mm_j (mm_j) wrote in morningstar_mnr, @ 2010-06-03 13:57:00 |
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Entry tags: | beatrix, eli, npc |
AU Bea, Eli, and NPCs; Her apartment; Thursday.
Bea and Eli had parted ways in the lobby and she'd waited until he'd got back on the elevator to sneak back out of the Manor and drive across town to Professor Wentworth's studio down by the campus. She'd confided in Mrs. Wentworth a year or so ago about a few of the problems at home, not nearly all of them but some, and after convincing Anastasia she didn't want to tell anyone else, Anastasia had told her that she was welcome to stay in her studio when things got really bad, and showed her where they key was. Bea would never steal anything, but the couch had been a very safe and comfortable haven.
Now it was the middle of the afternoon and she was sneaking back into the apartment, hoping Ray was gone. It seemed as though he was, if the eerie silence in the apartment was anything to go by.
"Momma?" she said as she took a few steps in. Her mom's bedroom door was closed as it had been when she left, and she walked over and knocked softly. "Mom? Are you in there?"
No answer.
She opened the door to find the bedroom empty, but her mother's maid uniform still on the back of the chair. She hadn't gone to work. Fuck.
As she turned, her phone vibrated in her pocket and although she didn't recognize the number she answered it anyway.
The person on the other end claimed to be a police officer. He claimed to have the body of a woman with her mother's ID in his morgue. He claimed to have a man that looked and sounded like Ray in custody for the murder of the woman.
Feeling like the wind was knocked out of her, Bea sat down on the bed, mind reeling. The man continued to speak about already contacting Manor security for any video footage and her coming down to identify the body.
The body.
Her mother was dead. Dead. Dead. Dead.