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Chapter Four~The Real Drama Begins
Tuesday
Day One
7:55 pm
Philadelphia Police Station
Yuuki is at her desk, typing on her computer on a police report. Right next to her was Carter Blake, he was also on the computer too, with his side work partner, Ash. But Yuuki swears that he was playing solitaire, instead of working. After when she was finish typing it in, right next to her computer was a brown portrait frame, with a picture in it.
The sergeant mother, picked up the picture and examines it. It was a picture of her, Ethan, Shaun, and Kanon. Yuuki was holding Kanon, in her arms, while sitting on her lap. Ethan was next to her, on her right. And Shaun was in the middle, with a big smile on his face.
"Hey?"
Yuuki heard as she felt a pen hitting her shoulder. "Hey, that was uncalled for, Lieutenant."
"Well, get back to work, Chiba-Mars." Blake told her.
"You're scary…" Yuuki said. "Mr. Police Lieutenant."
Yuuki places the picture back down onto her desk, until she felt something cold, walking by her. She turned and it was him. The profiler from Washington. Norman Jayden.
Yuuki started looking at him, as he was sitting down in a chair, waiting for Captain Perry to come out his office for a press conference. Norman was waiting for him, since he was taking his time, but he noticed Yuuki looking at him, so he decided to smile and wave at her.
She immediately blush, when he wave at her, Yuuki did the same thing, until Blake looked at her, before she went back to work.
"Look at him." Blake said. "He's a complete nutcase. That Jayden guy."
"Blake, please don't be too harsh on him or don't start anything." Yuuki said, before Blake turned to face her, and which she flashed a smile. Ash was the only person who was smiling at Yuuki, Blake didn't even care, until he sent back to work.
She heard Captain Perry and Norman's voice, as she turn to find them talking, before she could even listen on her conversation, Perry was coming this way, while fixing his tie and talking to Norman. She immediately turn back around, as she was pretending like she was doing something on the computer.
"Have you met Lieutenant Blake and Seargent Chiba-Mars?" Yuuki heard the voice of Captain Perry walking by her, as she notice Norman walking with him, as well. She check her time, it was almost time for the press conference, so she decided to take a break and call her brother, Ethan.
Before she even reached her phone, she looked up at a picture on the wall. It was memorial picture of her late husband, Ryan Chiba, Police Lieutenant. She places her hand on his cheek, and slowly removes it, before reaching for her phone.
Ryan's gone. I have to start over, again, with my brother and…
Yuuki still had her phone over her right ear, as she looked around for Norman.
I think he wants to be in my life...That Norman Jayden guy.
When she was trying to reach, her brother, Ethan, somehow he wasn't answering. As soon as she hang up, she heard a voice calling her, from behind. She turned around and looked at him wide-eyed.
"Norman!" Yuuki said, surprised, as she dropped her phone, but her screen didn't break. So, Norman, for being a kind gentleman, reached down and picked up her phone. "Thank you."
"It was my pleasure, Yuuki." Norman said, with a smile.
Norman noticed the picture frame, behind her, so she move out of his way, so he can look at it. "Is this your late husband?" Norman asked.
Yuuki grabbed her wrist, hoping it won't shake or she won't feel anything. "Yes, he died, when my daughter was six months." Yuuki explained.
"I'm so sorry for your loss and your daughter's father." Norman said.
"Thanks."
Norman saw a few tears, coming out of her eyelids, as she tried to hold it in, so he decided to wipe them off of her. "Don't cry." Norman said, before he wrapped his arms, around her small body. "It's ok."
The seargent mother ceased her crying, as she looked up to him, before she back away, giving her personal space.
"If you're not busy, Captain Perry recommend me to go see the press conference, would you mind coming with me?" Norman asked.
"Yes, I was about to go see it, too." Yuuki replied.
Norman and Yuuki walked into the press conference, together. She sat down, next to Norman, as she was watching Captain Perry, answering questions to the roaring crowd of photographers and journalists. Norman was sneaking glances at Yuuki, she seems so dedicated to work as a police sergeant.
