*A/N: Sorry about the delay - i got writers block and then my net was cut off... anyway. here it is. Please let me know if you like where it is going or if you have worked out who actualy killed him!
Chapter 6
During dinner each member of the team received the same message "Meeting 10pm, Van Pelts room" So sneaking around so they wouldn't be caught entering into a 'secret' meeting the others arrived at Van Pelts room.
"So why are we here?" Rigsby asked.
"We are here to discuss things as they stand at the moment"
"Well I would go for Cody, he seems more reliable"
"Jane. That is NOT what I meant"
"Oh! We have a dead Russian professor and no suspects"
"Better…"
"Want to know what I think?"
"Oh go on"
"Really?"
"Only because you're going to tell me anyway."
"I think the blackmailer did it"
"Blackmailer?"
"Yes Lisbon. Blackmailer. Rigsby told you about it."
"Oh yeah."
"Who is the blackmailer then genius?"
"I don't know yet. Could be the girl that found him. Their meeting was far too early for it to be study related" Jane added when he saw a roomful of raised eyebrows.
"So we still have nothing?" asked Cho in his usual monotone voice.
"Yes. We have nothing"
"Right, this time I think I really am going to turn in. Rigsby, I want that diary translated by lunchtime tomorrow and Van Pelt. You are going to stay with him. Make sure he keeps out of trouble. If he gets so much as a paper cut I wanna know!"
"Yes Boss"
And Cho, Jane and Lisbon left the room. Rigsby pulled out the diary and started to read and make notes. His pen hovered over what looked like a promising passage when he felt hot breath on the back of his neck.
"Van Pelt? What are you doing?"
"Distracting you"
"Please stop"
"And why would I do that?"
"Because Lisbon wants this by tomorrow lunch and you and I both know how weak I am. If you keep distracting me like that it won't get done!"
"Ok." She removed her hands and went to sit on the bed with a book. He carried on deciphering the diary. It was 9am when he finished. He had made notes. The diary proved to be a goldmine. It turned out the victim was having an affair, amongst other things. Rigsby went to bed to try and get some sleep before presenting what he had found to Lisbon.
Rigsby joined the others around noon at the makeshift office they had set up at the local PD.
"The victim was having an affair. With Professor Vyachyeslahv. Our vic was being blackmailed over it. I got the impression that his wife wouldn't appreciate him sleeping with another man. He was worried that Professor Vyachyeslahv was not as concerned over the blackmail as he was and from what I read I think he was starting to get suspicious. I think Professor Vyachyeslahv is involved."
"But who else could be involved? We have witnesses that place him elsewhere at the time of the murder" Van Pelt queried.
"Someone who speaks good enough Russian to know that the Prof. doesn't speak English to anyone who isn't as fluent as him?" Rigsby asked as an off chance.
Jane jumped to his feet. "Exactly"
