-Chapter Seven-

All of the lights were on in the house and various people were together keeping watch over the near catatonic Doc. Phoebus watched Doc as he stared out into space, his mind drifting into the abyss. There was nothing to say to the man all Phoebus had managed to say the past few hours to him was "We're going to find whoever did this." It was an empty promise; not because Phoebus didn't think they couldn't find the killer but because at this point it truly didn't matter.

Doc just looked lost, he was in another world far away from this one. Phoebus fiddled with an evidence bag inside it was a ripped piece of cloth from Grumpy's clothes. There was no visible signs of blood, but they couldn't find the body of Grumpy, the drag marks had been erased by whoever took him. He just couldn't figure out who could be so cruel.

The knocks at the door startled the officers, but Phoebus motioned for them to lower their weapons. There was procedure to follow in a moment like this and Phoebus wasn't going to take any chances "Gold bird." The words hung for a moment but then there was the reply of Aladdin.

"Proud bird" was the response from Aladdin. Phoebus nodded his head and let Elsa and Aladdin in who almost burst through the door. Elsa seemed out of breath as she approached Phoebus and took him gently to the side out of the hearing range of Doc.

"It's Snow White, she's the one whose been killing the dwarves" whispered Elsa. Phoebus was strikingly calm and waited for Elsa to finish. "She's been picking them off so she can collect their individual pieces of a treasure map."

Phoebus stroked his stubble for a moment and stole a look at Aladdin who had crossed his arms in exhaustion. "Makes sense, as much as I hate to admit it. Grumpy ran off, but the only way he'd leave the house is if he was going to someone he trusted. And it was no secret to anyone paying attention that Grumpy had a thing for Snow. It was only a matter of time." Phoebus placed his hands on his hips and rubbed his holstered gun. He stared at Doc who hadn't moved from his lounge chair in the past hour. They had offered him water but he was too frightened from how Sleepy had died to accept it.

"Phoebus, we're going after Snow, we need you to stay alert here and make sure she doesn't come back towards here for Doc. You have to keep him safe" ordered Aladdin. Phoebus nodded his head understanding the gravity of the situation. Elsa and Aladdin then motioned to the other deputies and left the house. The sound of their boots echoing off the porch steps across the plains.

Elsa got on her walkie talkie and asked for back up to be sent behind them as they went to Snow White's house. Aladdin and Elsa didn't say anything as they drove closer and closer to their destination. This wasn't a situation they were used to, neither had ever shot anyone before. They hoped that Snow wouldn't become their first.

They turned off their car lights as they approached her house. It was a little cottage style home, with a well maintained garden and a pristine stone walkway. Her home was the envy of many people in the surrounding area. Snow had a true gift for cleaning and organizing, a talent that Elsa couldn't help but feel had aided her in cleaning up evidence at crime scenes.

Walking up near the porch Elsa sent Aladdin towards the back of the house in case Snow White tried to make a run for it. Running would be a truly foolish idea but much more wild things had happened in moments of desperation. Elsa tried her best not to make a noise with her steel tipped boots as she went to her door. Taking a deep breath she erased all of the caution she had taken and began to bang on the door. "Snow White, this is the Walt County sheriff's department! We have a warrant for your arrest!"

There was no reply at first, then without a single light in the house coming on Snow White answered the door, her face was a mess of mascara; she had been crying a lot. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry Elsa!" Elsa hesitated for a moment, but then grabbed Snow and handcuffed her as she began to read her the Miranda rights. "I'm so sorry! You have to believe me I'm so sorry!" Elsa and Aladdin marched Snow White to their car; the night wasn't over yet.

Back at the station Basil was looking like someone from skidrow with his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets as he sipped on what had to be his fifth cup of coffee. Snow White was in holding, handcuffed and whimpering to herself in a corner. There was a video camera on her and Aladdin was glued to it while Elsa was finishing up some paper work.

Basil swirled his spoon in the finger mixing in his cream, the coffee was having to get softer and softer as his bowels were getting more and more irritated with each cup. He turned to Aladdin "So what's next deputy Aladdin?"

There was a moment of trepidation and then Elsa looked up from her desk "We're going to grill her until she confesses to everything, and before she gets a lawyer to make this more complicated than it needs to be." There was no arguing at this point, no matter what happened it ultimately wasn't going to be very pretty.

