Like I said previously this story is evolving beyond my control and is going a bit out of my comfort zone…Thanks for your patience I promise to have another chapter up real soon. I didn't want to rush the murders due to me feeling like a bum…so I stopped earlier then I'd intended too…I don't know how many more chapters but I hope you enjoy nonetheless.
The Card
Chapter 4
"It seems your time in arriving to a crime scene is slipping Dunham." Agent Broyels looked at his watch. He was not a man to be kept waiting and having had to go to the Bishop house so Peter could get ready hadn't helped.
"What do we have?" Olivia held her breath. Broyles had made sure to come to her to keep her from going any further into the crime scene and that only meant one thing. It was bad and he didn't want her to go in unprepared.
"Mother and daughter both dead. Mother looks to have been beaten to death, the girl has two bullets to her chest. We'll know more once the ME does the autopsies."
"The ME?"
"Dunham." He interrupted, he knew where this was going. He hadn't meant to say ME before telling her the case was theirs but would she give him the opportunity to explain? Of course not.
"Sir if this is a local police matter, why are we here?" Olivia was annoyed. She didn't mind working with the local police departments it was the tension between the two groups that always got to her.
"Dunham!" He put a hand to cease her arguing. She was stubborn, eager and ready to take charge, which were few of the reasons he'd picked her for the fringe division he should have expected her defensiveness of having been called in for a case she wasn't the lead on.
"The bureau has already taken over the murder cases. These were left behind." He held up two evidence bags. The first held a disc.
She glanced at the disc. "I don't see what this has to do with the Fringe Division?"
"The locals didn't call in the Fringe Division. They called for you." He held up a second evidence bag.
She almost forgot about the disc in hand. The second bag caught her and Peter's attention. A white card with a single daisy on the cover. "Open it." Broyles instructed handing her a pair of gloves then the card.
She wasn't sure she wanted to. Keeping her emotion in check she took hold of the card. She'd only told a handful of people about the card she received every year on her birthday and those were people she truly trusted, that meant this was no crazed fan.
She felt Peter move close closer looking at the card over her shoulder. The inside of the card was mostly empty. On the left side the words 'Thinking of you' were printed. On the right side the words 'This is for you Olivia Dunham' were written in messy red ink. She felt sick. She knew something was wrong when she received the card early. The nightmares were another sign that something wasn't right, they were never this bad.
"Have the locals looked at the disc yet?" If this really was her step father then she didn't want to know what was on the disc.
"Its not pretty." He turned to face the crime scene taking her attention with him. "Its their last hour of life." He told her grimly. He'd been warned before he watched the video but nothing could have prepared him for what he saw.
To say Olivia hated her life would be an understatement. She wanted to be anywhere but where she was and anyone but who she was at that moment. "I'd like to take a look at the scene." Without another word Agent Broyles led the way.
AN: small hint there... so you may know where this is going!