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The Art Thief's Obsession (LunarWolf and Guardian Angel)

LunarWolf

LunarWolf

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Mar 29, 2018
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Nathan "Nate" Lombardy got out of his car as after he arrived at the crime scene. this was the fifth art theft in the last month and all of them had the same calling card. Nate moved carefully as his arm was still in a sling after having had surgery to repair damage done to his shoulder while over seas. Nate was a retired marine and while on duty he had been shot in the shoulder. over the last six months he had been going through physical therapy and surgery to repair the damage his most recent surgery had been a month before and this was his first day back. Nate looked around and then headed to speak with the officer who responded to the theft. Nate questioned the cop and then headed in to look at the spot that the art work had been hanging. While Nate was talking with the other cops and getting a look at the scene his new partner Max was interviewing the owners and getting a picture of the art work so that they could add it the board of the missing work. so far they had found no links between the art work and Max was glad to have a new partner and one who was listening to his input and they were making some head way but not alot.
 
While the cops were there examining the scene there were a number of others that were around just talking and watching what was happening. Everybody knew about the art thefts that had been happening recently although nobody had managed to find a connection between the art work. At least almost nobody had put a connection between it... except for those that were stealing the artwork. Standing nearby and watching were a pair of black haired twins- their emerald colored eyes just seeming to take in everything that was happening. "How terrible that somebody would steal artwork. I hope that they don't ruin it." the male was commenting to the female that was standing next to him - the young woman a whole head shorter than him as she just took in the view. The truth of the matter was that the pair in question were the art thieves - although they didn't truly see it as stealing at all, they saw it as reclaiming what was rightfully theirs.

All of the artwork was being taken had been painted by their mother and it had been in her personal collection. Although three years ago was when the incident had happened and the paintings had all been taken; and the twins had lost their parents as well. Thieves had broken into their family mansion late at night and made off with the paintings - but they had been caught by the twins' parents. There could be no witnesses - so the couple had been killed without any hesitation. Thankfully they hadn't spotted the young woman who had witnessed all of this from where she had been hiding - although this was also an event that had traumatized her and caused her to become more a selective mute - the only person that she would truly talk to was that of her twin brother. The police had never found the murderers - having been more concerned about that than learning about what had been taken from the home.

The artwork in question that had been being taken did have a signature on it - although it was under a pen name that their mother had used so that people didn't truly know who had made the paintings. After all the truth of the matter was their mother had been a famous painter at one point - selling many of her paintings. But the particular paintings in her personal collection were ones that she had painted for memories with her family. The most recent one that had been reclaimed by the twins had been that of two children in a field of sunflowers - the pair of them wearing flower crowns and laughing. A memory that was fond for the twins as well - this was a field of sunflowers that was out of country; their first vacation and a new experience. So the painting truly conveyed the feelings of happiness, joy, and excitement.

Luna Anderson was just looking towards that of her twin brother before she was commenting, "We should get going now, Nox. We have dinner plans for tonight. There isn't much that we can do to help." Soon the twins were turning and heading off - heading towards a nearby diner. Little did the cops know that they had planted some bugs in the art gallery that they had just stolen the painting from, and they were listening into where other paintings were being moved too.
 
Nate talked with Max and they decided that they would go back to the station and talk more there. Nate handed over the keys to Max since he was starting to hurt and he needed to take something for the pain. Nate brought up the artwork on his phone and started looking over them all. it didn't take him long to noticed the signature on one and he started to look at the other missing artwork and noticed they were all by the same artist. Nate looked to Max and told him they needed to look in to the artist and find out what they could about them so that they could find out if they were behind the thefts.
 
The twins ended up eating at the diner before they ended up heading home to their family mansion that was right on the outskirts of town, located on top of a hill overlooking the city. Almost the moment that they arrived - Nox was heading towards his computer room so that he could start doing research into where some of the other paintings were located. When it came to stealing stuff - Nox was the one that was hacking the system while Luna was actually physically breaking into the places where the paintings were at and stealing them away. While Nox was going to his computer room to look into stuff - Luna was heading towards her own art room so that she could work on her own paintings. No she had taken up an artistic streak just like their mother - wanting to somehow become as famous as she had been, hopefully one day. Although she also didn't want to share her work with anybody at that point - currently it was just more done for the fun of it. "Nox. Those officers. I remember them. They came to the mansion after mom and dad were killed. They were the only two... who seemed interested in the why as well as the who." Luna was commenting after a moment in time as she looked towards her brother, who was nodding in agreement.
 
