"James Gordon, I swear to God!" a girl screams, her feet pounding after the man a few paces ahead of her. She's breathing heavily as her pace begins to slow. "James!" She yells again.
The man in front of her stops as the girl falls onto the ground exaggeratedly in mock pain. He laughs at her, not even phased by the mad dash he was just in. "You need to work on running," he remarked, only to get a middle finger aimed his direction. This, of course, only made him laugh more.
Struggling to stand back up, the girl remarks back, "The only reason you can run so well is because the mob wants your head." James grabs her arm and his her back to her feet while she regains her breath.
"Think I don't know that, Kira?" he questions as the girl before him dusts off her dark clothes. He tries to push the idea of the mob as far back as he can but gets interrupted to his phone ringing. When he checks the text message he'd gotten, he informs the girl, "We've got to get back to the station.
Sighing in frustration, Kira whines, "Do we have to run again?" The look on her face is tired and not at all on the mood for anymore of either of her partners' antics. I swear to god, Jim, if yo-
Her thoughts are cut off by James's voice, "No, we actually ran in a circle; the car is right around the corner." He smirks at Kira's confused and angered look before turning and beginning to walk towards the car.
Seconds later, he's being tackled to the ground by the feisty blonde girl with teal eyes. "You are a dead man!" she exclaims as James pushes her off of him. The blonde stands back up with her partner and walks back to the car still frustrated.
"Where've you two been?" A man's voice erupts once Kira and James get to their desks at the top of the small flight of stairs. Harvey was standing up at his own desk with his arms folded over his chest, a folder in his hand. He doesn't look in the slightest bit happy; then again, when is he ever happy and sober at the same time.
Shrugging, Kira replies, "Running around Gotham, tackling Gordon in alleyways." She smiles at her partners' baffled looks. "So what do you need?" Kira asks, sitting back in her desk chair.
Harvey shook his head, dismissing the blonde's answer. "Forget I asked," he starts with a sigh, "They found another dead guy at the pier." He throws the file down on his desk with a sigh.
"Are you kidding me, that's the third one this week," Kira exclaims in shock. "Do we even have a lead yet?"
Like Harvey, Gordon shook his head and replies, "No, that's why we need to step up our game. Let's go." He turns and starts walking towards the door, closely followed by Kira and Harvey.
Ducking under the tape block pff, Kira makes a beeline to where she knows the GCPD resident forensic scientist, Ed Nygma. "Hey, Ed," she greets with a smile upon finding the scientist.
Ed looks up at the blonde girl with a smile. "Good morning, Kira," he replies fondly. "How are you?" The scientist takes his attention away from the evidence and looks up at the girl.
"I'm fine," Kira replies with a small smile.
"Four deaths in one week, a week that's only been three days at that," Ed points out, looking back down at the evidence in front of him. "Very odd."
Kira peers over his shoulder at what he had; a baggie full of bullets a piece of blood soaked cloth that had an odd symbol on it. "It's the same one as the other three victims," the blonde tells herself, almost in a whisper. "It is the same guy after all."
Ed looks up at the girl slightly bent over next to him. Her eyes are still watching the evidence, scanning it for more than what it shows. "Yes, it does appear that it is," the scientist agreed with a wide smile. "Same cloth, same symbol, same place, and same bullets. Someone in Gotham has quite the routine."
A small laugh came from Kira's lips and she nodded in agreement. "Was there any DNA on the other three victims, or has the report not come in yet?" She asks, looking back up at Ed.
"No, not quite yet, but they are taking much longer than I'd like in the lab," Ed begins with a pout, "but if I could get in there an-"
Kira scolds he man next to her and cuts him off, "Ed, you know you're not aloud in the coroners office after all the other times you've gone in there." The man frowns at Kira's words, knowing she was right. "Besides, you're better with the experimental science anyway."
Ed laughs and the replies , "Well thank you then."
