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"Very interesting." Kagami says as she shimmies out from underneath the car. It was still amazingly enough parked right on top of the boat that Juleka and her family called home.
Kagami glances at the other girls all gathered around before nodding and opening the passenger door before clambering in.
"Yes. This is definitely Adrien's car." She glances upwards and runs her fingertips over the interior. Her eyes close and she ignores the salty smell of the canal. She wrinkles her brow trying to look for something. anything that would give her a clue.
Kagami closes her eyes and breathes out deeply through her nose before inhaling. Trying to gather her thoughts, trying to put everything in order. She caught just the briefest scent of something very familiar. Her eyes flutter open and her smile comes back for a second.
She might just be deluding herself but she was positive that she smelled some of Adrien's favorite cologne. He wore the stuff often, it was advertised by his fathers company, but he did actually enjoy the smell. As did Kagami.
"Okay. So we know it's his car. Now what?" Marinette said leaning on the doorway and gazing in at Kagami who was still sitting still and solid.
"Well we have to think. If Adrien's car is missing, and he is missing, and his bodyguard is missing what might that mean?" Kagami said. Alya was tapping her chin. The three girls had more or less taken over the entire deck of the ship the moment that Rose and Juleka showed them on.
Marinette turned to Juleka with a question on her lips.
"Where is your mom? We need to ask her where she found the car." Juleka looked mortified before rubbing the back of her head and grumbling a bit.
"What was that? I don't think I heard you correctly." Marinette said blinking in surprise, she had gotten every third word, but that word had been pretty interesting. Juleka sighs and shakes her head.
"She's in jail." She said wincing and waiting a few seconds.
"How? And why?" Alya said in amazement. Juleka moaned and covered her face completely mortified of course her friends wouldn't understand, they had a normal family and not a complete psycho like Anarka.
"She said that the cops couldn't come onboard. Then we let them on. Then she started throwing stuff. Then she bit a couple." Juleka was bright red and rubbing her face trying to hide all of the heat behind her thick pasty make up.
"It's nothing to be ashamed about Juleka, all family's have different reactions to things." Rose said as gently as she could rubbing her bestie's shoulder. Juleka quirked a knowing eyebrow and just tightened her lips. Most family's had a weird family member. But Anarka was on an entirely different level of absolutely insane. And Rose was wise enough to not point that out. Kagami though wasn't...
"But...Biting a cop is incredibly illegal. I would think that she would be held at least overnight if not long-" Marinette slapped a hand over Kagami's mouth with a chuckle and waved the words away with a flap of her stimming hands.
"Yep! Things happen! My grandma has been in prison too! Don't worry about it!" Marinette said attempting to be helpful before turning back to the car and the matter at hand. Alya had turned her attention back to it too.
"So what do you think Alya? Maybe it was a carjacking gone wrong?" Alya glanced up with a raised eyebrow.
"Girl how does a guy disappearing from his bed late at night lead to a carjacking a solid eighteen blocks over? I was looking for evidence of foul play. I mean...If I wanted to get rid of some bodies..." She let the thought hang there as all of the girls shivered. No one wanted to admit that the possibility of Adrien being kidnapped tortured and murdered was pretty high.
"But then where would the bodies be? Unless they got washed out I don't see them." Alya straightened up and walked around the car poking and prodding it like a hunk of meat and she was the chef.
"No. There has to be much more to it then just this. I think that if this was anything it was a diversion, or someone trying to get rid of some evidence." She tapped her chin and then wrinkled her face up in disgust. There was now watery grime caking her chin. She rubbed at it with the back of her hand. Marinette's eyes wandered over the car. The tires were full, not even popped, the windshield was cracked. And the doors were closed...The doors were closed...
"Someone pushed this into the canal." She said. Before chuckling.
"I mean it's obvious, but that means it wasn't driven in. Someone pushed it in on purpose. And then what?" She pulled open the passengar side door and began pawing through the map box. She frowned. Totally empty.
"Someone didn't want this car identified. But since Juleka found it and she knew whose car it was it was instantly identified." She sat down on the squishy seat. Alya climbed into the drivers seat and Juleka, Rose and Kagami clambered into the back. Probably messing with a lot of police evidence. But the police were dumb enough to leave the car right there unsupervised and not find a place for Juleka and Luka to live. So it was justified.
"Oh I love it when she does this! It's so cute when she becomes a dectective!" Alya said nearly squealing as she took out her phone to record. Kagami's hand shot out to cover the camera.
