Titel: Oleander
Team: Weiß (Titanic)
Challenge: Krimi/Thriller/Horror - "Danke für diesen Beitrag" [fürs Team]
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke (Genderswap-AU)
Charaktere: Aomine, Kagami, a coroner and a corpse (Narukawa)
Wörter: 544
Sprache: Englisch
Warnungen: description of a corpse (somewhat?)
Inhalt: Cause of death: poison.
Anmerkungen: Ich habe tatsächlich einen Plan für diese Story, auch wenn er nicht besonders gut ist lol (wenn ich es schaffe, dem Plan zu folgen, werden es nicht ganz so viele Teile. Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt!)
Aomine has never found that dead people looked like they were sleeping. They looked dead. And especially on an autopsy table, where their skin looked like plastic. Aomine suspected it had to do with the light down here. That, and the fact that blood circulation has stopped.
Narukawa Hachiro didn’t really strike Aomine as special in any aspect. He was a middle aged man, apparently with graying hair, a standard face, average height and body structure. He had been Kise’s agent, and apparently, they had been close. That’s as much as Aomine knows. Kise hadn’t told her anything about their relationship, claiming it wouldn’t help them a bit. Aomine thinks otherwise, but she knows better than to try and force it out of Kise. Kise would only clam up even more and reveal less than frigging Fort Knox.
“He was shot?” Aomine asked the coroner and tried to ignore Kagami, who was his partner today.
“That’s the obvious, but not the correct cause of death. Here,” the coroner gave Aomine the report to look at. Kagami came closer to look over her shoulder.
“Poison?”
“Oleander, yes. I noticed his mucosal membranes were irritated, and it seemed suspicious, so I tested for more than the standard poisons we usually look for.”
“And you’re a fan of Kise,” Kagami added with a deadpan expression. The coroner even blushed.
“Thanks for that contribution,” Aomine hissed at her, briefly nodded in thanks to the coroner, whirled around and stomped off.
“Oi! What’s gotten into you?” Kagami called after her and soon caught up. Her brows were knitted in confusion as they walked down the corridor.
“This,” Aomine held up the report about the poison, “isn’t enough to get Kise cleared. You know that as well as I do. We need better evidence.”
She was about to march on, but Kagami’s hand on her shoulder stopped her. “Oi, stop. Breathe for a minute here, okay?”
It hit a nerve. “Don’t tell me what to do, Bakagami!”
Kagami looked angry herself, what with her nostrils flaring, but she seemed to forcer herself to calm down. “No, I’m not doing this right now. I know Kise’s currently a suspect, but we’re going to find the actual murderer, okay? I know it wasn’t her.”
Aomine huffed, but seeing as Kagami can hold herself back, she wasn’t one to lose to her. So she closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and pulled her shoulders straight. “Okay. I can’t believe I’m saying this, and I’m never going to say it again, but… you’re right. We’re going to find the actual asshole and we’re going to make them pay.”
“Good. So, there’s poison. Where could you get that poison?”
“Oleander… it’s a plant, I think. A flower?” Aomine cursed the fact that she’d never been interested in anything girly like that. It would have helped her right now.
“The fact that you know that means it can’t be that rare, right? So we’d better look into how fast it takes effect and when Narukawa had to have ingested it.”
“Bakagami, sometimes you’re not that much of a baka, I guess,” Aomine muttered as the usual enthusiasm she had on cases finally caught up with her.
“Let’s go!” She’d clear Kise’s name. Whatever it takes.