Frank's Minion: chapter 57

LP organized the game back into play. "The guests had to wonder about Mr. Black's death, but Mrs. Peacock seemed suspicious due to her being given the revolver... The aristocrat woman claims that it wasn't her, no one believes her, of course, but Monsieur Brunette and the butler decide to take fingerprints."

David pretended to do just that.

"Oddly enough, the fingerprints on the revolver didn't match Mrs. Peacock's." LP said dramatically.

"Zeez fingerprints don't match Mrs. Peacock's." David said with a French accent.

LP giggled at David's French accent. "You are right, Monsieur!" she called an exotic accent, trying to be Madame Rose and pressed her fingertips to her temples of her brain. "The murderer was not a high-class female... It was a lower class female... My vision is fuzzy of who it is though..."

David nodded. "We need to examine ze ozer suspects." he said.

"The guests are in a frenzy, their hearts pounding through their beating chests, the edges of their seats filled with their bottoms, and the trembling and jittering of their bones as they are nervous about a murderer being in the party, the butler refuses to let them leave," LP continued narrating. "The one who seems to want to leave the most and have a drink that is expected to possibly be poison seems to be the most suspicious... Mr. Green..."

David glared at the 'Mr. Green'.

"I bet you're not even a natural balding man!" LP glared at the card of Mr. Green and set it down in 'shame'.

David snorted while trying not to laugh at that.

"There was an ominous knock to the door," LP continued the story as it grew intense, even for her age. "Who could it be? All the guests were there, the butler was with them, and Mr. Black lay deceased only to travel into the afterlife and check out of the party early that night as his soul ventured from his 'recomposing' corpse..."

David looked intrigued.

"One has to wonder who will open the door to break the suspense," LP grinned darkly, nearly looking like her father, only with brown eyes and not big green ones.

David grinned a little.

"The door was not only locked with the door being bolted, but also from the fear and greed with the residents inside..." LP continued. "The butler then opens the door due to his dedication of life to be a servant."

"You're a very good story-teller." David whispered.

"Who me?" LP blushed. "Couldn't be..."

"Hey, can I play?" Anastasia decided to play Clue with LP and David, feeling bored hanging around Brad and Janet a while.

David jumped a little, but then looked at LP.

"Well, we kinda already started, maybe you could be the mysterious guest?" LP offered, handing the deck of cards she and David weren't using for this round of the game.

"Okay." Anastasia smiled, covering her eyes with her head turned to pick one of the cards at random, then looked back. "Cool! I'm Sergeant Gray!"

"The Fuzz!" LP grew worried to fill the mood of the game.

David looked surprised.

"Yes!" Anastasia got into character like LP. "Open up! You're under arrest for poisoning any guests, slaughtering of any kind, and bad fashion sense even for this decade!" she pounded on the table to sound like a cop at the door.

"The butler opens the door in fear," LP narrated. "It is a police officer. Perhaps he knows of the murder and the mystery... Madame Rose had a faint feeling-"

"Bonjour, Sergant... I am Monsieur Brunette..." David said in his french accent and offered a hand.

"Bonjour," Anastasia took his hand, giggling. She had never played Clue like this before. "I come from the station to do a monthly check."

LP blinked at that. "Yes... There has been a nasty case of blood baths lately, and we must have Sergeant check us like any other household... But then again, we remember the dead body in the lounge that could not distract anyone from feeling sick to their stomachs, having stress related headaches and severe trauma while we still do not know of the true murderer."

David released her hand. "Are you up to ze job of helping us find zis killer?" He asked.

"What killer?" Anastasia asked.

"The killer of our party," LP said mysteriously. "I am Madame Rose, a fortune-teller... There has been a murder on our mitts of the host of the most, Mr. Black! DUN, DUN, DUUUUN!"

