E. Taylor – Thanks :)

Xblindxfirex – I'm not paying for the glass. :P Haha, yes... I like Mystery. Glad you enjoyed it so much.

Obzezzed – Main character? Hm. I suppose he did become the main character, which isn't really what I was intending from the start. Don't worry, Goldie isn't dead... yet, at least. She may be killed, maybe not. Why would I tell you? :D All the animals were in the audience at the trial, watching. Bobby is an OC, yes. Thank you.

rAwrXdiNo3 – That did sound deep, yes. xD I like that comment, sounds like a review from a newspaper or something you'd find on the back of a book. xD But hey, at least the story started off fairly cheerful! And with this chapter, we go back to a more AC-ish theme, rather than action-packed court and murder drama. And haha, Josh is unpredictable I guess. At the start of the story, he was the calm, wise guy who helped Louis fit in. And then he transformed to a hateful, revenge-seeking character by the end. Thank you!

misty-the-fox103 – You did? I didn't. I didn't intend for the killer to be Bobby, but I cahgned my mind literally while writing that chapter. :P Haha... Thank you!

emma2679 – Emmaaaa. Wait what? I don't get your comment on the poison thing. xD

H.M. ToT – Oh wow, thank you! Glad I'm your favourite. :)

The living Pen – Haha, not that I can foresee. I don't want this story to be action, really. It's a drama. :P So no big battle scenes. However, I will tell you that there is going to be more action in the way of animals for/against humans. Cause what Bobby said about them getting revenge if she was killed... well, it wasn't a bluff. :P Thanks!

A/N aka Big Ramble: Well, finally, we're back to a calm chapter. I'm hoping that this one had some of the feeling that the story had before the whole cave and trial stuff. Of course, I'm not regretting the storyline, but... this isn't an action story, it's meant to be a drama that focuses on characters and their histories. So anyway, Louis made a return in this chapter, long overdue. The next chapter (as in, one after this) is the last of BWIADW, as a sort of epilogue to the story. It's not going to be the type of epilogue you find in a book, but a normal chapter that rounds off the story, in a way. However, as you've probably guessed, this isn't the end of the whole humans being poison storyline. That was going to be the main plot from the very start, really. It was hinted with Bobby's introduction, giving Louis the book... and Jenny's description of Honevray, being like a soap opera, and such. However, book two won't be focussing on it until the end. I guess you could say that the climax of books one and two at least, are both focussed around the whole thing.

Cause I wanted a twist on my town life story. One of the biggest questions you get with Animal Crossing, is how on earth a human ended up living in an animal town, where no other human is, and why? I like this little twist, and I didn't want a story where it's just 'Boy moves to town, makes friends, the end'. I'm hoping I've achieved it. I know this story has been confusing, and I'm going to make a confession... Up to around chapter 40, the entire story was just... made up as it went along. All the times I've talked about character histories, what I've "planned all along" and such has been lies. I had no idea what I was going to do with the story until the ending, when I planned the whole murder and stuff. Heck, even the court trial finished completely different to my original plan. So anyway... in book two, I don't really have any ideas yet except for the very ending. I'll be continuing what I've done so far, just taking it as it comes. Usually when I don't plan things, I get lost, make mistakes and such. I probably have made quite a few contradictions in my writing of BWIADW, but not too serious... I hope.

But what I intend to do, is take a LOST type style in certain parts and really start making histories for the characters, through flashbacks and such. I also intend to write it in third person, because I can't keep the entire story focussed around Louis, and nor can I have it in first person while I'm going all over different storylines like I have in BWIADW.

So yes, here's chapter 49... chapter 50, and the closing to 'Series 1' is coming soon.

Twenty Questions

"Well, well..." Mystery commented, still sat on the museum floor as he watched Laura bandage his hand, "You're quite good at this first aid stuff. Rather fitting, really... the town police chief and healer dies... and now I'm the new police chief, and we have a new healer." The museum had quickly emptied after the incident, except for Blathers, who was hastily packing away the chairs and the tables. Bobby's body had been moved by Copper and Booker, leaving a nasty pool of blood on the once polished floor. Laura glanced up from his hand to gaze at him, offering a slight smile but saying nothing. "You don't talk much, though... doctors and such are meant to be able to make patients feel better, you know. Make them relaxed and such."

