Relaxing

Chapter 8

By: Kia Wolf

'Hey, Tiy! Yeah? Do I own Petshop of Horrors? Nope! Ok!'

Kia: Well, I'm feeling much better today. So I'm gonna try to make this chapter a little bit happier than the last. Crash is heard in the background Jar! NO!

Leon: Aw, leave the kid alone, Kia. He's just a baby.

D: You're spoiling him.

Leon: What? I'm not spoiling him. That's how I was raised and look how I turned out.

Kia, Tiy, and D: glancing at one another Um…all burst into laughter

Leon: What?

D: recovering from laughter I'm very sorry, Kia. If Jar has broken anything, I will pay for it. he stands to go get Jar

Kia: Aw, that's all right, D. Thanks anyway.

Leon: pouting Would you just get to the story?

Kia: Awwwwww! Poor Leon's upset!

Leon: SHUT UP AND WRITE THE STORY!

Leon was frozen with shock. "You were…what?"

D stares sadly at Leon. "I was raped, Detective."

"No. No…don't call me Detective. It's Leon. Leon, remember?" He said, pulling D close again. Running his hand through D's dark locks, he asked softly, "Who did it? I'll kill 'em."

"Devin." D muttered into Leon's chest.

"Somehow. I knew that would be what you was going to say." Leon said, squeezing D tight before releasing him and striding back to the door.

"Where are you going?" D asked.

"To beat Devin to a pulp." Leon answered before exiting the room.

"But…But, Leon! I don't…" D was running after him. "I don't think that you should…"

"Why not?" Leon asked, stopping suddenly and causing D to run into him.

"Well…"

"I'm GOING to hurt him. I'm gonna make sure he bleeds for what he did." Leon snapped.

"Devin said that at 11 he was leaving. He's leaving town. And a few friends of mine said that he always does stuff like this, and that he's always got two suitcases, one with clothes, and one with his supposedly 'work things'." D said.

"Aw, crud! It's past 12!" Leon groaned. But still, he headed for Devin's now empty room anyway.

"What are you doing?" D asked, hovering over Leon as he searched through the things in the room.

"Looking. Maybe he left something behind."

"Like what?"

"I'll know when I find it, D."

"Why are you searching for something that you don't even know is here?"

"My gut instinct again, D. Could you please help me look?" Leon said.

"Oh, sure." D nodded, before searching the room with Leon.

At the Petshop…

"Jar! Jar get back here now!" Jill shouted, chasing after Jar. He had disappeared down the hall with some of D's pets, and he didn't have any pants on. For some reason, he didn't want to wear them today.

Walking down the dark hallway, Jill heard snickering coming from behind a door, and opened it. It was T-chan. Jill rolled her eyes and shut the door. She didn't really like T-chan.

"I think you better go this way, Jill. Jar's about to-" Femto-Kun's words were cut short when a crash was heard, followed by loud crying, coming from Medusa's room.

Jill raced into the room, found Medusa holding Jar, and a broken vase on the ground next to her slithering body.

"Careful, Medusa! There's broken glass everywhere." Jill said, taking Jar, who was screaming as loud as he could, and instructed Medusa around the glass.

Afterwards, Medusa smiled and nodded to Jill, who understood.

"No prob, Medusa. Thanks for catching Jar." She said. Medusa nodded again before slithering away into the darkness.

Jar screamed again, wriggling around, trying to get away from Jill. He had tears streaming down his face.

Jill struggled to keep him in her arms, and closed the door to Medusa's room. "Jar! Quit screaming!" She exclaimed.

Back at the front of the shop, Jill forced Jar into his clothes and then tried to calm him down. But he wouldn't have it. He kicked and screamed and cried until he saw Sofu D's face. Then he stretched his arms out to him and kicked at Jill, trying to get her away.

Sofu D chuckled and picked up Jar. "You are a horrible demon child." He said, as Jar wrapped his arms around Sofu's neck. "How can my grandson possibly not see that?"

Jill brushed back some of her hair. "I dunno, but he was starting to get on my nerves."

"Still…" He glanced down at Jar, who had fallen asleep on him. "He is an adorable child. I'll put him to bed." Jill smiled as Sofu carried Jar to D and Leon's room.

At the Spa…

"Hey, look! A suitcase!" Leon said, pulling it out from under the bed. "Oh, but it's empty."

"Too bad, Leon." D said, standing over him.

"Hey, what's that?" Leon asked, looking closely at the patch on the suitcase. "Property of…Antonio Moriarty? I thought his name was Devin."

"It is." D answered Leon's spoken thoughts.

"Hey, now that I think about it…Moriarty…Moriarty…That…sounds like…hey, it is! Antonio Moriarty!" Leon stood quickly, carrying the suitcase with him.

