Chapter 6: Undead Again III
"Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can."
Mira Grant
"This was not how I wanted to go!" Charlie cried as the zombie hoard moved in closer.
"No, no, no!" JJ denied, "Zombies are not real..." He muttered, "Everyone, GCPD, don't move!" He yelled out, "And stop acting like zombies!" Once he said that, one of the zombie paused.
"Hey, hey," He said, "Relax, we're just zombie walking here!" He cried. This got Charlie's attention as she looked at the zombie.
"Zom-what?" She questioned.
"Zombie walking, you know when you dress as a zombie and we chase after the normies."
"The normies?" JJ muttered.
"That's us," A woman said, it was the woman who ran past them earlier with the man next to her. A few seconds passed as Charlie looked around to see said zombie hoard had stopped moving. She took one closer look and saw that it was just make up. She cleared her throat and stood up straight.
"I-I knew it was all fake..." She said, JJ scoffed.
"Yeah right, you bailed..." He muttered, "Alright! Everyone one of you! Back to the station, and that means you two as well!" He said, the "normies".
"Wait a minute! How did I not know about this?!" Charlie exclaimed, going up to one of the zombies, "You did this yourself? That's amazing!" JJ grunted in disgust as Charlie was feeling the texture of the zombie's skin.
Back at the station, Charlie, Donoghue, JJ, and Rossi were asking each of the "zombies" if they saw their vic.
"Look, you guys, we know that this guy was at the zombie walk," JJ said as he slid a picture of their victim across the table to two young men. One of them picked up the picture and examined it.
"No, I've never seen him before on the walks..." He said. Charlie stared at the other one, who seemed to be dazed as he was barely paying attention. She narrowed her eyes at this when she saw him sway to the side slightly.
"Hey!" She snapped her fingers at the other, gaining his attention," Are you high?" She asked.
"What! No!" He denied. Yup, he was definitely high... She gave him a dead look and pointed to the picture. He stared at the picture and shook his head, "Nope, never seen him..." She nodded and sighed.
"Okay..." She took out the picture of their killer and showed it to the two, "What about him? You've seen him before?"
"That's Ron, Ron Harris," The non-high one answered. JJ and Charlie stared at the other for confirmation.
"Yeah, that's Ron..." He agreed, nonchalantly. The two detectives stared at one another before they asked in sync.
"What's his address?"
"What the hell is this!" Harvey cried as he walked into the precinct with Gordon, seeing the "zombies" in the precinct.
"Oh, hey there!" Charlie greeted, "We caught a break in our case, somewhat," She muttered.
"Tell me this is a joke," Harvey muttered, "Please, rookie, tell me this is a joke!"
"Rookie?!" She muttered, scrunching her noise. That was clearly getting old, she preferred to not be called "rookie" when she clearly has the experience.
"Hey, ease up, Harvey," Gordon said, "So, that zombie case, huh?"
"Yeah, led us to a zombie walk," She said, still miffed by Harvey's rookie comment, "We got a hit on who our killer is though, a Ron Harris..." She added. Gordon nodded and the two stood there watching her intently. She noticed this and gave the two a look, "What?"
"Here, let me give you a hint rookie," Harvey said, "This is the part where you tell us what happened to the killer," Charle frowned and sighed.
"Oh well, ya see the thing is..."
"What do you mean dead!" Harvey cried as he and Gordon followed Charlie and JJ to the morgue.
"Like we said, we sent Donoghue and Rossi to his house and they said he was dead!" JJ said.
"Oh, detectives!" Edward greeted the four.
"Anything new, Ed?" Charlie asked.
"No, I was about to start the autopsy!" He smiled.
"Wait, I thought you only did forensics..." JJ muttered.
"It's a side job..." Nygma muttered, taking a syringe, "But I can tell you that his teeth did match with the latest victim!"
"So who killed him?" Gordon asked.
"Isn't that the question, detective!" Edward smiled and injected the syringe in the arm of the body on the table. What they didn't expect was the body jolting up, gazing around. They all let out a surprised gasped as the supposed "dead" corpse was now up. JJ, Harvey, and Gordon held their guns at the zombie as it got off the table.
"It's undead!" Charlie gasped.
"Shoot it already!" Harvey said.
"No! Don't shoot!"Charlie moved his gun upward before he could pull the trigger. The lights of the morgue shattered, startling the zombie as it left the morgue.
"Charlie! Call for back up!" JJ said as the three detectives followed after the zombie. The female detective nodded as she went towards the phone, but paused and turned to Edward.
"How-how do I?"
"Oh, nine," Nygma said, she nodded and dialed 9 on the phone.
"Ah..." She gazed back at Edward once again, "Um...do we even have a police code for zombie on the loose?" She asked.