Aladdin and Elsa got up and approaching the holding cell's door. They took a collective deep breath and then glanced at each other. "Good cop bad cop?" Aladdin pointed to himself with the 'good cop' line. Elsa silently nodded and the two partners entered the holding cell with authority. Snow White avoided direct eye contact with them as they sat down, already in character.

"What kind of monster kills people like you did? Some real sick shit Snow, real sick shit." Elsa could see her words were doing extreme damage to Snow White as she cowered in the corner.

Aladdin moved in already a calming presence. "Take it easy Elsa. This is a lot right now, mind your temper. Snow...help us help you. This doesn't have to end badly, we can still make things right." Aladdin was convincing so much that even Elsa was almost buying into it.

"It's all fucked up. It's just...I can't. It's all my fault!" Snow White could barely speak through her tears. Elsa moved in closer, Snow's will power was as thin as a sheet of paper. It wasn't going to take much to break her.

"Why'd you kill them Snow? Money problems, you don't think they would have given you something? You think they wouldn't let you in on it?"

Snow White now moved in towards Elsa, startling Elsa a bit as she slammed her fists onto her own thighs. She glared at her, Snow's eyes were red with tears and her lip was quivering. "No! I didn't THINK they wouldn't help me, I KNEW they wouldn't. I was barely scrapping by for years and they were out there with more money than they knew what to do with and then I ask for just a little help so I can leave this shit hole of a town and they won't help me! Not even when I promised to pay them back with interest! No they wouldn't let me go, not as long as I was the one woman on the planet willing to fuck 'em! So when I found out that had such an excess of money they had buried some of it I swore that I would get it from them one way or another! I gave them everything! I gave them purpose, pleasure, someone who could properly dominate them and all they gave me was misery!"

Elsa broke character, she wasn't expecting all that. She couldn't help but display some form of empathy on her face as Snow White continued to break down right in front of her. She got up and without a word motioned to Aladdin to take control, without missing a beat Aladdin slide in near Snow White and handed her a Kleenex. Snow White blew her nose and tried to wipe away some of the mascara.

"Snow, I know this is a lot right now. And it's only going to get worse unless you help us out. Where is Grumpy?" Snow White turned to Aladdin raising an eyebrow as high as she possibly could. It was so involuntary it looked unnatural. "G-Grumpy? What are you talking about?!"

Aladdin froze for a moment then spun to Elsa whose jaw was beginning to drop "Grumpy! We found his shirt ripped up right outside of the house. Is he still alive?!" Elsa was asking the question but she was already one step ahead of Snow White's reply.

"I didn't kill any of them, I mean I knew they were going to happen b-but Grumpy was never supposed to be hurt. Neither was Doc. Grumpy always gave me money out of his pocket to keep me afloat, he was a good one. And Doc was starting to warm up to giving me a loan. S-so I would never have hurt them! NEVER! Especially not Grumpy!"

Now it was time for Aladdin to break character, there was no time. "Snow you gotta tell us, were you working alone?" No response from Snow White, she just started sobbing. Aladdin gently grabbed her by the shoulder "Look at me Snow, I need to know right now, were you working alone?!" Snow White was still just crying and screaming incoherently. Aladdin was getting frustrated "Listen here you crazy psycho bitch! You better tell me what the fuck is going on! Or so help me I will make sure they give you the needle!" Snow finally just let out a sob and shook her head 'no.' "No? No what? You weren't working alone?" Snow White nodded her head 'yes.' And then Aladdin got to his feet and backed up a bit, avoiding Snow like she was radioactive. "Fucking shit! Fucking shit! Aww God, Elsa! Shit!"

Elsa was startled, Aladdin wasn't a good ol' boy but she had never heard him curse like this. "Al, what's going on? What's wrong?" Elsa put her hand on Aladdin's shoulder trying to calm him. But the deputy was fidgeting and shaking.

"Every body, every dwarf that was killed we had a body. A body he wanted us to find! A body THEY wanted us to find! To send a message, it was personal yes. Yes, but who was someone they trusted even more than Snow? Who did we never find a body to huh? Like fucking all of the other bodies were right there but one son of a bitch we never saw the body to…the same motherfucker who got the photos developed! Elsa! I know who Snow is working with!"

