Seventh Investigation

[grimgrinningghosts]

[At this point it almost seems redundant to fluff this with optimism Since it would be more of a shock at this point if nothing bad or weird happened on Friday. Still, it seems eerily quiet today, almost normal, in a sense.

But hey, on the bright side, no one is waking up to screaming today! That’s nice c:

Investigate?]

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[not_over_yet]

[ ...idonttrustlikethat.png

Basil looks out from his room, eyeing the (empty??) hallway with suspicion. If nothing bad is instantly apparent, he's heading up to the coffee shop. He feels like having a pastry today. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Well the coffee shop is clear at least...]

[not_over_yet]

[ ...Yeah, he's gonna eat first.

If that's not interrupted, he'll start examining the other rooms up here. Except the greenhouse. The carnivorous plants are big enough to be a threat to him, no need to go adding more deaths. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Well...

The rooms Basil examined on the floor are body free. Did he at least look inside the greenhouse at all?]

[not_over_yet]

[ Hmm. He'll take a look from the doorway, but he's not going in without a reason first, no. ]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[So, Basil...

Is a person lying on the floor in a pool of red a good enough reason to go into the greenhouse?]

[not_over_yet]

[ Goddamn bloodthirsty plants.

FINE, he'll go check on that. After giving a shout he hopes to hell someone will hear. ]

Probable corpse in the greenhouse, assistance?

[hasit]

I'm right behind you—oh.

[Oh, no. Who...who is it?]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[As Leia enters the room, she will immediately recognize the body as someone she knows very well. But now, she looks peaceful and... so horribly still.

Jyn Erso is dead.]

[hasit]

[Leia feels the blood drain from her neck. She'd never seen Jyn Erso's body, because it was evaporated along with the rest of Scarif. But now she's here, and she's not moving or breathing and there's all that blood...]

Jyn, no.

[She takes a halting step forward, and then turns and yells hoarsely out the door:]

Someone get Allene.

[bayoublues]

[Hi everyone what the fffffff]

On the double, ma'am!

[Louis scrambles out of the room to find Allene. Christ. It's like someone was deliberately trying to cause them all the most amount of pain possible.]

[kickbuttseatnuts]

[Allene is just making breakfast in the kitchen. Everything is fine and while she's... kind of sure someone died, she's hoping its a false fear and making breakfast for a nice peaceful day.]

[bayoublues]

[Louis nearly runs past the kitchen when he spots Allene out of the corner of his eye. He skids to a halt and runs back into the room.]

ALLENE! SQUIRREL cough GIRL! JYN!

[Running up and down several flights of stairs to find Allene has not been fun. He gestures frantically to the ceiling, trying to get his point across.]

GREENHOUSE!

[kickbuttseatnuts]

[An egg she was holding drops to the floor.

Louis's just getting help, Jyn's okay, she just needs help examining someone else, or maybe someone broke an ankle its fine. She runs past Louis, racing up the stairs. They're fine she's fine its fine it'll be okay. There's no body there's no corpse there's no dead jyn there's no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no]

[hasit]

[yeah so uh

Jyn is dead.

Leia's waiting when Allene arrives, standing in the doorway to the greenhouse. When she sees her, she opens her mouth as if to say something, but there aren't really any words that are going to make this any better. So she deflates and steps aside.]

[kickbuttseatnuts]

[That's not possible, that's not possible. There is a body there and it looks like Jyn but it can't be Jyn because that just isn't possible.

Her movements slow as she approaches it (because that thing isn't Jyn its not its not) and kneels down next to it (its not). Her whole body is shaking and she feels something wet on her cheeks but she doesn't understand why. Clearly this empty thing isn't Jyn. It isn't logical that Jyn would be dead. They were going to escape together. They had a plan. It was gonna be okay.

This isn't possible.]

[hasit]

[She watches her, watches her go to her knees, feels her heart break all over again for this poor girl who just wanted someone to love and be loved by, and now that someone is lying dead on the floor.

After a moment, a hand finds its way to Allene's shoulder. She doesn't say anything, not just yet, because...what is there to say?]

[kickbuttseatnuts]

[She reaches for Jyn- its hand and she can't make herself grab it. It won't feel right. It won't be the same. It'll be empty and cold and wrong and she can't eve imagine it.

This is all so wrong.

Eventually, she looks up at Leia and she just:] I-I don't understand.

[hasit]

I know.

[Her voice is quiet; Leia's clearly shaken, because this is hitting much closer to home than any of the others, but now...

She has to be strong. For Allene, for all of them.]

I know, sweetheart. We're...well, we'll figure it out. We have to. And then we're going to rescue her.

[She's said those words to so many people, but this time there's a hard, determined look in her eyes. She means it.]

[grimgrinningghosts]

[I can't believe Audrey II is the culprit.]