When the conference is over, the profiler decided to follow her, until he catches up with her. "Captain Perry seems so into the conference."
"Yeah, but that's all he ever care." Yuuki explained. My husband and I didn't understand him, but Blake understands him, even though he respects him." Yuuki checks her phone for the time, and hoping that her brother had called her back. "I better get back to work, or Blake will chew my ass out."
Norman laughed at her comment. "Well, I better find out where I'm supposed to be, too."
"Ok, Mr. Profiler, but your not going to like it."
"What?"
"Welcome to hell, Jayden."
Norman watched as Yuuki sat back down at her desk, Blake was gone and Ash was still there.
A Few Minutes Later...
The seargent mother, was thinking about Norman for a bit, while she was getting a cup of water. She looked at the office door, from where she was, so she decided to try and talk to him, some more, before Blake, returns.
As she walked closer to the office door, she slowly raises her hand up, to knock on the door. After when she knock, Norman open the door, while looking around. His eyes were glassy, skin was paler, than usual, and she notice that his wrists were shaking.
"Norman, are you alright?" Yuuki asked.
"Must...let... no one see."
She grabbed his arm. "You must be sick. Here I'll help you."
"No...it will...go...away...restroom."
Yuuki escorted him to the restroom, as she was looking at her shaking hands, she immediately pulled out her bottle of anxiety pills, and taken two tablets. She felt everything around was clear and happy, as she slumped down to the floor, to relax.
"You need help, Yuuki."
She woke up hearing a voice, but it seems that the voice was in her mind.
Yuuki waited outside for Norman to come out and explain to her what happened. She was confused. Was he sick? Did he had a disorder or something? The sargent mother looked around the police station, until she noticed someone carrying her daughter, Kanon, who was supposed to be with her friend, Sara. The baby was in her night clothes, she was wearing a white pajamas with the little feet in them, that has a doughnut print, allover.
"Ethan?"
Ethan started to stand up from the chair, as he heard his young sister voice calling him. Kanon noticed her mother too, as she raise up her small arms, for her to carry her. "Mama!"
"Hi, sweetheart!" Yuuki cooed, picking her up in her arms, until she heard a few police officers and also Charlene were awwing at the mother and daughter scene. "Ethan, what are doing here with Kanon?" Yuuki asked. "And where's Shaun?"
Ethan didn't know how to respond to that, yet.
"Mr. Mars?" Ethan turned to face Ash and Blake. "This is Lieutenant Blake. Could you please tell him what happened?"
"Ethan, what's going on?" Yuuki asked, while Kanon was playing with Yuuki's chocolate brown locks, but Ethan ignored her sister and started talking.
"It was this afternoon." Ethan stated. "I went to the park with my younger sister, Yuuki, her daughter, Kanon, which they're here next to me, and my son, Shaun. We played together for a while and Yuuki left to go drop off Kanon with the babysitter. After when she left, Shaun decided to go on the carousel. And I put him on the wooden horses and when I turned back….Shaun had disappeared."
"WHAT?!" Yuuki was wide-eyed, which her scream made every person in the police station look. "My nephew disappeared? How in the...God, I can't curse in front of the baby."
"Chiba-Mars, relax your tits." Blake told her.
"Hey! Not in front of the baby." Yuuki said, pointing her finger at him.
Kanon wasn't paying attention, while looking around and pulling on her mother's hair. Suddenly, the baby almost put a lock of Yuuki's long hair in her mouth, but she slapped her hand, softly, so she won't cry. Ethan pulled a pink pacifier, from out of his pocket, put it in her mouth, and started sucking on it, while making small sounds.
"Now, back to business." Blake said. "Do you two remember what time did you arrive at the park? Remember, little details can make a big difference."
"Um, I think it was about…Damn it." Ethan said. He swears quietly, so Kanon wouldn't hear it, but she was already asleep. "Yuuki, do you remember?
"It was four fifteen, when we arrive, because I looked at my car time and I remember Ethan looking at it also, before looking at the big clock at the park." Yuuki stated. She notice Norman walking by, while listening to the conversation and also looking at Yuuki, holding her sleeping daughter in her arms.
