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* 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 and interrogation of one mrs katherine hirsch , aka a meeting .
she trembles while walking, not a bone on her body able to remain calm. part of katherine wants to sit down and proccess what just happened, why people keep asking her so many questions, what does it means, but she just keeps rambling around the manor, afraid of what might happen if she stops, her long skirt helplessly flowing with the movement. besides the investigators, no one seems to want to cross her path at the moment, so she is left free to do her restless march, talking to herself to relieve the tension.
like a disorganized film roll, the images of the day come to her without making any sense. parts of her skirt were soaking wet from when she kneeled on the pool border to have a better look at nicholas, and she fixates her eyes on the space under her nails, dirty with the blood from the man himself. it didn’t matter how much she thought about it: katherine had a hard time understanding what led them to that moment and what could have prevented it, how her and her damned, clearly unlucky, ex-husband ended up in this situation. slowly and alone, never stopping the stroll, she revives the minutes before she heard his scream, looking for fails or any clue that it was a distasteful prank, one that only he could think she would enjoy, but everything seems in its place. the small piece of pie she ate during their few minutes apart (they were about to leave, but she was still hungry) now sat unwell on the back of her stomach, and the feeling gets worse when she remembers her daughter. what would she say to alice? had anyone told her at this point? would it be more traumatizing to know by a text message or a call?
caught up in planning what to say to her daughter, katherine enters the study room by accident, already ready to disappear again, when she is approached by an unknown woman, automatically backing away from the said margot dumarier. she is tired, her feet hurt and, most importantly, she is not in a good mood, so she crosses her arms in front of her body in a defensive posture, confused by what is happening now. “and where are your credentials, to justify such curiosity? i don’t suppose the new police’s uniform is a green velvet dress,” she doesn’t try to be even remotely polite, genuinely disoriented and on the edge of her emotions. “we did come together. it’s a common situation when you have known each other for forty years and have a child together. write it on your notepad, since you don’t seem to have done your homework.”
she knew that face, the sorrow piling under those eyes, the guilt that weights down on those shoulders. she looks at katherine, the so called widow, and sees herself -- then, now, every single day in between. oh, isn’t it terrible? it doesn’t get any easier, a bitter voice in the corner of her head says. margot recalls being the receiver of those questions; yes, that much she remembers, unlike any other thing.
out for a run ! shelley had written in the foggy mirror that morning, in their little honeymoon cottage, the first morning after their wedding. it wasn’t really a wedding, not legally, but it was a big party, with big diamond rings and big glasses of champagne. they shared a big bed that night, far away from the city and from anyone they knew. then, the police came to margot with big bad news. was she friends with shelley robinson? no, she corrected as she hugged the flannel of her robe closer to herself, she’s my wife. they shared a look between themselves, then cleared their throats, did she know her whereabouts? out for a run. there’s been an accident. is she alright? she’s gone, miss. gone? she’s dead.
she swallowed that truth despite the pain -- then. sat by the kitchen table, quiet as they asked all kinds of questions. the nosy old lady next door found shelley by the lake, and margot saw her body outside as they put her in the back of that ambulance. then, that same lady poured her some coffee, putting some effort into hiding the curiosity. she didn’t flinch, didn’t touch the coffee but didn’t look away from the cops’ eyes either. what did you do this morning, before we arrived? quiet. silence. more than a beat went by and all she did was look up at them. she doesn’t remember, but doesn’t say it. surely she couldn’t forget if she had done something terrible, no? and then it dawned on her; lydia walked through the door, looking concerned at that, and what in the seven hells would she be doing there uninvited? margot called for her, of course. she just couldn’t remember it.
margot cried into her shoulder then, copiously, the cops giving them some privacy at last. what happened, gogo? i don’t know. i don’t remember. well of course you don’t, how could you? you weren’t there . i don’t know, liddy.
they never learned what happened to shelley in the end. all margot knows is that it must have been bad. feels as though she never had a funeral; all she got was a closed casket, a collection of dying flowers atop of it, and the diamond ring she had gotten from shelley three days ago. and then that guilt, that might have been hers to yeld or not, that closes around her throat like an itchy rope ever since. what can’t i remember? it could've been that, with no problem / rope against shelley’s beautiful neck, too tight, a more so than breathtaking scene. if margot had been there, perhaps she’d know. maybe she was driving too fast. maybe she fainted too close to a cliff. a heavy candlestick against her beautiful head. a moving train. a hungry animal. suddenly remembered she never learned how to swim, when she was already underwater. choked on a cherry seed, died with a sweet taste on her lips. knife, bullet, pipe. an enemy. a wife. what did she do that morning, before the cops arrived? . . . oh - i wouldn’t know.
