I know it has been a while, but getting back to school this week was harder than I thought and I just didn't have the time to type this up. Here we get some answers to that cliffhanger a few chapters back to the mysterious girl being attacked. Not so much Demigods this one but LOTS next chapter. Here we learn about Dru's 'Family' and a bit about her past. Hope you like. Remember to review :0 Detective Kelli Parker and her friend and co-worker, Medical Examiner Ryleigh Devul were enjoying their day off work by meeting for coffee at a local cafe when Kelli's emergency phone rang. The sandy blond haired Detective sighed and answered the phone.
"Parker."
"You got a case, you and Devul need to get over to Cafe Vittoria pronto. Got a teen vic." Said Sergeant Hawk, her former partner and superior on the other end.
"Okay, we're a block a way." Parker snapped the phone shut and looked towards Devul.
"What's wrong?"
"Teen victim on Hanover, we need to go." Devul nodded and slapped a twenty dollar bill on the table before she stood and followed Kelli to her standard issue black Chevy Tahoe. The two arrived on scean a minute later to find the alleyway next to Cafe Vittoria taped off.
"What do we have?" Parker asked her partners Grayson Clark and Cameron Moreau.
"No idea Parker, no id just yet, healthy teen by the looks of her just dropped dead." Clark responded.
"Okay, see if we can get an id on her." Parker lead them over to the young black haired girls body as Devul started to examine her. "Someone's got to be missing her."
"You got it." Clark and Moreau ducked back to the Chevy Suburban and opened up the trunk as they powered up the cars forensic computers and tools searching for an id.
"Poor girl." Devul muttered as she examined the girl's arms and other limbs. "No lacerations or defensive wounds, she doesn't appear to be wounded in any way. Death was most likely caused by internal wounds or toxins."
"TOD?"
"She's still war, roughly an hour ago." Devul said without touching the body too much in fear of losing forensic evidence despite her latex gloves, too little of a touch to notice the small sliver of life the young warrior was fighting for.
"Ryleigh, do we have anything to identify this girl with?"
"Let's see." Devul searched the girls jean and jacket pockets for a wallet or id of any kind without prevail, she noticed the glint of metal around her necklace and pulled out the silver chain. They were authentic... dogtags.
"Ri, are those dogtags?"
"Indeed, let's see here... Siobhan West, Born April 29th 1994, there's are military service number here we can run through the database."
"What's a sixteen year old doing in the military database?" Devul was about to answer when Parker's cell phone blared.
"Parker." Kelli took a few steps away from the body, Devul tucked the dogtags away and was about to call over her interns with a body bag and gurney when her hands brushed over the victim's carotid artery and the weak pulse that still flowed through the girls body and the faintest whisper of a word that escaped her lips. Immediately Devul's medical training kicked in.
"Kelli! KELLI! She's still alive! Get the Paramedics!" Devul called as loud as she could and rolled Siobhan from her side to her back. Kelli snapped her phone shut so fast it snapped in half as she rushed over to Devul followed by the paramedics.
"Ryleigh, how'd the first responders miss this?"
"It's possible the attack caused some sort of temporary coma, causing her vitals to flatline."
"Moreau, Clark, go back to HQ and get as much info as you can on our vic, Devul and I are going with, and someone get me a new phone." Parker barked out orders and tossed her phone to Moreau before slamming the ambulance door shut.
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Parker and Devul waited in Boston General's waiting room for Siobhan's doctors to give them some sort of news on her condition. It had been thirty minutes since they had rushed her off for testing and fluids without a word.
"What's taking so long?" Parker asked impatiently as she began to pace.
"Kelli, relax Dr. Barnes is one of the best diagnostic doctors in the world." Devul said calmly. Kelli gave her friend a glare and continued to pace for the next fifteen minutes until the middle-aged Dr. Barnes appeared in the waiting room.
"How is she?" Kelli asked immediately.
"Stable for now, we have no idea what caused her to fall into a deep coma. We did however found traces of an unknown toxin in her bloodstream, we flushed her system and send the findings to the lab."
"Any idea how she ingested the toxin?"
"None."
"Is she awake? We need to speak with her."
"Yes, however she is sedated and a little out of it." They both nodded and followed Dr. Barnes past the nurses station and to room 312. Dr. Barnes allowed them to enter before closing the door behind them. Lying in the hospital bed, was Siobhan West, the black-haired teen was slightly paler than before, although her iridescent turquoise eyes seemed to glow more fiercely.
"Hi, I'm Detective Kelli Parker and this is our Medical Examiner Ryleigh Devul."
"Devul... I knew someone named Devul once." Siobhan said in a raspy voice.
"What happened to them?" Ryleigh said in a soft voice.
"He passed his Trials and went off to fight for his country. I have not seen him in many months, stranded on distant lands with many like him."
"Siobhan were from Boston PD, and we would like to ask you a few questions about your attack." Parker interjected, knowing how Siobhan's words might affect her friend.
"Boston." Siobhan laughed softly. "I guess Dru was right, Boston is not a place for someone such as I to walk alone. Too many things to go bump in the night."
"Who's Dru?"
"Family."
"Would you like us to call her for you?" Devul asked sweetly.
"No, she's gone. Saving the world and all." Parker disgrdegarded Siobhan's word choice as a side effect of the drugs.
"Is there anyone else we can call? Parents? Siblings?" Siobhan shook her head no.
"They've been gone a long time. My family now should be here soon. Umm... Shannon and Jason are nearby they'll bring Gabby with them, Althea is in New York visiting Sam at West Point, she'll come if she can break Brynn, Saga, and Eir way from duty. Gero and Natali are at the Vineyard... working. They won't be able to come but they'll send someone. Ah... Dru's D.I.A but she'll try and send word, Will's searching for her off in Europe. Everyone else is wither working or at the Academy."
