Additional Investigation
"Officer Silvers, you did splendidly with this case. I know it can't have been a walk in the park, but you kept your cool and got to the bottom of things. Great job!" Chief King noted.
"Now, I think you two should check up on Mrs Carter and Mr Colletti. Both lost a daughter today, and I want to make sure they won't do anything they might regret."
"Got it Sir." I said.
"And while you're at it, please go talk to One-Tooth-Sam. He's brought up some serious concerns about the homeless camp's safety." Chief added. We nodded and proceed.
Raoul came back to his work at the warehouse when we found him, but unlike the last time we faced him, he's now a bit of terrible. It really hurts to know that your love ones did horrible things just to get what they want. Even if it's wrong.
"I still cannot believe my own daughter could have done such a terrible thing.." I could see his eyes almost shred into tears. "We know how hard it is to get over, but just in case you needed us..." Jones said. "Yes of course officers, please. I haven't slept in two days, I see Jennifer's blood everywhere! ... Please, inspectors, could you inspect my warehouse and check there aren't any more objects tainted with her blood?" Raoul added.
"... of course, Mr Colletti! We'll... be happy to look at all that blood for you!" Jones smiled.
We stared at the warehouse. Judging by the crimson floor, it will be hard to see which is which. I sighed.
"Raoul can't be serious, can he? This place is COVERED with blood! How are we supposed to figure out which is pork and which is woman?!" Jones shook his head.
"Seriously?" I said in dismay. "But the man needs help." I sighed.
"I'm relying on your instincts on this one, Keirah. If anyone can find human blood in this mess, it's you!" He noted.
"Really now? Well lets see about that." I smirked as we started to inspect.
All is covered in blood, in addition of the meats that are hanging on the rails. This will be harder that I thought. Forget the trash, we already inspect it and nothing to be seen. I turned to inspect the corners of the room, and my super vision must be on my side, coz I found something. "Jones I don't think this is the right thing, but I've got a hunch that this one's has the victim's blood remains." I furrowed showing him the glasses. "This must be here all along since the crime."The only object with Jennifer's blood on it!" He said. "See what did I tell you? You're amazing." He chuckled.
I rolled my eyes. "We still haven't found out if it is Jennifer's."
"Well, I'll leave you the honor of collecting a sample for Grace, okay?" He grinned.
So after you tell some commendations, you're telling me to do the dirty work again? Such a jerk. I rolled my eyes. "You really are something." I muttered and he laughed.
After I collected the blood samples we gave it to Grace for some further confirmation.
"I've analyzed the blood you collected from those glasses, Keirah, and it comes up positive for the victim!" Grace smiled. "But, hm... I thought this case was closed?" She tilted her head.
"Haha, yeah... long story. Anyway, thanks Grace, I don't know what we would do without you!" Jones said.
"Not a problem." Grace smiled.
"Here you go, Mr Colletti! Those glasses were the only objects on which Deputy Silvers found traces of Jennifer's blood!" Jones said, handing the glasses to Raoul. Raoul smiled. He managed to smile again, though his eyes is kinda gloomy. "Thank you so much, Deputy Silvers! If everyone was as selfless as you, maybe my daughter wouldn't have become a murderer." He smiled wearily. I smiled. "We never know for sure." I said. "I guess not. Anyway, thanks again. Maybe now I'll finally manage to sleep at night!" He sighed and we bid him goodbye.
"I really hope he could get away with it." I said as we walked. "Well, eventually he will." He smiled. "But we're not... We have to take a look at one tooth Sammy's place first." He added.
"Oh good, just the people I needed! Look, between the Vipers and Marconi's henchmen, things here are getting worse and worse. We have to hide everything we have, or those goons take it from us!" Sam said.
"I understand your frustration Sam, but so far we haven't been able to pin anything on those guys..." Jones noted.
"Ha, I'm not asking for that much! But I've heard that your pal here, Keirah, is a crack at finding lost stuff, and I can't figure out where I've hidden my lucky gold tooth." He snorted.
"Uhhh, not really." I grinned.
"Haha! See Keirah? We've got a bit of a reputation!" Jones said proudly. "Don't you worry, Sam. We'll find that tooth in no time! It must be around the camp, anyway!"
