The Investigators, Inc. The Case of the Twin’s Friend. Chapter 11. Home.

It was a long flight home, but we made it. Even though we all slept on the plane, we were still tired when we arrived home. There were four ambulances and several vans equipped with everything we needed for our wounded girls. It was nice that none of us had to do any driving from the airport to our chateau. The guys will be arriving a bit later and will go straight to their chateau, except for dropping off Carine and Kitty with us.

I keep hoping that Aari will start to show some interest in Carine, because she sure likes him! Maybe we need to enlist the help of Aasta for this one. Well, we did have several of our girls wounded on this trip, but no one was killed at least and that part is good.

We rescued Visty plus 2 other women that had been held in solitary confinement for months. They had been beaten and starved, but on the way home I heard them talking and giggling with our girls. That was so nice to hear. They are friends, both are 22, single and live at home with their parents. Both are the youngest of the children in each family and we will be getting in touch with their families just as soon as we can. I hope their families will welcome them back.

So many of the women we have rescued have not been welcome to return home, which is so sad. As it turned out, their families were overjoyed that we rescued their daughters, so we will be sending them back home on one of our jets, and some of our girls will accompany them. Visty will be staying with us, it seems her parents were both shot and killed just 2 days ago.

Her two brothers don’t want her around their families because the same thing might happen to them or their children. They might be right, still, it seems kind of sad that they don’t want to help her. Misty and Cristy are happy she will be staying with us. The woman from the little shop in Mexico will be staying with us for now until she decides what to do. She has no parents now and she was an only child.

She is afraid to go back to L.A. where she is from originally. Her name is Shelley. We also have the two women from Koffman and they too are not sure what to do at the moment, so they will stay with us temporarily too. The one has no family, the other one does, but they don’t want her around. Sigh. We will need to make an addition onto our chateau if this keeps up.

Our wounded girls will all live and be back to full health eventually. Some sooner than others. Samantha wants me to stay in the clinic for “observation” she says. For some reason she thinks there is something wrong with me. I finally had to concede that there might be something wrong after that blast. I can’t tell who my wife is, and that is a big problem.

Apparently I think that Dawn is Jennifer and Jennifer is Dawn. But when I saw that Dawn had a twin, which I know she doesn’t, that’s when I knew there must indeed be a problem. So, here I am, in bed with nothing to do. Samantha won’t let me use computers, or my phone, right now. Time goes by though and the two we rescued with Visty are now back home with their families.

Shelley has decided to stay with us, so we will need to give her a new identity since Ramon just might want to hunt her down. Cristy is working on that right now. She is also working on new identities for the two girls from Koffman since they, too, have decided to stay with us. I think that Visty should also have a new identity, since Ramon just might want to get her back as well.

However, the three girls want their names to rhyme, just like they have since they were kids. Sigh. Sometimes it’s hard to get the message of safety across to people. Vlora might be coming back to us as well. I sure hope so anyway. If she does, then she will take over my team and I won’t have a team. I will just be in charge, in a general sense, over all the teams.

I will still go on cases though. We found out before that staying at home all the time just didn’t work out for me. We will be taking on fewer cases perhaps, although that can be hard to do as well. But we need more rest time for our teams and team leaders, or we will wear ourselves out. That could lead to more casualties on our teams in the future, which would not be a good thing.

Suddenly there is a head peeking in the door. “All clear,” she said. Then Misty, Cristy and Visty came running inside, after closing and locking the door. They all jumped on the bed, spread a checkered cloth on top of my legs and brought out donuts, 4 each!

“And, they are sneaked donuts,” said Visty, smiling. “Those are the best kind!” I exclaimed. They all said “yep” together. Well, another case is done and we are all recuperating right now. I wonder what is next for the Investigators?

The End. A new story will be coming out soon. ©2025 Steve McLeod.