Author's Note: Hi people, this is the last and final chapter for this story. Ah, do you smell that, that is the scent of completion. Well, I wrote some alternate endings and if you want to read them just e-mail me. Hope you enjoy, I put my heart and soul into this ending.
Chapter 10
I couldn't believe it I'd been had. This tricky, beautiful, wonderful, loving dame had kicked my ass to the fullest. She and Chang were a good pair; they could lie, steal and cheat the whole world out of their money. I was almost laughing my head off…almost.
"What are we doing here?" Hilde asked from the back of the Cadillac. I'd taken the liberty of showing up at the Shiprock Lake property in order to figure out what was going on. I figured I'd see Roddy here as well, considering that she was tricking Quatre into signing his deed away. We pulled up slowly to the property, slickly turning off the lights and stopping the car with a smooth, soundless halt. I hopped out of the car and saw that there were three cars here; Winner's white Bentley, Roddy's black Rolls Royce, and an indistinguishable car.
"They're here, both of you wait in the car." I jumped out of the car, pistol drawn and sneaked up towards the warehouse building. I could faintly here sounds of people talking inside of the building and I crept silently trying to find a way to listen better. Finally I see a stack of crates under a window and climb up it to get a better listen and look. It looked like Roddy was greeting Quatre with a friendly hug; part of me tinges with jealousy.
"I'm glad that you could make it Quatre, I was worried that the earlier events would have stopped you for some reason," I hear Roddy say cordially.
"Oh, I'm fine, I was actually wondering how you were feeling."
"Always the sweet man, aren't you? Well, we all know that my husband was a lying, cheating, scandalous prick, yet I miss some parts of him. But I'm sure you could help me with that," a smile is on her face as she walks up to Quatre and grabs the seat of his pants and squeezes. Slut! I swear women are going to be the end of me. Especially this woman. Like any other man would do, he surrenders to her stroking hand and becomes as limp (in some places) as a noodle.
"I can't believe I picked Relena over you," I can't believe he picked Relena over her. Roddy is probably the best lay I've found in a long time. Well, enough daydreaming, I need to get back to business. I watch as the happy couple breaks away and Roddy smoothly slides the partnership deed in front of him. That poor sap, she and Chang are gonna take him for everything he's worth. Quatre, in a dumfounded sex stupor signs the deed and Roddy quickly takes it away and stuffs it in a sacred place, her bra.
"Thank you, Mr. Winner, it has been a pleasure doing business with you. Now, I must be off, business and the like."
"Will you send for me later?" That poor, horny bastard, she's given you an out, run.
"No, she won't!" a voice from the shadows creeps up. Winner stares in the direction of the darkness but sees nothing. I creep up higher on the blocks and see absolutely nothing.
"You have to be so damned dramatic don't you," Roddy says with a huff of annoyance. The voice steps from the shadow and I see now that it's Wufei pointing a gun at Quatre. I fall ungracefully from my place on the stack of crates and distract them but for only a minute. Before I know it, a rather angered looking Wufei Chang drags me into the warehouse at gunpoint.
"I told you to wait until I called, didn't I Trowa?" Roddy asked, rather amused.
"Fuck you, let me go," I'm immediately pistol-whipped by Roddy.
"You're a fucking nuisance, but you're so cute though" She says and walks towards me, kissing me full on the lips, allowing me a moment's please as my hands go around her waist. I let go and watch her walk away, whipping the small spot of my blood from her lip.
"What do you want with me?" Quatre asks, completely frightened.
"If we kill you then we get all of the insurance money on the Savoy because we are now partners," Wufei holds the deed up high and powerfully. Winner snarls in anger.
"You tricked me you bitch!" Quatre yells.
"Join the club," I say spitefully.
"This is Chicago honey, everyone has a hustle," Roddy smiled, kissed Quatre passionately, and just as quickly as she'd puckered her lips to kiss Quatre she turned and pulled a pistol from her purse and shot Wufei, forcing him to drop the gun. He fell backwards, twitching his last breaths.
"I'm sorry Wufei, we had some good times, but Quatre is just a better lover," she bent down and kissed the blood soaked body and we all watched as Wufei Chang died again.
"What the fuck is going on here?" I asked after a sufficient moment of silence.
"Oh honey, do you think that I would actually stay with that bastard after all he's done to me. Every infidelity, every slap to the face of my pride I'd been planning this."
"So you're just gonna run away with the money and your lover?" I asked, "people are gonna find out."
