Thanks to everyone who reviewed my first chapter, and to those who favourited it :) Made me feel realy happy so thankyou. Hope this chapter is okay, I did try and check for spelling mistakes and I hope I got them all but sorry if I missed some. Enjoy.
ALSO! If anyone wants to suggest any horror films with good murder/death scenes that they think I could include in later chapters, please feel free to suggest them and I'll see what I think :)
"I think that went well," Jane spoke cheerfully whilst grinning at Lisbon, who was resisting the urge to seriously smack him. They were emerging from a half hour long talk with Hightower and although it was still early, Lisbon was ready to go home and hide under her duvet covers for the next week.
"Oh, and in what possible way did that go well!" she exclaimed back at him whilst giving him her most penetrating stare. Jane was fazed in the slightest.
"I hope you know Lisbon that your 'Death Stare' doesn't work on me," he grinned as they both made their way back to the Bullpen and towards Lisbon's office.
"Shut up Jane," she snapped back at him. "It was obvious Hightower was pissed, and I feel the exact same way." She sighed with frustration as they reached her office. "This case is impossible. We've got no leads, no suspects, no evidence, nothing." She proceded to sit down behind her desk. She then slammed her head into her desk, her raven hair flowing over her face.
"Well, we know he liked horror films, and that he must be a skiled craftsman to recreate the some of the machinery used in the films." Jane was trying to be supportive of Lisbon, but he could see that his words were of no use. "He obviously has some sort of mental health issues to want to do what he does, or he just sees it as passing the time."
"You're really not helping you know," she mumbled from beneath her cloak of hair.
Just as Jane was about to reply, Cho entered her office. For the love of God, please let him have something useful on the case, she thought wearily to herself.
"Boss, we've got the identity of our new vic." Lisbon lifted her head up off the desk to look at him as he spoke. "He's Michael King, 38, no family or relatives still living, there's no similarities between this guy and our first vic. Our first guy had family and worked in a coffee shop, whereas this guy didn't do anything."
"EEERRRRRR" Lisbon groaned as she slammed her head back onto the desk. Cho looked quizically at Jane as if for an answer.
"She's having a rough time," Jane replied. Lisbon's head shot up and she gave him her 'Death Stare' again. This time, it actually had a slight effect on Jane who held his hands up in a surrender pose.
"Cho check our vic's background, see if he had any enemies, then see if there's a connection between our two vics. I don't care how small it is, if there's a possible link, I wanna know it right away."
"Yes boss," he replied and exited the office, leaving Jane and Lisbon with nothing to do other than to wait for any developments.
"You know," Jane piped up again, "since we have nothing to do, we could always try Hightower's suggestion-"
"Jane, there are hundreds of horror films in the world, we can't watch all of them hoping to find a clue."
"I think this guy is into the more modern stuff, in this modern age horror visionaries are becoming more creative with their ideas and I think our guy thrives on that."
"That still hasn't narrowed it down Jane." Lisbon was fed up, tired and grouchy. Definately not a good combination when stuck in an office with Patrick Jane, who was staring at her and trying to convince her to change her mind. "Alright," she finally admitted with a defeated tone," if we get another Saw related murder, then I guess we should get everyone to get up to speed with the films." Jane was grinning at her now. "But don't think this is gonna be some fun little movie night, we've got to analyse these films and note stuff down that could be relevant to the case."
"Of course. And until then, I'm going to take a nap." He turned and wlaked towards her office door, "wake me up when we get our next crime scene," and left Lisbon sitting alone in her office, watching him waltz over to his 'beloved' couch and descend into his own little dream world.
" Jane, JANE WAKE UP!" Jane's eyes slowly opened as he acknowledged the female presence staring down at him whilst shouting at him to wake up.
"I take it we have another dead body, let me guess, Saw?"
"We don't know yet, all we know is that a body has been found and it's got the same 'X' mark on it. Look, I'll tell you on the way, we have to go."
Jane hopped up from his couch, and followed Lisbon towards the parking lot. This one should be good, he thought to himself.
The crime scene this time, was in the basement of a farely respectable looking house. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, except for the putrid stench that was coming from the basement. It had been a concerned neighbour who had found the body, and was being questioned by Van Pelt and Rigsby as Jane and Lisbon pulled up.
Van Pelt came over to greet them.
"Apparently the neighbour hadn't seen Mrs Langston for about a week, so he came over and found her front door was unlocked and said there was a horrific smell coming from the basement. He went down to investigate and, well..." her voice veered off.
"Let me guess, it's not a pretty sight?" Lisbon asked the younger agent, and immediately got the answer she was looking for from her expression. Judging by the Van Pelt was giving Lisbon, she's never seen anything like it, and didn't particularly want to go back down there. " Okay, we'll go take a look, you okay up her with the neighbour?"
"Yes boss," she flashed her a grateful smile and returned back to Rigsby who was taking down notes of the neighbour's knowledge of the new victim."
"Oh my God!" Lisbon had to cover her nose from the frightful stench that was being caused by the decomposing corpse trapped in a cage of barbed wire. Even Jane had trouble breathing in the air. "I've never seen anything like this before," she choked from beneath her hand.
