"Agent Drew, we've found something." One of the officers called to her.

"What is it?"

A note said on, "What goes around comes around."

"Cryptic." Frank observed.

"Where is he?" Joe asked.

"I'm right here. I was on my way when they called me." Gray Man answered from behind.

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Chapter 2

"I was already on my way over when they called me." Gray Man said.

He couldn't look at the direction where his wife lay on the ground and he didn't know who had done this to her.

"Sir, can you confirm that this is your wife?"

He walked over his face pale at the look of his wife on a stretcher with a blanket over her face. "It's her." His voice was soft as if he couldn't hardly get the words out of his mouth.

"Sir, do you know who would do this? Do you have any enemies?" One of the detectives at the scene.

Not that I know of." He answered the officer when he saw Frank come up with his FBI badge.

"Special Agent Frank Hardy, we'll be taking over this case."

"You look a little overdressed for an investigation."

"I was having dinner with a friend, not that it's any of your business. Tell me what you have." He ordered.

"Well, there wasn't anything taken, she was getting ready to leave when she was killed with a bullet because she had her keys in her left hand. You came on the scene right after we did and we found that note on her."

"Thank you, you are dismissed." Frank turned from him.

Nancy walked up to him. "You seem a little tense."

"Yeah something is not right about this situation." He looked from Nancy to where Gray Man sat with his head in his hands. Almost all he could think about was that could be him some day. He forgot the fact that he was talking about an internationally known detective that was also officially a detective for the Chicago P.D.

"Frank, what's wrong?" Nancy asked placing her hand on his arm.

"Nothing Nan." Relaxing his jaw he followed her to where Gray Man was sitting.

"Sir, have you been working on anything lately?" Joe asked.

"Yes, an old unsolved case of mine that has made it's way back to me." He answered the trio that sat in front to him.

"What exactly was it?" After an hour of explaining what it was they concluded that they would keep it an option when they were working oin the case.

"Sir, are you wanting to stay here tonight or would you like to go elsewhere?" Nancy asked.

"I'll stay here tonight. I'll just stay in another room. What Gray man really wanted to do was give the house a good look over to see as to why his wife killed and how anyone got into the house. They had the best security locks that anyone could possibly get to protect their homes and their loved ones. It appeared that wasn't enough but then he did work for a top secret agency and it wasn't like they hadn't heard of cases like this.

"Sir, we'll stay so that we can help you look." Joe spoke for all of them.

Nancy looked down at her dress, shoes and hose that she really didn't want to sleep in. Frank was looking at his suit that he didn't want to sleep in. "We'll help Joe but you stay here and we will………"

She didn't finish what she was saying before Frank cut in, "be back in an hour."

She looked at him oddly. "Come on Nan. Joe you don't let anything happen to him." Joe nodded.

"Frank where are we going?"

"To the apartment. We can't sleep in the clothes that we are wearing." He answered keeping his eyes on the road. They were almost to the apartment when Frank asked, "Do you get a feeling that there is more to this mystery than either of us really know?"

"Yes, actually I do. I don't know what it is until we do some more investigating. I'd like to go over all of his old case files. We may be able to find something in there. Maybe some old partners, lovers, anything that will help us solve this. I can't think of any reason for them to kill her and not make sure that he was there unless they want to send him a message.

They both knew that was the case and it wasn't because just of what had happened. "Hey, Frank what were you going to ask me before we were called to the scene?"

"Nothing." Frank answered.

He hadn't forgotten about the little box that was in his pocket. He'd put it up but he would think before he tried asked her to marry him again. They had known each other for so long that it felt like the dating were just an extension of their relationship with added benefits. Of course, they had kept it secret with the exception of from their parents and friends because they knew that this could be used against them.

At the apartment they found a change of clothes for each of them and Joe before they headed back. Nancy called to check on Bess to make sure that they were all okay and make sure that the pregnant Bess hadn't gotten herself involved into any dangerous mysteries in the last two days. Bess was almost as good as she was at detecting. That didn't stop her from worrying or helping her friend. It didn't stop Bess's husband from getting into a fight with her because she was actually solving a case. Her husband at least came first for the most part and Nancy suspected that he helped her out quite a bit.

"Nancy, are you ready?"

"Yeah, let's go." She grabbed her overnight bag and followed Frank out the door.

Back at the house Joe and Gray Man were looking in every nook and cranny trying to find a clue as to who had killed Gray Man's wife. So far they had found nothing. They had found no signs of forced entry, the back door had been left open where they guy had escaped; at least they were assuming it was a guy. They weren't sure until they found more evidence.

"We're back!" Nancy's voice rang through the house. Joe could hear the bags being put on the couch in the sitting room.

"Find anything Joe."

"No sign of struggle, no sign of forced entry, no clues."

"Have you dusted for fingerprints?"

"No not yet. I was getting ready to do that. If we find anything we can send priority through our labs. We want to find out whoever this is." Gay Man entered the room still looking distraught and even more discouraged now. He knew that they didn't have long to find whoever it was that had decided to shoot his wife.

"Sir, we'd like to start going over your case files." Nancy requested hoping to help him. She knew that he wasn't going to letting his mind off of what they were doing. This investigation was going to the toll of him. She remembered the case that she and Frank had worked together a year ago. Androa Newman sure had them going for a while. The whole case hadn't gone over well, especially considering that it had a lot of personal ties to it. They almost didn't make it through just the nightmares.

After hours of going over case files Nancy stopped. She stretched her arms but she couldn't sleep right now. She looked around to notice that Gray Man was no longer in the room with them and she wasn't sure when he had left. The young woman went looking for her boss and found him in some kind of training room, much like a weight room but this was different because it had a long exercising pad. Behind it were weapons. Some she knew how to use, others she didn't. She eyed the weapons studying them but she couldn't tell you what all the weak points would be for each of the different weapons unless she actually used them.

Her hand went down a staff that looked like it had been well beat before she heard her boss behind her. "Interested in weapons, Nancy?"

Nancy nodded. She had never liked guns even now when she had to carry one she could think of one or two times that she had fired the gun. She had never shot to kill only to injure enough so that she could arrest them. He chuckled behind her. Her hand had strayed to the swords that were up just a little bit hire that were, of course, in sheathes. "Choose." She was ordered.

"Excuse me, sir?"

"Choose a weapon. You need to stretch as do the boys but from what I can figure out they are still poring over files that are longer than my arm." She was surprised that he could chuckle at anything right now. The young woman didn't think that he had forgotten though. Nancy knew that there weren't a lot people interested in weapons other than guns for the most part.

She chose the staff that she had been touching just a few moments ago and blocked an attack that came from behind. "That's cheating you know." She turned gracefully to face her boss blocking another direct attack.

"Fighting in the field is never fair but then you know that." She pushed off his attack and sent a jab to the left side that he had left open.

Nice try." He blocked her left jab.

"How can you possibly do this when your wife just died?" She asked sending another blow his way before doing a back flip in order to avoid his weapon.

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Frank looked up from the files and noticed that Nancy and Gray Man were not there. He got Joe's attention and they went to look for the other two.

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Okay I think that this is a good ending place for this chapter. It's a little longer than the last one and I promise that they will get longer it might take me a couple of chapters though. I hope you enjoy this chapter. Arigato and ja ne!