"Matthews! Get in here now!" a voice boomed and a young man with blonde hair lifted his head from off of his desk with heavy eyelids and drool running down his face. He looked around and rubbed his face in order to help wake him up.
"Why so tired, man?" a young man with short brown hair asked. The brown hair man sat at the desk that was facing the blonde and was reading papers.
"Spent all night awake trying to organize evidence for the Raymond case." The blonde said as he placed his elbow on his desk and rubbed his hand through his hair.
"Poor guy, I hope he gets the justice he deserves. It is a shame that he had to go so early." The brunette said looking back on the case as he leaned back in his chair and put a pen tip in his mouth.
"He was murdered. Nothing he could do." The blonde replied.
"Matthews!" the booming voice shouted once again.
"You better go, Sky." The brunette said.
"Yeah, I think that you are right, Brandon. " Sky said as he sat up and stretched his back. Sky left his desk and walked through the precinct and into the captain's office.
"You wanted to see me, sir?" Sky asked.
"No, I wanted to see you five minutes ago but now I have to see you to tell you something." The Captain shouted at Sky. "So until I get really mad, I am just going to tell you what you need to do."
"And what is that? " Sky asked.
"Didn't I just say that I was going to tell you?" the Captain retorted.
"Yes." Sky answered.
"Then let me tell you. So around twenty years ago, a baby girl was kidnapped in this very town. She was the adopted child of Mike and Vanessa Taylor and they were found dead in their home the night of the kidnapping. There was no forced entry and witnesses say that they saw the suspects near the harbor but when forces arrived there was a man in his mid-thirties dead behind a large red cargo container." The Captain explained.
"So what do you want me to do?" Sky asked as he folded his arms and leaned against the wall of the office.
"I want you to take on the case." The Captain said. "And stop leaning against my wall. Matthews." Sky immediately stood straight and unfolded his arms as he cleared his throat.
"Alright, I will do it." Sky said reluctantly.
"Good. Now here is the file and go." The Captain said as he handed Sky a thin manila folder with about five papers inside of it.
"Sir, is this the whole file?" Sky asked.
"Yes it is the whole file! I thought I told you to get out of here." The Captain shouted. With that Sky quickly left the Captain's office. Sky quickly shut the door behind him and briskly walked back to his desk where he threw the folder onto his desk. Sky plopped into his chair, put his elbows on his desk, and put his face into his palms.
"So, you look like you had fun." Brandon said sarcastically. Sky lifted up his head and glared at Brandon.
"If you weren't my partner, I would kill you." Sky said through gritted teeth. This caused Brandon to back up and put his hands up in defense.
"Woah, chill dude. So what did Captain Sass want from you?" Brandon asked.
"First of all, it's Captain Connors and he wanted to give me a new case." Sky said.
"But he just gave you one." Brandon retorted.
"I know but he scares me." Sky sighed.
"He scares us all." Brandon chuckled.
Soon a blonde young woman in a black pencil skirt with an orange blouse walked by holding a cup of coffee, "What is so funny, boys?" she asked.
"Nothing, just talking…um?" Sky said.
"Oh, I'm Stella, Stella Ray. I'm the new A.D.A. here." The blonde said putting out her arm so that Sky could shake it.
"I'm Sky Matthews. I am a detective here." Sky introduced himself while shaking Stella's hand.
"I figured with your badge on your desk." Stella giggled and then turned to Brandon, "And you are?" Brandon didn't say anything but instead stared at Stella.
"Brandon!" Sky yelled softly to get Brandon's attention. Brandon quickly blinked his eyes to break out of his trance and saw that Stella was looking at him as if he were strange. That was the last thing he wanted.
"Hi, I'm Brandon James Grayson Jr. but you can leave off the Jr. bit and the James Grayson. Actually, you don't even have to call me Brandon. You can call me Rob, you look like a 'Rob' girl. Not saying that you look like you like a certain name. I don't know you, I don't know your life, what am I to tell you what to do right? I just thought…" Brandon rambled as he stood up.
"BRANDON! Just shake her hand." Sky yelled at Brandon.
