Doppelgänger
"A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its own fleshly counterpart" (The American Heritage Dictionary)
Disclaimer: Neither one of us owns the characters from either "JAG" or "Close to Home." We're just playing with them for pure fun's sake!! We promise to return all characters relatively "unharmed" (pun intended!!).
A/N 1: Sorry, not the long awaited sequel to Second Wind, but a crossover story between "JAG" and "Close to Home."
A/N 2: Since Patty Duke and Hayley Mills each played herself and her "twin," we see no reason why David James Elliott can't be both Harmon Rabb and James Conlon! After all, we know of no actor better suited to both roles (smirk)!
A/N 3: WARNING! This is primarily a Harm and Jimmy and Harm and Mac story. However, co-author highplainswoman considers LT Vukovic salvageable (gasp – we're ducking – we're taking cover!) and co-author janlaw agreed to write it, despite her total disdain for LT Sleaze's behavior at JAG. If you can't live with a Vuk with a new attitude, make a decision -- read or not – your choice. However, whines and outcries of rage will be ignored.
A/N 4: WARNING! The description of heinous crimes and another scene is somewhat shocking and gruesome. The faint-of-stomach may wish to skim quickly. We apologize, but in a major city, where crime – even violent crime – is an everyday occurrence, a crime must be very gruesome or gory or incredibly egregious to catch the media's and public's attention for the investigation and eventual trial to excite much notice long after the crime occurred.
A/N 5: indicates the passage of a short period of time on the same day
With grateful thanks and appreciation for your help, Colie, Mimi, Mkim, annamae and can j.
PROLOGUE
Friday, September 22, 2006/mid-evening
News Studio
K-IND (Indianapolis)
(TV screens all over Indianapolis and the surrounding region go from the regular prime time programming - yet another in a long series of "lawyer shows" – this one focusing on two Midwestern prosecutors -- to): ….
"Breaking News….Breaking News …..Breaking News" - first scrolling along the bottom of the TV screen and then –flash – to the News Studio:
"We apologize for interrupting our regularly scheduled programming - and we WILL show "In Our Backyard" in its entirety – but we know that all Indianapolis -- indeed, the whole country, has waited for a break in the parking lot murder/carjacking story. For those viewers just joining us – on July 2nd, what police believe was the 14th in a series of mall carjackings escalated to murder/kidnapping. Madame Tatiania Olevenowski, the world renowned figure skater whose brilliant career was tragically cut short when she was the victim of an explosion designed to keep her from winning Olympic gold, was brutally dragged and run over – decapitated – her fingers wrenched from her hand -- when she held out the keys to the carjacker while trying to open the back door – trying to make the callous would-be thief understand that her ten year old daughter Rina was locked in the backseat."
"Despite an intensive search that consumed the entire summer and a $100,000 reward offered by the Olevenowski family, matched by the U.S. and World Figure Skating Federations, no trace of the family's silver Mercedes or Rina was found."
"This evening, Martin Porter and Ardis Geramo returned from five months touring in Alaska to their penthouse condo in the Chateau Alhambra to find a covered vehicle in one of their garage parking spots. When they complained to the Chateau's Security, guards were preparing to have the vehicle towed when they realized that under the dusty cover was the missing Olevenowski Mercedes."
"We go now to the Chateau's garage, where police, fire and medical examiner personnel have been gathering."
"…….This is Karlin St. Don, K-IND reporting …Garage Security had removed the cover when they received the complaint of an unknown vehicle in a reserved parking stall in the luxury condo tower's garage. The vehicle is clearly the missing Olevenowski Mercedes….Tatiania Olevenowski's mangled fingers – what appear to be their bones – are visible dangling from the rear door on the driver's side. As you can see, the police have cordoned the area, and, wearing booties and gloves, are conducting an inch by inch search of the visible portions of the parking stall and surrounding garage space while awaiting a Mercedes dealer with tools to open the vehicle. Lt Dani McKinnen, whose team has led the hunt since July for the vehicle and ten year old junior figure skating champion Rina Olevenowski, has arrived to take charge. A few minutes ago, she told me that no one questioned the vehicle's presence in the Porter/Geramo parking stall since they typically leave several vehicles in their four parking spaces 20 stories below their penthouse condo when they travel for months at a time. From this distance, the car's dark tinted windows hide any evidence and the tension is mounting: is the search for young Rina nearly over?"
"……we return to our regular programming while awaiting word from the medical examiner on a positive identification, but even at a distance, we saw long blond hair and the remains removed from the trunk appear to include the clothes Rina wore at her final practice session, coached by her mother despite her near-deafness suffered when a jealous rival engineered an explosion as Tatiania Olevenowski was on the verge of winning Olympic gold nearly 20 years ago. Karlin St. Don, K-IND reporting live from the Chateau Alhambra."
End Prologue