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You make my heart feel sad, right now...
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The people that were once troubled teenegers, were staring at their host for the rest of the two days to come, like a ghost. Most of them were silent and trying to re-think if Rapunzel's plan was a good idea, at the end of it.
"My, my, my godness! You've all had grown up! Even it's been seven years already, I can easily recognize all of my students right here.."he announced proudly to them back as he clapped his hands.
Silence was in the place.
Mulan just looked up and down at the old man before her eyes. Claude Frollo hasn't changed a bit after all these years. Quite tall, for his age, the same white hair always well combed, the same sneaky eyes, he was starting to have early arthritis symtoms showing up on his hands, he was wearing the same kinda clothes he used to at school, always a elegant and rich black sweater,brown used pants and some black shiny shoes, good enough to dance, if he ever did in his life.
But even behind that mascarade, she wasn't amazed at all. A monster like him is always gonna remain a monster. Mulan stayed silent as Esmeralda's words camed into her mind. She's always gonna remember that faithful day. Which it almost happened a year was the day after when Frollo was released, Esmeralda came in the precinct, in fury, to have a word with Mulan about the decision of letting their old teacher go and closing the case.
"You're making a terrible mistake by letting him go, Mulan.."Sitting at her desk, the young dectective tried to defend herself, by saying that she or anyone had the choice.
"I know it's not easy, Esme, but we just couldn't keep him in cell for more than forty-eight hours and without any proof, even if he is evil, he's clean, we can't keep him..."
"Don't make any excuses for him! Mulan! You know he's guilty and you're letting him leave with blood on his hands!"Had exploded the girl with the emerald eyes slaming Mulan's desk with anger. Esmeralda had always been the nice and cool girl she had meet back in years, but today, it was a totally different girl standing in front of her desk with anger of justice. However that thing didn't change at all. Mulan tried to not look alarmed by Esmeralda's move as she soon added;
"Try to understand, Esmeralda..."
"No! I just can't believe you're doing that! He's worse than he looks behind his black clothes and his so called faith! I know what he did to Quasi and you're letting a murder and a sexist man out so he can continue to manipulate and torture more kids and adults!" With that, Mulan stood up so she can talk eye to eye with Esmeralda.
"Don't be ridiculous! Esmeralda! You don't know if it's true or not!"
"I know it's the truth! He raped me! Mulan! Years ago!"Had yelled Esmeralda in anger leaving the chinese girl in shock at that."What?"
"And with that, Quasimodo's silence killed him! Don't you see?" Before Mulan could say anything else, Shang came in and asked Esmeralda to leave the prenict, because all the others cops were starting stare at them.
"Don't threat my partner, Esmeralda! We tried to found clues about Quasi's suicide, but we came with nothing! We can't keep Frollo without any proof!"He replied in a calm that wasn't fair enough to the woman crying for help as how Mulan remembered her for the very last time, that she had seen her here.
"Then dig harder! A monster always stays a monster! And he is no exception!"Her voice begged her to get some justice for the people who deserved it and for those whose voice were left unheard from what Mulan believed to be after Esmeralda had stormed out from the place.
'Quasi's silence killed him and noboby believed him, at the end...How come I didn't see that coming? Esmeralda being raped and Quasi abused? If he ever was abused..By him..'she thought back while staring at the 'so welcoming' teacher. She looked back at the others who remained silent and calm, well, except Adam and Meg who looked like they were about to jump at him, like lion hunters.
"Oh come in, young intruders! You must be famished and cold by that weather! Arendelle is the most frozen place you'll ever want to live, you know? Haha!"He replied stepping back for the group to come in. Mulan, being the most brave one in the group, walked in the place, thinking if walking back to her home would have been a better idea than to be here.
'Let's just hope that Rapunzel's plan works out..'She thought back as the others walked in the place, one by one, leaving Frollo and...Adam behind. The young 'ex-beast' man was staring at the teacher like a prey. Somehow, whenever he looked up at him, hate was consuming his mind. Hands in his black leather jacket's pockets, he stayed silent and tried to calm learned of how to calm down and to control his temper issues in therapy. Taking a deep breath and try to shut up or that was what he thought, till now. Much as he watched trhe teacher giving him an odd look back to him, before he could said anything like this.
"Are you going to follow the others, young beast? That was the name that all people used to call you? Don't you think?"Had asked Frollo leading the way with the most gracious gesture that seemed to look fake, at least for him.
Without any word, Adam closed up the line and joined the others.
