Disposing of Bones

"This has to be a joke. Somepony playing with us. Everyone knows there are only four alicorns. It would be big news if one was killed." I say, starting to uncover the remains more.

"Well." Silver says, walking up to me." Technically there are five alicorns."

"Shut up! It's a baby, doesn't count." I say gruffly. Successfully shutting Silver up, I manage to uncover the rest of the skeleton.

"Hey Silver.." I shout, picking up the skull. He walks back down the stairs.

"Yea Andreah?"

"Bring the the gurney, would ya?" I ask, examining the skull.

"No problem." And back up the stairs.

Looking at the skull, I see all the normal signs of a unicorn. On the outside of it, it's fused nicely, nothing to say it's been forced on or tampered with. Flipping it over I look into the Foramen Magnum. It's Latin for 'Great Hole'. It's the hole the spinal cord goes into to connect to the brain. Looking into it, using a light behind me, I see where to horn connects. Same story, fused nicely, no signs of tamperment. Seeing to MOD, method of death, I look around the skull again. I run my hoof over every surface I can, hoping to feel something out of the ordinary. Zip. I look again. Nada. Goose eggs. Dammit. This skull is remarkably unremarkable.

"Silver! Where are you with that gurney!" I shout behind me. Gaining no response, I place the skull carefully back down where I found it. Standing up, I take off my gloves and turn around to be staring down the barrel of none other, than a Griffon Arms firearm.

After the initial shock passed, I notice the firearm being held up by purple glow. Moving slightly to my left I see a familiar face. Smirking at me. Lowering the gun, the mare in front of me smiles.

"Good to see ya, Andreah." She says, non-chalontly. Placing the gun back in a holster on her hip.

"That's not how you greet an old friend!" I yell, throwing my forehooves around her neck. Feeling her return the favor.

"That's how I greet this friend!" She tells me, pulling back from our hug. "Still working as a boring bone inspector?" She asks me.

"You know I love it." I tell her, walking towards the stairs. "You still a cop for the Manehattan police department?"

"Not any more. Where we going?" She asks, following be up the stairs.

"Well, my partner was supposed to be grabbing a gurney for me, but he's running a little late." I tell her, walking into the city hall lobby. Looking around I see no sign that Silver had been there.

"Where the hell'd he run off to?" I rhetorically ask, walking to the front door. I reach my hoof up to push it open only to have the door yanked away before I can.

"Andreah's gonna be pis-- AAH!" He shouts, surprised, his magic dropping the gurney behind him.

"Hmm?" I ask him, raising an eyebrow.

"Andreah! I was just gonna give you this!" Smirking, he levitates the gurney towards me. "You said you need it..."

"Your late. I could've been killed." I tell him, sarcastically. But all too real.

"Yea yea. Who's that?" He looks at the mare behind me. "She's beautiful." He says. I raise my eyebrow again.

"N-not as beautiful as you.... Miss Reigns..." He says, a nervous smile on his face.

"Suck up." I say, before turning around and walking over to the mare-in-question. Standing there, with a blue body and a purple mane, is my friend from college.

"This is Swift Quill. She's a friend from college." I tell him, standing next to her. I watch Silver walking closer, no doubt checking her out. I see his eyes stop on her Cutie Mark, a quill and Griffon Arms pistol. Then I see her wave her flank a little.

"You know! Silver's my coltfriend!" I blurt out, feeling territorial. I see Silver's face turn red while hers shows suprise.

"Anyway!" I say, pushing the gurney towards the stairs. "I've got some remains to move."

Placing the last vertebrae on the gurney, I sigh. Just picking all those up took up a good hour or my time. I wouldn't allow Silver or Swift touch them with magic because they don't know where to place them in relation to the other bones. Noticing something off, I walk around the gurney to look at them.

"Hay, Silver!" I yell, and a couple of seconds later he comes running down the stairs.

"Yes?" He asks, walking over to me.

"This isn't an actual alicorn. Thank Celestia. I think it's just a method of boasting." I tell him, hearing Swift walk down the stairs.

"You see this?" I ask, pointing to the T-6 vertebrae. After getting a hum of agreement from both, I can continue.

"This bone here, and the two surrounding it, would be fused with these here." I tell them, pointing at the wing bases. "They are specific too pegasus., But these are the Thoracic vertebrae of a unicorn. Not a Pegasus." I say, lowering my hoof.

"But that means we have more than one set of remains to uncover." Silver points out.

"Yes, and it's not going to be easy."

Finding the lab was one hell of a chore. Only with the help of Swift was I able to find it. Wheeling the gurney in, I yawn.

"I'll go over these in the morning, I'm getting pretty tired." I say to the two behind me.

"Me too."

"Uh-huh."

"Well, you sticking around, Swift?" I ask her, hope in my eyes.

"Yea. I've brought a tent to camp in." She says.

"Or..." I start.

"The bureau has a couple of cabins just out of town, your welcome to one if you'd like." Silver finishes for me.

"Why not?" She responds, smiling.

"Alright! I'll lead the way!" I tell them.

Talking a deep breath, I flop onto the bed in the cabin. Adjusting myself to lay next to Silver, who was already in the bed, I let out the breath.

"So, was she your marefriend?" Silver asks, bluntly.

"What!?" I blurt out, my face turning red. "N-no! My barn door doesn't swing that way!!" I shout.

"Mmhmm..." He mutters, sitting up to see my face. "I'm thinking mabey... Your 'barn door' was broken for a bit and it swung the wrong way."

"Nuh uh!" My face saying otherwise.

"Well, if you need a third body in bed." He says, sticking his tounge out.

"That was a long time ago!" I scold, pushing him over, then crawling halfway into him. Just enough to look down at his face.

"Besides." I say. "I like it when I have you all to myself~" my voice dripping with lust. Not allowing him to speak, I push my lips on his. Earning a moan from him. Giggling, I run a hoof through his mane.

I'm going to regret this when I have to get up early in the morning.