Detective Jones drove up to the crime scene in his grey mustang; it was 5 in the morning and one could barely make the outline of the sun rising in the east. He was called to the O’Hara mansion, where the owner of the house and his wife were near an ambulance and paramedics were wrapping a small boy in a grey blanket. Two bodies were lying on the front lawn; one was zipped up in a body bag and the other had Doctor Stacey Sheppard, the town's coroner, hunched over it still. Detective Jones began walking towards Dr. Sheppard and said “Hey Stacey, do you have any info for me?” “Well,” she answered, “Let’s see. Two dead, one male, blunt force trauma to the head and the other, female, 2 bullets in the abdomen. Looks like she bleed out. Both are …show more content…
Like someone was in my uncle's office. “I heard the guy's voice again. He said ‘Check up stairs for the vault, Tabby, maybe he got a few hundred bucks in there for us.’ It almost sounded like he was smiling. “There was someone walking up, I assume it was the person named Tabby. I heard them come into the room, but they went to the dressers first. I crept over to the door and opened it just a little bit. I saw a girl at my aunt’s dresser, across the room. She had light brown hair pulled up, out of her face, and she was dressed all in black.” Detective Jones turned half away from the boy and pointed to the bodies on the lawn “Was it one of them?” he asked Grayson. The boy nodded slowly, but kept his head down before continuing his story. “She turned around, and I backed away from the door to the far corner and behind my uncle’s coats. The door to the closet opened all the way until the girl stood there silhouetted by the lights behind her. “‘Oh … uh-oh,’ she said. I figured she had found me behind the coats. “She turned and called for someone downstairs. ‘Xander? Xander, come quick we have a small problem.’ “Someone said something downstairs, but I couldn't hear it clearly. They started running up the stairs until they reached the bedroom doorway. It was a guy; he asked, ‘What's