she swallows that truth despite the pain -- now. oh, yes, i know it hurts. but someone ought to ask the questions that will echo in your mind, no? margot blinks those memories away; her whole life is one big funeral, but there’s another corpse to bury here. she looks down attentively, inspects her gown for a few seconds.
margot : ha . would it be entirely too bad ? ( the police seem like they could go for a change in costumes, after all . ) my research . contrary to your belief , mrs hirsh , i find no pleasure in untangling the death of your ex husband .
she blatantly lies, because there’s no one there to stop her. then, closes her notepad, lets it rest on her velvety lap, looks up at the woman with a calm pair of eyes. was that a smile katherine just saw?
margot : the investigators have taken their turns with you already , hadn’t they ? i don’t believe they’ve gotten any nicer since my last encounter with them . it’s a shame they were removed from their lovely , warm homes on a holiday like this . you’d think they’d do anything to call it a case , get on their cars , never think of it again . ( a shrug, ) they could even blame it on the easiest target . did you say you had an alibi for tonight , mrs hirsh ? ( and her notepad is open again, pen in hands, a sigh. ) because , as i see it , you could use an unbiased narrator of this night .
#ela é muito escrota KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK#fui mais doida que o normal com esse culpa de kate bush#📚 ❜ ─── thread .#📚 ❜ ─── ft. katherine hirsch .#📚 ❜ ─── 001 / the evidence .
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* 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 and interrogation of one mrs katherine hirsch , aka a meeting .
interior , the study of the gellhorn manor . night . she hadn’t been asked to take part on any questionings, per se, but things always sort of folded themselves that way. margot didn’t leave the house much nowadays, avoided the media and avoided people at any cost -- but came prepared whenever avoidance wasn’t an option. liddy wasn’t the type of person to engage with policemen -- let’s leave it at that --, by so making margot dumaurier, murder mystery author, the one best versed person to handle the situation while they still couldn’t contact anyone on the outside of the house.
of course, the fair rain turned storm didn’t help, and the way a tree near the entryway seemed to have blocked their only way out wasn’t exactly good news. truth be told, they didn’t have any news to call good then. there was a dead body in the pool -- well, recently removed from it, now lying by its border like an overgrown fish stuck in the sand. liddy had already gone through a couple breakdowns following the sight of the body (though the one sentence she muttered seemed more worried about the pool part rather than the dead body -- it had been dozens of dollars recently put on that new pool, after all; and only by margot’s reassurance, that she would take care of it and make sure whoever did it was punished, did poor lydia calm down. she picked her yellowed little notebook from her purse, asked thomas for a pen and questioned each and every person she encountered.
you see, no one really questioned it. she seemed to know what she was doing, if anything used to it -- and that was a whole thing for itself. people seemed to have this strange impression that margot was a terminally grieving woman, followed by death everywhere she went, though there never had a day where she didn’t profit out of that. of course, she didn’t love the whole prospect of murder -- but wasn’t her overly accostumed to it mind the source of all her riches? didn’t she find a way to turn every other encounter with death into a riveting tale for the pages? oh, death chased her alright. at this point, however, she simply chose not to run anymore.
she approaches the study room. mister wadsworth ( the gellhorn house’s butler ) , who had been walking around with margot and announcing the name and relations of whoever they ran into around the house, had introduced the upcoming figure as the ex wife.
margot : ex widow , now , i suppose . ( and mildly regrets the attempt at a joke almost immediately . )
mr wadsworth : well , yes , ma’am . mister nicholas’ former wife is katherine hirsch . together , they are the owners of an art gallery that carries their name .
the slip on the present tense in his sentence makes her spine itch, but margot is good at letting that one go. she walks into the room, and wadsworth waits outside. her gaze lingers upon katherine longer than she can help. there’s something deeply intriguing about the woman that she can’t quite crack. perhaps, the possibility of once again facing a murderer.
margot : mrs hirsch . i am terribly sorry for your loss . ( though the little notepad was already in hands, and she was mindlessly scribbling katherine’s name in headliner letters across the first quarter of the blank page already. ) i hear you and nicholas were no longer married . i suppose losing a business partner can be just as much of a pain to face .
here’s the problem with margot dumaurier. she’s so up in her murder mystery fantasy already, she doesn’t even remember there’s not a bone in her body able to head an investigation. and, really, she isn’t about to back down unless properly called for.
margot : do you mind if i ask you a few questions ? ( no time left to answer ; she sits down in one of the study’s chairs . ) i don’t suppose you and nicholas came to the party as a couple . did you two ... meet at all tonight ?