Laura gave a short laugh, "...Looks like I'm not much of a doctor, then." She sighed as she finished bandaging the hand, "...I've never heard of anyone being shot in the hand. But nice work with the trial... I would've just run. I wasn't quite expecting it to... end like that." She cast the pool of blood a disgusted look, before continuing, "Anyway... erm... well done... and all that."

Mystery gave a slight shrug, "Neither was I. But I knew it was her from the start... I just didn't know how she did it, or why... But anyway, I can't be bothered to talk about this now, shorty."

"...Shorty?" Laura gave a quizzical frown, "That's not a nickname, is it?"

"Feel honoured." Mystery chuckled, before slowly climbing to his feet. The girl beside him soon followed, seeming rather bemused. "Only two people here have a nickname. Josh has boss, and you have shorty. I mean... I suppose I could give that other kid the name Doughy or something, but that would be harsh. But yes, your nickname from now on is shorty. It doesn't quite work as well as boss does with Josh, but... I'll try and think of a new one... Hey, wait, I've got one!"

Laura gave a pained sigh, raising her eyebrows, "...Go on."

"GP! As in, what your local doctor's called!" The girl sighed deeply, face-palming, "You're the new doctor in town, and GP just works. Sure, it sounds like a guy's nickname, but... live with it. I'm starting to sound like Sawyer from LOST, now, with all the nicknames."

"...You know the TV show LOST?"

"Of course!" Mystery flashed a brief smile, before extending his non injured hand, "It's nice to meet you, GP. And I'll remind you that I'm human... you know, the whole being poison to the world thing. We're not meant to be here, so we came from somewhere else. Meaning... I came from the normal human land too, meaning I know TV shows and such. And I have a perfect little game to start off this friendship. How about it, GP?" Laura simply gave a resigned nod, keeping silent as Mystery took her arm and led her down the steps to Brewster's Cafe.

"Kabuki!" I jogged after the red and white cat, out of breath already. The animal came to a stop, turning to face me as I came to a halt beside him. "Kabuki... gah... wait."

"Yes, meooo-OH?" Kabuki gave an irritated sigh, making it clear on his face and body posture that he didn't want to be talking to me. I didn't care, I needed some answers. Kabuki was the only one that could give them. "What is it?" I looked briefly around at the several trees concealing us. The ledge to the upper section of Honevray was behind us, which was where Kabuki had been heading. I didn't bother questioning where he was going; he'd probably had the intention of skipping town. The sun had set now, and the moon was high in the sky. The sounds of strange bugs filled the area, the dim lights of Bones' house was barely visible through the thick trees. They soon switched off, meaning that the dog had probably gone to bed. A nearby bush rustled, and I watched as something hairy scuttled away into the dark. I hated night sometimes.

"What happened to you in the cave?" I questioned, moving slightly closer to my... acquaintance, to reassure myself as well as making it easier to even see the cat in the dark. Luckily, his fur was white; it wasn't too difficult a task to follow him. Kabuki flinched at the question, immediately shaking his head and turning to leave. "Wait! We all know someone blackmailed you now... we're apparently going to die, if what Bobby said about revenge was true... You almost killed me. And I understand you're not the bad guy... I mean... Josh came up with the theory that you were blackmailed with Goldie, is that true?"

Kabuki gave a resigned sigh, before gesturing with his left paw for me to follow him. Instead of heading up the ledge, he went left, in the direction of his house. I followed silently, and we walked past Bones' house, before passing through more trees. The wall of the ledge was to our right, looking rather creepy and sinister in the pale moonlight. Eventually, at the far western edge of town, I saw Kabuki's home. The large western cliff-face loomed above it, and I stared up at it as I followed the cat into his small home. He gestured to a random seat, and I sat down as Kabuki went to pour himself a glass of water, tail twitching as he did so. "I can't answer your question, meooo-OH. I don't know. Goldie and I went in, heard strange groaning... and bam, Goldie vanishes, meooo-OH. Some animal, couldn't see them, was male... he tells me that if I want Kapp'n and Goldie back, I must kill Josh, meooo-OH. Something about his part of the story being done. The world was complaining, and some other crap. Sorry for nearly killing you, meooo-OH, but... I didn't have much choice in the matter."

I gave a slow nod as I listened, leaving the conversation to fall into silence momentarily. After digesting all this information, I said, "...Why didn't you tell us?"