Doc had excused himself to the bathroom, and was sitting on the toilet. There was a guard posted on the outside of the door. At that moment Doc received a message on his phone, and he couldn't believe who it was from…Dopey.

Doc quickly began to text the person back, surely it couldn't be Dopey. The message read "Still alive. Hurt. Need Help." Doc was terrified, Dopey was in trouble as he frantically began to send a text message back Dopey sent another one in all capital letters "NO POLICE OR I DIE" Not wanting to risk anything Doc knew what he had to do. Carefully removing the nails that had been placed on the window to keep anyone from climbing in he slid out and began to make a dash for the highway as Dopey texted him directions on where to go. It was a familiar place…

The shocks and the oil were getting a workout as Elsa and Aladdin sped fast as they could towards the location of the treasure. Snow White had spilled everything to them, and as they headed towards the rock they received a call on their radio that Doc was missing. "No need to apologize, we were dealing with something out of our control here" soothed Elsa over the radio.

To get closer to rock formation the treasure had been buried near Elsa and Aladdin had to do a little off-roading with the car, Basil would not be pleased but it was the only thing they could do. Parking their car at the base of the cliff they turned on their flashlights revealing drag marks and two sets of footprints. Drawing their weapons the two partners made their way up the cliff.

As they got closer they could hear the whimpers of Doc "Please Dopey, don't do this!" Elsa and Aladdin picked up the pace, but tried to stay quiet wanting to get the jump on Dopey but as they reached closer their shadows were spotted by Dopey who immediately took the tied up and beaten down Doc in his arms. He wrapped Doc in a headlock and put a syringe to his captive's throat. Elsa was out in front as with her gun fully drawn and aimed at Dopey. "Stand back! Or I swear I'll kill him!" It was a warning from Dopey the deputies had no reason to doubt.

"Dopey, think about what you are doing here! This is crazy, even if you kill Doc you will not get away. We can stop this right here, right now! Nobody else has to get hurt!" Elsa was really trying to get through to Dopey but she could see he was crazed, his eyes were darting about, when he gritted his teeth she could see they were dark yellow almost brown. He really had severed his own hand and cauterized the wound, he was using his forearm to keep Doc's neck still and the already beat down Doc wasn't giving much of a fight. She could see the bruises on his face. As she glanced to the side she could see the dead body of Grumpy, blood was coming out of his nose and ears. "What the hell did you do?!" She couldn't help but ask.

Dopey grinned "Adrenaline shot, right to the heart of Grumpy, multiple times! His heart literally exploded, oh you should have heard the sound he made it was fucking hilarious!" Dopey began to laugh like a hyena and Elsa and Aladdin just had to watch. It was eerie to even hear Dopey speak complete sentences.

"Why'd you do it Dopey? These men were basically your family, your brothers!" Aladdin's voice cracked a little bit. He wasn't exactly sure how to approach this, they had to protect Doc.

"Why not?! Do you know what it's like being the freak to everyone! To have them all step on you, look down at you, talk down to you?! And then Snow White comes along this b-beautiful a-angel! The most beautiful creature on the planet and she not only pays attention to you...she loves you...I...I love her so much! I'd do anything for her! Anything do you hear me?! And she spends time with me, and I realize that I'm always just going to be the freak unless I'm the only one left! That there will always be something holding us back. So she told me that if I could get the treasure we could be together. No more sharing, no more having to play second fiddle to THESE FAKE FRIENDS!" Dopey was inching the syringe closer and closer to Doc's neck.

"Okay Dopey, I don't doubt that, I don't! I really don't. But right now the best thing you could do is let Doc go. If you kill him it's only going to get Snow in more trouble" Elsa tilted her gun down, and tried to move forward but Dopey jerked him and Doc back.

"Don't come any closer! There is nothing but air in this syringe! I inject this, he dies! A doctor being killed with medicine. And I know, I KNOW air isn't exactly medicine but give me a break here I'm doing the best I can with the circumstances!" Dopey almost laughed at his own words but those laughs quickly became uneasy pants.

"Dopey it's over, we have Snow in custody. Please stop this before it's too late" Aladdin was keeping his distance but was refusing to lower his weapon. Dopey's eyes were beginning to dart once again.

