Chapter 7

Langston met Nick in the corridor between the labs.

"I heared that you know the main-suspect?" Langston asked.

"We are old college-mates! I can't believe that. And I can't do anything. I tried to contact his wife but there is nobody at home. I go and visit him in the prison. To calm down him." Nick told before he entered the elevator to leave the building.

In the police-station, Jake arrived with a little shopping bag in his hands. After he presented the officers the stuff inside (a tooth-brush, tooth-paste and a book) the officers let him go and send him to the visitors room. After he sat down at one of the seats he saw threw the glass-wall his father entering the room, in prisoner-clouthes.

Jake was shocked to see his father in this situation. The police officer leaved the room threw the door again and both sat alone there on each side of the glass wall. Jake put the phone and his father did the same so that they could talk.

"Dad, how are you?" Jake asked worried.

"Oh... very well..." his father said sarcastically. "It's quieter than in my hotel... and I already found some friends... Jake, get me out of here before I find more...!"

"Shhh... calm down dad!" Jake said. "Dad, I believe you! That you haven't to do anything with both crimes."

"What do you mean with both?" Jake's dad asked confused.

"Do you don't know it? Just two blocks away from your hotel a second crime happend." Jake told and told him exactly what he knowed and what he saw.

"Oh... no... Jake, that whould explain why they found bloody throusers in my trash-bin. Jake, I have the terrible feeling that someone want's to blame me."

"And who? I mean... Who has a motive to kill your boss..." Jake said but have been interrupted.

"Are you kidding? The whole company and even his own family hated him! But what has that to do with me? Awww... Jake,... I feel so bad here."

"Dad... calm down!" Jake said and start to whisper: "Does someone see or hear us?"

"Why?"

"I get you out of here!" Jake said and put the shopping bag on the table in front of him. In that moment something in the bag moved. "Shhh... or someone sees you." Jake said into the bag.

"What is in the bag?" his father asked confused.

"Dad, we need a place to talk alone. I get you out of here. Do you remember the story I told you... how I won the Paris-trip for Haley?"

"Yes... yes... you said something about 'body-changing'!" his father remembered and became shocked. "Oh... no Jake... don't do that. This prison is not the right place for a teenager..."

"Awww... man... Dad I'm not talking about me..." Jake said annoyed and turned the bag so that Jonathan could look into it. Jonathan just could see himself in a mirror. "Dad, just look into that mirror and be quiet... I explain you everything later." Jake said and turned the mirror.

In that moment Jonathan changed his body... with Fu Dog.

"Hi Fu!" Jake said to Fu Dog who was now in Jonathans body.

"That is a stupid and bad idea!" Fu said threw the phone. "Why do you do this to me?"

"Because we need dad outside! And gramps said that you deserved it because your... problem!" Jake explained.

"Which problem?"

"You know... your problem with gaming and liabilities in this city." Jake said.

"Jake what happend, I feel strange!" his fathers voice came out of the bag.

"I explain you later!" Jake whispered into the bag.

"Wait, was that not the voice of that Fu Dog outside? Jake... what did you did with me?"

"Shhh... Dad, I said I explain you later. You have to be quiet now!" Jake whispered into the bag again before the police officer entered the room again.

"Time over!" he said.

"Okay... 'dad' calm down. All will become well again." Jake said and smiled.

"You will get that back!" Fu Dog said angry before the police officer put him and pushed him threw the door.

"And don't play cards!" Jake shouted.

At the other side of ther door Fu Dog looked shocked into a mirror. He was Jonathan now. And he had to play this rule as long as they need to find the real killer.

"Oh... my gosh... I'm an human!" Fu Dog said shocked.

"We are all just humans." the police officer said confused and annoyed.

In the CSI-building:

Catherine entered the meeting room again where she met Greg Sanders who finished the interrigation of Helen Lockjelly.

"Did you found out something?" she asked.

"Yes, she and the whole company had a motive. And she said that she is shocked." Greg said.

"Everyone says that he is shocked." Catherine said. "Oh, and you should know it... If the blood from your crime-scene is really from a human... he is definetely dead. That where 5 and a half litre!"

"Five and a half litre? Really?" Greg said.

"Yes, but how does the story of your witness..."

"Oh, no... please don't start with that. Two green east-european giants. Maybe that where just two east-european normal tourists." Greg said before Wendy Simms entered the room.

"Hey, what was that for a skin-fragment you gave me. That is the strangest DNA I ever saw!" she said.

"What do you mean with that?" Greg asked surprised.

"The DNA is not from a human... it's from an unknown species. But it's from the same person, or thing whatever like the blood." she said and presented her the results.

