Ch.5
"Wow this place really is big" I said while walking to the rose garden.
"The roses smell nice, I'm still pretty far away from the actual garden, but the scent is so strong I can already smell it." I said as I glanced at the gate.
Huh? What's that?
Just outside the gate which separates the estate from the outside, there was something there.
It looks like a child.
Outside of the gate was a little boy, dressed in dark overalls with light brown hair. I couldn't see his face, but by the looks of it, he had gotten in some sort of accident. I could tell that his clothes were dirty, it looked as if they had blood stains, only slightly but I can still tell that it was indeed blood. I just didn't know if it were his.
"Hey! Are you alright!?" I yelled.
Damn I don't think he could hear me, maybe I should get closer?
"Hey, are you okay? What are you doing out here?"
"My brother, my mother...they're dead!" The little boy said while crying.
"What?! Okay calm down, what's you're name?" I asked trying to get some information from the kid.
"I-I'm Elliot" He said as he was choking on tears.
I took his hands from his eyes and held them tightly, I needed him to stop crying to answer questions. once he stopped the tears his blue-green eyes were puffy and red.
"It's okay Elliot just tell me what happened." I told Elliot, his face was flushed from the crying.
Maybe he's sick, should I let him in, or should I just go, maybe I should inform Ciel about this. I don't have enough time to go right now, Oh that's right!
"Could you give me a second please, I'll be right back okay Elliot?" I said dashing to the garden of roses.
Where did he say they would be? Ah! Found it!
Near the edge of the garden there was a little den there, it contained one of Snake's snakes.
How am I supposed to have it come out? Should I just stick my hand in there? No that would be suicide! God I'm going to look like an idiot! Oh well I can't waste any more time.
"Uh, um excuse me, Wordsworth told me that if I needed any assistance, to ask one of his family members' for help, would you mind coming out." I murmured into the den.
I feel like such an idiot!
Sure enough, a pale green snake slithered out from the hole,
"Hi there I don't know your name, but we can be better aquainted later, I need you to inform Ciel to come into town as soon as possible, I will take my leave to investigate something." I said to the snake hoping my efforts wouldn't be wasted.
The snake nodded and slithered toward the house, more like rocketed.
Phew!
"Alright Elliot, explain to me what happened on the way. Take me to where they are." I instructed him as I climbed the gate, there obviously was no time to wait for Ciel.
"Let's go." I told Elliot and he grabbed my hand and rushed towards the town.
"So could you tell me what happened?" I asked Elliot.
"There was a scary man, and he killed my mom and brother." Elliot said trying to hold back tears.
"Did you see what the man looked like? Any scars or tattoos?" I asked.
"I didn't see anything, I was hiding" Elliot replied and quickened his pace.
"What happened after?" I asked trying to get as much information out of him.
"He just disappeared." Elliot said and slowly came to a stop.
"Is this where you live?" I asked him, he nodded.
It was a normal size house, well normal enough to have 3 people living there. I felt a cold chill run down my spine as I caught the scent of blood.
What should I expect to be inside this house?
"Did you have any other family members living here besides the three of you?" I asked Elliot who was hiding behind me.
"No, oh we have a kitten, but I don't know where he is, he ran away when the scary man came in." Elliot said still clinging onto my leg.
Maybe we should wait for Ciel and Sebastian…they should be here any time now.
"I'm sure you'll find him soon enough." I motioned to open the door, shaking a little from the fear that ran up my spine.
"Wait!" Ciel screamed from a couple houses down.
Oh thank god!
"Just in time!" I yelled back Sebastian was right behind Ciel.
I wonder what took him so long when Ciel summond him earlier.
It looked like he was carrying something, was he?
"Alright, what's the deal?" Ciel said once he caught up to us.
"Elliot's family has been murdered by someone, we don't know who." I replied and Ciel sneezed.
"Damn! Sebastian why did you have to bring that! You know I'm allergic!" Ciel said and sneezed again.
"Bring what?" I asked.
The demon took out a small black kitten from his arms and showed it to me.
"I saw it wandering around, I couldn't help myself" The demon chuckled.
"That's my kitten that ran away not too long ago! He got scared of that creepy man and left." said Elliot
"That's your kitten?" I asked
"He's cute isn't he?" I said to Elliot, trying to cheer him up.
I guess that's all the family he has left now. Poor kid.
Sebastian handed over the feline to Elliot.
"So, shall we investigate?" I said leaning against the door, accidentally opening it and falling in.
"Ow…ow…ow."
It's pretty dark in here, and wet, was it raining earlier? I doubt it.
"Are you okay?" Elliot said
"Yeah, I'm fine I just fell in some water that's all. At least I think." I said rubbing my head.
I focused my vision a little more, only to find my hand stained with blood, along with half of my body that was in the puddle of 'water' I looked up and saw two bodies lying on the floor.
"Hey, Clary what are you doing? Get out here already." Ciel said irritated of my absence.
I couldn't produce any sound, I felt like screaming at the top of my lungs, but nothing came out, not a scream, nor a word. Chills sent throughout my body, and I was frozen, unable to move a muscle. I still sat there, astonished at what was in that house. What if the killer had returned? What if I was about to be killed where I sat? I managed to get up, wobbly, and trying to gain some sort of balance. I got to the door, and with that came the mountain of questions.
