Author's note
This is an idea I had while watching a crime show.
Chapter 1
Rachel sighed as she got out of bed. Another day another to die list. Such was the life of a shinigami, or as most places in the world called her kind Grim reaper. Little did she know that her life was about to change.
She left her apartment and teleported to her office. After logging into her computer she printed off her list of souls to collect today. Strangely it only contained one name, Mrs Jewel Harding, time of death 1:00 pm. " This can't be my only assignment today." Rachel thought. She went to her boss's office to confirm that this was indeed her only assignment. He confirmed that it was. Great, now what was she supposed to do today? She was all caught up on her paperwork and all of her friends were out on their own assignments. " I guess I could go down to earth and see a movie in the area of my assignment." She thought to herself.
As all of that was happening in the spirit world, Detective Miles Valentine was getting ready to start his own day. He didn't know it yet but his day was about to get a whole lot more interesting than he was ready for. After breakfast he drove to the town of New Great's police station where he worked. He greeted the receptionist as he walked past her desk. "Mornin' Cheryl." He said. "Got any new messages for me?"
"Not right now sugar. It's been a quiet day so far."
Miles nodded his head and went back to his office. "Let me know if anything comes up, I'll be catching up on my paperwork if you need me."
Cheryl nodded and turned back to her game of solitaire. When Miles got to his desk he noticed the stack of paperwork had increased slightly since he had been there last night. This meant that his fellow detective had finished their parts of the report and he just needed to put his part in and it was ready to be filed away.
Rachel had just come out of the movie theater and was blinking in the bright sunlight. After her eyes adjusted she looked at her watch and saw that she still had 30 minutes until she was due at her assignment. She took out the folder with the information on it. "Might as well read this again." She thought to herself. She sat down on a park bench and opened the folder up. 'Jewel Harding née Jones, a loving wife and mother. She is due to die today after being murdered by a serial killer. She will be survived by her three children and husband.'