"Oh yeah, right." Brandon said as he calmed down and he wiped his hand that were covered in sweat on the side of his pants and thrusted his hand forwards only to knock Stella's coffee out of her hand and spilling the hot contents on her silky, orange blouse. "Oh no, I am so sorry." Brandon apologized as he tried to catch Stella's mug and then grabbed some tissues to attempt to wipe away the stain.
"It's okay. I have an extra shirt." Stella said as she backed away from Brandon who was leaning over his desk in order to help Stella. "It was nice meeting you, Sky." Stella said as she walked away. Brandon sat back down in his chair.
"Well, I think that went well." Sky said and Brandon turned to him and glared.
"Haha, you are hilarious!" Brandon yelled sarcastically.
"It's okay, man. You will have plenty of time to redeem yourself." Sky reassured Brandon.
"How do you know?" Brandon asked.
"Well, for one she works here and she is the new A.D.A. we will be working with her all the time on cases." Sky said.
"I guess so." Brandon said.
"Now, Stella aside, we should get reading on this case." Sky said as he opened up the folder and started reading.
Stella walked inside of the girl's bathroom with a bright pink shirt in her hand. She went into one of the stalls and grabbed some toilet paper. She walked back to the sink and turned on the water. She held the toilet paper under the faucet to make it damp. Soon, a young woman with light brown hair and glasses. She wore black slacks, a light green shirt and over that a white lab coat.
"You know that might work better if you dab instead of rub." The young lady said timidly to Stella.
"What?" Stella asked as she stopped rubbing her blouse.
"I said it may help if you dab your shirt instead of rubbing it. The stain will start to set in and you are getting toilet paper on your blouse." The young brunette said.
"Thanks. I'm Stella Ray by the way. I just started today, I am the new A.D.A." Stella said as she held out her hand.
"I'm Flora Lily. I work as the medical examiner." Flora said shyly as she shook Stella's hand.
"You don't look like a girl that likes dead bodies." Stella said as she leaned against the sink.
"I don't like them, but I like the human body and helping to know what killed them." Flora said as she put her hands behind her back.
"Really? Interesting." Stella said. Stella then went back tending to her blouse and after she got most of the stain out she went into a stall and changed her blouse. She came out and found Flora washing her glasses. "You look pretty without your glasses." Stella said. Flora jumped and quickly put her glasses back on.
"No, I'm not." Flora said.
"Yes you are."
"Well, I have to get back to my uh, body, that is dead." Flora retorted quietly and ran out of the bathroom.
Stella shrugged her shoulders and readjusted her blouse. She fixed her hair and left the bathroom where she ran into another young woman with straight black hair with a blue tint carrying a box of files.
"Oh, I am so sorry." Stella said as she helped the woman keep the box up.
"No, it's cool." The young woman said.
"Do you need any help?" Stella asked.
"No, I'm fine." The young woman huffed as she set the box on a table. "Hey, I haven't seen you around here."
"Oh, I'm the new A.D.A. Stella Ray." Stella quickly said as she put forth her hand once again.
"Cool, I'm Musa Harmony. I work in the case storage room organizing files and paperwork for a case open or closed." Musa said as she shook Stella's hand.
"Sounds, organized." Stella chuckled.
"Not really. If it was, I wouldn't be here." Musa laughed.
"If you need any help, let me know." Stella said.
"No it's alright. You have your job and I have mine." Musa said. "It was nice meeting you." Musa said and then picked the box back up and started to walk away from Stella and Stella started to walk towards her office.
The intercom went off and everyone was eager to hear what was going to come from the small little speaker in the corner of the room. They all groaned when they discovered it was Captain Connors.
"I need Sky Matthews, Brandon Grayson, Layla Tides, and Nabu Andros in my office now." Captain Connors yelled through the intercom and then hung up.
"I wonder what he wants?" Brandon asked.
"Whatever it is, we better go. I do not want to be yelled at twice in one day." Sky answered.
"Good idea." Brandon said and the two of them got up from their desk and headed to the Captain's office.