So guys chapter III! I hope you like it and please Review/Give your opinion/advice :D. Chapter IV will take a bit more time because I have a Philosophy Final on Thursday... and POSSIBLY a Physics Final on Friday, but I´ll have to check on that :D. Please if you find mistakes, send me a private message and I´ll correct it :D
It took Rick about half an hour to get the coffee and arrive at the crime scene. He parked the car a few yards before the police tape and got out of the car.
He passed under the tape as he usually does and saw Beckett talking with a police officer. He walked towards them and got there just as they ended their conversation.
"Good morning Beckett, here is your coffee just like you want it" Rick said with his charming "everything´s fine, we are not about to see a dead person in like a minute" smile.
"Good morning Castle" she said, grabbing the Polystyrene cup and drinking a sip of coffee. "Pretty good coming from you Castle"
He smiled ironically and took a sip of his coffee.
"So tell me, who´s our victim?" He asked, but got no answer
Kate drank the rest of the coffee in one go, and left the cup over a police car´s hood. She then proceeded to walk up the staircase to the main door. Rick tried following her but she stopped him.
"No coffee in the crime scene Castle, how many times do I have to tell you that?"
He then drank his whole coffee and gave the empty cup to a standing cop
"Here you go. Thanks" he said, and gave him one of his excusing smiles.
He quickly caught up with Beckett, who was almost at the door.
"So what happened here" Rick took a breath and then Beckett turned to take a glance at him.
She turned back to face the door, and then said:ay
"Castle, Coffee stain on your shirt, and a bit coffee on your upper lips"
Rick looked at the rather small coffee stain
"Don't worry, and please, tell me what happened here" he asked one more time.
"A woman called saying he found his son dead in his room a few hours ago. He was too shocked to call 911" she answered
They opened the door and saw many CSI people on the house. There were many evidence signs on the staircase and the entrance hall
"Excuse me, what's the evidence here, have you found something under UV light?" Rick asked.
"Yes sir we found some washed blood stains… we already sent samples to the lab to be compared to the victims" He said "Please use the right edge of the staircase only"
"Castle? Beckett? Come upstairs." it was Esposito, who was already there waiting for them.
Kate and Rick headed straight to the right where the staircase was. It was quite an old house, and the sound of every other step up sounded as if the whole house was tearing down.
Once there they met with the rest of the team.
"So what do we know about this guy" Beckett said to Esposito who was holding the victim´s wallet in his right hand.
He showed them the victim´s driver license
"Moritz Zarcee, 29, Doctor, studied at NYU Med School. Works in his private practice a few kilome..."
"wait you said 29?" Rick said. "he's a 29 year old doctor and still lives with his mom? That's quite a beginning for..."
"Focus Castle, that's irrelevant!" Beckett then said, stopping Castle from saying his usual mystery writing theories.
"Ok" Esposito resumed. "He is single, no kids, and his mother doesn't know from any girlfriends lately. His Laptop and his cellphone are working but are password protected so we I sent them to the lab and told the guys to crack them for us. We might get more information from his messages and emails.
Beckett nodded
"So where's the body?" Beckett asked then.
"Follow me" Esposito said, opening a door to the right. He was the first to walk in the room, and turned to the right.
"Right there in his bed" Esposito said pointing to the body covered by a blanket.
He was wearing a fancy shirt and jeans, and had a Rosary hanging on his neck. His eyes were closed, and his hands where laying between his chest and his stomach. He was ready to be put in a coffin.
He had something line a Capital "i" in his forehead, three close range gun shots on his stomach and a deep wound in his chest.
"Oh a dagger right in the heart and a few bullet holes, a mix of mafia and a passionate revenge" Rick said, as usual totally interested about ideas he could use for his books.
Kate gave him one her looks. She didn't like it when he wasn't focusing on evidence but on his writing.
"We can easily tell that from the clothes he is wearing, he wasn´t planning on going to bed when he was killed" Beckett said. "But how can somebody kill him and bring his body up the stairs without waking up half of the neighborhood?"
"Maybe he did die in this room... And the murderer pulled him in bed?" Castle quickly responded "Maybe the blood they've found on the stair isn't our victims".
Kate took a breath and moved on.
"Any other evidence? Blood stains, broken items?" Kate asked Esposito, and he went towards the window.
"Well this window was open when Mrs. Zarcee found the body, but she probably didn't notice this".
He showed Kate a small rubber ball stuck in the corner of the window, preventing the window from completely closing.
"So…if somebody tried to close this from the inside" Rick said while trying to shut the window "it would give enough place for a bar to pull it back up from the outside. Impressive"
"But how did he get the ball there?" Kate said, looking outside. "The murderer probably just came here sometime before, climbed up the roof and put the ball in the window while it was still open" She said, noticing the easy way to climb up the roof.
