HAI GUYS. This is chapter 4 and its getting better. :3 Thanks for all the reviews. -luffs reviewers- please keep em' coming. :3
Only character I own is Maori.
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Dojima yawned as she walked into the office the next morning (That's right, she was actually there in the morning) and plopped down in the closest chair to Michael. "Good morning." She mumbled, waving at him slightly.
"Mhmm." He replied, staring intently at his computer screen.
"Do you even sleep?" She asked, knowing what the answer was going to be.
"Mhmm." He said once again with a curt nod, absorbed in his work. Dojima sighed and got up slowly to go get a coffee.
Just then Chief Kosaka walked in brightly. "Good morning everybody." He announced, heading over to his desk.
Michael snapped back to reality and blinked a few times, "Hey, Chief, where were you yesterday?"
"I was feeling a little under the weather." He said, sorting through papers Hatori left on his desk. "Amon has informed me of the latest case and sadly I won't be involved much in this one unless you need me. I have a lot of work to catch up on."
"Ah." He nodded, going back to work on his computer.
Not too much later, Karasuma and Sakaki meandered in, ready and eager to get started. "So, where did we leave off yesterday?" Sakaki asked.
"Just wait until Robin and Amon get here. Don't get so excited." Karasuma said, sounding rather grouchy.
Sakaki sighed and sat on the edge of the counter by Michael's computer, "When are they getting here?"
Everybody shrugged, including Dojima who was trying to stay awake. "Hey…Where are Robin and Amon anyway?" It was odd for them to be so late. It was already getting on 9:30 and there was no sign of either of them.
Michael took the head phones out of his ears and replied, "Robin stayed here for the night, and Amon hasn't been here at all since yesterday."
"What was Robin looking for so late anyway?" Karasuma asked, crossing her legs and folding her arms over her chest.
Michael shrugged. "She wouldn't tell me."
"What a surprise." Sakaki commented, rolling his eyes.
It was at least another hour before Amon finally walked into the office, he appeared paler than usual and incredibly tired. "Hey, are you alright?" Karasuma asked, looking kind of concerned.
"I'm fine." He said, and proceeded into the room. "Where's Robin?"
"She's still sleeping." Sakaki said, "Michael said she was here all night and ended up staying."
Amon nodded and stared off into space for a moment. "What room is she in? I need to talk to her."
After Michael told him where she was and watched him leave, he said, "He doesn't look very good…"
Sakaki nodded, "Yeah. He was more alert yesterday; maybe he didn't sleep at all?"
Dojima shrugged, "You never know with that guy."
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Amon managed to make it to the room where Robin was staying and knocked on the door once before entering. He found her up and making the bed. She turned to look at him and blinked a few times. "Yes?"
"I need to talk to you about that woman in those pictures…" He stated, walking in and closing the door gently behind him.
He almost sounded worried to her. "What about her?"
"I think I ran into her on the way home yesterday, but I'm not completely sure." He explained, avoiding her gaze.
Robin stopped what she was doing and studied him closely. She immediately took note of him avoiding eye contact with her. "What do you mean?"
He explained in great detail what had happened to him on his way home and about Maori. Amon sat on the edge of the bed and closed his eyes for a moment when he was done talking. Robin just nodded, "You were tired when you left here yesterday, I think anybodies voice would have sounded like that to you. But in any case, it is odd how she didn't just pick her bag up and walk away."
"Or I could be over reacting." He said with a sigh, closing his eyes slightly. It was in that moment, that he had a sudden realization. Could it be he was actually craving the sound of her voice? Nah. It wasn't possible. Although, he hadn't slept the entire night because she kept invading his thoughts. Was it possible to be over tired to the point where any random event would hang on you like that?
He had more questions than answers. Robin stared at him blankly, debating over what she should say to him that would be comforting. "Would you like to rest for a while and let the rest of us finish the investigation?"
Amon shook his head. "I need to be involved in this. Just in case the whole thing is affecting me more than I know."
This time Robin looked worried. He was acting awfully strange to her. It wasn't like him at all to come to her when something was wrong, she figured something else was bothering him and he was using his meeting with Maori as an excuse to talk about what was really going on without being blunt about it. "Amon, is there something else bothering you? Something that has nothing to do with the investigation?"
He stared at her for a moment, confused by what she was asking. Indeed everything was normal right up until he met her. The frustrating thing was what she did to him. "No." He answered simply. "Just wondering if I should be taking note of her. She does resemble the woman in those pictures a little."
She nodded. "Alright then." She said, wrapping up their kind of meaningless conversation and turning to walk out. Amon sighed again and got up to follow her back down to the main office.
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When everybody was comfortably settled in the office, Michael got started on explaining what he was looking at the night before. "I found some interesting ways to sub due this kind of Reaver. Some of them are pretty interesting and others I had found were kind of stupid. In any case the best one says to shoot them in the heart with a silver bullet."
Sakaki chuckled at the thought. "Wow. That's a classic vampire hunter thing."
"Sure is. But there happens to be one downside. There's no 'real' way to kill these things. All the silver bullet to the heart does is put them into an eternal sleep that looks like death until the bullet is removed." Michael finished.
Silence. "…What do we do after we catch her then?" Karasuma asked. "If she can't actually be killed, what do we do with her? Zaizen likely won't want to baby-sit a vampire that could be reawakened."
Nobody could answer the question. Suddenly the whole case seemed rather pointless, but it had to be done. Whoever was killing people like that needed to be stopped. Plain and simple. There was no middle ground. "Looks like we'll have to wait to see where she strikes again and plan from there anyway." Amon commented, blowing off Karasuma's question.
"We could be waiting a long time you know." Sakaki said, resting his chin on his hand boredly and tapping the table. "We should be doing something else meanwhile."
"Like what?" Amon retorted, "We don't exactly have much more to go on here."
Sakaki was forced to drop the subject and the room fell quiet again. "What do we keep an eye on exactly?" Karasuma asked.
"Anything. News reports mostly though. Word on the street isn't really reliable anymore." Amon said.
Suddenly Robin appeared out of nowhere, holding 2 cups of coffee and offered one to Amon. Surprisingly, he took the cup and sipped at it slowly, appearing lost in thought.
The rest of the day went by very slowing, having nothing to do most of the time. Sakaki wandered, Karasuma read a book, Michael played around on his computer, Robin watched Michael work, Dojima kept herself interested in a Magazine and Amon announced he was going to Harry's.
"Alright. See ya later then." Sakaki said, pacing around continuously.
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Amon walked out without another word and headed down to the underground parking lot to hop in his car and drive there. It was raining out now, not a good day to walk anywhere. Besides, he didn't really feel like walking anyhow, even though he shouldn't be driving with everything that was on his mind.
However he did make it to Harry's unscathed and walked through the rain into the establishment from his car. Harry saw him the moment he walked in a smiled warmly, inviting him up to the bar where he usually sat. "What can I get you today, Amon?" He asked gently, putting away a glass he was finished cleaning.
"Shot of Vodka on the rocks" He replied.
Harry nodded and turned around to get Amon's drink. Amon sighed and stared at the counter for a minute or 2, trying to figure out what he was going to do from there when he realized somebody had sat down next to him. He didn't bother to see who it was, he figured it was some stranger anyhow.
"What can I get for you Miss?" Harry asked, setting down Amon's vodka in front of him,
"Just water please." The very voice Amon had yearned to hear since the night before said.
His eyes widened slightly as he turned his head to look make sure it was her he was hearing. Shock registered on his face when he got a good look at the same mysterious smile he had seen before. Maori.
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Chapter 5 should be up soon. :3 Review plzkthnxbai 33