Nate and Max returned to the station and they went to work on locating who the artist was. Nate rested at his desk while Max did the work since he had taken his pain meds. Nate leaned back at his desk and then looked at Max "we need to find the artist and talk to them if they are dead then we need to speak with their descendants" Max looked at him and nodded his head "that would be a good track to follow but I don't want to leave that to someone else as until now no one has noticed the connection between the paintings" Nate nodded his head and then he leaned back and sighed as the medication worked on receiving his pain
 
As they researched more into the paintings they would actually find one of them did have a different name listed on it as well - a pen name and a real name. The first painting that somebody named Alicia Anderson had done. The name would be quite familiar to the both of them at that point in time. The case from three years ago - the successful married couple that had been murdered in their own home. Although what nobody else knew was that the daughter had witnessed it happen - yet again she had gone into shock about it and had just kind of fallen off the radar for a while. More like just stayed at home and out of sight of basically everybody other than her twin brother.
 
Nate looked at Max when he mentioned the other name and then he nodded his head "we can go and see them in a few I want to make sure that we are right before we go and dig up old wounds especially since we never found the killers" Nate remembered the case and it bothered him that the killers had never been found. while he hadn't been involved in the case personally due to being in the military till recently Max had been and had filled him in on everything he was working on as that case was still on his desk as he refused to let it go till he found who had killed them.
 
They would find information that the owners of the house were the children of the deceased couple - and it had been presumed for the longest time that neither of them had been at the mansion when the crime had been committed. Which was true... on Nox's part anyways. He hadn't returned to the house until he got a call from Luna who had just whispered that she was scared before it went quite. That had him hurrying home to see the scene himself - but he had taken to just getting his sister out of there; the police having actually been alerted by their parents. A security system had been put in place where all it took was a press of a button to alert the police, and their mother had hit it when the people had broken in. But it hadn't been enough. Nox had just taken Luna to a nearby friend's house for the night - giving them, especially her, the time to process everything.
 
Nate listened to Max go back over the case and nodded his head. this hand him wondering who would be stealing their mothers art work/ Nate then shifted and looked at Max "lets get going I want to speak to them" Nate didn't know if they would find anything but he hoped that they would get information from the two. Nate then slowly stood and headed out to the car with Max following behind him so that they could find out more about the art work that had been stolen.
 
The twins were doing their own thing at the time - unaware that they were going to be having visitors soon. Nox was just doing research into where the other paintings could be found while Luna was busy painting in her studio. The curtains to her studio were open so anybody who pulled up to the mansion would see that she was at least there.
 
It took them about thirty minutes to get form the station to the house and when they arrived Max and Nate looked up and spotted Luna. This had them going and knocking on the door, While Max stood and waited for one of them to come and answer the door Nate looked around and wondered why the kids decided ti live in the home that their parents had been killed in. Nate then looked at Max and asked if he knew why they hadn't moved. when Max said he didn't know why they lived there Nate nodded his head
 
Luna was just looking for a moment when she heard the knock on the door which had her getting up and heading to the door. She was opening the front door - not even bothered by the fact she was covered in a bit of paint. Although it wasn't long before Nox was coming over and she was ducking behind him a bit shyly. "Can we help you?" Nox questioned.
 
"yes I am Detective Archer and this is my partner Detective Lombardy and we were wondering if you had a moment to answer some questions we have." Max was speaking for the both of them as Nate seemed preoccupied by something at the time. Both Max and Nate were curious as to who would steal their mother's artwork but they both didn't think that the two would know much but they still had to ask the questions.
 
Nox was just looking towards the pair of them for a moment before he was just lightly rubbing his sister's arm since she was having one of her anxiety moments. But this was normal nowadays especially whenever random people came to the house. Outside in public she was fine with strangers, but random people showing up at the house without warning was a different story. "Luna. Why don't you go and make us all some hot chocolate." Nox was suggesting to his sister, give her a chance to step away and calm her nerves before she was gesturing for the detectives to come in and was leading them to his office.
 
both men followed him and looked around the house. spotting a few paintings that were hanging on the walls made Max wonder if someone else in the family painted as well. when they walked in to his office Nate sat down and then looked at Max who remained standing. both men took how they asked questions differently and Nate was more relaxed about it as it put the other person at ease and more willing to speak with him while Max was rather formal
 
After a couple of questions being asked it seemed like Luna was coming into the room and offering them all some hot chocolate, sipping at some herself. Well the answer of who was the painter was answered when she was going over to the easel that was in the room and she picking up a brush. Nox was just looking for a moment before he spoke, "Don't mind her. She has terrible anxiety when it comes to strangers being here." After that he was looking at Luna then spoke, "Luna. They are detectives. Maybe they can help solve the mystery." This had Luna looking for a brief moment in time before she was looking towards the two detectives that were there. Perhaps they could... but who knew. It also meant... that she needed to open up. She needed to speak about that night. Nox could see her grip tighten a bit on the brush that she was holding as she just lowered it down some.
 
