Chapter 22 | stolen
Back at the music store, Luka was almost done paying off that guitar he'd set aside for Adrien. In fact he may even finish the payments earlier than expected, which would be good because Adrien was about halfway done with the album now and soon enough he'd be in the preparing for release and live shows stage. He'd gotten really good really fast at guitar thanks to Lukas help, when Adrien was determined to do something they were quick to pick it up.
Happy with himself and how well planned he'd been on payment, Luka left the store and went to go hop back on his bike only to find the lock broken and his bike gone. He just stood there for a moment, processing that. His bike was stolen, in board daylight his bike was stolen.
"What the fuck? Come on! I need to get to school, make deliveries, pick up Adrien from time to time..." He muttered, picking up the broken chain and lock.
The cut was clean, someone clearly planned it and had bolt cutters just for this. He groaned in frustration and pulled out his phone to tell his mum to come pick him up.
"Hey Kiddo, I'm kind of in the middle of work right now, what's up?" His mother spoke on the other end of the phone.
"My bikes been stolen... I don't suppose you can pick me up?" He replied.
"Your bikes been stolen? In the middle of the day?! What idiot thought that would work. Get the nearby shops to check CCTV and report it stolen ok? I can't come right now I'm in the middle of a repair job, but your dad should be able to come get you. I'll call him"
Now with a way home secured, he talked to his mum for a few more minutes before ending the call and heading back inside the shop to ask for any CCTV footage. The clerk that just served him have him a raised eyebrow when he came back in.
"Forget something?" They teased.
"You have security cameras right? My bike just got stolen..." Luka sighed.
"Oh what the fuck? Yeah we do. Come back here"
It always felt kind weird going into the back rooms of stores you didn't work at, so admitted Luka got curious and poked around at the boxes of stock and read the employee notice boards as the clerk pulled up the security footage recorded in the past few minutes.
"Oh damn, this guy planned this out huh?" They said, finding the exact moment of the robbery.
Luka looked over the employees shoulder and watched the footage with them. A short figure with a hood on walked over to his bike, looked around for a moment to make sure no one was looking and pulled bolt cutters out of their bag, cut the lock off and took off with the bike. It was hard to make it exactly who this person was with their hood covering most of their head and the cameras being up on the walls, not close enough to the face to get a good look. But what Luka could see looked so familiar... the brown hair poking out of the hood, the height, the skin tone. He had a hunch he knew who it was.
"Oh my fucking god is that- it can't be..." he muttered.
"You know them?" The employee asked.
"If I'm right, yes. This psychotic girl has been harassing me and my partner for months now... if that is her then she probably followed me. So not only is she stealing, she stalking. That's... alarming"
"Yikes dude, better call the cops on that one"
Annoyed, Luka did just that. Reported the bike as stolen and explained that they had footage of the robbery and he had a hunch he knew who it was. The police station was pretty close to the shop, so they didn't take long to get there and collect the footage and take Lukas statement. As he was explaining everything, his dad arrived and waltzed into the shop. Although for once he was de-rock star dripped. His liberty spikes washed out and brushed so his hair was down and tied back. No sparkles or stage makeup, just normal vaguely goth dad Jagged stone.
"Hey kiddo, everything ok?" He asked.
"Hey dad, I mean I'm fine. I'm pissed off but not hurt or anything" Luka replied.
"You're his dad?" The officer asked.
"That I am, everything ok here?" Jagged replied.
"Well we've got the CCTV footage and his statement, we've asked around the store and no one's seen anything. So all we can do now is analyse that footage and find the culprit, get the bike back and then you can press charges. Although apparently there's a potential suspect already"
Jagged had been filled in on Lukas life each time he came to visit, which ever since the family rekindled and had been working on better co-parenting was pretty often now. Usually on weekends, and days off school Luka and his sister would either go see their dad or he'd gate crash the boat and come see them.
"No way, that Lila kid? You think she did it?" Jagged said.
"I think so. It's hard to see who it is in the footage but the brown hair, height, skin tone... it looks a bit like her. Plus given all she's been up to recently I wouldn't be surprised if she pulled this" Luka sighed.
"Man that kid has issues... is Adri ok? I saw the whole thing with the posters. Think that was her too?"
"Probably, they're ok. Just tired of all this drama and annoyed as hell, can't blame them"
Clearly having a history with the potential suspect, the officer wanted more information on it. It seemed to him something long standing was going on here.
"This girl has been harassing you before?" He asked.
"Me and my partner, for months now. But it's always something we can't quite pin on her, we know it is but she's just slimy enough to get away with it" Luka replied.
"That could help the investigation, and if she's already been harassing you she needs to be punished for that too. Can we speak to everyone involved?"
"My partners mums is helping gather evidence of everything she's done to us, so you can go to her for a full rundown"
"Ah Em and Nat already know of all this? Good I was worried for a moment you kids were trying to fight this alone" Jagged sighed in relief.
The officer was silent a moment, processing all that was just said. Those names sounded familiar... and now he looked at Lukas dad he looked familiar too. After a moment, it finally clicked.
"Oh... OH! Wait, you're Jagged Stone! I didn't recognise you for a second, I don't think I've ever seen you without all the rock star makeup" he said.
"That's me, which means yes my sons partner is Adrien Graham De Vanilly and his mums are Emilie and Nathalie" Jagged snickered.
"Your normal clothes do tend to fool most people, I don't think any of the public have seen you without half a bucket of gel in your hair either dad" Luka laughed.
Learning that this crime had some pretty famous people involved meant it was all the more dangerous. Everyone knows crazed fans and anti fans have gone to great lengths in the past to get the attention of famous people. If someone was stalking and harassing THE Adrien and their boyfriend, that was very alarming. It would be alarming if anyone was being stalked, but when it's a famous person the motivation can be unique to a regular case.
"This case runs a lot deeper than I thought... I'm going to need to meet up with everyone involved and get their statements too" the officer said.
They stood around the shop a little longer to exchange contact information, call up Emilie and Nathalie to tell them what was going on and get this case underway, but eventually the father son duo were allowed to leave and were promised updated as soon as possible.
Seeing his son was annoyed at the whole situation, Jagged figured he'd do something to cheer him up a little. Be a better dad now he was in his kids lives again.
"Tell ya what kiddo, you've had a shit day. How about we go get some new records huh?" He said.
"Yeah, that's be cool. I've been meaning to get a few new albums that have come out recently" Luka smiled.
"Me too, I've been wrapped in writing the next one I haven't kept up with what's new. How's Adrien's album going?"
"It's about half done, it's sounding amazing. I'm so proud of them, writing songs is really his calling"
"If they want to put on some wicked live shows I know some guys that do great light shoes and pyrotechnics, you know who to come to for concert help"
Adrien had no doubt that when the time to do live shows came, they could get help form Lukas dad. In fact he and Luka were so sure Jagged would want in in concert planning they'd joked about having pet crocodiles crash the venues.
"Thanks dad, they'd appreciate that" Luka smiled.
"You two are doing so well with music lately, one day you'll both be more famous than me. Although not Fang, even my own fans like Fang more than me" Jagged joked.
Luka snickered, that crocodile was such a meme amongst fans. Even people who barely knew Jagged Stone knew Fang.
"Yes I have seen all the Fang supremacy memes in your fandom. At this point it's not the Jaggrd Stone fandom it's the Fang fandom" Luka joked.
"And I ain't even mad about it, even I'm a fan of my own pet"
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