Just A Monster (KP FIC)

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There was something in Fed's mind disrupting them from properly investigating the scene before them. Blood in nothing but a mess of sheer violence had stained the grass red.

As far as they knew, the wounds inflicted on the obviously deceased human was the only evidence they had to at least TRY to convict another gootraxian of the crime and likely many others. That's what they thought of course. It wasn't nearly enough to even tie the potential cannibal to it at all, it was just another dead human, something about how they were killed is what intrigued Fed into thinking otherwise. They continued looking around, triple checking every little thing surrounding the corpse. Anything with as much as a drop of red on it had them squatting and staring directly at it for an extended time period. They wish they had arrived to the garden earlier. They usually come here to be alone and at peace after Shade, if anything at all, they had their very own room they could isolate themselves in to mourn. It's like the terrors of the facility it self wouldn't let them though.

Every blackout, their younger and more active siblings would come to visit. It was a daily routine all four of them had just so they could spend some time with one another. It was fun, they'd play child games with one another that were heavily influenced by Shade and Jammer. Or just sitting around in a lazily formed circle to converse about their time before the blackout in general. Now it was nothing more then Nightshade and Jammer trying to induce Fed into moving off of the sad lump of their single person couch and find other things that they found interest in. They thought they'd at least perk up a little bit knowing other, higher ranked gootraxians, would keep look out and warn everyone to remain cautious of any suspicious behavior. Knowing that they wouldn't let the death of several innocents go down without punishment. Of course it wasn't that though. They didn't want to admit the least of their concerns lied within the safety of everyone else but it was more then true, they wished these things had been enforced before Fed had to say anything, before Shade's life was mercilessly taken away from them.

"Live a little!"

"Shade wouldn't want to see you like this."

They'd say to them every few minutes that passer by during a blackout. Almost as if they thought Fed would do anything of their bidding if they tried to include Shade with it. They were met with pure saltiness and attitude nonetheless, whether it was them walking out as a whole or just making it apparent that they weren't listening to a word. 

They took every opportunity to investigate future crime scenes. Not for the sake of everyone else, but vengeance. They came up dry however. If they wanted to believe it they would've blamed Panther of it and moved on without another thought. But nothing like this had come up in several weeks, this was not a chance to give the cold shoulder to. It had been long ago since they had stumbled upon it. So long the crowd outside, curious of what had been so terrible Plantix themselves closed access to the garden and allowed an inspection, began to dissipate. Most breaking off from the group entirely to gossip about it to absent gootraxians and others just having lost interest in the whole ordeal. The lights outside began to dim and flicker, indicating a potential blackout or that it was just getting late enough to the point higher ups would turn the lights down in brightness so others could get some rest. They still remained, now just sitting dormant with their back faced towards the tree and the waste that they confirmed hadn't been tampered with afterwards.

 They sat in a bit of a thinking position, hat hovering over their eyes that had turn dull and foggy due to the lack of sleep. Their paws were firmly gripping the lower end of their muzzle. No matter how much they anxiously bit at their nails or begged for a sign, nothing would change. And soon Plantix would return expressing their discomfort with the smell of the body that had begun to fester and ask for them to get rid of it altogether.