So... A rather long three days huh? xD I was going to continue some other stories instead but this one bitch slapped me through the screen like a true pimp so I decided To re pick up this one... Than I'll probably work on "My Guardian's Glare" for a little bit...
Law rushed into the room to check on Moria as Smoker hesitantly approached the other bed with a knife sticking out of it. He reached for the blanket, hand wavering a little bit before yanking on the blanket to reveal... pillows strategically placed in the shape of a body.
Ace came in holding a medical kit he found in the kitchen and tossed it to Law who was still searching for a pulse. "I used to be a life guard," Ace said before approaching Moria to apply pressure on the wound with the blanket while Law found a faint pulse. "He's alive! Just barely..."
Smoker was still staring at the pillows in confusion, turning to Sanji who had a mixed expression on his face. "That's a knife from the kitchen..." he muttered, less scared now knowing that Moria was alive.
Luffy just stood there at the doorway, gazing in with a face of confusion, not entirely comprehending the situation.
"I don't care where the fucking knife is from," Smoker gritted through his teeth. "I want to know why the hell you weren't in your bed, why the hell he has his throat slit and WHERE THE HELL is the damned exhibitionist!"
Sanji flinched as his voice raged on louder. "Ummm..." he mumbled once again, the situation making it hard for him to think. "It- uhhh- It's about 10, right? Paulie should be doing his daily run over to the tram to shut off power for the night," he finally pieced together, gripping his hair in a clenched fist. "Does anyone have a smoke?" he asked, feeling sick as fuck.
"You'll get your damned smoke after you answer the other two questions!" Smoker ordered, standing between him and the dresser.
"I don't know who tried to kill him!" Sajni cried out, on the verge of crying, his eyes reddening and feeling like he was suffocating, once again trying to apporach the dresser.
"One more answer shit-head!" Smoker yelled straight into his face, blocking him once more.
"For God's sakes give him a fucking smoke before he has a panic attack!" Ace yelled, grabbing the smokes and tossing them to Sanji, along with his light.
"Ooooo! Aaaacceeee! Dollar in the swear jar!" Luffy chimed in from the door as Sanji's shaky hands struggled to light the cigarette in his mouth. Smoker was about to yell at the boy for being an idiot before everyone heard a door open in the distance followed by a shout by Paulie. "Guys! There was a mudslide. The tunnel was closed up!" Paulie yelled through the hallway.
It took him no less than a minute to find everyone, Smoker closing the door behind him and meeting outside the room so he wouldn't know what was going on yet.
"When do you think it fell?" Smoker asked, doing his best to keep the man from having time to wonder why they were all gathered in Moria's room.
"Ummm..." Paulie thought aloud, peering over Smoker's shoulder to the closed door out of curiousity. "It stopped raining at around 8 so it was probably before that."
"I got here at 7... the tunnel closed at 8. Did anyone else come in between then?" Smoker asked, a hypothesis forming in his head.
"Not possible. The tram can't run without clearance by someone up here." Paulie said in responce, still confused.
Smoker turned around with gritted teeth before violently opening the door to the room, almost hitting Luffy upon entry. "Alright you dipshit fail excuse of a killer. The tunnel collapsed long before the attempted murder. No one other than the 8 of us are up here to our knowledge which concludes that you are in this room. We have two cops and a previously established buddy system which means this case should be a no brainer anyways. Save us the trouble and give up."
Paulie walked into the room gathering up as much information as possible, Sanji helping fill him in. Other than the two of them muttering, no one else dare say a word, all just exchanging suspiscious glances at each other.
It was now Zoro who stepped forward. "Alright. We were all paired up with a partner to sleep with. Smokey and I never left each other's sight in our room. That leaves us out, narrowing down the killer to one of you six." he said, scribbling into a note pad.
"Now wait a minute," Law intervened, grabbing the pen to stop Zoro from writing. "You can't be eliminated. For all we know you two could have worked as a team to try and kill them. You two even know each other from back in the force, no?"
Zoro responded with a devilish smirk. "Fair enough. Although since it is MY notebook and I know neither of us had anything to do with it I'm going to go ahead and cross our names off."
Paulie was officially clued in now and looked confused. "Wait... why weren't you in your bed then?" he asked.
"This shit has been avoiding that question as long as possible!" Smoker growled.
"There's a good explanation for that! I was... well.. ummm..." he paused, scratching his jaw line with a blush.
