DISCLAIMER: This is a Sanctuary story/spinoff, although not entirely related to Sanctuary, I must point out that I do not own any contents of Sanctuary, every single credit goes to those who worked on Sanctuary. I do however own my own OC's.
P.I.O.R. - A Sanctuary Story
Season 1
Chapter 6: The Three Bodies
Dawn had arrived, and Charlotte hadn't gotten any sleep since her encounter with the Herroffon. And now she was whisked off to someplace else.
H said to her if she was any good with murder investigation. In truth she didn't know, she wasn't a police officer.
Charlotte was beginning to feel somewhat angry with the whole organization. That fact that all she had done was just lounge around and fight monsters, and now she was being whisked away to some murder investigation, not exactly what she called 'a way to get her to join H's organization in protecting the world'. Apart from seeing all different types of Abnormals that was based inside P.I.O.R. Charlotte wanted something more than just chasing after a murderer who goes around killing girls. So at this moment in time she wasn't impresses. Maybe H was working his way into getting her to join.
H had readied his team all they had to do now was jump into their truck.
"Okay, I got a phone call from a friend who works in the police department here in Cardiff. And we have another case of déjà vu." H said to them.
"If you are referring to the murder of a young girl in the Hilton Hotel then it's already out in the news." Tobey said handing over his electronic tablet showing H an article of a young girl that had been murdered.
H read the article, it was a very short article just displaying that a young girl was murdered, no age or name and that was about it. "This was published only an hour ago. Looks like Wilhelm my old friend managed to keep a few things under wraps."
"For the time being." Tobey said to him.
"Wilhelm wants us to be a part of this investigation. He has specifically asked for us to deliver the forensic and post mortem reports." H said, he gave them all the word to jump into the van and they were off.
XXX
Owen was driving again, except this time, his driving was more smoothly than when he drove to Capital Tower.
Due to the encounter with the Herroffon, Charlotte noticed that they were heading right into Geryfriars Road; Hilton Hotel was literally next door to Capital Tower.
"I have a question." Charlotte asked them. "Won't anyone notice us from when we broke into Capital Tower at the investigation?"
"Nope." Tobey said. "You see Charlotte, P.I.O.R. covers mostly the whole city, we have people who have infiltrated its infrastructure and they relay messages from their posts back at the Headquarters."
"Sort of like a City Watch Police?" asked Charlotte.
"If you want to put it like that, yes. Also we have clean-up operations stations around the whole of Cardiff, as soon as we are out of the zone, we send a team in to clean up our mess and remove any trace of us being there." Tobey said smiling to her.
Owen slowed down to a crawl as he approached Hilton Hotel. Already before they had arrived a massive crowd had formed outside the hotel.
"So much for keeping things secret." Tobey said to himself.
As Owen drove towards the crowd a group of police officers made sure that the crowd had separated to give Owen enough space to drive through the crowd and up to the main entrance of the Hotel.
In front of the crowd were several police cars with officers hanging around outside the hotel. Owen came to a stop. And H instantly in a flash jumped out of the van. "Owen, stay in the van." Owen groaned in reply.
Charlotte, Toby, Kai and Madog slowly exited the van and joined H.
H looked around him.
"Thomas!" shouted a man from afar.
Walking up to H was a man who wore a posh looking suit. He looked a little like a business man. He was slightly tall with trimmed black hair and green eyes. He was pale looking, as if he looked ill.
"Thomas, my old friend." The man laughed as the man and H embraced in a long and friendly hug.
"Wilhelm." H laughed. "Too long it has been, too long."
"Indeed it has my friend. And thank you for coming down here on such short notice."
"It's the least I could do."
The man, Wilhelm, looked over at Charlotte. "Oh, I see you have got a new recruit."
"Sort of. Charlotte has yet to make her decision." H said to his friend.
Wilhelm raised his eyebrows at this in amusement. He turned to look back at Charlotte. "Pleasure to meet you…?"
"Charlotte. Charlotte Halliday."
"Nice to meet you Charlotte. Did Madog run you down?" Wilhelm asked.
"Oh, must we always bring up me running people down, no one has died-"
"-yet-" Kai added.
"-so why are we bringing this up?" Madog asked, but no one answered him.
"I take that as yes. How you doing Tobey? Kai?" Wilhelm asked them. Kai and Tobey replied saying they were fine. "You may need your equipment for this Kai, Medical equipment." Wilhelm said. Kai nodded and went to get some equipment from the van and quickly returned with two metal cases in both hands.