The body was a large female, possibly in her mid to late fifties, although with the decomp, it was hard to tell anymore. They'd have to get the facts from the neighbour or relatives. She was wearing nothing but her underwear for protection. Her large frame was twisted and tangled between a large cage of barbed wire that took up most of the basement and her skin was covered in cuts and gashes caused by the sharp wire. The coroner started filling them in on some of the details.
"Looks like she's been down here atleast a week or two, the rate of decomp tells us that atleast." He pointed towards some of her cuts that had started to rot away. Jane and Lisbon were still holding their noses whilst her continued. "Some of the cuts were so deep that traces of her stomach acid were found on the floor.." his voice trailed off as he too was struggling to breath in the confined space.
"Thanks for your help, I think you can take her now." Lisbon nodded at the coroner who proceded to untangle the lifeless body. Jane and Lisbon then headed back upstairs for some clean fresh air.
"I'm guessing from the expression on your face that this is another Saw themed murder?" Lisbon was now staring at Jane, waiting for his reply.
"Yep, this is also from the first Saw film, but what was quite amusing was something the coroner said. 'Some of her cuts were so deep that we found traces of her stomach acid'. That's almost an exact quote from the film. Our mystery horror psychopath definately wants this to be as similar as possible."
Lisbon was about to reply when her phone started ringing. She reached into her pocket and quickly glanced at the caller ID.
"Crap," she murmured as she answered the call. "Lisbon...yes boss...sure, I'll get them all back ASAP." She slid her phone back to her pocket and signalled for Rigsby and Van Pelt to follow her and Jane back.
"I take it Hightower wants to speak to us?" Jane asked her as she slid into the front seat of their van.
"Yep. This isn't gunna be fun."
"As you all know,we seem to be dealing with a killer who is trying to recreate murder scenes from horror films." Hightower was standing in the Bulpen, addressing all 5 of the CBI team. "We need to solve this case quickly before anyone else gets hurt. The media's already having a field-day with this one. Now, all we know so far is that he or she has been using the Saw films for guidance. I doubt that any of you have watched all 6 films in the franchise, so that is what I'm asking you all to do. Watch each film intentively and keep notes of anything that could be useful to the case. Is that clear?"
"Yes boss," they all chimed.
"Good." She picked up her coat and bag and headed towards the elevator.
"So..." Rigsby was the first to break the silence. "Anyone actually got any of the movies?"
"Nope," Jane and Lisbon said in sync. "But I'm sure the rental shop will have them," Lisbon suggested.
"I've got all of them," came a quiet voice from behind the team. They all turned to see Van Pelt looking extremely self conscience. "I'm sort of a film fan and I bought them cheap online," she continued. "I mean if anyone wants to come over and watch them with me, I don't mind." Her eyes darted hopefully towards Rigsby who immediately understood what she meant, but waited to see if anyone would take her up on her offer.
"I'll be fine renting them," Lisbon replied, knowing full well what was probably going to happen.
"Yep, I'm sure I can rent them too," Jane also knew what Van Pelt and Rigsby were probably going to do instead of watching the films, and he definately didn't want to b there when that happened.
"I think my friend's got some of them on DVD, I'll just borrow them off him for a few nights." Cho joined in with the excuses. "Besides, I think Rigsby might need someone to hold his hand watching them. We went to see the new Nightmare On Elm Street a while ago and he nearly fainted in the seat."
Jane and Lisbon couldn't help but smile and tried desperately to stop the laughter that might unfold.
"That's settled then, Cho can borrow the DVDs, me and Jane can rent them and Van Pelt and Rigsby, you can...err...watch them together. But don't forget that we have to pay attention to them, so don't get distracted." Her gaze fell upon her two colleagues who she knew her words were wasted on.
"Yes boss," they both replied as they turned and headed for the elevator. Cho followed.
"Jane, you're coming with me." Lisbon ordered.
"Where are we going?"
"Rental store, we need to start watching these films ASAP so we know what we could potentially be dealing with," she replied as they both headed for the second elevator.
"Why do you keep repeating the word 'we'?" He asked curiously with a slight smile on his face. Lisbon knew was already aware of the answer.
"If we watch them together, then we both know which films we've watched and we can both keep up and help each other out with the notes." She pressed the button in the elevator to the groud floor level. "Plus, it's unlikely that the rental store will have more than one copy of each Saw film and knowing you, you'd find it first then I'd be left empty handed." Jane was now beaming with amusement. Lisbon couldn't help but let a little smile slip through.
"And you're sure it had nothing to do with you making me pay half for the DVD rental?" He asked, still amused.
"Well there is that too." She replied.
They were both smiling as the elevator doors slowly closed and they left the CBI building.
Thanks to anyone who read this chapter, and I hope to update soon. Also, I do hope you guys give me some suggestions for horror films I could include with cool gruesome murder/death scenes. Your input would be awesome so any suggestions would be great and I'll see what I think about them :)
BTW my next chapter might have a little bit of Jane/Lisbon fun (I Plan to have them watch the films together...=D! )