Eight

Humphrey knocked on the door. "Too many trips up here in one day. After this we will call it a day. Meg can stay in the cells overnight, give her an opportunity to think and maybe make her decide to tell us anything else she knows," Humphrey said as they waited.

"What now? Can't you just leave us in peace?" Alex asked angrily as he opened the door. Humphrey and Florence walked past ignoring the teen. "You arrested your niece. You need a warrant to search us," Alex shouted after them. Florence placed the warrant on the table. "Oh. Help yourself then," he said before wandering out to the balcony.

Humphrey was pulling on gloves as they walked down the corridor towards the bedrooms. "Florence you take that one, I'll take one of those two," he said indicating the rooms a bit further down. Florence nodded. Humphrey opened the bedroom door and found Theo laying on his bed with his headphones in and his laptop up. "Theo. I'm sorry but I need to take your laptop," Humphrey said picking the laptop up off the bed.

"Hey," Theo said. "Why are you taking that?" He asked.

"Is this the only laptop you lot brought with you?" Humphrey asked. Theo nodded. "We need to check it for something. Sorry Theo," he said before bagging it up and then scouting the floor and under the bed.

"What are you looking for?" Theo asked.

"A chemistry set," Humphrey said vaguely.

"Wrong brother then, you want Felix's room," Theo offered sighing. Humphrey looked up.

"Wait he actually brought his chemistry set?" he asked. Theo nodded and there was a knock at the door. Humphrey and Theo both turned to look at the door. Florence was stood in the doorway holding a catalyst and a couple of test tubes and a distillation chamber. "is it?" he asked.

"Certainly smells like it," Florence said. "However it was in Megan's room," she said. Humphrey scowled. "I'll go check Felix's room next if you want to get the water out the kitchen and check to see if there is any wood alcohol in there." Humphrey nodded.

"Check Alex's as well. He seemed a bit short tempered earlier. Check to see if he's hiding anything," Humphrey asked. Humphrey turned to Theo. "Thanks for lending me your laptop," he said smiling before standing up and heading out the door. "See you later at Catherine's?" Theo shrugged. Humphrey left the room and went into the kitchen where there was a pack of 12 water bottles, he packaged them up and took the two that were in the fridge out. He also opened up the cupboards and grinned when he found what he was looking for, before packing it up as well. He headed into the living room to wait for Florence who soon arrived looking very smug. "Thanks boys. See you later."

They left the villa. "Did you find it?" Humphrey asked.

Florence nodded. "One labcoat, one rag used for cleaning and some rubber gloves, most likely covered in formaldehyde or wood alcohol. Did you get the rest?"

Humphrey nodded. "Wood alcohol and the water. Let's get it all to the lab and call it a day," Humphrey said as Florence put the jeep into drive.

"Who's staying at the station tonight to keep an eye on Megan?" she asked.

"Let's cross that bridge when we get there," he said.

Humphrey stood in front of the team as they prepared the items for sending off to Guadeloupe. "By the way sir I've called Juliet and explained that we have Megan in custody and told her I won't be home tonight," Fidel said as they put the last thing in the pack to go off.

"Fidel you didn't have to do that. I would have sat with her," Humphrey said.

"Sir she's your niece. Florence mentioned it earlier. There's a conflict of interest. If she escaped with you duty you could be accused of letting it happen. Anyway it gives me an opportunity to trawl through Theo's internet history and get some prints off the laptop. Oh and I've made the decision to get their mobile logs. If you think the car incident is related then someone has been in contact with a local," Fidel explained. Humphrey smiled sadly.

"Hopefully if this all comes back as Felix it will be his mobile logs that come up, otherwise this really is a mess. Thank you," he said. He looked around the office. "Well, we will see you in the morning."