Monday, October 8, 2007

say this sooner

well i'm going to keep this one short because i acutally did finish the latest chapter of murder and lyrics and it falls a bit on the long side so i don't want any comments that say "oh mah god long post!" blaaah. my cat mr. hughes did come back inside though he keeps getting out because of my brother but i am glad to say that he is inside right now and watching me type. anyway on to the new chapter and i promise this one is more exciting! previously: the detectives found out that danny and jake had some kind of money arrangment going on and that cassie never handled danny's money. murder and lyrics chapter eighteen: murderers on a plane in the span of two days danielle and timothy kept tabs on all the suspects in the danny hicks murder case. none of them seemed to be doing too much out of the ordinary. cassie kept up her commitments as daniel's manager and assistant with her tying up all the lose ends and in some cases defending herself against those who would say she was a murderer. lexi hartford didn't keep a low proflile instead she went on the party circut and was photographed in various clubs. josiah was in business meetings and playing small shows and doing interviews, all the while gearing up to leave L.A. which he would be doing today. jake was living the most normal life of all, he worked odd jobs and stayed close to home. all the while danielle was still trying to piece together all the information she had, constantly pouring over the case files, so much that she was sure she had parts of them memorized. timothy walked into danielle's office after lunch, as usual danielle was sat at her desk, hunched and re-reading the case documents. she was so engrossed in her thoughts that she didn't even bother looking up when he walked in. though timothy was sure that when she got a hold of what he had she would be more then interested in him. timothy took a seat on the other side of the desk opposite danielle. he remained silent still wondering if she was going to say anything to him but she didn't instead timothy cleared his throat and danielle glanced up at him. "good lunch?" she asked. "more like interesting." he said as he pulled out the folder he had picked up during lunch. "what's that?" danielle asked as she now payed full attention to timothy. "oh this? it's just the records we've been waiting two days for." timothy said as he flopped the folder down on the desk. "really?" danielle said as she pushed her glasses up and grabbed for the folder. she proceeded to flip through the papers that timothy had previously flipped through. the papers stated that for the last year and a half danny had been paying all jake's living expenses like his rent and bills. the amount of money was a large sum each month and each month the price seemed to go up bit by bit. "hmmm that is interesting." danielle said after she had read through the papers. "jake was basically living for free for a year and half on danny's money. so it doesn't really make sense that he wouldn't report lexi's threats about hurting danny." danielle said more to herself then to timothy. "speaking of miss hartford, i ran into her at the accounting office." timothy mentioned as though it weren't too important. "really? what was she doing?" "well, she was outside as i was walking in and she seemed to notice me but she kept on going down the sidewalk." timothy recalled. it made sense that lexi would be at an accountant's office, she was an heiress she had tons of money. it was probably only a coincidence that she and danny used the same accountant office. "hmmm well, do you think we should go and talk to jake about the money situation?" danielle asked and timothy half nodded. "yeah, it would be good if we did." he said, the duo stood to leave danielle's office when suddenly danielle's cell phone began to ring. she stopped and anwsered it. timothy watched her as she talked on the phone, her voice was quick, curt and disbelieving. she hung up the phone after about half a minute and looked a timothy a slight panic in her eyes. "what is it?" he asked. "we just got an annoymous tip that said josiah hardwick has condeming evidence on him and that he's at the airport because he's flying out of L.A today!" danielle annouced and timothy's eyes widened. "you think the tip is good?" he asked and danielle half shrugged. "either way we have to check it out!" she said an in an instant the two were racing out of the precence and into her car. she turned the siren on and the duo flew door the streets heading to the ten minute away airport. josiah hadn't told danielle what time his flight was leaving so chances were that he was getting ready to board. as they drove danielle wondered who it was that had left the annoymous tip, the preceint had said that the call came from a pay phone so it was practically untracable and even if it was they couldn't find out who it was due to the privacy act. danielle also wondered if the tip was correct? if josiah did have some evidence on him that made him seem guilty or proved his guilt. danielle was finding it hard to believe that the charming man she had, had lunch with two days ago was a potental murderer but she knew that in this line of work, everyone had to be a suspect. in what felt like the longest ten minutes of their lives danielle and timothy arrived at the largest airport in L.A. they parked and sped into the building that was full of busling passengers. timothy and danielle stood in the doorway scanning the crowd for the familar face of josiah. "i'll go ask about him at the front desk, you keep looking." timothy instructed her and she nodded the two of them taking off to resume their search. she saw timothy run to one of the long lines of people, flashing his badge as he passed them. danielle went down towards the baggage section of the airport all along scanning the crowd for that handsome face or that shock of spikey black hair. she found herself half jogging around the airport in desperate search of josiah. if it was true that he had damning evidence then he for sure would want to get out of the city as soon as possible and danielle knew that if he succeeded and he did have the evidence that he wouldn't have it for long. danielle was now