A/N: Alright, this one should be longer because I'm extremely bored and I have nothing else to do, lol. Hopefully it will be up sometime today, I'm writing it before dance (big surprise) so hopefully it will be long. Well, I'm glad that you have such high hopes for my story and that you guys like it, it makes me feel all tingly : )

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Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Not the characters. Although I would really like to own spike. Anyway nothing is mine sadly and none of the lines from any of the scripts are mine. The title and the plot are loosely based on the In Death books by J.D. Robb. I don't own it either

Rating: R, just for good measure

Chapter Two:

"Alright I'm going to need your field kit Summers." Fred said studying Kurt's lifeless form

Buffy looked at Tara and reached out her hand as Tara picked the kit off of the floor and placed it in Buffy's hands.

"Let's get started, shall we?" Fred asked cheerfully

..

"Victim has been identified as Kurt Delaney age 37. Height, 6'2, weight 180lbs. Victim has suffered suffocation, no other wounds are shown on the body." Buffy said as she studied the red marks formed around Kurt's neck.

"Get samples of the rope under his nails," Buffy told Fred, "I want to see if you can get the make, model, and manufacturer of it, and I want it by seven hundred."

Fred rolled her eyes as she took her rubber gloves off and walked off stage.

"Bag and tag him McClay." Buffy told her

"I'm going to have a look around. I want you to go home, I'll only be a couple of hours." She told Spike

"No worries love, I'll wait."

"No point in arguing."

..

Buffy was walking backstage following dark corridors until she reached the co-star of the show, Bambi Wilson.

Buffy knocked on the door as she opened it.

"Ms. Wilson?" she asked

The room was covered in pink, the chairs, the walls, the tables; even the roses were an eye searing pink. Buffy entered the room to find a sobbing blonde girl in a pink micro mini dress.

"Yes?" Bambi asked looking up with enormous baby blue eyes. Her face, Buffy assumed, was quite attractive without the redness that came from crying.

"I need to ask you a few questions I'm going to record the conversation if that's alright,Ms. Wilson. But I'm just going to ask you about what happened tonight."

"Yes yes that's fine. I just can't believe it. I've been in my room ever since they cleared the stage and I just- just can't believe it."

"You are entitled to representation if you choose, Ms. Wilson."

"What?" Bambi asked scrunching her face in confusion

"You can have someone here to witness the questioning if you want." Buffy said gritting her teeth

"Oh, no, I'm fine. I don't need anyone."

"Record on, interview with Wilson . . . what was your first name?"

"Bambi."

"No I need your legal name,"

"That is my legal name officer." Bambi said brushing a tear away from her perfect complexion

"Seriously? Whatever. Interview with Wilson, Bambi regarding death of Delaney, Kurt. You have chosen to not have any representation is that correct Ms. Wilson?"

"What?"

"You have chosen not to have anyone present during the interview?" Buffy asked gritting her teeth and resisting an eye roll

"Yes I have."

"Do you know anyone that would want to hurt Mr. Delaney?" Buffy asked trying to resist sitting on something pink and fluffy, but decided she had to get off her feet, so she sat on the edge of a cushy chair.

"Oh, everyone wanted to hurt Kurt. He was such an asshole, pardon my French, no one really liked him to tell you the truth."

"Did you want to kill him Ms. Wilson?" Buffy asked tilting her head to the side

"Oh golly no. I wouldn't hurt a fly officer." She said twisting her hands in her handkerchief that was griped between her enormous plastic breasts.

"It's Lieutenant." Buffy said shortly

"Oh, I'm sorry. No one really liked Kurt but no one would really hurt him. Everyone knew that if we hurt him he would destroy us."

Well someone did Buffy thought sourly, "Were you ever involved with Kurt, intimately?"

"Oh gosh no. He would always hit on me but I always turned him down because I have a boyfriend of my own. My little Stevie, it'll be four months in a week. We're in love."

"Gee, that's fascinating and will really help me in my investigation." Buffy said sarcastically.

..

