iv. | the murder weapon
Loud crashing sounds thundered in the Herrera's household, Elena quickly jumped out of bed, tumbling a few times from the dizzy reaction she was having, opening her door she noticed the sound was coming from her sister's room, without thinking Elena opened the door hoping that nothing bad had happened to Melissa.
"Mel? Are you in here?" She asked when her eyes noticed that her presence wasn't in the room, some faint shush noises were heard under the bed, Elena crossed her arms over her chest and sighed before speaking again. "I can hear you shushing someone."
Slowly Melissa creeped behind her bed faking her smile. "Hey Lena, just don't be mad okay?" Terrible word choices, Elena looked at her sister confused, her face showing the clear signs of curiosity, that changed into anger when the other body stood up beside her younger sister.
"What is he doing here?" Elena asked angrily.
"Hey gorgeous." Kelce, stupid fucking, Kelce. "Sorry to barge in like this."
"Shut up, out." Elena interrupted his train of thought, the anger was building up and quickly. "Do I have to repeat myself, I said out." She looked at him, her jaw was clenched tightly, she could feel her teeth pressing harshly against each other, her breathing was getting heavier by the sight of the Kook.
Kelce walked past her, his arm brushing her shoulder, the rush of disgust began, anger, disappointment and other negative emotions formed in her body, primarily in her stomach.
"What was the reason to kick him out like that? Are you insane?" Melissa said, her words defensive and annoyed. For Elena the tone of her siblings made her blood boil even more, the heartbeat was rushing that she feared she could have a heart attack or something worse.
"What was he doing here? Why Melissa?"
"It's none of your business, it's my room and I can have anyone I want in my room." Melissa did the same as Kelce walk past her sister her shoulder pushing the older woman aside.
"None of my business? Eres una desgraciada Melissa, you can't have him here, you snuck him here." She didn't mean to insult her sister but she didn't know what else to say, Elena was mad and she only managed to make things worse. "I don't know if you want to be stupid or you're just like that, but Kelce is trouble, I don't want you see you near him anymore." When the words came out Elena noticed how cruel they were.
Melissa stopped in her tracks and turned around staring at her sister in disbelief.
"I'm sorry, I," with a sigh Elena glanced at her sister, her face softened. "I meant it as don't do anything stupid, I don't want to see you doing anything that can harm you or put you in trouble."
"No, you said what you wanted to say." And with that the young brunette headed to the entrance of their home and left, Elena followed behind shouting her name but it got useless the moment Melissa grabbed her bike and left.
"Mierda, que he hecho?" Elena questioned herself and sighed deeply, a knot formed in her throat she could feel the sting of it, the burning sensation behind her eyelids begging for the tears to leave.
Two loud honks made the Herrera turn around, she recognized the vehicle immediately, Kiara, Pope and JJ were inside as well, she hadn't noticed JJ even leaving his house, which probably meant that he didn't even stay the night.
"Come on, we have a plan." Kie screamed out and honked again. The brunette just lifted her index finger and rushed back inside to change from her summer pj's to a more flexible attire, jean shorts and a red crop top that stuck to her body, and the overused and very dirty white sneakers, just in case she needed to run.
Elena rushed outside and into Kie's car, sitting in the back seat beside JJ, Pope as usual in the passenger seat. "So what's the plan? What are you guys planning on doing now?" Elena asked, curious and confused.
"Is everything okay?" Pope asked looking behind the seat at their friend, all of their eyes were on her.
"Yeah, why?" She didn't want to talk about it, and she knew they had seen her sister leave. "She's just angry at me for something stupid, sibling stuff." Shrugging it off Elena looked around at her friends. "Are we going to do something or are we just going to sit here?" The group didn't say another word, instead they drove to their destination, the same area where Ward had shot their helper of crimes.
"Why are we here?" Elena asked joining her friends out of the car towards the island water, sewer water.
"This is the north drain, it should've gotten washed into the gully, so if it got flushed out from this drain, it would've been pushed out to like," JJ said looking at the amount of trash that had been washed out to the water.
"People who use plastic should be shot." Kiara said as she looked at the residues, Elena just bit her tongue, she could've told Kie that her hair tie had plastic on it.
And as if JJ had read her mind, "Okay, personally, I love plastic, use it every day, love that stuff." Elena chuckled at his comment but Kiara took it a bit personal and answered back.
"I thought you'd say something like that so," Pope lifted some big trash bags. "trashbags."
"Did you just proactively protect the enviroment?" Kiara said a smile appearing on her face, a little flirting between Pope and Kie that Elena picked up, on her own face a smirk formed at this.
"You want me to leave you two alone or what's going on?" JJ interrupted and like before it was as if he was reading Elena's mind, Pope thre him the trashbags and Elena only looked at Kiara trying to hide her smile from her friend.
"Like I get why we use plastic trash bags to pick up trash that here is plastic, but aren't we still contributing with contaminating the water?" Elena asked trying to change the subject and drift the small tension away, no one seemed to give an answer but their expressions seem to think about it for a second.
"Let's pick up the trash." Pope stated and the groups began doing so, trash was picked up and at some different points Elena was sure she would throw up at the things she saw, the drain was started to look cleaner, and Kiara seemed proud at the imagery of her friends contributing with her to help the environment, but the group wasn't as happy at the lack of visual representation of their weapon.
"That was fun." JJ said with a hint of frustration.
"If it's not in the trash it's gotta be somewhere in the storm drain." Pope added his words answered with JJ saying it was in the drain. "Damn it."
