family line - Nick Burkhardt

rat king

Ivy was sat in her warehouse flipping through  the countless pages on her ansestor diary . Thoughts flooding her head. Question bubbling. Emotions taking over she stood up knocking her chair over grabbing her phone and bike Keys. She slammed the warehouse door open and close before storming her way to her bike. Placing the helmet she left in the handles of the bike on her head before a loud ringing sound filled the air of the empty parking lot. Ivy Huff's remove her helmet before picking up the phone

"What" ivy yelled quitely into the phone

"There been a murder" Wu told ivy

"Cool" ivy said hanging up before Wu could speak again. She shut off her phone and place the helmet back on her head and started the engine

Ivy,Nick and Hank arrive at the school. There are a lot of people behind the yellow tape. They approach Sergeant Wu.

"Detective Burkhardt ,Jones and Griffin, this is Assistant Principal Grace Kaplan. She found the body about an hour ago. Says it's Paul Lawson, a music teacher here.wu"reported to them

"He was the Director of the Music Program. I just can't believe this has happened. It's so horrible." The principal shook

"Well, do you want to tell us what happened?" Nick asked her

"I saw the car when I came in this morning. It's a little unusual for anyone to be here before me, that's why I walked over the car.I'm sorry." The principal began sobbing lightly

"It's okay.ma'am take your time" ivy nodded walking towards the car with nick following directly behind her

"Looks to me like it happened sometime last night. He's been dead for a few hours. Car's locked. We kept it that way. Got some evidence inside, didn't want it to get away." Wu told them all

"Death.by rat? Brutal" Ivy squinted looking threw the car window at the hundred of scattered everywhere

"Looks like." Wu nodded

" Oh, God. Rats. I can't stand them." Hank shivered backing away from the car

"Coroner here?" Nick ask wu

"Yeah, waiting for you. So is animal control. Nobody wants to open the door until you guys give the okay."Wu told them pointing to the door s

"Fingerprints done?" Hank asked

" Yeah, we're good to go." Wu told them

"Open it up." Nick said stepping back

"Let's go." Wu told animal control

A man goes to open the door. He practically breaks in. He opens the door and all the rats start to spill out. There is some screaming as a person from animal control catches some of the rats

"Ooh." Hank flinched as they attempted to catch the rats

"We also found some cages in the bushes you should look at." Wu walks them toward the bushes and shows them the cages they found

"Whoever chucked these didn't make much of an effort to hide them which means they either want to get caught or they were really bad at hide and seek" ivy remarked

"Geiger Pest Control. Do we know them?" Nick asked

"Not personally like I woudnt invite them to dinner" ivy shook her head at him

" I didn't mean it like.... Shut up" nick smiled

"They're in Northeast Portland, by the river. According to the Assistant Principal, Lawson was here last night rehearsing for a school performance supposed to happen on Saturday. Glad I'm not a ticker holder." Wu joked