DOCTOR CUTIE ???
[Love cures All]
Episode 3.
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By: Racheal Dennis||
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|| Aurora ||
I watch in fright as Miss Macfarlane’s body lay on bed, foamy substance coming from her mouth.
Her maid knelt next to her, crying her eyes out.
At that moment the General barges in, his mask still on. His eyes goes straight to Miss Macfarlane’s body and I see him fist his hands.
“Brandon?” He calls.
“General” Brandon replies.
“Check if she’s still breathing!”
“Yes, sir!”
The Brandon guy steps forward, he puts his finger under Miss Macfarlane’s nose before touching a spot on her neck.
Then he turns to the General and shakes his head.
The General turns his harsh gaze to me.
“What did you do?!!” He question me in a gruff tone.
Me? I quickly shake my head in denial, I ain’t gonna take blame for something I didn’t do.
“It wasn’t me” I answered him.
“What do you mean it wasn’t you?! I remembered asking you to treat her and prove yourself!!
But what did you do?! You killed her!!” He roared.
“It’s true I didn’t kill her!”
“Shut up!! Guards take her to my dungeon and whip her until she confesses!!” He orders.
“What? You can’t force me to admit a crime I didn’t commit” but nobody’s listening.
The guards are already here, they holds my arm and pushes me out.
I guess I’m gonna die before I even start investigating my parents death, at least they’ll know I tried my best.
“Stop!” I hear a familiar voice.
We stop and I turn to the direction of the voice.
My eyes grow wide.
It’s that weirdo psychopath from the coffee shop that I slapped and ran away.
What is he doing here? Do he live here? Or worse; is he the mayor?
No, he’s too young to be a mayor. I just pray he doesn’t recognize or I’ll be finished for sure.
He look at me and halt.
He has a shocked expression on.
“It’s you?” He asked.
Oh no! He recognizes me; well, I can just pretend as if he’s got the wrong person.
“Me?” He nods. “No, sir, you’ve got the wrong person”
“You are the beautiful girl that spilled coffee on me! So you are a doctor!” He said in a surprised tone.
Hmm, beautiful girl,,,,, maybe I can use it to my advantage.
I nod innocently, bashing my eyelashes, and showing him my cutest puppy eyes, I pour my lips to crown it all.
I see him gulp down slowly, his eyes rests on my lips. I almost smirked but that would just spoil my acting.
“Let go of her!” He commands the guards.
They hesitate, looking at the General for permission.
“Javier, what are you doing?!” The General asked.
Javier,,,,,so that’s his name.
“I don’t think she killed Miss Macfarlane, we can’t arrest without evidence that she is the murderer” Javier said.
“Yeah, Javier is right, you can’t punish me without evidence!” I add in boldly.
Javier pushes the guards off me and take my hands his, studying my wrist if I sustain any injuries.
“Javier!!” The General’s voice boomed.
I quickly pull my hands away from Javier’s and see the General glaring daggers at me.
“Ian, let’s find out what really happened before we arrest or punish her” Javier suggest.
Miss Macfarlane’s maid rushes forward and bow before the General.
“General, there’s nothing to find out, she killed Miss Macfarlane!”
I scoff and wanted to say something, but Javier stops me and face the maid.
“How are you so sure she killed Miss Macfarlane?”
“Because I was here, Miss Macfarlane died after this doctor tries to feel her pulse”
“She’s lying, I didn’t touch your fiancée, she didn’t let me” I defended myself.
The maid opens her mouth to speak again but Javier shuts her up with a glare.
“Brother Ian, I believe now we really have to know exactly what happened when,,,,,, ”
He turns to me.
“What’s your name?” He whispers.
“Aurora!” I reply.
He turns back to the General.
“We need to know exactly what happened when Aurora was inside the room”
The General stays silent for a few minutes, he keeps clenching and unclenching his fists.
“Fine, let’s take this to my study!” He finally said.
We all leave the room and head towards a staircase, but not before the General ordered two guards to stay with Miss Macfarlane’s body.
After walking in silence, we stop at a door. Brandon open it, it leads to a long hallway.
We walk through the hallway and arrive at another door, but when Brandon opens it, it thankfully reveals a study.
We enter, the General sits on a swivel chair, Javier sits on another chair in front of the General’s desk, while Brandon stands next to the General.
