Not Just Credit Fraud

A Supernatural fanfic.

Disclaimer: not in any way, or shape, except this form.

Spoilers for Nightshifter

Chapter Two: Before

Officially, the case isn't a slap-down. In hindsight, however, it probably wasn't a good idea to call an ADA with friends in Washington a glory-hounding ass. Even if it is true. Officially, the case is complex, too new to warrant an audit, too wide spread to give to a rookie. It's twenty years worth of ongoing credit fraud. And one grave desecration. It's the last that make Henrickson stick with it. Credit cards he can understand, but digging up a corpse and burning it?

He starts a map, there's too much information not to. First the cards, different colours for different companies. He starts looking for other crimes, unsolved crimes around the same times as the cards, and has to change all the pins in the map. Blue for fraud, red for desecration, yellow for impersonation. Usually one of each, sometimes with a green for breaking and entering, orange for arson. And almost always a black pin. The timings are off, the motel charges coming after the original murder, but it could be an attempt to throw off any investigation. Henrickson stops going home for more than a few hours at a time, ignores suggestions to take a day off. They assign him a partner, a guy named Reidy. Henrickson's pretty sure he's got orders to make take a break.

It takes four months before they get a name. Pure coincidence, the motel guy's cousin went to the same school as the suspect. The guy met him once, never saw the others. Recognized the car, knew it was the wrong name. Now they have the right name. Dean Winchester.

The end.

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