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"OK who did it, who killed the captain" Jade tapped her foot standing in front of five of her crew mates aboard the experimental starcruiser named Eris, each of the crew sat on their knees in front of her covered in blood. The blood was from there now dead, who was likely to stay dead this time because someone threw the Captain's head out the airlock, put his heart in the blender, and his liver in the oven.
The suspects are Violet their diplomat, she dealt with people mainly because she was the least likely to kill or piss off those they did business with. Jordan, the ship’s doctor, had an important job even on a ship full of immortals of different kinds, they mainly just sewed the crew back together when they need. Captain Jason had been a frequent customer given his skill in pissing everyone they met off. Bill the stolen combat robot that the Captain insisted on using as a personal butler. The crew mate to his left was the one Jade was pretty sure had done the bloody deed, Jackson the first mate was one of the most violent and unstable members of a violent and unstable crew. He and the captain had a strained relationship, Jackson had been on the Eris for most of his life as the captain had taken him in when he was found abandoned as a small child, or so the old pirate said. He and Luke were the only members of the crew present at the time and very few trusted Jason’s world on anything. At the start, the Caption was almost like a father to Jackson, until the boy told the man he wasn't a girl. Captain Jason had been the only member of the crew not to respect Jackson when he came out, to the captain he would always be the little orphan girl he found on a war riddle planet. The final bloody member was Danny their gunner, Jackson's best friend, and usually partners in blood escapades.
"Jackson" Jade leveled her cold green gaze on the pouting first mate. She decided to start her questioning from the most likely suspect to the least likely.
"It wasn’t me but I wished it was, though me and Danny did have a good time sliding in his blood"
She rolled her eyes, everyone could tell he was lying by the way he threw his head back and shut his eyes. Anyone who knew Jackson outside his carnage and wanted posters knew his tell for lying. It's why he always lost at cards. Jade decided to move on just in case Jackson hadn't murdered the man who almost raised him.
"Bill you were the last one seen with the Captain" she skipped over to Danny knowing he would just back up Jackson.
"Right you are Quartermaster Jade von Rigdena" every other crew member flinched as Jade’s toxic green eyes twitch, she hated anyone using her full name.
"The Captain and I were in the kitchen he had asked me to make him a sandwich and though such things are not my purpose I can not disobey the Captain but as I was preparing his sandwich someone hit my deactivated switch."
"Where is that by the way" Danny piped in as they wiped the blood from her goggles why the electric being that changed shape on a whim ware google it was anyone guess like there gender at the momit. Jade sighed as she rubbed the brig of her nose.
"I've told you before, You, Jackson, Mark, Emma, and Kay don't get to know that. We all know what you lot would do with that information" Danny slumped back down defeated once again in his quest to shut down that damn robot in order to keep it out of her and Jackson's fun. "Olet came and asked me to make her more flowers" Jordan answered, never looking up as they gather more of the blood covering one of their girlfriends and shaping it into roses for her.
"Well, Violet, that leaves you" Jade did not believe their run-away princess would do something like this mess, not because she was against killing or violence. No in fact their diplomat had quit the body count but because of this starter, something so messy and undignified wasn’t Violet. She was more likely to poison someone than tear them apart.
"Why would I kill the Captain?" Jade shrugged at that. That was another reason why Jade didn't suspect her. Violet was one of only 4 of the crew that had joined willingly and didn't have one of Jason's damn control chips in her skull. Everyone else had the control chips as a motive and Jackson had over 25 years of shitty parenting plus rejection as a motive.
"Right so we’re all pretty sure Jackson did it with Danny's help probably" Faye the engineer said from her position leaning on the bulkhead. Jackson's head snapped toward her the insult clear in his eyes.
"You have no proof and why do you just believe everyone but me" Jackson protested as he began to raise a prepared fight, Faye, a fight he's lost fifty-eight times there was a running tally board in the rec room. However, Bill's metal hand that had grabbed the back of his shirt kept him from reaching their engineer, much to several of the crew's disappointment.
"Maybe because no one else hated him like you Jackson" Faye shot back more than willing to send their first mate to med Bay again.
"It was well-deserved though" violet chimed in from her spot next to the doctor. if Caption Jason had almost been Jackson's father, and Violet had been his mother. They had picked her up when he was twelve. at first, they were forced together as the only two lacking a penis, but between then and as the crew grew she become one of the few people he would listen to and respect. She had been his biggest supporter since he changed his name. This led to many fights with the former Caption.
"Does it matter who did it, I mean none of us even liked him we only listened to him because of the chips. So isn't this a good thing that he's gone?" Kay the architect asked looking up from her book. She had never been a fan of the captain even though he's the reason she met her three beloved partners, Kay was still a Warbler and birds love their freedom. Jade took a moment to think. She too missed her freedom to do as she pleased and was tired of the Captain forcing her hand on frankly minuscule things. The youngest members of the crew would still need to be punished for the mess though.
"You have a point there Kay I guess we're free now, welp you two get this messed cleaned up. Everyone else doesn't track blood in the halls, no sense giving Luke more work. He may actually miss the basted" Jade left the hall in front of the kitchen, she had more crew to inform about their lack of a captain. Bill and Faye left to head down to engineering to get the blood out of his gears. Danny and Jackson set about their cleaning as Jackson grumbling about how he didn't do it and how the cleaning wasn't his job.
Jorden and Violet went to clean off Violet’s room closet of the lovers. Kay followed after her partners, she made herself comfortable on Violet’s bed with her book to wait. As the water began to warm Jordan turned to Violet who was admiring her new Roses in the mirror and asked.
"So why did you do it?"
"Because he wouldn't stop dead naming Jackson and he couldn't seem to respect anyone I loved, I only wish it hadn't taken this long for one of my plans to work. These are some of the loveliest flowers you've made me." Violet said with a smile as she arranged the blood rose into a crown.