Chapter 17

Dina stood there smirking with her hands on her hips, "Well? Is there something you need to tell us?" Cameron and Kay looked at each other. Dina laughed, "Do you want me to call everyone else in so you can tell the whole class in one go?"

"Um... well... you see... there was a fly on Kay's face and I was just getting it for her." Cameron tried to explain.

Dina raised an eyebrow, "With your lips?"

Cameron was silent for a moment, "...Yes."

Dina and Kay both gave Cameron an "Are you kidding me?" look. Farrah gave out a giggle. Dina nodded, "Yeah, I don't think even Farrah's buying it." She looked to Kay, "What's really going on?"

Kay sighed, she couldn't lie to her friend, "Well... Cameron and I... we've sort of... started... something."

"Well, no offense darling but that's been painfully clear since the first day the two of you met."

"We're..."

"Together?"

Cameron butted in, "We can't really say dating right now because we haven't actually been on a date yet."

Dina looked intrigued, "But you've kissed? Well, I mean, obviously you've kissed because that did not look like a first kiss. When did this start?"

Cameron gave a nervous chuckle, "Uh, not last night but the night before."

Dina gave an amused chuckle, "Well, is there anything else you're hiding?"

"I... think so."

Kay nodded, "Should be."

Farrah let a squeal. Cameron grinned as he carefully put the bunny-shaped hood on her head, "You're going through a whole roller coaster of emotions, aren't you young lady?" Farrah let out a laugh as she placed her tiny hands on her little head.

Dina chuckled again, "I'm sorry but is that a rabbit on her head?"

Kay chuckled, "Don't look at me. That onesie was Cameron's idea."

Cameron raised his eyebrows, "You guys don't think the blue bunny's cute? Well, as a man with great style, I am slightly offended." He picked up Farrah and held her up so they were face to face, "They just don't get it, do they?" Farrah grabbed his nose and giggled, "Okay, why does this kid keep grabbing my nose?"

Kay chuckled, "Well, you do have a cute nose."

"Not as cute as yours." Cameron replied in a nasal voice as he tried to get Farrah to let go of his nose.

Dina let out a laugh, "Will you two stop flirting with each other and come and see what we found?"

"Sure, can you take Farrah?"

Dina took the child from Cameron, "Hello again my darling." Farrah smiled at Dina as her tiny hand grasped one of Dina's braids and pulled on it a little, "Oh, I like your hair too sweetie but I think it's best if we try not to take each other's." Farrah giggled as Dina removed the baby's hand from her hair.

They went back to the other room where the others were. "So, what did you find?" Kay asked.

Jonathan handed her a couple of documents like the ones Kay had found hidden in the mirror, "It seems that Shawn kept rejecting large sums of payments every month from his father."

Kay furrowed her brows, "His father?" She looked through the papers, "It seems the more we find out about them, the more confusing this case gets."

"Any clue on what the endgame could be?"

Kay shook her head, "Not really." She sighed then raised an eyebrow at sudden realization, "Shawn. Shawn was the endgame." Everyone looked at each other with confusion as they waited for her to explain, "Look, Bennett and Vanessa's priority was bringing Shawn home, so to speak."

Mike nodded, "That's true. Vanessa was in pretty deep denial about the death of her son."

"Did the report say if Shawn was in a fight or a struggle before he died?"

"Yes. There was internal bleeding caused by multiple kicks and punches just before he was shot."

"That's odd." Jonathan remarked.

"What is?" Mike asked.

"Well, it's just that if Shawn's death was so accidental... why was he so beaten up before he was shot? I mean for Fiona... Fiona was just given a single bullet to the head, just like Shawn but that was it... just the bullet. Those gunshot wounds killed them both instantly... no. Whoever killed Shawn was different than the coward who killed Fiona. You don't kick someone or punch them just for the fun of it." Jonathan gulped as he remembered something, "Something I learned in prison is that the only time someone will pick a fight with you is if you did something they don't like. Whether it be as small as bumping into them or as big as killing their friend."

Cameron nodded in understanding, "So, what you're saying is that whoever killed Shawn-"

"It was real personal."

Kay furrowed her brows, "Mike, doesn't Shawn have siblings?"

