In Today's Case: Party Time Murder Part 2

The scream had seemed familiar. Conan had taken off into the dark hallway long with Richard leaving Tess behind. Tess didn't even bother. She couldn't even walk every well never mind run. Conan turned the corner where he had thought the bathroom was. He was very right. But... there was no Eliza. Conan stepped into the dark bathroom. He looked around. He then felt a cold breeze. He looked over to his right to see an open window. The cretins blew in the breeze. Conan looked around still to see no Eliza. He looked onto the floor to see a hand bag. Makeup was lying all over the floor. He bent down. He looked at the Makeup when Richard arrived with everyone else except Tess. Eliza's father Maxwell looked around.

"Where's my daughter?" he asked Richard. Richard turned around to look at him.

"I don't know." Richard answered. Rachel stepped forward with Casey standing behind her.

"Well... Eliza said she was going to go to the bathroom." Rachel stated. Conan placed his finger on his chin.

'She went to the bathroom when we heard her scream. Maybe someone had taken her.' Conan thought. Then there was another scream.

"AHH!!" Conan quickly looked up from the makeup he was looking at. Richard pushed himself through the group of people standing in the door way.

"Move! That was my Niece!" Richard yelled. Rachel and Conan followed after him.

"Tess!" Richard yelled. When they had gotten to the living room. Richard stepped forward. He stumbled forward landing on his knees. He had tripped. Richard looked behind him to see one of Tess' crutches. Conan was then standing next to Richard scanning the room. He pointed.

"There!" Conan yelled. Richard and Rachel looked over to see Tess lying on the floor on her right side. She had her hand on her leg. She shook in pain. She breathed heavily. You could hear her breath breaking through her teeth. Richard quickly stood up. Conan was the first to be at her side. He got onto his hands and knees. He looked at Tess. Tess cringed her eyes shut. Conan could tell she was in a lot of pain. Conan looked down at her leg. He all of a sudden saw something really dark pour onto the floor. Conan crawled over. He placed his finger into it to feel that it was blood. Then the light flickered showing blood on the floor. Richard ran over to her picking her up. Tess still gripped onto her leg with her hand. Then everyone else had ran into the room. Richard looked at Selena.

"Get something to wrap her leg in!" Richard yelled. Selena nodded her head.

"Okay." Selena stated as she ran down the hallway. Richard looked around to spot a couch at the other end of the room. He quickly ran over as he placed Tess on the couch. He took off his jacket. She quickly wrapped it around Tess' leg trying to slow down the bleeding. He looked at Tess.

"What happened?" Richard asked. Tess looked at her leg as she removed her hand. Richard looked at her leg then placed pressure. Tess winced. She then looked at Richard.

"I don't know. When all of you guys ran out of the room to see what had happened I stayed behind. Then I heard someone run by me. I went to look when they knocked me down onto the floor. They had grabbed my gun and slammed it into my leg reopening my gunshot wound." Tess answered. Richard nodded his head. He looked back at Rachel.

"Rachel." He called. Rachel ran over. "Place pressure on Tess' leg as I go help Selena find something to wrap that in." Richard stated. Rachel nodded her head.

"Okay." She said. Rachel had taken over now. Rachel placed pressure onto Tess' leg. Conan watched as Tess gripped onto the end of the couch in pain. She looked over at Conan. She nodded her slightly. Conan nodded back. He and she knew that something was wrong here. But what? Conan looked over at the guest.

'What's going? Everyone was at the bathroom when Tess had gotten hurt. The only one not here was... Eliza... but had gone missing... who is it?' Conan asked himself. After Selena and Richard had came back with a blanket they wrapped it around Tess' leg. They all stated in the room. Casey walked over to Tess.

"Are you all right?" he asked. Tess looked at him then she nodded her head.

"Yeah I'm fine Casey thanks." Tess stated. Casey nodded his head. Christina walked over to the door. Richard watched her.

"Where are you going?" Richard asked. Christina looked at Richard.

"I'm going outside to smoke." She stated. Casey turned around to look at her mother.

"I thought that you quite?" Casey asked. Christina nodded her head.

"I did." Christina answered. "But since there's a insane person running around to house I'm going to go smoke to calm down." Christina added. Selena stood up from sitting in a chair by the couch.

"There is no insane person in my home!" Selena yelled. Christina turned around fully to face Selena.

"Well Eliza went missing and Tess is hurt what does that tell you?" Christina asked as she opened her pocketbook and pulled out a pack of cigarettes. She turned around to open the door.

"Mother." Casey called. Christina turned her head to look at Casey. "You shouldn't be going alone." Casey stated. He went to take a step forward when...

"I'll be fine Casey." Christina stated as she walked right out of the house. Casey sighed. Tess looked at Casey.

"Is your mother always like that?" she asked. Casey turned around to face Tess.

"Sometimes." Casey answered. Tess nodded her head. She looked at Conan giving him a clue that she shouldn't be alone. Right when Conan opened a door there stood a shadow standing over Christina's dead body. Conan was in shock. The shadow looked up at him and ran off. Conan ran over to Christina's body. He looked down to see a slash in her throat. Richard came running out to see Conan. Conan turned around he pointed to the body.

"I saw a shadow standing over her like they killed her." Conan stated. Richard walked over as he looked down at Christina's dead body. Casey came out. Richard looked at him as he broke down in tears.
"Mother!" he yelled. He walked over to her. he wanted to hug her but...
"Don't touch the body." Richard stated. Casey looked at Richard.

