"Profe..."

Flora stopped promptly with walking, when she saw the scene between Claire and Hershel. Still holding the Phone in the other hand, she watch open-mouthed and perhaps a little jealous of her, what he was going to do. Both were facing each other, when she asked baffled:

"What did you just said?"

Claire was simply stunned. She'd never heard these three words from a man, especially not from Hershel. A tear ran down her pale cheeks, as he repeated:

"I love you Claire."

Ending the sentence with a fondly smile, he moved closer and hugged her tight. Crying along on his shoulder, she realized that she had the same feelings, but didn't knew how to react about that.

"Are you okay?"

Firstly he thought that she was surprised or even happy to know what he truly felt for her, but that chanced after five minutes. Slowly removing her head from his shoulder she responded softly:

"More than that. I..."

Many tears fallowed, so were sobs, which Hershel understood. While he held her tight, she stared into his beautiful eyes, though leaved their glimpse after she looked, laughing to the ground, speaking to herself:

"Oh good lord, I'm so dreaming right now."

She rubbed her forehead quickly, In the hope to wake up, but only heard a sweet, deep laugh.

"That's what you dream about?"

Fortunate, placing his forefinger on her small chin, he added:

"I'm real, this is real..."

Slightly bowing down to Claire, he covered her neck with his hand and kissed her gentle.
Flora was hiding behind Luke's bedroom door, as she drowned in thoughts :

'Claire, you're so damn lucky!' …

until she saw the kiss between them and couldn't hold it anymore:

"Awwww!"

After a huge grin, she covered her mouth quickly and made bigger eyes, full of embarrassment.

"What? What happened?"

Luke glanced up from his bed and smiled silently. He felt dizziness, when he stood up and tottered to Flora. She laughed now, seeing him so sleepy, was nearly creepy. He kissed her neck and whispered:

"What's so cute, dear?"

Dropping her head on his collarbone, she teased him back:

"Your disheveled hair... No, actually I'm leaked out."

Hershel and Claire giggled around, when they've spotted the secret audience. Not leaving their position, he returned:

"You'd like to spy the last time, don't you?"

Claire rolled her eyes to bother her more, but Hershel giggled along and kissed her forehead happily.

"Oh come on, I couldn't hold it anymore. You two are just adorable, I envy you."

Luke turned her around and frowned in front of her.

"What does that mean? Aren't you happy with me?"

Her face turned into a bright red color, when she heard him whispering:

"Flora, you silly girl."

Claire laughed from the living room, merely Luke ignored them.

"Of course I am. I couldn't be happier, its just... gosh if you only saw them."

Helpless she tried to rescue her 'daughter':

"In point of fact, we had a quarrel. It shouldn't go out that romantic, gladly it happen."

"So am I."

Hershel branched off, grabbed her by the hand and walked with her to Luke and Flora.

"Sorry, I'm too sensitive the last time... Now that we're all gathered together, we could talk about the murderer. I really want this nightmare to end pretty soon."

The four of them stood in the floor, trying to solve the next steps of the puzzle and came to the decision that Hershel should leave Claire alone. Maybe the Murderer would come to hurt her, like he announced it with the portrait:

"No, I can't..."

Hershel's mood chanced in a few seconds: from a man who couldn't be luckier to somebody who was dying inside just from the thought about it. His expression was blank.

"It's my idea."

Claire returned and continued , after she bound his glance to herself:

"I want you to come with me, to the park this evening. But you'll be kind of undercover: Without your top hat, maybe with a mustache If I can organize one, and with other clothes. And after we're there you'll go and hide yourself somewhere, in my vicinity."

Flora and Luke, listened eagerly to each word she said, only Hershel was not convinced:

"That's ridiculous!... Me without my top hat?"

All three lifted their eyebrows at the same time, which caused him to laugh hardly.

"I know, bad joke. Okay, but if someone's being intrusive, or rude to you then make a sign."

Nodding, she formed a sign with her short fingers: it looked like the bottom half of a heart. Her hands were balled to fists and her thumbs were pressed against each other.

"Okay, good. But whats about Flora and Luke?"

Claire smiled gloriously at him and ended her plan with:

"She wanted to tell you that Ben called her, am I right?"

That was scary, lately she found out things that she couldn't even know. Frowning again Flora asked Claire:

"How do you know?"

Hershel and Luke wondered that to:

"I've heard, how you tried to call him: Professor! But you stopped immediately."

Blushing again, she sighed and added:

"Yes, I didn't knew what to say to him, and Luke was still sleeping."

"So, I thought we could send her and Luke to Ben. We could be sure that he isn't the criminal, when he's by them."

Flora and her boyfriend stood up and said:

"We'll get you some other clothes and a mustache."

She laughed how 'normal' he would look then, just his British accent could ruin it: his was so distinctive.

"Thank you, take care."

Luke winked as farewell and closed the door behind him.

"Wow, the plan is plainly brilliant."

He didn't knew she had it in her, the puzzle gene he had too. A bright grin came towards him, when she suddenly kissed him again and replied uber-happy:

"I was working meticulously for a solution."

Shaking his head to both sides he answered to that:

"You're unbelievable."

Lowering himself down Hershel kissed her once more gently on the lips.

Meanwhile on the Streets:

"I prefer the secondhand shop, so we could bring the stuff back there."

Flora closed her eyes nearly shut, as a strong flush of sun light shined in them. Holding her slim underarm in front of her face she replied bothered:

"Good idea, We co...Ouch!"

She landed on her behind on the hard ground, when she glanced up and saw someone offering his Hand to help her up.

"Ben?"

Luke asked puzzled. He wasn't accepting him here, especially not that rude. She took his Hand and shyly said:

"Hello, you should better catch me the next time!"

Luke suppressed his need to punch Ben directly, instead he greeted him back.

"I surely will. What are you guys doing out here?"

Flora tried to avoid his glimpse, not only for Luke... She made a few steps forward to the secondhand shop, but Ben stopped her with:

"Don't go."

'yeah, smirk a second longer and you're death'

He thought, while he faked a smile.

"We're on the way to the shop over there."

Luke pointed to it, and turned around to go.

"Honestly, I'm also on the way to it. I would love to fallow you two."

Blinking at Flora, Ben placed his hand on Luke's shoulder to guide him. Annoyed pushing him aside he replied:

"Do you want to be there, when we're searching new underwear for Flora?"

She blushed and didn't knew why he was lying about Hershel's Clothes.

"Oh, well then... See you later."

Ben leaved them as fast as he bumped into her. Looking back at him Luke whispered angry:

'Idiot!'

and pushed the door open.

"Why did you lied to Ben about the Clothes?"

Luke pulled himself together, and answered right next to bargain bin:

"We don't know if He's innocent. Would he be the murderer he could bring Claire easily to another place and hurt her there, because he knew that Hershel's there."

Flora agreed with a nod and grabbed the next best bra she found, after Luke told her that Ben was still watching.

"Enjoy your Luck, it wont last for long..."

Author's Note: New Chapter! ... I hope you've liked it ^^. And thank you again for reading. From now on the drama will begin, though the next chapter will be rather funny. If you wanna read it please R&R! :)