The maid and I stand in front of the General and Javier.
“You!” The General points at me. “What happened?!”
I cleared my throat.
“So after Claudia took me to Miss Macfarlane’s room,,,,,,,,,”
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#Flashback
“So, which hospital are you from?” Miss Asked me.
“Central hospital” I replied.
She looks at my clothes and shake her head, disgust clear in her eyes.
I don’t blame her though, that weirdo psychopath damped his coffee on me.
Her maid walks back in with a tray of food, she drops it on a table in front of Miss Macfarlane.
Miss MacFarlane starts eating, when she’s done, her maid put the plates aside.
We stay in silence for like 10minutes before she gestures me to come over.
“You can feel my pulse now” she said.
I carried my kits, before I can get close to her, I saw her clinging on her stomach. Foamy substance coming from her mouth, within seconds she’s fallen on her back.
And her body went stiff.
“What did you do?” The maid accuse me.
“What do you mean what did I do? I haven’t even done anything!”
“You jinxed her with your bad luck!”
“Jinxed? Who still believes in that?”
Is she joking or what? How can I possibly jinx her,,,,,,, is that even a word these days,,,,
“Guards, guards, guards!!” She start calling.
“What are you calling the guards for,,,,, I didn’t do anything!”
Soon two guards rushes in.
Ok, I know I’m in a General’s mansion but that doesn’t mean their guards are always on earshot.
This must be a conspiracy,,,,,, are they trying to frame me,,,
“Inform the General, Miss Macfarlane is dead!” She said.
The guards nod and rush out.
End of flashback#
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“That’s how it happened!” I concluded.
“See? Ian, she isn’t at fault, she’s innocent!” Javier exclaims.
The General cleared his throat and eyed Javier, Javier shrink back into his chair.
“We don’t know for sure if what she said is true, so until I find out the truth, she and the maid will be locked up!”
Locked up? No, I can’t let him lock me up or nobody will ever know the truth. And if the truth isn’t find out, I’ll be dead. And if I’m dead, I won’t get justice for my parents.
I need to find a way to make him keep me out of his prison or dungeon,,,,,,, whatever!
“Guards take them away!” He commands.
Two guards came to my side and the other two went to the maid. But I didn’t let them touch me before I fall on my knees and start shedding tears.
I forget to tell you guys, I’m a great actress too,,,,, a very skilled one at that.
“General, General” I cried out, forcing a grieving sound from deep down my throat.
I take a peek at everyone’s expression.
The General frowns, Javier is gawking at me in surprise, though his face held amusement.
While that Brandon guy, well, he’s something else. His expression remains neutral.
“General, this is injustice!”
“Injustice?! How dare you say that to my face!!” He roars at me.
Though his voice is scary but I didn’t flinch away.
“This is injustice, give me a chance to investigate this case on my own,,,,, please, General,,,,,”
“Nobody has ever investigated a case they are involved in and I’m not gonna change that,,,,,, Guards, take them away!!”
I whip myself on the ground.
“Please, General, please, pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee!”
I continue crying louder and louder, I see the General wince and rub his ear.
“Guards,,,,,,,”
“Ian, I think we should let her investigate this, she might do a better job” Javier cuts the General off.
“No! I can’t let her, she knows nothing about investigating a case!”
What? He doesn’t know I’m an expert in all professional,,,, I can be a detective if I want to.
“I,,,,,” Javier sends me a look that says,,,, keep quiet.
So I shut my mouth and let him speak.
“What about I take over the case and investigate it, then you can let her assistant me”
“No!”
“Ian, she can be of great help in this case”
The General doesn’t say anything, he just glares at me through his mask.
I wonder if he never takes it off.
“Fine, but you have three days to investigate!”
“Three days?!” I gasp. “That’s too short!”
The General bangs on his desk, his eyes hooded with anger.
“Three days is enough! We need to report back to the mayor!!”
Javier jumps off his chair and grabs my hand.
“We’ll get back to you in three days” he said.
He starts to pull me outside, but I halt when I remembered something.
I turn back to the General.
“General, now that I’m part of the investigation, I believe you wouldn’t want me to step out of the mansion,,,,, so where should I stay?”
“How dare you ask the General that!” Brandon growled.