"Are you sure he misplaced his tooth here somewhere?!" I glared. The place was a mess, how am I supposed to find a thing here. "Well, if you have something so valuable you wouldn't let the thieves know the place. This is the least they have expected it to be." He explained. Aside of some pile of rotten junks, there are pile of woods everywhere. "Okay, I guess I'm gonna take a first look at those garbage." I gulped, disgusted. "Are you sure you want to search through that trash can, Keirah? Your flair might not be as good after those fumes, you know!" Jones chuckled. "Let's see about that." I raised my brows. Jones started to look at the junks while I take the trash can. I flip it over and spread out the garbage. With my gloves, I dig in shoving off the trashes. Seems my hunches are very fortunate today. I grinned as I found the tooth. "Told ya!" I said with a triumph. "Wow Keirah! Great job on finding this tiny tooth in that huge trash can." He blinked. "How did you?"
"Just a bit of a magic." I grinned. He rolled his eyes. "I was just joking."
He laughed. "Let's go give it back to Sam!"
"Here you go Sam! One gold tooth, fresh from the trash!" Jones handed over the gold tooth.
"Already?!" Sam startled. "Ha, I see the guys didn't lie, Keirah really IS a crack! Thanks, Deputy!" He smiled.
"Hey, I helped a bit too, you know!" Jones object.
"Sure... the important thing is that you believe it! I'm pretty good at finding stuff too. Here, Keirah, this is for you!" Sam handed me some burgers. "Wow. Thank you Sam." I smiled. "I hope to see you soon, milady." He smiled.
"I'm starting to think you have some magic in you, you can let people liked you already." He noted as he drove the car. "And you cracked the job really good." He laughed.
"Really now, so you were expecting I'm gonna treat you out, with that comments." I chuckled.
"Hey, I mean it." He pouted. "Though it's hard for me to believe."
"Aww, here comes insecurity." I teased, he shook his head smirking.
"C'mon you have to give yourself a credit sometimes, David." I raised my brow. He turned. He seemed surprise to be called by his first name. "Must focus on the road, Dude." I gestured. He laughed. "I'm surprised hearing you say my name."
"What? no one ever called you David?" I shrugged.
"It's just unusual, people usually called me by my surname, they thought that Jones was my first name." He chuckled. "So whatever it is, it's okay." I said.
"James called me by my name, he also adds the Jeremiah sometimes." He chuckled.
"Well, whenever I stressed out something I wanted to tell a person, I call out by their names. Specially, when I'm angry, I'm gonna call out by their full names." I grinned.
We parked the car in front of Carter's residence. "I hope this could be good." I said as we step on the door.
"Expect the unexpected." Jones noted as he ring the doorbell.
Vanessa seemed to be in distressed when she opened the door. "Hello Mrs Carter! Officer Silvers and I just came by to see how you were holding up." Jones greeted. Or is it not? "Oh officers, you've got to help me! My sweet little baby will be buried tomorrow and I cannot find her baptism medal anywhere! She needs to wear it for her eternal rest!" Vanessa cried. "Of course we'll help you! Keirah's instincts never fail; we will find your medal in no time, don't you worry! Let's start by having a look at your kitchen!" He smiled.
I could smell the fresh apple pie baking in the oven as we arrived at the kitchen. Some freshly baked macaroni lined up on the table. "I used to bake Jennifer her favorites when she was a kid." Vanessa noted. "If only she was here." She said sadly. I smiled and proceed to look around. I look after the cabinets but failed to find it. Next, I looked over the drawers and found something gold pieces on one of the drawers. I looked at it closely. "Jones it looks like this is the medal we were looking for." I said inspecting.
He came closer and looked at it. "I think you've struck gold, as usual!" He noted. I glared. "It is obviously a gold, Jones."
"Well, I say "gold" but... what kind of cheap medal breaks into so many pieces?!" He chuckled. "I also found it's pieces." I piled up the remaining. "Hmmm. We cannot give the medal back to Mrs Carter in that state! ... Keirah, do you think you could manage to put it back together?" He said.
"Ah! No worries, good thing I always carry this around!" I took out a small tool box and placed it over the kitchen sink. Jones agaped. "Those tools seems like the one that Alex uses."
"Actually it's his tools." I took out some wielding machine gadget. "He gave it to me." I grinned.
"Woah. Alex wasn't used to handing his stuff to someone." He squinted.
"Hey, he told he didn't use them for a long time so maybe I could take care of them." I said as I started to put back the pieces.
"All done!" I said as I finally repaired the medal. "Well it looks more like a medal now." He grinned. "Let's just hope it's the one Mrs Carter was looking for!"
"Mrs Carter, Officer Keirah has found and repaired this medal. Is this your daughter's?" he said handing over the medal.
