A/N
Thank you guys for actually being bothered to read this. I would apologise for not uploading this straight away but i finished this in the early hours of this morning so...
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The sun rose the next morning and Shawn woke to the sound of his stomach rumbling. Groaning he rolled over to grab his phone so he could call Juliet and tell her about Maggey. He scrolled down the contacts with confusion, this wasn't his phone. It must be Buzz's he assumed. Discombobulated, he got out of bed and searched for his phone. It was nowhere to be seen. He crept to the front door silently. The lock had been broken and it was hanging slightly open.
"Hello?" Shawn called. No one answered. Shawn shut the door and scanned the room intently for clues as to who the intruder was. Nothing else seemed to be missing. Suddenly Shawn heard footsteps coming towards him. He hid behind the wall grabbing his lamp for a weapon before leaping out at his attacker.
Gus jumped back in shock.
"Whoa!"
Shawn looked at him in disbelief.
"I thought you were the intruder" Shawn explained in shock.
"Intruder?" Gus questioned before turning to see Shawn's damaged lock.
Shawn looked at him with the expression that simply said 'duh' before sighing.
"Did they take anything?" Gus questioned.
"Only my phone" Shawn said, "but I found one yesterday so all's good"
"You found a phone? You should turn it in to the lost and found thing at the station" Gus told Shawn responsibly.
"Nah, I can't. It's evidence as I found it at the crime scene"
"The supermarket" Gus confirmed and Shawn nodded.
"I'm not sure who it belongs to. But it has a load of contacts with weird names, look" Gus watched as Shawn scrolled through the contact list. Gus took out a piece of paper and a pen from his pocket.
"What are you doing?"
"What does it look like I'm doing? I am getting copies of the numbers. We can use them to find out who owns the phone"
"I assumed it was Buzz's" Shawn pointed out. "It probably fell out of his pocket when he did" he paused thinking of what he had just said, "fall I mean"
"But what if it wasn't Shawn" Gus said smugly. "What if it was the murderers?"
Shawn looked at him wide eyed.
"Oh my god! And then the murderer broke in to my apartment to retrieve his phone so he… well or she wouldn't get caught!"
"Exactly!" Gus exclaimed, copying down another number.
"But that means I had a murderer in my bedroom" Shawn realised whispering to Gus, slightly scared.
Gus just nodded. "Well, he or she is a rubbish thief if they stole the wrong phone. You look after the phone and I will find out who these people are"
"Ok, but what do you think about-" Shawn broke off as Gus promptly disappeared to do his research. "-Maggey" he finished lamely, before getting ready to go to the station, remembering to keep the phone with him; he set off on his motorcycle.
"Hey Shawn! Get over here, we got a witness" Juliet exclaimed excitedly.
"Meet Maggey Jones. Buzz's girlfriend and our latest suspect. After the forensics team finished examining the body and surroundings. Her prints were found on the counter, which proves she was there the night of the murder. Also the report also found a pair of glasses, crushed underneath the body, no fingerprints though. It says here that Buzz hit his head on the counter and the fall snapped his neck. It suggests that Buzz grabbed the murderers glasses as he fell. It's the only plausible explanation as to how they were found underneath the victim's body."
"I found this mobile phone too" Shawn inputted meekly.
"Isn't this your phone" she said
"What? No, same model but not mine. Someone broke into my apartment last night and stole mine. I reckon it was the murderer trying to get his phone back….scary though"
"Definitely" Juliet agreed. "We'll find an evidence bag for it later. It's too late to dust for prints now"
"Oh yeah, sorry"
Juliet brushed him off. "Don't worry about it, we probably wouldn't have found anything on it anyway"
Shawn just looked down in shame. Fingerprints! Why didn't he think of that?
"Anyway. Let's go talk to Maggey. I'm thinking they had a fight and she lost it then legged it"
"Maggey didn't kill him" Shawn told her plainly.
Juliet just looked at him. "Let's not judge her before we hear her testimony" she paused, realising she was telling him off for judging her, just like she had done assuming she was guilty. "Ok, let's go"
They entered through the viewing room and Shawn noticed that Lassiter and Lucinda were already in there. Rapidly firing questions with Lassiter banging his fist on the table. Maggey looked scared and withdrawn with tears running down her face.