"What was Shaun wearing?"
"Um..I'm guessing my nephew was wearing a beige raincoat." Yuuki said.
"And he had on some pants...Green pants." Ethan said.
"How could Shaun have disappeared without you noticing." Blake asked. "Were you by the carousel?" He looked over at Yuuki, after he asked the question to her older brother.
"Yo, don't look at me, my baby and my boobs." Yuuki said. "I don't know what happened?" Norman heard her joke, until he chuckled a smile, without Blake and Ash, looking at him.
"Yuuki." Ethan called her. "Be a lady, not a tomboy."
"Whatever, brother."
"As I was saying, I was near him." Ethan stated. "I didn't leave him. I was right in front of the carousel."
"How could Shaun have possibly vanished, if you were right, next to him?" Ash cuts in.
"I..I don't know!" Ethan exclaimed. "Please, Yuuki, please help me."
"Brother, they're helping you, not me." Yuuki said. "Anymore questions you have to ask me or him?"
"You two said you both arrived at the park around four fifteen." Ash stated. "Yuuki, you left the park, around four twenty five, right?"
Yuuki nodded.
"Mr. Mars, you called the authorities, around seven thirty. Why did it took so long for you to call the police or your sister?"
"I searched the whole neighborhood for him." Ethan explained. "I called Yuuki, she didn't answer."
"My phone was on silent."
Well, put it on ring, next time." Ethan said. "After when I searched the neighborhood, I went to Yuuki's house. The babysitter was there, and she told me that, she hasn't seen Shaun, so that's when I called the police, from Yuuki's house phone."
"Hey, I have a question for you." Yuuki said, as Ethan turned to face her. "Why did you bring my baby with you?"
"I went to check on Kanon, she was playing in her crib, still in her day clothes, so I change her into her pajamas and brought her with me and Grace."
"Oh, no, you didn't bring her." Yuuki said.
"Yes, I did." Ethan said. "That's Shaun's birth mother, and I have to tell her, since it was my responsibility to watch him, over the week."
"Ok, enough arguing!" Blake yelled, as Yuuki and Ethan looked at him, wide-eyed and Kanon was awake, as she dropped her pink pacifier, onto the floor and started to cry. "Can we get back to this and you can talk about this later."
Yuuki was trying to calm her down, until Ash steps in.
"Here, I'll calm her down." Ash said, while Yuuki gave Kanon to him. The baby was looking at Ash, confused, until she rested her head on his chest. Yuuki picked up the pacifier and places into her desk, for later.
"After when these questions are over, I'm done for the day." Yuuki said, before yawning.
"You just thinking of an excuse to not work." Ethan told her.
Yuuki was about to say something, until Blake step in. "Don't start anything, Chiba-Mars."
Yuuki crossed her arms, not looking at him or her brother, instead she looked at Kanon, playing with Ash, and then to Norman.
"Did Shaun had any particular difficulties, Mr. Mars." Norman asked. "Anything that might cause him to run any."
Yuuki looked at her older brother, he turned to her, she shook her head no. He was on his own, answering the question.
Ethan sighed, before answering. "Shaun is a sensitive child. Our relationship has been difficult, but Yuuki has always cheered him up, whenever she's around with little munchkin over here.
"Everything ok at school?" Norman asked. "Any particular problems between you and your wife?"
"I'll answer that." Yuuki cuts in. "He and Grace have been separated for about six months."
"But, Shaun wouldn't run off, without telling his mother, aunt, and me." Ethan replied. "It's not like him, at all."
"Ok, that's all the questions we have for you and nosy sister." Blake said. "You're free to go, Mr. Mars. We'll continue the search for Shaun and if we find anything we'll let you know."
Yuuki walked over to Ash, while Kanon was still playing with him. Ethan wanted to ask his younger sister, something, but he's afraid that she will ignore it. So, he asked Blake.
Ethan stands up. "Wait. Do you think that the Origami Killer…"
Blake turned around to face him. "Look, he just run off for a little while, he'll turn up soon."
"How can you be sure?"
Ethan turned to face his younger sister, with her arms crossed, walking up to Blake.