"It... looks like it, yes. But my oldest daughter has the same. Let me see..." She squinted as she inspect the medal. "I... I cannot read the birthdate! How can I know for sure? Oh, my poor baby girl!" She began to cried.
"Mrs Carter, calm down. Deputy Keirah is used to this kind of thing. She will decipher this birthdate for you!" Jones tapped her shoulder and I took the medal.
"Don't worry Mrs Carter. I will take care of this." I said and sat down on the chair. I searched for some gadget that could help decipher the date. The engraved was a bit scratchy so it was hard to tell. I really owe Alex for these stuff, it is very useful. I trace down the carvings and wrote it down. When I finally got the date I carved it again on the medal.
Jones came back as I finished the job. "I don't know how you manage to decipher these things, Keirah! It all looks like giberrish to me!" He furrowed.
"I owe it to Alex. His gadgets were a big help!" I grinned.
"Let's show this birthdate to Mrs Carter right away!" He smiled.
Jones smiled as he handed over the medal. "Mrs Carter, Deputy Keirah has done wonders once again! Is your daughter's birthdate: 04/12/1995?" Vanessa smiled as she read the carvings. "Yes, it is! Oh, what a relief! Thank you so much, Deputy Keirah! Now my daughter can truly rest in peace!" She sighed and smiled. "It's been my pleasure Ma'am to help." I smiled. "Please, take this, as thanks!" She turned and handed us some of her apple pies.
"Well, thank you Mrs. Carter." We said and leave.
"Alex the stuff you handed to me was super cool! I like it!" I cheerfully said as we head in the lab. "Told ya. Its better than what you've expected." Alex gave a high five. "So what brings you here? Seems you don't have some case related stuff been carrying?" Grace smiled. "Nope. But Keirah wants to share her blessings today." Jones said. "Yes. And I'm sure, I can't eat these alone can I?" I said, bringing up the apple pie. "What have we got here?" Nathan peered on the door. "C'mon Nate just having a small celebration." Alex waved. "Well that's what it looks like. And I could tell that is a freshly baked apple pie." He noted.
"Yep... Okay! Every man for himself!" I stated as we took our own slice of the pie.
"I forget to tell Mrs. Carter that this is one of my favorite!" I said as I take out a bite.
"She'll be happy to make another one for you if ever." Jones chuckled. "I would be delighted." I sneered.
"Say guys tomorrow is your day off right?" Alex said. "What do you say let's go for some movies! I miss watching!"
"That would be great if it is your treat." Jones snickered.
Alex glared. "You're kidding... C'mon I miss hanging out. Especially Keirah's here."
"Aww. It would be great but I was thinking to take a good sleep this weekend." I shrugged.
"Awww, you don't say." Alex pouted.
"Besides Alex, I also have a date tomorrow. So basically we can't keep it up to your date." Grace added.
Alex stared. "So I was the only one who haven't had a plan for tomorrow. Hooray!" He said sarcastically. "What about you Jones?"
"Uhhh. I was thinking of staring up the ceiling all day." He joked.
"Such productive day for you." I shook my head.
Alex stared to Nathan. Hoping this time he take the offer. "Sorry, I'm not a movie watcher type." He shrugged.
"So technically I'll just gonna play the dungeons and heroes tomorrow." Alex pouted.
"That would be great! You know I played that when I was in college!" I said. "Really? Let's have a PVP sometime!" He challenged. "Seriously? That won't be easy?" I raised my brow.
"Looks like Alex has found his so called opponent." Grace noted.
"I never thought you could play a MMorpg game. Keirah." Jones said.
"You never expected it?" I said. He shrugged.
In the end we talked about stuff that would pop out through our heads, more of them are crazy stuff. Different topics, and I laughed whenever Jones knew about something new in me. Well, there's much more he didn't knew about me. I never knew these people would be fun to get with. I wasn't an open person before so talking to these people, makes me a bit more comfortable now. Since Mom and Dad died, I became so isolated. Even Ashley complained about how unsocialize I was when I was in highschool. I starting to think I became selfish. Maybe that's why it didn't work out with my first relationship. I smiled, wondering, these people that work in a horrendous situation, they still have this positivity in life. Now I'm starting to love my work, I'm starting to love these people. Grimsborough is my place, and I started to love it. The feeling of an adventure, this is what I'm looking for. To help out people.
"Penny for your thought?" Jones snapped me out. I smiled. "I'm just happy." I said.
A/N: Thanks for reading. :D note, I just make up the 'dungeons and heroes' game. Next chapters will be next for up... :D Xiao!