The Morgensterns: One Shots

ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɴɪɴᴇ: ᴏᴘʜᴇʟɪᴀ

chapter nine: ophelia

may, 2022
new york, usa
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Ophelia yawned out as the dull screen glared at her in the middle of the night. She took the cup from her nightstay, sipping the hot tea carefully as she viewed the screen.

For the past year, from medicines to technology, Ophelia had managed excel in almost everything. When her brothers had asked why she was trying to learn everything she could, Ophelia would either ignore them or feed them some lie, whether or not they trusted her words was entirely unknown to her.

But the thing was, she didn't care.

She didn't care if they believed her or not, she just wanted them to leave her alone.

The truth was, Ophelia needed to learn as much as she could. Just like a baby animal had to learn everything it could before venturing off into the wild, in search of new life.

A new life.

That, was what Ophelia desired. And what she desired, she would get it.

So for an entire year she prepared herself to learn everything she could, even excelling in most of it. What she was doing at the moment however, was just a little side project.

A test, to see if she can really survive out in the wild.

Ophelia clicked the last key, and pressed enter, and held her breath.

A few moments later, the screen loaded and a new page opened up. Ophelia narrowed her eyes to read what was in it, and when she did, her eyes widened with horror.

Seven years ago, a second world country was shook by the mysterious disappearance and later on, death of a teenager. No one knew why or how she was kidnapped, no one knew where she was held for all those months, no one knew how she was killed, and the most heart wrenching part, no one knew who the perpetrators were.

The teenager was no one significant, no young celebrity or daughter of a famous personality. She was just a normal girl with a normal life, who was abruptly kidnapped and then killed, her body dumped near the river front, right in the middle of the city.

A dead teenage girl. An unsolved mystery upon which thousands of conspiracies were made and thousands of articles and news headlines were released.

None of which was accessible on the internet.

Ophelia had to take a deep dive into the dark web to access these articles and conspiracies.

She didn't understand why they were inaccessible, but when she read the name of the victim, she knew why.

And with this newfound information, she knew exactly what to do.

She printed out the news article along with several other headlines, neither of which were remotely connected.

She made a file of these papers, and mentally noted to put them in Sebastian's office the first thing in the morning.

He needed to see it. Not because of business purposes.

He needed to see it, because it was going to hurt him.

A missing and then later discovered to be dead teenage girl. An unsolved mystery.

A young woman covered in blood in a hospital gown. No official records of such woman ever existing.

All connected to two words.

Cleopatra Ray.

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