Just a Little Pixie Dust

Sarabelle (Chapter 6.)

I spent as much time as I could with her, catching up on everything that’d been happening around here including the part where Wendy had actually started dating again. It brought an actual smile to my lips regardless of who it was. She seemed happy and that was what mattered most about it. She later told me that she was seeing the huntsman, well actually, his name was Marcus.

Glancing down at my phone I was becoming annoyed, it went off again and I could only sigh and turn on the screen to see what was going on. Three missed calls, from Izzy no voicemail and no text messages that was never a good sign. If Izzy was just joking around she normally just sent a text message to me, telling me to get my ass back to work. There wasn’t even that waiting for me.

Cursing as I looked up at Wendy I gave her a sad look, but I knew my sister knew instantly that that I had things to do. God it makes me feel horrible when I have to run out on her like this. It wasn’t fair to her or anyone else in the family and I knew it.

“I’m so sorry, Wendy.”

“Don’t be, you’re saving this town day in and day out,” She walked over to me and hugged me tightly. “So don’t you bloody dare stop now, go!” 

Smiling at her brightly I kissed her cheek and started gathering my things together. Pulling my blonde hair up into a ponytail I threw on my leather jacket and put my phone back in my pocket before hunting down my bike helmet as fast as I could manage. As soon as I found it, I snatched it up in my hands and started towards the front door.

“Tink, hold on a moment”!

Blinking a few times I stopped and turned looking at my sister, and she handed me a black bag with a large grin pulled over her face. Taking it slowly, I glanced down at the bag that was heavier than I had expected it to be then back up at Wendy curiously.

“Merlin knows what you guys are going to get into tonight so,” She put a hand over mine smiling softly. “Someone’s got to be helpful somehow to all of you.”

“What’s in here? It feels like dictionaries.”

She laughed softly and brushed her blonde hair back from her face. “I made food for the next few weeks for when Peter gets hungry; lord knows that boy eats more than he weighs, but I can make more,” She held up a hand to stop my arguments and I scrunched up my nose. “There’s about twenty sandwiches, cause I know the men have quite the appetite. I know you said it’s only you, Eryx, and maybe Allie and Izzy tonight so I put in three thermos’ full of coffee and everything they’d need to make it how they want in there.”

I could only stand there with my mouth hanging open for a moment before I grinned and hugged her tightly. “Thank you.”

“You’re very welcome, love.” She hugged me and watched as I started out the door to my bike. 

“There are also some sweets in there… Please, be careful Tink.”

I pulled the bag up over my shoulders and put on my helmet as I swung a leg over my bike glancing over at her raising a hand. “Don’t worry about me, I won’t let anything happen.”

“Don’t you go hurting anyone either, Tinkerbell.”

I cringed at the use of my name and waved her off as I started up my bike, kicking back the kickstand I started down the road as fast as I could. Hell if I cared if I was speeding or not; I was the police. Because something just wasn’t right, I was going to figure out what the hell was going on one way or another.

Making a sharp turn down a road, I cursed when I realized where I’d gone and made a U-turn, great now I was so worried I wasn’t thinking straight. As soon as I found my way back to the station I jumped off my bike before it was even off all the way and threw my helmet on the ground running towards the doors.

Something didn’t feel right, everything looked fine on the outside but even I knew that something was up big time here. Narrowing my eyes I pushed open the doors and walked in; the lights were f****d up and…

“Oh come on, not the paperwork…”

Groaning I moved farther in and found Izzy with an unconscious Eryx and two empty cells. What the actual f**k just happened? How could they get out… This wasn’t good in any sense at all. Taking the bag off my back I set it down and rushed over checking Eryx’ vitals and getting shooed back by Izzy.

“What happened?”

“I got called in over a dead body and I came back and the place was like this.” She narrowed her eyes on me and I cringed. “I tried to call you!”

“s**t, I know. I’m sorry.”

Eryx groaned and started to pull himself up slowly, rubbing his head. His dark hair fell across his forehead just barely covering his slowly opening eyes and making it hard to see when he stopped to look between the two of us.

“Eryx?”

“What the hell happened?” He pulled himself up fully wincing and I finally noticed the gash on his head.

“They must’ve hit him pretty hard for that… I’ll go get the first aid kit, get him caught up Izzy.”

I rushed to the back room, sorting through the various things that were there before finally finding the first aid kit and opening it to make sure what I was looking for was there. Everything but something to clean it with… alright. I could handle looking for something for that at least, it wasn’t hard to do.

