Chapter 7, Snow White pt. 7:

"Guys! Guys! Look what we found!" Toothiana called as she raced to Hiccup's desk, a charred, black thing in her hand.

"Is that-" he began.

"A burned up iPhone 6," Toothiana finished. "Found it wrapped up in one of the pillowcases at the dump site. Bet you thirty bucks it's the stepmom's."

Hiccup snatched it from her and began to pop open the back.

"Please let the sim card be okay, please let the sim card be okay," he murmured as he fumbled around with the phone, and then plucked out a card. "Hallelujah! He sighed as he popped the card into his computer.

"Okay, let's see what we've got...Tooth, get to keep your money, it's the step mom's."

"Yes!" Toothiana cheered as she fist pumped the air.

"Got anything else?" Eugene asked as he, Merida, Astrid, and Kristoff crowded around his desk.

"Hm…" Hiccup pulled up a phone number. "This is the last number she called. And looks like she was chatting with this person quite a bit in the days before the murder…"

He scrolled some more and then found something else.

"Hm. Didn't start talking to that number until after these people had called her a few times."

He printed the two numbers off.

"Firecracker's with me," Eugene called as he snatched one number from Hiccup and Kristoff and Astrid took the other.

"Sounds like progress in here," Elsa called as she stepped into the hall.

"Found step mom's old phone, and we've got two numbers, I'm looking for any other clues. Where's Jack?"

"I sent him, Anna, and Rapunzel back to the dump site to see if we left anything behind." She pulled a picture up on her phone and then swiped it to the big screen.

"This is one of the sheets found at the dump site, you can see here," she pointed to the middle of the sheet. "An impression of...a body," everyone hung their head. They'd already determined Snow was more than likely dead, but seeing that her body had been at the dump site already just made the reality that a fifteen year old girl had been killed all the more real.

"She was there," Elsa continued. "But someone moved the body, they're going to see if they can find any evidence of where they might have taken her."

Eugene nodded as he tapped at his computer. "Already got our number ID'ed. It's the number to a financial service office…"

"Go check it out," Elsa ordered and Eugene and Merida filed out.

"You two?" she asked.

"Personal number," Kristoff answered. "To a guy named Hunter Green...and he's not the nicest guy, has three felonies, two armed burglaries and one aggravated assault. He's living in an apartment complex two miles from Snow's house."

"Hit man?" Hiccup asked.

"Let's find out," Elsa said. "You too Hiccup, we might need extra hands on this one."

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Merida pushed her hair out of her eyes as she and Eugene walked up to the front desk of the financial office.

"Appointment?" the lady at the desk asked.

"That won't be necessary," Eugene answered.

"All clients must have an appoint-"

"Oh, I'm sorry, did he mutter?" Merida pulled out her badge and set it on the desk in front of her. "That won't be necessary."

The receptionists eyebrows raised sky high at the sight.

"We're here for information on one of your clients, Grimhilda White," Merida explained.

"One moment," the receptionist slipped off. She soon returned with a pudgy man in a suit.

"Good afternoon, I'm Simeon Gray. Mrs. White is my client, please come inside."

He guided them to his office. "What is the nature of this visit?"

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Elsa led the way as she and her three comrades walked toward the sketchy complex. As she led the charge, a man tattooed from head to toe grinned hungrily at her.

"Hey, Snowflake-"

Elsa glared at him and flashed her badge.

"Oh, crap!" the man jumped and then scampered off. Elsa smirked as she continued her march. As they began to climb up the stairs to the door, she pointed to Kristoff and Astrid and motioned them to go around back. They nodded as they did so, She and Hiccup continuing their climb to Hunter Green's apartment.

Elsa knocked one they reached the door.

"Go away!" Was the response.

"Hunter Green, this is the FBI," Elsa called. "We have some questions to ask you."

There was no answer. Hiccup leaned his ear against the door and heard the scattering noise of things being knocked over in a frenzy.

"Yup, runner," he announced as he pulled out his gun and he and Elsa kicked the door in. They found Hunter Green, a large, muscular man with a full beard and long hair squeezing out the window.

"Freeze!" Elsa ordered. But he pushed himself out the window and fell.

Elsa peeked out of the window to find Kristoff had already caught him and was cuffing him while Astrid had him at gunpoint and was reciting his rights.

"Told you he'd go out the window," Elsa said.

Hiccup sighed. "Yeah you did."

"Astrid and I will see you tomorrow afternoon for lunch," she playfully called as she put her gun away and walked out.

"I never win bets, why do I still make them?" Hiccup asked. "I have no luck, you'd think I'd learn by now."

"Could be worse, Kristoff could have joined in," Elsa called from the hall.

"Yeah, well, I lost to him last case."

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"...the last I'd spoken to Mrs. White," the financial advisor was explaining to Eugene and Merida. "We were discussing the issue of her late husband's inheritance. You see, in his last will and testament listed Mrs. White as the primary beneficiary, until Snow, his daughter, started college-"

"That so," Eugene asked, he and Merida suddenly interested.

