you want and that's what created a lot of problems with you and Lincoln or Lucy
Lori – What's nice about that?
Ronnie Ann – So you decided to do something about them the day they did something forbidden according to your own standards; you were going to push them more into that in order to separate them, using your family as a shield where the ones kicking one of them out wouldn't be you but them
Lori – Now that's going too far!
Ronnie Ann – Really? Says so the girl that made a tantrum to Bobby because he didn't want Lacy to have that name?
Lori – I had a lot of problems then!
Ronnie Ann – You had them in that other moment too
Lori – Lincoln helped me solve them!
Ronnie Ann – And there's what I have for having most of you as suspects
Luan – And what about what Lincoln told me?
Ronnie Ann – I checked naturally, my friend was not in Royal woods, she went to see a relative of hers that was sick that week, I saw the records in the hospital and they corroborated her story
Lucy – Okay… can I know what where you doing that night?
Ronnie Ann – Me?
Lucy – Until now I thought you had only a fight with Lincoln, now I know you really rejected him; what happened?
Ronnie Ann – I didn't! I thought he was the one rejecting me, okay? All that time I wasted my whole time in the arcades just waiting for him… even if I knew he would want to go to my house, that doesn't matter! I'm sure the culprit is here and I won't rest until one of you confess what you did!
Lucy – This will be a long night
Lisa – Please, this is absurd; especially when you got a prime suspect
Ronnie Ann – First rule when doing any investigation: everybody is a suspect
Lisa – Fine… but what do you want us to do? You said everything as far as we remember it
Ronnie Ann – Not everything, what did you do at the time the medicine was bought?
Lisa – I was in college giving my lecture, after that I went to the lab to destroy the medicine thinking I was destroying all of them, until that night I didn't realize that someone broke up in my room and opened my vault
Ronnie Ann – How do you know that someone stole what you had in that vault?
Lisa – Easy, the key was something that could have been done with a decent lock pick skill, however; the one that opened it must had a little surprise of an punching globe hitting him or her in the abdominal area
Lori – Abdominal area? Wait a minute… Lucy you were in pain in that part!
Haiku – She was in pain in all her body when she came into my house
Lori – But…
Haiku – But nothing! Lucy suffered from lack of oxygen for a long while and the doctor fund that Lucy's head suffered enough damage to feel pain in the cervix from a long time
Lisa – That makes sense, remember that Lincoln was suffocating Lucy when we found them
Lori – How can you remember that!
Lisa – I take every variable into account always, unlike our little political relative here
Ronnie Ann – What!
Lisa – I'm just saying that you aren't following the normal procedure; not to mention: it sounds like a bad idea to keep everybody together in a place when doing the investigation, it makes you look like you are following a detective's script
Ronnie Ann – I don't care… no I care, what else I am not following, or said in another way; what are the other variables that I am not taking into account?
Lisa – Of course no one with enough regret would have lasted that long without saying anything or telling something to anyone, and I have to say; even Lola can express regret
Lola – Hey!
Lisa – Not to mention, that event is something that marked everyone lives in this room, Lily was really mad to not been able to see Lincoln, I lost my assistant, Lana her manager, Lola and I always regretted to had that idea, Lucy and Lincoln lost their family, Luan and Luna made some dumb mistakes, Lynn lost the siblings with whom she always had the biggest connection and Lori and Leni lost their problems solver, frankly anyone here thinking on solving a problem at the time would be pretty stupid if she were to follow anything you just said; everything just becuase the principal issue here: "where's the benefit?"
Ronnie Ann – That doesn't proves anyone's innocence… stupid?
Lisa – Something the matter?
Ronnie Ann – You told me that the only moment Leni heard you say what the stimulant did was when you came back after giving it to a horse didn't you?
Lisa – Leni? Are you suspecting her? Come on! She is so stupid that… no it couldn't be she is stupid, she possibly misheard us thinking about any other thing… I have to check something!
Lucy – She is not stupid, just slow... and my husband is with her
Haiku (graving Lucy) – Wait Lucy! Think what are you doing
Lucy – I am! My husband is in danger
Lori – Enough! Why Leni being stupid would be a problem?
Ronnie Ann – Don't you get it? What alibi does she have?
Lori – Being stupid enough to not being able to create a plan like the one you planted
Lucy – She isn't stupid! She acts that way because you are unable to think better of her! Haiku let me off!
Haiku – I am protecting you, Clyde Dear; do you know where Leni lives?
Clyde – I don't!
Lori – Fine… I'll bring you there if you promise that when we find Lincoln and Leni watching some stupid fashion show we will forget about this
Lisa (returning from another room) – Lucy is right! My machine, Lindsey, Lindy I… Lincoln could be in trouble!
Autor Notes
Well two chapters more and this will finally be over; I just wanted to say before the next upload that I was hearing Johnny Cash version of hurt while writing the next chapter... just wanted to say that
By the way answering a coment; I already wrote the whole story before uploading it, the whole writing took me around three months; the reason I'm uploading once a day is because I try to check and fix every continuity issue... and to check if I have to answer some of the reviews, (writing an autor note doesn't take as much as thinking what happen next even if you already wrote the story's timeline); anyway, I'm glad so many people likes this story as I liked to write it.