"After exchanging pleasantries and a brief lapse of eye contact at the dinner table, we silently agreed to meet in my room. He waited a few minutes for Moria to go to the bathroom, placed the pillows and than came to my room where we exchanged a bit of foreplay."Law explained in Sanji's stead, Sanji's jaw dropping in raw mortification.
"Did you two leave each other's sight at any point?" Zoro asked further, smirking at the raw humility Sanji felt in comparison to the apathetic Law.
"I do believe Sanji would've had ample opportunity to kill Moria and stage an "attempted" murder of himself before coming to my room although I had an equal amount of chance to stage his death and kill Moria when he went to the bathroom to prep his ass with the lube because he did take quite a while." Law said, never taking his eyes off of the patient at hand while Sanji was slumped against the wall in self-loathe, using his finger to draw imaginary circles against it.
"Kill me now..." he muttered before Law added "Somebody already tried that."
Smoker was seated at Moria's desk pinching his temples roughly, hoping this was some fucked up nightmare. Zoro continued to squabble notes with a teasing smirk as he purposely stared holes into the blonde who had his head hung low to avoid eye contact. Paulie was a deep crimson color and Ace and Luffy were still freaked out about the fact that there's a killer among them in the room.
"A-Aren't you all taking this too lightly?" Ace questioned in astonishment.
"I'm a doctor who has witnessed death many-a-times. My job description requires me to be desensitized so that I'm not sickened by death. I'm assuming the same thing goes for the two cops over there. Paulie, you and the loud boy have all reacted normally and Allbleu's shame overpowers his initial fear apparently. In addition to all that, quite frankly the killer did a sloppy job and didn't even manage to withhold his title so I see no reason to be frightened." Law explained again as he dissinfected the wound and began sewing it shut slowly, a smirk never leaving his face as he spoke.
"Now hold on a sec," Zoro finally spoke up after scribbling in his notebook while Law was giving his... irrelevant speech. "While the cook was play catcher with you in your room, where was Luffy during all of this? You shared a room, no?"
"Just what are you accusing my brother of?" Ace growled, stepping forward.
"I actually don't know where he went off to. I was originally just planning to place a gag on the cook. It just worked out the way it did by chance." Law shrugged, Sanji slumping down on the floor even more in shame.
Luffy finally spoke up himself though. "I was in the kitchen. I got reaallllyyyyy hungry and there wasn't even a lock on their fridge!" Luffy explained.
This snapped Sanji out of his shame coma. "The hell did you do to my kitchen!" he yelled in fury.
Luffy gave a half-hearted chuckle before saying "I raided the fridge, ate a few dishes, looked through some cabinets, and then I heard someone so I hid under the table because I didn't want to get in trouble!"
"That was probably when the culprit went to retreive the murder weapon," Smoker finally chimed in. "Assuming that the culprit isn't the kid himself."
"Don't you dare accuse Luffy! He wouldn't hurt a fly." Ace intervened once again.
"Glad to hear you speaking up Potgaz."Smoker said, turning to him.
"It's Portgaz." Ace said with a dignified hair flip.
"Mr. Portgaz. Paulie was going over to the tram to shut it off. It's true that he could've tried killing him before leaving, but you had around 15 minutes to do whatever you wanted. I'll give you 3 sentences to try and make yourself seem innocent." Smoker said with an uninterested glare.
"I snuck in a few handhelds." Ace said, hanging his head in shame.
"Handhelds?"
"Portable video games. I knew it would get boring so I snuck about three in my bag so that I wouldn't need a charger if one died, I would just switch to the other." Ace admitted, not making eye contact.
Three minutes later, Zoro and Smoker were in Moria's king sized bathroom. "In conclusion..." Zoro said, grabbing his notebook and flipping past a few pages, Smoker getting a quick glimpse at the contents... would could only be described as elaborate porn doodles, he opened to a page of the notes on the case. "We have narrowed down the 6 suspects to... six suspects."
"... I suddenly want that vacation a lot more now."
Comment and Review... those are the same thing xD Other than that, not too much to say about this chapter except the reason that I went with a slashed throat for Gecko is because in the anime/manga he has a scar down his neck with tape on it. I thought it would be a cute little idea for irony's sake.
On a super super side note- I am 18 (have been for a month) and on June 5th, I have officially known my girlfriend for 12 years. We gooooo waaayyyyy back. But yeah. Drama for your mama and story for the glory.
Love ya~