Chapter 5: New Turns

As Sasha and Rebecca made it to the inner town, they couldn't be without noticing the posters Jessica and Carmelita had put up. Rebecca was always the curious one, so she wanted to know what they were all about.

"Another disappearing, apparently someone else is missing too." Rebecca exclaimed and pointed at the picture.

Sasha took a better view too, and gasped.

"Oh my god! That's the same woman I saw in the harbour with the two goons and Lindsay!"

"What?"

"That woman in that picture is wearing the same dress or something than the woman that I saw wore." Sasha squinted at the picture, just to be sure about it.

"You seem to be really interested in that picture, do you know something about the matter that you would like to share?"

The voice scared the hell out of both Sasha and Rebecca. They turned quickly and saw two women standing there, behind them. The other one, taller, who had blue hair and brown eyes, frowned at them and arched an eyebrow.

"Well?"

Rebecca was the first to recover and opened her mouth. "Well.. We were just.." Finally Sasha joined in. "I was wondering.. That woman in that picture looks like someone I have seen earlier.." Then Sasha grew suspicious. "Why do you ask? Are you with the police?"

Carmelita was a bit surprised by the question, but composed herself.

"No, I am not. It's just that that this is our friend you are talking about. Now were did you see her, anything you tell might help us."

Sasha looked at Rebecca to ask for support, and Rebecca just shrugged. Sasha was doubting this; what if they were indeed with the police? She and Rebecca would be screwed if they found out that they had ran away from home a while ago. After a few long minutes however Sasha decided to tell what she knew.

She didn't tell directly about Lindsay, she lied a bit. She didn't want them to know that she, Lindsay and Rebecca had been stealing from other people. Even if the guys were criminals, it would still be a crime. Sasha led them to the harbour and told how she had been watching from the rooftop when it had happened. She ended her telling by sighing and telling how their friend had been missing since.

Carmelita was still doubting Sasha's story a bit.

"But why were they after you two and your friend? It just doesn't feel right to me." She got down to one knee and examined the platform closely.

Sasha was sweating a bit; she was having a mental argument with herself, should she tell or not.

"Well, you see..uhh." She didn't get to end her sentence, because she didn't make up any good explanation.

"Just out with it!" Jessica grew a bit frustrated; she had been like that since Jenny went missing. This whole thing was getting to her nerves.

Sasha sighed and her head was drooping.

"We..we stole from them. We were in a bar and not in a shop as I told you before.."

Carmelita raised her head a bit to look at Sasha in the eyes. She was wondering why Sasha thought that they were with the police. They explained that they weren't, so why did Sasha still think that way..? "She's definitely hiding something.." Carmelita thought but didn't push it.

"But.. Why didn't you tell us that before?"

Before Sasha got to answer, Rebecca answered for her; she hadn't said a word in a long time.

"Lindsay has mentioned you.. You see, her dad is working in Interpol, he's an inspector, so we've been hanging around there sometimes. Lindsay knows in which cases the officers work for. She told about you and that you were working with the Cooper case. So..so you can't accuse us about lying, because you lied too!"

Carmelita was a bit stunned first, but finally smiled.

"If your friend knows that much, shouldn't she know that I'm no longer working in that case, or in Interpol for that matter?"

Rebecca felt ashamed; she didn't know that. Since they ran away, they hadn't been hanging around there anymore..

"Uhh.. We.. she.."

Jessica had always been good at reading people's faces, so she quessed immediately what this was all about.

"I know, you have ran away from home have you? My only question is: why? It can't be that bad, can it?" Jessica asked in worry. She had always loved children, she didn't like to see them suffer or feel sad.

"My parents are really strict, I just didn't like the rules they always put. Me and my friends have always been sticking for each other, so they supported me when I ran away form home." Sasha explained and sighed.

"Though I didn't ask for them to run away as well." She had tears in her eyes.

Carmelita decided not to push Sasha or Rebecca anymore, so she changed the subject.

"Did you see were they ran when the guy chased Jenny?"

Sasha thought about it a moment, and tried to remember which was the direction they went to.

"I- I think they ran towards the park. I'll show you."

The four of them started to walk to the direction Sasha showed. It proved to be more difficult than Sasha thought; it was harder to try to remember the way because she 1) she was running in the rooftops when she was trying to stay along and 2) it was pitch dark when that happened.

The alleys weren't so freaky by daylight, they just seemed to be ordinary roads. Narrow, but still ordinary. There so many of them, so they split up and started to search for anything they could.

After a while Rebecca seemed to find something, and she yelled to the others to come and see. There was, in the ground, a mobile phone, or what was left of it. Carmelita took a bag form her pocket, and with a gloved paw, put the remains to the bag. They searched for quite a while, but didn't find anything else. They were almost at the inner town again when Sasha decided to reveal the rest of the story to Carmelita and Jessica.

"I didn't tell you everything, I'm afraid." She took a deep breath. "This was the thing we stole."

She took a little plastic bag from her pocket and showed it to Carmelita and Jessica.

"Is that..some sort of drug?" Jessica said and carefully took the bag from Sasha and examined it.

"So that's the thing you stole then?" Carmelita asked from Sasha and Rebecca. Both cats suddenly found the ground really intersting, and just stared at it while nodding in unison. "This could prove to be very important evidence... that's why we're letting you get a away with just a warning. But I'm telling you, stealing is wrong, it's a bad habit."

Carmelita waved her finger at the girls but couldn't help but let a little smile develop in the corner of her mouth. This indeed reminded her of someone...

"We're.. not coming to the station, but.. could we change numbers so that we could know what's going on?" Rebecca asked hopefully.

Jessica dug a pen from her purse and took one of the A4's, ripped it in half and scribbled her number to it. Carmelita put her number under Jessica's and gave the half of the paper to Sasha and Rebecca. They did the same.

They went to different directions, because Jessica and Carmelita would take the samples to Interpol.

When they left, Carmelita smiled happily because, for once, things were progressing.. And at night they would look around town for Jenny too, so at least they were doing something to search for her.

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"I don't know what we'll do if they tell someone that we've ran away..." Rebecca thought heatedly.

"Well if Carmelita told the truth, she isn't working for Interpol anymore..." Sasha mused. "Though I don't understand why, because according to Lindsay she is, I mean was, one of the best officers around Interpol.."

"People can have problems.. No one would have quessed that I run away from home. But that's what I did." Rebecca proclaimed.

"You're right. We shouldn't meddle into other people's business."

"Yeah. Let's just wait that they call us..."

They continued their walk to their new "home" where they were staying at. Actually it was an abandoned summer cottage, but it was okay. Though they had a problem; when winter came, where would they stay.. The cottage was too cold to stay when it was winter. They would have to think about it later...

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A/N: Hmm.. This chapter turned out to be one of the shortest, because the previous was longer. Oh well, it's still a chapter! Now finally, Jenny and Lindsay will appear on the next chapter! ;D Stay tuned! Oh, and remember to review!

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