Kimberly leaned heavily on her crutches and scanned the busy airport. Edison and Andrew were supposed to land around five that afternoon. It was five-twenty and the Arrivals board said they had landed. Kimberly narrowed her eyes and quickly rescanned every person in the baggage claim area. Where could they possibly be? They should have made it up to baggage claim by now.
"Are you sure they're coming?" Jane asked and took a long sip of coffee. Maura rolled her eyes and elbowed Jane. "Ouch." Jane grumbled and glared at her wife. Maura winked, and the pair shared a quick kiss. Kim rolled her eyes, but never stopped scanning the crowd. Suddenly her eyes fell on a little boy with blonde hair pulling hard on a man's arm.
"Momma!" The boy exclaimed and pulled on the man's arm harder. Kim's face lit up.
"Edison!" She exclaimed as the boy broke free of the man's grasp and ran to his mom. He reached Kim and wrapped his arms around her good leg.
"Momma! I missed you!" He said, breaking into a huge grin. Andrew finally appeared behind Edison.
"Edison you can't run off on me." He scolded. Edison let go of Kimberly's leg and frowned up at his father.
"But I was just going to momma." He said, his face was wrinkled up in confusion and it was the most adorable thing Kimberly had ever seen. Which was probably why Edison tended to get away with everything around her. Andrew sighed and hoisted Edison up and over his head so he was sitting on his shoulders.
"I know it was just momma." He chuckled. Once Edison was secure he turned to Maura and Jane. "Hi, I'm Andrew Pierce, Edison's father." He said, offering his hand for a handshake. Maura accepted first, and then Jane shook his hand.
"Nice to meet you. Do you have any bags, or should we head back to the house for dinner?" Maura asked. Andrew smiled.
"We just have a duffel I need to grab." Andrew answered.
"Baggage claim is this way." Jane offered. Andrew nodded, and the group migrated toward the luggage conveyor belts.
"How are you Andrew?" Kimberly asked as they shuffled over to conveyor belt five. Luggage from their flight was already circulating.
"Better than you gimpy." Andrew teased. Kim rolled her eyes.
"If you point out the bag, I'll grab it since you have a munchkin on your shoulders." Jane offered. Andrew smiled and nodded.
"That'd be great. Thanks! It's actually that dark green Adidas bag coming around." He said, pointing to the bag. Jane grabbed the bag easily and shouldered it. Suddenly screams ripped through the airport. Jane's hands immediately went to the gun clipped on her belt and they all swiveled around quickly. The next corral over a suitcase had fallen off the conveyor and was unzipped to reveal a dead body. Andrew immediately covered Edison's eyes and Jane and Maura ran over to investigate the scene. Kimberly felt helpless on her crutches but immediately spotted the airport security guards.
"Detective Kimberly Parker BPD, we need to secure a perimeter now!" She barked orders to two guards who were standing by corral six. It took her a second to get them out of her pocket, but the guards moved to action once she flashed her badge and ID. She pocketed them again and then grabbed her phone from the clip at her belt. Korsak answered on the second ring.
"Korsak." His clipped response came through the phone.
"We need a team at Logan International Airport, at terminal A's baggage claim. We found a dead body in a suitcase." Kimberly said into the receiver.
"We'll be there as soon as we can." Korsak said.
"Ten-four." Kimberly said and hung up. "Andrew, take Edison to the Starbucks up by ticketing. I'll be there as soon as I can." She said. Andrew nodded.
"Be careful Kim, something tells me you aren't supposed to be doing field work right now." Andrew said before picking up the duffel and walking off with Edison still on his shoulders. Kimberly took a deep breath and maneuvered herself over to the crime scene. Airport security had already taped off a crime scene and was working on clearing people from the area.
"What do we have?" Kimberly asked, leaning forward to check over the opened suitcase and the body spilling out of it. Maura already had on her rubber gloves and was checking the body for any clues to the cause of death.
"Honestly, we don't have much of anything right now. Jane is talking to the owner of the suitcase." Maura said. Kim glanced over to where Jane was talking to a tall woman with red hair who looked to be in her late twenties. The woman was definitely upset. That part was not an act, Kim could tell by her body language that she wasn't faking. Jane put her hand on the girl's shoulder and she nodded at something Jane said. Then Jane turned and walked back over to Maura and Kim.
"She's had two connecting flights. So, this suitcase has been out of her possession or reach since seven this morning and has stopped once in Chicago and once in Baltimore before coming here and the body definitely wasn't in there with her clothes when she left this morning." Jane said filling us in. Maura nodded.
"That would make sense. It looks like time of death was only about four hours ago." Maura said.
"Korsak has a unit on its way." Kimberly added. Jane nodded.
"So, we stay here until they get here and then we have to go home." Maura said. Jane and Kimberly frowned.
"No, we have to go back to the station and get to work on this murder." Jane said. Maura shook her head.
"We need to at least drop Edison and Andrew off." She said. Kimberly shook her head.
"Oh my God. No one can tell Andrew I forgot about them for a second. He already thinks I don't focus on Edison enough." Kim groaned. Jane chuckled.
"I'll take it to the grave." She promised.