C O N T R O L • WKM

F O U R

     Kastaria walked by the side of her brother; Abe whilst Y/N followed them trying to keep up with the two siblings, she realized the two were more determined and more focused in the presence of eachother. 

     "Why did he invite us all here, why tonight?" Abe started to question things.

     "He said we were celebrating something, but he never specified what," Kastaria continued his thought.

     The two siblings seemed to work pretty well together about this, they were able to think together like they were connected.

     "It's almost like this whole shindig of a hootenanny was just a ruse," Abe was pretty sure about this, "Mark was our friend, had been for years."

     "We trusted him, I would have done so much for him," Kastaria frowned looking down at the ground.

       "But then he went quiet. We knew something was wrong, I just never figured out what," Abe continued.

      "Now I guess we never will..." Kastaria finished for him.

      Y/N frowned at the two siblings, the two seemed to be really hurt from Mark's death, "I'm sorry... It seems that you two were really close to him," she apologized.

     "Look, I'm gonna level with you; you're my new partner," Abe spoke again Kastaria knew where this was going, he always trusted his partners, "Kastaria and I have been working with him for years..."

     "Now, we've been doing this for a long time, only Abe has been an official at it, I've been a secret investigator for this city for a long time," Kastaria continued, "I know something is wrong."

     "There is a murderer-" Lightning struck at that word again when Abe said it, "-here amongst us, and we need to find whoever it is."

     The three made their way upstairs, Abe continued talking on the way...

      "Now, you look like a worthy woman," Abe told Y/N looking at her, "I know we just met but I am an excellent judge of character," that made Kastaria laugh he just hit her shoulder as a way to make her shut up, "excellent like a fox." 

     Abe was silent as they walked down a hallway, it seemed like he was thinking, he was silent until they got to another staircase and he looked at Y/N again.

     "You don't look like you have a reason to kill him and if you do..." Abe laughed as Kastaria continued for him.

      "Keep enemies close and trust me, if you killed Mark you will be sorry," Kastaria warned the Attorney who just nodded nervously.

     "So, the real question we should be asking is: Who stood to gain the most from Mark's death?" Abe told them, "now, in my thorough analysis of the corpse, I discovered that in addition to being stabbed 37 times, he was also poisoned, beaten, strangled, drowned, and shot... In that order."

     "That's crazy," Kastaria said in shock, "who the hell would do that much to knock off one guy? I thought that everyone loved Mark, he was such a nice guy..." She didn't understand, why would someone do this?

      "I don't know, sister, I really don't," Abe squeezed her shoulder in a comforting way, "anyways, we're going to have to do the detectively thing and go through the victim's most private and personal possessions," Abe decided.

     "I'm not going to do that, I'm going to be down in that office that Mark lent us, come down when you find anything." Kastaria told them before leaving downstairs.

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     Kastaria sat in the office, she was thinking about this case, she wished that she could have saved Mark, he didn't deserve to die but weirdly Damien came to her mind... Why? Was it because he was the only one to help her when she was falling apart earlier? She was so confused with this...