"My nephew is out there in the freezing rain and all you can think of is he ran away?" Yuuki asked.
"I have one more question." Ethan said. "What if it is the Origami Killer?"
"Then we have three to five days to find him alive." Blake said.
Yuuki and Ethan were surprised. What were they supposed to do for now? Wait until a police car finds him or what? Until Yuuki had the courage to ask Blake something, that she was going to regret.
"Blake, I was wondering if I can get on the case?"
"Yuuki, no!"
"Ethan, let me do something good, just for once."
"Well, do you think you're ready Chiba-Mars? After all, you just have a thirteen month old daughter and you loss-" Blake was cut off, by Yuuki holding up her hand, in front of him.
"I don't care and don't you dare say his name." Yuuki said. "I want be on this case, even though I couldn't finish the other one, I'm willing to do this one."
"Ok, if you say so." Blake said. "Be here around nine in the morning not at nighttime."
"I ain't that dumb, Blake."
Kanon was looking at her mother, so she decided to climb off of Ash's lap, wave to him, which he wave back, crawled over to her mother, and gotten her attention, by pulling on her shoelaces.
"Ma.." Kanon said, until Yuuki picked her up.
"Yes, I'm your mother." Blake looked at Kanon and Yuuki. "Do you want to hold her, Blake?"
Blake held out his hands, until Kanon was smiling, about something that she did, which Blake wasn't going to proud of. "Hey, little Kanon...Oh! God, you stink!"
Kanon was laughing and smiling at his reaction, until her mother picked her up, and smelled her. "Whoo! Ok, you stink." She turned to face Ethan. "Did you by any chance brought the baby bag?"
"Yeah, but I left it with Grace."
"Ok," She looked at Norman. "I'll be right back."
Grace was waiting for Ethan to return, as she was holding onto Kanon's baby bag, tightly. Yuuki noticed her, before she taken a deep breath.
"So, did they find anything?" She asked Ethan, but completely ignored Yuuki, holding Kanon.
"Hey, don't you even notice me?"
"Oh, hey Yuuki." Grace said, flatly. "How you doing?"
"Good, can I have the baby bag?"
Grace handed her the bag, before leaving with Kanon to the ladies restroom.
"I see, she still got the attitude."
"Hey, that's my sister, you're talking about."
"Whatever, so did they find anything?" She asked, once more.
"There going to keep on looking through the night for him." Ethan said.
"Do you think it's the Origami Killer?"
"Well...he said it was too early, but it could be a possibility."
"You mean your sister?"
Ethan ignored that comment, until Yuuki came back with Kanon. Kanon was wiggling to get out her mother's arms, so she places her on the floor, started crawling towards Ethan, until Grace picks her up, and started fussing.
"Hey, put the baby down!" Yuuki told her.
"I just want to hold her." Grace said.
"Grace, Kanon doesn't even know you." Ethan said.
Kanon was crying her small brown eyes out, until she started showing tears, and Norman arrived at the scene.
He gotten on his knees to face the crying baby "Aww, what's wrong?" Norman asked. Kanon started to held her small arms out, as she was tell him to hold her. He taken her out of Grace's arms, as she wrapped her arms, around his neck and stop crying.
"Wow, you calmed down my daughter, that quick." Yuuki said, amazed.
"I'm impressed." Ethan said.
"Thanks." Norman said.
Norman handed Kanon back to Yuuki, until the baby looked at him, happily.
"Oh, this is my baby, Kanon." Yuuki said.
Norman looked at the smiling child, in her arms. She's the spinning image of her mother, Yuuki. "She definitely looks like you, Yuuki." Norman grabbed the baby's small hand. "Hi, Kanon, your such a pretty girl."
Kanon cooed in agreement.
"Ok, Ethan, I'm going to help you find Shaun and maybe get with someone else, who has a better attitude, than the red herring over there."
"What did you say?" Grace asked.
"You heard me." Yuuki said, walking out of the police station.
"Ok, your sister gets on my nerves." Grace said.
"Hey, don't you talk about her." Ethan said. "She's doing something out of the kindness of her heart to save our son, but you want to pick a fight with my baby sister? Not in my house!"
