He had been asleep for some time when Higgins heard him speak in his sleep… He was seat on the armchair watching a Tigers game.
Lily had appeared next to him. "Hi Thomas, so, did you like my photo?" "I saw everything, I was with you. But I would like to know what you think, I can't read your mind "
" Thank goodness! Sometimes it seems to me that you do! "
Now, she was dressed all in black with a Metallica T-shirt and leather bracelets.
"Do you like metal?"
"Yes, but I like to dress the way I want and I always wanted to look like a metal guitarist"
Thomas laughed ..." Come on, I'd like to dress up like a superhero... don't try... I hate Superman!" Seriously, you know your body has been found and according to Noelani you may have been strangled, but by whom? And why?"
"I have no memories, I told you. Did they find my camera? Maybe there is some clue. I remember wandering around the hotel looking for interesting subjects "
" I don't know. I'll have to ask Katsumoto. And yes, I saw that photo ... "
" I asked you. Did you like it? Come on, you can tell me. "
"It's amazing, you know, I wish it to be true."
"But it's true, the photos, the real ones, taken in secret, never lie."
"If you used to have this habit, are you sure you haven't photographed someone do something wrong?" She murmured "It could be."
Lily doesn't say to me all it was happened...
"Lily, why am I only seeing you in my dreams?"
"I even tried to get into Higgy's dreams, I wanted to be able to talk to her too, but nothing" she said with a hint of sadness.
" You'd drive her crazy, trying to push her ... Good for her that you can't do it"
"Who? Me? Nooo? The truth is, it's funny because you know how to respond, she would have gone into crisis, I don't know if she's ready to face her feelings, but promise me that when I'm gone, you won't let her get away. You're already a family to me. I just want you to be happy with her. Thomas? "
He couldn't say no to her, not when she begged him with that sad puppy look that she wanted her family to be happy and good God, he's so sensitive about the family. Ok! Ok! Ok! I promise you"
Higgins could only heard Thomas's part of the speech, but at some points she didn't needed to interpret anything. She needed time and she knew Thomas would never push her. He was a patient man and always supported her. She had to leave, if she saw her there, she would have asked if he had talked in his sleep and she didn't know if she could lie to him.
Lily sat in the couch and watched the game with Thomas. The dream faded and Magnum woke up on the main house couch. He smelled coffee coming from the kitchen.
He reached the kitchen when she was having coffee, looking out the window. She heard him approaching "Good morning, Magnum. Did you sleep well?"
"If we not mention the usual night visit?! Just fine! It's really comfy out here " he said smiling.
"Did she tell anything to you ? "
" Only she doesn't rule out having photographed someone she didn't owe because she usually secretly took pictures of people "
" Kind of like a stalker don't you think? "
"It may be but she says in that way you can see people for whom they are, no filter. She's a funny girl, she even likes baseball, it's a shame she's died"
"Magnum, now you are trying to seduce a ghost?"
"What? She was a young girl, she could be my daughter! "
"You talk about Lily all the time and I thought you were in love with her!"
"Are you be jealous, Higgy? "
"In your dreams, Magnum"
Higgins's phone rang. Detective Katsumoto was at the gate.
"Detective, how are you? We were going to call you, enter"
" Yes, right ... "he said, sighing Katsumoto. Gordon entered the hall
"Gordi.."
"Don't try Magnum ... you kept me in the dark again"
"Detective, we were only hired yesterday, our client contacted us anonymously through a lawyer, asking us to confirm the identity of the corpse found during the excavation " replied Higgins
" Except that you could be the last people who saw her alive ... I saw you are in the last photo posted by the girl .. By the way, what were you doing at the Maika'i Hotel? I guess it was for a case "
Magnum said: " Yes, but it's not relevant to this case. I was investigating a robbery and I asked Higgins to help me out. We saw that photo and we realized we had spoken to her that day ... a few words ... she inadvertently came up against me. She apologized and asked if we were there on vacation, she told us that we looked like a nice couple, and she hoped we spend good times in Hawaii… then I don't remember anything else, it's been a while. Our client after receiving confirmation of identity asked us to investigate, I know we shouldn't, but we were sorry, she was such a nice young girl and I'd like to give her peace and justice"
"Magnum, you know I shouldn't let this happen because you might be getting in the way of an investigation, but I already know you're not gonna listen to me, at least keep me posted "Having said that the detective walked away.
"So Magnum, what do we do? Where do we start from? " "Two years after the disappearance there will definitely be no house to check, unless it was owned, but she was so young ... unless ... she said she was an orphan ... Higgy you can check what's on County register? "
