Chapter 8
Tamsin left for work before Bo woke up. Bo stayed in her empty apartment for a while. She couldn't figure out what she should do with the blonde, so she decided that she should just leave and go to the Dal, because she practically stormed out from there last night.
Everything was ok at the bar. Bo felt relieved. She saw Kenzi sitting at the bar, drinking alone.
" You are awfully early." Bo said to her as she walked to the Russian girl. She sat beside her.
" And you didn't come home last night, bestie." Kenzi stared at her with a straw in her mouth, " Is there something I should know about?"
" Just...my succubus thing." Bo knew if she told Kenzi that she had sex with Tamsin, a shit storm would come and she was not ready for it.
" Got it. No further questions!" Kenzi said, " We got a case. That is...if you want to work on cases instead of getting really drunk over your break up. 'Cause dude, I'm totally in if you want to..."
" No, I'm fine. I could use a distraction right now." Bo said. She thought she should just work on some cases, because it would help to take her mind off everything else, like Lauren, or the Valkyrie, or her father.
" Ok. I got a friend, who has a friend... Anyway, there is this woman, she works in a morgue. She said a few dead bodies there have disappeared recently."
" Dead bodies disappearing? Could be a body jumper or something, I guess." Bo said, " Let's go check it out."
Bo and Kenzi arrived at the morgue a little after lunch time. The client was eating her sandwich right beside a body. It seemed that the nasty corpse had totally no effect on her appetite. The way she enjoyed her food, made Bo wonder if they were actually in a diner.
" Hi, you must be Kenzi." The woman smiled at them when they walked in. Then she turned to Bo and said, " And you must be Bo. I'm Sophie."
" Nice to meet you." Bo smiled to her politely, giving her a hand shake.
" So, what's the situation here?" Kenzi asked. She was facing away from the body.
" We've lost a few corpses during the past week." Sophie said.
" Any connections between the bodies?"
" Hard to say." Sophie said, " Because all three bodies were John Does, and those were the only three unidentified bodies we have. I don't know if they had any connections."
" I noticed that you have cameras here." Bo pointed at the corners of the ceiling, " Any footage we can watch?"
" Actually, one of them is broken, long time ago. I filed request, but you know how the bureaucracy works." Sophie looked upset. She finished her sandwich and continued, "and the other one was blocked and turned away the night the bodies disappeared. "
" By whom? And you mean all three bodies disappeared on the same night?"
" I don't know. The thief maybe? I can't say I'm a hundred percent sure, but even if they didn't disappear at the same time, it would be very close." Sophie titled her head, trying to recall something in her memory.
" Ok. Do you have visitor logs? 'Cause I'm gonna need those if you do." Bo said.
" Yeah, of course." Sophie took a sign on log from the back of the door, " but I can't give the original copy to you, I'll need to make a copy for you in the copy room, if you would excuse me for a minute or two."
" No problem." Bo smiled to her.
" So, what do you think? Body jumper? Body eater? Necromancer? Zombies?" Kenzi asked after Sophie went out.
"No idea, but I'm sensing that whoever took those bodies wants some dead bodies with no identities." Bo said, " Which is weird..."
They sat there for a while. Then Sophie came back with the copies of the visitor logs. She also had something else for Bo. " It's all the files we have on the missing bodies." She told Bo.
" Why didn't you call the police?" Bo asked.
" I did, and police came, but no updates." Sophie shrugged, " I guess I'll just have to find someone myself. I can't allow this happening in my morgue."
" Yeah no kidding." Kenzi murmured.
Bo went back to the Dal. Since it was still early, no customers were there. She figured she would just go through the files with Kenzi. Kenzi took a bottle of liquor out and poured herself and Bo a drink. She sat beside Bo, watching her reading the files for a while, then she said, " How are you holdin' up?"
" I'm fine." Bo said. Then she frowned and thought about her own answer for a while. She realized that she actually felt fine. "Actually, I really feel alright." She added.
" So what's the drill on Lauren now?"
" I don't know, honestly. I think she wants to work with the organization, maybe to fulfill her dreams." Bo said.
" She's not coming back?"
" I don't think so."
" I think I'm gonna miss her. Only sometimes." Kenzi said as she sipped her drink, " Does that mean you are going to get back with D-man?"
Bo almost choked. " No! Dyson and I are just friends, and we'll stay friend."
" Yeah, but what if you are badly injured. You know..."
" I think I can deal with that." Bo said. She blushed when she realized who she was thinking about. She downed a drink, just to cover the blush on her face. She found herself somehow surprisingly attached to the blonde.
" Ok, if you say so." Kenzi slammed the counter top with both of her hands and said, " Find anything in the files?"
" I don't know..." Bo held one of the photos up in her hand and said, " I think this guy looks really familiar. Do you recognize him? Maybe we met him like in one of our previous cases or something?"
