Chapter Four
A few minutes later, after the three of them went back to their desks and got back to work, Tina stepped through the door. "Did I just see Madge Brooks sitting in her police car looking sad?"
"What? Yeah. Is she still out there?" Mana asked distractedly.
"Ahh, no. She drove off when she saw me pull up." Tina shook her head and sat down at her own desk.
"Has Tierney found anything else out about the murderer?" Mana asked.
"I don't- What was Brooks doing here?" Tina asked in confusion.
"Did Tierney tell you about the murder last night?" Mana asked instead.
"They did." Tina nodded.
"Well as I'm sure you know I resurrected the girl, Sheila, but we left the scene pretty much as it was. It's not like the police could get any evidence. Even if they had opened an investigation. But of course Brooks is determined and she came here to ask us question about the murder." Mana explained.
"The police opened an investigation?" Tina asked in surprise.
"Of course not." Percival scoffed. "My guess is that the department are just letting her run around town running with it so that she doesn't mess up their actual investigations."
"That makes sense." Tina nodded and turned on her computer to get some stuff done for Tierney.
"So, did Tierney find anything out?" Theseus asked.
"What? Oh, no. They said that they talked to the the elderly victims' ghosts but they didn't have anything to say that they hadn't already told us." Tina shrugged.
"Great." Mana sighed. "Tina what do you have going on?"
"I need to dig up some dirt on a bunch of families. Larissa and I are fostering two boys Grantaire and Courfeyrac. Their parents kicked them out when they caught them kissing two boys. Tierney and Queenie are fostering the two that they were caught kissing, Enjolras and then Jehan who is trans, so that they would still be able to date if they wanted to. And then Tierney and Queenie are also fostering some boys name Joly, Combeferre, Feuilly, Bahorel, and Bossuet. And a pair of siblings Gavroche and Eponine." Tina explained. "They were all kicked out or abandoned for one reason or another. Queenie was able to get them placed with us but now I have to dig up dirt on those assholes."
"Ok," Mana sighed. "Percy you're going out to the town line to do some cloaking work right?"
"Yes. And I believe that a few others are also heading out to do some growth spells on crops and such. I think that there is also an anti-fire spell being cast over some houses today too." Percival nodded.
"Ok. Well, Theseus, that means that it will just be the two of us looking into the murders for now." Mana said.
"You got it boss." Theseus nodded enthusiastically.
"Don't call me boss." Mana grumbled.
"Whatever you say, boss." Theseus smiled cheekily.
"Why do I keep you around again?" Mana sighed.
"Because I'm good at blowing things up." Theseus replied immediately.
"Oh, of course, how could I forget? Silly me." Mana snorted. "Are you sure that there aren't any jobs that require you to blow something up?"
"Nope." Theseus quipped.
"Because why would there be?" Mana muttered to herself.
"What was that boss?" Theseus asked with an air of innocence even though he knew perfectly well what Mana had said.
"Nothing. Now if you are done being a little shit, we have some work to do." Mana stated. And with that they all turned to their tasks. It wasn't long before Percival left to go do his thing and Tina soon left too to track down some leads. Which just left Mana and Theseus in the office.
"How are we supposed to narrow this all down?" Theseus asked once everyone had left.
"We're going to have to make a list of suspects to start with. I'll hack into all of the hospitals for all of the birth records for this town and the surrounding towns and filter out the women. You hack into the DMV and the Postal Service records. Look for any change of address from out of towners and any gender change requests in the DMV and filter out all of the men. Once that's done we can compare lists and combine them. And then we can start filtering out all of the men that don't fit the description of the masked man. And until we get more to work on we're just going to have to go person by person and either cross them off the list or keep them as a suspect." Mana explained.
"That's going to be a shit ton of names." Theseus pointed out.
"I know." Mana sighed. "But it's the best we can do right now."