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The brunette girl was standing in front of a metallic sink, with a brush on her one hand, trying to remove the blood stains out of the surgical tools that had been used on the necropsy of Hannah's Palmincton case, before she puts them into the autoclave for sterilization.
She was wearing her medical white apron and had her long hair tied in a loose ponytail.
She was thinking of the evidence she had on her hands for now and could admit she was really confused by the situation. Elga was sure that the killer was no one else but Patrick as his own behavior and acting proved right her guess. She had also found out the way and probably the reason why he did such a thing at his beloved wife. However, she couldn't think how he ended up dead too.
*Maybe someone else wanted to inherit the fortune so they had to get Patrick out of their way to achieve it… But they were still young and the couple didn't have any children yet.*, she thought inside her mind. *It doesn't make any sense if the person belonged to Patrick's family. They wouldn't inherit another's family money and so far we know that Hannah didn't have any other relatives in life as her parents died some years ago while traveling in the sea.*, she added remembering the details about the victim's family history at the clinic's files.
She found really convenient the fact that she worked in the only clinic of this part of the island as she could learn a variety of information about those things.
Deep in her thoughts about the discoveries she found out previously on the same day, didn't hear Law who had entered the room.
"Miss Cynthia's blood results you asked for are out." he talked in a serious tone.
His voice snapped the girl out of her thoughts and she turned her head to face him, giving him a nod without saying a word.
She was still feeling strange towards him as she hoped he would understand her lust for justice and helped her solve the case.
But in the end he didn't even believe her and that broke her heart.
Elga showed him all the evidence to prove her point but Law only conducted herself as if she was going mad.
The girl wasn't really in the mood to talk to him about it, at least for now, so she decided to ignore the boy.
Law glanced at her waiting for a response but when he didn't get any, he sighed in tiredness.
He was getting exhausted by the girl's moody behavior at him the whole day and decided to get her attention and put an end at this silent fighting.
He approached her from behind and observed her moves while cleaning the surgical tools.
"You need to be careful on the handles because you can find blood inside the circles too, so don't forget to spare some more time at cleaning it well." he warned the girl but she kept looking at the sink.
He placed one hand on hers and guided it in order to brush the handle thoroughly, while with the other supported his weight on the sink's edge.
With this move the girl was trapped between his hands with his chest embracing her back.
She suddenly froze on his touch and her cheeks took a dark red color in the sense of his hot breath near her ear.
"Let me help you do it right…", he said in a husky tone but Elga took her hand away from his and turned her whole body to face him in a determined look on her eyes.
However, only then did she realize how close they were, with their faces only inches away from each other.
Law looked her back having a devilish smirk on his lips and Elga made a frown.
"I don't need help, I can do it myself!" she replied and pierced him with her almost black orbs that made the boy get lost into their abyss for a moment.
"Why are you so harsh on me all day?" he asked her looking her back in the same way, determined that he will not let her go without an answer.
"Tsk, are you really curious about the reason?" the girl responded clicking her tongue in annoyance.
"I would like to hear it from you."
"Leave me alone…" she said back to him, rolling her eyes and went to walk away but Law didn't seem to have intentions of moving his hands that worked as barriers for the moment.
"Elga-ya…" the boy called her name and locked his stormy eyes with hers.
The girl's attention got caught at the sound of her name by the said boy and she turned her gaze at him too still having a light pink blush on her cheeks.
*She is cute…*, Law thought at her sight and moved the one hand that supported his body from the edge of the sink at her own hand, stepping a bit closer to her instinctively.
He had this feeling in his gut again, telling him that this story will not have a happy ending and he was bored of being afraid to lose someone else in his life.
He hoped he could change the girl's mind and stop her from chasing a killer with no morals as he already murdered a person for money.
He leaned closer to her and Elga's eyes widened in shock.
*I-is he going to kiss me?!*, she screamed into her brain and tried hard to keep her coolness and prepared herself parting her lips and closing her eyes.
"Elga-ya… You have to stop this madness and get back to your senses. Stop being so stubborn and get serious…" he scolded to her in a strict tone, feeling out of energy from trying to make her become sensible all day.
The girl opened her eyes puzzled taking a few seconds to realize that she misunderstood the situation.
She looked back at the boy who became aware of her actions and placed a pleased smirk on his lips.
"Were you waiting for something?" he talked raising an eyebrow.
"S-shut up!" Elga barked at him clearly embarrassed and run towards the exit of the door, leaving Law behind.
"I guess it can't be helped with this girl…" he murmured sweatdropping by her reaction and continued cleaning the tools.
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"This asshole… giving me wrong signs again…" Elga whispered while hugging herself as an effort to produce more warmth for her body.
She could hear her feet stepping on the freshly made white snow on the ground while wandering inside the forest searching for the spot, Patrick buried that mysterious object the same morning.
Suddenly, she tripped over a small hummock and found herself face down on the snow groaning in pain.
"Ugh, nice fall Elga…" she talked to herself and stood up again on her feet checking the burden at her back.
She approached the spot and saw fresh soil on a hole that seemed like someone dug.
"…that someone dug to probably hide something, huh?"
Elga took a quick look around in case she had been followed and started uncovering the object that was hidden under the dirt.
She took a golden watch key on her hands and smiled with satisfaction.
"The first half of this case is solved… I know who killed Hannah, I know how he did it and I know who he is… Now, I don't think you were such a remorseful person in life Patrick to kill yourself, huh?", she whispered to herself again but a sound of a stick breaking behind her back, caught her attention and turned her body blocking an attack by kicking the person's hand.
Immediately, her eyes widened at the sight of the woman in front of her as she couldn't believe if it was true or just her mind was playing tricks on her.
"Hannah?" Elga asked the person but they just replied with a devilish laugh.
She lifted an axe and directed the hit towards the teenager's head but the girl rolled on the ground and escaped from it.
"Only the fact that you called me with that name, is enough for me to kill you…" the woman commented still keeping this blood-thirsty smile.
Elga observed a scar across her enemy's jawline and remembered Lana's description for Hannah's face.
"I hadn't thought that Hannah had a twin sister… How I couldn't found you on the clinics files?"
"My beloved parents closed me to a school for rich children with bad behavior pretty far away from here… I shouldn't be the one that had to go there." she explained.
"I believe you should stay there forever!" Elga answered in a sarcastic tone.
"We still have the guts to keep our humor, aren't we? In your position I would think twice my last words!" she responded and jumped to attack the girl again with her axe.
Elga climbed on a branch and dodged again the attack.
"This stupid Patrick had to make me find the solution again…"
"I don't think he is that stupid considering the way he killed your sister… I mean exposing the body in public view, right in the center of the town, on the clock's pointer so as to wait until the time reached approximately 8:20 and the body fall from it in order to make it look like it was a suicide, is something evilly genius!", Elga described the way how Hannah Palmincton died.
"Hmm, I can say I'm impressed that you found out about it…"
"And I'm sure Patrick didn't just overdosed himself accidentally…"
"Patrick was a dead person from the beginning. I wouldn't ever leave him free with my money!"
The girl just kept looking at the woman with disbelief as she was taking very easily the death of a close person to her by her own hands.
Elga tried to climb higher on the tree but the branch broke and she fell on the snow right in front of the woman.
"The name is Lucinda, girl. Remember the person who will take your life and pay for your mistakes!" she said and lifted her axe again, sending a hit right on the girl's body.