"No! No! NO! That wasn't supposed to happen! We were going to run away, I was going to have the money! You can't do that to me! You can't do this to me! We were going to get married!" Dopey was now starting to stomp his feet like a toddler kicking up dirt around him. Elsa began to inch in a bit towards Dopey.

"Dopey, I'm sorry. But you cannot keep hurting people! It's time to come in." Elsa lowered her gun and extended her arm out towards Dopey, hoping he'd accept the gesture. Aladdin moved in a bit closer as well.

Dopey looked down at the ground "I'll never get to be with her, will I?" Elsa wasn't sure what to say so she remained silent. "Alright, I'm done with this. Done with all of this..." Dopey then dropped the syringe to the ground and Doc sighed in relief then Dopey took his free hand and whipped out a switchblade quickly cutting Doc end to end across the neck. Elsa and Aladdin let out screams and tried to reach Doc in time but it was too late and blood spurted everywhere and the doctor fell to the ground choking and gasping as he bled out. Dopey just laughed and laughed, dancing around in a small circle.

Aladdin put his hands to his head and began to vomit "Dammit! Fucking dammit! The son of a bitch did it! Fuck!" Aladdin was just falling into a rambling of frustration and horror and Dopey was just about gone as he pointed at the dead body of Doc cackling like someone who had a few too many drinks at a comedy club. Elsa couldn't even focus on anything else anymore.

"Dopey" Elsa breathed as she locked eyes with the dwarf. Dopey stared back at her his eyes beady and cold. "Snow White didn't love you. She just wanted the money." Dopey stared back at Elsa tears forming in his eyes. That's when Elsa pulled up her gun and shot Dopey right between the eyes, the bang from the gun echoed throughout the air. And Dopey's corpse flopped to the ground as Aladdin silently approached Elsa.

"Well that's that" sighed Aladdin. Elsa just nodded her head "Yeah, I guess it is." Elsa and Aladdin stared at the dead bodies for a moment and then Elsa sat down on a rock and pulled out her walkie talkie. As she called in the situation Aladdin decided to look away from the carnage and gaze up at the stars that seemed to shine extra bright that night.

The next morning was a frenzy that became a haze for Elsa and Aladdin; Basil handled most of the questions and there were many to be answered. All of dwarves were dead after all and Aladdin and Elsa had decided to go with the story that Dopey had charged them and that's why Elsa had to shoot him. Basil probably didn't buy it, but he was too exhausted to question it.

Tinkerbell was aggressive as ever with her piercing inquiries but Basil managed her well, explaining that because Dopey had faked his own death the prime suspect was seemingly eliminated from the investigation. Snow White was set to stand trail and it was sure to be a media circus, one that Aladdin nor Elsa was looking forward to. But finally as the day wound down, Elsa got dressed in her civilian clothes; blue jeans and an egg shell colored sweater. Aladdin was in sweat pants and a black shirt he had forgotten about in his locker, the two of them met outside the station and said very little to each other. Then they both went their separate ways.

When Elsa got home as expected Anna was home but as she entered the house she could sense something amiss was in the air. "Anna?" Elsa saw Anna was sitting at the kitchen table in the dark and wearing sunglasses. Elsa moved to her and sat down next to her "Anna, are you okay? Why are you sitting here in the dark?"

Anna shrugged her shoulders "Oh I just have a nasty headache. One of those ones where you're sensitive to light. You know?" Anna's voice was strange and raspy like she had been crying a lot. Elsa thought back to the trial she had been at earlier in the week with Ralph. She quickly removed Anna's sunglasses before she had a chance to stop her. Elsa gulped as she saw Anna with a fresh black eye.

"I was being stupid Elsa, it's my fault!" Anna was already coming up with defenses as Elsa stood to her feet. "He loves me Elsa, I just push him too hard sometimes. You know how I can be! But Hans would never really hurt me, I mean he didn't mean to hit me this hard." Anna was still talking while Elsa grabbed her gun and then stormed out of the house with Anna chasing after her. "No Elsa, no! What are you going to do?!"

