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Blood and Thunder

Chapter 1

Rigsby, Van Pelt and Cho pulled up at the side of a road surrounded by bushy shrubs. It was midmorning, and the sound of rushing water drifted up from the river below, flowing peacefully. It was a fairly isolated area, not many shops or housing around. They climbed of the car and made their way down the bank to where Lisbon was inspecting the body.

"Hey" she greeted them, before updating them on the details of the new case.

"Male, about 25 years of age, name's James Hartley" she told them as they arrived beside her.

"Looks like a blow to the head from behind, though it doesn't look recent. Maybe two days old." Rigsby added, after taking a closer look at the guy's remains. "That's pretty much all I can tell".

"The local cops had a call a few hours ago, came down and found him here. They thought we'd be better equipped to deal with him than they are" Lisbon said to her team, then turned to the local cops and forensics watching nearby.

"We're done with him, he's all yours" she informed them, before addressing her team once again.

"Van Pelt, you take a look at his records. See if he's on missing persons. His truck's parked just down the road. Rigsby and Cho, you guys go and see if you can find anything interesting there". Lisbon went to walk away, but then turned, as though on an after thought.

"Have any of you guys seen Jane? He should be here by now, I called him an hour ago". They shook there heads.

"Well, call me if you hear from him. I'm going to speak to the lady who found Hartley".

An hour later, back at CBI headquarters, Jane still hadn't shown. Lisbon was beginning to worry, but they had a case to solve. Besides, Jane hadn't answered his phone before. It wasn't unusual.

"OK, Elizabeth Clark found Hartley at ten this morning while she was walking her dog along the river. Her dog wouldn't stay away from the bushes, so she went over to see why and found the body." she informed her team. "She called 911 straight away".

'I looked, and Hartley was on missing persons" Van Pelt said, "He lives with his girlfriend, Chelsea Flinders, not too far from here".

Lisbon turned to Rigsby and Cho.

"We looked at the car, no signs of any force. He probably got out of his car and walked down to the river, and was attacked from there". Cho announced.

"That seems likely" Lisbon agreed. "See what else you can find out about him you two", she said with a glance to Van Pelt and Rigsby. "Cho, you and I'll go and talk to the girlfriend".

"Any sign of Jane?" Van Pelt asked, and they all turned to Lisbon. She could see they were all just as worried as she was.

"I'm sure he's fine, he's probably just forgotten to turn his phone on", she said, although she knew they weren't convinced. But they had to continue this case, so she had no choice but the make them work. Hopefully it would keep their minds off Jane's strange disappearance.