Norman decided to ignore the fight between Ethan and Grace, and followed Yuuki, outside, who was putting Kanon, in the car seat. "Yuuki, wait!"
"Norman, how can I help you?"
"Uh... I don't have a ride and I was wondering if I can go to your house and use your phone to call for a taxi?"
Yuuki had her hands on her hips. "Why can't use the phone in the police station and how did you get here?"
"I got here by using a cab." Norman replied. "I wanted to see the city, myself, without using the rental car, they gave me."
"Ok, you're still a stranger to me, since my brother is still in there TALKING TO THAT RED HEAD!" Yuuki yelled out loud for her to hear. Norman climb into Yuuki's black Ford Fusion.
"Nice car." He complemented, before turning to see Kanon, smiling at him, he also smile back at her, until he noticed someone coming up behind Yuuki's car. "Yuuki, you might want to start up the car."
"Why?"
"Because, here she comes."
Yuuki noticed Grace coming closer, so she immediately started up her car and drove off. She rolled down the window. "Take that!" Yuuki stuck her finger out the window.
Yuuki's House
Moments later, Yuuki has arrived at her house, with Kanon and Norman. She was so glad to be home, until a certain blonde woman came out of the house, she seem worried.
"Yuuki!" Sara said, relieved. "What happened? Did your brother told you?"
Yuuki started to get Kanon out of her car seat, and walked up to Sara. "Yes, he told me and one more thing...WHY DID YOU LET GRACE INTO MY HOUSE?!"
"Hey, she just immediately walk in, when I open the door." Sara said, until she noticed someone in the front seat of Yuuki's car. "Who's he?"
The sargent mother turned to face the car, to see Norman, just listen, with the window rolled down.
"Aren't you going to come out?" Yuuki asked.
"Are you sure?" Norman asked. "Do you trust a stranger now?"
Yuuki smiled at him. "We're not strangers. Your name is Norman Jayden. You're in the FBI and your from Boston."
Norman started to get out of the car. "What makes you think that I'm from Boston?"
"Duh, your accent, of course." Norman walked up to the girls, until Sara cleared her throat, for Yuuki to introduce to her. "Oh, Sara, this is Norman Jayden, this is the profiler, they sent us."
"Nice to meet you, Norman." Sara said, holding out her hand and Norman shake it.
"It was nice meeting you, Sara." Norman said.
Sara gotten close to Yuuki's ear. "He's cute. I'll take him off your hands, if you're busy."
Yuuki blushed at Sara's comment.
"Well, I better get going." Sara said. "I'll come by around eight thirty to take little Kanon, off your hands."
"Ok, Sara." Yuuki said, as Sara walked by Norman and her.
"Baba…" Kanon said, waving her hand and blowing a kiss to Sara. Yuuki looked at the baby, while she was waving goodbye to Sara.
"Did uncle Ethan teach you that?" Yuuki cooed to her, as she responded, and she opened the front door to her house. "Well, here's where me and Kanon live." She said to Norman.
Norman was amazed of how a single mother lives in a two story house, that she can afford. When he walked in, the stairs to the second story, were in front of him. On his left, there was a living room area, with a fireplace, and big screen TV, hanging above it. Right side, was a dining room area, which she decorated by herself, with the fall colors.
"You have a beautiful home, Yuuki."
Yuuki wasn't around, she probably was upstairs, trying to put Kanon in her crib, so she can go to sleep. He walked into the living room, to find on the table, two pictures of her and her older brother, Ethan, and a small picture frame of Kanon and her. He pick up the picture, as he was smiling at the sight of mother and daughter.
He heard footsteps, climbing down the stairs. Yuuki was still holding Kanon, in her arms, as she was still smiling. "She's not going to sleep." Yuuki sighed.
Yuuki places Kanon, on the floor, as she crawled to the living room, to where her toys, were. Norman and Yuuki sat down on the couch, they were both silent, until Norman broken the silence.
"I'm guessing that Yuuki and Chiba aren't American names."
"No, they not." Yuuki replied. "Thanks for noticing. Yuuki and Chiba are Japanese names."
