So here is my next story! I don't own anything to do with CI (except I have all the DVD's) and NBC and Dick Wolf own everything to do with them. It gets more interesting in later chapters I promise. I just need this one to give background.

Headache

As any good NYPD detective will tell you, a call at four in the morning to go to a crime scene is routine. Even if the detectives curse under their breath when they hear the phone go off. They will keep going any ways it's just their job and after a while you learn to only need one or two cups of coffee instead of five so you can get going at all those ungodly hours that the rest of civilization knows only in dreams.

So when the phone went off, first at Detective Bobby Goren's apartment, and later at his partner Detective Alex Eames' house, nobody would have expected any less than to see his bright shinny face, and her attempted 'I'm awake' look showing up at the crime scene some twenty minutes later.

If you were a civilian who, for reasons unknown to anyone else, was awake at that hour of the morning, and you happened to be in the neighbourhood, you would have seen two amazingly talented detectives looking over a horrifying crime scene.

Three dead bodies, tons of blood, and of course the blank looks on the victims' faces.

Victim number one looked like she was twenty or so. Long brown hair and soft green eyes, with a tiny scare just above her left eye. Victim number two was another girl also about twenty. She had short black hair and deep brown eyes. The final victim was a tiny baby boy, with pale skin and brown hair. His eyes would haunt all who looked at him. Such perfect eyes. Soft blue, with little flecks of green in them.

To the civilians who watched it was just another crime scene in this dangerous city. To the victims families it was a nightmare, and to the detectives it was the fifth crime scene with this MO that had gotten them up out of bed this past month.

"Check all ships arriving from Spain this morning." Bobby said to one of the detectives standing near by.

"This guy just doesn't stop! What is that now? Nine victims just this month!" Alex hissed.

"Why would he stop? He hasn't been caught yet. Were not even close! And he just keeps escalating. First one victim per killing and now three."

The detectives got back into the SVU and drove off. Retuning to the squad room, they were greeted by questions from Ross their captain.

"What did you get? Was it him? Did he strike again?"

"Yes it was him." Bobby answered quietly

The captain looked to Alex for assurance. He knew that Bobby was a brilliant detective but some of his ideas and methods were questionable. If he was going to tell the boys upstairs that this mystery serial killer had struck again he wasn't going too on Goren's word.

"Yes captain it was him."

"You're sure?"

"It was his MO. Four stab wounds on all the victims, all grouped together. All with...with tears drawn on their arms...even the baby." Finishing this sentence was hard. The eyes of the child had not only haunted her, but reminded her of her nephew.

"Baby? God... Well if it is him then all the victims will be from a ship that arrived last night from Spain. Lets check they were on board before we say it was him."

"It was him!" Bobby said impatiently

"I know detective! But lets just make sure!" with that Ross stormed off.

Half an hour later the suspicions were confirmed. All three victims had arrived on a ship from Spain early that morning. Another hour later their fears had been confirmed. Nobody that had been on duty at the docks, on the ship, or at any building in the vicinity had been there the same time as any more than one of the murders.

"Whoever this guy is he's great at hiding his tracks."

"The only thing they have in common besides how they were killed is that it was all the same shipping company that takes on extra passengers when it sails. Envío Atlántico."

"We have reviewed all their employees so many times! And talked to all the managers! Were getting nowhere."

"Maybe there are two of them. Brothers maybe?"

"No they would have slightly different MO's."

"Well were out of options here Bobby! I say there is more than one."

"Well...What if one of them was on the ship with the victims and the other was on a different ship and when they both got into harbour they both attacked? Normally two ships arrive a night."

"And it was always two the nights the murders happened!"

"So we review everyone again? And see which two happened to always arrive the same night as the killings?"

"What else have we got to do?"

It had taken them three days to go over the file of everyone who worked for Envío Atlántico again. The only two sailors that they had found who arrived the same night as all the victims were Jack Rayon, and Daniel Vanesco.

"They don't have the same last name but for all we know they could be brothers."

"Or just two really sick people who found each other. Check when the next time both of their ships sail."

"In two days. I guess they are getting back to Spain and just turning around and coming right back here."

"Better go tell the captain."

Soon the captain was informed and he in turn had toled the boys upstairs. It was almost time to go home when a shout had come across the squad room.

"Goren, Eames, my office now!"

They curiously exchanged looks as they headed for his office. Once they were inside Ross shut the door behind them.

To the civilians it was just another horrifying crime scene, to the victims families it was a nightmare, to Goren and Eames it was the biggest headache of their lives in the making. They just didn't know it yet.

Well what did you think? No offence to anyone who comes form Spain or is Spanish I just had to choose a foreign country that would ship things by boat and Spain was the first one I thought of. Really I have nothing against Spain I am in fact hoping to take Spanish next year. So obviously not the best chapter just me laying the ground work for the actual story which is in fact not really a case file even thought it started out that way. Please R&R!