"Have you checked for fingerprints on the window?" Beckett asked one of the CSI people.
He put his camera down and turned to Beckett.
"Yes detective, there are tons of them, but probably many of them are the victim´s or his mother´s. There are even two full handprints on the glass, but from the inside. We already sent that all to the lab to be checked" He said.
"Perfect, let me know what you find" She answered.
"Yes detective" He answered, and when on snapping pictures of the place.
"Any other things around?" Rick asked.
"Actually, there are a lot of things to notice, for example those frames there" Esposito pointed to a shelf where 5 photograph frames where.
They all were pictures of him. Two of them were full, and showed him with friends partying but three of them where half cut.
"Look at this cut, the one who made it used a Diamond to cut through the glass… and the picture behind it too"
"We don´t know if the murderer did that, probably our victim had a bad break up and did that himself" Beckett said. It was quite a crazy theory to believe.
Rick went to the shelf and noticed it was quite dusty.
"No Beckett, these frames were not moved so long ago. Look at the clean spots here" He remarked, showing Beckett places where there was much less dust, almost none as the others.
"Well then they are evidence stop moving them around!" Kate yelled.
"We've also found this outside" Esposito said. He was holding a bag of weed, a pretty big one and a big tinderbox size cocaine brick. "There was a toolbox outside, stuck to the roof ts with some industrial glue, and this was inside it"
"So maybe somebody forgot to pay for his drugs? Or was dealing them where we wasn't supposed to?" Castle suggested.
"That is way too fast to come into conclusions Castle. And by the way where´s Ryan?" Beckett asked, because she hasn't seen him around.
Esposito went back to the window and pointed outside
"Right there Beckett, he is waving at us"
Ryan wanted them to walk outside. They nodded and walked out the window one by one.
"What´s up Ryan?" Castle asked.
"We found a passed out guy in the alley, he says he was tased by a man but he is still waking up, I´m bringing him back to the station for interrogation" He said.
Beckett stepped forward, almost tripping because of her shoes and the roof tiles. Castle grabbed her from the arms, and helped her regain balance.
"Ok Castle thanks, I can do it" Beckett said, then addressed to Ryan "Wait, you can´t do that, he is a victim!"
Ryan laughed briefly.
"Nobody with 10 grand, half a kilo weed, a brick Cocaine, a gun and a silencer in his bag is a victim for me"
The other three smiled and laughed briefly as well.
"Well, I probably should go ask Mrs. Zarcee what she knows… and if she knew his son had something to do with drugs, but I´m pretty sure that guy there is our killer" Beckett said, and went back inside.
When castle went back inside he noticed something in the ceiling. He stood under the light and stared at it for a while.
"Awesome…" He whispered.
Esposito was already leaving the room when he was called back by Castle.
"Wait Esposito, come back!" He yelled. He then ran outside the room.
"Beckett! Come see this, you will love it!".
He then walked back to the room.
"Jake, please wait a minute to resume your photographing" He said to him, who nodded and just stood there.
"Please close the blinds" He said to Esposito, just when Beckett walked back into the room. Castle then closed the door.
"What is it Castle?" She said. "What is it that I will love"
He went to the light switch, which was a one of those round switches that help regulate the light intensity.
"So please, you may know this kind of a light switch" He said, while turning the light to maximum brightness.
Beckett frowned.
"Yeah I know that, I have them at home too" She didn't look impressed at all.
"Just wait, I'm setting the mood" He said, while he started dimming the light. At one point it changed from light to a turning disco ball which left the room quite dark, with just some light coming through the blinds and the reflection of white light on the room walls, floor and items.
Esposito laughed.
"Nice one Castle, that's what I call setting the mood" He added, and started to dance a little bit.
Beckett started his walk out of the room
"Good one Castle, again killing my patience" She remarked, when he was stopped by Castle.
He shook his head, and smiled.
"Now this... is what you are going to love"
One more turn of the light switch, and the light was out, and they could hear a generator for a few seconds and then the room was filled by UV Light.
"Now this... is amazing!" Rick remarked half singing Alex Lloyd´s song.
"Unbelievable…" Beckett said, she was now really amazed. Esposito stopped dancing right away and was left without words.
They could see a bunch of white stains everywhere, on the floor, on the bed, and there were writings on the wall, being the biggest a "I / III"
"Get all CSI here and get all this photographed and a sample of every stain taken" Beckett ordered, and Esposito left the room and ran downstairs.
"Now Jake, please resume your duty" Castle said "Now who wants to go for another coffee" He added while leaving the room.
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