Mike nodded, "Yeah but they were all either out of town or out of the country when Shawn was killed. They also hadn't talked to him in some time." He then looked over the file again and furrowed his brow, "One thing to note... the killer might not be a man."

"What makes you say that?"

"Well... take a look at the crime scene photo and tell me what you see. When they were cleaning up his head, they said that they had found traces of beeswax, ozokerite, candelilla wax and even cocoa butter."

Those ingredients sounded familiar to Kay. He handed her the photo of Shawn with the bullet in his head the blood beneath his hair. At first she didn't see what he was talking about and then she took a closer look. Her eyes widened at what she saw, one would miss it if they didn't pay attention, "Lipstick."

Cameron raised an eyebrow, "What?"

Kay brought the photo over to Cameron, "Look, you could almost miss it but... take a look."

Cameron grimaced at what he saw, "Th-the killer drew a small heart around the bullet wound with lipstick that matched the blood." He handed the photo back, "No DNA on the lipstick?"

Mike shook his head, "No, it must have been a new one or something."

Kay pulled out her phone, bringing out the picture of the photo she had taken earlier back at Marigold's Cafe. "Cameron..." She showed him the picture, "Does that colour of lipstick look familiar to you?"

Cameron then noticed the lip colour of the woman who was glaring at Shawn and Fiona in the photo, "Blood red lipstick. You think that she's the killer, that she'd still be using this same lipstick? This picture was taken a while back."

"Some people just don't change."

Jonathan spoke up, "Can I see?" Kay handed him the phone and then expression soften into an almost somber expression, "Is that-"

Cam gave a small smile, "Yeah... that's Fiona at her fanciest."

Everyone else gathered around Jonathan and took a look at the photo. Jonathan gave a sad smile, "She's beautiful... Are you sure she's related to us? She's too pretty to have Sebastian Black's DNA in her."

"With those eyes and those dimples? Definitely our sister."

Jonathan's eyes then moved to the glaring woman in the photo, "She doesn't look to happy to see them."

"Could it be an ex-girlfriend?" Jordan asked.

Jonathan handed Kay the phone back when Kay realized something, "Maybe not an ex-girlfriend... but an ex-fiancée."

They all gave her odd looks. "Um, Kay, I don't think it's possible to be an ex-fiancee if they were never dating in the first place." Gunter remarked.

Cameron's eyes widened, "No... No. No, she has a point."

"We had plans for our eldest son. When Shawn wanted to run off with that... orphan, we gave him a choice. He could either, keep his wealth and marry the girl we picked out for him or he could leave and be with that little tramp."

Cameron shook his head, "She's not an ex-girlfriend. She's who Shawn's parents picked out for him."

Dina nodded in realization, "And when Shawn broke off the arrangement to be with Fiona-"

"Glaring Glenda didn't like that very much." Jordan remarked.

Kay turned to Mike, "Mike, do you think you can track down... Glaring Glenda?"

Mike let out a chuckle, "I can certainly try."

"Oh, Mike, before you go," Dina said as she handed Farrah over to Jonathan, "Cameron. Kay. Don't you have something you'd like to share with the rest of us?"

Cameron rolled his eyes, "Really?"

"Well, would you rather have to explain it..." Dina did a quick mental head count of who she assumed didn't know, "Four more times? You could just get it over with now."

Cameron and Kay looked at each and Kay gave a silent nod. Cameron sighed, "There's one last thing that Kay and I have been hiding from you guys."

"What, is Kay pregnant?" Jonathan joked.

"What? No!"

Jonathan rolled his eyes, "I'm kidding!" Farrah let out a laugh as she grabbed the bunny ears of her hood, "See? Sack of Pudding gets it!"

Dina furrowed her eyebrows, "Sack of pudding?"

"Yeah. She's like a sack of pudding."

Kay let out a laugh, "Well, I'm not pregnant but..." She took Cameron's hand in hers and smiled, "Cameron and I have... decided to give it a shot."

Cameron smiled at her lovingly, "We have."

They were silent for a moment when Jordan spoke up, "Gunter, you owe me twenty bucks!"

"Like hell-"

"Gunter!" Cameron and Jonathan exclaimed as Jonathan attempted to cover Farrah's ears with one hand.

The older man rolled his eyes, "Like heck I do."

Kay leaned over to Cameron and whispered, "You're strict." She smirked at him, "I like that."

