Welcome to Gaia! :: View User's Journal | Gaia Journals

Signet City Police Station
Tuesday 1:54

I moved through the lab to a spot where a couple of uniformed officers were talking to a guy wearing a white lab coat. He had a head of red hair that hung down just past his ears. A thick full beard sat on his face making him look a bit like a lumberjack.

"You Jakob Moriarty? The guy that found the body?" I asked.

"No, to the former and yes to the latter, bro-ha," he responded with a big grin. "I'm Wilhelm. Jakob is over there."

He pointed over his shoulder to where another lab worker was leaning against a wall. His head was shaved but had a beard as thick as Wilhelm's and the copper color of it told me that it was indeed the proper Moriarty. I gave Wilhelm a nod and followed his finger to his brother.

"You Moriarty?"

"Yup, that's me," he said.

"The one that found the victim in the bathroom?" I asked.

"Yep, that's me," he said. "I had to go to the bathroom and when I went into the bathroom, I found her like that."

I gave him a nod and looked around the lab. The Master was definitely brazen with this one. Maybe a little to much so. It wasn't like him. He was cocky but he was also careful. Walking into a police station and placing a body. No. He wouldn't do it. He'd have someone else do it. Someone able to get it done without too much of a complication. Someone like a lab tech.

Jakob certainly fit that bill and because he found the body, it gave him great access.

Looking back to Jakob, I adjusted my glasses and looked him straight in the eye. "Did you notice anything out of the ordinary? Aside from the body, that is," I asked him.

"Nope, just the body," he responded quickly and coldly. A little too quick. As if the answer had been lying in wait for the question.

I arched an eyebrow. "You sure?"

"Yep."

He stared into my eyes with a look of contempt and annoyance. He was definitely involved but I didn't know how. And so far, there was no evidence that he did anything besides stumble upon the corpse. He was smart. If he was working for The Master then he'd have to be.

"You done with the questions? Because I'm sure I'm still gonna have to answer the ones asked by the real detectives. Need to conserve energy, you know?"

I had an urge to hit him but I managed to resist. Barely. Instead, I gave him a nod and watched as he walked over to his brother and start to talk with the cops standing nearby. b*****d was definitely involved. I knew it. Z approached a couple seconds after and followed my gaze to the Moriarty brothers.

"He's guilty of something," I told him.

"You sure?" Z asked. "Because out of the two of them, I'd put Wilhelm as the one most likely to commit a crime."

"He's guilty as sin. I don't know what he's guilty of but I know that he is hiding something. I can feel it. Keep an eye on him."

"Sure thing, hombre," Z said.

Without another word, I worked my way through the police station and out to my car. I hopped