Disclaimer: No I don't own Grimm. I do own Charlotte, Alex and any other person that wasn't mentioned in the series so far.

Chapter 4

Charlotte ran into the building after coming out of the rain. She was glad that her black jacket came in handy as she walked towards the elevator. The heels of her boots were clicking against the floor as she saw that the bottoms of her dark jeans were a little wet but she didn't care at this point.

By the time that she got to the third floor, she saw everyone at their desks either calling or working on their articles. She got to her desk and just got to work right away.

"Oh Charlotte."

Almost.

She looked up and saw Dylan walking towards her with two coffees in his hands. She breathed out thinking she would have to deal with her boss just as soon as she walked into work.

"You are a life saver," she said.

"You're welcome," he said, taking a seat across from her desk. "Any monsters attacked you?"

"Oh my god, who told you and will you keep it down?" she hissed.

"Sorry but it's not every day I have to hear a break in from your cop friend," Dylan whispered.

"Oh please, I only had what few scratches I'm fine and Alex should've kept her mouth shut," I mumbled.

"I wasn't talking about Alex," he said.

"Then who were you talking about?" Charlotte asked, raising an eyebrow.

The phone on Dylan's desk rang interrupting their conversation. "Portland Tribune, Dylan speaking," he answered. It got quiet before he said, "We'll be on our way" and hung up.

"Staff meeting in ten," he said, grabbing his things.

Charlotte grabbed her notebook that she used for meetings like this and walked with Dylan to the board room. They talked for awhile before they reached the board room and sat next to one another. She started to doodle on the side of the page when her boss walked in.

Mr. Harold Smith was the editor in chief of the Tribune. He was in his mid fifties being 5'9 inches tall and he came off to Charlotte as someone who looks like he didn't get along with everyone, not to mention a hard ass and just creeps out Charlotte for reasons she doesn't know.

"Alright, I have your assignments for the next few weeks for you to work on and up until now, the recent murders are slowly but surely getting on the rise. What I thought about from the last meeting up until today was that why not do a special on this. Your job is to find out what makes a serial killer and why they do it," he said.

"Is he nuts or what?" Charlotte whispered to Dylan.

"Most likely, I mean why I am surprised that this hasn't been done before?" he whispered back. "I swear he needs to get laid."

Charlotte stifled a laugh before she was going to start laughing like a maniac for no reason. She looked up and saw Carla, Mr. Smith's 'assistant' sort of speak and she was had dark brown hair and only stood 5'5 inches tall; minus the stilettos. They only shared a whispered conversation before she let but not forgetting to give Charlotte a dark glare.

"What's up her ass?" Dylan asked as Charlotte shrugged.

"Alright for those who are still covering the police investigations, continue to do so. Meanwhile, Carla will give you your other assignments," he said.

Speaking of, Carla soon came back in with a small stack of papers and started to pass them out individually. When she got to Charlotte, she pushed the paper a little bit too roughly towards Charlotte as she picks it up.

"What did you get?" Dylan asked.

"'What makes a person a serial killer'" she replied.

"Ouch," he said.

"What about you?"

"'Why do people kill people'" he replied.

"Have fun with that one," she said as the meeting concluded. The two of them headed back to the offices so they can get a head start on their assignments. Charlotte on the other hand wasn't so sure about the assignment.

Later on the day progressed as normally as it can be. Charlotte decided that it was better off working on the article. She knew that a handful of people got put on the special about serial killers for the paper so she had sent out a group email to those saying that they should plan how to layout the articles for when the special will be published which won't be for another few weeks.

She couldn't help but worry about the risks of writing this article. She made a list of who she would have to talk to so she could get some interviews out of the way for the article. She opened up her word document and typed a few words but then stopped suddenly.

Charlotte suddenly got up and decided to go talk to her boss about the assignment. She didn't understand why he would give it to her out of nowhere when she was used to writing small articles or sometimes the obituaries.

When she got there, she heard noises coming from inside the office. She dreaded to know whose voices they were but something inside of her wanting to know. She crept slowly towards the door and she saw that it was left a crack. Charlotte peered inside and she saw her boss talking to another person but it wasn't Carla though.

"I thought I made it specifically clear that this wasn't supposed to happen," Harold said on the phone. There was silence on the other end until he spoke again.

"I don't care as long as you covered up your part of this, there shouldn't be any problems and now I'm hearing about a problem?"

She could only hear some bits of the conversation before she almost tripped and fell into the door which luckily she caught her balance. She decided to head back towards her area and try to forget about what she just heard. When Charlotte got back, she calmed down a bit before Dylan suspected anything.

"Did you talk to him?" he asked.

"No he was busy," she said.

"Why I am not surprised?" he said.

Charlotte could only half smile as she got back to work.

"Hey Alex, can I as you something?" Nick said to his co worker at the station later on that day.

"Yep, shoot" she replied, not taking her eyes off the computer screen.

"How well do you know Charlotte?" he asked.

Alex smirked to herself before she focused her attention on the detective. "Why the sudden interest?" she asked.

"No reason," he lied. Secretly, he wanted to know more about her but wasn't sure on how to do it. For him, it's been awhile since he and Juliette broke up about awhile back. He wasn't sure about jumping into another relationship quite yet.

"And I've won a million dollars," Alex said, sarcastically. "Cut the crap Nick just give me a reason and I won't have the guys tease you about it."

"Fine, I was just wondering if she is you know…"

"Single? Yes, but seriously Nick; are you sure if that's a wise thing to do?" she asked. "I mean it's been awhile since, well you know…"

"Yeah but there's nothing wrong with getting to know her well, right?" he said.

"I suppose but here's some advice," she said. "You hurt Charlotte and I swear I will kick your ass, cop or no cop. Got it?"

"Alex I promise I won't hurt Charlotte," he said.

I wonder if you said the same thing to Juliette before you guys broke up Alex thought but she decided to keep her mouth shut.

"Hey check this out," Sergeant Wu said to the detectives. "It turns out that whoever this sicko is, he's varies his victims."

"English please," Alex said.

"What I'm trying to say is that he'll go for the victim with the blonde hair and wearing light blue shirts or sweaters," he said.

"Okay and what is the other thing?" Nick asked.

"Sometimes, whoever is doing this; they want to have their own little adventure by either stalking them or breaking into their homes," he replied.

"But why would this person go ahead and break into Charlotte's house?" Alex asked.

Charlotte walked out of the building when nighttime fell. She got out of work around eight and was glad to be going home. She was dreading a little of the visit about the window tomorrow but she knew in the end, it'll probably be worth it.

As she drove off towards home, a dark figure stepped out of the shadows and see her drive off. He continued to watch her drive off before he turned back and headed down the alleyway.

A/n: I'm on time…I think. I don't even know anymore. I just want this semester to end!

Okay done with that. I'm thinking this case will be based off of Alice in Wonderland. I know it's risky but it's something right. As for a Grimm creature it has yet to be determined so we'll see what happens!

I'll try to update again next week. Leave a review or whichever! They make me happy and I thank you guys so much for doing so.

Until then,
Spike