Obsession
Chapter 2

Apartment of Catherine Blumenthal
May 24 2005

Detective Goren knocked on the door of apartment 2B. The door opened a crack and a face peered out. Eames' brow's furrowed and she looked up at Goren.

"Can I help you?" the woman asked.

"Uh-I'm Detective Goren and this is my partner, Detective Eames." Goren said, flashing a badge. The door opened all the way and Goren and Eames saw a medium tall-ish woman with brown hair and green eyes. "Are you Catherine Blumenthal?" he asked, looking over the woman's head into the apartment.

"Yes, is there a problem?" she asked, she looked from Detective Eames to Detective Goren. "Uh-come in." she said, stepping aside.

"He cant help himself." Eames explained as her partner walked in. Catherine smiled nervously as she closed the door behind her. "We're here about Krystalle DeMorris." she said. Catherine thought for a moment.

"My cousin?" she asked, perplexed. "What's wrong?" Goren picked up a picture and looked up.

"Is this recent?" he asked. Catherine walked over and inspected it over his arm, she almost reached his shoulder, but not quite. It was an older photo of the DeMorrises.

"It's from last Christmas. They send one every year." she said.

"Is that Krystalle?" he asked. Catherine nodded and Goren passed it to his partner. "She's changed her looks a little." he said.

"What happened to her? You said you were here because of her?" Catherine remembered.

"Yeah,-when was the last time you saw her?" Goren asked, flipping through his portfolio.

"Last week." she said. "I met her at a party with my boyfriend." Goren was writing.

"What was his name?" he asked her.

"Allan Sloane." she said. Goren looked up and at Eames. He flipped through his portfolio and pulled out a picture. Catherine looked confused as she took it. "Oh my god." she gasped as she sat down, roughly, in a sofa.

Major Case Squad
1 Police Plaza
May 24 2005

Catherine looked around the small interrogation room and shivered as Detective Goren walked in. He put a file down on the table and pulled himself into a chair, opening his portfolio. He pulled out two pictures and laid them on the table. Catherine's eyes widened. One picture was her boyfriend, pale with a gash on his throat. The other was her cousin, pale but in a hospital bed.

"You look suprised." he said. Catherine looked up. "You shouldn't be, since you were the last person to see them alive."
Catherine frowned. "Krystalle's doorman said that a woman who looked like you entered her building at 1am and left at 1:30. So did the Doorman at Allan Sloane's apartment. He says you came in shortly after Krystalle left"

"What?" Catherine said. "I havent seen Krystalle since last week"

"What did you do when you found out he was cheating on you?" Goren asked.

"What?" she asked again. "He-no. No he wouldnt!" she said standing up. Goren watched her as her eyes welled up. "We're engaged, we've been engaged for a year." Goren watched her.

"You had no idea?" he asked, "What did you think that he was doing last night?" he asked.

"He told me he had a business meeting." she said shaking her head.

"You didn't visit him?" he asked. Catherine shook her head vehemently.

"No, I was home all night working on a case." Goren nodded and left the room. Catherine crossed her arms, staring at the pictures.

"I dont think she did it." Bobby said looking through the window at the woman.

"She put on a great act." Eames said. "Who else would have had a motive"

"You saw her when I told her he was cheating. She went into denial. If she'd known they were cheating, she'd be past that stage"

"I dont understand." Eames said. "I mean, if my cousin were stealing my man, I'd be kind of annoyed." Goren nodded.

"The cousin had surgery," he said. "You saw the resemblance." he said. Eames nodded. "They didn't look alike until after the surgery..."

TBC