"What took you so long? What was in there? Wait, wh-why are you covered in blood?!" Ciel asked practically yelling.
I couldn't hear much of it, since I felt pounding in my ears.
"Hey what's wrong?" I heard Elliot say.
At that moment, I snapped back into reality.
I can't scare him anymore, he's already been through a lot today.
"O-Oh I-It's nothing, h-hey Ciel, um, it would be best if Elliot didn't see any of this." I managed to say.
"R-Right, Sebastian." Ciel said
"Yes sir." Sebastian took Elliot's hand and led him away.
"Care to explain?" Ciel said, coming closer.
"No! Don't come any closer, trust me on that decision! Come on, lets go talk to the police." I said trying to redirect Ciel from the house.
"C'mon, We have to investigate this ourselves, besides, what if the murderer isn't human? There is a chance your little demon is behind this." Ciel said going inside of the house.
"It's pitch-black in here, you can't possibly see anything in here."
Just you wait, then you'll see why I warned you!
"Oh my god…I see why you didn't want Elliot to see this. I don't think this is a demon's work, so I guess we can leave this case to the police. Come on, lets get back to the manor, I'm sure you wouldn't want to stay in dry blood now would you?" Ciel said closing the door.
Afternoon changed to evening, when we finally got back to the manor, and as the sun set we regrouped in the study after I got all the blood of me.
"So did you guys get any information on the case?" I asked breaking the silence.
"We haven't gotten any orders to actually act on this case, so for now, this case belongs to the police. Until the Queen, appoints it to me then we can actually do something about this. For now I'd like to ask you to get as much information from Elliot as you can until we get those orders." Ciel said.
"Sounds easy enough." I said in a low voice.
How much longer does Elliot have to suffer? Well at least like this I can get to know him better, maybe I'll cheer him up. I still don't know if he has any other distant relatives. We really need more information on the killer, what if he plans on coming back. Damn, why can't the Queen just assign the case to Ciel already, I know she might in a few days, but the faster the better. The thing that bothers me is why someone would murder this family, did they have something to do with the killer's own problem. If so we should research the family that was killed. From the looks of it Elliot didn't look like he were from a particularly wealthy family. It looked completely normal, why would this happen to him of all things.
"Hey, is something bothering you? I've speaking your name for the past 5 minutes." Ciel said waving his hand in front of my face.
"Huh, oh, I was just over-analyzing this, I should really get to bed." I said.
"But it's only 6:00 p.m. why so early, are you sure nothing's wrong?" Sebastian asked worriedly.
"Yeah I'm sure, I need to rest if I have to investigate tomorrow. You guys should do some research too, even without the Queen's permission I don't see why you can't. If you don't have her permission, you can't get really far, but it doesn't stop you from making progress now does it?" I said opening the door to the room.
"It certainly doesn't, we'll be sure to do so, I'll bring some tea to your room if you'd like." Sebastian said with a smile.
"That'd be great, oh, considering the size of the manor, do you happen to have a library?" I asked before I shut the door.
"Yes, why do you ask?" Ciel asked finally saying something.
"No reason, just wanted to know that there was a place that I could spend time in peace for the next few days." I said closing the door.
I started to head back to my room. I finally got to the room and turned on one of the lanterns and placed it on the nightstand. I looked through the drawers and found a leather-bound notebook, I began to write questions to investigate Elliot with, and ideas of solving this problem with Derrick.
The guest rooms here practically have everything you need, well of course a few things aren't in here, but at least there is a little notebook, like this I can actually get ahead on my investigating.
I spent a good 30 minutes writing anything I knew in the notebook when someone knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" I asked as I put the notebook back in the drawer and yawned softly.
"I've come to bring your tea." Sebastian said from the other side of the door.
"Oh, come in." I said allowing the demon to enter.
"Thanks." I said yawning again.
"What were you doing that got you this tired already?" Sebastian asked with a chuckle.
"Research, it's been a long day anyway." I said bringing the cup to my lips.
"I suppose so, I hope you won't have any nightmares on what you saw today, I was told it was not a pretty sight." Sebastian said.
"Yeah, that was definitely something you don't see everyday." I said putting the cup down.
"I hope we find this killer and quick, we still don't know his intentions, so we don't have any advantage over this situation." I said.
"Do you think that there were any more cases like this?" I asked.
"I'm not quite sure, I should look into that tomorrow, get some rest and we can talk more in the morning." Sebastian said.
"Alright then." I pouted and handed him the dishes.
He left the room and I just sat back down on my bed. I couldn't get the image of that murder out of my head anymore, it was terrifying. I took the notebook from the drawer and lit the lantern again. I just couldn't get any rest so might as well plan out the events for tomorrow. I was writing down so many things in the notebook, trying to figure out how to find Derrick, how to get rid of him, and how to deal with this case.
What kind of things should I need to know about Elliot, what would that do for the case. He said he didn't see anything, it would be much more help if we knew about the family. Elliot is pretty young, he wouldn't know much about it anyway.
I turned to look at the clock and it was 11:00 p.m.
It isn't that late, but maybe I should sleep, I really hope we finish this case and soon.
I turned off the lantern and fell back into the covers.
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