"Dunno, meooo-OH." Kabuki gave a light shrug, sipping the water as he watched me over the rim of the glass. It was times like these that made me remember that I live with a bunch of animals, for he looked so... much like a cat. He is one, but... after living here so long, I'd become accustomed to it and almost saw them as human. I was interrupted from the examination by Kabuki continuing to say, "Good thing I didn't, too. Cause it'd have been Bobby I would have told, meooo-OH. Turns out she was involved with the bastards that took her." I frowned slightly at his choice of words, not really used to anyone in the usual sleepy town saying such a word. I could just imagine my grandmother gasping in shock when I'd accidentally sworn when I hit my head on her low ceiling. I doubted this cat had such a grandmother...

"Er... right." I said pathetically, taking a glance around the rather dull room. It was simple. Fridge, oven, sink, TV, sofa... just the necessities. No decoration. Liveable, but not... liveable. I noticed Kabuki giving me an irritated stare, and I quickly continued to say, "U-Um... anyway... I was thinking... we should go investigate this. Like take a proper search of the caves, try and get her back." Kabuki's lips thinned, whiskers twitching slightly as he considered the idea. That was another thing. I kept forgetting these animals had whiskers too... moving on.

"No point, meooo-OH." The cat finally replied bluntly, causing me to frown, "You think I didn't search? The room where that freak appeared, that Goldie vanished... the one and only exit there had been sealed with rocks, meooo-OH. The stranger came from nowhere, and left with Goldie through... nowhere. If we go to the cave, meooo-OH, we will find a solid wall. And as selfish as this sounds, I just want... things to go back to normal, you know? This entire town is just all crumbling from a few dramatic events, meooo-OH. Losing Kapp'n, losing Goldie, me trying to kill Josh, Jenny being killed, being accused of murder, then the entire trial... it's just all too much, meooo-OH." I gave a sigh, understanding his reasoning. "I know... you're probably thinking... How could I abandon Goldie like this? And I get that, meooo-OH, but... I'm not some fool who goes and wastes time looking for something I won't find, meooo-OH." He broke off, before finally finishing emotionlessly, "And to be honest... she's probably not coming back, meooo-OH. Josh killed Bobby. They're angry." He shrugged, "We're doomed, meooo-OH."

"Twenty questions?" Laura questioned incredulously, "That's your game? Geez, I played that at sleepovers all the time... we always asked the most personal and embarrassing questions personally. How do you want to play?"

"Take it in turns." Mystery gave an amused smile, "I ask first... but if you answer, then I have to answer too. Then you ask, and you have to answer to... and so on. Ten questions each, but we both answer twenty. So I'll go first! Number one... How old are you?"

Laura raised her eyebrows, before taking a sip of her coffee. She waited a few seconds, sighing, before answering, "Fifteen and a half, almost. You?"

"Eighteen!" Mystery smirked, sipping his own, before adding at the end, "Nineteen in a few months." The two were sat at the bar of an otherwise empty Brewster's Cafe. The pigeon had gone on his break, but not after locking away every possible item that could be stolen. He'd even given the two humans plastic cups for their coffee so there was no way of them stealing the mugs. Slightly over the top. "I sound so old, in a bright and cheerful town full of fluffy animals... Geez. Anyway, your turn... bring on question two."

Laura gave a short laugh, blue eyes looking to the door briefly, before asking as she focussed on her fingernails, "Where are you from? As in... back... home."

"Home? This is my home, GP." Mystery replied, sounding serious. Laura rolled her eyes, and Mystery smiled, "You should call this home, too. Much easier to accept it. But... back in the world of humans, I came from Cornwall... south west England, the very tail of it. Though my accent is rather London-ish... I lived around London for most of my life, moved to Cornwall at thirteen. And it feels so strange talking about this here..." He took a look around at the cafe, "Here we are, in a cafe... the pigeon's not behind the bar, no-one else here. You could just see us sitting in a human cafe back in their world, on an ordinary day." Laura gave a sigh at this, shifting awkwardly. Mystery hesitated, "Sorry, GP. Anyway, your turn to answer."

"Tralee." The girl quickly replied, giving no answer to what else he'd said. "South-west Ireland."

"Ooh, you're Irish." Mystery grinned, tapping on the polished bar surface with his fingers as he continued, "That's what your amazing accent is. Irish accents always used to be my favourite, though I guess it doesn't matter what accent we have anymore. Anyway, moving on... Time for question three, GP." He hesitated, pulling a face as he thought, before exclaiming, "Aha! Perfect question..." Mystery gave a rather strange smirk, and asked the question. Laura raised her eyebrows, lowering the cup of coffee back to the counter, seeming rather astounded as she began thinking about how to reply.