Panic Room

Chapter 9: 'The Unsupervised'

Claire huffed as her, Juno, Axel, and Ari were all forced into the kitchen.

"So, why exactly are we being forced in here?" Juno harshly asked, dusting himself off a bit as everyone else nodded in agreement.

"Uhhh, Detective Kira, sent Crystal and Sachhi, back to the station to deal with a problem with some girl there. We thought in here would be safer for you." One of the officers grunted, the other two nodding in agreement, though they didn't seem to be paying attention.

Juno glanced around, noticing the lack of windows, and door leading into the hallway, a heavy lock hung on it.

"Righttttt." He dragged out, watching the officers leave, then holding up a finger for everyone to be silent.

There was a jingle of keys, and a soft click.

"Cowards." He muttered, turning to the other three.

Ari was standing near the back, nervously shifting back and forth on her feet. Axel leaned against the refrigerator, while Claire hopped up and sat down on the counter.

"Wow, not very classy of you Ms. Famous Singer." Juno commented, looking and starting to open all the cabinets.

"You already used that nickname earlier." Claire sassed, crossing her legs and smoothing out her dress, giving Juno no other thought.

He smiled slightly, shaking his head as he kept searching.

"Might I ask what you're looking for, Juno?" Axel asked harsh, Juno not even turning his head, instead, just yelling "Aha!"

He turned around, holding what looked like two bottles of wine in his hands.

"Hey so like, what if we didn't drink wine during a murder investigation where, were the suspects?" Claire shot out, glaring over at Juno as he started looking for what they could only assume to be a wine glass.

"Eh, I'll be fine."

And as they all knew they couldn't stop him, they merely watched as he poured himself a drink.

Then another.

And another.

And another.

"You should slow down..." Ari said softly after a while, Juno was sitting on the counter opposite from Claire now, still drinking the wine.

He paused, thinking for a minute before downing the glass.

"Nahhhh, not like this will matter in the end anyways..." He slurred slightly, shrugging his shoulders a bit, Ari sighing quietly as Claire and Axel just watched him intently.

"I don't understand how one of you could be a murderer." Claire suddenly stated, causing them all to go completely still.

Then, Juno started laughing loudly.

"God, how drunk are you?" Claire asked, crossing her arms and staring Juno down as he continued to laugh.

"Pffttt, one...." Juno kept laughing, causing everyone to roll their eyes.

"Nothing we do matters is the end! Don't you ll see that? Trust me, we all die, nothing we do with our lives truly adds up to anything."

"What kinda shit hole did you grow up in to actually believe that?" Claire argued back, Juno grinning up at her with half lidded eyes.

"Doll, you have no idea." He took another long sip of his wine.

"Didn't I tell you to stop calling me pet names?"

"Can't help it, you look like a doll."

"Like I haven't heard that before. You're not special." Claire said, more aggressively as Juno leaned forward a bit.

"I bet you think I am though." He said, although most of the charm was lost seeing as how wasted he truly was.

"The fact you haven't even been interrogated yet and are getting wasted right before hand honesty is so stupid." Axel said sharply, actually speaking up in between Claire and Juno's spat.

"Why? Cause I might say something true?" Juno asked with a lazy smile, shifting his gaze over to Axel, who backed down nervously.

"Whatever, I have to use the bathroom." Claire murmured, jumping off the counter and strutting over to the door, attempting to open it.

She sighed loudly, knocking against the door, tapping her feet a bit as she placed her hands on her hips.

After receiving no response, she tried knocking again.

"Face it darling, none of us are leaving till Detective whats-her-face comes back  to get the next lucky victim." Juno said, doing jazz hands as Claire tried to ignore him.

"I have no reason to listen to a possible murderer, who is completely wasted right before he gets interrogated. Kira won't be happy about this whatsoever." Claire informed him, whirling back around to face him.

He shook his head, finally setting down his wine glass, Claire looking over at the bottles he drank.

"Nah, trust me, we've got time." He chuckled a bit, earning nervous looks from the other three.

"Why do you say that?" Axel questioned, raising an eyebrow at Juno, who wiped his mouth with the back of his sleeve, inhaling and exhaling loudly.

"That Leona girl they mentioned earlier, yeah we know each other... whatever she's doing, it'll take a while. Shes an, interesting one." He told him, rolling his eyes with an annoyed look as he spoke.

"Are you two rivals or something?" Claire asked, noticing his irritated expression and tone of voice.

"Rival? Nah, we work together."

"Ohhhh, your supposed 'business'?" Claire smirked, leaning back against the counter again as Juno stared her down.

"It's very much real I'll have you know, we're pretty, successful, and wealthy if you haven't noticed." Juno guestered at his quite nice looking outfit, which was just a black and red suit where the white normally was, along with equally red gloves.

"You really like red don't you?" Ari interjected, Juno smiling at her.

"The overall best color, yep. But I could guess all your favorite colors honestly." He shrugged, Ari looking slightly curious.

"Yours is light blue, I can tell from the mask you were wearing earlier, and your dress of course."

Ari nodded a bit, fiddling with the sleeves of her dress as Juno turned to Axel.

"Yellow." He said, to which Axel looked annoyed.

"I wont say you're right, but if you were, why?" Axel asked, looking slightly interested.

Claire rolled her eyes hard, she knew what Juno was doing. Distracting everyone from the huge problem at hand. One of them was a murderer, a killer! And they were discussing favorite colors?

"Why are we talking about our 'favorite colors' when we have a legit huge, terrifying issue at hand here?" Claire said, finally snapping at everyone who looked over at her.

They all went quiet, realizing she was probably right.

But then, after they'd all returned to silence, she heard Juno go,

"Alright Ms. my favorite color is pink."

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Ah! Thank you all so much for reading this chapter! This part is more of a look into the characters and a few thing, but trust me, its still important! I don't do filler chapters. Anyways I truly hope you all enjoyed! Make sure to vote and comment lovelies! Have a great day/night!