Parker nodded and asked her next question. "Siobhan I know this is hard but I need you to tell me about your attack."
"I don't remember. I remember waking up early, going for a short run and then talking on the phone with Gabby about tomorrow. Then nothing, nada, zip."
"What's tomorrow?"
"Shannon and Jason are bringing Gabby to visit Gero and Natali on Martha's Vineyard at Dru's compound. They are doing research or something there since Dru's gone, Gabby was so excited she loves it there. The beach, lake, horses, trees... it's a dream."
"It sounds lovely."
"It is, I was going to join them before heading for Annapolis in three weeks. It's just Gero and Natali most of the year so I like to go down as much as I can."
"So you went for a run, and had a phone call. Then what?"
"I don't know, it all just goes black." Siobhan lied. She knew exactly what happened and knew just how lucky she was to be alive right now but she wasn't about to get these cops killed by something they couldn't even see.
"Alright we'll leave you to get some sleep." Kelli and Ryleigh smiled and then left the room to have a word with Siobhan's doctors before leaving for Headquarters when a nineteen to twenty three year old with pale red hair tied in a high ponytail, and iridescent green eyes speckled with aqua walked in carrying a two or three year old with curly brunette hair. Both of them seemed to have a healthy glow to them that took away from how pale they were.
"Excuse me, I'm looking for Siobhan West." She said to the nurse.
"Room 312, two doors down on your right." The nurse said absently.
"Thank you."
"Excuse me are you Siobhan West's sister?" Kelli intercepted the young woman before she reached the room she had just exited.
"Yes." She said defensively.
"I'm Detective Kelli Parker with Boston PD, and this is Dr. Ryleigh Devul." The woman's eyes seemed to grow with realization at the mention on Devul. "We'd like to ask you a few questions."
"Okay." She agreed, as she switched the sleeping toddler from one side of her body to the other.
"When was the last time you spoke with Siobhan?"
"Three days ago, Gabriëlle here and Jason spoke with her this morning, I was already in an early morning meeting for a deal I needed to wrap up before we left for the Vineyard today."
"What is it that you do Ms?"
"Pierce, Shannon Pierce. I'm a Public Relations expert for the UNAF."
"And why was Siobhan in Boston? Shouldn't she be in school?"
"She passed her exit exams mid-April from the Academy, she was in Boston to relax before the Vineyard and Annapolis."
"Do you know where is staying?"
"I think the Historic Boston Townhouse but I'll need to check."
"Where else could she be staying?"
"There a few other houses and apartments close to Boston, or she could have driven in from the area's surrounding Lexington and Concord. There's the Townhouse, Penthouse in Boston and a Townhouse in Cambridge by the Universities from Jason and I studying here."
"You mentioned an Academy?" Devul asked, vaguely remembering something similar.
"Yes, Lady Dru's family founded it centuries ago, all of us attend in Academy in the Scotland, England area before going off to university around the world"
"Lady Dru?" Devul asked.
"Admiral, Lady Drusilla Ambrose, also Peverell is the commanding officer and founder of UNAF SpecOp A."
"Any idea where we can reach her at?" Parker asked eager to asked this Dru a few questions.
"None, she's been gone six months without a peep, the four years before that we barley ever saw her."
"And she hasn't been reported missing?" Devul asked astounded.
"She's working, classified, D.I.A"
"D.I.A?" Parker was intrigued by that, it was the second time someone had mentioned this Dru being D.I.A and she wondered what it meant.
"It's an old military thing for Dru whenever she goes off on a "silent mission" solo."
"Any idea when she'll be back, Siobhan mentioned her a few times."
"No–"
"Mommy?" Gabriëlle murmured as she awoke.
"Shh... it's okay, were gonna see Siobhan and then so see Auntie Natali and Uncle Gero."
"Daddy?"
"He'll be here soon." Shannon assured her adoptive daughter as she fell back asleep. "Sorry, she's still a little jet lagged from the flight yesterday."
"She's adorable. Where'd you fly in from?" Devul asked Shannon.
"Belarus, Jason and I just couldn't leave her behind. Speaking of Jason, he should be here." Shannon scanned through the waiting room until she noticed the tall, well muscled man with short brown hair and iridescent eyes made his way over. Shannon smiled as he put his arms around her and pecked her lips softly.
"Sorry I'm late, I had some trouble."
"Is the trouble related to you?" Shannon asked with a grin, not at all angry, as Jason laughed.
"Althea insisted on coming down, I had to order her... literally pull rank and order her to stay where she was and that I'll keep her up to date."
"That's Althea for you."
"How's Siobhan?" Jason asked as he took Gabriëlle from Shannon and cooed her awake.
"Daddy!"
"Hey sweetheart."
"She's stable Mr. Pierce."
"It's Hart, Captain Jason Hart."
"You two aren't married?" Devul asked as she eyes the large diamond on Shannon's left hand.
"Not yet, we're waiting for our family to return from the front lines. Jason and I have been lucky enough for Gabriëlle to remain out of the war's front lines."
"Then Gabriëlle?"
"She isn't biologically ours but she is ours none the less."
"Shannon found her in Amsterdam while we were on a mission and we both fell in love with her so much we brought her back with us."
"What about Siobhan? Did she accompany you to Amsterdam or Belarus, anywhere were she might be susceptible to toxins?"
"No, look can we do this later? We just want to see Siobhan." Shannon said, getting annoyed with all the questions. The detective was just trying to do her job and she respected that, but this was not a situation the police could handle.
"Of course." Kelli said, handing them her business card. "If you think of anything else."
"Of course." Jason said, taking the business card before entering the hospital room. Leaving Kelli and Ryleigh to depart back to the Police Headquarters. Unaware of the mess they would be getting into the moment they stepped through those doors.
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