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Jan-5-2009 03:44


To know what happened previously in this story please review the following threads.

The USS Sleuthetania:

http://noir.playsleuth.com/map/cityhall/post.spy?id=29404

The Any Location Place:

http://noir.playsleuth.com/map/cityhall/post.spy?id=29603

Jan-8-2009 12:54

Clift took her hand from his mouth, and said, "I know what you THINK I am going to say, but this is what I want to say...I don't regret what happened, and I will leave it at that"

She smiled, as her face grew red, and said, "Likewise, Clift"

ctown stands up, and says, "Don't let me ruin your moment here, but, I think we should wait for the others. I am sending Barnabas out after them. You two aren't going ANYWHERE. For some reason, when you people leave, you dont return until many hours later, so stay put. BARNABAS!!!", he hollers, as he walks out the door.

Makensie said, "Well, I guess we may as well sit back and relax, while we wait. My office is right down the hall, come on, lets go have us a drink, and talk about this case. I suppose its time we think about our work right now, and let other things go for now, huh?"

She looks at him, and smiles, as he follows behind her.

As he is walking, he thinks, This woman that I love...how am I going to tell her that I decided to marry Violet, just for names sake? He knows it wont be a permanent marriage, and it isnt a marriage of love, but, still, he is going to have a tough time telling her.

Makensie looks behind her, & says, "Hurry up slow poke! Penny for your thoughts?", and she winks.

Oh boy, he thinks. He decides he won't tell her right now, but maybe later on in the day he will, when they get another chance to talk.

As they start to enter Makensie's office, ctown walks back up the steps, and says, "I sent Barnabas off to gather the others, so, be back at my office in an HOUR! Got that?", and walked to his office.

Makensie opens her door, as they enter, and says, "He never is like that. Excuse his rudeness"

Clift chuckles, and said, "No worries"

Makensie shut the door, grabs them a drink, & they talk of general things. Which felt nice.

As she listened to him talk, and laugh, she thought about how much she loved him, and how wonderful his smile was.

Jan-10-2009 05:17


Barnabas suddenly entered the room as they were talking.

He explained to them that Tony Masters was nowhere to be found and that Violet Parr had left London a few hours ago on her way to Canterbury where she would meet with her parents.

Miss Parr had left two letters behind: one for Director Ctown and one for Mr. Clift Garrett.

Barnabas had just come from Ctown's office. Ctown had just left the headquarters of DPI with the company of some police officers after reading Miss Parr's letter.

Apparently the Podiatrist was right in what he told Mak and Clift. Lillian Angel disappeared whilst on her way to the Eastern Triads.

The Tea Merchant was a contact of Miss Parr who informed her that Lillian was being held in the Tea Merchant's Shop in the Eastern Triad's quarters.

Clift and Mak jumped from their seats ready for action.

As they put on their coats and readied to leave, Barnabas handed Clift his letter from Miss Violet Parr.

Clift read the letter quickly.

It was only a few written lines.

In it there was a time, place and a short message:


"Porchester Hall, Wednesday, October 7th, 1936.
Dress formal. Miss Vivienne Garrett must attend as witness."

Jan-10-2009 08:13

Ace had been running around doing a lot of work on this case. This, stupid case, he thought. Ace wasn't sure how he'd gotten caught up in this mess, "In fact, how am I caught up in this incredible dramatic saga that these people call life?", he thought as he rode to DPI in a taxi," I mean, Mak can't decide, Clift can't decide, Violet is pregnant..."

"Oooh, wait..." He thought, "I'm not supposed to know that. Yet, it's so obvious. All the secrecy between Clift and Violet, Clift sending me off to talk to Violet so he can have time alone with Mak, Violet scaring me... I tell ya, no woman has ever scared me more than that Violet Parr since I was eight and mother was pregnant with Danny. And then, that night they had when S went missing... Clift must've done it there..."

Ace's mind was zipping every which way... except in the direction of Lillian Angel. Ace really couldn't focus on this case, especially when he knew so little about it.

The work Ace had done since he left Violet was a lot, though. He found a note at Lil's office that had evidently been attached to that rock. Handwriting was left handed, apparently coming from a stressed female. But, boy, did it ever take him a long time just to find that out.

