When Nobody Died
Chapter 1: The Murders
"From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
Confusing stars for satellites
I never dreamed that you'd be mine
But here we are, we're hear tonight
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive"
"Stella and Hawkes, double homicide," Mac hands the file to her. "Flack is already there. Danny and Lindsay, you're with me on a robbery, one dead. Let's get moving."
"Hold it," Gerard enters. "Forget your assignments. You're all now on the shooting at Jefferson Elementary School; two dead teachers and five dead students have been found already, and they're still looking." They look at each other, shocked. "Get working."
"Stella and I will drive; get all the equipment in our cars and grab Adam," Mac orders. They hurriedly pack the equipment and their cases before departing from the lab.
Nobody
"Where is everyone now?" Mac asks Don.
"Still in their rooms unless there was a dead body in it."
"Is there anywhere in the school large enough for all of them?"
"The gym maybe, but there's a body in there."
"I want Flack, Lindsay, and Danny going around to interview everyone. Adam, I want you to take panoramic pictures of everything before anything else is done. Then Sheldon, Stella, and I will begin with our normal processing. Questions?" Mac instructs.
"Taylor, there's a whole crowd of parents out there wanting to know if their kid is okay. When will the kids be released?" Gerard asks.
"As soon as there is a cleared path out of the school, we will set up a system calling the parents so they can pick their kids up. Until then, the kids are safe in here. We'll try to get them home as soon as we can, but we have to be thorough."
"Where should we start?" Adam asks, looking around.
"We'll go clockwise around the squares, working our way up."
They go back to the cars and get their kits. "Stella, where are you going?" Hawkes calls to her as she wanders off towards the playground.
She either doesn't hear him or ignores him. Mac quickly follows her, "What's wrong?"
Stella points to the slide, which is smeared with blood. "There's another kid."
"Hawkes, I want you to start here. Is Peyton here yet?"
"Yes, we've got two trucks for transporting the bodies. Sid is at the morgue preparing the tables and equipment for doing these autopsies."
"Adam's probably gotten done with the first body. You can get started on that, and I'll take the next one," he puts a hand on her shoulder. "We're going to find the guy who did this."
"I know we will." She gloves up and begins snapping photos of the body. She lifts the boy up to see if there was an exit wound but finds none. As she lays him back down, she hears footsteps behind her.
"Where's Mac?" Gerard asks.
"Taking pictures with Adam. Why?"
"These parents won't listen to me; he's going to have to tell them," he starts walking through the area she hasn't cleared yet.
"Don't move another step. You're going to contaminate my scene."
"I'm the one in charge here."
"No, you're just the one getting all the credit for what Mac does because he despises the media. Now please stay out of that area. And you should just call Mac because you won't understand our path to the next body."
A/N: There's eight more chapters to this. I'll probably update like every other day. Hopefully I can get it up before the beginning of September. I just went to the dentist. They told me I have to get my wisdom teeth taken out because the bottom ones are coming in crooked. How do you spell that word? I can't figure it out. Anyway... my teeth really hurt now 'cause the lady scraped at them for like twenty minutes. And my ears hurt too for some reason. I had band pictures this morning; in two more hours I get to back to band. I think we're painting again. But this time it's not raining. And for those of you who read my story Freezing Together and got to hear me complain about summer reading, I finished My Antonia. That book was extremely boring; the most exciting thing was when the one guy committed suicide. I'm fifty pages into To Kill a Mockingbird. I haven't read yet for today though. Well I guess I'll update again for you guys Wednesday. Please tell me what you think of the beginning. And just so you know, this story does get a little sad; there is a character death, but it is not Mac or Stella or anyone from the team. And for those of you who like Mac/Stella, I did add some of that later on. Thanks.