Cameron raised a seductive eyebrow at her, "Do you now?" He whispered back. He then shouted over Jordan and Gunter's debate on whether or not Gunter should pay up, "I'll walk Kay out!" Dina gave Kay a quick goodbye as she tried to keeping the debate from escalating.

Cameron and Kay walked out of the archive hand in hand until they reached Kay's car. She gave his hand a squeeze, "Remember, if you need anything, call me."

"What I need right now is for you to get some proper sleep." Cameron said as placed his hands on her waist, slipping something into her right jacket pocket, "One of us should be well-rested for what's to come... and I have a baby now so it can't be me."

Kay chuckled, cupped his face and kissed his nose, "That's sweet." They looked in each other's eyes for a moment as they enjoyed this moment of peace. Cameron's eyes flickered to Kay's lips which she took notice of. She smiled, "You know... if you want to kiss me now... you can just do it."

Cameron let out an amused smile, "I guess you're right." He leaned in and kissed her, moving his hands from her waist to her back as she kissed him back. Her hands slid down slightly as one hand gently cupped his neck and the other rested on his chest, just above his heart.

Kay made note on how his heart rate seemed to quicken with each kiss. Each kiss became shorter and shorter until they were just quick pecks. Kay was the one to pull away first and she rested her forehead against his, their breathing in synch. They were both silent for a moment and in that moment, Kay admitted to herself that she was in love with Cameron, she loved him. She took a deep breath, "Cameron, I... I'm with you. Always remember that."

"Of course... and Kay?" She gave him a curious look before he wrapped his arms around her and kissed her once more as he lifted her just ever so slightly off the ground. When he set her down and they parted, "I-I..." He wanted to tell her how he really felt but didn't want to push her, he didn't want to screw this up, "I'm with you too. Never forget that."

Kay chuckled, "That's practically the same thing I said."

Cameron shrugged, "Well, it sounds better coming from my deep soothing voice."

Kay rolled her eyes, "You're voice is not that deep... or soothing." She teased.

"Well now I just feel offended." He pouted.

"Don't be a big baby."

"I swear I'm not, I can't afford to! I got a little baby I need to take care of."

Kay shook her head, "Good night Cameron."

He kissed her one last time, "Good night Kay." Cameron and Kay finally parted from each other as Cameron walked backwards towards the door, still smiling at Kay when he hit the wall with his arm, "Ow, son of a-" He saw Kay trying to stifle a laugh, "I-I meant to do that... don't laugh."

Kay grinned and mouthed, "I'm not laughing." Cameron rolled his eyes but kept his eyes on her as he went back to the archive.

When Cameron went back inside, Kay took her keys out from her left jacket pocket. She looked in the direction of the entrance one more time, smiled and tucked her hair behind her ear. Maybe when the case was over and things had settled down a little, she would tell him. Kay gave a happy sigh when a familiar voice made the hairs on her neck stand on end, "Well, thank God! I thought the two of you were going to get it on right on top of your car."

Kay turned her head to see the mystery woman standing right beside her with a wicked grin on her face. "You!" Kay said with a horrified expression.

"Miss me? You know, my arm still flares up every once in a while, thank you for that."

Kay reached for her gun, "What the hell are you doing here?"

The mystery woman shrugged, "Jonathan and by association, Cameron have their insurance... now I'm getting mine." The mystery woman took out her spray bottle with the knock-out gas and sprayed it in Kay's face before the agent had the chance to respond. Kay suddenly became extremely disoriented and fell over, hitting her head on her car's side mirror. The mystery woman bent down over Kay's unconscious body, "Ooh, that's gonna leave a mark. Too bad Cameron won't be able to kiss it better." She stood up and called over her shoulder, "Gentlemen, you know what to do." Two men in black suits walked over, picked up the unconscious agent and threw her in the back of a truck, "The boss will tell us what to do with her."

Before the mystery woman got in the truck, she took out a piece of paper and placed it under the windshield wiper of Kay's car. On the piece of paper was written:

We have her.

Your move.

DUN! DUN! DUUUUUUN! Hee, hee. I told you guys things would be getting dark soon... and it started out so light-heartedly! Also, a quick disclaimer about future chapters... things are going to get worse before they get better.

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