As soon as Kai returned, Wilhelm escorted H and his team towards the entrance of the hotel.
"Fill us in Wil." H asked.
"One of the maids came into work this morning and found a body on the bed in one of the hotel rooms, a body of a young 11 year old girl." H stopped and looked up at him, his eyes wide. "She called the police at the first chance she got; I was called in to investigate, as soon as I saw the body, something inside me told me to call you." They continued on walking.
"I think you might be right about that." Madog said from behind Wilhelm and H.
They entered the reception area and looked around. Police officers were asking questions to other hotel staff and those who were staying in the hotel at the time.
The reception was massive. The whole reception was decorated in a beautiful lush cream. The reception had armchairs a counter for those who are to book themselves in and another are that lead to the lounge and café area.
"How did this become public all rather suddenly?" H asked.
"Police cars, someone notices something isn't right, and soon we have a crowd on our hands. At this moment nobody thinks this was anything Abnormal. Instead I have managed to make them all believe that this was a murder gone wrong." Wilhelm said.
Wilhelm led them up a flight of stairs.
"You know about Abnormals?" Charlotte asked him.
"Thomas here wants me to join his little organization. But I refused. I told him that I will keep my eye out for anything out of the ordinary,"
"Thanks to Wil here, we have manage to avoid several close encounters of Abnormal activity from being made public."
"And this time I think this is something Abnormal." Wilhelm said.
They left the stairwell and came into the first floor corridor of the hotel. Six doors down stood two police officers keeping guard outside door six.
They stood aside and allow Wilhelm and H's team into the room.
The room was big and was decorated in a white cream colour with a hint of blue. It had a table for eating food on, a flat screen TV, a few cupboard's and draws. It even had its own small kitchen.
The bed was in the main part of the room, with the body of an 11 year old brunette girl lying face down naked.
H shook his head. "Okay team, you know what to do."
Kai moved towards the bed, opened up his kit of medical supplies needed to examine the body. He placed on some latex gloves so as not to leave his fingerprints on the body to suspect him of murdering the girl.
Kai tilted the girls head, a small trickle of blood ran down the side of her mouth. "No bruising or any form of abuse. Her body temperature is cold about 2 degrees, she's been dead roughly since possibly sometime after midnight." Kai said.
Charlotte watched as Kai examined the body. "Is this what happened to that other girl you found when I sneaked in on you that time?"
"Yes," H said to her, "we have had other cases of this, all the same, girls of different ages, mostly between 18 and 25, except this is the first time we have had an 11 year old." H whispered to her.
Kai began examining her vagina. "Minor tears around the vaginal gland, no blood, but this is new…" Kais said reaching for a small vial tube and a cotton bud, "we have got semen."
"From our murderer?" asked H.
"Possibly. Or it could have come from our victim here. She died from sexual intercourse."
"So it was rape?" Wilhelm asked Kai.
"Nope this wasn't rape. This girl was targeted. She has had the life sucked from her." Kai asked.
Wilhelm looked confused. "I don't understand."
"Close the door Wilhelm." H asked. Wilhelm did as told.
"Alright, what's going on?"
"I haven't been entirely honest with you my friend." H said sombrely. "Over the last few months, girls of all ages, mainly 18 to 25 have been showing up dead in hotels across Cardiff. As soon as we get there we find a body naked, lying face down. We search the place and not a single clue or anything that might indicate who was in the room." H explained. "Tobey, Madog search the place." H ordered them to do; they went to search the room without a moment's hesitation.
"And you think that an Abnormal is doing this?" asked Wilhelm. H nodded his head. "How do you know that it is an Abnormal? It quite clearly that it is a Human that is doing this, raping girls and leaving their bodies here to rot."
H raised his eyebrows. "Oh, I guess you're right." He said. "But how do you explain this." H placed on a pair of gloves and opened the dead girls' eyelids.
Staring back at them were no pupils, just the white of the eyeball with no veins showing whatsoever.
Wilhelm jumped back at what he saw. "What the…"
"And before you say anything else, no her eyes haven't rolled into the back of her head and neither was she blind. Her pupils have gone." H said to him.
"So it's something Abnormal?" Wilhelm asked.
"Unless you know of anything that can cause the pupils of one's eyes to go white?" he asked.
"Hold on a minute," Charlotte said, "what's that on her wrist?" she pointed.
