Chapter 6 the final verdict.

Mobile Alabama endured a very odd… and strange day. It was two hours before Smackdown and the Deadman was still missing his lucky hat. Time was running out…

They gathered in the Undertaker's locker room, every witness and possible suspect; Vicky, Edge, Batista, Edgeheads, Michelle McCool and Chavo. Kane brought along Vince and even convinced the Undertaker to open the locker room door to let everyone in. "Who did it, which one of you took my damn lucky hat!" he demanded.

"It wasn't me!" protested Edge.

"Shut up!" Vince snapped, he turned the floor over to Matt and Kane.

Matt got the ball rolling. "Someone in this very room is a thief…" he began to say. "Question is… who?"

Matt had announced everyone's possible motive for stealing the hat. "Edge wanted to get back at the Undertaker for losing at Wrestlemaina, what better way than to take his treasured lucky hat?" he asked. Edge sneered and cursed under his breath. "Vicky has a motive as well, to prove herself to her man Edge, when he was the one who ratted her out to Kane and I"

"YOU WHAT!"

"They caught me in the middle of something!" Edge tried to explain.

"Don't worry it wasn't another woman or anything… it would have made the situation all the more pleasant though" Kane said with an evil smirk.

"Shut up!" Edge hissed through his teeth.

Kane gave an evil snicker as Taker soon joined him; it had to be a juicy tidbit the Deadman knows his brother would share with him later on.

"What about Kane, how come Kane isn't a suspect? He's a little brother, it's that what little brother's do is take stuff from the older siblings!" demanded Vicky.

"Why the hell would I need a hat?" Kane snapped back. "If you haven't noticed, I'm as bald as Mr. Clean!" he announced. "Besides, I know what that hat means to my brother, I wouldn't dare take it from him!"

"So, who did it Kane? Who took my hat?" Taker demanded.

Matt went through the list of suspects and their motives once more, yet to him, nothing added up. Matt looked puzzled as he looked to Kane. "Uh… Kane… none of this is making sense…"

"Sure it does Hardy Boy; you were just looking at the wrong things." Reaching into his pocket, Kane pulled out a sock.

"Hey! That's mine!" announced Batista. "Where the hell did you get my sock?"

Kane smirked as he tossed it to Dave. "Everyone in this room is guilty of stealing something. It starts with Edge who didn't want to use his socks when it comes to leaving the signal on the door that he was 'busy' as well Chavo and the Edgeheads had taken all of his in the mean time, left with no other alternative. Edge snuck into Dave's room and took his socks. Since then the Edgeheads had unknowing worn Batista's socks as Edge was quick to hide his own."

"Well, how does this end up to my hat?" Taker asked.

"In due time, however you have had another thing stolen from you… an item you didn't care too much about, but it was taken…" Kane explained. "When we interviewed Miss. McCool she had the coal eye liner sitting on the counter top, I recall the girls all running out with their supplies when… I fell into the facility…" Kane paused as he smirked to his own fib; he knew he wasn't getting away with it. "When I noticed it lying on the countertop, the coal eye liner… Michelle never used that brand, it was the one Taker always used to give his eyes that more dominating effect… Damn man, you wear makeup!"

"Get to your point Kane" Taker growled.

"Miss McCool had been in this locker room and took the eye liner…"

"So she took the hat!" announced Chavo.

"No… she didn't, she has no grudge towards the Deadman. She is only guilty of taking the eyeliner. And Vicky took her lipstick, since she was forced to wear a different shade of red… I noticed… I know my reds," Kane announced, yet was quick to continue the explanation of clues to this story. "Dave however came in shortly after Miss McCool. And took an item of this room…"

"I didn't take no damn hat!" Dave growled.

"No, you took a pair of Taker's socks… when yours were gone you figured the Deadman wouldn't notice…"

"You son of a bitch! You took my favorite pair of socks!"

"At least they weren't lucky" Dave said with a smirk.

"Kane this is all well and good, but who the hell has my hat!" Taker demanded.

Counting down from five on his fingers, Kane reached one when there was a knock at the door, looking to his watch he smiled. "He's never late"

Kane went and opened the door when Paul Bearer walked in with a smile on his face. "Paul? Why are you here?" Taker demanded. Paul smiled a big grin as he presented Taker his Lucky hat. "You forgot it at the bar again"

Taker took his lucky hat and placed it on his head with a smile. "Thanks Paul"

Everyone in the room looked confused as hell. "What in God's name is going on? We were interrogated for nothing!" Edge demanded.

"You stole socks, that's a pretty high offence in my family" Matt announced, they all left the room in a huff as Vince rolled his eyes and walked out without saying a word. Matt on the other hand turned to Kane and Taker along with Paul Bearer. "So… why is the hat so lucky?" he asked aloud. Not really expecting an answer but was stunned to get one.

"Paul bought me this hat when I first started, ever since then it brought me great luck… well… I considered it great luck"

"I was the most over paid babysitter there was! You have any idea what trouble he got himself into!?" Paul demanded of Matt. He rolled his eyes. "I hope the tables have turned!"

"I'm tried my best 'dad' but I don't think I could equal the hell he raised with you" Kane laughed aloud, however he continued the story. "Taker wore that hat when he watched me wrestle in Smoky valley wrestling… It wasn't long before I came to the WWE" Kane explained. "So, it has been a lucky hat, not only for him, but me as well"

"He also found five dollars wearing it once" Paul chimed in with a smirk. "You were so thrilled since you were short exactly five dollars!"

"Yeah, those were the days" Taker sighed. "This hat has been good to me, and I like to keep it special. Thanks Matt for looking for it. And Kane… you're going to pay for that makeup comment!"

Kane quickly hightailed out of the locker room. Paul only rolled his eyes at me with a smile. "Kids, what are you going to do?" he asked and followed them out the door, not running, just calmly walking out the door pleading with the Undertaker to not brutally harm Kane.

Matt stood in the locker room utterly confused; if Kane knew where the hat was all along, why the hell go through all of this!? Matt threw the pad of paper to the corner and decided to leave; he wasn't going to question why he and Kane went though all that trouble, for all he knew… Kane was board and wanted to so something that involved tormenting others…. What's more tormenting than an interrogation?

Matt just let out a sigh as he left the locker room, the case of the missing hat had come to a close however Taker was already working on the newest case, the case of 'the missing little brother and his smartass mouth'

THE END