"Oh, really?" Norman said. "What does it mean?"
"Yuuki means happiness, snow, or...tender princess." Yuuki blushed at when she said tender princess. "And Chiba means a thousand leafs.
"Very interesting." Norman said. "Is Kanon's name Japanese too?"
"Why, yes, it is." Yuuki replied. "Kanon meaning flower or blossom sound. Her father named her and my brother Ethan, gave her a middle name, which is Maria."
"Kanon Maria Chiba-Mars." Norman asked and she nodded.
Kanon turned to the sound of her name. "Mama…" she started to crawl back to her, started to stand up, while patting her knee cap. Yuuki picks her up, as she started to look at Norman. Suddenly, she crawled into his lap, and he was surprised.
"The phone is down the hallway, near the stairs." Yuuki reminded him, into she felt her phone, vibrating in her back pocket.
"Could you watch her, until I come back?"
Norman nodded, as Yuuki walked into the kitchen and left Kanon, alone with Norman. He places the baby, onto the ground, once more, letting her go.
Once he called the cab to come pick him up, he heard Kanon crying the living room. He rushes over to her, until she crawl to him, until he picks her up.
"It's ok. Kanon, I'm sorry, for leaving you. Norman's sorry." He cooed, until she stopped crying and looked in his pale green eyes. He sat down on the couch, once more, until she started to babble words, and she said something that he was going to remember.
"Dada.."
Norman was shocked, when he heard that word, coming out of her small mouth. Kanon called Norman, Dada.
"No, no, Kanon." Norman said. "I'm not your Dada."
Kanon looked at him, confused, until she held out her small hand, for Norman to grabbed it, which he did, until she fallen asleep, in his arms. Yuuki walked back into the living room to find Norman, holding a sleeping Kanon, in his arms, as he was humming a song.
"You got my baby to sleep." Yuuki whispered.
"Yeah, I guess she wanted me to put her to sleep." Norman said, before Yuuki grabbed her, out of his arms, and taken her to her room.
She came back moments later, still shy, until she started to say something. "Did you call for a cab?"
"Yes, it will be here soon." Norman replied. "Can I tell you something?"
"Yes, sure, Norman."
"I... never had a father, growing up, after when I was ten years old." Norman said. "My father died in a car accident, leaving me, my younger brother, and my mother."
Yuuki places her left hand on his right cheek, until he turned to see her big brown eyes, just like her baby, Kanon. "I'm so sorry to hear about that." She places her other hand on his other cheek.
They were so close together, Yuuki decides to make her, by kissing his cheek, she wanted to kiss his lips, so badly, but she only knew him, since this morning. Her and his nose were touching, while looking into each other's eyes. She felt something a small cut on his cheek, as she touches it. "How did you get this cut?"
"I was fighting with this guy, and he pulled a knife out on me." Norman explained.
Yuuki felt his breath, touching him, she wanted him, so badly. She closed her brown eyes. "Norman."
"Yuuki." He whispered.
Until they heard a car horn from outside. Norman's cab was here. Yuuki immediately back away from him, as she blushes and jumped up from the couch. "Your ride is here."
"Oh...Ok," Norman walked to the front door, as he held onto the handle. "I'll see you tomorrow."
"Ok," Yuuki said, sadly.
Norman walked outside to see the taxicab, waiting for him. Before he climbed into the cab, he looked at Yuuki, once more. She wave at him and he wave back, before closing the cab door.
"Is that your wife?" The taxi cab driver asked him.
Norman sighed. "I wish she was."
Finally, Long chapter! Finally finished!
I don't like Grace at all. I wish she cared about Ethan, even after what happened with Jason, but they went into separate ways. I decided since Yuuki doesn't like Grace, anymore, Kanon doesn't like her too, since she doesn't like being pick up a stranger, that her mother don't like.
I have put up a poll on my profile, and it's about your favorite OC characters!
The next chapter will focus more on Yuuki and Norman and especially Blake, with his nosy self. There will be more Kanon cuteness, coming soon. I will let everyone know in the author's notes.~GirlGoneGamer
