THE HOUSE OF MYSTERIES CH. 17
Himino here again thanking everyone who has been reading my stories…..sorry for the late chapter…first my PC breaks then school….CURSE YOU GEOMERTY! But here's my next chapter!
"So let me get this straight…you knew we took that from your bag from the very beginning…and yet you never have tried to stop us," Fujiko was confused.
"What do you mean 'we'," Goemon said.
"Oh come on guys you know you wanted to know what was up with this girl just as much as I do," Fujiko rose from her chair.
"Not really," Lupin mumbled.
"Well I mean that was only why she lived alone…..that's only half of her story….isn't it?" Jigen said and lifted his hat up enough to see Megan.
"Uh-huh…so it's not like it's some kind of lose to the mystery of me anyway," Megan chuckled at the way Fujiko was dealing with this whole situation.
"Anyways…..did you get any information on that diamond," Lupin said completely forgetting about the subject.
"But of course, I am a computer hacker aren't I?" Megan said getting some papers that were on her table.
"The Spegiel Diamant….which means the mirror diamond in English," Megan said passing the papers to Lupin.
"Hmm sounds very interesting, well at least interesting enough for us to steal it," Lupin chuckled.
"It's arriving in Netherlands in about a week, its location has a more German influence though," Megan said looking at the pictures, which looked more like a German town than a Dutch town.
"Well than we have plenty of time to make our way over without rushing," Jigen piped in looking at the flight departure times.
"And that's enough time to make a plan out," Lupin grinned.
Why good day again….this would originally be the end of the 16th chapter….but because of the stupid computer crashing…it's not….but the next segment would be the REAL chapter 17. But it was going to be put out on Christmas day….but my PC crashed on December 22nd…soooo….here's the Christmas chapter!
Lupin and the gang had booked flights for the Netherlands that would leave the following morning. They had only three days left until the big heist and Fujiko was extremely eager to leave Tokyo, but Lupin was concerned about Megan, even though she seemed okay with the whole unveiling of her sister, she hadn't said much to them since then and hasn't been present around the hide-out lately.
"Hmmm," Megan was looking through a store window pondering over something. After a while of standing there a worker came outside.
"Can I help you with something," she asked.
"Hmmm, actually you can," Megan answered, and even though it was forty degrees outside she still had on her same blue tank top and normal clothes as though it was in the middle of summer.
"CRAP! I KNOW YOUR PLANNING SOMETHING LUPIN!" Zenigata was eating a cup of ramen looking through a bunch of international newspapers on his desk trying to find a perfect heist that Lupin would attempt.
"Inspector," a young man came through the door. He actually wasn't young, but hey all old people think anyone younger than 40 is young.
"Yeah what do you want," Zenigata said tossing aside his paper from Egypt.
"We just got this paper in from Germany about an expensive diamond," he said feebly taking out the paper.
"WhaLET ME SEE THAT!" Zenigata grabbed the paper from the boy's hands and looked at the cover.
"Hey you, what's this say," Zenigata demanded pointing to a caption underneath a picture.
"Uhh, let's see…" the man hesitated.
"The famous diamond of Europe known as the mirror diamond will be transported from Italy to it's new home in the Netherlands where it is too be held for the people of the world to see as an offering from Germany," the man was about to go on, but that was all Zenigata needed to hear.
Lupin was in the den at the side of the front doors searching through a sewer map of the Netherlands when Megan came through the front door carrying a large bag.
"Hey what's that you have," he asked looking through the arch doorway into the entrance hall where Megan was standing.
"Oh just another solitaire game I bought," Megan answered quickly.
"Oh hey we're leaving tomorrow morning at seven so if you plan on going any where…don't forget," Lupin said, geesh, he thought he was begging to sound like his mother.
"Of course you think I'd forget when an airplane arrives to take me half way across the world?" Megan answered smugly.
Lupin couldn't help but chuckle at the way she said that, maybe he was wrong, and she seemed to be acting normal after all.
Jigen didn't notice what day it was before he walked by the calendar. "Huh," he glanced at the calendar then at his watch which also told the date.
"NO WAY!" he exclaimed, he had failed to realize that it was Christmas eve and they haven't done anything to celebrate so far, which was surprising because just last year they had stolen a bottle of wine from a jet to celebrate.
He walked over to where Lupin was stationed looking at some kind of brochure.
"Hey man do you know what day it is," Jigen said.
"The…." Lupin hesitated while he checked his watch. "Twenty-thirHOLY CRAP IS IT THE 23RD ALREADY!" he said staring at his watch to make sure it wasn't broken. He had completely forgotten to get Fujiko something.
"You think we should have gotten the kid something…..you know…for helping us and all," Jigen muttered, still not admitting that he actually liked Megan's presence.
"I don't know….. she doesn't seem to be the type that's into stuff like holidays," Lupin said in deep thought, and then he remembered the bag that she had earlier.
"But she did have something with her earlier, but she just said it was a game of solitaire," he finished and contemplated the idea that she may have been lying.
"Well, I mean I suppose that she's used to not getting anything….since she lived alone for so many years," Jigen said scratching his beard.
"How late do you think the stores stay open?" Lupin asked grabbing his coat.
Jigen didn't hear him; he was already out the door and busy getting the keys to his car.
Zenigata was at the Interpol headquarters, it was late and everybody had already gone home for the night, I mean after all it was Christmas Eve. He was walking among the many desks to his own when he saw something was on it. It was a package.
"Eh?" Zenigata did not know what it could have been, the building was vacated and he just left to grab a cup of coffee. He carefully picked up the package. There was a red ribbon around it that had a tag attached to a note. It read: To: Pops From: Megan. Zenigata expected something fishy and opened the letter.
Dear Pops,
I got this for you because you always wear that same old trench coat, I mean come on, at least I don't have raspberry stains all over my outfit, well anyways….Merry Christmas!
-Megan the PC hacker.
"WHAT WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE"but he opened the package before he could finish and looked inside. It was a trench coat, just like his own, only new, and there were no stitches missing. Maybe that kid wasn't so bad after all. Wait what was he saying she was a computer hacker, and more importantly a member of Lupin's gang. He looked around and slowly put on his new trench coat. The wrapped up his old one and ran off.
Megan smiled from behind a desk she was sitting behind not too far away from Zenigata's. She had watched the whole scene. Megan began her walk through the dimly lit alley to the hide-out. She couldn't help but laugh wondering what Pops would do when he saw her next time.