I don't own these characters, just a fan wanting to tell a story! HOPE YOU ENJOY!
The sharp piercing noise, which was Maria's alarm, shook her wake the next morning. She groaned and hit the snooze button, and rolled over. Five minutes later, the same blaring noise erupted echoing around her room. She sat up and turned off her alarm. She roughed up her hair and walked to the bathroom, she brushed her teeth and applied her make-up. With a sigh, she picked out one of her many pantsuits and grabbed a tank-top to wear under her suit coat. She was cooking breakfast when her phone started ringing
"Baez," She said as she answered the call from Danny.
"We got a body, I'll pick you up in about ten minutes." Danny's rough voice said on the other line.
"Okay, I'll be ready," Maria replied, hanging up, turning off the stove and dumping the eggs in the trash. Fresh bodies never made her breakfast settle well. She ran a brush through her hair trying to settle her curls, she grabbed a hair tie and pulled it back into a ponytail, she didn't like wearing it up but she hadn't blow-dried it so it had dried funny and looked strange so putting it was a must. She grabbed her flats, she go to when it came to cases, she always laughed in TV shows when they had the female detectives in heels and tight skirts. She slipped on the shoes and grabbed her gun slipping it into the holster that rested at her waist and grabbed her badge. She ran down her apartment stairs out to the sidewalk, just as Danny pulled up in the car. She got into the car, he already had a cup of coffee for her. He always knew her so well, it almost scared her, knew her orders at restaurants, knew how she took her coffee, and then she remembered that he was NYPD best detective.
"How was your date last night?" Danny asked, after a few moments in silence.
"Date?" Maria said, and then remembered her lie of the night before, "Oh it was great! He's great, probably going to go out again." Maria lied, "Damn it!" why did lying come so easily to her, she could just tell him that he had canceled on her or something practical instead.
"What's his name, another cop?" Danny questioned, he had noticed that she had painted slightly when he asked about the date, and that had surprised him, had she lied last night about plans.
"Okay fine, I lied, he canceled on me," Maria said, digging herself deeper into the lie.
"Oh, his loss," Danny remarked as they pulled up to the crime scene.
"Really, did he think it would the guy's loss for not going out with me?" Maria thought to herself.
"Beware, it a nasty one." A cop said at the crime scene tape.
She wished she had prepared herself more for this body. It was a girl, she didn't look more than twenty, she had dark brown hair, and her dark eyes stared blankly up at the sky. She was completely naked and covered in her own blood, her body was covered with scratches and bruises, and she had been killed at last by her throat being sliced. She looked as if she had been just dumped there. But the worst part was how her skin clung to her bones as if there was hardly any flesh separating the skin from bone.
"Damn," Danny murmured pulling the tarp back over the victim's chest so even in death she might have some privacy.
"Any witness?" Maria questioned,
"Not that anyone is saying they saw anything." The cop who had first been on the scene said.
"Who found the body?" Danny asked,
"That woman over there." The cop answered, motioning to a woman with black hair and dark eyes.
Maria walked over to the woman.
"I'm Detective Baez, you where the one who found the body?"
"Yeah," The woman nodded, "I was coming out to drop my trash off before work and she was just lying there, naked and blood all over."
"Did you know her?" Maria asked, noticing the woman looked very shaken, she was going to her best not to
"Yeah, well not really I saw her a couple time when I was coming in and out of the building she lives in apartment 3C I think, but it's been a couple of weeks since I last saw her. I thought she moved." The woman explained.
"Do you know if she was having problems with anyone?" Maria inquired,
"No, as I said I didn't know her too well." The woman replied.
"Thank you for your time, if you think of anything please give me a call," Maria said, she walked back to Danny. "She said the victim used to live in this building."
"Well, they are canvassing the building trying to find out if anyone saw something." Danny replied, "I've got a bad feeling about this one."
"Yeah me too," Maria replied,
"Something just isn't right," Danny said, as they walked back to the car to head back to the 54th precinct.
"The body will be on its way to the EM's soon and then we will have a better of an idea of what the hell happened to her," Danny added as he started the car.
"Do you think it could be another Thomas Wilder?" Maria asked,
"There was only one body this time, maybe that's all it will be," Danny said, hoping that this was the only body they were going to find, but he had a sinking feeling that wasn't going to be the fact.
They spent the day interviewing witnesses until they got a call from the EM saying she was done with the autopsy and wanted them to come over.
"So what happened?" Danny asked as they entered the office.
"Well our victim's name is Amanda Fletcher, 21-year-old, aspiring model, she was reported missing by her boyfriend three weeks ago, the cause of death was the severing of the jugular with a knife, with what looks like a butchers knife. But that's not the worst of it, she looks like she was tortured and raped repeatedly for the weeks she was missing, she's malnourished and if I had to take a guess she hasn't eaten if three weeks, she has marks on her arms and legs that are consistent with being bound. For this girl, death was a welcome release from the hell she was living in."
"Well, let's go interview this boyfriend and find out what happened when Miss Fletcher went missing," Danny said, noticing that Maria was not looking well.
"Hey, you okay?" Danny demanded, pulling her into an office, "We've handled worse cases than this,"
"I'm fine, it's just she looks a little like someone I used to know," Maria remarked, wishing she had called in sick this morning, the victim looked very much like herself, and that's what scared her, seeing someone who looked very like her dead in the morgue, but to also hear how she had been assaulted before she died, affected her more then she cared to admit.
"Okay, but pull it together," Danny said kindly, but it was a command, he knew she needed to get her head into the game. But he too had noticed the resembled to Baez and it was unnerving him, but he wasn't going to let it show.
I hope you liked that chapter, I was thinking about just making a story of Danny and Maria but I felt it was just a little off with out a murder to solve!