"What the hell do you mean—"
"Don't say it! I don't want anyone walking in into knowing who it is!"
Glaceon stood silent. "…Alright…Did you tell anyone else?"
"No, you were the first one."
"What the hell do you mean I'm the first one?!"
"I dunno! I just came to you first!"
Glaceon stood silent again. "…Do you know who to tell next?"
"No…I don't know who to trust having mind that someone could blow it for everyone else who knows… I think I just already blew it."
"What? No, I won't tell anyone. But do you know who to tell next?"
"I don't think I need to—"
"What if he strikes again on someone who doesn't know, and alive then, tells Luke? What then?"
Luxray stood silent. "…Alright, I'll go tell the others…most of them. But I don't know who to tell next…"
"Who else do you plan to tell?"
"…Absol, Alex, and Leaf."
"Why Leaf?"
"I didn't think of anyone else."
"Luke's cousin, the red one? Forgot his name— Ivan? You're other friends?"
"Why would they care and matter? They don't seem to be involved… But with those three, I don't know who else to say it to…"
Glaceon stood silent again, looking away from Luxray, who's still looking at him. "I can't give you the answer to that," he said. "Only you know the answer to that."
Alex walked in the room with Sorrel still running around him.
"Gonna tell him now?" Glaceon asked in a low voice. Luxray looked at Alex, walking in to the group.
"…No, not now." Luxray shook his head. Alex sat on one of the chairs, Sorrel jumping onto his lap and popping her head out from the lower side of the table. She looked around with a smile with her face.
"What's up?" Alex asked, looking at the two. Glaceon shook his head and looked at Luxray. Both Alex and Sorrel looked at him.
"Oh what—nothing, nothing at all." He quickly shook his head.
"Uh…okay…" Alex looked at the two. "So what's there to eat?"
"Oh crap, that's right."
30 minutes later…
Glaceon looked at Luxray while Alex looked down at Sorrel finishing her breakfast. Luxray looked back, Glaceon nodding.
"Uhm, Alex…?" Luxray asked. Alex looked up, as well as Sorrel. "Mind if we talk in private?"
"Uh…sure…" He looked down at Sorrel. "Go play with Glay." She nodded as she jumped from his lap.
"Stop calling me that…" Glaceon murmured as he jumped off from his seat, looking back at Sorrel, running around him. Alex looked back at the two then turned to Luxray.
"So what did you need, Ray?" Alex asked.
"…It's about Luke."
"…What about him?"
"Well it's not really about Luke, but about—"
"Just cut to the chase—what did you want to tell me?" Alex didn't raise his voice, keeping at the same tone at Luxray.
"I know who killed her." Alex didn't respond at the moment; he gazed at Luxray in disbelief.
"…What makes you so sure?" he asked. "You sure you don't have the wrong victim to target?"
"It's hard to believe that I don't have the wrong victim," he responded. "What if I do have the wrong victim? Only more of us would die, unknown to who else'll be next…"
"So who did it…?" Alex asked.
Luxray told him of the culprit, speechless of who it was.
"…Do you know why he did this?" Luxray shook his head. "…When are you going to confront him?"
"I don't know. I haven't seen him lately—"
"The hell do you mean you haven't—"
"Actually talk to him. It's been a while…But I'll find out eventually."
"'Eventually' is too late, Ray." Sorrel took a quick glimpse before turning back at Glaceon. The smile on her face faded away for the while she turned to Alex, seeing his stressed out expression. Turning back at Glaceon, her smile came back playing around with reaching Glaceon's paws. He noticed her fade on her face, but didn't press on about it; he kept on holding his paw high enough for Sorrel to even hardly reach.
"Maybe it is, maybe it isn't," Luxray responded. "We're not gonna know until we actually confront him."
Alex looked away from Luxray, slightly tapping on the table. He thought on of what else he could say, what they could do, what he would think. "When should we tell him?"
"Fuck, I don't know…" Luxray lowered his head, wondering on when the right time came around.
Later that day…
Luke sat on the lone couch, still seemingly depressed. Alex and Luxray sat on the two-seat couch on either side, Sorrel in the middle. Neither talked to one another, only when Luke stepped in the room from wherever he came from.
Luxray coughed once. No one turned to him. Just then…
"What the FUCK do you mean you know who killed her?!" Luke screamed out, looking at Luxray. Luxray looked at him, almost whiting out against him. Sorrel jumped to Alex's lap, frightened from Luke.
"I-I didn't even tell you!" Luxray yelled back, freaking out at his sudden reaction.
"Alex did!" he screamed out. Luxray quickly turned to Alex.
"When the hell did you tell him?" he yelled out at him.
"Just now," Alex responded, petting Sorrel at an attempt to calm her down. He kept her close to him, kissing her head.
"How?!"
"This isn't about me and her; this is about him and you." Luxray turned to Luke, still with an irate expression on his face.
"…O-Okay, I know what you're thinking…probably not…b-but…"
About 30 minutes later…
"Holy crap…"
Luxray lied on the ground right outside the house, coughing up small amounts of blood. Glaceon stood outside staring at Luxray.
"…W-when the hell…was I supposed to tell him…?"
"The hell if I know." Glaceon took out a can of beer, opened it, and took a sip of it. "Just don't die on me."