NON-CANON- Detective

NOTE: This is a now-defunct version of the first chapter of this story. It remains up for comparison purposes. It is non-canon in regards to the story now. 

The actual first chapter, remade and redone, can be seen here:

http://frombeyondthestars.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-visitor.html

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Appaloosa Plains

Southern Colorado

A woman was standing outside a small house in the southern part of the Colorado town. The man inside hid himself from the public eye since his supposed involvement in a major event which caused the entire western half of the United States to lose power temporarily, and the woman was but one of hundreds with the intention of getting information from him, but in her case it hit a little too close to home. As the woman talked on her cell phone to someone, the man closed his eyes and prepared his "no comment" speech.

  "You know I don't want to do this alone but I have to, you know I'm the only one with the qualifications to do this and I don't want you to sit in the car alone for an hour while I'm inside talking with him... No no, it will just be a regular conversation asking him about his connection to that event in Appaloosa Plains... Because I'm a detective. That's what I do. I, uh, detect. Now you just wait in the hotel room, I'll be back in an hour, and hour okay? I'm right outside the guy's house. Put something nice on for when I get back... you know what I mean!" The woman laughed, then said "I love you. Gotta go." She walked up to the house and was about to knock on the door, but was surprised when the door opened before her hand had the chance to hit it.

"Yeah what do you want?" The man, Peter Richards, angrily asked. He had wanted to keep people out of his private life but after two weeks it seemed he still hadn't been able to get the message across to anyone.

The woman stood at the door for a few seconds, then said. "Hello, my name is Kelly Coen. I am a detective from Starlight Shores PD. Well a Private Investigator really but I prefer the title 'Detective'. I am here to ask you about the event that occurred a couple weeks ago."

Peter rolled his eyes. "No comment. I already said that to all the press, the feds, the detectives and the people who want to make a movie out of what happened. No. COMMENT! I plead the fifth! I dance the line of silence. I will not talk to anyone!"

Peter slammed the door in Kelly's face, and she realized if she was anything like her red-loving cousin she would smash the door open and punch the guy in the face repeatedly for those actions.

Instead, Kelly breathed a bit, calmly and collectively, and said through the door "I know you don't want people to think you're crazy, Peter. But I believe what you initially said, that it was an alien event. I believe you because I know a few green aliens. In fact, one is my girlfriend."

"Wha?" Peter thought to himself as he stood there.

"That's why I'm here. The ones I know want me to figure out what you know about the one who supposedly lived in your house for three months. They want me to figure it out so they have some kind of connection to their home world. I just need an hour!"

"Yeah, prove it. Give me one bit of proof that you are who you say you are, Miss Coen!"

Kelly sighed, and said. "Torra Sev. Project Hybrid. Either of those make any sense to you?"

Kelly continued standing outside for a moment, and was tempted to walk away, but the door opened revealing Peter. "One hour you ask? Okay."

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Ten minutes later Kelly and Peter were sitting in the living room of the latter's home. Apparently her hour hadn't started yet because she looked sternly at him and he hadn't said a damned word. "Hey there. Are we gonna talk or something?"

"Uh yea, sorry." Peter sighed, then said "Though I don't know what to talk about. Up until about three months ago I had nothing to say to anyone. Then... it happened...

 "I was taking one of my early morning walks down the outskirts of this town when all of the sudden I look up and see a meteorite coming down towards me. I jump out of the way and, rather than a massive explosion, there's some bright flash of silent light." 

"When the light vanished, I saw this woman lying on the ground. She was green, and looked... alien. I didn't know where she was from, so I was about to run before I stopped myself."

"Why did you stop?" 

"I don't know. Something about the woman was calling to me. She needed me, no one else was going to help her. So I picked her up, carried her back to my place, and put her on my bed."

"What happened next?" 

"....she woke up. She looked at me, and started speaking perfect English."

"Hello. My name is Corvira Majji. I think I might have landed in the wrong part of Earth." The alien said, holding her head in pain from the impact of the landing.