"Yes, and you see, Snow was going to start taking dual credit classes. So, technically, she was starting to take college classes. Therefore, Mrs. White was no longer going to be receiving payments from her husband's life insurance. Therefore, I was helping her rebudget for the when the school year started back and the life insurance money stopped."

Merida glanced at Eugene, who nodded and the two stood up.

"I think that's all we need. Thank you sir," Eugene shook the man's hand. Merida did the same and stepped outside, once in the car they began talking.

"So step mom was about to lose a big chunk of change thanks to Snow's academia," Eugene stated as he put on his shades and started the car.

"That's a motive if I ever heard one," Merida agreed.

"Ah, money, sex, and power. The three oldest motives in the book. If all else fails, firecracker, go with one of those. It will usually be right."

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Kristoff set a picture of Snow in front of Hunter Green.

"Seen her?"

Hunter Green hung his head as he stared at the picture. "Why?" he finally asked. "Is...is she dead…?"

"Yes," Kristoff answered.

Green hung his head, still clinging to the picture. A tear rolled down his cheek. "I didn't...I didn't...she wasn't dead when I left her…"

Kristoff's brows furrowed as he sat down in the chair across from him. "What do you mean she wasn't dead when you left her."

Green still held the picture as he began to explain. "The woman who called me. She said she needed to have someone taken care of. I'm not a saint, never claimed to be, and I needed the money, so I took the job-"

"Hit job?" Kristoff asked.

Green hung his head lower. "Yes...but I...I didn't know it was going to be a little girl. I just went with it at first. Beat her with the bat, until she stopped moving, then I wrapped her up, carried her to a pit. I could still feel her breathing. I wasn't trying to think. I knew though, I knew what I was doing wasn't right. She was just a kid. I kept going, though. Threw what I couldn't clean in there, set it on fire…"

He stopped, and let out a shaky breath. "But I couldn't do it. Burning a little girl alive...I couldn't, I jumped in, pulled her out, and carried her until I found a group of homeless guys living in the bushes, and I left her...thought maybe, just maybe she'd make it...but I guess I did my job too well…"

Green finally put the picture down, tears rolling down his face.

Kristoff was silent for a while, feeling almost sorry for the guy, but not quite. "What was her name? The woman who called you?"

Green looked up. "Grimhilda White."

Everyone behind the screen; Elsa, Merida, Hiccup, Astrid, Eugene, and Toothiana let out a sigh at the name. They got her! They had a criminal confessing and naming her as the puppet master.

Suddenly Elsa's phone rang. She answered it.

"Hey, Jack, guess what? We got her? The step mother did it, she hired a hitman to kill her so she could keep her father's life insurance-"

"Well she got a lousy hitman," Jack cut in on the other end of the line.

"What?"

"You won't believe this…" Jack shook his head as he stared down at where she lay. Snow White, lying on a dirty mattress a group of seven homeless guys had gotten for her. She was bruised, bloodied, her head had an open wound on it, but she was alive.

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Elsa stood on the balcony, head held high, eyes narrowed as the local police led Grimhilda White and Hunter Green out in handcuffs. The once proud socialite, was now hunched over in shame and defeat. She glanced up at Elsa once, but immediately crumbled under the icy weight of her glare. Elsa waited until they were gone them watched them through a window as they were stuffed into a cop car in the parking lot.

Once they pulled out, she packed up her things and went to her car. She hopped in and drove off, but not home. To the hospital. After exploring the halls for a little, she found the room. Snow White's head was bandaged tight as she lay on her bed. Seven odd, pudgy men huddled around her. Homeless men, guardian angels, who'd found her on death's doorstep and had kept her alive until help finally arrived. They were playing on homemade instruments around her as she smiled, her hand held tight in Florian's grasp. The boy looked like he hadn't stopped crying yet.

It wasn't Snow Elsa was looking for, though. It was the red headed girl watching from the hall.

She walked up to Merida's side and sighed.

"I knew I'd find you here," she said.

Merida turned and looked at her. "Agent Arendelle," she said respectfully.

"This is the hardest part of any case," Elsa continued as she stuffed her hands into her coat pockets. "The end."

Merida frowned confused at her.

"The case is over, Agent Dumbroch," Elsa explained. "Bad guys are locked up, justice is served, now," she set a hand on Merida's shoulder. "Now it's time to Let it Go."

Merida bit her lip as she watched Snow some more.

"I wonder what will happen to her now," she said. "She's got no parents, no family, no-"

"Sadly, there's nothing we can do about that," Elsa continued. "Besides, there are other people who need our help, and we can't assist them if we are still stuck on Snow. She's got to live her own life now, and so do you."

Merida sighed once more, and nodded.

"Get some rest. There'll be a new case to solve in the morning."

Elsa squeezed Merida's shoulder and walked off. "See you tomorrow, Firecracker."

Merida smiled.

AN: Snow White's case has been solved! Hope you enjoyed? Any requests on what the next case should be?