standing in the center of the airport, people surrounding her on all sides. behind her was the large glass doors and infront of her was the expanse of the airport itself but more directly was the escalators. danielle figured that if he wasn't downstairs he might be upstairs. "detective fisher!" she turned and shouted in timothy's direction. he managed to hear her despite him being many feet away and arguing with a airport worker. he gave the worker a grim look before he turned and ran to where danielle stood. "what is it?" he asked, slightly out of breath. danielle pointed to the escalators. "he could be up there." she said and he turned to look at them before he too nodded and the duo raced towards the escalators. they would've ran up them had people not been clogging the way up. the two of them waited impatiently until the reached the top where each took off in a different direction searching for any sign of josiah. the top floor of the airport was full of resturants and many little shops for awaiting passengers to pass their time in. at the far end of the top floor was where the passengers would board the plane. danielle passed by each resturant peering inside as she ran trying to find josiah inbetween the flashes of strangers. when all seemed lost she finally spotted someone familar. she saw cassie standing near a large window looking out at the planes that stood still, she was standing in the area where people wait to say goodbye, and beside her stood one mr. josiah hardwick. danielle stopped and ducked behind a large advertisment for one of the resturants. if josiah was guilty she didn't want him to see her prematurly. she turned and saw timothy standing near a magazine rack on the other side of the airport. he seemed to have spotted her and she motioned towards josiah. timothy followed her motion and seemed to have spotted the duo as well. he slowly and sneakily made his way over to where danielle was hidden. "he's getting ready to board! we've got to get him now!" timothy whispered and danielle nodded while she wondered why cassie was here with josiah. she knew she had no time to wonder yet the thought still plauged her mind. "on the count of three we walk slowly up to them, calmy so they don't bolt." timothy said and again danielle nodded. "one, two, three." he said and the duo came out from their hiding spot and slowly, casually approached josiah and cassie. cassie saw them first, her eyes widened in fear or surprise at the sight of them. josiah noticed her staring and he too turned to look at the detectives. josiah too seemed surprised but not scared nor anything but normal. he didn't have the look or demenor of someone who was hiding something but then again josiah could just be an excellent actor. "detectives, fancy running into you two here." josiah said with a smile and danielle wished she could return that smile. "afraid it's not a coincidence." timothy said and danielle noticed that his voice had taken a chillier demenor, it was a good thing timothy had, he was intimidating when he needed to be. "i'm afraid i don't follow." josiah said as he turned back to look at cassie who shrugged and seemed more worried then anything at the sight of the two detectives. "listen josiah, we got a tip that you had some very important evidence on you." danielle began. josiah turned his head his perma grin still in place. "what? evidence? sorry, now i'm really lost." he told them and danielle wondered if he was only playing dumb or if it was genuine. "look, we got a tip and we've got to check it out so we need to search you." timothy said as he took a step closer to josiah, josiah who now figured out that the two were serious lost his handsome grin. "wait, isn't that an invasion of my privacy?" he asked. timothy rolled his eyes. "look man just let us search you, if you don't have anything then there's no need to worry." timothy told him and that was another thing about timothy, he more often then not didn't play it by the book. josiah seemed to realize that cooperating would be better and he nodded. "fine search me then." he said as she offered himself up to timothy, timothy nodded and proceeded to pat down josiah while danielle took notice of the large dufflebag that sat at josiah's feet. "we need to search the bag too." she said as she stared at it. "what? that's just my clothes!" josiah complained but danielle knew she needed to do it, she took the bag and opened it up. sure enough on the top was clothes mostly hoodies, she shifted through the clothes feeling around in the bag, she began to pull things out finding nothing but clothing. she lifted a pair of jeans out of the bag and a neatly folded sheet of paper fell out with it. "what's this?" she asked and josiah shrugged. "i have no idea." he said as timothy continued rifling through his pockets. danielle took the paper and unfolded it, she saw that it was a print out from a website, a recpiet from an order made. danielle read the order and her mouth fell open out of shock. timothy noticed the shock. "what is it danielle?" he asked. danielle was nearly speechless as she read him the order. "it's a recpite for one bottle of cyanide ordered by josiah hardwick two weeks before danny's death." danielle said as she stared at the paper. she heard cassie gasp and josiah made a noise of protest. "what!?! that isn't mine! i never ordered cyanide!" he screamed. but it wasn't enough danielle had the proof right there in her hands that josiah had ordered a bottle of poison danny was poisioned two weeks after the order. it was all too convient. "josiah hardwick you're under arrest for the murder of daniel hicks." timothy began as he pulled out handcuffs and cuffed josiah. "josiah...how,how could you?" they heard the soft voice of cassie ask. josiah turned to look at cassie. "cassie, please! i didn't do it! i wouldn't! you know that! you know i wouldn't hurt him! please!" but cassie wasn't listening to him she turned away with tears in her eyes as timothy read josiah his rights and lead him away to the car. *********************************************** did josiah really kill danny? who was the annoymous tip from? is the case practically solved? find out next time! ~red~

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