Leave a Trail chapter 5
-First time for everything
Once again, Trail was sat upon her bed. There were a few differences this time. A morning light shone throw her curtains, and her bed was a mess. She'd been restless last night, she had barley slept. It was too quiet. She'd normally hear her dad downstairs playing games, loud enough so Trail could hear it, but quiet enough that it didn't distract her from sleep.
Trail hopped off her bed, and walked over to her desk. She opened the middle drawer on the right side, and took out a cherry lollipop. She smiled as she unwrapped it. She looked up to her laptop, and decided to check her mail.
She climbed up on her chair and crossed her legs as usual. She put the lollipop in her mouth, as she opened the laptop and opened her email.
Two emails. Boy am I getting popular. She thought. One was from Mello. It was entitled "Hilarious Pics". I can look at those later... Trail thought. She looked at the other one. From Watari. "Your first case".
"What!" Trail yells to no one in particular. She looks around her room, just making sure that no one's there. Trail looks at the title for a few moments, and thinks about opening Mello's email first, just to calm her down. No...It could be important? I can't waste time...
She opened the file, to see a lot of words and a couple of pictures. Below the information there was a newspaper article, with some of the same pictures. Trail began reading the document.
A missing person. Trail told herself. She looked at the date on the news paper article. Two days ago.
"I better get working." Trail smiled to herself as she opens the notepad. The victims name was... Elizabeth Williams. She wrote the name, and some other details about the girl. She opened the internet, maybe Williams had some social networking websites? She remembered her father had a website called "facebook". So Trail searched her name.
A few items came up, her own facebook page, and some of her friends where she had been mentioned. Trail clicked the facebook page, and wrote down all the information that she could get. She confirmed where she lived, she confirmed what she did on weekends, and she confirmed her age. She was only fifteen.
It had still not been decided- had she run away or had she been kidnapped? Looks like it's time to give Mr and Mrs Williams a call... Trail looked around the email, and at the bottom found a list of reliable contacts. There was her home phone, her father's personal phone, and her mother's too. Well, mother's are more sad in cases like these...
Trail opened up the phone option, but it turned out she had to use a synthetic voice. Trail read some instructions, tested out a few voices, and decided on one. She looked up the number on the contact sheet, typed it in, and pressed call. She pulled the microphone forward, and took the lollipop from her mouth.
"H-hello?" a shaky woman's voice asked.
"Hello, Mrs Williams?" Trail greeted her sympathetically.
"Yes, who is this?" Mrs Williams said.
"I am Trail, a detective currently working the Elizabeth Williams case. I'd like to ask you a couple of questions to help me locate your daughter." Trail informed the woman. It felt weird, she was three years old! Well, the synthetic voice made her sound somewhat older.
"Really? You sound a little young...and synthetic?"
Darn. "The voice...uh..takes away ten years." Trail improvised.
"So what age are you really?"
Ten years! So I'm negative seven! Trail scolded herself. Should I lie? She probably won't want a three year old working on her daughters case...I'll just tell the truth...I am L's successor anyway...ugh... "I'm three."
"Three!" Mrs Williams exclaimed. "You're a little young to be a detective! Is this a joke! My daughter is missing! I'm very upset right now!"
"Mrs Williams, I can assure you, this is no joke. Have you heard of the legendary detective L?" There was a brief pause. "I am his successor. I was assigned to this case today."
Another pause, but this time longer.
"You can trust me."
One more pause. "Fine. As long as I know where my daughter is. Will you have any help during the case?"
"I will ask for the assistance of L and his other successors when needed." Trail told her. "Now, can I please ask you some questions now?"
"Yes." Mrs Williams voice was still shaky. "Ask away."
"Has your daughter been acting strange or differently before disappearing?"
"Yes..." Mrs Williams sighed. "She recently got a new boyfriend, but she was acting normally for a while, then her boyfriend started keeping her out late. Her father was very, very worried. Then, for two days before she went missing, she was acting very nervous. She didn't go out, and she kept looking at me with a worried expression..." It sounded like she was about to start crying.
Boyfriend? Maybe he asked her to run away with him... Trail pondered. She typed down the information she had received
"Thank you very much. I think I'll give your husband a call now. Do you know if he's busy?"
"He's out right now. He'll be home in a few hours." Mrs Williams said.
"I promise I'll try my hardest to find your daughter."
"Thank you very much. Good bye." Mrs Williams said, hanging up the phone.
Trail closed down the phone option, and looked around the internet, maybe she could find this boyfriends page...
"This will be tricky."
A/N: I know, unrealistic, a three year old doing a missing person case, but it's either that or a serial killer. Y'know? But, IT'S FICTION! :D
Anyway, there is a note book that kills people in the original manga/anime. And a three year old can't solve a case!
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:P