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A/N: I got a request from one prodigious reader for more chapters and I have delivered.
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Mary didn't know what to do. Should she stay? Should she flee? Mary stood near her car and thought for a second. When she leaned back against the hood, she felt her cell phone in her back pocket. That's what she would do; she'd call Kevin.
"Hello?" No one answered at the other end. "Hello?" Kevin looked down at the screen of his phone and checked the Caller ID. "Mary?"
"Are-are you busy?"
"I'm at work." Something wasn't right. "What's wrong?"
Mary's voice shook as she spoke. "Can you come here please?"
"Do you need me or do you need the police?"
"Both. I-I don't know. Just come please."
"OK." Kevin motioned Roxanne over. "Calm down. Where are you?"
"Wilson's house." At this point, Mary was on the verge of tears. "Off of North Street, make a right, then a left, then a right, and then two more rights. Go through the Construction Entrance. 75 Belvedere Circle, square in the middle. The name of the development is 'Rolling Knolls'."
"We'll be there in less than ten minutes, OK?"
"Yeah." Mary gulped, afraid in general. She felt afraid for everyone and everything. Kevin was on the road. She was afraid for him. Lucy was without her husband. She was afraid for her. She felt trapped in a vortex of fear.
Kevin showed up in about seven minutes, citing getting a bit lost as his reason for not reaching there earlier.
"What's wrong?"
"I-I," Mary couldn't say what she saw. She wasn't entirely sure; she didn't want to be sure. "Just go inside. You have to see for yourself."
"I can't," Kevin said simply.
"What do you mean you can't?"
"What Kevin means," Roxanne started, glaring at Kevin for giving Mary a sub-par response, "is that we aren't allowed to go in without a search warrant or probable cause."
"Unless if you want to tell us what's in there."
Mary took a deep breath and let it out slowly. "No. I'll just let you guys in. I have a key."
Mary walked up the driveway and to the front door. Her hand shook violently as she tried to place the key in the hole. After thirty seconds, she succeeded and carefully turned it. She let the door swing open while staying outside.
Kevin and Roxanne shrugged and stepped inside carefully. Mary leaned against the side of Wilson's house for physical support while she waited to hear Roxanne and Kevin's response. It was quiet outside, so she could hear them walking through the house. From the way it sounded, they walked through the foyer and into the kitchen, and then into the living room, the same way that Mary had.
Mary heard Roxanne scream a little and Mary closed her eyes tightly. She hadn't just seen an illusion.
"Kevin, what is that?"
"That's…" Kevin stared down in disbelief, "that's Wilson and his son." Kevin took a deep breath, just as Mary had, and turned to Roxanne. "You call for back-up. I'll stay with Mary."
At least something was going in Mary's favor. She got to deal with Kevin instead of Roxanne. Roxanne went off to the car to radio in for backup and Kevin went over to Mary.
"How are you doing?"
Mary didn't answer him. "That, that is-" Kevin nodded before Mary could finish her question. "Yeah, I thought so." Mary started shaking and her teeth began to chatter. Kevin just stood there watching her. When she finally calmed a little, he spoke.
"Well, um," Kevin didn't really know what he should say to her, "you should be able to go home in a couple of hours or so." That was the best he could come up with.
"I'm staying right here until I can get some answers. But why a couple of hours?"
"Well, they're going to want to question you. And then probably tomorrow or the next day, after they get a detective officially assigned to a case, you'll be called in again for questioning."
"Great," Mary said, tears welling in her eyes. She tried to will them way, to think about happy things, but that just seemed like an impossible and daunting task for her. The more Mary tried to keep it all together, the more she couldn't. Mary started bawling standing in front of Kevin, her first real act of emotion since she had found Wilson and Billy's severed bodies in the plastic bags in the middle of their living room floor.
Kevin had no idea what he should do in this situation. He began to think of Mary in terms of Lucy. If Lucy were standing crying in front of someone that she knew and Kevin couldn't get to her, Kevin would hope that person would try to comfort his wife. Apprehensively, Kevin put his arms around Mary and embraced her. She wept into his shoulder, crying harder and harder as she clutched at his navy blue shirt.
Two cop cars came barreling down the street. Another two followed them at a slower speed. All four stopped in front of Wilson's house and emptied. Kevin pulled away from Mary and Roxanne went over to her fellow cops. Kevin smiled reassuringly at Mary and joined Roxanne. The cops all talked together loudly before going inside of Wilson's house. They went inside, looked around, let out manly screams, and then came back out.
One of them approached Mary. "Who are you?"
"Girlfriend."
"Oh." The police officer sighed. "I'm sorry."
Within the next half hour, two of the cops left. A van showed up with three more of them, and people went inside to take pictures and collect evidence. Eventually, Detective Michaels showed up. Mary remembered why she knew him and how she knew him as he started to walk over to her. Once again, she had succeeded in disgracing her family.
"Hi Mary."
"Hello," she croaked.
"I'm sorry about all of this. But would you be willing to answer a few questions?"
"If it will help then sure."
Detective Michaels smiled at her. He knew how much she must be hurting. "Tell me everything that happened this morning up until when you called Kevin."
Mary took a deep breath. "I…I got up early and-"
"Do you remember what time?"
She nodded. "The alarm was set for 6:45. I got up and got ready to come over to Wilson's house. I, um, I left around 9:15 and got here around 9:30. I came inside and…and no one was there."
"How did you get in?"
"Wilson gave me a key a while ago." He nodded. "So there was no sign of anyone so I just walked around and then I saw that…and I freaked out and went outside and called Kevin."
"OK. Thank you Mary."
She sniveled. "You're welcome."
"You can go home now. We'll be in touch."
"What?" she said. The little bit that was holding Mary together snapped. "This isn't a job interview! My boyfriend and his son were hacked up into little pieces! I'm not going until you know something, anything."
"Mary, please calm down."
"Calm down? How can I calm down? I don't- I don't know who did this, or why they did this, or if they're after me, too, or-"
Kevin came running over, seeing Mary freaking out on Detective Michaels, and tried to help her out. "What's going on?"
"She won't leave."
"Does she have to?"
"Yes. This is official police business and civilians are not allowed to be hanging around."
Kevin was really going to bat for Mary. "Then put up the 'crime scene' tape and let her stand behind it. She just doesn't want to leave. Can't you respect that?"
"Fine," Michaels said, "but please try to calm down Mary."
Mary rubbed her hand over her face. "I'll try my hardest. Thank you, sir." He left, but Kevin remained. "And thanks Kevin."
"You're welcome. But-"
"But what?"
"Let me call Lucy. She can come and just be here with you. It will help, trust me.
Mary knew that she was in no position to argue with him. He had just secured her post outside of Wilson's house. Besides, he was only trying to help her. "Fine, call her."
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A/N: So my main problem with this story, really, is this chapter. I probably should have skipped all of it. I don't think it actually goes anywhere. Mary is mildly upset. Roxanne, Kevin, and the bunch do probably about the weirdest copping I have ever seen. The whole thing just doesn't work. I'm not very good at showing extreme emotion, the type of emotion this chapter called for. After this is gets kind of better, I promise you.
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