Hunting down a pack of wet napkins I started back out with the kit and headed straight for Eryx as he started trying to explain what he could remember. Starting to get to work on cleaning up the wound on his head I tried to be careful and listen to him to see if I could figure anything out myself.

“I was finishing up some work I had left over; you’d left to go check on the murder.” He hissed in pain and I apologized quickly, but he went on. “The lights went out and flickered back on and Angelica was out here, as soon as I saw her everything went black and it was all I could remember.”

Shit. “We didn’t put the magic suppressor on Angelica did we?” I glanced at Izzy and she shook her head, well that was our own fault there. “Angelica must’ve gotten herself out and then freed Kitty so she helped knock you out and they escaped. Lovely.”

“Now what?”

I shook my head as I put dressing over his wound and then pressed down the bandage to make sure it could be fully safe from any form of infection or anything else. Walking over to my desk I dug through the bag, pulled out the three thermoses of coffee and handed them to the three before setting out a container of sugar and creamers.

Grabbing a few Vanilla flavored ones I put them in and mixed in some sugar before taking a drink from it. We were screwed, and that was all there was to it. I then remembered what Izzy had said about a murder. “Wait a minute, someone was murdered? A mundane?”

“No… worse, it was Maleficent.”

My eyes widened at the name and I sat myself down unsure of if I could keep myself up or not as Eryx got his creamer and sugar and leaned against my desk. Grabbing a sandwich he bit into it and listened while his own eyes grew slightly larger than normal at what she had said.

“What I saw was a severed head and a terrified looking Maleficent when I saw her body…” Izzy started, “The report that Jacob gave me says she pricked her finger on a spinning wheel and was poisoned from it, what happened after was the killer doing what he wanted to a dead body.” 

“Wait a minute, you’re telling us she died just like how she had tricked Aurora in the story”? Eryx asked coughing for a moment.

“Exactly.”

“So we have a copycat killer on the loose”? I asked, rubbing my temples slowly. “Can this night get any worse”?

“’Fraid so,” Eryx said as he was checking his messages.

“Bloody hell, now what”? I asked and stared up at Eryx as he turned to look at me he held out his phone out and let me watch. “Oh f*****g hell, Izzy… You better come here.”

We watched as someone recorded the death of Maleficent, her eyes were glazed over and her black hair was spilled out all around her. She had no makeup on anywhere and it seemed all anyone in the bar could do was watch. She died, but she was under some sort of spell or something… What could’ve possibly happened here?

“Great.”

It was all Izzy could say, and I was left holding my head in my hands. “Well, this is going to be fun. Eryx go home and rest you need it.”

“No.” He said simply and glared at me. “Not after all this s**t. I’m not leaving you two here alone. I’m going to help you clean up and go with you to wherever it is you go. We’ll call in the boys to come in early and hold the fort down.”

The boys. That was going to be an interesting conversation, wake up the human Niall and then call the other two fairytale dwellers, Hansel and Gretel? Yeah they’re going to kill us but truthfully we needed the help and they’d understand once they were here.

“Fine, but go call in a tech to have that video removed… now.” I hissed.

Eryx nodded and started calling someone up. I looked up at Izzy sadly unsure of what the hell we should do from here. We had a murder on our hands, and no suspect from the sounds of it. A few eyewitnesses who saw absolutely nothing and two criminals on the loose once more. We were clear back on the starting line with a no moves for five rounds penalty.

Closing my eyes I took a long drink of my coffee and let my thoughts start to gather. I Had to do something. I just had to get an idea of what to do, and where to start. Things always did like to get worse before they got better at all.

“I’ll go call in Niall, Hansel and Gretel.” Izzy said softly walking towards her desk.

“Sounds good,” I started and then glanced down at my hands. “We need to go call in the witnesses and take down actual recorded statements from them all. We need to file reports as well ASAP.”

“I know, we’ll do that after this. Once they’re here we can all head out and hunt down everyone and see what we can gather. Though none of the boys were ever very useful.”

I laughed bitterly nodding my head. “They never are at first, but it’s better than getting nothing at all and getting our heads taken off by Jacob over it all.”

Izzy tensed and nodded quickly. “Good point. Let me make these calls real fast.”

I nodded and let her get to work on calling everyone up, I didn’t know what we were going to find but so far whatever we found probably wasn’t going to be any fun nor would it be something we wanted to find. Perks to being an officer, we saw things daily that no one ever wanted to see. We were going to need a suspect though; I didn’t know who it’d be, but we needed one. Because we needed a lead no matter how short it was, we needed it now or we’d never get anywhere.