CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
By Butterfly of Blood
I don't own CSI or any of the anime mentioned in the story. I just own the original characters.
Face the Show
Thanks to the blood drop analysis, Brass brought "Pharaoh" in for questioning. He wasn't too happy about that. "Is this going to take long?"
Brass turned on his charm that he always did in interviews. "Are you in a hurry?"
"Pharaoh" scoffed. "I'm SUPPOSED to be judging the costume party with my girlfriend, who's playing my character's love interest, Anzu."
Brass slightly nodded. "I see. Get used to it. We found a blood drop in your 'Millennium Rod' that was a positive match to Daisy."
"Pharaoh" raised an eyebrow. "Whatever."
Brass then turned his attention to "Pharaoh's" gloves. "Aren't you hot in them?"
"Pharaoh" looked at his gloves. "I suppose. And since my Millennium Items aren't with me, I don't really need them."
He then removed his gloves, revealing feminine hands and fingernails painted lavender. Brass didn't expect this and stared at them with an eyebrow raised. "Pharaoh" saw his looks and hid his hands under the table. Slightly shaking his head, Brass continued the interview. "So what happened, Pharaoh? Faye insult you…or your anime?"
"Pharaoh" rolled his eyes. "Every convention day since she joined two years ago."
"So…she pushed it this time."
"Pharaoh" just nodded. Brass then started to think about what might have happened. "So here's what I think happened. Daisy insulted you on Thursday, the opening day of the convention. Feeling angered, you pull her away and stab her with your scepter. Afterwards you dumped her into the bushes."
"Pharaoh" was growing more angered with each word. When he finished, he slammed his fists into the table and yelled in a female voice, "That's not how it happened!"
Brass didn't react to the voice change for he already knew "Pharaoh's" true form from bringing up "Pharaoh's" file. "Then why don't you tell me what happened…Alexis Hawkins?"
"Pharaoh" looked up and sat down, sighing. He said in a masculine voice, "How did you know?"
Brass chuckled as he opened his file. "It's actually very interesting. Your items gave it away. The Egyptian Eye was the trademark for a stacker that haunted a woman a few years ago. We compared and Sara said that the facial structures were the same."
"Pharaoh" ran his hand through his hair, groaning. He then said in the female voice, "Promise me that everything that you see here doesn't get back to the convention. I have a reputation over there."
Brass nodded and "Pharaoh" took a deep breath. He then took off the wig to reveal shoulder-length curly brown hair with blond highlights. Brass looked at "Pharaoh" and said, "Do you mind if I ask how you portray yourself as a man?"
Alexis Hawkins smirked. "It's easy. I have a talent for changing my voice to whatever I want. It comes in handy for my voice-over jobs. I wear the gloves to hide my colored fingernails. I tape my chest to portray a flat chest. At times, like right now…I even put a sock in between two pairs of underwear."
Brass was surprised by that but had to know something else. "Your 'girlfriend,' is she…just for show?"
Alexis Hawkins shook her head. "No. I'm gay and she's my girlfriend."
Brass acknowledged that. "I see. So what happened between you and Daisy Sanchez?"
Alexis Hawkins' glare narrowed as she started to play with her fingernails. "Daisy and I were in high-school together. She was always better than me in choir, drama, school…ugh, I hated her. I would occasionally get her back by making crank calls and changing my voice to her boyfriend's. When we went our separate ways, I found that I was champion at anime. Come convention time, I ruled that event. But then…that BITCH came back and took my place in two days!"
"You guys ever fight?"
Alexis Hawkins chuckled as she held her head back. "The early afternoon of the first day of this year's convention…I put her in her place."
flashback
Alexis Hawkins, or "Pharaoh," was getting people signed up for the anime music video contest with "Anzu" when "Faye Sanchez" came over. "Hey, Pharaoh! What are you doing, acting like a slave?"
"Pharaoh" glared at her and said in her guy voice, "Unless you're here to sign up for the music video contest…" she looked at "Faye's" outfit, "…or get fashion advice, get lost."
The surrounding teens laughed as "Faye" blushed in embarrassment. She then came up with a good comeback. "Well, at least my anime has color, making me look like a goddess, whereas yours makes you look dead."
The surrounding teens laughed again. "Pharaoh" gripped her pen even harder. "Anzu" looked at her and asked, "What are you going to do?"
"Pharaoh" grinned evilly and looked at "Faye." "By the way, David, I love the way that sex-change operation turned out."
"Anzu" covered her mouth in shock but she was trying not to laugh. The teens backed away from "Faye" as she went forward to "Pharaoh." "You…you little…!" "Faye" froze when she looked into "Pharaoh's" eyes. She whispered, "Alexis?"
"Pharaoh" continued to write people's names on the list. "Get out of here, transvestite." "Faye" smirked evilly and walked off.
flashback ends
Alexis Hawkins smirked evilly. "That was my finest moment."
Brass was shocked at her being proud for saying that. But he didn't show it. "Because she insulted you…you killed her."
Alexis Hawkins shook her head. "I didn't have my Millennium Rod that whole day. Someone broke into my house and took it before I woke up. But it was there when I came back around 11 at night. Besides…I couldn't have killed her. I was at the contest from three to five. Ask 'Anzu.'"
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Sara was looking at Alexis Hawkins' Millennium Rod. She first looked at the bottom and saw the initials "A.H." craved into it, like the impression at the end of the hole. She then looked at the rod with a special flashlight. The whole rod lit up from the unseen blood. She dusted for fingerprints and found a handprint encircling the rod. She carefully dusted and lifted it with tape.
She brought the tape with the fingerprint to Grissom. "Got a handprint off the scepter."
Grissom took the tape and compared the two fingerprints. "They match."
He then compared the two to Alexis Hawkins' fingerprint that they got from her file. What he found surprised him. Sara saw his look and asked what was wrong. He answered, "Alexis always wore gloves whenever she had her items, right?"
Sara nodded and then realized, "Those aren't her prints?"
Grissom shook his head. Just then, Greg walked in. "Hey. Alexis' story checked out. She never left the convention. Her girlfriend and many witnesses confirmed that. They also confirmed that she didn't have her scepter with her all day."
Sara shook her head in disbelief. "We just eliminated our only suspect."
Greg then thought of something. "She plays a Pharaoh, right? Maybe she has a servant."
When he left, Sara remembered. She asked Grissom, "You think she ordered her friend?"
Grissom slightly shrugged with his head. "Servants are bound to serve their masters."