In the trash, he also found some twine that had apparently been used to tie the note to the rock in Lil's trash can. He also established that the rock would have been very out of place at the base of the building, meaning someone hadn't just scribbled a message on a piece of paper and tied it to a random rock. They actually used a rock from somewhere else.

As a matter of fact, the rock seemed to be stained with sea salt. Why would a rock have traces of sea salt unless it was from the sea? So, apparently, the rock must've come from the beach or something like that.

Jan-10-2009 08:17

Finally, after quite a bit of tracking, Ace concluded that the rock could only have come from the Curracloe beach in Ireland. Interesting... a rock from Ireland turning up in London...

Ace knew he would be two hours late in arriving at ctown's, but that ctown would be fairly contect with the findings.

"Ahh, the missing Ace. You have finally decided to show your face?" ctown was well, rather upset.
"Missing? Hardly." Ace stated bluntly, "I've been working on the case, but tracking that rock down took two hours in itself... that's why I'm so dreadfully late."

Ace showed ctown his findings and, needless to say, ctown found them very interesting.

Jan-11-2009 22:31

After hours of talking, or what seemed to be, Makensie stands up, and says, "Well, should we go to ctown's office now, and see if anyone has showed up yet?"

She walked a few steps, then staggered back a bit, feeling light headed. Clift hurried to her, and put his arm around her, and says, "Mak, whoa, are you ok?"

She chuckles lightly, and says, "Yeah, wow, I dont know what came over me. That drink must've went right to my head"

"Are you sure you don't need to relax a minute before we go to your Director's office", Clift asked, with concern. In the back of his mind, he was thinking, Oh man, please not let this be what it looks like.

She waved him off, and says, "Oh, don't be silly. I am fine. Lets go"

"Very well, then. After you", he says.

They walk to ctown's office, and walk in.

There they find Ace showing ctown, what looked to be, a rock.

"Ace! There you are!", Makensie said, with a smile. She was very happy to see him.

Ace smiles, and said, "Yup! It is me...the one and only"

He looks over at Clift, then back at Makensie, and looking back at Clift, he says, "Hey there Clift"

Clift nods, and returns the greeting, as they let Ace explain what he found.

As he tried to pay attention, Clift couldn't help thinking of Makensie's light headed spell back in her office, and his upcoming wedding, that he really wasn't looking forward to, and even more so, the fact that he has to tell Makensie about it, as well.

He shook his head of thoughts for now, and tuned back into what Ace was saying..

....and let me tell you, this wasn't easy to find", Ace was saying, excitedly.

Jan-12-2009 06:34


***

Hours later...

Some hours later Ctown and Mak were hugging Lillian Angel in a group hug, all very happy that she is fine after all.

They were all at the Tea Merchant's shop.

The leads found by Clift, Mak, Violet & Ace all led to the Eastern Triads, and Ctown had called the authorities.

Together with the police, Ace, Mak, Clift & Ctown all went to the Tea Merchants shop and found Lillian Angel tied up in one of the room of the building.

Lilangel could not remember exactly who kidnapped her, but the police were on it and the team were glad she was safe.

Ctown decided to walk Lillian back to DPI Headquarters.


Mak, Clift and Ace decided to walk home.

Clift was happy for the walk since he needed to clear his head. Whilst Ace and Mak were chatting throughout about the intensity of it all, and how the final rescue of Lillian Angel went exactly according to plan, Clift was silent.

He was thinking about it all: His upcoming marriage to Miss Parr. He needed to send Vivienne a telegram, telling her to come to London immediately, after all the wedding was only a week away.

He also could not help but wonder about the possibility of Mak being pregnant due to her actions.

"Two children within only one month of each other... that should be interesting," he thought.

Jan-12-2009 07:53


{Porchester Hall, London}


Miss Violet Parr wore a plum gown for the occasion.

She was standing next to Mr. Clift Garrett before the Minister in charge of administrating the wedding proceedings and legal arrangements of the Ceremony at Porchester Hall.

Also present at the Wedding Ceremony were Sir Albert Parr and Lady Madhuri Parr, Violet’s parents, along with four of Violet’s six brothers including Leopold Parr.

Miss Vivienne Garrett, Clift’s sister had just made it to the Ceremony.

