>This is talking over the phone.
Chapter 31-Plan Revealed
"Goku."
"Hm?" Goku grunted, being too exhausted from football practice to do much else.
"Do you...um...think Vegeta might be...um...lonely?"
"Uh..."
"Well I do."
"Uh-huh"
"And I've been thinking."
"Mmn"
"Goku pay attention."
"Uh-huh."
"Goku!" Chichi said grabbing the remote and turning the TV off.
"Hey! I was watching that." Goku pouted.
"What's more important? Me? Or the TV?"
"Well...uh...you."
"Good. Did you hear anything I said just now?"
"Yeah. I was listening."
"Okay then what did I say."
"Well it was a...a pretty long...um...conversation."
"Goku! I think Vegeta needs a girlfriend."
"But ChiChi! I thought we..."
"No Goku." She cut him off. "Not me. I mean Bulma."
"Oh...But why? He seems just fine to me all things considered. Besides there's not much he could do right now even if he had a girlfriend."
"But could you at least talk to him? Please? For me?"
"Wait you want me to..."
"Please?"
"But this was your idea."
"Goku..." ChiChi breathed leaning toward him.
"Huh...?" Goku, not really knowing how to respond, sunk deeper into the couch.
"I'll make it up to you."
"Well...okay. But I get to pick what we do."
ChiChi gave him an odd look, but hesitantly nodded.
Goku beamed. "Great! Grandpa will love you! I'll call him right now to tell him we're coming!"
"Wait what? Who said anything about your grandpa?"
"What do you mean? You said I could decide what we would do, and I decided that we would go visit my grandpa. It'll be great!"
"Uh okay. But when would we go?"
"Next weekend. It's not far so don't worry. And we'll just stay Friday and Saturday night and come back Sunday evening."
"Uh...okay. So you talk to Vegeta, and make sure that he is going out with Bulma by Friday."
"Sure...but why Bulma again."
"Why not?"
"Oh no no! That's not what I meant! I was just wondering. Heh heh. Right. So Bulma and Vegeta by Friday. Got it."
"Great!" ChiChi squealed jumping off the couch. "Thanks Goku! I'll handle Bulma so don't worry about her. Bye!" ChiChi gave him a quick peck on the cheek and then skittered out of Goku's apartment.
"The guy was found this morning around 4 AM. One shot to the head close range. They sent his body to the lab, but the rest of this stuff is pretty much the way it was found."
"What does this have to do with our case?" Brianna asked looking at all the other police swarming the truck.
"The bullet found in this guy matches the one they found in Shadow."
"You think our guy skipped town?"
"That's what it looks like."
"So do we put out an all alert?"
"It would be wise."
"Is this all that you brought me here for?"
"No." Dakotah said swinging his flashlight beam to the other side of the road and motioning Brianna to follow him there. "There's also a pile of junk over here. Our man may have left it."
"Why?"
"I don't know. But it would be a good thing to check out. If it was in fact his, there may be some hint of where he's going."
"What's to say that he didn't just come out here, kill the guy, and then head back in to West City? Let's not rule that out."
"He could have I guess, but I doubt it. Why come so far?"
"We have to remember that this may not even be the guy we're looking for."
"Another random murderer?"
"I'm just saying...wait. What's this?"
"An article, probably from the internet."
"No I mean, look at it."
"I am. What about it?"
Brianna giving an exasperated sigh, dug into her pocket and pulled out her own small flashlight. Shining the flashlight to where she wanted Dakotah to read she explained. "The headline. It's from five months ago. It's about the schools merging and the football coaches' reactions. Apparently they didn't like the idea of having to put two football teams together, and parents were worrying that many boys would be cut. The coaches from Carver considered making the football players buy their own uniforms and supplies to try and weed some of them out, but many people argued that some of the boys have to work for themselves and that football is..."
"What does that have to do with anything?" Dakotah snapped.
"There are pictures of some of the football players. Vegeta is right there. See circled." "You think that, if indeed this is his, he may have used this newspaper to figure out where Vegeta is?"
"I don't know. The method this guy uses...it seems so precalculated. He can't have just decided one day to kill his son-- who he hadn't seen in years I might add. Maybe he'd forgotten all about him and remembered once he'd seen the article."
"Oh and it just appeared on his screen like a pop-up? He was obviously keeping tabs on him. What he probably did was run a search for him on the internet and then once he saw that the biggest issue in the boy's life was the football team, decided that then was the perfect time to strike and catch him completely off guard."
"So why come five months later?"
"I don't know. He probably needed time to prepare."
"This isn't getting us anywhere. We're just speculating. For all we know, this might be an article from some girl who has a crush on him."
"Yeah. I know 'Find evidence, then draw conclusions'. Keep the article though."
"I will." Brianna said putting it into an airtight bag specially made for crime scene evidence. Without another word, they continued to sift through the pile of junk.
"Hey Juu, it's ChiChi." ChiChi could hear Juuachi's radio turn down a bit before she got a response.
>"Hey Chi. Did you talk to him?"
"Yeah." ChiChi answered while comparing a jar of nail polish to the color of her purse. "And he said he'd do it! Isn't he great! Oh. And by the way, I'm going visit his grandpa next weekend."
>"Why?" ChiChi heard the radio turn completely off as Juuachi got more interested in the conversation.
"It was part of our deal." She said offhandedly, putting another jar of polish back into the box. "But enough about that, we have to talk to Bulma, and then figure out a way to get them together."
>"Any ideas?"
"No, but Bulma shouldn't be too hard to deal with. It's obvious she likes him. Did you ask Krillin?"
>"Yes."
"And?"
>"He said he'd do his best to keep Yamcha away from her."
"Good."
>"Why is it so important that we get them together again?"
"I told you this already." ChiChi finally found the right color. "If we don't get Bulma to go out with some other guy, she'll end right back up with Yamcha."
>"Why Vegeta though?" Juuachi asked although she already knew the answer.
"He's popular..."
>"And since we're her friends..." Juuachi quoted from ChiChi's first explanation.
"We'll be popular too."
>"Doesn't it seem like we're...um...using her?"
"Using her? Of course not. This isn't just for us. She's getting the best out of this deal, not us." She stopped to blow the paint on her right hand dry. "I told Goku that they have to be going out by next Friday or our deal's off."
Juuachi was still wondering if what they were doing was really for Bulma and was surprised by the change in subject. Nevertheless, she said. >"Oh that was the deal? It's not too harsh."
"I know. But to make sure that Goku gets to talk to Vegeta, it would be best if we could keep Bulma out of the house all weekend."
>"Oh! They've got that new store in the mall."
"Yeah we could go there, and then talk on our cell phones all lovey-dovey to our boyfriends and she'll wish that she had one."
>"That's cruel."
"No it's not. And anyway, to help her along a little, we'll subtly hint at how good looking Vegeta is and say stuff like 'if we didn't have boyfriends he would be our first pick'. We're doing this to help her, remember. It can't be cruel. She'll thank us for it. You'll see."
>"If you say so. You know her better than me."
Sorry 'bout the wait, and I know that not much happens, but I'm doing a day a chapter. This one (Wednesday) is mainly for explaining a bit and building up.
I think someone was wondering about my other two stories. Yes, I did take them off. I may put them back on after some revising and stuff, but if I do, it won't be for a while.
And now...I would like to thank...tear...all of my reviewers...sniff...who have stuck with me and all of my irritating...uh...ness...scratches head in confused manner...Yeah.
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