Chapter Six
Jessie stood near the metal table as the doors opened and her eyes widened when Peter followed Mark and Seamus inside with Cassandra and Duncan following behind him. Jessie glanced up and down Peter's body as he gave her a bad boy grin and a blush moved over Jessie's body.
"Well, Doc, who is this?" Mark said while snapping his fingers and Jessie looked at him.
"Oh!" Jessie said as she looked at the chart on the small table and moved her finger along the paper. "Name's Henry Altman and he worked for Fielding and Morse."
"And what is that?" Peter asked as he sauntered toward her and placed his hands on his hips, spreading the leather coat behind him. His eyebrows were raised and he gave her a slight grin while Jessie blushed and brushed some hair behind her ear.
"It's a law firm," she said as he looked down at the paper and was glad he could read upside down.
"Ah, and who identified the body?"
"His wife got worried when he didn't come home last night and called hospitals and morgues, looking for him," she said and he nodded his head.
"Did she come and identify the body?"
"Yeah, but she fainted and was sent to the hospital. I called a friend and she said the wife was going to be alright," Jessie said and Peter gave her a blank look, nodding his head.
"And where's the body?" he asked as she pointed toward the metal doors where the bodies were and he walked to the metal doors, turning to see her watching him. Looking back at his ass, he widened his eyes as he gave her a bad boy grin and Jessie coughed, walking toward him. Jessie opened the metal door when she moved the metal shelf back and Peter looked at the white sheet covering the body. His stomach gurgled as he prepared himself for seeing the body and Jessie moved the sheet back. Peter looked down at the body when he saw that Jesse had sewn most of the body shut and Peter blinked his eyes a few times. "Ah, does anyone have some rubber gloves?"
Jessie handed him a pair of rubber gloves after he had removed his rings and Peter placed the rubber gloves on. Mark and Seamus walked closer to stand next to Peter and Jessie took the metal pointer out of her pocket. Extending the metal pointer, she tapped the wounds on the body's chest and Peter titled his head, waiting for her to talk.
"As you can see from these wounds, whatever did this has more than one set of hands," she said as Peter looked at the wounds and pointed to the wounds while counting them.
"I would bother to guess two sets," he said and she nodded her head.
"What do you think did this?" Mark asked when Seamus leaned against the metal doors and Peter saw that Seamus' face was bright green.
"The bathroom's over there," Jessie said as she pointed to the door and Seamus ran, closing the door behind him after he ran into the bathroom. "Sorry about that."
"Ah, no problem," Peter said as he looked at the body then felt something drifted toward him and Peter held his hand over the body. Suddenly he fell onto his bottom after something slammed into his hand and he looked at his hand. "Blimey."
"Are you alright?" Jessie asked as she ran around to the other side of the metal shelf and Peter nodded, shaking out his hand. Jessie helped him off the floor when he looked at the body and titled his head to one side.
"Can't you feel that?" Peter asked as he placed his hand over the body and a wave of energy rippled under his fingers. Jessie and Mark placed their hands over the body, but didn't feel anything and Peter slowly walked toward the head and placed his hands on both sides of the head. "Bugger, this thing is buzzing with power."
Cassandra walked to Peter when she looked down at the body and Peter wrapped his arm around her waist. Slowly lifting her hand, she moved her hand over the head and felt the energy moving under her hand.
"Fuck," she whispered as Peter nodded and Mark and Jessie looked at them.
"What?" Mark asked.
"His body's is surging with energy," Peter said while Mark moved his hand up and down the body, but still couldn't feel anything and Peter sighed, rolling his eyes. "Yeah, yeah, I know you can't feel it, but it's there. Trust me."
"How did it get there?" Jessie asked, giving him a questioning look.
"I have no idea," Peter said while Seamus walked out of the bathroom and Peter softly smiled at him. Seamus walked closer when something vibrated against his hip and he removed the pager from his pocket. Mark felt something vibrating against his hip and removed his pager as well and they looked at the screen.
"Shit, we have to go," Mark said as Jessie nodded then Mark looked at Peter and blinked his eyes. "Want to come with us?"
"Why?" Peter asked.
"Well, it seems there's another body," Mark said while something vibrated against Jessie's hip and she removed the pager, looking at the screen.
"Is it at the Garden?" she asked and Mark nodded his head. "Then I guess I'm coming as well."
