Major Crime, Major Time (short story)

Major Crime, Major Time

I awoke to the sound of banging on the door,

"Eevee help me!" It was Hannibal

"Hannibal what's wrong?"

"I can't find Juliette, you need to help me find her, you and Evelyn both" he said scarcefully. We get clothes on and get in his car,

"Eevee I don't understand, she never came home, I don't even know how I got home"

"Hey calm down okay, we're here and we'll help you" We went to the bar from last night and there was police tape everywhere, a few newscast cars and many police cars.

"Officer, have you found anyone?" a newscast asks.

"Yes female near her 20s"

"Dead or alive officer?"

"Dead." We all gasped,

"And do you know how she died officer?" Hannibal asked.

He said "Fire". Hannibal freaked and asked,

"Any remains? like can you tell what type of person?" he said.

"A girl by the name Juliette." Hannibal slumped down to his knees, we went down with him. "I'm so sorry"

"Who would've done this?, what could she have done to deserve this?" We went home, Hannibal stayed the night at our house. We watched T.V. and every once in awhile would flip to the news.We didn't see anything about her at all, Hannibal was worried. It was 11:30 pm and we we're all tired. We set up our beds and passed out all around the same time. "Let her go! she doesn't deserve this!" It was 5:30 am and Hannibal had yelled in his sleep. I went to the living room and held Hannibal "Hey, It's okay, we're here"

"Eevee? I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to wake you"

"You're fine hon, we're here for you" He calmed down and I walked back to bed,

"Wait, will you stay here with me?" He stopped me near the hallway

"If you want me to." I layed down next to him, he wrapped himself around me like a lost child,

"Is this okay?" He asked me,

"As long as you're comfortable, I'm comfortable" We fell asleep. It was morning, I woke up around 11:30 am. Evelyn was cooking pancakes and Hannibal was watching the news, "Anything?" I asked Hannibal

"Well, they said their opinions of the scene because there's not enough evidence due to her body being burned" He answered

"They started a page for her that you can go to" Evelyn said,

"Page?" I asked

"Yeah, they're trying to get some ties to her to try to find out who she is"

"What's the website?"

"Oh, just go to the police department's website and you'll find it. I went to the bookmark area and clicked on the police department's website, it loaded and she was the top story i clicked on it and read what people said, "We dated once but broke up because of family reasons, she was a great person" ... "great friend" ... "great person" ... I was surprised that her family hadn't gone on the internet, I started to wonder if she even had parents. Hannibal was behind also reading what people wrote,

"How are you feeling about all this?" I asked Hannibal

"I'm so lost in words I don't even know how to explain this, my girlfriend died because she was burned, don't know how, just was burned. None of it makes sense" I rolled my eyes and kept reading, he sat back down on the couch. We heard a knock at the door, we all looked at each other stupidly, the doorbell was rung. I answered the door,