"We don't want photographic evidence of us in here. It might be used against us." The girl snapped. Alya slipped her phone away, not having thought of that. Marinette's eyes are closed as she thinks. They then snap open and she looks at the seat Alya is in. She then jumps out and goes to the back of the car. SHe leans down and pushes. Her face strains. Alya gets what she is going for and takes the car out of park. Marinette's feet slip over the deck and the car doesn't budge.
"How heavy is this thing?!" Marinette calls out. Kagami comes beside her and leans against the car. She strains and soon her face is bright red. The two girls muscles are straining and their biceps bulging as they try to move it even an inch. They finally collapse gasping and exhausted.
"This thing is way too heavy to budge. You would have to be like a superhero to move it!" Alya said coming around the side of the car and slipping to sit beside Marinette. Marinette rested her head on Alya's shoulder as her mind began to turn and think about what could have happened. Kagami sat down on the other side of Alya and much to Alya's surprise Kagami put her head on Alya's other shoulder.
Rose was trying not to think about how adorable the three looked together. Kagami had no idea why she was doing this, but Marinette was doing it so it had to be something normal that normal friends did right? Kagami was normally totally adrift when it came to making friends or knowing how to interact around them. So she normally just copied what Adrien or Marinette would do in the situation. Or she just matched the intensity that the person was giving her. It sometimes worked out. And other times it just isolated her futher.
"I think that I'm starting to get something." Marinette said with a frown before snapping her fingers. "I've got it! There is no way that a normal person could have moved this car by themselves!"
"You're telling me. It took me mom and Luka close to an hour and two massive winches to get it on the deck." Juleka mumbled from where she hung out of the side door. Marinette nodded and made wide sweeping gestures.
"See that's the point! I don't think that a normal person could have pushed it by themselves. And I don't think that even an entire group could move it. But someone who was almost impossibly strong." She took out her phone and pulled up a picture of Adrien, zoomed in to his perfect blonde face and then shifted the focus to the large man standing directly to his side.
"You think that his bodyguard pushed the car into the canal? But why?" Alya said as Marinette shrugged.
"Maybe to throw people off of the trail. Maybe because he wanted people to think that they got out of the city since they couldn't find the car. And it wouldn't have been found if Juleka and her family hadn't pulled it out of the water."
Marinette's mind felt like a bee hive of activity as she tried to jump from one thought to the other.
"I think that we should assume that they are close by. Maybe even in the city. But they haven't been seen so that means that they are still in hiding...And I think that Adrien's bodyguard probably has something to do with Adrien's vanishing."
"Well that is all a lot of good speculation. But I'm not sure how we could prove anything." Alya said with a shrug. "And it doesn't tell us where to even start looking!"
"Or why Adrien's bodyguard would have a hand in his kidnapping. Assuming that he worked alone." Kagami said with her own flabberghasted expression. She actually felt sort of proud of her friend. Marinette had made a few deductive leaps but her reasoning wasn't impossible to follow.
"I can't tell you why. But let's be honest, if a guy the size of that man was walking around with that scowl people would take notice." Marinette said pointing to the bodyguards face. The girls all pulled disgusted looks, he was very very homely. And his scowl didn't help.
"Well where could someone get from here? If they are on foot." Kagami said. Juleka stood up and walked inside before coming back out with a map of the city. She spread it out and pointed to where they were. Marinette shook her head and folded the map in half.
"Probably only this far right? I would say that they are somewhere around this area." The girls poured over the map, pointing and talking as they tried to figure out where Adrien might have gone, and where the two men might be hiding.
Even with sections being too far to walk it still left a large section of the city open.
Alya's ears perked up as her phone rang. She looked at the clock and moaned.
"Curfew." She said holding up the phone as the others nodded. They all stood up and said their goodbyes to Juleka.
"Thanks for having us over. This helped a lot." Marinette said touching the other girls shoulder and smiling sweetly. Juleka blushed at the praise. She was used to being overlooked so finally having someone acknowledge her for this felt good. Rose gave her a quick kiss goodbye and the four girls exited the boat walking down the gangplank and to Kagami's limo which was already prepared to take them all back to their homes.
As they drove through the streets they saw adults already coming out holding flashlights and maps and getting into organized little groups to start their search. Marinette's head rested on the window as she thought. Adrien...The bodyguard...the amount of space needed for them both...And where they might be heading off to. And why. Why would anyone kidnap Adrien? And why would it be his bodyguard who did it?
Her mind was still a mess as she got home, said goodbye to her friends. Had dinner with her parents, went upstairs and transformed into Ladybug to begin her night patrol.
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