Magenta decided to take a relaxing soak in the tub herself. Why waste water? Only her head was out of the water as she lay back with her eyes covered with cucumbers and her face make-up had been washed off. Riff came up to the bathroom then frowned lightly at the small case packed by its door. Magenta reached her hand out, grabbed one of the cucumbers and ate it while relaxing.

David chuckled then got back into character. LP looked over, pausing the game.

"Hey, Miracle!" LP and Anastasia called together.

Frank asked them to lower their voices a bit. Nation kept an eye on Miracle. David looked over. Miracle had flinched at the loudness. She looked at them with glassy emerald eyes.

"Sorry..." LP whispered. "Hello, Miracle."

"Hiya." Anastasia waved.

"Miracle, do you wanna play with your friends?" Frank asked the girl gently.

"Play?" Miracle asked softly. She looked over at her friends.

"You don't have to, but we're solving a mystery." LP replied.

"Like Scooby Doo!" Anastasia beamed, but not overly loud like normally.

Miracle nodded and tried to get down. And Frank wouldn't have to worry, no matter how foul a mood she was in she would never hurt LP.

Frank noticed Miracle's gestures and put the girl down on her feet. "Play nice now..."

LP smiled to Miracle. "Remember me...?"

Miracle went over to LP and hugged her. David smiled. Nation kept an eye out. LP smiled in the hug.

Anastasia smiled at the girls, then looked to David. "Hello..."

Frank waited cautiously, hoping the girls would be fine together like they usually are. Miracle hugged her gently, not wanting to hurt her with her now very bony arms. David smiled still. Nation continued to watch.

"You can watch us play if you want." LP said gently to her bestest friend.

Anastasia smiled friendly to Miracle as well.

"Something familiar about the people who took Miracle away based on what I heard..." Frank scratched his chin, deep in thought as he thought out loud next to Nation.

Miracle nodded, taking it as a tiny dismissal, and sat down on the floor, just far enough to not be in the way.

"Hm?" Nation hummed intrigued.

LP, Anastasia and David looked at Miracle, wondering whether to go on or not.

Miracle hummed slightly and then blinked as they all looked at her. "Go ahead." she smiled, sweetly.

LP and Anastasia shrugged and continued their game.

"Your gardener seemed suspicious of my arrival..." Anastasia said in a thick, tough voice to sound like a professional detective. "Is he a legal alien?"

LP's eyes widened that Anastasia had brought up 'alien'. Miracle let out a nervous giggle at the word alien.

"Did they say 'Columbia'?" Anastasia whispered to LP and David.

"Uhh..." LP wasn't sure what to say to that.

Miracle watched carefully.

"I think he did." David said.

LP then nodded since David agreed with the question. "D-Do you know a Columbia?"

"Yeah," Anastasia smiled. "It's not her real name, just a stage name. She's my-" she then dropped her token and looked down to pick it back up and put it on the board.

Miracle looked up absently.

"Your what?" He asked.

"Huh?" Anastasia asked.

"Columbia, what is she to you?" LP prompted.

Miracle looked calm. David nodded.

"Oh," Anastasia now remembered. "Sorry, my brain is like totally whack sometimes... Anyway... Columbia is my aunt... My father is one of her brothers."

LP blinked. Columbia had a family?

David blinked. Miracle smiled.

"I'm not completely sure..." Frank looked down at the slightly shorter woman. "It might be a different one, but around when some local people knew about us before Brad and Janet arrived, there came more Men in White clothing and they claimed to had been selling candy. Riff Raff always got the door and he got angered after a while when they would come with candy, because one time he took them, he gave it to Eddie or Columbia to experiment since LP and Miracle wouldn't be proper test subjects and they had been knocked out, for a while, they forgot who they were and that they were considered insane. Luckily, we got them back to 'normal' before anything crazy could happen."

Nation hummed her kind of agreement. "Could be... if so that is illegal... but Miracle seems to know who she is... so I don't know." she said quietly.