"Okay... we have two crime-scenes, the same suspect, but one of the victims is not identifiable. What would be a plausible explanation for two green giants."

"Big animals maybe?" Greg said.

"Yes, but we found shoeprints." Ray Langston said when he entered the room. "And if there where really animals, we must had found fur or something else."

"Yes... by the way... Do you know where Nick is?" Catherine asked.

"He is visiting our suspect in prison. It's so sad for him. They are old friends." Ray said and looked on a wall. "But maybe he can find out what is 'the thing'?"

In front of the prison:

Jake entered the van of his grandfather. He opened the bag and his father (in Fu Dog's body) jumped out and looked directly into a mirror.

"AWWWW... O my gosh,... I'm a animal!" he shouted.

"Shhh... Dad calm down! That was the only way to get you out of the prison. Now we can start in investigating this crime and find the real..."

"But Jake... I'm a animal!" his father shouted again and start to cry.

"Don't worry daughters-husband! You will get your right body back soon." the old man said. "You have to remember where was that crime-scene."

"What?" Jonathan asked still confused.

"Where you met your boss the last time?" Jake asked.

"Oh... right..."

Jonathan told them where it was and they prepare to drive. But in that moment they start driving Jonathan start to shout.

"STOP!"

Lao Shi steped on the brake and the van stopped immediately. All where confused when Jonathan stammered 'Oh my gosh, what is Nick doing here?'

"Who is Nick?" Jake asked and his father pointed on a man who was leaving a car and walking to the entrace.

"That is Nick Stokes! A old college-mate. He is working for the local crime-lab. When he talks with me he will find out that that is not me... I mean he is going to find out about the thing... I mean he ask for the thing?... Aww... Stop him."

Jake leaved the van again and ran to Nick.

"HELLO... Excuse me Mr... ehmm... Stopes!"

"No... It's Stokes! Stokes is the name! Who are you?"

"My name is Jake Long! I'm the son of Jonathan Long." Jake told. "You are a old friend of him?"

"Yes... yes. Did your father told you about me?" Nick asked.

"EHmm... yes yes. Ehm... Mr. Stokes I have to talk to you about my father. I visited him several minutes ago... and I have to say that he is in a really bad condition. Is there anything you can do for him?"

"No! Unfortunately nothing! Because I know your father, I don't work longer on this case. There is nothing I can do for your father." Nick said and wanted to enter the building, but Jake stoped him.

"Wait... Is there anything I can do for my father?" Jake asked.

"Well... You could persuade your father to talk about the thing!" Nick said and shocked Jake.

"What thing?"

"'The thing!'. Your father was threatened with a thing. Do you know something about it?"

Jake was speechless: "Awww... 'the thing'?"

"Yes, your father should talk about it. It's all looking like he is not cooperating. And that is very bad. Especially in his situation."

"Ouhh... you mean... 'the thing'! Well, the thing is nothing!" Jake lied and smiled.

From the van his father, grandfather and friends watched the conversation.

"How much is he knowing in your case?" Trixie asked.

"Enough, that we will get problems." Jonathan answered short.

Lao Shi looked very long on Nick who talked with Jake. He had the strange feeling that he knowed him.

"Was he not on your wedding?" he asked.

"Yes, he was!" Jake's dad answered.

Before Jonathan could finish his sentence Lao Shi remembered and was shocked.

"Oh, no! We have to get him."

Jake still tried to stop Nick from entering the building.

"Wait Mr. Stokes... before you visit my father you should know something." Jake said and invent a story: "My father starts to become sick in this building... so sick that his voice changed and he maybe don't remember you in the first moment."

During Jake talked he saw the lights of the van switched on and that the van began to drive to thier way.

"Don't remember? I know your father very well... You know, I was on his wedding with your mother, Susan right? We know very well... and... wait... the wedding..." Nick stoped talking and slowly remembered something...

Years ago...

On Jonathan's and Susan's wedding... short time after Susan pushed her husband into the cake, Nick leaved the hall to go to toilet. In the man's restroom he saw something, he couldn't remember it really well... it was something...

"Mr. Stokes? What are you thinking about?" Jake asked.

Just a second later the van stoped next to them. The side door went open and a big blue dragon tail came out... grabbled Nick and pulled him into the van.

"Hey... WHAT'S GOING ON! HELP!" Nick shouted before Jake also jumped totally surprised into the van and Lao Shi start to race away...

End of Chapter 7

I will explain in the next Chapter why the kidnapped Nick. I promise it will become interresting. Please review!