H picked up her left arm and looked on her wrist. It was a tattoo of the globe covered in a flame, the globe and the flame was inked in red. "It's a tattoo." H said.
"I thought tattoos were illegal to those under the age of 18, especially to an 11 year old? Unless it's a stick on?" Madog said as he was looking around the room with Tobey for anything that might lead to a clue.
"They are illegal to those underage, and it's not a stick on. It is a tattoo. Strange looking one I must say. Well spotted Charlotte." H said to her.
Charlotte nodded her head. She looked at the ground noticed something else. She bent down on one knee to get a better look at a spot on the floor. She followed with her eyes a trail that led towards a door.
"There is something strange about this girl." H said. "She is the only one who is smiling. And what has this blood trickling down ones mouth got to do with the way our killer is murdering these girls."
"Where are you going, Charlotte?" Wilhelm asked her watching her crawl across the floor.
She didn't answer Wilhelm. She was following a trail of something sticky along the floor towards the bathroom door. She opened the door and gasped placing her hands on her mouth to muffle her scream.
H and Wilhelm were by her side in seconds. They looked into the bathroom.
"Was the room processed fully?" H asked Wilhelm.
"No, that's why I called you."
"It's a good thing you did." H said.
"Why, what's wrong?" Madog asked as he walked over to them. He looked into the room. "Sweet Mary, Joseph and Jesus."
"This is new." H asked.
In the small bathroom were two other girls, the same age as the girl on the bed. Both lying against the wall. One was ginger and the other was blonde. Both had a small trace of blood trickling down the sides of their mouths, and they seemed to be smiling as well. They also had the same tattoo on their wrist as the one the bed. Small traces of semen were dripped from their vagina. It was a gruesome sight.
"I think our killer is changing its tactics, to throw us off the sent." Madog said to H.
"I think you are right. We need to catch this bastard quickly and find out what the hell is going on." H said.
XXX
Back at P.I.O.R. Kai was going through the post mortem with the three girls.
Before leaving Wilhelm told H that he will take care of the press and the investigation.
H was watching from overhead in the observation room as he watched Kai deliver the post mortem.
"All three girls died the same way. Sexual intercourse, then death." Kai said. He grabbed a scalpel and cut into the ginger girl's chest. After cutting open the girls' chest and pushing her skin to her side Kai examined her internal organs. He picked up a blue flashlight and waved it over the girls' organ. On the screen in front of him numerous amounts of data scrolled quickly up the screen.
"No trace of Abnormal fluids of any kind. I do however have massive testosterone levels soaring through the body."
H frowned at this. "Did we find any testosterone in any of the other females we found?"
"No, there was no trace; well the AHDD (Abnormal Human Detection Device) didn't pick anything up." Kai said waving the torch around. H pondered though this. "Maybe we found testosterone in these girls' bodies because…they are young, perhaps?" Kai asked.
"Perhaps. Needless to say this is getting strange by the minute." H said.
"That's not all." Kai said suddenly. "I think I know why these girls were smiling." Kai said catching H's attention.
"Go on."
"These girls were aware of what was happening to them. I think they knew who it was that was…fucking them, excuse the language. So one by one they allowed themselves to have their lives sucked from them. And they enjoyed it. They actually enjoyed dying, must be why there is so much testosterone in their bodies."
"Pleasure in death." H said. "These girls were 11 years old and they enjoyed having sex and dying at the same time. Who around here enjoys dying that it becomes such a rush?" H asked himself.
Kai shrugged his shoulders at him.
"What about their tattoos?"
Kai picked up the ginger girls hand and showed it to H. "Just your standard tattoo inked on you by a professional tattoo artist. Tobey is running the image through the database to see who uses it." H nodded at this. "Aside from the other girls we found, these three are the only ones who have tattoos on their bodies."
H again nodded.
"Have you heard from their parents?" Kai asked H.
"Orphans, they reside in Cardiff City Orphanage. Wilhelm sent me a document; they also go to a girl's school, Aberdare Girl's School to be precise." H said.
"That's quite a fair way away, isn't it?" Kai asked.
"Very. I am going to look into it. In the meantime I am hoping that when Madog comes back with the results from the semen we found in the girl's vagina, we might get somewhere."
"I am going to continue with the post mortems, I will let you know if anything comes up."
"Understood." H said.
A/N: Here is Chapter 6, again sorry for the late update, stay tuned because it is going to get interesting.
Reviews will be nice, and don't forget if there is anything you want me to put in my stories let me know and I shall see what I can do.
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