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"Are you gonna call her? Or you're just gonna stare at the phone, like for the rest of the day?"Leaning on his chair, Li Shang looked up from his iphone to see one of the cops like Pheobus Lemarchal, coming into his office.
"What? You're bored now? Cause, you have a lot files on desk that need to be done man..." That was quite true, two piles of messy files were on Shang's desk along with his computer, pencils,phone and stuff.
"Did your wife pissed you off? Again?" Shang just furrowed his eyebrows in annoyance at that tone. He and Pheobus were best pals back in high school, they were on the same sport team but they were both opposites, him, being more serious while his friend was taking things slow and relaxing about everything that moves on earth. Like Shang following the clothing of 'the dectetive uniform' wearing the original black suit when Pheobus was doing all freestyle.
"No, it's not that, it's just...I just don't like Mulan taking risks..that's all..."
"OOOh...That's getting interesting and, may I know, why for?"followed the blond haired guy as he took one of the chairs for clients and sat in front of Shang's desk. Mulan's husband just crossed his arms against his chest, sighing;
"It's about an old case, when Mulan and I used to investigate on Frollo, about Quasi, you know.."He looked back at the blond haired guy to see if he was about crack up or not. However, Pheobus just cringed at that answer. Both he and Esmeralda never made their mourning, not because Shang and Mulan did their best, but because the law just failed for them.
"I'm sorry, it just slipped out..."
"Do not need to be sorry, man, you were just following the procedure..."Had sighed his best friend as he tried to not sound upset, even if his voice was kinda betraying him right now.
"It's just that...well...that, Esme and I were wishing for that nightmare to be done by now. I mean putting that bastard behind bars for good, after all that bullshit stuff he had put her through, you know.."He added as he leaned to his chair, looking up at the celling, hoping it would fall on him.
"I wish I could do something about it..."Had tried to say Shang at first, but the rest of his words couldn't come out, the way he wanted to be. "Like you said, there's not enough proof to prove, like that Hawkins kid could have gone more through in Frollo's file and maybe give us the answers we were looking for..."Had slipped out Pheobus, as he took an framed photo that was standing on Shang's messy desk. He and Mulan's wedding day.
"Hawkins?"asked Shang, astonished by that answer, as he looked back at the blond haired guy who was looking down at the framed picture, as he said;
"Yeah, Jim Hawkins? Remember that little guy that used to hang out with Al, Flynn and all of us? The detention club? Well, he went to college to study computer bussiness, cool uh?"
"Woah..."
"Yeah. No virus can resist him, he's unbeatable, a genius, if you can say so..." From what Shang could remember about Jim Hawkins was little anyway. Jim Hawkins was quite a little troublemaker back at school, got himself in jail twice, used to thow papper balls on kids in class, girls mostly and kinda had explosed the science class by mixing two colors that he shouldn't have, he was suspended for a week, later on. Jim thought about to enter in the military, at first, but thanks to Mulan who was the first to discover that Jim could make it better a 'computer genius' instead. Shang was relieved about that kid's descision, he looked too young to join the army, in his opinion.
Would it make a diffrence? Asking that little guy for help about an unsolved case? How far is Jim good with computers? He'll have to ask, to know.
"Uh, Pheebs, when you said that Jim is a genius with computers, did you really meant it?"
"Yups.."
"Really?" At that, Pheobus looked up to him, with a frown-giving him the 'really?' look."I don't think I would made this up if I wasn't so sure, man, he tracked down a forty-year old guy who was about to kill two innocents little girls, well, his own daugthers to be sure, because he didn't not wanted to accept his wife's divorce...The guy is like the next ' ,' here.."Had started the blond haired guy as he put the frame picture back on the desk.
"How come?"
"Don't ask me! I don't know much about computers like him, that guy's face was everywhere at the kindergarden place. Jim was walking near by to get a subway sandwich and he just saw a weirdo guy staring at kids from where they were playing, sick I know, and a few days later, when the owner of the market saw him buying some bleach and rat poison, he didn't hesitated and called the police. The owner said he didn't liked the look that the costumer had on his face that day..."
"How the guy looked like?"
"Well, I don't know, a huge mess, I guess...no one believed him, but only Jim did.." The dectective nodded at that sentence and pursed his friend to continue;
"From what I've heard, Jim tracked him down with facebook, it wasn't so hard to not forget about that 'look' The cops didn't took him seriously, but when they went to that guy's flat, they had changed theirs views on the case and the rest is history with twitter and facebook, bla, bla,bla.." Shang took a moment to think and re-think about all that screenplay that Pheobus just made up or just told it was true, but it was also too risky to make a move. As a cop, he should ask more questions and evidences, but his job was quite changeling and hard too. One mistake is a lot. If Mulan is about to make a miskake like willing to step into Frollo's house that could maybe lead to a trap?