"It might be them, they're pretty sneaky," Frank shrugged. "Then again, Eddie and Columbia's heads were always a bit messed up." he muttered under his breath at the last bit.

Anastasia noticeably turned at the name Columbia, but looked away.

Nation looked at Frank. "They did horrible things... they wrote it down in her file." she said quietly.

"The poor girl..." Frank rarely sympathized with Miracle since she wasn't his daughter, but he really was now. Perhaps it was the magical spirit of Christmas which changes people no matter how good or evil. "I hate to take her away from here after just coming, but maybe it would be good for her to go with you and Cosmo for a bit... I actually trust you two."

Nation smiled grimly. "I just hope they haven't permanently messed up her head." she said.

"I'm sure she'll be fine with two lovely doctors." Frank smiled, he found Nation beautiful, but since he was in love with Sarah-Anne, he didn't openly flirt with her.

Nation smiled. "Thank you." she said.

"Do you two really have your own show and the humans think you're one of them?" Frank asked, amused a bit.

Nation chuckled softly. "Yes." she said.

"I remember one person that came by thought Riff Raff and Magenta were vampires." Frank chuckled back.

Nation smiled, amused.

"Where they got idea, I don't know..." Frank rolled his eyes, then smiled, turning to the girls. "Honey Bunches, would you and Miracle like to open your presents now?"

LP turned to Miracle. "Do you think you can do that?" she asked slowly and calmly so the girl would understand her sentence structure.

Miracle looked over and nodded. "Yes..." she said.

LP smiled, then went to get her presents with Miracle, taking her to the dining room where Brad and Janet left their presents. Janet was surprisingly relaxed, it was as though the twins inside kept gentle during Miracle's absence like the girl asked them to and barely even moved. Janet even had a scare when they didn't move at all, feeling worried she may have had a miscarriage, but the twins were still inside her belly like they should have been.

Miracle followed, compliant. David followed too. Nation went with them. Anastasia and Frank also followed.

LP sat with Miracle and handed the girl the presents for her and LP took the ones for herself that were for her. "Ready?"

Janet came in, resting her hand on her stomach, smiling softly. Miracle looked at the presents and nodded.

LP opened a present from Magenta, grinning wildly and took out to see it was a cleaning rag with some soap. "Very funny!" she scoffed.

Magenta was heard laughing from nowhere, even though she was upstairs taking a soak in the tub. Anastasia giggled a little. Miracle tried to get hers open. She couldn't find the way in to open it and was getting frustrated. David blinked, and as a friend went over to help her.

"Thank you." LP smiled to David.

Janet was happy to see how friendly David was, not only just to the little princess, but also to Miracle, even though the girls were younger than him and probably at his age, girls were gross, then again, he WAS twelve. Miracle looked at David and quietly thanked him. She looked at her present. David smiled kindly. He helped her open it.

Janet saw the present for Sarah-Anne from the girls and took it, deciding to give it to the woman. "Where's Sarah-Anne?"

"In the lab with my sister." Frank told her.

Janet nodded and went up, using the elevator.

"What is it?" LP asked as she waited for Miracle to get to her present before she would open any more.

Miracle blinked. "A jumper." she said softly.

David stood aside, ready to help when needed. Nation smiled. LP smiled back, then looked down to open her next present.

"That's nice of you." Anastasia smiled to David.

"The boy's not bad for someone his age." Frank smiled about David.

Miracle tried to open a next one. David had an idea and set to making a small opening in each wrapping paper present. That would make it easier for Miracle to open it. Nation nodded. LP still glared at the rag and soap wondering if that was some kind of joke made by the domestic.

Frank smiled, wondering if David would be good for LP, but wouldn't force the boy on her like his mother would force suitors onto him before leaving the pressures of being a prince where he came from. It was one of the many reasons why he came to Earth, even if Riff Raff wanted to conquer it at first. Miracle managed to with what David did. David smiled. Nation watched.

Frank let out a squeal, then rushed to the kitchen, excusing himself.

