Glitter and gold

*Chapter 8*

Only a few hours later Natasha was back in the Morgue identifying yet another body. This time it was Harry Michaels her ex- boyfriend who she had been with for 4 months. It was starting to feel like a twisted fairy tail but when she spotted his cold, lifeless body on the table it became too real. Lucas talked through the procedure again but she wasn't listening. The body looked so.... dead but with a sense of tranquility. Natasha remembered when Harry and her would laugh for hours on end but now his pink lips were perused together showing no sign of a smile. As Natasha turned to Lucas something shimmered in the corner of her eye and she immediately looked back. Lucas didn't realised that Natasha wasn't listening to her but noticed when her head quickly turned back towards the body.

"Natasha are you ok?" Lucas asked following her gaze towards abdomen.  

"Yeh I just saw something weird. It looked kinda like glitter or something shinny." Both of them now looked over at Harry's body and sure enough reflecting from the Morgue lights was something shinning.

"Jack can you go and see what that glitter like thing is." A man in a lab coat and blue latex glove nodded and walked into the room. Natasha and Lucas watched as Jack used tweezers and bagged the glittering substance. He cane back and gave Lucas the bag; Lucas held it close to his face.

"Wow you have a good eye Natasha." The contents in the bag were no doubt glitter. Their thought train was de railed as Jack stepped forward and took the bad from Lucas.

"That's funny." He walked away with the bag thinking his comment would have been useless but Lucas stopped him in his tracks.

"What do you mean?" Lucas asked stopping Jack and holding his arm.

"Well both body's that we found had glitter on it strangely in the same place." Jack talked slowly like he was explaining it to a child which started to irritated Lucas.

"Yes I'm fully aware of what you mean but why didn't you tell me?" Lucas asked staring back from the bag to the man .

"I didn't think it was important"

"Oh my lord. Are you dumb? Of course it's important. Now there could be linked."

"Alright alright."  Jack muttered as he walked away leaving Lucas and Natasha alone.

"I'll get someone to examine Alex's body to see if there are any glitter on it." Lucas and Natasha walked back into the precinct all eyes on them and sat down at there desk. Clara scurried over and herself on Lucas's table which earned her a disapproving look but she ignored him.

"So..." she asked leaning forward directing her question at Natasha seeing as Lucas was trying to look uninterested.

"Well it was him" Natasha replied trying not to laugh at Clara's over dramatic gasp.

"Anything else happen?" Clara continued the questioning tilting her head in Lucas's direction slightly. "I think he likes you" she whispered.

"Oh my god! No way" Natasha exclaimed beginning to laugh which lead to both of them giggling like they were on a sleepover talking about crushes.

"Clara I'm officially signing you onto the case. It looks like apart from them both being Natasha's ex-boyfriend, they are linked."

"Wait!" Clara jumped from her desk into a fighting stance pointing at Lucas.

"Are you assigning me a serial killer case?" She asked smiling widely.

"Yes and please don't look so happy she's standing right there." Lucas replied looking worriedly over at Natasha feeling sorry that Clara was actually excited about a serial killer. Natasha shock her head and smiled notifying that she was ok with Clara's excitement. A loud crash was heard and they both looked round at Clara lying on the floor files surrounding her while Theodore stood doubling over from laughter.

"She-she came to brag and th-then tripped over on the slippy floor" he said trying to get his words out through his laughter. Theodore pointed to the wet sign floor and just burst out laughing again. 

"I still got a serial killer case so screw you!" Clara yelled from the floor pointing at another police man presumably meaning to point to Theodore.