Nate looked at her and then spoke softly "if you're not ready don't worry about it we are not going to force you" Nate could tell that the idea of talking about it was making her anxious and he didn't want her shutting down on them when they needed to get some answers. Nate looked at Max who nodded his head and then smiled lightly "if you're able can you tell us about that night?" Max hoped with some more information they would be able to close the case
 
Luna was just looking for a brief moment in time although she did almost go a bit pale when she was being asked about what had happened that night. There were a lot of thoughts running through her head... one being how they knew that she knew anything. As far as the authorities knew neither of the siblings had been there, they had just come home to the aftermath. No maybe that is what they were questioning about. What they had come home too. And they had timed it so that they were coming back while the police were there, make it seem less suspicious. Nox was just getting up and going over to his sister to gently rub her shoulder to try and get her to settle down.
 
Nate watched them both and waited he didn't press the issue but he could tell there was more to this then simply coming home to your parents gone. Nate leaned forward and then spoke softly "you were here when it happened weren't you?" Nate couldn't figure out why she would be so stressed about talking about it if she had only seen the aftermath and not the actual attack. Max looked at Nate and wondered what the man was doing but he wasn't going to question him about it
 
Nox was just looking sharply at the man when he was actually asking the question on if she had been there that night then he was looking back towards his sister especially when he heard the shatter - the mug of hot chocolate slipping from her hand and falling onto the ground, shattering next to her uncovered feet and legs at the time. He couldn't tell if any of the glass had cut her but he could see her skin turn a bit red from the hot liquid, but nothing severe. Luna was just wrapping her arms around herself tightly and definitely seemed to be shutting down at that point in time. She was hiding behind her hair at that point in time but it was pretty easy to tell that she was trying to breath through an anxiety attack at that point in time. Nox was just looking at the detective for a moment in time before he was speaking, "Yes. Luna was there at the time of our parents murder. She witnessed it all and became a selective mute after that. About the only person she will talk to now is me. I was at a friends house when she called me on her phone and just whispered that she was scared before the line went dead. I rushed home worried for her only to wander into the murder scene.... and then my frightened twin coming out of hiding. She had some blood on her from when it had splattered and managed to get on her." With that he was just going over to his desk to grab his sweater off of the back of the chair and going over to drape it over his sister, giving her something familiar to help calm her at that point in time.
 
Nate nodded his head "I don't mean to cause you more stress but we need to know what happened that night it might help with the case we are working right now and it could also help solve their murders. Nate didn't care if she told her brother and he told them if it made her feel better but they needed to know the answers to the questions they had. Max was surprised when Not confirmed that she had been there and he looked at Nate and wondered how the man had known that and why he had even asked the question if he suspected that she had been there.
 
Although it was pretty evident at that point in time that Luna wasn't going to say much of anything, even as Nox was kneeling next to her and just quietly asking her questions. She wasn't responding to him at all, going into that more catatonic state for the time being. She was just sitting there quietly just clutching the sweater as though it was a safety blanket at the time at least for a moment. She did look towards her brother for a brief moment and was just stating something that would perhaps not make sense to the detectives but it made sense to him. It was just a color and a number. Talking about some of her covered paintings and the one she spoke of he knew well - she had painted it a week after the murder. A painting of the murder scene - almost an exact replica of what the cops had come into see but with the added detail of where she had been hiding. It wasn't as though she had stumbled upon it but she had been in the exact room when it had happened. Nox was just nodding before he was stating, "I will be back in a moment."
 
Nate and Max nodded their heads and watched him leave the room. both men were curious as to what was going on but they both figured they would see what was going on when Nox returned. Nate looked at Luna and worried that he had done more harm than good by asking her if she could tell them about what had happened. Nate wanted to ask if she could draw the faces of the men who had killed their parents but he didn't want to traumatize her more then head had
 
Luna just seemed to be sitting there quietly but it wasn't long before she seemed to be picking up her brush so that she could start painting. The painting that she had been working on was just pushing set against the window and a new canvas placed on the easel. No she was still zoned out, she wasn't paying attention... trapped in her own little world but she was at least calm, outwardly anyways. It wasn't long before Nox was returning to the room to show the men the painting of the crime scene - presented in the point of view of how one would have seen it when they first walked into the room. He was then pointing out a small detail of the figure that was hiding beneath one of the tables nearby the scene. Close enough to get caught up by blood splatter but thankfully with how she had been hiding under the table - it made it difficult for the killer to have spotted her.
 
Nate and Max looked at the painting and nodded their head once he pointed out where she was hiding. Nate then spoke "did she ever make a painting of the killers face if they weren't wearing masks that would be a huge help" Nate looked at Nox and hoped that she had but if she hadn't then there was little they could do other then work the case and find out where the paintings were bought from and where they had ben gotten from
 
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