"Trowa, if you hadn't noticed, I am a manipulative, beautiful woman, do
you think I would let some stinky cop catch me? Even you, honey, the man that can't catch his own sister's killer…" she turned her back on me and walked towards Quatre.
"What do you know about my sister?" I asked, anger seething from my teeth.
"I know everything about your sister. The way she stole my husband away from me with her cutesy whiles, always smiling, always flirting, I wanted nothing more than to kill that bitch!" If two large men weren't holding me back I would have tore her head from her neck.
"Roddy, darling, we should go," I hear Quatre say and watch as he puts a stilled hand on her shoulder.
"You're not going anywhere," two shots rang out and my eyes closed, instantly hoping that Duo, Hilde, someone would have come to their senses and shot this woman. The smoke cleared, my eyes opened and there she stood, still alive, but with a very dead Quatre Winner next to her. She looked down at him in his bloodstained white suit without any surprise. Then back up, everyone followed her line of sight to a petite, red-dressed, chocolate haired Jina Yuy; both women smiled at one another.
"What took you so long?" Roddy asked, bending down and leafing through his pockets.
"Are you going to loot the dead body?" Jina asked lowering the pistol to her pouty lips and blowing the smoke from it.
"What does he need it for? And while you're at it, dispose of his guards please," Roddy asked and that was quickly done. Before the guards that were holding me could move, they were shot down one by one.
"We should go," Jina said, "got the deed?"
"Yep," Roddy finished, both of them holding a pistol at me as they backed out of the room. As soon as they got towards the doorway they both took off running, the sound of clicking hills on the pavement, the only thing to give them both away. I gave chase, running and almost catching them until they both hopped into the mysterious maroon car that was parked outside earlier. I pulled my pistol, emptying the chamber and vowing to reload when I made it to the car. Duo pulled up quickly, blocking them in and I hopped in, trying to reload my pistol, while Duo handled the car.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," I heard Hilde's voice over a cock of a gun and turned to realize that I was staring down the barrel of a pistol.
"Not you too," I said watching as Hilde backed out of the car and went to hop in with the girls.
"I really did like you Duo, but we're in a Depression right now, what's a girl to do?"
"Hilde, get in!" Jina yelled from the driver's seat and Hilde hopped into the back. Duo and I watched as the women drove off into the night sky.
"Shouldn't we chase them?" Duo asked, just as confused as I.
"No, it would do no good. Besides, I have this," I smirk confidently and pull out a shiny piece of paper."
"Is that the deed?" Duo asked me looking shocked.
"Yep, Quatre gave it to me a few days earlier," I said with a hint of pride in my voice.
"But that would mean that…"
"Yes, I knew all along as did Wufei," I hear Quatre coming from behind us. I turn and smile.
"But you…"
"Were dead. Yeah, those girls need to learn how to check a pulse before they think someone is dead," Wufei said smiling.
"The cavalry should be showing up in a moment. You guys better go, don't want them taking you in." Sure enough police sirens were blaring towards the warehouse and they were all following a maroon car. Wufei and Quatre hopped into Quatre's white Bentley and sped off in an opposite direction from the fray. The police cars cornered the women in the maroon car and the women sat there angrily staring at both Duo and myself. I, in an act of spite, pulled the deed from my coat pocket and smiled evenly.
"Check Mate," I mouthed to Roddy and a smirk tinged her features. Jesus Christ on a cracker she was still so damned hot even when she was being arrested and charged I would still want to fuck her. The cops quickly dragged the ladies, read them their Miranda rights and plopped them all in the paddywagon to hall them down to the big house.
"You orchestrated this whole plan, didn't you Tro?" Duo asked as we walked back towards the car.
"Yeah."
"When did you figure it out?"
"Well, remember when we found Hilde and she said that it was her earring that we'd found in the Dog Food plant, well it wasn't. I distinctly remembered seeing that same earring on Jina a few days earlier. So I wondered in the back of my head, why would Jina be in the Dog Food Plant with Hilde and why would Hilde claim an earring that wasn't hers. I also saw those earrings on Roddy the day before we found Hilde in the plant," I said with a prideful smile.
"So, you drew this case together because of a pair of shiny, silver trinkets that women wear on their ears?" Duo asked with a dumbfounded look on his face. I just smiled to him, put my arm over his shoulder and stroll casually back towards the car:
"Like I said before, I never fail a case."
The End