"Then let's go," Seamus said as he half ran to the doors and Jessie placed the body back and closed the metal door. Cassandra looked at Peter, who was looking at the body with a puzzled look on his face, while Jessie and Mark walked to the doors then Mark turned, looking at Peter.
"Are you coming?" Mark asked when Peter looked at him, nodded his head and they left the room.
The blue and red lights blinked while the police cars and coroner car sat near the curb and police officers kept the crowds behind the barriers. The car pulled up to the curb behind the coroner car while Cassandra, Seamus, Mark and Peter got out of the car and walked to police officers. Mark and Seamus showed the police officers their identification then introduced Peter and Cassandra and the police officer nodded their heads, standing back for them to go under the barriers. Peter noticed that some of the female officers grinned at him as he walked by and he winked at them. Walking inside, he held Cassandra closer while they followed Mark and Seamus and they entered the main room. Stage crews were setting up equipment and stages while some of the other magicians and illusionists practiced their tricks and Cassandra looked around.
"Whoa," she whispered as Peter smiled and they headed for Jessie, who was kneeling on the ground near a body, and Seamus had stopped near one of the stages, watching the stage crew member setting up some of the gear. Cassandra softly giggled as they walked toward Jessie and Peter knelt down next to Jessie. Most of the body was missing while the legs were bent under the body and one of the arms was missing. Some of the organs were sticking out of the body and most of the face was missing as Peter looked at Jessie and she handed him a pair of rubber gloves.
"Where did they find the body?" Peter asked.
"It was found stuffed into that box over there," Jessie said as she pointed to the small, wooden box to the right and Peter stood up, walking to the small, wooden box. Mark had followed him as Peter looked at the small, wooden box and walked around the small, wooden box. Blood had dried into a deep, reddish brown stain as Peter knelt down and moved his hand over the reddish brown stain. The energy rippled under his hand as he looked up at Mark then stood up and wiggled his fingers.
"Well, whatever killed that guy has the same energy as the body at the morgue," Peter said as Mark looked at him with a blank look and Peter folded his arms over his chest. "And before you pin this one me just because I know about the energy, just think of this. If you do send me to jail, you'd never figure out who's doing it. For the record, it's not me!"
"Yeah, right," Mark said with a sarcastic tone as Peter arched an eyebrow then Peter walked back to Jessie, kneeling down next to her.
"Got any idea who this guy is?" Peter asked, looking at the body.
"Yeah, one of the security guards said he was Gordon Lester," Jessie said and Peter blinked his eyes a few times. He thought he knew the name as his brain clicked through a list of names when Jessie touched his hand and Peter smiled at her. "He was the head judge for all this."
"Oh, right, he is," Peter said with a nod of his head.
"Do you have a T.O.D.?" Mark asked as Jessie looked at the body and shook her head.
"I'll know more when I get him back to the morgue," Jessie said as she stood up along with Peter and Mark nodded, watching her take the rubber gloves off. She placed the rubber gloves in her pocket then placed the rubber gloves Peter had handed her in the pocket as well then turned and walked away. Giving Mark a smug look, Peter lifted his chin, flipped him off, turned and walked over to where Cassandra was standing. Growling, Mark walked to Seamus then pointed toward the exit as they walked away and Peter smiled while sliding his arms around Cassandra. Giving him a slightly amused look, Cassandra sighed and rolled her eyes toward the ceiling.
"You've got to stop pissing off the cops," she said as he looked at her then smiled and she softly smiled, shaking her head.
Shadows moved across the walls as something growled in the darkness and long talons scraped the wooden floor. Red eyes shimmered in the darkness as the red eyes scanned the room and chips of the floor curled under the long talons. The two ridged ears twitched at the sounds outside the windows and something snarled. The sound of footsteps came from the shadows as the red eyes glanced at the shadowed figure walking closer and the red eyes became tight slits. Being imprisoned in the silver circle only angered the creature as the growling filled the darkness and the shadowed figure walked closer, glaring at the creature.
"Silence!" the shadowed figure shouted when a blast of blue light from the shadowed figure's right hand hit the creature in the chest and the creature growled at the shadowed figure. Walking to the wooden table, the shadowed figure looked at the photographs of Henry Altman and Gordon Lester taped on the wall and the photographs had slashes cut in an X across them. There were six other photographs taped to the wall as the shadowed figure looked at Peter's photograph then growled, pounding on the wooden table. Turning, the shadowed figure stormed out of the room while the red eyes watched the shadowed figure and the slit the creature had for a mouth split as the creature softly laughed.