Big Sky (Beau Arlen x Female!Reader)

Come Get Me

One of the officers showed me and Beau the security camera of the Hoyt and Dewell office. Apparently there was a break in and poor Denise came in on it. Luckily, she hid and waited for the guy to leave. We watched the footage and the masked man was knocking things down, he looked like he was looking for something.

"Alright, thanks." Beau tells the officer and he walks away and Jenny comes up to us. "Hey, any luck on the security cam?" She asked. "No, the guy was wearing a ski mask. He did, uh, gash his arm, though, when he busted the glass." Beau tells her. "Well, that explains the blood." She said, gesturing to the blood spots in the floor.

"And he took his glove off, so if we're lucky, we get a print." I tell Jenny. "Looks like he went through the files of the Bleeding Heart murder." Jenny said and both Beau and I hum at this. "Yeah." She said then she sighs as she looks over at Denise and Cassie, Denise still looked a bit shaken up.

"Uh, we should, um..." I said as I gesture to Denise and Beau nods. "Yeah. Denise, come here." Beau said as he turns to her and she comes up to him and he pulls her into an embrace. "I'm sorry. We'll get to the bottom of this. I promise. Okay?" He said. "Okay." Denise whispers and I pat her shoulder as I go over to Cassie with Jenny.

"Hey, you okay?" Jenny asked Cassie. "I don't know. No. Just brings it all back." She replied. "Your dad." I said and Cassie nods. "Yeah." She mutters. "Bring your stuff by the Sheriff's Station. I'm gonna make space for you, okay? You can work this case from there." Jenny tells Cassie. "Okay, thanks." Cassie said, appreciatively, and Jenny smiles at her.

"Do we have any idea what triggered this?" Beau asked once he finished hugging Denise. "Uh, yeah. I do." Denise said. "Yeah?" Beau said, confused, and Jenny and I go over to her. "Yeah, I posted this message on this online forum that was dedicated to the Bleeding Heart murder." Denise replied and I look at Cassie's case board to see the message Come Get Me with a heart under it written in blood, over their work.

"Yeah, we've been trying to link it to Mark Woodman's death." Cassie said. "My post was the first one since like 2012, and then this happened." She said. "Wow, okay. So whoever did this had their notifications set up for that forum. The question is, what were they waiting for?" I asked. "Attention." Cassie replied and we look at her.

"I mean, clearly, we're onto something. Our backpacker ends up dead, last seen at Deadman's Drop, same place the girl was found." Cassie said. "So we think the Bleeding Heart killer's back?" Jenny asked. "Maybe he never left." I stared and Jenny looks at me while Cassie nods.

"Starting here, Blaire Lucan, 18 years old, the only daughter of Josie and Del Lucan. murdered May 2002." Beau said after we finished setting up a new caseboard for Cassie about the Bleeding Heart murders  at the station as Jenny and I look through the case boxes. "Blaire went missing at an after-prom party at the Basin trailhead, and her body was found before dawn at Deadman's Drop." Cassie said as Jenny puts up a picture on the board.

"Heart was carved out. Forensics said that the Knife used had a curved blade like this one. The Knife was never found." Jenny said as she gestures to the drawing of the knife. "Okay, so with all these cold-case files, what was the working theory?" I asked Jenny and Cassie. "Lots of dead ends, but there was this." Jenny said as she hands me a file and I take it and open it, seeing the autopsy and pictures of Blaire's dead body, Beau comes up next to me to look at it.

"Detectives thought that Blaire's death might not be a one-off." Jenny said. "Hmm. Denise mentioned a link to other killings." Cassie said. "How many?" I asked. "Three in this region alone. Possibly others. All happened before Blaire, all still unsolved." Jenny explains.

"So our guy could be anybody?" Beau asked and I could tell he was a bit annoyed. I couldn't really blame him. "What about the original suspects they questioned?" Beau asked the girls. "There was one that looked good for it, but he died two years ago." Jenny replied. "Any others?" I asked her as I start to fiddle with my locket again.