"What? Who is Antonio Moriarty?" D asked, following Leon as he rushed out of the room.

"Just a major drug dealer/cat burglar that we've been after for so long!" Leon exclaimed. "Phone, gotta find a-wait, cell phone!" Leon pulled out his cell phone and dialed a number.

Epona Warehouse

Devin tapped his watch impatiently. With a deep sigh, he muttered, "Stupid people. They never are on time. I can't wait around all day! I've got other meetings to attend!"

"I'm here, Tony. Calm down." A deep voice said.

Turning, Devin saw the blunette that held a large suitcase, that looked a lot like his own.

"'Bout time, Alfa." Devin snapped. "Let's get to work, I got a plane to catch."

"It's Seiva, Tony. Seiva Alfazema." Seiva set down the suitcase to open it. "Money. All of it. It's all there. Now, where's my goods?"

Devin smirked. "FYI, I'm not Tony anymore. Too much publicity for the poor guy. Now it's Devin Cruz. And they're right here." He held up the suitcase. "On three we switch."

The two were standing a good distance apart, and had no intentions of coming any closer to each other.

"One."

Seiva was a major business owner. He was rich, and had plenty of money.

"Two."

Seiva had gotten involved with Devin a few years ago, when he needed some things stolen from another major company, that boosted Seiva's own company when the stolen items were put on market.

"Three."

The two suitcases slid past each other, one to Devin, and the other to Seiva. Devin and Seiva picked up their suitcases, nodded to each other, and then turned and walked separate ways out of the warehouse.

With a knowing grin, Devin rushed to his car and threw the suitcase in. He had only 30 more seconds before Seiva's suitcase blew up the warehouse, and the multi-millionaire with it.

As he sped away from the warehouse, a loud boom was heard and a fire exploded into the sky. Too bad for Seiva. He was a great guy. Always paid on time and in real cash. Too bad he had killed Devin's relative unknowingly. Things just seem to work out in strange ways.

In Leon's car

"Yeah, I'm gettin' there, Chief!" Leon exclaimed into his phone as he sped down the highway, swerving past vehicles and random road kill.

"Are you wearing a seatbelt?" D asked as they hit another bump and Leon went flying out of his seat. Thank goodness for seat belts, or D would've hit his head on the roof.

"Nah, never do. Why?" Leon asked.

"Oh, no reason." D said.

"Ok."

"Where are we going?" D asked.

"To where Devin was." Leon gripped the steering wheel harder. "I'm gonna…"

"Where is he?"

"At a warehouse. Why?" Leon asked, swerving around a red car.

"But he said he was leaving…oh, no, he said he had a MEETING at 11…but if the police are going there, do you think he has already left?" D asked as they hit another bump. Only this bump looked suspiciously like a turtle before they hit it. Oh well. More road kill.

"Possibly. But we've notified train stations and airports and they've stopped all departures. And then there's the police that are searching everywhere for him." Leon said. "Besides, I don't think this guy's smart enough to find a way out of here."

D smiled. Of course Leon would think that.

At the Petshop…

"He's actually a sweetie when he's sleeping." Jill muttered. Dreizehn smiled.

"And when he is awake?"

"He's a devil in disguise." Jill laughed.

Dreizehn picked up the half-empty bottle from the crib. "Is this supposed to be here?"

"No." Jill took it. "D's trying to start Jar on sippy cups. Wonder who put it here."

Dreizehn and Jill walked softly out of the room and closed the door. "It seems only yesterday he was a tiny baby and couldn't even crawl yet." Dreizehn sighed.

"Yeah." Jill tossed the bottle back and forth between her hands. "But if Leon keeps spoiling him like he does, we're gonna have a problem."

"Spoiling him?"

"Yeah." Jill shrugged. "Haven't you noticed how Leon lets him do anything and get away with everything?"

Dreizehn smiled. "Yes, I have. But I didn't think that would matter much."

"Oh, it matters plenty." Jill said. "I have a younger sister that turned out like that."

"Is he asleep?" Femto-Kun asked. Q-chan was resting on his shoulder.

"Yeah." Jill said.

"Oh, good." Femto-kun said.

"Yeah." Jill sighed again as she sat on the couch. "All's well that ends well." Dreizehn sat beside her and they turned on the TV.

Epona Warehouse

"Dead bodies everywhere. The whole place was on fire." A police officer told Leon. "Appearantly, there was someone important here, and they brought a ton of bodyguards with them."

"Hm…And he hasn't been found yet?" Leon questioned.

"No sir. He hasn't. Not yet." The officer answered.

"Hey! It's Seiva Alfazema! The body is Seiva Alfazema! All the rest seem to be bodyguards." Another officer yelled, running over to them.

"Seiva, huh? Wasn't his company starting to fall?" Leon thought aloud.