Fifteen minutes later Buffy left Bambi's room and ran right into Tara.

"Oh, you already questioned Ms. Wilson? I was going to do that." Tara said pouting

"You didn't want that, trust me. Bambi is quite the idiot."

"Really? So she's not going to be on your short list?"

"Anyone who lives with that much pink is not a killer, she's a Barbie doll." Buffy said walking to the prop master's office.

Buffy turned a corner and found herself staring down a long dark corridor with two lights that flashed on and off like in a horror movie.

"Well, this is nice and scary, come on McClay." Buffy said leading the way down the hallway

"This place is creepy. Gives me the heebie jeebies." Tara said

"The what? Oh never mind, we're here." Buffy said as they reached a door that was clearly marked 'Prop Master' in strong bold letters.

Buffy decided that knocking wouldn't do any good, so she just opened the door. Or attempted to.

"Gee, looks like the prop master might have something to hide McClay, won't this be interesting." She said as she backed up and gave the door one good solid kick sending it flying off its rusty hinges.

"Shit Summers. Where the hell do you keep your strength?" Tara asked amazed at what her partner had just done

"It's not that big a deal." Buffy said heading over to the main table, looking for any evidence or clues.

Buffy was rummaging through papers and files until she heard someone coming toward the door.

She decided to keep looking through files while the man who she assumed was the prop master, stormed in.

"What the hell do you think you're doing in my office?" the man with curly brown hair and fuming green eyes said

"Mr. Stevenson?" Buffy asked not looking up

"Yeah I'm Mr. Stevenson and I'm pretty pissed at the moment because I have a couple of cops on a fucking power trip going through my shit." He said fuming

"Look, I'm Lieutenant Summers and this is Detective McClay, we need to know if you saw anything weird before the performance began this evening." she said calmly letting him study her badge

"I don't give a fuck who you are; get the hell out of my office."

Buffy liked him immediately.

"Listen Mr. Stevenson, we can do this here or at the station. Your choice."

"Fine I'll answer your god damn questions if it will get you out of my office." He said taking a seat

"Alright, thank you. Did you notice anything odd, or out of place before or during the performance?" Buffy asked leaning against his old wood desk

"Nope. Not a thing was out of place, everything was where it should've been."

"Did you like Kurt Delaney?"

"Hell no. Bastard threatened me a couple of times then tried to hit me. Guy's better off dead." Mr. Stevenson said scoffing

"He hit you?" Buffy asked curiously

"Tried. Asshole tried to hit me but didn't. I didn't have the prop that he was using for the scene he was doing in the exact place it should've been, he flipped out, started calling me all sorts of nasty names and that's when the son of a bitch came at me."

"If there's anything you can remember, anything at all, give me a call." Buffy said giving Mr. Stevenson a card that Tara had handed her

"Great. Now get the hell out of my office."

..

"So we've established that Kurt Delaney was a bastard. Wonder what other colorful things we'll get to hear about him." Buffy said as she and Tara made their way back on stage to a waiting Spike.

"Everything going well love?" Spike asked as Buffy walked the length of the stage to him

"Yeah, seems like Kurt here wasn't well liked."

"Hmm." Was all he said

Buffy's eyes were rolling over the crowd when she saw her commander decked out in a nice evening gown apparently looking for her date, or someone that she had come with.

A man, that Buffy thought looked wickedly familiar, walked up to Kate, kissed her cheek, took her arm and proceeded out the door.

Even after the pair had left, Buffy was still trying to place the mysterious man her Commander had come with.

Tara was saying something to Buffy about witness statements, when it hit her.

Buffy knew who the mysterious man was that had kissed her Commander.

The man was Lindsey McDonald.

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A/N: I know it's a little short but I'm having a little bit of writers block and that just really sucks, plus my entire body aches, quite literally, because of dance. I hope you all enjoyed, and I hope you like that I'm making Lindsey and Kate a 'thing'. There will be more kissage between the newlyweds and the new couple, but all in good time : ) Happy reviewing!

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