Apart

Hour 5

Vincent POV
"Sienna, We need to ask you a few more questions." Izzie says
"Oh. What's wrong?" She asks
"In the crime scene, we found a piece of metal that had USC's logo on it." I describe.
"Do you think I still did it? I have an alibi!" She shouts out.
"It's all right, Sienna. We know you didn't do it. But can you give us any potential people that would do it?" I ask in desperation."Can you tell us more about your friend that wasn't with your team that night."
"Carson? You think he would do it?" She laughs.
"Just tell us all about him." Izzie orders.
"Carson is a genius but he has social anxiety and OCD. He is only 16 but he skipped 4 grades. We became friends when it was his first day here. I guess he clung onto me. Ever since, we've been very close friends and I've fought with him through many tough times. See, he lost his two brothers in a shooting 5 months ago. Now, he occasionally misses our practices and meeting to visit them. Carson would never hurt a fly." She explains.
"Ok. Thank you." I say
"We were wondering if you have any spare steel drones." Izzie asks.
"I could check in the back. Follow me." She answers.
"We have some of these drones that weren't qualified for our competitions. Will this work?" She holds up a small, black drone.
"That's perfect." I affirm.
As they talk about drones and computing, I walk over to Carson.
"Hello, are you Carson?" I question.
"Yes?" He turns his head with confusion.
"I'm detective Almanza and I'm investigating a attempted murder. I would like to ask you a few questions." I say.
"Oh...of-f-f course." He stutters.
"There is no need to be nervous. It's just a few basic questions." I try to calm him.
"Where were you on the night of the 11th?" I ask.
"I w-w-was in my dorm room, finishing up an assignment." He says.
"Do you have anyone that can approve this information?" I question.
"Yes-s-s. Jordan?" A handsome man appears from the hall.
"Yes, Detective?" He asks
"Were you with Carson on the night of the 11th?" I ask
"Oh yes. We were partners for a big geology project we had to finish." He assures.
"Ok. Thank you."
"What is your relationship with Sienna?" I ask.
Before an answer arose, he chomps down on a Cheeto.
"Oh. S-s-sorry, I have a tendency to stress eat." He informs me.
"Oh! It's fine." I awkwardly approve.
"My relationship with S-S-Siena? Can you keep a secret?" He nervously whispers.
"Yeah?" I confirm.
"I have a crush on her. She gives me this funny feeling every time a talk to her. She makes me feel safe. She make me feel loved. Do you have anyone l-l-like that in y-y-your life?" He asks.
"Yeah." I smile thinking about Veronica.
"Thank you so much, Carson" I conclude.

We arrive back to the station.
"Izzie, wait. How can a 9mm pistol be attached to a drone?" I realize.
"It's just a theory." She says.
"How are we going to test this theory?" I ask
"I need a few hours to make a mechanism that will work. Trust me." She says.
"Fine." I answer.
**
"Done!" Izzie walks to my desk. She shows me the drone.
"How does it work?" I ask.
"Well, I had to figure out away to attach a gun but also allow it to shoot somehow. So I just... drove back down to USC and made Sienna help program a gun to shoot via drone controller." She address.
"I thought you did this by yourself?" I mock.
"Shut up." She smirks. "Ok. Let's test this."
We walk down to the shooting range. Izzie starts flying the drone. She presses the button on the controller. I smile as I see a few pieces fly off as the gun goes off.
"I actually can't believe that worked." I admit.
"Whatever. We now need to find the suspect."
"We obviously know it's not Sienna or any of her teammates. I also cleared Carson while you were talking to Sienna." I declare.
*ring *ring *ring
"Hello?" I answer. "Oh ok. We will be right down there."
"Who was that?" Izzie asks
"It was Detective Pierce. He found something at the scene." I confirm.
**
"Hi Pierce. What is that?" He had another piece of metal.
"We were searching and found this." He replied.
"Ok. We'll get this to forensics. Thank you."
"It's been a long day. Go home." Izzie says.
"I'm fine." I start to yawn.
"Do you think that I'm giving you a "helpful tip"? Go home." She demands.
"Fine. I still have I drive you to the station.
2:00 am.
"Ah ah ah. You think it's that easy?"
His arm slowly moves to the side of my beloveds head. My heart sinks.
Tears drip down her face like waterfalls.
"Bye bye." *BANG
"Ah!" I jump forward from that terrible nightmare. Immediately, I grab my phone and start calling Veronica.
"Babe, it's 2:00 am. Why are you calling?" She complains.
"Are you safe?" I frantically ask.
"Another nightmare?" She questions.
Ever since the El Diablo incident, I've been having the same dream over and over again. My own brother attempting to shoot the love of my life. Thinking about it now still gives me shivers down my spine.
"How could I be related to that monster?" I croak.
"Deep breaths. I wish I could be there with you." She whispers.
"How is Nessa?" I try to keep my mind off El Diablo.
"She is fine, sleeping again. But earlier she was awake and talking to Aaron, holding his hand and reading a book." She says.
"Why can't you two come home?" I whine.
"She wants to be by him and I can't leave her alone this vulnerable. You know that." She chuckles.
"I know. I just miss you. How's Aaron?" I say
"He is still to weak for his second surgery. How's the case?" She asks.
"We think we know how he got shot, we just don't know who shot him." I reply.
"Get some sleep. I love you." She hangs up the phone.

I walk into the kitchen to grab a glass of water when I heard the doorknob rattling. Quickly, I run to grab my gun. The rattling turned into loud thumps on the door. I whip open the door and sigh.

"Izzie, what the hell were you doing?" I blurt out.

"You gave me a key and it wasn't working." She bickers.

"When did I give you-Whatever. It's 2 am, what are you doing here?" I huff.

"We need to get down to the station." She order.

"What the-" Before I could finish my sentence, she drags me into her car.

A/N Thank you for reading! I hoped you liked this chapter! It's the end of spring break for me, so I won't update as much :( I hope you all had a good day!!!- Maddie