Lost and Found

Unlucky change of events

Rose's POV

"Are you aware I recieved a letter from my dad?" His eyes widened but they definitely gave me my answer. I reached into my back pocket and grabbed the envelope containing both the change from the shopping trip and the letter, I pulled out the change and handed him the envelope.

All three of us watched as the detectives eyes moved back and forth against the letter, scanning it. As he continued down the letter his face twisted into a mixture of disbelief and utter disappointment.

"This isn't your dad's handwriting Rose"

"Of course it is, his signature is at the bottom" Is he trying to mess with me? This definitely isn't the time to mess with me.

"He signed it but he didn't write it, it looks like someone else had written it for him" I just stared at him, dumbfounded I couldn't believe what he was telling me.

"How do you know?" I didn't believe him. I didn't want to believe him. I wanted him to tell me he was joking but he looked to be dead serious.

"The writing pattern doesn't match, plus your dad is right handed so the ink wouldn't smear" He explained. He's right. Oh God, he's right. But the signature is still there.  I know that's his signature, so I still have some confirmation he's alive.

"So who wrote it?" Darren cut in.

"Unsure, but now we have three possibilities" He motioned over his shoulder and I looked up to see the car with three guys leaned up against it, all getting arrested.

"Two of them put up a bit of a fight and one even tried to stab officer douche" That's what everyone called him, because he would give you a ticket for everything and he owned it. Even had his nameplate on his vest changed.

"Were they planning to hurt us?" Esme asked, poor girl looked more tense then I was.

"No idea, but when we showed up they tried fighting, so we're taking them downtown. Well that and the stabbing thing" I hoped he would offer to patrol the house for tonight but he didn't.

"Do you want me to stay here with you ladies tonight" Darren asked. He didn't need to ask, he knew our answer and we both shook our heads.

"Good idea, and I'll leave my personal number incase something else happens" The detectives shoulders showed me he'd let out a huge sigh of relief. The detective wrote down his number and handed it off to Darren with a handshake, passing it discreetly incase someone was watching.  He turned and walked out the door, stepping down the stairs and toward the cops.

Esme's POV

"Excuse me detective!" I hollered after him and he turned to me right before he reached officer douche. I jogged out the door towards him and stopped a few paces away from him so I would be a safe distance away from the guys they were arresting.

"Can I help you Esme?" He was rightfully confused because I never really spoke to him unless it was translating for Rose but this was important.

"I recognize one of your boys in cuffs" I spoke trying to be quiet enough the boys didn't hear me but they did and all three turned their heads toward me. The detective took a few steps toward me closing the space between us.

"Which one?"

"Silver hair, his name is Nico but he seems like a super sweet kid and he's deaf like Rose" The detective and I looked over at the silver haired boy who waved at me the best he could in his cuffs.

"Do you want to talk to him, see if you can get information out of him?"

"He would need his hands" The detective looked between me and Nico for a moment before finally speaking.

"Do you trust him not to hurt you?"

"Oh please, if he tried I'd lay him on his ass you know that" He shrugged his shoulders as if to say fair enough and gave the signal to release him. As officer douche took off the cuffs Nico mouthed a thank you in my direction and I nodded at him.

"What're you doing here?" I asked

"They made me come" He paused "I had no choice"

"What did they want? Did they want to hurt Rose?" I wanted answers and I was going to get them.

"Nico stop using sign language and talk to her like a human being!" One of the other guys yelled and I grabbed Nico's hearing aid and pushed it into my pocket.

"Now he can't hear you so shut up or ill kick your ass" My five foot self may not intimate him yet but he also doesn't know about my background in military fighting. My dad served 3 tours before I was born and he wanted me to be able to protect myself.

"Hey, I need that" Nico reached for his hearing aid in my pocket but I moved my hip so he missed.

"You'll get it back I just need you to focus on me and not them" I assured him and he sighed but nodded a prompt yes, probably hoping to get this over with sooner rather than later.

"Now answer my question" Like I said I needed my answers.

"We weren't gonna hurt her. But her dad sent us for her" I just blinked at him, I couldn't believe what he just told me. I turned to see if the detective was paying attention and he wasn't, he was trying to control the other two guys. I turned toward the house and seen Darren standing in the doorway and he sent me a small nod confirming he'd seen what Nico said.

"What do you mean her dad sent you?"

"There's not much to decipher there, I said what I meant" He paused, looking for a way to explain it in more detail and I swear I almost seen smoke come from his ears from how hard he was thinking.

"Nico" I lifted his face to look at me "Do you work for Rose's dad?"

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A/N
Haha second cliff hanger in a row!
So, what do you think Esme means? What do you think Rose's dad does for work? What do you think Darren is going to do with danger lurking around Rose? How will Rose handle the news?

Thanks for reading, bye 👋