The Woods - a duskwood fanfiction

Chapter 11: Daring Detective Do

Jake's POV

That afternoon Lily and I were hard at work trying to work out the pieces in the puzzle. Lily and I printed out dozens of pictures, from online, the newspapers, and Hannah's up cloud. We also printed out notes, we wrote down questions, notes, and speculations. Soon we had a pretty good suspect crime board. We has pulled out all the stops, tape, thumbtacks, yarn, the whole nine yards. It was mentally exhausting work, at 3:17 in the afternoon we finally took a break. We headed to the kitchen for a late lunch, as Lily was working around the kitchen whipping us some lunch we heard a sharp knocking. Both of our heads whipped around to the harsh banging.

"Lily, It's Cleo and Thomas were coming in!" a female voice yelled from the other side of the door. There had been no time in flew a flurry of two angry masses.

"Lily!" Thomas bellowed.

"Lily where ARE you!??" Cleo cried out. They both had barreled in from the back door that sprouts out from the kitchen. It took them a minute to look past their worry and haste to notice that we were both in the kitchen.

"There you are! Where were you!? i called and texted you! Why didn't you answer?" Cleo was so flustered that she didn't even notice me, she went straight to Lily grabbing her arms. Thomas just stood there, his mouth agape, then he crossed his arms, his face hardening.

"And who the he** are you!?" He demanded. I didn't quite know how to respond. I hadn't prepared to let anyone I was here.

"Um hi Cleo, Thomas. What's up....?" Lily asked, hesitantly.

"What's up? What's UP? Well whats up is that we both have been trying to reach you all day! Why haven't you answered. We thought the MWAF got to you!"

"I...Uh... I'm sorry we been just so busy I didn't even notice..." Lily tried to explain.

"We? WE? Whose we? " Cleo turned to me, "Oh who the heck are you?"Cleo questioned.

"Cleo, Thomas..." Lily looked at me, silently asking me, I nodded. "Meet my brother, Jake."

"Hello." I said. Cleo and Thomas both stood aghast. "It's a pleasure to finally meet you. " They all just stood there gaping. "Now if you don't mind I have work to do." I turned and started to our previous work space.

"Now wait just one freakin second. Jake as in creepy mask hacker dude? Our hacker?" Cleo was practically going mental.

"well sh**."Thomas breathed. I chuckled silently to myself as I continued on my way, "Yes well sh** indeed."

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Makenzie's POV

I needed to talk to Ted Mundruga but he was a state penitentiary. I was on my way to visit the county office, where Phil Hawkins was being held. While the police had received a warrant for his arrest, it was temporary. They had had enough evidence to bring him in but if they couldn't get more substantial evidence or a judge to take the matter to court then, he would have to be released after forty eight hours. When the original warrant had been granted, Phil had been a substantial suspect, the police had obtained an additional forty eight hour appeal on the holding order. The next move was to officially charge him and then set a court date, but i needed to interview him first. While Phil being the MWAF seemed plausible it also seemed too easy. While the answer frequently ended up being the simplest explanation this didn't feel right. I knew deep down that Phil was innocent but I needed to get evidence, I wondered about Ted Mundrunga. If He had been the killer why was there a new killer, why go after Hannah. Hannah had been scared because she remembered something about Jennifer, but if Ted was in jail why could that matter. Simple answer something was wrong or someone was wrong.