Anita Blake: The Half Breed

Chapter Five

Onice I put my mind to something hell or high water, its going to be done and what was on my mind was finding this Faye women so I can finally have some answers on what was going on. It turned out that it was harder then it seemed, for a girl who used her real name she could hide herself really well. It took Jean Claude a few months to pull some string to find out where she was. Now I found myself driving to the west side of the city to the address and a thousand things was running through my head.

I noticed the police lights as soon as I came around the corner, and I have to look at the paper that Jean Claude wrote the address on and cussed to myself finding a parking spot. There was already a ton of people standing behind the police tape. I had to take several deep breath before opening the door and stepped out. People stopped started whispering among themself. Then all knew who I was and what I did and most figured if I was here it ment that the cops where here because of some supernature reason and most the time they would be right but there was no proof that that was why the cops were here. This was a bad part of town it could be anything. I showed my badge to the office behinde the cop tape. He nodded and lifted the tape for me to slide under it and headed in the door and up the ugly stairs the paint was peeling off the walls. It was one of those buildings from those crime tv shows with a crying babies and a fighting couple. I went up five floor finding a cop standing by the door I fugured that was the floor I needed to be on. I walked down the hallway hearing a baby crying I almost laughed to myself. As I walk to the door with tape over the door were yet another cop was standing. I showed the female cop my badge just as a young cop rushed out going to a corner in the hallway getting suck. I slide under the tape as the female cop went over to her brother cop. I stepped into the appartment. It was small and trashed books, papers and other household items laying on the floor. The tv was smashed and the couch and slashed open. There were cops all over the place dusting for fingerprints and searching through the papers, books and other thing that were laying all over the place.

I stepped into the kitchen where a fireman was standing with a firehose leaning againt one of the counter. Someone had tried to hid whatever they did by trying to burn the apartment down but lucky for the cops someone called the fire department and put the fire out farely fast. To the right of the kitchen was what I assumed was a bedroom. There were several cops talking quietly among themselfs going over notes.

"well well Anita Blake you must be psychic I was just about to call you."

I looked over to see Lt. Rudolph "Dolph" Storr standing in the doorway his phone in his hand. Dolph was a tall man at Six feet eight inches tall and built like a fucking wrestler. He was dressed as he always did in a a dark blue neatly knotted tie and black jacket. His black hair was neatly cut and slicked back. He looked like one of the dectives from one of those old black and white murder mystry shows.

I smiled walking over to him "I just happened to be in the neighorhood. What were you going to call me about?"

He walked into the room and I followed him into the room and was shocked by what I saw. The room was trashed just like the rest of the apartment. On the bed there was a half nude female body. She was laying on her stomach her hands and feet tied to the post of the bed. Her top was torn and her back looked raw hamburger. She looked like she was badly beaten and whipped. Her red hair was laying around her sticking to the side her face and down her back and it took everything I had not to get sick from the sight of her.

"There is no sign of forced entry meaning she knew or let in whoever did this...They beat her pretty bad...and by the looks of it it wasn't the first time. There are old scars and burn marks all over her body." I shook my head going over to stand beside her kneeling down beside her. I brushed some red hair from her face. She was the girl I was looking for which was a good chance the Darkclaw found her before I did. I sighed starting to stand when I notced her finger twitching ever so slightly.

"She's alive!" I called out. Several cops came running into the room along with several medics. I moved aside so they could get in and cut her free turning her over to put iv in. "She's a halfbreed." They nodded and put on triple gloves to protect themselves. They slide her into a backboard and preped her for transport. They carried her out of the apartment and down the stairs I followed a few steps behind as they loaded her into the amblance, I started to get in but was stopped by one of emt's. "Sorry theres not enough room you'll have to meet her at St. Jospeh hosptal." I nodded and watched the doors closed and the amblance took off down the street and all i could do is hope that she surived.