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klaus hargreeves, 1x05

Chained ⛓ NEW CHAPTER

A Klaus Hargreeves murder mystery

A/N: I’m still chipping away at this one! I think there are about 10-12 chapters left, so the end is in sight! Thank you to everyone who has stayed with it - your support means so much to me. I know I’m crap at replying to comments, but I need you to know that I’ve read each and every one a million times and I appreciate every word of encouragement. Your comments keep the writer’s block beast at bay! 😘😘

CW: It’s a murder mystery, so there’s gunsta be murder stuff. Read the tags, ficfans.

Snippet from Chapter 25: Dumpster

They’ve been searching the scene of the accident for about an hour now with no luck. Klaus is struggling to give up the search, even though he knows it’s futile, but Ben gave up long ago. If the phone fell out of his pocket, it was probably stolen. And if it wasn’t, it was probably run over by a truck or a passing car in the hours after the crash.

Still, it’s Klaus’ only lifeline - his only proof that Tilda was having an affair with Gary and that she had the strongest motive to kill him. He can’t give up that easily.

“Klaus, it’s not here. This is stupid,” says Ben, drawing the syllables out into a frustrated groan.

“If you’re not going to help, can you at least shut up?”

Klaus scrambles over the side of a nearby dumpster and sticks the top half of his body inside. It smells like death. Rotting fish and decomposing filth. He tears into one of the bags and gags on the intensifying odour.

“Klaus? Is that you?”

That’s not Ben. That’s a female voice. Familiar and gentle, punctuated with a probing inflection at the end. The way she says his name sends a familiar tingle through the base of his skull.

“Sarah?” He jumps down from the dumpster. She looks as perfectly put-together as always: a long wool coat in a dangerously light grey, her silky blonde bob reflecting the last of the late afternoon light, knee-high leather boots that look as difficult to walk in as they look expensive. Klaus looks down at his My Little Pony t-shirt, now grubby from the dumpster, and attempts to dust himself off. “What are you doing here?”

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