Hey guys! This is my newest venture! I love Kelley Armstrong and her books they are amazing and suddenly this plot came into my head and i couldnt get it to leave hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot Belle, Angel and Ethan (unfortunately)...
Summary: Paige and Lucas once again find themselves in Miami helping Benicio solve a string of murders on woman connected to the Cabal. But while they're there they come across a young CSI with more than a few secrets. She's a werewolf..A Mutt...Time to call The Pack. But Belle isn't rady to accept the Pack's help... She hates being a werewolf and hates other werewolves more. Isabelle Rider may just give Elena Micheals a run for her money...
Warning: Mentions of Rape don't like don't read.
Now on with the story!
The Black Magician
Prologue: Paige
"So what can you tell me about the crime scene?" Lucas asked the young CSI. She looked no more than twenty-one though she looked younger. She poke about her work with confidence, which made me, think that she was a young child prodigy.
"He has a strict MO," She said the crime scenes are almost always identical. The women are left in abandoned places almost always barns and such like. They're the wives, daughters, sisters of people in the Cabal which is why I suspect your father asked you and Paige to fly out to Miami."
She looked at me then. "My father doesn't make a habit of calling me." Lucas said his voice neutral. "My point exactly." The CSI said. She looked at his both and said, "usually we don't share information like this with civilians but Benicio has given you both clearance and as your part of the extraction teams I guess it doesn't matter."
She laid pictures on the table there were five women. I looked at Lucas and from the looks of things he recognised a good number of them. The CSI, whose name was Isabelle, swiped her dyed red hair out of her face and said, "All of them were found in abandoned sites they'd all been attacked, from what he can guess it was from behind they never saw it coming. The warehouses and barns are usually the dumpsites because there is evidence to say they were moved."
Lucas nodded his face betrayed nothing but I felt the distinct need to be sick. I had seen dead bodies before, of course I had but it still didn't stop me feeling sick at the sight at these girls their lives torn away.
I swallowed and looked at Isabelle. She smiled sympathetically but I noticed it didn't quite reach her eyes. I tried to probe slightly to feel what she was feeling but I hit a brick wall. The only sign that Isabelle showed was that she narrowed her eyes and I didn't try it again.
"So how did they die?" Lucas asked. "They were raped and then as you can see their throats were ripped out." "This is the work of a werewolf." Lucas said. Isabelle nodded. "We think so." "I need to phone The Pack." I said taking out my phone.
I wasn't sure but at the mention of The Pack Isabelle's eyes went wide. But then it was gone and she nodded. "We weren't sure at first, because as you can the first four are very specific and carefully done as if he didn't want to give himself away. The last one however shows that it is a werewolf because he finally loses patience."
She pointed at the last picture and I realised she was right. The bite was definitely werewolf then. At that moment Isabelle's phone went off she answered it. "Rider." "We'll be right there." She closed her phone and said, "There's been another one. You can ride with me."
We reached the crime scene and I looked at Lucas and he nodded. So he had noticed it too. We were in the middle of nowhere. Somewhere near the marshes but Isabelle seemed to know the place well. Because her eyes had become haunted and her hands were gripping the steering wheel like her life depended on it.
It took her a moment but she suddenly seemed to get a grip of herself and she shook her head and got out the car. The scene was crawling with cops and other CSI's who greeted Isabelle and gave her the heads up. She led us as far as the tape and said, "This is as far as you can go. I'll give you the heads up when I've finished processing the scene." Lucas nodded and looked at me.
"They have to do their bit Paige and then we'll do ours." I looked down and then looked at him taking his hand. "I know, I just hate waiting." Lucas allowed a small smile to pull at his mouth. "A bit of an understatement if you ask me."
I hated this. I hated having to wait. I was used to doing everything myself. I was determined to help solve this case so being told there were things I couldn't do was hard to swallow so I occupied myself with ringing Savannah who had stayed at home where her job as journalist, I wonder where she got that idea from? Kept her busy
She was fine, she was having fun and her job was keeping her busy. And as far as I could tell she and Adam, who had stayed home for work with the Council were currently engaged in another prank war. It had become a customary part of their relationship. Only god knew what sort of state the house would be in when we got back.
I disconnected and at that moment there was a scream. I was hit with emotions so raw I almost threw up and from the look on Lucas' face he felt the same. "What the hell?" He whispered.
Then I heard it "ANGELA!" A mental communication so strong it washed over me like a wave and kept going. "That's Isabelle!" I said. We looked at each other and then tore under the tape and into the warehouse.
What I saw made he stop dead. Isabelle had her hands over her head on her knees screaming. The tears were falling down her face and then she fell to all fours. "Oh no!" She moaned.
It was Lucas that worked out what was happening. "Get out now! She's Changing!"
Changing? But that meant….
But Lucas was right as we watched she started to Change. She was screaming and I knew from Elena that if you fought the Change it only made things worse. Lucas and I, having cleared the room were about to leave, we didn't want to see her in her in between stages, Elena told us it was the worst insult for a werewolf.
As we were leaving a young woman shimmered into sight behind the fence at the far side. Lucas and I stared as she took one look of at the scene vaulted the fence and threw her hands up. A dome appeared over Isabelle and masked her from our view.
We looked at each other and ran over to where the blonde young woman was holding the dome. "You need to leave." I said. "She might be dangerous. She didn't answer me she didn't even turn round. "She won't hurt anyone and she's as dangerous as any werewolf that is in the middle of a Change. The only difference is that she goes through more pain because she doesn't want to be this way and she fights it off until her body forces the change on her."
Lucas and I stared at the blonde woman. "You can't possibly know what you're dealing with!" I screamed. "She's a Mutt! I need to call The Pack!" I went to get my phone and it flew out my hand and across the room before I could do anything.
Lucas and I stared. I'd never seen a half-demon having more than one type of power but this girl had the powers of teleporting and the power of telekinesis, the power of a Volvo. She was one powerful lady.
"You'll do nothing but leave until Isabelle changes back. I have this under control." With that she turned back to the dome and I could vaguely hear her whispering under her breath.
"Come on Belle! Come on Belle you can do this its ok. You can do this don't let it beat you."
I looked at Lucas and he looked at me and then he looked at the blonde. "I think it best we take her advice for now Paige. We need to leave and think about this."
We walked outside and told the Cabal that it was under control even though we weren't sure if this was the case or not. Despite this I knew that we needed to call The Pack. She was a Mutt and the Pack needed to know about all the Mutts in order to control them. Isabelle I knew they had no idea about.
This was because she was female and as far as they knew Elena was the only female werewolf and she was part of The Pack. I looked at Lucas and I could see he knew what I was thinking. "She'll go for a run and Change back. When she does we'll speak to her and explain that we can't do anything else but call The Pack."
I heard the snarl of a fully-grown wolf and saw a flash of white and then she tore into the glades that backed onto the crime scene. I saw a flash of blonde as the young woman tore after her and then she disappeared and I knew she was teleporting.
"What are we going to do Lucas?" Lucas, as calm as ever watched them disappear and said, "We need an explanation and then we call The Pack."
I nodded but somehow I knew it wouldn't be that easy.
