The Beginning of a Beautiful Romance | Basil x Reader

The Investigation Begins | Chapter 2

Basil was now looking at you three with his hands on the rail. "Who knows what dastardly scheme that villain may be plotting even as we speak..." He says.

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"This case is most intriguing with its multiplicity of elements...its many twists and turns." Basil turns to Olivia with a smoke pipe in his hand. "Now, you're certain you've told me everything? The slightest detail may be important." He says.

"It's just as I said. And then my father was gone." Olivia says. Basil thinks for a moment.

"What do you make of it?" Dawson asks him.

"Hmm." Basil hums and begins to pace with Olivia following him. "Ratigan's up to something. A crime of the most sinister nature no doubt. The question is...what would he want with a toy maker?" He asks, stopping for a moment to think before continuing to pace a little more.

Olivia stops by the window. Fidget pops down from above as lightning strikes, scaring her and making her scream out in terror. You, Basil, and Dawson look over at the window to see the fiendish bat.

"Quickly L/n, Dawson, we've not a moment to lose!" Basil shouts as he rushes outside.

"I'm coming!" You shout as you rush out with him.

"Uh, uh I'm right behind you, Basil." Dawson says and follows him outside with you. Fidget was already gone, nowhere in sight. "No sign of the blackguard anywhere."

Basil looks around and kneels down to look at the sidewalk, where Fidget has left behind his muddy footprints. "Not quite, Dawson. He left some rather unusual footprints. They obviously belong to the same fiend who abducted the girl's father - Ratigan's peg-legged lackey." He says.

You look down by the footprints and see a hat, the one Fidget was wearing. You pick it up and inspect it. "Hey Basil, I found something." You say and show him the hat.

Basil looks up and snatches the hat with a delighted grin. "Ah-ha! Excellent work, my dear! Ha, ha, ha!" He rushes inside and you and Dawson follow him.

"The scoundrel's quite gone." Dawson says to Olivia.

"But with Basil helping us he won't be gone for long!" You say to Olivia.

"Precisely, my dear!" Basil says to you and throws off his robe. "We'll find Miss Flamhammer's father soon, I reckon!"

"Flaversham!" Olivia says in an exasperated tone.

"Whatever. Now," Basil changes into a brown jacket, "we simply pursue our peg-legged friend until he leads us to the girl's father."

"Then you'll get my daddy back?" Olivia asks as she rushes over and hugs Basil tightly.

"Yes!" Basil says and pushes Olivia off of him. "And quite soon, if I'm not mistaken. Now, hurry along, L/n and Dawson. We must be off to...Toby's." He says and puts on an Inverness cape.

"Toby's?" You and Dawson ask in a confused tone, unintentionally at the same time.

"Oh, you must meet him. He's just the chap for this." Basil says and puts on a deerstalker cap.

"You're letting us come with you?" You ask with an excited grin.

"You-you want us to come?" Dawson asks.

"Ha!" Basil exhales on his magnifying glass and wipes it clean on his coat. "I should think a stouthearted army mouse like you would leap at the chance for adventure." He says to Dawson before turning to you. "And you, I can tell you have that same thirst for adventure as I do." He says to you with a grin.