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Mlle. Fox

"SHUT UP!" Mia exclaimed in shock as she sat on a settee in the royal palace in Pyrus.

"So...was that a good reaction?" Monk asked unsure. They had just returned and told Mia the entire story. Actually, Captain Stottlemejer made the Prime Minister tell her. Lily nodded beside her best friend,

"It's her general stockpile for shock."

"Your Majesty I apologize for my deception." Motaz said.

"Yeah, three hundred and thirty years worth!" Mia said sarcastically.

"Wow that really is a lot of deception." Randy mused.

"Randy." Stottlemejer warned.

"The Brotherhood has only had the royal family's best intentions this entire time. If it was found out the wealth of Genovia was built on piracy..."Motaz said. Mia stood to her feet,

"What? We'd be looked down upon by the entire world? I know the laws now Mr. Motaz. There's no clause or royal stipulation that Genovia would get absorbed into Italy if we found out piracy was involved with Genovian rule. Heck, all the superpowers in the world built their empires using piracy!"

"That...that may be true Your Majesty...but I don't think the secret is just about Mignonette's dealing's with pirates or her affair with Captain Sparrow. There's something...deeper..."Monk pointed out, pointing down with his hands.

"Deeper? Like what?" Mia asked with a furrowed brow.

"I'm...not...sure yet...But I'm going to find out. I promise you." Monk told Mia. She nodded and said with resolve,

"I know you are. And the prime minister is going to help you by giving you every letter, every book, ANYTHING related to the Brotherhood of the Black Pearl. Can I be any more clear, Lily?"

Her friend shook her head,

"Not that I can see."

"Good. Well...I can't think of anything else to say so...carry on!" Mia ordered stomping out of the room. Everyone stood in awkward silence until Lily sighed and followed her out of the room saying,

"Best friend to a queen is such a demanding job!"

Clarisse and Joe had just entered the room, confused when Mia had not answered them as they passed her. Clarisse turned to the room,

"We just got out of a positively dreadful tea with the Von Tokens. What's going on?"

"Secret societies, love affairs, pirates, you know...the usual." Randy said as Stottlemejer gave him a disbelieving look.

"Oh well that explains it." Joe said dryly as Clarisse gave him a disbelieving look of her own.

Lily found the young woman at the end of the hall, looking at a small portrait of Mignonette. They made quite a pair. The dyed blond rocker chick in dark clothes and chain jewelry and the taller brunette in a smart Chanel suit, pearls and heels. Mia was focused on the portrait, eyes narrowed, almost daring the ghost of her ancestor to come out and be held accountable. Lily first broke the silence,

"So...I guess finding out what happened in Tortuga must have...upset you."

"Well, we haven't even read through the whole diary yet. So I can't judge." Mia said.

"But..."Lily offered. Mia turned to her on her heel,

"BUT why keep love a secret? Why deny your own heart and passion for another human being? Why did my ancestor put her love for a pirate aside for her crown?"

"Kinda like how you put your love for the guy trying to steal your crown aside by marrying someone else?" Lily pointed out smugly. Mia whimpered and stuttered a few minutes before saying,

"That's...that's...different!"

"Is it?" Lily asked. Mia stomped her foot and whined,

"Okay it isn't! But...what does that say about me? Does that mean I'm doomed to make the mistakes my ancestor made all those years ago? To have history repeat itself?"

"Well that's out of left field. What brought this murder mystery problem back to you?" Lily asked. Mia looked left and right and leaned into whisper,

"Before he left on business in Australia...Nickolas proposed..."

All Lily could do is gasp with a stupid excited grin.

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"Well, I simply can't believe it. Sergie I knew you when you were trailing behind your father and had a poor complexion. This secret...is...too much." Clarisse said to the crestfallen prime minister as Adrian looked through the journal.

"Well Your Majesty at least now you know the truth." Natalie pointed out as Joseph poured out some wine.

"Yeah we read the diary on the way back. The minister's story correlates to Mignonette's account. But my question is...what does their love affair have to do with murder? Why is that secret a motive for murder?" Captain Stottlemejer asked as Adrian put down the journal and took the wine bottle from Joseph measuring and eying each glass trying to get them to be even. Joseph raised a curious eyebrow and looked at his wife who with a wave of her hand told him to drop it.

"Maybe we should read more of the diary." Randy suggested.

"That is an excellent idea Lt. Disher. Prime Minister? Would you retrieve Mignonette's diary off the desk if you please?" Clarisse asked. With a bow, Motaz stood and said with a slight bow,

"Certainly Your Majesty."

"Here we go...nice and even..."Monk said taking a wine glass in each hand, ready to hand them out. Mia and Lily reentered the room with Mia saying,

"I'm sorry everyone for storming out. It's just with this murder and...OPP!" Mia was interrupted when the toe of her high heel caught the edge of the Persian rug and she tripped, knocking into Monk who knocked into the Prime Minister, spilling the wine onto the open pages of the diary in the Prime Minister's hands. Everyone gasped and Monk screamed,

"WINE STAINS! I'm stained! Unclean! Unclean!"