"So are we gonna do rock paper, scissors?" Kiara asked and suggested other options on how it would happen, but with every single one given, Kiara and Elena knew the answer of it.
"As much as I want to join Kie, I can't do that, I almost threw up with only the sight of rotten food, I know I might be useless inside." Elena said hoping it would help her case.
"Sorry, but two are better than one in locating the weapon." JJ looked at the brunette with a serious expression. "In the sewer, there's this worm that you get when you're down there, it gets into your blood and then it has to come out your pecker."
"Wow, great way to keep us calm and totally not nervous or even disgusted already." Elena rolled her eyes.
"Not it's not that El, we get, you guys are scared, it's cute." Kiara walked behind them giggling, Elena hid her smile with her hand crossing gently over her lip, the guys just began babbling that wasn't the real reason. Kiara stood next to JJ, just in front of the sewer.
"I will accept it, I am scared so, I will be staying behind, also it might be safer for only one person to get in? Right?" Elena asked looking at her friends.
"Yeah, El has a point there, anything happens it would be easier and quicker to save one instead of two."
"See, there's some logic in there." Elena wiggled her eyebrows and grinned happily at her friends, Kiara just chuckled rolling her eyes at her.
"Just be careful." Pope added looking at Kiara, the brunnette answered back and got into the sewer.
"Are you sure there wasn't like any other option to get the gun back?" Elena asked crossing her arms over her chest, she didn't like this at all but she didn't have a clue on where the hell she should even start.
"Well, there's lots of drains in the streets, if I had the blueprints on how they're distributed, it would be an easier job, but since this isn't our case." Pope said and kneeled down to the sewer. "Kiara, find anything yet?" The question followed up by another one from JJ and the negative response from Kie.
"We shouldn't have her talk much you guys, she's already expose to bacterias, do we really want her to get them into her mouth?" Elena asked looking down at both of her friends.
"She's already inhaling it, I don't think there's much difference if she talks to us." JJ said adding to the conversation.
Elena put her hands up and walked back looking straight towards the island, the weather was humid and hot, Elena could feel the sweat drooling in the back of her neck, her hands embraced the back of it, letting her head rest back closing her eyes as she took a few breaths in, hearing the sounds of birds and the leaves rustling, it didn't last long, interrupted by JJ and Pope's bickering.
"Now what?" The brunette mumbled to herself irritated she glanced back seeing the pair talking about something.
"Elena, how do you do it?" Pope asked looking back at her.
"About what?"
"How do you flirt so easily like back then with Kelce and that other Kook and get reciprocrated?"
"I don't or I didn't know, I just talked to them? I don't know what JJ has been suggested but, don't listen to him, he is not that great at flirting."
"What? I am great at getting the girl."
"Guys, I think I found something." Kiara's voice was heard from the sewer, all of the attention was brought to her.
"Please, please tell us it's the gun." By the way Kiara began screaming about something being dead down there, the small amount of hope Elena had, it vanished. "Kie, don't look at it, look for the gun and get out." Elena screamed out leaning closer with the guys.
"Do you gusy hear that?" Pope asked, both JJ and Elena kept quiet trying to figure out the same thing.
"Guys, the water."
"Kiara, get out of there now."
"What is going on Pope?" Elena asked the worry building in.
"The water is flushing up."
"What does that mean?" This moment Elena wished she knew all the terminology, but the guys only tried to do everything to get her out, what they didn't expect was the disgusting water washing them and making the trio loose their balance, Elena got washed back, fortunately it was enough to get back into her feet and follow the guys back to the streets.
Running towards different sewers the adrenaline was high, the anxiety of just thinking of Kiara drowing was making Elena worry for her friend, she could feel the burning feeling in her lungs, her body still not used to the amount of running they made almost everyday, but this wasn't a priority to think about, Elena stopped behind the guys when they reached a sewer, Kie's fingers exposed giving a second of relief for the teenager.
JJ and Pope rushed to pull the top off, Elena felt useless, she didn't even know how she was meant to help them, she wasn't as strong as them or anything like that, she looked around in hopes of noticing someone who could help them, Elena would fake out a story on why on earth her friend was even inside the sewer on the first place.
"Come you guys! Hurry up." Elena screamed and kneeled down between them looking down at Kiara. "Take a deep breath Kie, we are getting you out of there, I promise." Elena looked at Pope as the idea popped into her head. "As much as I don't like this, we need to let the water rise up, perhaps it might loosen up a bit the top of this."
"It might not be a terrible idea, JJ stop that, that's not gonna do anything." The small Swedish knife he had broke.
"Take a deep breath in Kie, we're getting you out of there." Elena screamed out and hoped her idea would work out.
The water began flowing out of the sewer, both JJ and Pope kept of pulling the top off, and as imagined Kiara came out gasping for air between the disgusting water, the teenager leaned forward everyone took a moment to give her space.
"You okay Kie?" Elena asked, her friend just gave her a thumbs up that was interrupted by Pope's arms wrapping around the girl. Kiara pushed him away and Elena noticed the smile dropping on Pope's face.
"This wasn't what you're looking for right?" Kiara asked pulling from the back of her shorts the murder weapon, Rafe's gun. The excitement was on the roof, everyone couldn't believe their eyes, the four of them hugged each other, JJ took the gun, cleaning it and keeping it safe.
Elena helped Kiara walk wrapping her arm around her waist, walking towards the vehicle they came from. "You would desperately need around four to five showers Kie." Elena joked getting from her friend an approval answer of perhaps adding a bath too.
And now with the gun in their hands, one step closer to prove John B's innocence.
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