A Bad Day For Bobby
Soon Althea and Todd were dressed and walking outside the apartment with Coyote on a leash. Just as they stepped outside, Logan was waiting for them. "Good morning, or should I say good afternoon?"
"And a Merry Christmas to you too," Althea quipped.
"You shouldn't have tried to lay this trick on me," Logan said. "Sneaking out while I was giving you time to rest up and ask questions."
"I'm taking my husband and my dog out for a walk," Althea gave him a look. "We walked out the front door in broad daylight. How is that sneaking around?"
"Now she mentions me first," Todd rolled his eyes. "If this is about that gun…"
"The firing pin's busted," Logan waved. "Unless you threw it at someone it couldn't do any damage. Let's not waste time talking about that. Look, just be straight with me, are you or are you not working on this case?"
"I'm not," Althea said.
"But she's interested!" Todd added.
"Fine," Logan nodded. "I don't mind telling you that I'd rather be working with you than against you. Did I really just say that line?"
"Scary isn't it?" Althea looked at him.
"Okay it's a deal," Logan said. "What do you want to know?"
"That suicide for starters," Althea said.
"False alarm," Logan said.
"Thought so," Althea agreed. "From now on they're going to think that every fat guy over six feet is Fred Dukes. You think he did it."
"Looks like he planned something," Logan admitted. "He shut down his apartment and shop. Couldn't find a thing when we went there. This is the way we figure it. Dukes goes to Jean's apartment only to find Matthews there. Sees she's two timing him. They have a fight but he figures he don't want to do anything yet on account of Matthews. So he leaves town for a while. Waits for things to cool off then sneaks back…Bang! Lets her have it. Course it's just a theory. We don't have any proof to back it up."
"Fifty will get you a hundred that he didn't do it," Althea said.
"Why not?" Todd asked.
"His short attention span," Althea explained. "He was too absent minded to hold a grudge that long."
"So who's your candidate?" Logan asked.
"Haven't got that far yet," Althea admitted. "Did you check everyone's alibis?"
"Yeah, Mystique, Rogue, Pietro…" Logan counted off. "We even had to let Matthews out of it because he had an alibi."
"What about Alvers?" Althea asked.
"We're checking up on that," Logan nodded.
"How about Drake?" Althea asked.
"The Iceman?" Logan said. "We know all about him. He does a little schooling for us every once in a while."
"Did you know he was hanging around Grey?" Althea asked.
"No I didn't," Loan frowned.
"I think he's holding out on you," Althea told him.
"Well let's go see him," Logan growled. "This could get a little rough."
"Cool! This detective stuff is great!" Todd beamed as a taxi pulled up. He and Coyote hopped in.
Althea quickly shut the door tight after them. "Driver! Grant's tomb! Step on it!"
SCREEEEEEEE!
The taxi pulled away wildly. "Let me guess, Kitty's driving that taxi isn't it?" Althea blinked.
SCREEEE! HONK! HONK! CRASH!
"Bingo," Logan winced.
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Soon Logan was knocking at the door to a dilapidated apartment. "Open up!"
Bobby unlocked the door. "Hey. I wasn't expecting to see ya Logan. You said you'd phone."
"What's the idea of telling us you knew Grey only by sight?" Logan snapped.
"I did!" Bobby protested as they walked in. "That's the truth! Okay maybe I said hello to her one or two times but that's all I knew about her! That's the truth!"
"Oh yeah?" Tabitha had heard everything. "YOU TWO TIMING RAT!" She grabbed a skillet from the stove and threw it at Bobby's head. He barely dodged it in time. "I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT!"
"Chill out Tabitha!" Bobby snapped, throwing ice balls at her.
She easily dodged them and threw her patented energy bombs at him. Soon it was a mutant melee with Logan stuck in the middle. Althea wisely moved to the side. When Bobby tried to rush Tabitha, Althea calmly stuck out her foot and he tripped over it. Then Logan was able to subdue him.
"KNOCK IT OFF!" Logan snapped. "We didn't come here to watch you two rough house! Or destroy another set."
Tabitha stormed into the bedroom and slammed the door shut. "She drives me nuts!" Bobby snapped as Logan shoved him into a seat. "Been nagging me all day!"