"Hey, Lovebirds, you wanna work on the case or flirt in your nest?" Harvey's voice calls. The two look up to the him walking towards them with an impatient look. "Ed, you need to check out the body." The scientist nods and stands up before following Harvey back to the body.
With burning red cheeks, Kira shakes her head and sighs, "I swear, Harvey is going to be the death of me if I don't kill him first." She immediately gets up and chases after the two.
Gordon raises an eyebrow at the blonde as she runs over to the body. "What were you doing?" he asks her confused. He gestures to Ed with a questioning smirk, only to get slapped on the face. "Alright, I think I get the memo now."
"Good," Kira mutters agitatedly. She turns to face the body in the same position all the other three had been in. It was another white male dressed in a flannel shirt, black jeans, and dress shoes; safe to say, it wasn't a typical outfit.
Noticing something on the man's neck, Kira walks over to the body curiously. "Ed, have any of the other three victims had necklaces on?" she asks, seeing the gold chain around the man's neck.
With a raised eyebrow, the scientist looks up at the man's neck and frowns. "Not another one," Kira heard him mutter in and extremely silent voice.
"Another what?" the blonde asks, mimicking Ed's raised eyebrow. "Have you seen gold necklaces on the other victims, Ed?"
Taking the necklace off the man with gloved hands and placing it in a bag, Ed responds, "Not a necklace per say, but gold jewelry, particularly women's jewelry." He looks at the diamond on the necklace that had been hidden behind the man's head. "The first victim had a gold earring, the second a gold bracelet, and the third a gold diamond ring"
"So vengeful girlfriend with money to waste?" Kira takes a guess, nothing else coming to mind.
James walks up behind her and scans his eyes over the body. "Couldn't be, none of the men had anyone in common on any contact lists," he points out in the monotone voice that he just loves to turn on while on the job.
Standing up, Kira remarks, "Some people are good at hiding thing, and I don't know if you've noticed, but Gotham doesn't exactly look too much into details like that." She looks over at her partner with a knowing look. "We need to try and see if we can access deleted contacts the four victims have and find a match."
"When did you get so technical with this stuff?" Harvey asks, joining the three by the body. He looks down at Ed. "Anything interesting?"
Shaking his head, Ed responds, "Just another piece of jewelry." He hands the bag to Harvey who just looks it over. "But I've only just started so the possibilities are endless at the moment. Who knows what I could find."
Harvey gives the scientist a grotesque look after the comment before walking off to wherever he seems to go at crime scenes. "Just get something we can work with and maybe identify the guy," he calls over his shoulder as he leaves.
"Let's just get the body to the coroner's, the smell is making me sick," Kira suggests, covering her nose to keep the smell out. She turns away from the body, seeing if the air is cleaner when she knows it's not.
James chuckles at his partner's reaction. "You'd think after the three other bodies, you would've gotten used to it," he remarks with a smirk. He laughs when he sees Kira burning holes in him with her teal eyes. "Ed, make sure the body gets to the coroner's for us," he told the scientist.
Waving goodbye with a smile, Kira turns and leaves with James, still trying to ignore the god awful smell of death and decay the body put off. When she turns back to the slightly taller man next to her, she suggests, "Should we go with him to see if the coroner has anything new on the first three bodies? They might have a match, some people we can interview."
"Kira, are you just looking for an excuse to talk to Ed?" James asks suggestively. He looks at her with a knowing grin, laughing at her shocked expression. After Kira asks why he'd guess that, he responded with, "You know they don't have anything new, why else would you be asking?"
Glaring at her partner again as they reach the car, Kira climbs in, not saying a word about James's remarks. "So I'm right?" James mocks with a laugh.
"No, no shut it," the blonde girl snaps.
The two fall silent as James pulls into the road. It couldn't have been longer than ten minutes before a voice starts playing over the police dispatch radio. "We have Oswald Cobblepot in custody at the police station for four counts of murder," the man's voice says.
