Distance Between Us

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   Katherine watched the Thestral carriage turned the corner. She touched where two wounds remained permanent on her skin. "Drive carefully,  ma chère soeur" she whispered. "Katherine" Her Aunt sang as she got closer to Kathrine waving her scaf, panting. 
   Katherine glanced at the poeple trying to get a look of the body. The Man's corps was a curius act. The  the cruel reality she lives in struck in her eye .  "Come on" her voice grew dark and scary. "Where now my dear" Lily asked her Niece. "Somewhere that will actually be useful in this investigation" Katherine ran her fingertips through the owl feather on her hat. Horse carriages passed them as they walked, vary few automobiles drive in the streets. Her boots clicked and clanged on the sidewalk. Puddles of melted snow were around ever corner you wondered around. 
"My Lady you mean " Mr. Lin Cho's smile turned upside down. "Yes, indeed".
    They walked down a few steps of stairs, a big sigh in black print,violet background. 
      Cho asked "Where are we?", "You dont know then what was that all about!!" Madam Lily shouted at Cho. 
    "Its a funeral home run by an acquaintance of my grandfather" Katherine sighed as the door screamed. "If we're looking for answers this is the place". 
   A dark room with coffins of all shapes and sizes and a grim,dark, evil laugh. "Young Mistress I thought I'd be seeing you before long". Lily and Cho looked around frankly.
   A coffin top moved slowly, scratching the ground, the scream bounced off th walls.  "Do I finally have the honor of  fitting one of me coffins for you today?" A man with long gray hair going multiple directions asked as his long black fingernails touched her chin, he was paler than her. 
   "No, I'm not here for that today" with her words he put a finger on her lips,"Dont need to explain my dear I'm aware vary aware" his smile stretched from cheekbone to cheekbone,the black top hat with a purple ribbon tied around covered his eyes. "One of me recent customers was unusual but I guess unusual is you're specialty and I made her pretty again". Ignoring his last comment Katherine said "I want the details please" her English accent heard on the word 'Details'. 
   Cho caught on to the reason why they are all here, along with both pensions of Larionovna and The Undertaker. "So undertaking is a cover business How much is for information?" Cho asked. In split second Undertaker was in his face, Cho leaning back almost falling. "I dont want thy queens coins, I only want one thing from you" He switched from Cho to Larionovna begging at her feet "please Me lady give it to me I'll tell you anything". His breath panting in her face "The gift of true laughter,just one joke all of thy information is yours" he panted evermore. "Lunatic" Katherine whispered under her breath. 
   "Leave it to me my lady it's a classic among Americans why did the chicken cross the road to not be eaten" 
    "Get it haha" 
   Everyone shook their heads 'No'. "My turn" Lily stepped forward "I live for gossip this story will make you laugh so hard you could curl up and die". Which shall remain out, reader discretion advise.
    Katherine stood on ther other side of the room uninterested with the lame jokes. 'Five mouths since this case was closed and dismissed Five months,why open it now'. 
     "My lady, I've decided to give you a look discount once more, last time instead of a joke" He came closer to her. "I'm hoping a kiss is still  onthe table" till this day no one knew that reason why she held her wand against his throat. Was it his words? or was it how  close he stood from her"Tell me the details, please" he backed a few feet away from her,"Daggers in you're eyes miss, I will say interview pattern these days". Katherine's eyes narrowed "Costumers incomplete" The Undertaker held a human dummy on side showed the muscles, the other showed the organs, and other stuff inside the body. What Muggles use for health class. "The Uterus is missing" 
   Lily and Cho's jaws drop but Katherine just reimagined the crime scenes "A killer makes vary big mess on the body but that peculiar well-".
  "That procedure is a difficult one to perform even in slow traffic". "You stay true to the Larionovna name my dear Lady clever as Revanclaw, Mischievous as Slytherin, Loyal as Hufflepuff but placed in a house without any traits of that house"
    "First the killer slits her throat then rips and takes her womanly parts" Katherine explained ignoring his last commet. "But the main question is can you sniff it out like a good little b***h that you are". B***h is also known as a term to call a female dog. Katherine cleared her throat then spoke "Taking over my Grandfather's company and wealth comes with a price a price of becoming the royal famliys new guard dog. A bridge to the two different worlds of Muggle and Wizard folk alike" she explained her position. "What about the ministry?". "I'm still an  Auror no matter what my title is, Plus the Minister,cabnet, and the council both beilve that in order for the balence we need an member keeping things safe and on the done low" She explained farther as she put on her maroon and yellow striped scarf.
    They all walked out while Eddie helped Mis. Larivnova in the carriage as snowflakes fell on his curly brown hair. She could feel the warmth of his hand underneath his white gloves,  she felt the snow melting off of her hat dripping onto her face. She didn't !over just remained still. Poeple of the streets started to stare at what this Noble women was staring at. "Mis?" Eddie coghed up. Katherine shook her head,her hands cuffed like she was holding something pricless. 
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   Katherine sat on the other side of Lily and Cho. The road is made out of stone and brick,that made the trip long, jiggly and bumpy. "This information narrows down the supects" Katherine tugged on her black lace  glove. "First we need to cross out the ones without the skill set, along with an alibi". 
      Katherine looked through some junk mail,and other stuff not paying attention to what her Aunt and Binsness partner where saying. "KATHERINE  JEANETTE LARIVNOVA" Lily shouted as Katherine walked out of the carriage,her heels clicked on the marble tiles. 
"Welcome home " Four servents of the Larivnova Manor. She nodded slightly as the tall older man with thin, bushy mustache greeted his Mistress.
  Katherine walked ignoring her Aunt as she shouted her full name and ranted how her parents tough her better with Eddie trailing behind . The hallways are filled with descendants of the Larionovna family whom served the royal famliy as the guard dog but also as an amour. 
"I've have narrowed down to nobles in involved in secret societies and organizations" She spoke with confidence, a thing she'd struggled with as a kid.  "That narrows the field down evan I could preform the procedure beside which the seasons ending any doctors in which follow the nobles with be returning to thier family's in the country" Lily say as she and Chi sat down. Lily sat with her legs slightly slanted. Francis  (The Older Man) sat two tea cups in front of the guests. "Well a guess we must conclude this case vary quckily luckily I've work for many weeks on this single issue" Katherine faced a wall with a drape covering a wall. She grabbed the cloth and yanked it down. Dust particles started to fly in the air. "I made a list a while back after questioning  them personally about this pressing problem". 
    'Shes my Fathers granddaughter Alright' Madam Lily thought,she sipped her tea. "Dr. Richard Duke of Bailey was  the white horse pub" She started to list and continued until Lady Lily interrupted "So whom have you got as a potential killer?", "Charles Noxon".
   Cho nodded slightly, Lily bite her lip. "Hes been inviting me to his party's since the beginning of the spring, hes hosting one tonight  so I suggest that you should get ready" Katherine took a sip of her tea. Cho exused himself from the room. While Keeping sat at her desk,sipping tea, going through papers. "So you weren't lying about what you'd said to that detective". Katherine scowled, her hair remained in a tight braided bun . She asked "Why would i?". 
"Katherine" Madam Lily placed her hand on Katherine's shoulder, and rubbed a circle on her back "Hows your Father doing?" Katherine rolled her unique  blue eyes at the question as her fingertips traced her scar on her forearm"Honestly, Why would you ask that?" She snapped. Before Lil y could respond Katherine  added
    "The next time I plan to see my Father is when the gates of Hell welcome us" with that Katherine  walked passed her aunt on her mother's side,slammed the door behind her. That left Lily in the room alone with what left of laughter in the bricks of this building.