Elsa was already getting back into her truck a scowl on her face as she turned to her sister "Whatever I need to do!" Elsa then got into her truck and drove off, the smell of burnt rubber was in the air. Anna immediately got on her cell phone and called Aladdin.

Elsa almost forgot to put her truck in park as she drove onto the lawn of Han's house. She got up and cocked her pistol screaming out to Hans "Hans! Get out here you piece of shit!" There was no response and Elsa banged on his door a few times. "Hans! I'm warning you! Get out here right now!"

Hans yelled at her from behind the door "Unless you have a warrant you can piss off!" Elsa just grunted and then took her gun and shot the door off the handle and kicked it down. A shocked Hans got up from his seat and as he did this Elsa charged at him but Hans was ready and grabbed Elsa and pushed her through his patio glass. The glass shattered as Elsa went back first through the glass, she lay on the ground bleeding from her shoulders, side and back as Hans grabbed her and lifted her up. "Get off my property you crazy bitch!"

Hans was yanking Elsa by the braid and Elsa managed to elbow Hans in the side and then in the nose. Hans held his beak in pain as Elsa hooked him from behind the legs and slammed him down MMA style. The two wrestled on the ground but Hans had the strength advantage and flipped Elsa on her back and pinned her down as Elsa pulled up her hands to Hans face and grappled his lips and poked his eye. Hans winced and managed to loosen his grip just enough for Elsa to slam her forearm into his skull; multiple times. Hans let go of Elsa and she quickly hit him with an uppercut and then as she got to her feet she slammed her elbow across the top of his skull knocking him to the ground.

Elsa started to catch her breath as she stood above the downed Hans and as she hesitated he began to get back up. Elsa prepared to kick him down again when Aladdin rushed in and grabbed Elsa from behind in a bear hug. "Elsa! What the hell are you doing?!" Elsa struggled but Aladdin had a good grip on her and she began to kick and scream as she tried to hit Hans who was wobbling back to his feet.

"Al No! No! Stop it! He's been beating Anna!" Elsa was trying to break free of Aladdin but he wasn't letting go of her. Hans was to his feet and just had the biggest smirk on his face.

"Elsa, you can't go around doing that!" Aladdin eyed Hans with anger, he knew he was a prick but there was nothing he could do about it at the moment. "Anna called me and she told me she's not pressing charges so we have to go!" Aladdin tried to lead Elsa out who was still attempting to force herself away.

"Oh she may not be pressing charges but you can be damn sure I'll be filing an official complaint to your department" snickered Hans as he wiped the blood that was trickling out of his nose. Aladdin glared at Hans but decided to not pursue any kind of come back as he finally dragged Elsa out of the house.

"Let go of me!" barked Elsa, and finally Aladdin agreed letting go of Elsa who shoved Aladdin after he released her and then leaned up against her truck, taking long deep breaths as she made eye contact with Aladdin. "Al, I'm in deep shit aren't I?" Aladdin nodded lightly. "Basil is gonna suspend me isn't he?" Aladdin opened his mouth to make some kind of response but stopped himself, unsure.

"Go home Elsa" was all he could say. And his near white haired friend could only spit out the blood in her mouth in response. Then she climbed into her truck and drove off.

Lamin was downing his third beer at the bar as Jafar poured him another Belgian ale, placing a sliced orange on the rim. As Lamin sipped from it he heard a familiar voice behind him "You're still drinking that fruity stuff? Jafar, I'll have your strongest IPA." Said Elsa as she sat down next to Lamin at the bar.

"Hello Elsa, rough day at the station?"

"Oh you could say that."

"Sorry to hear that."

"It happens."

"You wanna talk about it?"

"No, not really."

"Alright."

There were a few moments where the two were both quiet just taking in the sips of their beers. Elsa was the one to break the air a bit more "So you still thinking about going to see the muses?" Lamin just smiled and nodded his head and then Elsa smiled back.

"Should be a good show, they've been all over the world" said Lamin as he smacked the taste of the beer off his lips.

Elsa took a big gulp from her IPA and turned back to her estranged husband "And who says theres nothing to do in Walt County?" The two shared a laugh as they buckled down for a long chat at the bar.

Author's Note: Thanks to all who have read this! Walt County will return but going to finish a few other projects first. Thank you for reading once again and please leave a review/feedback always such a pleasure to write for people!