Criminal Detective

Who Is That?

The door of Claire's apartment creaked open and she along with Samuel and four other men stood at the entrance. The room was in shambles and a putrid smell began to form in the atmosphere. Claire clenched her nose with her fingers and made way for the clean up crew who hopped inside and headed straight for the bodies.

Before Claire left Roberto's house, Samantha had informed him about the bodies in Claire's. He then set up a clean up crew to help get Claire's house back to its old shape.

The clean up crew began to wrap the bodies in a transparent tinfoil like material then tossed the bodies into body bags before they took it out of the room.

"Isn't anyone going to be curios as to why people are taking dead bodies away from my building and into a van?" Claire asked and Samuel shrugged.

"The cleaners make sure to cloth the bodies properly so that it's almost impossible to tell what it is. And also, they'd probably mind their business if they don't want to end up like the bodies" Samuel said to which Claire nodded.

"Got it" She said then walked up to Cat who was asleep on one of the sofa's despite all the ruckus around him.

"Is that him?"

"Yup" Claire smiled as she yanked him off the sofa which made the feline wake up. He began to toss his arms around violently but soon stopped when it's eyes landed on Claire's face.

She beamed "Hey, little guy"

The cat meowed and her grin widened.

"We're getting out of here" She said then placed him on her shoulder.

"What's his name?" Samuel asked.

"Cat"

He arched an eyebrow "Cat? As in you named your Cat..."

"...Cat" She completed "Yes"

"That's quite the creative name" Samuel said in a tone filled with heavy sarcasm which made Claire roll her eyes. She took Cat off her shoulder then handed him over to Samuel who stared at her confused.

"Hold him briefly. I gotta get some stuff from inside"

"You said you came for your pet, only" Samuel yelled to Claire's retreating figure who only shrugged in response. Claire stepped inside her room and walked to her laptop. She picked it up, shoved it inside a bag along with some clothes and toiletries, then stepped outside.

Claire had handed the locked phones she collected over to Daniel who said he would salvage whatever he could from each of them. At that statement, something hit Claire that she hadn't realized since.

"You can hack, right?"

Daniel nodded with a proud smirk.
"Yup, just about anything" He arched an eyebrow "Why?"

"I have a laptop I need to get into. I forgot my password. Any chance that isn't beneath you?"

Daniel chuckled "It'll be like child's play"

"It better be" Claire muttered to herself as she strapped the bag on her shoulder tightly. She stepped out of the room and found Samuel caressing cat lightly. Her lips twitched upward before she approached them.

"I see you're enjoying yourself"

Samuel shrugged "I like animals"

Claire managed a small smile. This was the most she had interacted with Samuel aside from his orders for her to "Wait here" and "Do this" or "Do that" and he seemed to be a likable person.

"Any chance you want to put makeup on? Blow dry your hair? Clip your nails? Or, are we leaving?"

Claire frowned.