A little bit of mystery

chapter 1

" Beep...Beep...Beep..." I wake up to my pager beeping. I get up and start to get ready. I have a case on main street and I'm meeting the team there, felix is on sick leave so its only tobias, Leah and me going there this time. I get there and I see the other officers on the case. I get there first because I'm the closest one to the neighborhood. Half way through looking at the crime scene I hear a noise from behind me, tho I know exacly who it is, she does this every time.

" Hey Leah, it's nice of you to join us." the words come out of my mouth without needing to think twice about it, theres a mirror and leah was walking up in the reflection.

" Aww man, how do you do that?" she hastily turned her attention to the crime scene" So why where we called in? As far as I can see this is an usual hit-and-run robbery, you know considering the window is shattered."

" Well I mean, it could be the fact there was a skull in the middle of all this, plus nothing was taken." Leah looked taken aback for a minute.

" Helena I thought we agreed no jokes on the scene." there was a long pause before I spoke again.

" I wasn't joking Leah."

"I'm sorry for assuming then, where is the skull?" I point to where the skull is and she goes over to it. Right after Leah starts to analyze the bone Toby walks in.

"Sorry I'm late, I had something to take care of."

" It's alright, so Toby, how are you?" I hear Leah call out from the other side of the room.

" I'm good you?"

"As fine as a dog with a bone!" there was a silence before I decided to break the aforementioned silence. I take a really good look at toby and he looks like he got next to no sleep and he looked like he just rolled out of bed, and there was a scratch on his neck... whonder where he got the from. 

" So Toby, how was your night. You look a little, um, tired." that caught leah's attention off the skull for a minute.

"You had company? How was it? Who is he? Is he nice?"she was bombarding poor Toby with so many questions that even I couldn't keep up. he started fireing up answers back at her

"Yes I had company. It was good. I'm not telling you, and yes he is nice" there where other answers but I stopped listening and turned my attention to the crime scene. I spot something over on the right of the window on the floor. It was a piece of paper that I assume I had missed before. I went over to take a look at the thin piece of tree.

"Hey guys! I think I found something." Toby comes over and gently takes the paper from me. Leah being curious decided to follow Tobias and gave me the skull which was now in a plastic baggy. After taking a good look at it, the paint on it said the skull was from 1883, the name was scratched off, the cross and all the other paintings on the skull were still there, like it was painted on a year ago, when in reality it was probably painted, I've rounded this of, 140 years ago.

"Since when is the Charnel house open to visitors?" I questioned my partners.

"Its not, why do you ask?"

" Because I think that the chapple was robbed of a skull." They looked at each other and then to me, their eyes looked like sauswers.

" So your saying that someone took a specific skull, ransacked the house, and placed it in the middle of the living room?" he looked at me like he was expecting another awnser.

"Yes, but I'm also saying that because the name was scratched off." There was a short pause and we all looked at each other. Who's going to pop the question. No one like going to the court house. 

" So Helena, you want to ask the judge for the warrant?" Go figure it's Toby the one to ask.

" I feel like that's more of a statement than a question." I give him a watch-yourself glare.

"That's because it is. We will see you at the station" with that we split into two groops.

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-E