** I have no idea who this is a picture of, but for this story, he is the intruder in the woods.

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Someone had suggested the questioning scene but I can't remember now who it was. Sorry.

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Tim groans out in pain as he falls to his knees as his beloved dog limps out of the thicket.

"Satchmo." He says as he grabs the large dog around the neck.

"KIRSTIE! SOMEBODY CALL MACK!" Kevin yells.

"Honey, call Mack." Kirstie tells Patches knowing that the Huskey would come more coming to Patches than her.

"M..MACK? MOAN!!" Patches yells. (come on)

The Huskey turns and runs out of the woods toward his master's voice.

"HONEY?! YOU GUYS COME ON! THE COPS ARE ON THEIR WAY!" Jenika calls to her boyfriend.

Satchmo lays down in from of Tim and begins to lick the leg that was hurt.

"Is he bleeding?" Kevin asks as he stoops down beside Tim, examining the dog's leg.

"I don't see any blood. The guy must have just hit him with something." Tim answers.

"Well, come on. Let's go back to the house." Kevin says as he helps Tim up from the ground. "I'll carry Satchmo. Be careful, this brush is thick."

The girls breath a sigh of relief as they see Tim and Kevin, along with Satchmo, exit the woods.

Jenika groans and shakes her head as she sees Tim limping worse than he was when he went into the woods.

"What happened?" She asks as they got closer.

"Apparently, the guy just hit him with something." Tim answers as  Kevin sits Satchmo down on the patio.

"Alright, that explains him, now what happened to you?" She asks, crossing her arms across her chest.

"Oh, I, Uh, might have fallen a little too hard on my knees when Satch came out of the woods." Tim smirks, rubbing his aching knee, giving his girlfriend an apologetic look.

The police arrive at the house. One policeman, Officer John Legend, went into the woods looking for any kind of evidence the intruder might have left behind. 

"I'm Officer Cowell." The other policeman says with a British accent as he shakes everyone's hand. "Which of you saw the intruder?"

"That would be those two." Kevin says as he points to Patches and Adam, sitting on the patio couch.

"Uh, Officer Cowell? You might want to know that they both have child-like minds." Tim informs the officer.

"Well, alright. Maybe you should come with me so that they won't get scared." Simon nods.

"Hey, Boys?" Kirstie says as she sits down beside Patches and pats him on the leg. "The nice officer needs to ask you about the guy you saw in the woods. So tell him everything you know, alright?"

They both nod and look innocently up at the policeman.

Officer Cowell smiles and pulls up a chair in front of them and sits down.

"Hello there." He smiles. "I'm Officer Cowell but you boys can call me Simon. What's your names?"

"I...I...I'm Adam. Piwate Adam Foust." Adam nods.

"No." Tim chuckles. "His last name is Rupp. My last name is Foust. He lives with me and my girlfriend."

Simon smiles and nods.

"So you're a Pirate?" Simon asks with a smile.

"Uh huh. But I..I a good piwate. So.. So you don't hab to awest me." Adam says with large eyes. (pirate, have, arrest)

"I'm not here to arrest you, Buddy. I'm just here to ask you about the bad man." Officer Simon smiles kindly.

"And you are?" The officer asks turning his attention to Patches.

Patches shyly lays his head down on Kirstie's shoulder.

"He can't really talk. He may try to say words but the don't really come out right." Kirstie tells the officer. "But this is Patches."

"Patches?" Simon asks. "It may just be a coincidence but there used to be a homeless man on Skid Row that everyone called Patches."

"Same one. He just isn't homeless anymore." Kirstie says as she kisses Little Bits on the forehead.

"O.K., Adam? You mind telling me about the man that you guys saw?" The officer asks.

Adam nods. "Yea, I tell you."

"Mmmm man." Patches nods with huge eyes.

"So you both seen him? Where was he?" Simon asks.

"H..He was tanding by dat twee wight dar." Adam says as both he and Patches point to the same large tree in the woods. (standing by that tree right there)

"Could you tell me what he looked like?" Simon asks.

"He...He...He was big." Adam nods.

"Mmm Keb." Patches nods.

"Yea." Adam agrees.

"Uh, excuse me?" The officer slightly chuckles as he looks back and forth between the two.

"We may have to interpret for you." Tim laughs. "I think Patches said that he was big like Kevin." Tim points at Kevin.

"And... and he had wong bon hair." Adam adds.

"Long blond?" Simon asks to make sure he understood correctly.

"Yeth, thir." Adam nods. "But not as bon as Miss Kit's" (Yes, sir. blond)

"Mmm bea." Patches says quietly.

Simon raises his eyebrows at Patches. "Pardon me?"

"Mm bea." Little Bits says a little louder.

"I'm, sorry, but I don't.." The officer says completely confused.

"BEA!" Patches shouts and then tugs at his beard.

Kirstie giggles and hangs her head and mumbles a 'sorry' to the policeman.

Simon only laughs. "Alright. I think I got it. He had a beard."

Simon pulls out his phone.

"Okay. I'm going to show you boys a couple of pictures and I want you to tell me if you see the picture of the man you saw. Alright?" Officer Cowell says.

The boys nod and lean forward to look at the pictures.

"Dats him. Dats da man we thaw." Adam says as he and Patches point to the same picture at the same time.  (that's the man we saw)

"I thought that sounded like his description." Simon says as he looks at the picture. "His name is Steve Johnson and he walked away from a work detail yesterday."

"Simon, his trail leads on back into the woods. I think there is a house on the other side of these woods." Officer Legend says as he comes out of the woods to where the others were gathered.

"Uh, yes, there is." Tim answers. "And it's our house."

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