The General raised his hand to stop him from taking any action.
I roll my eyes. They are behaving as if the General is God.
Not that I’m rude, but I hate proud people like him.
“You are a suspect of murder, why do you think I will let you stay in my house?” The General asked.
“Well, for one, I have to stay here to get clues easily.
And secondly, if I stay outside you wouldn’t believe my evidence,,,, you will think I manipulated something”
“She is kinda right, Ian” Javier supports me.
I smirk, I have a solid back up already.
“Why are you agreeing with her, Javier?!”
“Don’t get,,,,,,,”
“Fine! She can stay in one of the guests rooms!” The General said angrily.
I smile.
“Thank you, General”
“Don’t thank me, get out!” He yells.
Javier grabs my hand.
“Let’s go!” Then he drags me outside.
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|| Ian ||
It infatuate me that, that female doctor speaks boldly to me, no hint of fear in her tone.
And she is making me go back on my words.
I don’t like her the first time I saw her and I didn’t want her to stay, but I still let her stay.
I wanted punish her until she confesses her crime, but I still have her a chance to prove her innocence.
Now she is familiar with Javier.
No,,,,, I must find a way to send her out, she might be after something,,,,,, she has a motive.
Else she wouldn’t try hard to let me hire her.
After this case, she is leaving.
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|| Unknown ||
“Boss!”
“How is it going?”
“Miss Macfarlane’s maid has being sent to the General’s dungeon”
“What about Miss Macfarlane?”
“She is dead!”
“Good, find way to enter the dungeon and kill that maid before she spill everything!”
“Yes, sir!”
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|| Aurora ||
We made it back to the living room, where my luggage rests against the wall.
“So, you are a doctor?” Javier asked.
Well, fake doctor but you don’t have to know that.
“Yes!” I nod.
Then I remembered how I slapped him and ran away, I guess I have some apologizing to do.
“You’ve got some nerves,,,,,,”
“Hey, I’m sorry for slapping you like that last time, it’s just,,,, ”
“It’s fine, I understand” he smiles.
I arch my eyebrows but nod.
“O-ok!”
I pulled my luggage up.
“Can you please point me to the guests room?”
“Oh, I’ll walk you there!” He takes my luggage from me and start walking off somewhere.
“Thank you” I said and follow behind.
“So, what are you doing here?” I asked him.
“I live here sometimes”
“Do you relate to the General?!”
“Yeah, he’s my elder brother”
“Oh, that’s why he listened to you”
“I guess”
Then I decided to ask me a question that has being nagging me.
“Why did you want to help me on this case”
He stops at a door and open it, we both step in and I take a quick look around.
This room is smaller than Miss Macfarlane’s room, but it’s still way bigger than mine.
“This is the guest room you will be staying”
I nod.
“It’s nice, but you haven’t answered my question yet”
“Question?”
“Yeah, why do you decide to help me on this case”
He stares at me for a moment before he sits on my new bed.
“Because I have a feeling that I can trust you, you don’t look like a bad person” he narrows his eyes. “Or are you?”
“No! I’m ? percent good!”
“I trust you”
I sit next to him on the bed and sigh.
“Your brother only gave us three days to solve this case, how can we make that possible?” I asked.
I need to find the real murderer fast, then I can have time to find my parents murderer too.
“About the case, we will start tomorrow, right now I want you to rest”
“Rest? There’s no time for that, we need to find the murderer before your brother throws me out of the mansion”
Just then my stomach growls and I remember that I haven’t had anything to eat since morning.
My cheeks flame up in embarrassment.
Javier chuckles.
“Someone is hungry!” He tease.
“Yeah”
“How about I take you to the kitchen and get you something to eat”
Hmm, they must have delicious food here. I almost agreed, but I remember how Miss Macfarlane died after having breakfast.
I shake my head quickly.
“Why aren’t you hungry?”
“I can’t eat anything from that kitchen, who knows if everything item in there has being poisoned”
Javier gasp and taps my shoulder.
“We’ve just got our first clue”
I frown at him in confusion.
“What do you mean?”
“The food, we should also check the food she ate, maybe it was poisoned!”
He’s right,,,,, wait, why didn’t I think of that.
“Come on, let’s go get the food before the cook throws it leftovers away” he said.
I nod and we rush out.
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