" Nope. Total stranger to me." Kenzi said, " Maybe you banged him before?"
" No, I'm pretty sure I can do better." Bo said with her eyes wide open. " Maybe he just looks like someone I know or something." She said as she shook her head.
" Maybe." Kenzi said, " Well, nothing abnormal in the sign on sheets. I guess we could dig a little more on every name on this sheet, see if any of them were suspicious."
" Good idea." Bo said, " Why don't you go do that? I need to start preparing for the bar opening now. It's getting late."
" Cool."
People started to show up at the bar. It was just like normal. Then Bo saw Dyson and Tamsin walk in. She stole a glance at the blonde. The Valkyrie was talking to Dyson and they were both laughing. Then the blonde saw her, and she turned her head away.
Dyson came to the bar, with his warm, greeting smile on his face. " Hey, how's it going?" Dyson asked Bo as he took the beer Bo handed to him.
" Alright, I guess." Bo said. She saw the Valkyrie sit down beside Dyson, with a case file folder in her hand.
" Vodka." Was the only thing she said to Bo. Bo handed her a bottle of vodka, and a glass. She accidentally touched Tamsin's finger when she handed her the glass. Both of them withdrew their hand as if their fingers were burnt, and the glass dropped on the counter.
" Wow, bar tender, first day of work?" Dyson teased Bo.
Bo smiled with a little bit embarrassment. She saw Dyson take out a file folder too, so she asked, " New case?"
" Yeah, some missing corpse case."
" Missing corpse? They wouldn't happen to be missing from the Community hospital a few blocks away, would they?"
" No." Dyson looked at her confused, " It's from the city hospital. They've lost a dozen dead bodies over the past week or two. Why?"
" Kenzi and I are working on a case, the morgue lost three bodies in the past week."
Dyson frowned. " You think they are linked?"
" Well, missing corpse, do you need anything else?" Bo asked.
" Ok. Can I take a look at the files you have on your case?" Dyson asked.
" Yeah, of course. Kenzi has them though. She's probably in Trick's den right now."
" Ok. I'll go find her." Dyson stood up and went downstairs.
Bo looked at the blonde, who was reading the files she had with her head lowered.
" Hey." She finally decided to say something, since Dyson and Kenzi was not beside them, " Thanks for saving my life last night."
" No need." The Valkyrie smirked, " Don't get too attached."
Bo wanted to say something else, but before she could, Dyson and Kenzi came out to sit down at the bar. Dyson had both his files, and the files from Bo in his hand.
" Let's see if there's anything in common." Dyson said. He opened the folder and laid the filed in front of Tamsin, Kenzi and him.
" Well, they were all John Does and Jane Does, that I can tell ya." Kenzi said, " Which is great, because we don't know anything about them."
" Maybe I should run all of them through the facial recognition program, see if any of them matches anyone in the database. It's gonna take a while though." Dyson said.
" Speaking of facial recognition..." Bo took a photo out from the files, and handed it Dyson, " Have you ever seen this guy? He looks really familiar to me, but I couldn't recall where or when I have seen him..."
Dyson looked at the photo and shook his head. " No. Never seen him in my life."
" Then where have I met him? It's not from our case, or yours..."
" Maybe he came to the Dal before or something." Dyson said, then he turned to Tamsin and said, " You're very quiet, partner. Everything ok?"
" Everything is great." Tamsin smiled to him, " Just reading files."
" Any findings?"
" Well... " Tamsin raised her eyebrows as she pushed two pieces of paper to Dyson, " Look at these two signatures on the visitor log. One of them is from our case, the other is from...Bo's." She hesitated for a second or two before letting Bo's name finally come out. She pointed at the two names she was talking about to Dyson. " See anything?"
" Different names... but the hand writing looks the same..." Dyson said, " If both names were signed by one person, why would he use different names for different places?"
" One explanation, he's our guy." Kenzi slammed the counter top, " Ok, case solved, and I'm gonna go find some rare drink of Trick's..."
" Let me see it." Bo tilted her head a little, so she could read the two names Tamsin were talking about. She froze when she saw the hand writing.
" What's wrong?" Dyson knew something was wrong, by the look on Bo's face.
" I know the handwriting..." Bo said, " It's Lauren."
" What?!" Both Dyson and Tamsin exclaimed.
" How could she be involved in this?" Tamsin said as she frowned.
" I don't know..." Bo said, " But it matches the timeline. I mean, she took over the organization about two weeks ago, and the bodies starting disappearing like last week."
" But why?" Dyson asked Bo, " Have you talked to her lately?"
" Yeah, well, sort of. I don't know what she is up to right now." Bo said. She took a glance at the Valkyrie. The Valkyrie was looking at her too. Both of them turned their heads away immediately.
" I guess we'll find out." Dyson said, with his eyebrows furrowed.
