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His Worst Nightmare

Chapter 33

1 Central Park West, New York.

Alex was beginning to lose her patience with the Receptionist. They had been waiting now for 15 minutes, for her to contact Gavin Haynes.

Bobby smiled, he loved it when Alex was all fired up, and for the receptionist's safety he decided to mediate between them. Reaching into his pocket he retrieved his badge and showed it to the flustered lady.

"You're sure that Mr. Haynes is still in his apartment?"

She turned her head and looked towards the notice board behind her.

"Yes, he has not left yet, which is unusual." She reached for the phone and called the Hotel manager.

"Mr. Forsythe our manager will escort you up to his apartment sir, I apologize for the delay."

Bobby smiled and then followed Alex and Mr. Forsythe over to the elevators. Mr. Forsythe used his master key in the elevator and they travelled directly up to Haynes apartment.

With a nod to Bobby she advised Mr. Forsythe to step back and allow them to make sure the coast was clear. They both had a very bad feeling about this. They drew their weapons and waited for the elevator doors to open.

They weren't prepared for what greeted them, once the doors opened. The entire apartment looked like a war zone. As they turned the corner they saw Gavin's lifeless body lying on the floor. It was clear that he was beyond any help.

Bobby made sure that the other rooms were empty and then grabbed his cell phone and dialed 1PP, telling Captain Hannah that they had a crime scene. Within half an hour, it was swarming with CSU and other forensic techs.

Whilst Alex secured Hayne's computer, she couldn't help but grin at her partner. He was once again getting on their Medical Examiners nerves and crowding her space. When their eyes met, she nearly laughed at the way Dr. Rodgers silently pleaded with her to, rid her of Detective Goren.

Dr. Rodgers was a patient woman, in all her years she had dealt with many detectives and diverse crime scenes. There was one Detective though, who continually pushed her buttons. Right now he knelt beside her and was once again interfering with a corpse.

After her attempts at getting his partner, Alex Eames, to help get him out of her hair failed, she was left with only one option. After 12 years of working with him, it was time for her to draw a line.

"Goren, so help me god! If you don't back off and let me get on with my work. I swear I will order somebody to remove you from this crime scene."

Bobby couldn't help but react shocked to her outburst. It was then that he realized that he had been overzealous and how badly he was crowding her space. He quickly got to his feet and backed away, and offered his apologies and a nervous grin.

Alex had seen enough, and was having a hard time not bursting out laughing.

"Bobby, come over here and help me to question the staff."

She smirked at Dr. Rodgers grateful smile towards her.

They questioned the night manager, as he had been summoned due to the fact that he was on duty the evening before. He mentioned that Mr. Haynes had told him that he wanted no visitors as he was working. He had however seen two people enter the elevator that led to the penthouse. Bobby opened his binder and withdrew a picture and held it up to the manager so he could see it.

"Was this one of the people you saw sir?"

After a closer inspection the manager nodded his head and confirmed that it had been Nicole Wallace. Alex gave him their card and asked him to come to 1PP to make a statement.

As soon as they had finished their questioning they saw that Dr. Rodgers had bagged the body and was making her way out of the Penthouse. Hopefully they would have all the results by the end of the day.

They walked over to Chris Evans, who was the CSU tech who specialized on computers. He had opened up all the last transactions made from the computer.

After reading the statements, Alex looked up towards her partner.

"Well that explains the torture; they forced him to transfer those 5 million bucks. Let's hope that our sketch artist can get a good likeness of Wallace's companion from the manager and that we get some finger prints that are useable. Let's get out of here and get some lunch; it is going to be a few hours before we get any results that we can work on. Come on I'm buying."

Bobby took one last look at the crime scene then followed his partner to the elevator.

Underwood Memorial Hospital.

Deborah was just returning to the ICU after making a phone call to check on Harrison. She noticed the Doctor rushing towards Dexter's room. As she reached the door to his room she could see a nurse and the Doctor trying to secure Dexter to the bed. She rushed to the nurse's side and placed her hand on Dexter's chest and spoke to him. She felt him begin to relax and she told the doctor to untie his wrists. She continued to talk to him, telling him where he was and that everything was ok. He was semi-conscious but delirious from the fever; Deborah agreed with the doctor and allowed him to sedate him.

She was relieved that he had started to regain consciousness, but he was very weak and needed rest.

Major Case Squad

Bobby and Alex had just returned from their lunch, and Bobby was just hanging his coat up when Captain Hannah waved them over to his office.

Hannah gestured to the chairs in front of his desk, and he popped a couple of Pepto-Bismal caplets into his mouth and swallowed them dry.

"The hotel manager was able to work with our sketch artist; we have a pretty good picture of Wallace's companion." He said as he searched through his desk for the file containing the sketch.

"Bad news is the Massuci soldier turned up dead this morning. It seems that he was silenced before Jeffries and Richards could get to questioning him about who shot Dexter Morgan. Good news is that Mr. Morgan regained consciousness briefly this morning and his fever seems to be receding." He managed to fish out the file and handed it over to Alex.

Alex took the file from Captain Hannah and opened it. Bobby had leaned over so that he could see the sketch too.

They both recognized Copa immediately and informed their Captain of his identity.

"Are you sure Bobby?"

Bobby handed the sketch back to his Captain.

"Believe me Joe that is one face I will remember for the rest of my life."

Bobby quickly filled Hannah in on the history that he shared with Patrick Copa.

As soon as Bobby finished Captain Hannah was on the phone issuing an APB on the ex-cop Copa.

An hour after they had spoken with their Captain, Bobby received mail, an A4 envelope. Alex was concerned but there only seemed to be paper inside it, so Bobby carefully opened it. He took one quick look inside the envelope then told Alex to follow him into the conference room. She was puzzled when he closed all the blinds to the room. As soon as he pulled the contents of the envelope, she knew why he was so secretive!

She was looking at pictures of Bobby and her making love last night, there were nude pictures of her that had been enhanced and enlarged. Bobby handed her the letter that was also enclosed in the envelope and she read it.

Hey Rat.

Remember me? As you can see I sure haven't forgotten you. I must say you have one hot little partner there. You can go ahead and destroy these pictures if you want to, I have plenty of copies. Which are now on their way to your Captain and the Chief of Detectives and the Police Commissioner; I guess you both forgot about the NYPD's fraternization policies huh?

I am far from finished with you yet Goren, you took something I loved from me, I guess I shall return the courtesy.

Did you enjoy the present I had left in your drawer back then Goren?

I'm looking forward to the next time we meet; I can promise you that you won't enjoy it at all.

Till next time Rat!

T.B.C…