The wedding did not actually take place on the 7th of October, but rather ten days later on the 16th for it took much longer than anticipated to obtain the marriage license from the appropriate register office.

The Minister conducting the civil marriage read the marriage license out several times before asking both Violet and Clift for their consent.

Leopold Parr and Vivienne Garrett then signed as witnesses to the civil ceremony.

Clift and Violet finally kissed one another on the lips and though everyone around cheered and was happy, the two of them had very indifferent looks on their faces.

Jan-12-2009 07:55


It was a very simple occasion of a kind. Everyone present, though dressed formally, had a very casual atmosphere around them.

Amongst the guests in the second row, were two distinguished looking people: A gentleman and a lady.

The woman was dressed in a beautiful ruby red dress, and the man wore an elegant three-piece suit. They were Mr. Tony Masters and Miss Makensie Brewer.

Ace turned to Makensie and nodded towards where Clift and Violet stood before the Ministry and spoke softly. “So I guess Clift decided to marry Miss Parr after all.”

“He did the right thing.” Makensie nodded. She pursed her lips tightly so that no one could notice her emotions underneath her composed exterior.

She really loved Clift, and truly regretted the fact that due to social decorum, he was now marrying a woman he did not truly love, and one who did not love him back as well.

“Ace?” Makensie spoke all of the sudden as the marriage ceremony came to an end. “I need some fresh air…” Makensie Brewer suddenly felt breathless.

“Sure, Mak.” Ace got up with an arm around Makensie and guided her out.

The voices of celebration grew behind them, and Mak noticed Clift glancing at her and Ace from the corner of his eyes wondering what was wrong.

Jan-12-2009 08:14

"Mak, I know youaren't feeling easy about this..." Ace started.
"No, no... he's doing the right thing..." Mak stammered.
"The right thing isn't always right for everyone." Ace said bluntly.
"What do you mean by that?" Mak inquired.
"Well, look at it this way." Ace explained, "Violet doesn't really love Clift, and visa versa. Yet, they have to marry each other, which is making it quite hard on you, for you love Clift. It's all a weird, Shakesperean melodrama to me."
"I guess you're right." Mak said, "The only person this will really benefit is the baby."
"Won't it be ironic if it was just a fluke and Violet isn't really pregnant?"
"Oh, don't even say such a thing!" Mak yelled, "I'd really hate for this to happen to find out that it didn't have to!"

Jan-12-2009 08:32

Makensie felt suddenly dizzy, as Ace guided her to the bench.

"Here, sit down. See? Getting yourself all upset, and with your busy schedule, you are wearing yourself down", Ace said.

She looked at him, and started chuckling.

"What?", he said, with a slight smile.

"First time, I think, that I've ever see you serious", she said, laughing.

Ace chuckled, and said, "...and yet, you still laugh" They laughed together, as she felt rather sickish.

Growing serious, she said, "I wouldn't wish on Violet that she not really be pregnant. I mean, I know she didn't choose for this to happen, but, I wouldn't wish that she not be pregnant either....I just..." She stopped there.

Ace really liked Makensie, and he knew she liked him too. He just wishes that he could some how turn her interests a little more toward him, but, he was never good at these sorts of things, and that is why he dove so hard into his work.

"We best go back in now. Time to congratulate the bride and groom", she said, smiling.

"You sure you are ok?", he said.

She nods, and says, "Yes, Im sure"

They walk back inside, and she looks at Violet, and how beautiful she looks, then to Clift, who was, as always, very handsome.

Tears came instantly to her eyes, but she quickly batted them away, as she looks at Ace, and says, "Ready to do this?"

"Are YOU?", he asks. She takes a deep breath, and nods.

Walking up to Violet, she gives her friend a hug, and says, "Best wished to you, my friend" Violet remains hugging Makensie, as she says in her ear, so noone else can listen, "Things will all work out Mak. I know this is hard on you" In return Makensie smiled, and gave her a friendly squeeze, and looked to Clift.

Ace shook his hand, tapped his shoulder, and said, "Congrats, married guy" Clift nod, smiles, and says, "Thanks, my man"

Ace steps back, and walks to Violet, as Makensie slowly walks to Clift.

*more*