LP eyed her father strangely, but looked back to her friends, smiling. "This is what Christmas is about, isn't it?"

"Yes, it is." Anastasia beamed.

Nation glanced at Frank. Miracle jolted at the squeal, hiding behind David.

"Oh, it's okay..." Anastasia soothed Miracle.

LP saw a sealed envelope. Nation shook her head. Miracle looked at Anastasia. David looked at her.

"Take good care of her, okay, Mrs. Dr. McKinley?" Anastasia looked back to her celebrity idol.

LP looked concerned.

"Just Dr... and yes I will" Nation says softly.

Miracle looked at everyone.

"Oh, sorry, sometimes I forget Cosmo's your brother." Anastasia chuckled sheepishly.

LP smiled friendly to her bestest best friend. Nation chuckled. Miracle went over to LP and hugged her.

"I'm just such a big fan." Anastasia smiled.

"Thank you, dear." she said.

LP's eyes widened, but she smiled in the hug, feeling great to have been able to hug Miracle again. Anastasia smiled, looking to her friends. Miracle closed her eyes. LP nuzzled in the hug. Nation watched. Miracle hummed.

"You're gonna be okay, Miracle." LP soothed her friend.

Nation sighed softly. David patted her shoulder. Miracle stiffened at David's touch but calmed down.

"How long will she be gone?" LP asked Nation.

"Until we can be sure she can't hurt herself or anyone." she said gently.

"Please be careful with her, she's like a sister to me..." LP looked to Miracle delicately.

"We will, dear..." Nation promised.

"Thank you, Dr. Nation." LP smiled gratefully to the woman.

The monitor was heard ringing and Frank had answered it. After a few moments, he came to look for either Cosmo or Nation, but had found the female first. "Oh, Nation, excuse me, but someone needs to speak with you."

Nation nodded. "Stay with the children, please..." she said, going to take the call.

Miracle looked at Frank. Frank nodded and went into the room to stay with the kids and smiled. Anastasia blinked at him.

"Hi, Daddy." LP greeted.

"You smell like a flower field..." Miracle stated bluntly.

Frank chuckled sheepishly. Miracle smiled.

"You're gonna be okay, Miracle." LP smiled at her best friend.

Anastasia smiled, nodding.

"Yes." Frank also agreed.

Miracle nodded.

Sarah-Anne was humming as she worked. It was almost done.

Janet came in as Noelle was in the corner, deciding what to do with the tank. "Oh, excuse me, ladies."


Sarah-Anne looked at Janet, smiling.

"The girls got this for you, I don't know what it is, but I bet it's adorable." Janet smiled, handing Sarah-Anne the present.

Sarah-Anne opened it up, looking happy.

"Oh, a bassinet." Janet smiled.

"What's that?" Noelle came to see.

Sarah-Anne started to cry, smiling. Janet explained to Noelle what a bassinet was. Sarah-Anne was telling her baby about it. Noelle smiled, how nice of the girls to make that present for her future niece or nephew. Janet smiled too, resting her hand on her slowly growing belly. Sarah-Anne smiled.

"Should be due in a couple of months..." Janet said about her baby.

"Aren't you and Brad not married?" Noelle looked to her.

"It's a long, personal story." Janet said to the young woman alien.

Sarah-Anne smiled at Janet then.

"Brad and I are gonna try to get married though before the twins are born." Janet said, smiling at her new friends.

Sarah-Anne nodded, smiling.

"Would you like to help us?" Janet asked them.

"If you want us to, Jeanette." Noelle replied, smiling.

Sarah-Anne smiled happily.

"I really do, you two are my new and very close friends right now, I would be honored if you helped with the wedding." Janet smiled at them both.

"I always wanted to be a bridesmaid." Noelle's face lit up.

Sarah-Anne hugged Janet. Magenta left the tub, wrapping a towel around herself and over her head. Janet hugged her back, then went to hug Noelle.