"Yes sir." The first officer answered.

D watched all this, admiring his detective on duty. It always surprised him, how Leon could go from a seemingly dumb person with no common sense to a smart detective that was always on the lookout for clues.

"Hey, D!"

"Yes, Leon?" D answered when he snapped out of his trance.

"What exactly did Devin say to you? You said that he said he had a meeting at 11. What else did he say?" Leon asked, staring down at D.

"Just that he had the meeting, that he didn't care that I was going to tell you what happened because he was going to be out of town after the meeting, and…that's it." D shrugged.

"Oh. Hmm…D you can drive, right?" Leon asked, taking out his keys. He didn't let D answer. "Go on home. I'll be there sooner or later. I'm gonna take a squad car and go look around town. I think I know where a guy like Devin would go if he couldn't leave town like planned." He tossed the keys to D, who caught them easily.

"But, Leon-"

"No, buts, D. Go home. I'll be there soon, ok? Then we'll go get your stuff from the spa." Leon said, running over to a squad car and leaving D behind.

"Ok, Detective." D said softly, even though Leon had already left.

At the Petshop…

Dreizehn had fallen asleep on top of Jill, Femto-kun was almost asleep, Q-chan had disappeared, and Jill was the only one still wide awake.

"Hey, hey guys?" Jill looked around. "Guys?"

Dreizehn started to snore, and Jill grimaced at the sound. Then she turned back to the TV.

In Leon's Car…

"I may as well stop and get some groceries." D said.

D stopped the car and got out. He had pulled up to a Wal-Mart. He waltzed inside and was pulled roughly out of sight.

"Hey, bishounen. Miss me?" Devin's familiar voice asked as he held a hand over D's mouth and hid them behind the coke machines.

At that moment, Leon, who had grown tired of looking (A/N: Wow, he's really impatient, huh? That wasn't even an hour of searching!) for Devin, decided to get himself a coke. He had stopped at the exact same Wal-Mart (A/N: Coincidence?) and was now standing at the machine that D and Devin were hiding behind.

Devin noticed who it was, and had tried to move back behind the machines a little more, only to step on an empty, forgotten coke can.

Leon froze, and then continued to put the money into the machine, while walking around to the back, but quietly so that no one would hear him, and just before he looked around the corner, he pressed a button on the machine, just to make whoever it was, he had a strange thought that it was Devin, think that he was still getting a drink.

Boy, he wished he had a camera for the look on Devin's face when he realized he had been tricked. Leon dove for him, just as D managed to escape and run out of hitting range.

D turned back around, and watched Leon. He flinched a couple of times, and finally turned his back to them. He couldn't watch Leon beat up Devin for some reason.

Finally, there was silence. Leon, breathing hard, called out to D. "Hey, D?"

"What is it?" D answered.

"Get my coke, would ya?" Leon said as he dragged Devin, bruised and bleeding out from behind the machine. He was out cold.

D glanced at Devin, then at Leon, and smiled. He picked up the coke and watched as Leon handcuffed Devin.

Later, at the Petshop…

"So then I tell D, 'I'd read him his rights like I'm supposed to, but he's out so I don't think he'll mind if I don't read 'em.'" Leon laughed as he pulled D closer.

D smiled at Leon and then turned his attention back to Jar, as the toddler was now awake and trying to drink from a sippy cup.

"Daddy came back!" Jar exclaimed, hugging D happily.

Leon grinned. "Yup." He looked at D. "And next time he needs a break, he can just tell us and we'll start helping out around the house. I don't think that he's going to go back to any spas anytime soon."

D's eyes widened. "Leon…"

"What?"

"I left my things at the spa. We'll have to go back and get them." D said innocently.

Jill, Dreizehn, Femto-kun, and Q-chan glanced at one another before bursting into laughter.

THE END…OR IS IT?

Kia: Of course it's the end. I mean, Devin went to prison for…I dunno…let's make it life. That sounds good. And to add that he had a couple scars from Leon as a consolation prize is another good touch. What do you think, Leon?

Leon: Love it.

D: I admit, it is a good thing. It fits him perfectly.

Kia: You finally figured out Devin's a bad guy?

D: Yes, I did.

Jill: Wow. That was a fun story! Let's do it again sometime!

Kia: By the way, I got…more reviews than I ever expected! (I need to go recount them. I don't know how many there are.) Thank you to all who reviewed to my story! And it was my first story, so I am soooo happy! (By the way, how was the ending? I'm not usually very good with endings. At least, I don't think so.) Thank you thank you thank you! Bai bai! (Special thanks to Katastropic88, who was my first and most loyal reader!)

Leon: See ya!

D: Goodbye!

Jill: Until next time!

Jar: Bai bai!