"So apparently he had no recollection of what happened the night of Aaron Locke's murder..." JJ sighed.
"Nothing? Like not even a small glimpse as to what his motive was?" Gordon asked. The three men seemed ruffed up, since they were the ones that had to bring their zombie suspect to the hospital. They were all waiting outside of Ron's room as Charlie went in to talk with him.
"Nada," Charlie quipped, coming out of the room, "I just talked to him, he doesn't remember a thing, and get this, they've never met before..." She sighed.
"They've never met?" JJ repeated, "Then why go out all this way to kill someone he never knew?" He inquired. Charlie opened her mouth to reply, but her partner silenced her with a stern gaze, "No."
"Seriously? You don't even know what I was going to say!" She exclaimed.
"You were going to say that he was zombie, with a more humane side and his zombie possessed mind is suppressing those memories of the night Aaron Locke died..." JJ dead panned. Charlie stood there a gap.
"What! No!" She denied, "Clearly, that man is no zombie!" She refuted.
"Oh really?" JJ challenged, raisin a brow at her, "Even after he 'rose from the dead'?"
"Well everyone knows that you can turn into a zombie, but not turn back..." She dead panned,
"It's funny how you're conceding to all of this," JJ smirked.
"Ah, I concede to nothing!" She countered, "I just think that he's not telling us the whole story..."
"Are you saying he remembers?" Gordon questioned.
"When something that's life-altering occurs, people usually remember these type of things...especially in this case..." She replied although there was a hint of disappointment in her voice. In all honesty, she was actually looking forward to seeing that it was a zombie.
"You seem disappointed," A familiar voice said. She jumped and looked up to see the paramedic with the hero complex.
"Oh, Bellamy..." She muttered.
"So I heard you caught you killer..." He noted towards Ron, "Detectives.." He greeted the other men.
"Jones..." Gordon said, giving the paramedic an acknowledging nod.
"Kid..." Harvey mirrored his partner. Bellamy gave him a dead panned expression and sighed.
"What's up?" Charlie asked.
"I came to tell you that I think Rob Harris didn't kill your vic..." The paramedic said.
"How do you know?" Charlie asked, albeit suspicious.
"I just do..." He trailed off. Charlie narrowed her eyes at him.
"Detectives!" Edward called out as he made his way towards them.
"Ed?" Charlie tilted her head as the forensic examiner stood before them, "What's wrong?"
"I ran a blood test on Ron Harris and I found something very peculiar about it!" He exclaimed, a smile graced upon his lips. Charlie couldn't help but smile as well at his enthusiasm.
"Well what is it, Ed!" Harvey demanded.
"Hey, hey," Charlie said, "It's call dramatic effect, must be a breakthrough if he's smiling like that," She noted.
"In his blood, I found traces of scopolamine in his system, usually in certain cases, they're used to treat motion sickness in small doses," Edward informed them, "But in larger doses, it acts on the central nervous system and promotes compliant and suggestible behavior."
"Just exactly, how suggestible?" Gordon asked.
"In laments terms, you do whatever you are told," Nygma answered. Charlie's brows shot up as she slowly gave JJ a look.
"Like a date rape drug?" She suggested, now shifting her eyes back at Edward.
"Precisely, except, the victim remains conscious," Edward added, "And once it wears off, they'll have no recollection of what happened."
"Is it possible that someone slipped Ron that drug and told him to kill Aaron Locke?" JJ asked.
"I believe it's highly probable!" Edward agreed.
"Between what time do you think they slipped the scopolamine in his system?" Charlie asked.
"I would say between 2:45 to 3:45 the night of the murder," The forensic examiner replied.
"That was when he was on the zombie walk..." Charlie whispered in JJ's ear.
"That means someone on the zombie walk sent Ron after Aaron, which means that Ron is innocent..."
Hello, hello! Chapter 6 is up now! Letting you know that we're nearing the end of this zombie arc! The next one will be the end of this arc! Thank you to the guest who has been reviewing since the beginning, man you really make my day and boost my confidence when you send in those long reviews! I really appreciate it when someone gives me long reviews! I'm thinking of adding a guest appearance of Oswald at the end of the next chapter, because in the span of this arc, I'm gonna say this lasted for at least 2 episodes...I'm not certain for sure. Also I want the chapter after to feature an upcoming Batman villain, still trying to decided on who though, I have Crane/ Scarecrow in mind because he's always been my fave villain (tied with Nygma of course!) and since I have a fic for the Crane I wanted to see if I could recreate the oc in that story for the Gotham verse not sure for now... Either way, I hope you enjoy reading this! Thanks for the reviews, follows, and favorites!
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