Chapter Eight Rachel hurt, and Conan's Love
Everybody was talking and having dessert in the living room. With the exception of Jessi of coarse. Randal was playing with his camera. Suddenly there was a loud crash. Everybody turned to the veranda window. The creep with the cloak ran by holding Jessi. But only her head was visible. Randal burst out onto the veranda.
"Jessi where are you?" Randal screamed. He was very worried because like Conan was with Rachel, he had secretly been in love with Jessi. Conan and Tania leapt out the window and into the woods after the 'bandage man.' (My dad came up with that after he watched the episode.) Randal and Michel ran after them. Randal spotted Phelix upstairs. "Phelix grab a flashlight and let's go. You girls stay here and lock everything."
"What me too?" Phelix asked.
"Yes let's go!" Randal said while starting to run. Phelix ran after them but started to fall behind because he was so overweight.
"Hey guys wait for me!" Phelix yelled. Randal was about to say something when he tripped. He looked at what he tripped over and he saw Jessi's leg.
"Oh my gosh! It's an arm. It's a freaking arm!" Phelix screamed looking at what he had tripped over.
"No it can't be real." Randal said in denial and backing up. His foot hit something and when he turned around he saw Jessi's head.
"It is." Conan said.
"Come on. Let's go back to the house, quick." Phelix said starting to run. Everybody ran after him until they reached the house. When the guys got back to the house they told the girls about their discovery in the woods. Everybody was horrified.
"I think it would be best to put this behind us for now. Let's go to bed." Angie said after everybody had clamed down a bit. Everybody nodded and went up to their rooms.
"Ah man. Why do I have to sleep on the floor?" Taina asked.
"Because there are only 2 beds. Also because I said so." Rachel said.
"You better listen to her Taina or she'll use her karate and trust me it's not pretty." Conan warned.
"Fine." Taina said. She could tell that Rachel wasn't in the mood for a debate.
"Hey Rachel why do you think that guy attacked you in the woods?" Conan asked.
"I don't know. Do guys like that need a reason?" Rachel asked.
"Maybe it's someone you hurt. Like somebody you beat up in karate class." Conan said.
"Karate's a sport. You don't try to kill someone if they beat you." Rachel said angrily. She then snapped off the lights. Conan started thinking about the incident with Jessi.
"Why would the killer come around the front when he could have just taken Jessi from the back? It seemed like he wanted us to see him." Conan was interrupted from his thoughts by Rachel.
"Hey Conan would you mind if I sleep with you?" She asked climbing into Conan's bed.
"Why?" Conan asked.
"I won't worry about you that way." she replied.
"You sure you're not scared?" Conan said.
"Yeah right. Good night Conan."
Conan tried to go back to his thoughts but Rachel's being so close to him was very distracting. Out of all the people in the world she was the one person who could distract him from a case. He was really okay with that but he would never admit it.
"I can't think! How does she do that? Oh well it's not like it's my problem. I'll let the police handle this one." he thought. Suddenly he saw the creep with the ax beside the bed. He was about to kill Rachel. Conan kicked Rachel out of the way. She landed on the other bed but didn't wake up. The killer was about to swipe at her again.
"Rachel wake up!" Tania said. She had woken up because the killer had stepped on her because she had been on the floor. Rachel still stayed asleep. Conan jumped at the killer's waist and Taina jumped on the other side. The killer threw Taina against the wall knocking her out. He threw Conan against the wall but his foot hit the bed's headboard. He fell on the bed holding his ankle.
"Ahh! my ankle, it's killing me." Conan thought. "I need to get Rachel up somehow." Thinking quickly his eyes fell on the bowtie voice mogilator. "The bowtie! If I crank it up to the max I might be able to get though to her." Conan set the bowtie to the right settings. "Rachel wake up! It's the killer he's in our room!" That got Rachel up and screaming. Serina heard Rachel's screams and rushed to the door but it was locked.
"Rachel? Conan? What's going on in there?" Serina asked pounding on the door. The killer ran out onto the balcony and disappeared. Rachel unlocked the door. Serina and the others rushed in. Rachel started treating Conan's ankle while Angie was trying to wake Taina up.
"Rachel, is it broken?" Phelix asked.
"I don't think so. It's probably just sprained." Rachel replied. But Conan's ankle really was broken it was just so numb he really couldn't tell. Rachel came out the door holding Conan on her back.
"Put me down. I don't want to be carried around like a baby!" Conan protested.
"Oh quite whining. You should be happy." Rachel replied. Once Taina was awake everybody went into the dining room. Conan spotted something in Angie's pocket.
"Hey isn't that Jessi's?" he asked. Angie pulled it out of her pocket.
"Well yes. It's her chocker. When I was locking the back door I found it lying on the ground." Angie said.
"Man I don't think it's a good idea to go back to sleep." Randal said.
"I agree. It's only the 6 of us against that lunatic." Michel said. He suddenly felt a pain in his leg. He looked down to see Conan holding his hurt ankle.
"Ow, my ankle." Conan said.
"Why you little brat. Why did you do that for?" Michel asked.
"You said the 6 of us. But you didn't count Taina and me." Conan said.
"That's because the 2 of you are to small to make a difference." Michel replied.
