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// Chapter 6 
// Story: What Have I Done 
// by Timelordderpy 
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The next day at the hospital,

Tom had just informed the parents that Chess may be in danger. Also that they will need to speak with the detective in charge of her case. Joe's brother Bod(pegasus) and his wife Jenny(unicorn) both arrived just in time to hear the shocking news. Chess had been out of surgery for a couple hours before Tom showed up. But she's still unconscious so Jenny is staying with her and Sally and then call them when Chess wakes up. Bob is taking both Joe and Nancy to the detective's office to answer any questions he has and figure out who wants their daughter dead.

Entering the office,

Both parents are sent to different rooms to be questioned, even Bob is needing to be questioned. Inside Joe's room detective Hank sits down on the opposite end of the facing Joe eye to eye. He brings out a pen and notepad flipping it open he begins

"Alright Mister... Joe is it?"

He nods.

"OK. You can start by telling us what happened that night."

Joe sighed and began telling Hank about the three of them going to see the Wonderbolts show and Chess staying home because she wasn't paying attention in school. Then 3 hours later they came back only to see the house engulfed in flames. Not finding Chess anywhere outside and rushing in to save her.

"Hum, Is there anypony in or outside of the family that your daughter may have had a disagreement with? Or maybe somepony that feels treated by her in any way?"

"No everypony in our family loves each other very much. Yes. We do tend to have a few disagreements, but we always find a solution and make up with each other. As for outside the family..."

Joe paused for a second.

"There is this one pony that does have negative feelings toward Chess. But I doubt that he would do anything to hurt her."

"And why would you think this?"

"Because his son Bishops(unicorn) is dating Chess. And the worst he's ever done is just glare at her."

Hank sighs

" Joe. Ponies who are clever enough to make an attempted murder look like an accidental fire can easily hide their true feelings against somepony. If it's by putting on a fake but very convincing smile...or giving them a simple and rather harmless glare. Can I get the name of this pony?"

"...It's Charles."

Inside Nancy's room,

Riley(earth pony) continues writing down Nancy's statement. What she's getting is the father of one of Chess's friends, more specifically her boyfriend. It appears that this stallion does not like Chess all that much. Nor does he like his son being around her and is always giving her dirty looks plainly stating that he completely dislikes her. There was this one time when Bishops wanted to take Chess on a date to the movies. They were all perfectly fine with and Joe even offered to drive them both there. But when he arrived at Bishops house to pick him up Charles had canceled the whole thing saying that he doesn't want an (annoying little brat) like Chess wasting his son's time. Joe wasn't to happy about what he had said and what he called Chess. He had gotten into a big argument with Charles right there at the front door saying that has no right in treating his daughter the way he has since the two of them started dating. Charles had ended the argument saying that he is breaking the both of them up and does not ever want to see Chess with Bishops ever again and if he catches her with him she'll be sorry then he slammed the door right in Joe's face and that was the end of it. At first Joe was going to report him to the police for threatening his daughter, but decided not to and just keep Chess as far from him as possible. Even if that means keeping her away from Bishops as well. Chess started saying that they're just doing this because they want her to be happy with anypony. But they've seen how Charles is and when he threaten Chess like that they know for certain that he will do something to harm Chess. So they decided that it's just best to keep them away from each no matter how much it hurts them both. And that's it with Nancy's interview.

Finally, the last detective Clarence(unicorn) interviews Bob, but his statement that much for them to go by on. You see Bob only looks after Chess at least once or twice a month. That's because Bob has to work most of time he being a well knowing and respecting police officer. So no one was ever foolish enough to ever trying and mess with Chess while he's around. And every time Bob's taking care of the two girls he always takes them to the park to play and spend time with friends, sometimes meeting new ones. He takes them there for most of the day and at the end drives them back home. But he always waits for either Joe or Nancy to arrive home before he leaves and never leaves the girls by themselves. In fact he had told Joe before that it's not a good idea to leave Chess home by herself, even though she is a very smart girl and knows how to take care of herself and never open the door for strangers. Bob had said that it's not a good idea to leaves kids at home by themselves, even if they're smart and knows what to do. Anything can still happen if left by themselves. But Joe didn't listen he said that they're in a safe neighborhood with very few houses. Most of them, theirs including people have built themselves with their own hands and that they even have a neighborhood watch keeping eyes on everything 24/7. But Bob was still worried about leaving the girls home all by themselves. And from where he's sitting right now, it looks likes he was right to worry. But even though he worried about the more common problems, he had never thought about a possibility of somepony wanting to... kill one of them. Especially not somepony as loving as Chess.

A couple more hours later,

Finishing up with the interviews Joe, Nancy, and Bob are heading out the front door when suddenly Bob's phone rings, it's Jenny! He pressed the ANSWER button and held it up to his ear.

"Hey honey how is everything going with Chess...Really...That's Great! We're just leaving the detective's office we'll be there soon...OK I love you too Bye."

He hung and slid his phone back in his pocket, then turned to faced Joe and Nancy with a huge smile on his face.

"Great news you two! That was Jenny and she said that Chess has just woken up!"