Just a Little Pixie Dust

Izzy (Chapter 5.)

I was called out after speaking with Jacob, he’d told me to call Hansel and Gretel in early and have them come out with me. Paramedic’s were already on the way and well… from the sounds of it all it didn’t sound good. Jacob had called me to let me know he’d be there for a little bit to take notes and make sure everything was set up before he left. Once I got there I realized where I was and was confused, had Maleficent done something? This was her little shop after all. She sold all sorts of things and probably still peddled magic under the desk. 

Once I got there though, it seemed like everyone was almost three times as panicked as usually and not only that but I’d heard them talking about there being no suspect that they could find. The hell did that mean? I rushed forward finding a weary looking Jacob talking to Hansel and Gretel, I figured when he needed to he’d speak to me but for now I was going into the crime scene I needed to find out what in the hell actually happened. Once I stepped in I was greeted with a blood soaked floor and various numbers lined in different places, people were taking pictures and discussing what was going on. 

“Isabelle!” I turned and looked at Gretel as she rushed in frowning. 

“What happened?” 

“Someone murdered, Mal.”

Murdered Maleficent? I knew something awful was going to happen to her one day if she kept her act up, but this? Murdered? I stared at her for a long moment before turning to look at the crime scene. That was her blood then? This was what was left of her life? I covered my mouth and turned to look at her, yeah the woman was insane but she had been hurt as a child, she didn’t know better. She was a faerie and one of the last of her kind in particular, and now she was dead? This wasn’t right, something was beyond wrong here, no one in this town was insane enough to do something like this if that had been the case Angelica and the others would be long since dead… 

“Do…” I cleared my throat to speak again “Do we know, who the suspect may be?” 

“Right now?” She shook her head “Unfortunately not, we’re looking for clues right now…”

I nodded my head and rubbed a hand over my jaw, the hell was this all about? Mal wasn’t that bad since what happened years back with her and Aurora. But, Aurora was still asleep, once upon a time ago she was awake, but this time not even Mal knew what was keeping her in this state. Now the only hope we had at possibly figuring that s**t out was dead, and we had absolutely no leads as to what in the f**k was going on. Great.

“Jacob wants you to head back with this to the station,” She said handing me a file. “He said call up Tink and get to work and if he finds any leads he’ll let you know, he wants us to see what we can find.”

“Magic tracer?” I asked arching a brow at her.

“But of course.” She smiled small and waved me off. “Now get going before something ends up happening, can you imagine just how angry Jacob would be?”

She was right and I knew she was but this was too much for my brain to process. Heading out of the small shop I headed towards the Ambulance which held Mal’s body and looked at the men sitting around it. They looked at me for a moment and nodded their head stepping aside to let me get closer to it. No one had to ask questions, they knew when we wanted to see a body and see if we could find anything on it and right now I wanted to before someone could stop me and claim I was too weak hearted for something like this.

Stepping into the ambulance I stepped around the body gingerly and unzipped the bag that it sat in slowly. Her head had been severed and a look of what seemed like pure horror was etched into her face still, her skin was turning black as if it was burning away from her body and I just didn’t understand what could do something like that. Iron? No, Iron burns never looked like this and it was usually an instant death for them nothing like this… this was something more, something different. 

Pulling the body bag down some I lifted her left hand and turned it over, rigor mortis was setting in rather fast she had been dead for longer than it took for us to get here that was for sure. Maybe a few hours… Her veins in her arm seemed to be turning black as well, poison maybe? Her hand was wrapped tightly around something and I narrowed my eyes at it. Turning I grabbed a small bag and gloves and got what I could out of her hand, it looked almost like hair and something else? It was a dark substance but I couldn’t place it. 

Zipping the bag up I set it down beside me and fixed Mal, zipping her back up into her bag and whispering that I was sorry to her quickly before getting out of the truck with the bag of what I found and walked up to Philip with it. “I need you guys to examine this and send full reports on it back to me immediately alright?” 

“Sure thing, as soon as we’re out of here I’ll have it sent off to the lab.”

“Thank you, Phillip.” I gave him a weak smile and walked back to my car quickly.

Getting in I buckled myself in and started the engine up, pulling out of the area quickly. I didn’t even bother driving all too far, I just didn’t have it in me right then and there, I drove far enough away that the lights and the noise were gone, before pulling over and letting the tears spill from my eyes. I never wanted to see anyone die, mundanes it was horrible enough but someone you’d known for centuries, good or bad? It was never easy to see them go, at least it was like that for me. 

Wiping my eyes quickly, I looked up into the mirror at myself and adjusted my hair and made sure my eyes weren’t too swollen and red. I had a job to do and this was a part of that damn job I knew it. I saved lives and sometimes lives were lost but that was what came with the whole package in the end. Heading back onto the road I swallowed hard and turned onto the road closest to the station and just tried to control my emotions as best I could. I’d call Tink and we’d work on whatever this was Jacob had for us.