September 30, 1900

Tombstone. 

This morning I noticed a group of people talking in front of the courthouse and headed in that direction. Ben was talking about not making a habit of living in jail or the doctor’s office and Rock asked if anyone had seen Kris today. 

When Rock saw me, he said, “Trin, I could use your help.” 

“What’s up Rock?” I asked, walking over to him. 

“I need a witness statement from Kris.” 

“Bout what, Rock?" 

“Well about last night’s shooting… he says Lisa shot him and killed Angel, our deputy. September 30 it was, Trin.” 

“Last night was Sept. 29, Rock,” I told him as Ben and Trent continued to talk. “Was anyone around to arrest Lisa? How’d Kris know about it?”

“Oooh okay, dang it. That night then,” Rock said. 

“Didn't see Lisa,” Zeth put in then. 

“Nah, we was all wounded and so was she but she got out of the clinic first and ran,” Rock said and I noticed Hayden looking up at me and smiling. 

“Who was all there?” 

“At the clinic, Trin?” Rock asked. 

“Guess I got in after and got shot by Sniper,” Zeth said. 

“All you’ve told me so far is that Kris got shot by Lisa and saw her kill Angel?” I asked. 

“Trin, maybe we should take this to my office you and Zeth ok?” Rock suggested. 

“Sure,” I nodded and we headed into the office. “Alright let me get this straight,” I looked between them when we were alone. “Kris was shot by Lisa. Angel was killed by... Lisa?” 

“Yes, right. According to Kris,” Rock nodded. 

“Lisa got away without getting arrested, so you need witness statments from Kris?” I asked. 

“No one else will say they saw anything.” 

“Figures.” 

“Right, exactly Trin. To add to my warrant.” 

“Gotcha. I’ll keep an eye out for him.” 

“Zeth may have a statement on that too.” 

I looked over at Zeth and asked, “Did you see either Kris or Angel getting shot?” 

“I can tell you what I heard but has a question to ask if you can search for by questioning,” Zeth said. 

“Deputy lets me know when have the witness of Kris and i will signed the warrant…” Angeles shouted then from somewhere down the street. 

“Thank you, Ange!” I shouted out to her. 

“When I was shot by Sniper and being blacked out and still able to hear, I was overhearing that Mack died last night. I don’t know by who but only guessed Sniper might have,” Zeth said. 

“This is related or unrelated to Kris and Angel getting shot?” I asked him. 

“I sent in a report and will give you one as well. Yes, because there were a lot of outlaws that night. Figured it might be part of the same problem.” 

“Who was around last night that wasn’t an outlaw? Who also might have seen something?” 

“Hmm… Trent was he in fact was wounded as only a bystander,” Rock said. 

“Only ones I saw was the US marshall Shawn, Rock here…” 

“Can you give me your witness statement about you getting shot please, Zeth?” I asked. “Trent?” I called out of the office. 

Zeth took out his report and passed to me and I called for Trent to come into the office as I attached the statement to my incident report. 

“Also...Trin...Nim said she saw Kris and Angel down wounded and Lisa near by, but Nim says she will not testify against her outlaw buddies,” Rock said. 

“Of course not," I rolled my eyes and Rock let Trent in. “Hey there, Trent. Heard you got caught up in some stuff last night.” 

“Howdy Miss Trin,” Trent said as he came in. “I got shot. It don’t hurt too bad though.” 

“Think you could write up a witness statement for me?” I asked and handed him a blank sheet of paper. 

“Golly Miss Trin, I really never did see nothing; it all happened so fast.” 

I looked at Zeth and asked, “

Who was killed last night? Was it Mick the ranger, Mikk the doctor, or Mac the outlaw? You told me Mack when w were talking here but your report says Mick.” 

“Mick. The ranger. That’s what I thought I heard,” Zeth said. 

“Okay,” I nodded. 

“See I was looking at....the sky a lot, and then miss Nim told me to take cover,” Trent said. 

“So you didn’t see who shot you?” 

“Then there was lots of shot people. Someone said they thought mister Rock shot me. In fact several folks have said that.” 

“So you think you were just caught in the crossfire, Trent?” I asked him, with a look at Rock. 

“Well could be, I guess… but yep about four people told me it was Rock.” 

“Alright, guess we don’t need your statement after all then,” I chuckled. 

“I don’t rightly know though. Like I said, I was looking at the sky mostly.” 

“Unless of course you saw who shot Kris, Angel or Mick… Or know of anyone else who was there that might’ve,” I said. 

“Ok then Miss Trin. Sorry I wasn’t more help.” 

“It’s alright, Trent. Just glad you weren’t more wounded,” I said. 

“I did not see any of that at all, Miss Trin,” Trent said. 

“Alright. Thanks for comin’ in for a bit then.” 

Trent headed out then and I heard Adrian yelling, “Why .. is a rock ..wearing a deputy badge??” 

I chuckled a bit and said, “Guess Adrian found Angel’s rock.” 

“Well.. no one can deny that creativity doesn’t flow through this town. Imagine! Naming a rock! What will they think of next?” Adrian went on and I waved to him as we stood in front of the of the office. 

“Alright so... I’ve gotta find someone who was there last night and could tell us what happened, and get Kris’ statement,” I looked between Zeth and Rock. 

“We’ll have a second one closer to today,” Zeth said. 

“Rock, have you written a report up?” I asked. “Don’t s’pose you were around last night, Jy?” 

“I wasn’t. What happen?” Jy asked. 

“Huge gunfight apparently,” I told him. 

“Ok Trin, and thank you,” Rock said. 

“Rock? Do you have a report written up?” 

“Aye, want me to give it to you Trin my witness statement?” 

“Yes please. Might help,” I nodded. 

“Ok,” Rock said and looked around for the paper, handing it to me. I took the report and read over it. 

“Thanks. Guess all I can do is look around for Kris.” 

“He sometimes is hard to find,” Jy commented. 

“Ain’t that the truth,” I muttered. “If he ain’t leanin’ on this post I gotta wait for him to show up.” I rolled my eyes then and wandered away to look for Kris. 

When I got close to Kate’s, I heard a bottle knock over and walked in to see what was going on. “Everything alright in here?” 

“Oh yeah things just dandy,” Ben smiled over at me. 

“Really. Then how come there’s a bunch of glass on the floor?” 

“Clumsy bartender I reckon…” he shrugged. 

“Was that a gun shot?” Lacey got up off the floor looking around nervously. 

“Then how come when I walked in Lacey was standing and now she’s not?” I asked. 

Ben looked behind him to Lacey and then back at me. “Well I can’t rightly speak for miss Lacey but can only assume by her words she thought the clumsy bartender was shooting at her.” 

“Well that just scared the wits out of me I just ducked for cover,” Lacey said.  

“Alright then. Better clean this up or we’ll have injuries from that glass,” I sighed. 

“Never know where bullets be flyin from around here ya know,” Lacey said. 

“There ya go detective...mystery solved,” Ben grinned. 

I shrugged and walked back out, hearing Ben ask Lacey how much she got. I greeted Howling Wolf and talked with him for a while as he told Ben not to break any bottles. We wandered into the saloon and looked between Lacey and Ben before I shook my head and walked out of the saloon. 

I greeted Rock and Bree and said, “Hi Bree. I’m going to let Rock do his job here, since he knows who he needs a statement from. When you’ve got a mystery to solve, Rock, find me. Otherwise, I’ll be in my office.” I waved and walked back to the office.