Criminal Case: Grimsborough

Chapter 30: The Wollcrafts' Creature-Part 3

At the station, Fran Wollcraft came to the station and told the two officers that her son Percy and her husband Victor had an argument about Claire after she died in their garage. after Percy came back from work and then he ran away. Fran then cried to Marie and asked her to find her son. Marie then placed a kind hand on Fran's shoulder and said to her, "Don't worry Mrs. Wollcraft, we will find your son. You just sit down and relax and let my friend Ramirez take care of you."

After Fran was lead away by Ramirez, Jones looked at Marie and said, "We have to find Percy as soon as possible Marie! His disappearance most certainly has something to do with his girlfriend's death. Let's look at the museum first and see if Constance has an idea about where he went."

Soon, the two officers left the station and headed towards the museum. Once they got there, Marie started to look around until she found the employee's lockers and she remembered that Constance told them that their victim didn't have time to clean out hers before she got fired. Jones then looked in the distance and saw Constance walking around and he remembered that since Percy was under her supervision, she must know where he disappeared.

Before they could talk to Constance, Marie decided to look through Claire's locker. After rummaging through the locker's contents, Marie found a torn photograph, but she couldn't make out what was on it so she decided to bag it so she piece it back together at the station. Soon, Marie and Jones decided to talk to Constance and when they approached the woman, Jones asked her, "We're really sorry to bother you again Constance, but Percy Wollcraft ran away from home. Do you have any idea where he might be?"

"Why would I know? I mean, the poor boy just lost his girlfriend and his parents are a couple of freaks. So it's a marvel that he didn't choose to run away to begin with," Constance said in a smug tone.

Marie then protested to the woman, "Mrs. Bell, this isn't funny! His mother is devastated!"

"Really now? I thought Fran Wollcraft didn't even care about the kid. I talked to her a couple times since I studied German and she never once struck me as the sentimental type. Very well, if you must know, Percy is here and he's venting off in the staff room," Constance explained.

Curious, Jones asked, "Why are you hiding him?"

"Well why not? He's a hard working kid and he needed a place to hide from his parents. Plus, he never got sauce in one of my books. UNLIKE YOU DAVID JONES," Constance told the officers and screeched out the last part to Jones.

After they were done talking to Constance, Jones and Marie were heading to the staff room to talk to Percy. Jones then said, "Who knew that Constance Bell would be so compassionate? Anyway, we have to talk to Percy and have him go back to his mother as soon as possible."

Once they arrived at the door that leads to the staff room, Marie knocked on it and called out, "Percy? It's Captain Marie and Inspector Jones. Do you mind if we talk to you?"

After a few seconds of silence, the two officers decided to enter on their own accord. Once he saw them entering, Percy cried out, "What do you want? Just leave me alone!"

"We can't Percy, your mother's worried sick about you. You can at least call her and tell her you're all right," Jones said to the man sobbing before them.

Percy then wiped his eyes, stood up in anger and said, "I can't tell her cause they're crazy! In fact, we're all crazy! You saw what they did to Elphaba and what twisted vision of love my parents share! Claire told me that I had to help her denounce them and I tried too, but they're my parents and I can't betray them! There was one time that she gave me a few pages from my father's notes that were in German and when I translated them, I realized what they were really doing with Elphaba's corpse.