"Mr. Monk stop it! Stop it!" Natalie said rushing up to the hyperventilating detective.

"The diary! Captain, can you help me clean this up? Quickly!" the Prime Minister exclaimed taking out his handkerchief.

"UNCLEAN!" Monk screamed in a daze.

"Monk! Shut up!" Stottlemejer barked at him taking out his own handkerchief when he stopped seeing something on the page. Fading in with the red of the wine, were letterings, invisible to the naked eye till now.

"What the?" Stottlemejer said as everyone leaned into notice what he saw. All except Adrian who was still freaking out about the wine on his suit.

"It looks like some kind of...code..." Lily observed. Clarisse was the first to read,

"Begun by blood, by blood undone..."

"Brothers until the battle's won..." Randy read next.

"Protect the Seed of Genovian Fruit..." Joe read.

"Planted by the Sparrow buried with secret loot..." Natalie read.

"The Broken Rose leads to the Pirate Queen's heart desire..."Lily read.

"Light the path to the Pearl with Scared Fire..." said the Prime Minister.

"Save the Seed, the Sparrow and the Pirate Queen with thine last breath..." Stottlemejer read.

"Truth revealed on Sparrow's chest." Mia finished the rhyme with disbelief.

"Unclean...unclean...unclean..."Monk mumbled to himself as the others looked up at each other is disbelief.

"This...this is...this is the lost Brotherhood Verse! That reveals the secret!" Motaz exclaimed in disbelief and excitement.

"But it's just a bunch of rhymes! We need to figure out what they mean." Clarisse said. They all looked up to the currently occupied Adrian Monk and then to each other. Stottlemejer sighed and said,

"Come on Randy."

"Where are you going?" Natalie asked.

"Randy and I are going into town to do some old fashioned police work. We're going to find out if anyone heard of someone planning to break into Windrose palace. Cause obviously, that verse is what the killer was after." Stottlemejer said.

"Well take Smithy with you. She knows where you can find that information." Mia told him.

"Certainly your Majesty. Natalie see if you can try to get...Mr. Clean here back to...normal..." Stottlemejer said looking at Monk.

"Easier said than done." Natalie said. Stottlemejer and Randy walked out of the room, only to have Joseph follow them and say to the Captain,

"Captain Stottlemejer! A moment!"

"Go ahead of me Randy. Grab a cab or something. And find Smithy." the Captain told his subordinate who walked off.

"You are an efficient leader Captain." Joseph remarked.

"Thank you Sir. I try. So what is this about?" the Captain asked.

"I've been paying very close attention to you Captain. It's been my job for the last forty years, it's habit. But with you I notice someone efficient, effective and smart. Knowing what to do to get the job done and who to get that job done." Joseph said.

"So?" the Captain asked.

"So...I would like to offer you a job." Joseph said.

"A job?" questioned the Captain.

"As Chief of Security of the Royal House of Genovia." Joseph said to a stunned Leland Stottlemejer.

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"Are you feeling better Mr. Monk?" Clarisse asked the detective she sat next to on the settee and helping him with his suit,

"Unclean..." Monk muttered. Lily leaned into Mia's ear,

"Psycho..."

Natalie sighed,

"Don't worry he'll come out smelling like a rose...Rose?" Natalie stopped and Mia looked up at her.

"What is it?"

"The verse mentioned a rose...Is it any coincidence that the castle Mignonette built for her pirate captain is called Windrose?" Natalie asked.

"A windrose was a early term for a compass, Miss Teeger." the Prime Minister said wiping off the wine from his Armani. Monk paused his meticulous cleaning of his suit, thinking with a far off look.

"Compass?"

"Mr. Monk? Are you okay?" Mia asked. Monk looked his assistant in the eye and exclaimed,

"Natalie...give me the diary! "

The young blond retrieved it, asking,

"Why?"

Monk began talking rapidly and flipping pages,

"The Verse said, ' The Broken Rose leads to the Pirate Queen's heart desire.' Well we know Mignonette was the Pirate Queen right?"

"Right!" Natalie said.

"So if Windrose is also a name for a compass, a Broken Rose must mean a broken compass!" Monk said.

"Oh my gosh! Like the one we found in Mignonette's grave!" Natalie exclaimed.

"You found a broken compass in Mignonette's grave?" asked Clarisse.

"Only it's SUPPOSED to be broken...I remember flipping through the diary...and I saw a bit about the compass. Here it is! The next entry after the Black Pearl leaves Tortuga!" Monk said pointing to the passage. He read aloud,

"After the Captain recovered from his 'condition', we set out for sea the next sunset...I was up on the deck watching the horizon line, while Captain Sparrow was watching me..."