#margot a pior do mundo simplesmente mas amo a lendinha#só quer garantir o ganha pão pra sustentar suas cabrinhas !#📚 ❜ ─── thread .#📚 ❜ ─── 001 / the evidence .#📚 ❜ ─── ft. katherine hirsch .#cabe a katherine colocá-la no seu lugar conforme mandam os livros sagrados!!!
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* 𝐀 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐀𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐀𝐓 , a soon to be mystery novel by margot dumaurier , aka an introduction .
interior , evening --- the hall of the gellhorn manor stood silently around her, in all of its majesty, intimidating to the look. her velvet dress, vintage green and long, spoke for itself and quite loudly against the murmuring crowd. they all had something to bicker on and on, the gentle rain outside and the way the renovations had done the house good, as well as the hosts (who had been fighting quite a lot lately, is what they’ve heard, unable to find one single thing to agree upon), but not the woman -- never her. she stands around, not in the corner, but the center of the room, surrounded by those people she had no intention of talking to. takes a sip of her champagne, wishes for something a little stronger, tries to ignore the boredom of being confined to such space. one thing they’re right about, she remarks with a tilt of her head, the renovations truly did wonders. and then returns to the judgemental, usual mindset, minding the way she could see the vines climbing against the outer part of the windows, the way the hounds could be heard even from their spot near the back of the house, the way the ceiling-
lydia gellhorn : gogo ! ( the blonde is as subtle as a trainwreck, yet still manages to catch margot off guard. she has a big hairdo in place, a painted face made uncanny by how often and passionately she smiles. noticing how lonely margot seemed to be in the crowd, however, her smile fades. ) oh , you’re doing that thing you do again , aren’t you ?
margot : god , liddy , can’t a woman have an inner monologue in peace ?
lydia : really, cakes, it’s not an inner monologue if you’re writing a whole murder mystery in your mind.
margot : we’ll see how you feel about that when i reveal the host to be the killer in my next one.
lydia : no need to be brutal ! ( she gives her friend a well knowing look, ) this is not what i brought you here for.
margot : no , you brought me here to drink wonderful chardonnay and ... bond with the other guests ? ( an eyebrow pokes through her forehead; they both knew gogo better than that . ) no ?
lydia : i brought you here because i missed you ! and i’m tired of having to travel to the country everytime i want to see my dearest friend ... and her goats . ( arm around her friend’s, liddy guides margot out of the hall, far from the people. doesn’t take a genius to know that’s precisely where she belongs. )
margot : shame they couldn’t be here tonight ; ( allowing herself to be carried through the crowd, although a bit discouraged ) the goats .
interior , night --- it’s been a pleasant couple of hours, ones the host had dedicated to margot alone, each sprawled over one of the library’s sofas, the writer’s heels thrown off on the ground while her best friend kept her picture perfect outfit untouched. and they did what they did best - talked and talked, good things about themselves only and shit about everyone else at the party. even thomas, liddy’s husband, who was so very kind and lovable but as blank as a white wall, became their target for the night.
lydia : he's just so annoying . he agrees with everything .
margot : mhmm , ( she's finally standing up and reaching for the decorated flask in her purse that holds a few sacred cigarettes. motions towards the window, opening it wide and letting the cold night breeze take away the smoke of her first puff. ) it's bad when they have an opinion about everything , but if you wanted easy you wouldn't have picked to marry a man of all things .
lydia : for god's sake , cakes , do you have to smoke here ? it's … it's my spot . ( but she knows it's a lost fight, and ultimately goes on about the mediocre man she chose to marry ) he's just … always there . and he doesn't make any difference, if you know what i mean. just all the time, taking up space in the room,---
a scream cuts sharp through the night. liddy stands up in a hurry, joins margot by the window; together, they watch as guests and staffers gather near the pool. the eerie holiday soundtrack coming from the hall downstairs brings a chill to margot's spine.
lydia : oh , god . oh , god , oh , shit , what just happened down there ? ( as her desperation builds up , she searches for comfort in her friend's features. all margot's disposition has to offer is an unimpressed last drag on her cigarette . )
she burns its remains on the window sill.
margot : you brought me here , liddy darling . ( she walks past her friend and instantly takes on the task to put on her brown high heels once more , ) we both know what just happened down there .
#📚 ❜ ─── introduction .#📚 ❜ ─── 000 / a body afloat .#📚 ❜ ─── ft. lydia gellhorn .#amiga! este é um surto aleatorio pois eu tive muitas ideias juntas pra margot e não quis fazer um turno mais quilometrico do que de costume#então só um pov assim como fiz da nancy lembra?? just two girlies chilling before disaster !#ps imaginei a dona lydia bff da margot como a laura linney pois ela tem cara de ser muito galera certeza de que aguentaria essa chata <3
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