Come on! She's not stupid. He thought back looking at the wedding frame picture that was on his desk, hopeless between two choices. She's smart and she knows what's she doing! Right?He faced many atrocities in his life, but if something bad ever happens to Mulan, he would never be able to forgive himself.
It's the job, Shang! quit worrying, will ya? Mulan is not a damsel in distress, she can defend herself, she can kick ass!
He knows that she can handle a fight, all these karate classes weren't taught for nothing, no? and she wouldn't be alone; Meg, Jasmine, Ariel, Belle, Pocahontas and Rapunzel would also be out there as well. Same thing for a few guys that had nothing better to do; like John. S, Eric, Aladdin, Naveen, Philip, Adam and that idiot Flynn Rider too, so, how what worse could happen? Most of them grew ok, but Flynn, argh!
All his old classmates had received an invitation for an 'School Reunion' thing at Arrendelle, but, wait a second! Why at Arrendelle? It's the most freezing place that you would want to spent a few days off, out there.
"Something's not right, that 'School Reunion' event is messy for me to adjust.."He said out of nowhere, not sure if the blond haired guy, in front of him had heard him quite well and then, decided to search through the files of pappers for the supscious invitation that his wife told him earlier.
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"I still don't know how it would turn out, at the end..."
"Meaning like Rapunzel's idea's not going to work?"
"Well, it's a risk to take, Bells..."When they entered in the palace, most of the kids went to their separates ways, but they didn't have much thing to carry with, knowing that they would not please Frollo by staying in this creepy place and to be honest, they won't even try to do it. After a short guiding ride from their old teacher, Pocahontas, Jasmine and Belle decided to go downstairs to the old living room. The place looked simple and quite little old fashioned with the red used sofa, the one that Pocahontas and Belle sat on and Jasmine was sitting in front of them, on a blue couch. There was a fireplace close to Jasmine's side and the stairs a few steps away. But no television and no ipad, just a small window old stuff that's for sure.
"I just don't like that feeling! It just doesn't fit, I'm sure.."Had replied the brunette in a blue sweater and jeans, exasperated about all the situation.
"Well, it's Frollo being creepy and all, true, but still, we just can't let him show that we are scared of him, Rapunzel's right, we should act as stupid students and try get to know what are his intentions are in all this..."explained Pocahontas hoping to brighten up Belle as the jobless girl took off her big scares glasses to clean them up with her sleeve. Jasmine just looked up at her best friend, with wide eyes in shock.
"What makes you think his intentions are of us? I mean" The soon psychologist just shrugged at that question.
"Don't know, but I think we better keep an eye on him and espcially that Gothel woman, but that all we got..."
"We can still run..."
"Ain't gonna work Jaz.."
"What if we're trapped in here? I mean nothing good comes from Frollo! You know it!"
"She's right!"Had said Belle defending Jasmine's answer, Pocahontas just stared at both of them, quite stunned at their reactions."Coming from guys like Naveen or Flynn, I wouldn't feel surprised, but you guys, it's different. Seriously, Belle, I thought you would have been more handful with a creepy guy like you know who, but Jaz..."
"No offense, girl, but still I have my doubts, what if the plan doesn't work out? Like at all?" Pocahontas just leaned on the couch, sighing and was about to run out of ideas.
"Well, just ask Rapunzel and Mulan, both girls decided to go with it..."She said rubbing up her temple."We decided to follow them, so we're kinda stuck here..."
"Gotta to trust them on the way out and we can get ourselves killed..."Had followed Belle leaning on the couch with her arms crossed against her chest with a frown.
"Now, what we do?"Had mumbled Jasmine to herself looking back the dancing fireplace, until someone barged in the place, an certain greek girl...
"Don't break your mind, Jaz, cause I may have found something interesting back at the kitchen!"Had replied Meg walking downstairs to join the group, the girls looked back at her, all looking being waiting and patient, when they weren't.
"Like?"Had asked the native american girl back, not impressed as Meg sat on the same couch as Belle, but very far away from the brunette girl, whom she held a grudge since her senior days."I believe I have found some poison in the red wine, so I think brainy girl is right, we all may have the right to worry about that jackass guy..."
"So?"Had added Jasmine as the greek girl gulped very hard at the end of the storyline."I think it's too late to run, unless..."answered Megara with a smirk.
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