"But she's my mother!" Casey yelled at Richard. Richard looked at Casey. Casey understood. Casey backed off as Selena stepped out of the house.

"Richard... what's going on?" Selena asked. Richard looked at Selena.

"There's someone going around killing us." Richard stated. "We must all stay together." Richard stated. Maxwell then came out of the house.

"I bet the one who is killing people is the one who took my daughter!" Maxwell yelled. Richard looked at Maxwell.

"You whoever the murderer is I'll bring them down!" Richard yelled. Conan rolled his eyes. They walked back into the house. Richard shut and locked the door behind him. He turned around to see everyone in the living room. He walked over to the dark hallway. "I'm going to go check this place out." Richard stated. Tess swung her leg off of the couch. She went to reach off her crutches next to her.
"I'll come with you." Tess stated. Richard looked at Tess.

"No you'll reopen your wound again." Richard told her. Tess sighed.

"Well, someone has to go with you." Tess stated. Casey raised his hand.

"I'll go with you Mr. Moore." Casey stated. Richard nodded his head.

"Okay, come on then." Richard stated as he turned his back. Selena stood up off the couch.

"Richard you better be careful." Selena stated. Richard nodded his head as Casey walked over to him.

"I will Selena." Richard told her. Casey and Richard then walked into the dark hallway. Conan looked at Tess. Tess glanced over at Conan. She gave him a sigh to follow them. But Tess waved him over first. Conan walked over to her. Tess bent down to whisper in his ear.

"Take my gun with you... it over there by the hallway..." Tess whispered. Conan nodded his head. He walked over then picked up the gun. He ran right into the hallway. Rachel stood up after he disappeared into the dark hallway.

"Conan!" Rachel yelled Tess watched the hallway.

'Be careful Conan.' Tess thought. Conan ran down the hallway. When he got to the kitchen he saw someone holding Richard's head in the sink. Casey was lying on the ground with a knife in his head. Conan looked over. He aimed and shot the gun at the shadow's back. The shadow fell to the ground then got up and ran off. Dropping something onto the ground. Conan didn't want to see Richard dead. He placed the gun on the floor. He ran over to Richard.

"Richard! Richard!" Conan yelled as she shook him. Some water dripped off his hair onto his forehead. Conan looked at him. "Wake up Richard!" Conan yelled. Richard just gave out a groan. Conan sighed in relief. Conan looked over on the other side of Richard. He saw something lying on the ground. Conan got up and walked over. He picked it up to notice it was a brush. The brush looked like it belonged to someone... blonde. Conan stared at it. Then he heard a click behind him. He whipped himself around to see the shadow pointing Tess' gun at him. Conan stood up right. He wasn't even scared. "Why Eliza?" Conan asked. The gun started to shake. "Why did you kill Casey and Christina?" Conan asked. The shadow stepped forward. It was Eliza all right, but why was she trying to kill everyone. Why Richard anyway?

"You're a very smart boy." Eliza stated. "But I wanted my ex-boyfriend and his mother dead from the start." Eliza added.

"Ex-... boyfriend?" Conan looked puzzled. Eliza nodded her head.

"Casey dumped me because his mother told him too." Eliza stated. "That boy will do anything to make his mother happy. Now he can make her happy in hell." Eliza was getting ready to shoot the gun.

"LOOK OUT!" Someone yelled behind Eliza. Eliza turned around to have Rachel's fist hit her square in the nose. Eliza's head jerked backward. Then someone came out from behind Rachel. It was Tess. Tess was holding one of her crutches over her right shoulder like a baseball player. She swung and hit Eliza in her side knocking her to the ground. Maxwell came out of the dark with Selena. Maxwell glared at his daughter as she shook in pain on the floor.

"Eliza... Casey didn't dump you because of Christina." Maxwell stated. Eliza looked at her father. "It was because I and Christina were going to get married." Maxwell added. Eliza's head just dropped to the floor in sadness. Conan stuck his hands in his pockets. Richard then started to cough.

That night they all sat outside as the cops took Eliza away. They checked Richard to make sure he was okay. As Rachel and Richard stood over by the ambulance; Tess and Conan stood by the house. Tess was leaning forward on her crutches as Conan was leaning back on the house.

"Great job Jimmy." Tess stated. Conan looked up at Tess. "I didn't think you would've took my gun to save Richard." Tess added. Conan smiled.

"CONAN!" Rachel yelled. Conan jumped as Rachel stormed her way over toward him. "HOW DARE YOU RUN OFF LIKE THAT AND TAKE TESS' GUN!!! YOU COULD HAVE BEEN HURT!!!" Rachel yelled. Tess opened her mouth to say something when Rachel jumped down her throat. "AND HOW DARE YOU TESS FOR LETTING CONAN TAKE YOU'RE GUN!"

"But Rachel..."

"NO BUTS TESS!!!" Rachel yelled at her. Rachel kept on yelling at Tess and Conan watched he smiled.

'It's about time she got yelled at and not me.' Conan thought.

Next Time on Case Closed: "Great... just peachy." Tess and Conan are witnesses to a murder. But when the murderer starts going after them who will save them? This is a problem for Conan and Tess now. Find out if they die or live

Next Time: Protect Conan and Tess

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