"That's not true. They've already made a Difference. If it wasn't for them I'd be dead." Rachel said.
"Yeah that's true." Angie said.
"Yeah well… I guess you guys are right." Michel said.
"I wonder how we're ever going to get out of here." Serine said with a worried look on her face.
"Well hey let's not think about that right now. Does anybody want coffee?" Angie asked trying to comfort her little sister. Phelix, Michel, and Randal nodded.
"I'll help." Rachel said.
"Rachel I'm sorry." Angie said when they were in the kitchen.
"For what? It's not like any of this is your fault." Rachel said.
"But I told Serina to invite you here. If I hadn't of done that then none of this would be happening to you." Angie replied.
"Don't worry. In the morning we can go to the villa next to this one and call the police." Rachel said. Meanwhile in the dining room Conan was having a break in the case. Suddenly the upstairs glass door that leads from the balcony shattered. When Rachel and Angie ran in Conan had Rachel take him up to the window. Conan noticed etch marks on the railing. He also noticed that one of the doors was unlocked.
"Why would the killer break the window then take the time to unlock it when he could have just stepped right through? Unless the killer is in the villa and unlocked the door, went out onto the balcony and smashed the door to make it seem like he was breaking in. That's it! I got it! That would explain why he's only after Rachel." Conan brought out his tranquilizer watch that Dr. Augasa had given him and pointed it at Rachel but at the last second she moved and the dart hit Serina instead. Conan just sighed.
"Well since Richard isn't here we'll make her say something nice for a change." Conan thought as he crawled under the table and adjusted the bowtie to Serina's vocal range. Serina was knocked out from the watch.
"Serina are you okay?" Rachel asked.
"No I'm not. Because I think I know who the killer is and he's right in the room with us." Conan said.
"What are you saying that's it's one of us?" Michel asked.
"I hate to say it but yes."
"But that's crazy." Phelix said.
"Oh yeah. It's crazy. The only crazy thing here's the crazy reason the killer had to kill Rachel." Conan said. "I've been wondering for awhile now how the killer killed Jessi so quickly and without even a peep. Then it suddenly hit me. When the killer passed by the window all he had was Jessi's head. The reason that he disappeared so quickly was because he was never really there. It was a dummy that passed by the window. Meaning Phelix is the killer. It has to be him. He was the only one who was upstairs at that time."
"What does being upstairs have anything to do with it?" Michel asked.
"Phelix tied the dummy, along with Jessi's head to some piano wire. He tied the piano wire to the balcony railing. I saw the etch marks. Of coarse it would be easy for him because being the prop master that he is." Conan said.
"But then how did Phelix get Jessi's head out into the woods? He was running right behind us." Michel said.
"Easy. It was a simple illusion. You see Phelix really isn't fat at all. He had Jessi's head tucked under his shirt. Then when all of you went chasing after the killer he went right to the spot where Jessi's head was found." Conan said.
"But then why did he try to kill Rachel." Randal asked.
"He tried to kill Rachel because when she first arrived she opened each door to the bedrooms. She'd closed the doors so fast that she hadn't realized that Phelix head nearly doubled in size. But Phelix couldn't take that chance. What if she pieced it together later? He had to get rid of her so he wouldn't be found out." Conan said.
"So he was the one who slipped the note under Jessi's door." Angie said.
"Well I don't know what the note said but I'm guessing it had something to do with your dead friend Emily." Conan said.
"You're right it was me and it was because of Emily." Phelix admitted.
"What you're the one who killed Jessi!" Randal exclaimed.
"Jessi deserved to die after what she did to Emily." Phelix said. "I remember the day Jessi stole Emily's novel, Blue Kingdom. Emily had given the draft to Jessi to read. Jessi said that she'd written it and got an Academy Award and then got the funds to produce it. That's why Emily killed herself."
"How do you know that's the reason?" Michel asked.
"Because she called me that day. Oh Phelix I'll never trust anybody ever again. That's what she said. She was in tears but she wouldn't tell me why. Jessi didn't care that she was the real reason for Emily's death so I put a note under her door saying that if she didn't want the secret of Blue Kingdom to be revealed then she should meet me outside. Emily's death has been avenged and now it's time I die too." Phelix said pulling out a knife and putting it to his throat.
"Phelix don't, this is crazy!" Michel said.
"Just let him kill himself. If he wants to be noble by avenging Emily's death, then let him die. But I don't care because he tried to kill Rachel, an innocent girl just to cover up hi tracks. Emily wouldn't want a girl killed in her name but Phelix didn't seem to realize that." Conan said. Phelix realized what he had tried to do and dropped the knife. That's when Randal did the unthinkable. He grabbed the knife and tried to stab Phelix for killing Jessi. But Rachel tried to stop by getting in the way. So Randal accidentally stabbed her in the chest instead. Randal was
so crazy after what he had done. He totally lost it and charged out the door into the woods while Rachel fell onto the floor bleeding.
I would just like to congratulate Tim McGraw for winning the Song of the year and the album of the year. Kenny Chesney, who won the entertainer of the year, and Keith Urban, who won best male vocalist.
Mandi- Solo- Hey you are right. This was an episode on the TV. But as you can see (well read) I added my own twist.
Silver Sky Magician-Actually Tim McGraw really does sing that song.
See you next crime scene!
