A/N: Another update! We're getting close to finding out who the villain is. There should hopefully be an update everyday next week except for Friday because I graduate on Friday and will not be able to get online to upload chapters. So maybe there will be a double post on Thursday. I hope you like this chapter.
Two Worlds Apart
Chapter 13: Two Suspects and an Untold Story
Gippal burst through the doors of Chateau Leblanc and ran straight into the conference hall. Everyone sat around the long oak table staring at him with amusement as the breathless man tried to recompose himself.
Nooj looked rather annoyed as his gaze rose from his timepiece. "You're late," the death seeker sneered.
"And with good reason, Cap'n," Gippal replied with his trademark smirk. "I've narrowed our suspects down to two possible summoners."
"Well, don't keep us waiting, Love. Do tell us," Leblanc said.
"Given the evidence that was collected at the scenes of all three crimes and the final results to the analizations we discovered that there were only two summoners that came out of Bevelle during the same year as Yuna. And those people are Dona and Issaru."
"It couldn't be either one of them," Baralai objected. "Especially not Dona. She came from Killika. That is where she received her first aeon. She only completed her battle training in Bevelle. And Issaru couldn't have. We grew up in the temple together. "
"Well, maybe Issaru," Wakka said warily. "But why not Dona? She seemed like cold, hard bitch, ya?"
"Why not Issaru," Tidus shot back. "Did it slip your mind that he tried to kill us when Seymour commanded it? Right before they threw us into Via Purifico? Sure Dona has been a bitch and all but she couldn't have that much coldness in her."
"She was recently married after all," Yuna chimed in. "And don't forget that she is about a good four months pregnant."
"Look you guys, I'm just giving you the facts as I have them," Gippal banked annoyed.
"I'm inclined to agree with Tidus and Yuna about Dona on this one," Rikku said quietly from her place next to Baralai.
Baralai gave her a pleading look as if to beg her not to tell some important secret.
"Well she would never have murdered Paine. So it couldn't have been her," Rkku continued.
"What makes you so sure it isn't her?" Nooj asked inquisitively.
"Because they are sisters," Baralai replied sending a shockwave through the room. "Paine never wanted anyone to know about her past or her family. She resented them. I guess you all don't know that Sir Auron was Dona and Paine's father. Their mother was High Priestess Asianna of Bevelle. She died in childbirth with Paine. Paine was only six and Dona eight when Sir Auron left for Lord Braska's pilgrimage. He left them in the Killika Temple. Shortly after he left Sin struck Killika's port and an Al Bhed man and his family rescued her."
"That Al Bhed family was my Uncle Luz and that family was mine," Rikku said softly. "Every summer until Paine was a teenager she would come to visit. That is when she decided to leave Killika for good and come to live in Bikanil with my Aunt and Uncle. The Orteco's. They adopted her. That's why Paine's last name is Orteco and Dona's last name is Hiro like her father."
"Paine never forgave Dona for going to Bevelle every summer to train to be a Priestess and leaving her behind. So eventually they lost contact," Baralai continued. "Paine never forgave Sir Auron for abandoning them either. When Sir Auron returned from the Farplane shortly after Paine and I were married, she refused to spend time with him. She was so ashamed of her past that's why nobody knew about Dona except Rikku and me. Dona would never have murdered Paine because deep down she loved her little sister. She even tried to convince her to come to her wedding but Paine refused."
"Holy Shit!" Tidus remarked.
"You're fucking shitting me right Lai?" Gippal said. "So that means that our attacker is Issaru. I never liked the bastard. Sucks to have your ex-boyfriend kill your wife."
With one fluid motion Baralai glided across the room grabbing Gippal by the neck and slammed him onto the granite floor. His chocolate eyes blazing with fury. "Shut the fuck up," he roared. "Don't ever speak of my wife in such a manner again or you won't have to worry about some unknown assailant because I will kill you myself." With that Baralai release him and walked out of Chateau Leblanc slamming the door before continuing on his way back to the Moonflow.