AUTHORS NOTE: So I keep adding to my workload. This is a fanfiction idea I've been mulling over with Lee for AGESS but today I actually pondered on the idea. Let's see where it goes and obviously because it's my first chapter of a case story, it's ridiculously small... You'll love love love it hopefully :)

DISCLAIMER: I only own the OC's.

[Murder #1]

The team had just finished another hard day at work. The brunette woman smiled flirtatiously at her partner, a habit she didn't even know she did anymore because it was so natural to her, and asked him if he wanted to go for a drink like they did after every hard case. It was obvious that their blonde detective friend would want to go straight home to his fiancé and daughter whereas their boss would want to go out for a drink or two with them before calling it a night. He was never one to socialise with the team but they still had a family like feel. Her partner agreed that it was a date, calling for the boss to meet them at the pub when he was ready. He grunted his response before moving back into his office. This was just another day in the life for them...

However on the other side of the city, life was going far than ordinary for Maria Stevens. She was a nurse, her handbag was weighed down with clothes that she'd left in her locker for as long as she possibly could without stinking out her office. Her greying brown hair was tied back into a tight ponytail, a Cleopatra fringe just brushing over her freshly waxed eyebrows. She always took care of herself despite her long, deranged hours. She stopped at the side of the road, instantly obeying the green cross code before crossing over the road and slipping into the small park that she walked through every night after her getting off her bus because it was the quickest way to her small flat that she shared with her husband of sixteen years.

She heard a heavy footfall behind her, fast breathing and she decided to speed up her walking. She reached into her pocket and fumbled for her mobile wanting to phone her husband, pleading with him to come meet her somewhere. She stopped when a gloved hand closed on her wrist, a gasp escaping her as arm was twisted round so that her grip loosened on the phone causing it to fall to the floor, her husband's voice saying her name worried because he can hear the noises she made. She didn't know what was hitting her when the knife drew across her neck causing the blood to pool out over her hand that he had pressed against the wound.

She fell to the floor like a sack of potatoes before he knelt down and took hold of her phone, hanging up on the frantic husband before pressing three key buttons onto her phone before saying four simple words to the operator before pressing the phone into the palm of her hand without hanging up so that they could track her. He was the kind of serial killer that wanted to get caught.

The boss was just about to leave his office when a frantic looking uniformed officer ran through to the bullpen, literally skidding to a halt in front of him. He was out of breath and pissing the boss of with every extra breath he took before he took hold of the man's shoulders wanting to shake him but knew that pushed the limits, "what is it, son?" He said gruffly before letting the guy breathe one more time when he said the words that the boss didn't want to hear again that night before moving away from him, his mobile being pulled out as he rang his three detectives.

Break time was over.

Robbie sighed as he hung up his phone, his arm lazily lounging on the back of Jackie's chair as he looked over at her. "Break's over, Jackie," he sighed standing up and shrugging into his coat. "There's been a murder." He commented lightly holding out her hand to help her off the chair, smiling at her groan. "It's the job."

"Murderer's really need to give us a break," she commented lightly raising her hand to wave over at the barman and he smiled knowing where they were off to. It was a hard day in the life of a detective.

TO BE CONTINUED...