Hi! So far I've written chapters 1-4, so two chapters should be updated a week, if not, let me know! I don't own any of the characters from the Twilight saga. This is a complete alternate universe- I hope you enojy:)

A Mystery in Forks

Chapter 1

"What a wonderful day.."

"For murder," finished a voice from the doorway. A short man entered placing two folders on the desk.

"What's this?" Bella voiced as the folders were snatched up by the eager detectives.

"A body was found and Chief is putting the daring duo on the case because Shawn and Gus weren't able to come to any conclusions."

"Oh," Isabella acknowledges the officer as she flips through the report. "I don't understand why we weren't called in the first place, we are the lead detectives at this precinct if I'm not mistaken."

Edward looks at the flabbergasted officer whose cheeks started to turn red. "How should I know?" he retorts and shuffles out.

"He does wonderful under pressure" Edward notes, getting a smile out of his partner leaning back in her chair, flipping the pages, like it was a good book.

"The only reasoning I can get is that the body was found so far off the beaten track by a local law enforcement and it was a homeless man, so it wasn't high priority." Bella sighed, it didn't make sense, the man was massacred, how did the local news not report this juicy front page tale? "Let's take it up with the boss."

"Okay, let's grab some coffee first, it's Monday, we should try and stay on his good side," Edward mentioned closing the folder and leading the way to the small kitchen. It was an example of the lack of funds the department received.

Forks was a small town, crime sprees rarely occurred within a hundred miles, so the police crew was fairly small. They resided in a two level, extremely small office space at the edge of town. So no one took care of the place, everyone was usually pretty occupied. There were always vandals, DUIs, and just plain stupid kids, murder wasn't usual. The great Edward and Isabella were only part time detectives, mostly did jobs in Port Angeles, so the fact they were overlooked for a crime they were hired to solve by two rookies was inexcusable in their eyes. One look at the dingy kitchen with a flickering overhead light made Bella long for the city- modern necessities. Edward quickly filled a large cup of coffee to the Chief's liking and proceeded to his office, passed everyone else's cubicles.

"Good morning sir" was given and the cup carefully placed on the coaster, then the two detectives got situated, standing by the door. The chairs were occupied by boxes of files and the Chief's large coat.

Not looking up the tall, gangly man nodded his head and grunted, his eyes continuously fixed on the papers before him. The partners glanced at each, silently fighting on who should break the seasoned officer's concentration. Edward was furiously shaking his head, but Bella continued to glare menacingly.

"What is it you want?" The Chief looked up, startling the two in the doorway. "I fig'rd you'd say som'tin already instead of just lingering in my doorway."

"UHhh, well, dad," she stuttered, taking a cautious step forward. "Charlie, we have some questions about the homeless," she paused, searching for the right word, "mutilation case that Barnes just threw at us this morning."

"What about it?" He looked at his daughter, trying to keep a blank, serious face. He couldn't coddle her, he settled for always allowing her the opportunity to speak her mind, then speak, he was a man of few words.

Edward chimed in, "Well Chief, we were unsure why this just came to us. It appears that," he checked the folder for confirmation, "this grisly murder occurred last week. Why are we only being notified of this incident today?"

Chief Swan sat back in his chair, extending his long arms and resting them behind his head. "You two were out of the office, so I had Shawn and Gus take care of it."

"Looks like they did a fine job," Isabella mumbled, reopening the file, searching for any other questions.

"Why did you switch it over to us?"

"Well, Edward, since you two decided to come back in town, I chose to give them a case more their caliber," Chief replied taking in the reactions of the detectives. "At least they could get a taste of it and I want it taken care of as soon as possible, neither of them were making as much progress as I would have liked."

"Thanks, I guess we'll get started," Bella stopped halfway out the door. "Do you have any idea where those two are? We'll need to ask them a few things before we dive in."

"Sorry, I don't. Did you want to come over for dinner tonight? Jake is welcome," her father looked at Isabella imploringly, he hadn't seen her as much as he had wanted lately.

"I'll have to see dad. I mean you just handed us a murder case. I don't expect to be done with it tonight, but if I'm finished at a decent time.." she suddenly became fascinated with her shoes, unsure of how to let her father down gently, he looked so defeated as she turned him down. "I'll see what I can do dad. I'm sure Jake would love to come."

"Great. Bye Bells, good luck!" Charlie couldn't help it. She was his daughter; the endearing sentiments just spilled out sometimes.

Bella smiled at that nickname, she hadn't heard it in a while, too long.

"I found them," Edward's voice broke through her thoughts. He almost ran into her outside of the office.

"Good," she replied and followed her partner outside.

Shawn and Gus were newbies in every way sense, shape and form. In essence they were immature, which irked Bella to no end. She took her job seriously, and in her opinion death was no laughing matter. Yet, there were the bozos trying to catch food in their mouths, like they were in middle school.

This was going to be a long day she thought. Edwards thoughts mimicked hers, though he at least tried to display a friendly manner when approaching the rookies. "Hey guys, mind if we join you?"

Shawn turned around, simultaneously hitting Gus in the eye with the Gusher, "go right ahead detectives."

"UHhh," Gus managed, rubbing his "injured" eye. "When did you get back?"

"Today," Isabella replied coldly.

"Oh, well Gus and I have to tell you about this case we've been working on," he looked at his partner who was sipping the last bit out of a juice box. "It's a murder."

"Yeah, well…"

Shawn cut Edward off as he continued with his tale. "This one guy, what was his name? Lassiter?"

"Yeah" Gus agreed.

"Well, our friend Lassie," Gus shook his head at his partner. "found a mutilated body while he was doing his walk through the forest. It was semi-hidden. Apparently it's a homeless guy, but we have no idea who did it."

"Not a single one?" Isabella again opened the folder, pulling out the gruesome photos.

"It was nasty," Gus told them. "no one knew him or saw him. No suspicious characters seen around town."

"How come this story wasn't plastered on the news this past week?" Edward thought it was odd, almost every case they had worked on made the headlines, usually it was annoying. This time though it might bring someone out of the folds that had seen something.

"Come on dude," Shawn raised his eyebrow, "You think the press really follows us two nobodys around? Nope, it's mostly just you two that bring the stories into town."

Bella sighed, the quick Q&A was going at a rate that she did not appreciate. "Anything else?"

"Nope, I think that's it. Gus, do you have anything to add?"

"The coroner was extremely helpful, though I don't remember all that he said."

"Oh yeah," Shawn said absentmindedly, "Do you guys want to help us out? I mean look at us, we NEED your expertise."

The other detectives exchanged glances. Bella resigned to keeping her mouth shut, if anything came out it wasn't going to be nice and she wasn't going to apologize later, so avoiding all together sounded good.

"We can definitely take it over, actually I think Chief has something else perfect for you guys to work on," Edward said, hoping to placate them.

"Sweet," Shawn said as he high-fived Gus. "Well, we better go check out what it is. See you later guys!" He walked away.

"I have some notes I can give you," Gus offered.

"Sounds great" Edward smiled. He finally turned around, flattening his shirt and scurrying after his eager colleague.

Bella thanked her partner who shrugged it off as they proceeded to their car- their personal police mobile, sleek and silver with hidden lights. They were going to head out to talk to the coroner, find what the other two missed and hopefully get a lead.

A/N: I borrowed Lassie, Shawn and Gus from Psych. Please review!