"Well Popsicle if you didn't spend so much time running after other women maybe you would have as much trouble with this one!" Logan snapped.
"Look! That's a lie!" Bobby protested. "You tell me the guy who said that and I'll beat the truth out of 'em!"
Logan gave Bobby a cold stare. "Oh really?"
Bobby then got very nervous. "Ha ha…Just kidding. Okay, maybe I did kind of spend some time with her. You know how it is."
"You'd have been better off to help me that in the beginning!" Logan snapped. "Where were you the afternoon she was killed?"
"Oh now come on! Wait a minute you don't think that I…" Bobby's eyes widened.
Just then Tabitha stormed out of the bedroom with a suitcase. She glared at Bobby. "I don't like crooks and even if I did, I wouldn't like crooks that are stool pigeons! And even if I did like crooks that are stool pigeons I still wouldn't like you!"
"TABBY!" Bobby cried out as Tabitha left. Logan prevented him from following her. "Tabby! Don't go! Wait! I'll do anything! Tabitha! Come on! You gotta let me go after her! I'll tell you anything you wanna know just let me go after her!"
"Sit down! Where were you when that girl was killed?" Logan snapped.
"I don't know!" Bobby panicked. "Tabby would know! I can't remember! Maybe I was shooting pool or something! She'd remember!"
"How'd you like to be in the can for not…" Logan was interrupted by an explosion in the bedroom. "Boom Boom blew up another room didn't she?"
"Yeah, you mind if I put out that fire?" Bobby gulped.
"Be my guest," Logan sighed. Bobby went into the other room. Althea then picked up a nearby phone and started to dial. "What are you doing?"
"I'm calling your office so you can send out a man to trail him," Althea explained. "I wanna see where he goes."
"WHAT?" Logan burst into the bedroom and saw Bobby had escaped out the window. "HOW DID YOU KNOW?"
"Easy," Althea shrugged. "I read the script."
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Soon Bobby was at a phone booth making a call. "Listen, they've been questioning me again. Asking me what I know and what I saw. Don't worry I ducked out on 'em. Now if you want me to play dumb I want a thousand…No wait ten thousand more! Ten thousand and I'll skip out of town! Where? Okay, right away. I'll see you. And have the cash on you!"
Not long afterwards Bobby went into a dark doorway on a deserted street. Suddenly a gun fired and Bobby fell down dead.
Tabitha ran out. "HOLD IT! CUT! Red you can't put that in the fic!"
But that's what happens in the movie. It's not that violent. You don't even see any blood.
"That's what I mean!" Tabitha said. "It's not grisly enough!"
Good point. Let's try this again.
"What?" Bobby sat up. "You gotta be kidding me?"
No, let's start the scene again. Bobby you're at that dark doorway on a deserted street…
"Fine," Bobby grumbled and went into place again. This time he was shot several times with a machine gun and fell to the ground.
"Not bad Red," Lance called out. "But you could do better."
"I agree," Tabitha said. "Try again."
You're right. Okay. Places people.
"I'm lucky this is fan fiction otherwise this would really hurt…" Bobby grumbled as he got up again. This time he was shot several times and fell into the street where a bus ran over him.
"Better but I have another suggestion," Lance called out.
"Oh come on!" Bobby sat up in pain. "What have I ever done to you?"
"Let's start with two words," Lance gave him a look. "Joy Ride."
"Oh yeah that," Bobby coughed.
"And let's not forget a certain Tremors of the Past," Tabitha added.
"Okay okay! I got it!" Bobby snapped.
Wait. I got it! A solution that will make everyone happy. Everyone but Bobby that is.
"Great…" Bobby grumbled as he got into place again.
This time Bobby was shot several times by a machine gun, then run over by a bus with the driver laughing manically. Then he was backed over by the same bus twice. Bobby was still barely alive when the unknown assailant grabbed him and threw him in a car. The unknown murderer pushed a remote control that made the car speed up through the city, jump off a cliff and into the mouth of a volcano. Which exploded.
"Perfect!" Lance called out. "Nice fireworks!"
"Good touch," Tabitha grinned. "I like it. Okay people that's a wrap. On to the next scene."
Bobby hobbled out on crutches, all banged up. "And to think originally Red Witch was going to have Evan play this part!"