War for Genius

7.- Apologies and suspicions

After Dewey explained to his family about Falcon Graves and how he and Huey fought the hawk to prevent him from throwing Mark Beaks from a rooftop, Dewey looked at Webby. But she deliberately looked away, which made the triplet dressed in blue feel deeply guilty.

He had accused her for letting Huey be kidnapped and that wasn't fair. Webby wasn't of the kind of person who would abandon others if she could help it. Not before, not even now. How could he even think of something like that? He owed his friend a colossal apology.

Webby suddenly turned and left the room. Where was she going? The middle triplet was about to follow her, but his uncle stopped him by asking:

"Why do you think Falcon Graves would be interested in kidnapping Huey?"

Dewey looked at his uncle hopelessly. Honestly, he didn't know how to answer that, but he tried anyway:

"I don't know, maybe because Huey was the one who devised the plan to stop him, I only fought him until Huey made him take an interest in the briefcase I was carrying,"

At the mention of a briefcase, Scrooge frowned and asked the triplet dressed in blue:

"A briefcase? What briefcase?"

Dewey replied:

"Glomgold's briefcase that was from your millionaire club, next to the armor set. It turned out that it was full of money."

Scrooge's frown deepened and with his hands on his hips and scolded:

"Did ye steal a briefcase full of money from my club?"

Dewey quickly raised his hands in defense, saying:

"First of all, I didn't know it was full of money. Secondly, you should improve the security of your club. Anyone could have taken it."

Scrooge let out an exasperated sigh and, shaking his head, said:

"We'll talk about that later, lad. Now we should focus on why Graves would want target Huey. Maybe he wanted revenge?"

Louie made a mouse of disagreement. The hypothesis proposed by his great-uncle didn't fit, and he said so when he said:

"If so, why would he only want vengeance on Huey when Dewey was also there? Wouldn't it be logical for him to go after both of them and not just one?"

Scrooge looked at his younger nephew and nodded in agreement as he replied:

"Ye're right Louie, there has to be something else, something that escapes us."

Dewey looked back at the door Webby had left. He couldn't wait any longer, he had to apologize to her for what he said. With this idea in mind, the middle triplet hurried to the door as he said:

"Yes, uh... you can think about that. I need, uh... a moment in the bathroom."

Dewey left the living room and looked in all directions. Where had Webby gone? He needed to find and apologize to her. But where could she have gone? Thinking a little, Dewey concluded that Webby had probably returned to her room. Lena was still there after all. Maybe... Webby had gone to see how her friend was, it would be logical.

Dewey quickly started up the stairs heading to his friend's room but as he approached, voices coming from the room reached his ears:

"So, someone took the red one?"

That was Lena, apparently, she had already woken up.

"Yes..."

That was Webby. Her voice sounded so sad and hurt... and all because of him. He had to fix things with her. As Dewey approached, Lena continued speaking: