So here is the next chapter. I hope you like it. It's a little shorter than normal, but it had to end at a very specific spot. Please leave a comment. I really want to know how this goes.
Disclaimer: I don't own Rizzoli and Isles.
Jane ducked under the police tape and headed toward the car Korsak and Frost were standing beside. She looked through the open door as she came to a stop next to it. Her eyes were immediately drawn to the ice pick handle protruding from the victim's head.
"Ok." Jane pulled her head out of the car and looked at Korsak. "This guy was stabbed to death. Why are we here?"
Korsak pointed toward the back of the car. Frost was bent over into the trunk searching through it. Jane moved around to stand beside him.
"This is why we are here." Korsak appeared on her other side. He pointed to what Frost was sorting through.
"This guy was a techno-mancer and a good one at that." Frost said while pulling some computer equipment, hard drives, data pads, and identification information from the compartment. "There is information from bank accounts, credit lines, social security numbers, driver's licenses…this is serious identity theft. I've even found two security clearance ID cards."
"How does that make him a techno-mancer? Plenty of non-magical people steal IDs." Jane pointed out.
"Oh no." Frost objected. "The equipment in this car is heavily enchanted. I mean almost military grade enchanted. This is serious mag-tech."
"Mag-tech?" Korsak looked skeptical.
"It's a word." Frost defended.
Jane diffused the argument before it really got started. "Fine. It's a word. What do we know?"
"Uniforms were patrolling. Saw the car just sitting here with a person in it. They looked in the window, saw the handle sticking out of his head, and called it in." Korsak summed up.
Jane looked around the scene. "Where is Maura?"
"Tied up with that suicide from this morning. Should be on her way here now." Frost answered.
"Don't you usually go by her place before coming to work?" Korsak asked.
"Yeah, but she texted me that she had a call this morning. I just didn't think it would take this long." Jane answered.
"Apparently the deceased in the suicide is some pretty important mucky-muck. Lots of people watching and asking questions." Frost didn't even lift his head, just continued searching through the trunk of the car.
"Hello."
Jane and Vince turned at the sound. Even Frost pulled his head from the trunk of the car to see who had spoken. No one had seen the M.E. arrive.
"Hey Maur. I thought you might send Pike, seeing how you were busy at the other scene." Jane did her best not to smile while waiting for her friend's response.
"If I sent him, I would have twice as much work to accomplish. I really should fire that man. If the politics weren't such a mess, I could simply…" Maura trailed off as she noticed Jane's face turning red from the effort of not laughing. "Jane are you alright? Your…" She stopped again as realization struck. "You are joking with me aren't you?"
Jane finally started laughing. "Yes, Maur. You are always so calm. Pike is the only thing that seems to upset you. I couldn't resist."
"If Pike ruined you work, cost you hours of time, and thought he should have your job, he would upset you as well."
Maura walked around to the driver's side door, took one look at the victim and turned back to the detectives. "Why are you handling this and not homicide?"
Jane let out a gasp. "Maura Isles! Are you making assumptions at a crime scene? You haven't touched the body yet."
Maura smirked at her friend. "No I am not. I'm inquiring as to what was found that has caused your involvement."
"Sure." Jane leveled her best smirk back. "Apparently our victim was a techno-mancer. A very skilled…"
Frost nodded in agreement. "Very criminal techno-mancer"
"Well as soon as I get the body back I'll let you know what I find."
The three detectives spent hours going over the evidence found in the victim's car. A large part of the time consisted of Frost explaining to Jane and Korsak what most of it was and what it did.
Jane couldn't take anymore. "I'm going down to the morgue. I may not understand what Maura says most of the time, but they at least have cooler toys." With that she rose from her seat and headed for the elevator.
As she entered the morgue. She found her friend bent over the victim.
"Find anything?" She asked hopefully.
Maura looked up from her work and began taking off her gloves. "Yes. I have ascertained the cause of death, massive cerebral hemorrhage caused by penetration of the brain with a sharp, thin piece of metal."
"Really? You can't just say he got stabbed in the head with an ice pick?"
Maura studied her friend questioningly. "I just did."
Jane just sighed and moved on. "Did you learn anything other than his death was caused by an ice pick, like who he is?"
"No. His finger prints have been removed."
"What do you mean removed?"
"They have been burned off. Whatever he touched would have left nothing but smudges."
"Well, that's not remotely helpful." Jane admitted.
"No, it's not. I've sent his DNA off to the lab to see if he is in the system. He can't exactly burn off his genetics."
"Anything else?" Jane asked.
"Not yet. How about you?" Maura answered.
"Well, he was smart. Frost is impressed with what we have found. Not only is there identity theft and fraud, but apparently industrial espionage as well."
"It's a shame they stabbed him in the head, his brain would have been amazing to study."
The brunette looked at her friend. "Do you have any normal hobbies?" She quickly held her hand up when she saw she was about to answer. "Never mind."
Maura was about to respond anyway when the phone rang.
As she watched her friend on the phone, a frown appeared on the blonde's face.
"No. That's not possible." Maura walked over to a computer and began clicking through screens. "No. It didn't happen. Fine. I'll look at it and call you back."
"What's the matter Maur?" Jane was becoming concerned.
"The lab is saying the DNA I sent is contaminated."
"Send another sample." Jane really didn't understand why Maura was getting so upset.
The M.E. glared at her friend. "I didn't make a mistake. I didn't contaminate the samples." The doctor stared at the screen for a moment. "They are the same." She whispered to no one in particular.
The detective walked up behind the M.E. to peer at the monitor over her shoulder. "See. A simple mistake. Just send another sample. No big deal."
"There isn't anything wrong with the sample that I sent. Look here." Maura pointed at the screen. "See these shared markers, right here?"
"Yes, but I don't know what they mean." Jane responded.
"These are enough to draw a conclusion about the results."
Jane turned from the screen toward her friend. "What? Are you saying that you are related to the body on the table?"
Maura froze for a moment before turning to look at the body on the table. "He's my brother."
Both women had been stunned into silence by the revelation. Jane's first thought was to grab Maura's purse and get her out of the building. She knew her friend would need time and space to work through what she had just discovered. It was because of that decision they were both now seated on a bench in the park.
"He's a half-brother." Those were the first words Maura spoke after sitting down. "We share the same father."
"Are you going to tell your mom and dad?" She wasn't' sure it was the right question to ask, but it was the first one that popped into her head.
"No." Maura responded immediately. "I didn't even tell them about me searching for my biological parents in college."
"What did you find out?" The detective in her was permanently curious.
"Nothing. Private adoption. Sealed records. Dead ends. I may want to know my biological parents, but they didn't want to know me."
Jane was searching for the right thing to say when Maura spoke again. "Funny that he could manipulate technology and I can manipulate organic matter."
"Yeah, if this was a comic book you would be a great superhero team."
Maura narrowed her eyes at her friend.
"Sorry."
"I wonder if he knew who our father was."
Jane didn't' have an answer to that question and remained silent. Her phone rang before she could change the subject. She was going to silence it until she saw it was Frost.
"Yeah?" She listened for a moment. "Alright. I'm on the way." She pressed the end button. "I've got to head back. Frost found something. Are you going to be alright?"
"Yes. I'll head back, finish up for the day, then head home."
"That's sounds good. I'll come by later."
Maura smiled. "I'll have beer waiting."
Jane arrived at the bullpen at the same time as Korsak. He spoke first. "What did you find?"
"Most of this is identities, information from companies, financial records, etc." Frost gestured at the mountain of hardware and paperwork on the table. "This however is different." He lifted a portable disk drive from the pile. "It was heavily encrypted but I got in. It has financials, notes, writings, and pictures of one Collin Doyle. That's the name of our victim." Frost set the drive back down on the table. "I searched the system, but didn't' find anything on him."
Both Jane and Frost noticed Korsak go a little pale. "He wouldn't be." Korsak answered their unasked question. "Look for Patrick Doyle."
"Who?" Jane and Frost asked at the same time.
"Patty Doyle. Patty went into hiding and nobody knew what became of the kid. What everyone did know is that Collin was the key to drawing out Patty."
"Patty Doyle? The Patty Doyle? The necromancer?" Jane could feel panic in the back of her mind.
"That's right. Whitey Bulger's number two and lead enforcer. He would literally kill you, then go to work on you. One of the most feared figures in the underworld."
"Oh God!" Jane exclaimed.
Maura answered a knock on her office door. "Yes, officer?"
"Dr. Isles? This is . He has come to see his son."
Maura felt her heart hit the floor. The man standing in front of her was her biological father. It took her a moment to gather her thoughts. "Yes Mr. Selsi. Right this way." She raised her arm and gestured down the hall. Maura brought them to a stop in front of the viewing window. The blinds were already raised.
Mr. Selsi looked at the body for a moment before asking. "How did he die?"
"A massive cerebral hemorrhage." Maura mustered her best clinical voice.
"What caused it?"
Maura sighed. "He was stabbed in the temple with an ice pick."
"May I go in? Say my goodbyes?" The gentlemen asked.
"That's not protocol." Maura answered automatically.
"He's my son."
She was sure if it was anyone else, except maybe Jane, she would have said no, but should just couldn't in this case.
They both walked through the doors at the same time, but Maura stopped several paces away from the table. She watched as he approached his son and took hold of his hand.
That's when Collins eyes opened.
"What!?" Maura shouted in surprise.
"Who did this?" Mr. Selsi asked.
Maura felt power flood the room and Selsi's voice resonated with authority.
"WHO DID THIS?"
Maura's body finally overcame the shock as she closed the distance to the table. "Who are you? What are you doing?"
Selsi dropped Collins hand and turned to face her. "This is the only answer I have to give." With that he waved his hands in the air, producing a highly ornate dagger, and pulled the blade across his palm. The blood that appeared was not rich and red as it should have been, but black and sticky like tar. The dagger disappeared as quickly as it had come and he reached into his pocket to produce a handkerchief. He used it to cover the wound, allowing the stick substance to stain the cloth. After a few moments, he handed it to the M.E.
"Goodbye Maura." He turned and left the building.
Thirty minutes later Jane, Maura, Korsak, and Frost were in the unused conference room in the morgue. After Maura told everyone that her biological father had come to see his son, Jane explained to her who he was.
"My father is a killer?" Maura slumped into an empty chair.
"Maur?" Jane kneeled down next to her friend. "Maur?" She grabbed the blonde's hands.
"He introduced himself as Selsi, my name spelled backwards. He knew who I was. I've wanted to know all this time and it turns out he is a notorious underworld gangster. What if I'm like him? There have been studies…"
"No!" Jane said a little too loudly. "No. You are nothing like him."
"I'm surrounded by more death than he is."
"You help people, Maur. You are a good guy. You are one of the goodest guys I have ever met."
Maura looked at her friend. "Goodest isn't a word."
Jane laughed. "Really? That what you choose to focus on?"
"I hate to interrupt, but we have a problem here. " Korsak walked over to the two women.
"Bigger than my father being a killer?" Maura asked looking up.
"Yes. Patty Doyle doesn't walk into and then back out of BPD without people with power on the inside. We don't know who we can trust. Secondly, anyone that knows Maura is Patty's daughter will use her as bait to draw him out just like they did Collin."
"Only the four of us know that." Jane responded.
"It needs to stay that way." Korsak motioned between them. "We are the only people we can trust."
"What I don't understand is why risk it?" Frost interrupted. "What did he have to gain by coming here?"
Maura sobered at the question. "He talked to Collin's body. The eyes opened when he grabbed his hand, but that's it."
"That's it?" Jane was aghast. "Isn't that enough?"
"What did he say? Exactly?" Korsak ignored Jane's outburst.
Maura thought for a moment. "He asked 'Who did this?'"
"Crazy bastard." Korsak muttered. He noted everyone's confused face. "He's a necromancer. He can animate the dead. That's why the body moved. He was hoping to find some remnants of Collin's spirit to question. He must be desperate to try something like that. He would have had to be there within seconds of his death to even hope that would work."
"Alright." Jane started organizing her thoughts. "We have to change the way we've been looking at this. We need to look at Patty's enemies. Who's out? Who's alive? Who's active?"
"Time to start pulling files." Frost stated.
"I'm going to go over the body again. See if I missed anything."
"Maur, you don't have to do that."
Maura turned as she reached the door. "Yes. Yes I do."
Hours later the three detectives were huddled around a table going through the files.
"Half of Boston wants him dead." Jane exclaimed.
"He's a bad guy." Korsak sympathized.
Frost picked up his pad as it made a noise. He looked at the data pad for a second before cursing. "Damn it!"
"What?" Korsak asked.
"Someone has been poking around in the case files. Someone logged on from an external machine earlier today. Techs just noticed that the connection was from outside."
"Are Maura's blood test in there?" Jane rose from her chair.
"Yes." Frost answered.
"They would know that Maura is Collin's sister." Korsak stood as well.
"And that she is Doyle's daughter." Jane bolted from the room.
It had been forty minutes since the three detectives had returned from the empty morgue. They were all standing in the BRIC. Frost had failed to access any video from the morgue or loading dock. All the camera's had been disabled.
Jane had been pacing the room relentlessly the whole time. "I shouldn't' have left her alone, Vince. I shouldn't have left."
"She was in the morgue. No one saw this coming. You would have been taken as well or killed."
Jane stopped her pacing at the ringing of her phone. She looked at the screen. "It's a blocked number." She announced to her partners. She hit the answer button. "Whatever you want, I can get it."
"I'm sure you would detective, but I don't have my daughter."
Didn't see that coming did you?
