ok, ive colected all my short posts and thrown them together to make it less confusing
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In the box room, Lilly and Scotty scanned through the boxes, looking for Phillip Richards. So far, after half an hour, they hadn’t been able to locate it
“I've got Phillip Bell, would he do?” Scotty called, shaking her head; she decided not to dignify the question with an answer as she continued her search.
Finally, 5 minutes later, she spotted it, lurking, half hidden between Mansfield, James and Mandy, Jessica
“Got it!” she called, dragging the troublesome box from its hiding place and heading back to the office
“Great, I was beginning to wonder if there was one”
“stop moaning” she instructed him before pushing past with her load
“You two took your own sweet time” Vera welcomed as they approached. Scotty grimaced and replied
“Yea well it was kinda hard to locate owing to the fact that someone had filed it away in the ‘m’s” Vera glared at him
“Meaning…”
“That SOME of the detectives round here need to re-learn the alphabet!” concealing a grin, Lilly dumped the box down on her desk and flipped the lid off
“Lets see what we’ve got”, the incredulous look on her co-workers faces as they surveyed the disorganized mass of papers revealed nearly made her laugh, but she schooled her face to stillness and asked
“What?” they all shared a look before Scotty sighed and replied wearily
“nothing Lil”
10 hours showed a significant decrease on the amount of papers remaining unread, it also showed a decrease in the detectives enthusiasm for the case and the detective who had been on it
"whoever wrote this got the wrong job- Ive just read a page that describes in full detail our victim making a cup of coffee" Vera grumbled to the others
and indeed, most of the pages showed alot more detail on simple things like making a cup of coffee, than was necessary.
Vera threw the offending page on top of the pile of pages that had already been read, summarized and discarded before announcing
"well I'm going to head off"
the rest of the detectives looked at him in surprise
Vera ignored their suprised looks as he shrugged on his coat and and dug around in his pocket for his keys
"hey Vera, why are you heading off so early?" Scotty finnaly asked when it became clear Vera wasnt going to take the hint
"just..... stuff i gotta do"
"stuff like...?"
"stuff." and with that, Vera left finding his keys 'till later as he strode off quickly
Scotty and the rest of the team shared a puzzled look before continuing to read the tedious reports.
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a few hours later ,
Stillman and Jeffries both announced they had other, more important things to do. an obvious lie, but Lilly couldnt blame them- she had had more fun watching the hands on a clock move.
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later still,
she realised that she had been stareing at the same word for over half an hour. disgusted, she put it back in the box. Scotty glanced up and grinned when he saw what she had done
"glad im not the only one who cant concentrate"
he said, reterning his report as well. Lilly didnt want to admit she was getting sick of the case, and she knew she could cover it by picking up another report and starting to read again, but her mind went numb at the very thought. from the look on Scotty's face, he knew exactly what she was thinking. so she gave a non-comittal
"hnmm"
before asking
"you wanna go get something to eat?"
he gave her a grin that clearly said "i know your avoiding the issue, but ill let alone"
"yea sure, you got anywhere in mind?"
"nope"
"well lets get going"
they pulled on their coats and left the reports for tomorrow.
in the resteraunt, they ordered food and sat discussing the case.
"so what did you get?"
Lilly asked
"mind blowingly bored"
Scotty replied, grinning impudently. Lilly gave him a lok that said clearly 'ha.ha. very funny'
"seriously Lil, you read about work all day and talk about work all night?"
"you got something else you wanted to discus?"
"yea"
"such as...?"
at that moment their food arrived so Scotty was distracted from what he was about to say. Lilly, however, wasnt and she reminded him as soon as the waitress had left
"such as what?"
Scotty looked hesitent
"umm...."
"spit it out Scotty"
"what happened between you and your sister. 9 years ago?"
Lillys body tensed and her fork clattered down onto her plate
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i was intending to write some more but im getting a big blank, so ill let my dad do his paperwork and try and come up with some ideas
just my luck. the blank goes and i dont have time :smile7:
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