Juliet knocked before she entered.
"Do you mind?" Lucinda remarked, "We are interrogating a suspect!"
"And we hope to do so too. So please, lay off. Your time is up!" Juliet barked. Lassiter raised an eye.
"Well, you heard the girl" Lassiter remarked with a bemused expression. Lucinda looked at Lassiter with a look of pure disbelief, as if Lassiter had betrayed her.
"Don't act so hurt, Luce. And by the way, your husband is really upset at you. Cheating on him already?" Shawn replied.
"What?" Lassiter exclaimed in shock. "You have a husband!"
"What? No of course not" Lucinda reassured Lassiter flustered. Shawn folded his hands to show he disagreed.
"So Mark Powell is no one you know" Shawn trailed off awkwardly.
Lucinda looked at Shawn furiously.
"How do you know that name!" she growled whilst coming towards Shawn in a threatening manner.
"I spoke to him." Shawn said lamely, frightened as this woman came nearer, standing almost on top of him now, her fingers shaking slightly as if she was trying to resist discharging her weapon at Shawn's head.
"LUCE" Lassiter barked. "OUTSIDE NOW" before he grabbed her arm and lead her outside before proceeding to give her a big talking to.
"Shawn?" Maggey whispered quietly, a little scared at what had just occurred.
"It's Ok, Miss Jones. I am Detective O'Hara and this is Mr Spencer. We just want to talk"
"Shawn, please" he corrected, "Mr Spencer is my father".
Maggey smiled at him hesitantly and both Shawn and Juliet sat down at the opposite side of the table.
"So Miss Jones…" Juliet started
"Maggey please"
"Ok Maggey" Juliet agreed. "Will you answer a few questions for us?"
"Sure" Maggey agreed.
"What is your profession?"
Maggey looked at her confused. "I work here. I am a junior detective working under Detective Barnes"
"So you are an officer?" Juliet clarified.
"Well not yet. I haven't done the experience yet. I passed the exam though"
"I see. And you were going out with one Buzz McNabb" she asked.
"Yes… I loved Buzz. We were even talking about getting married, and for his birthday I ordered him a baseball glove so I could teach him how to play" Maggey smiled sadly.
"Then why did you leave him" Shawn asked.
Maggey looked shocked.
"W-what?"
"Why did you leave him at the supermarket?"
"Leave him?" she whispered. "I would never leave him" she sobbed slightly, beginning to cry once more.
"You admitted last night that you did, you said that you should have stayed"
Juliet raised her eyebrows.
"Did she now?"
"I may have bumped into her last night, sneaking in to the crime scene" Shawn told her calmly whilst Maggey buried her head in her arms.
Julliet thought calmly about this for a second.
"Buzz's name hadn't yet been released to the public at that time Maggey. How did you know he would be there?"
Maggey froze.
"I didn't! It was just a guess. I was worried! I… wasn't me! I swear!" she burst out in loud sobs.
Juliet stood up to leave. "We won't get any more out of her right now" she whispered to Shawn.
Moments later, Juliet and Shawn found Lassiter and Lucinda still arguing.
"Shut up!" Shawn exclaimed and the two detectives turned to look at him.
"Lassiter. You have a right to be angry! You didn't realise your girlfriend's husband only died recently but come on! Tough it up. You shouldn't be sleeping with her anyway! The rules clearly state that you are not allowed to date co-workers. And Lucinda, you wouldn't want anyone to think you were sleeping your way to the top would you? Now we have case to solved!"
Lassiter was first to snap out of it.
"Right. Well Maggey denied ever being there at the store that night. You think she would have been more truthful since we have her fingerprints there"
"She confirmed it to us that she was there. However she did deny killing him. Stated that she loved him"
"Good work" Lassiter told her and Juliet smiled slightly causing Lucinda to flush red.
"Did you check out the blood at the supermarket in the security room?" Shawn asked.
"We're still waiting on the blood report" Lucinda butted in.
"What about the store manager? We should talk to him. According to the footage he was there the night of the murder" Juliet added.
"What footage" Lucinda asked cruelly.
"In the wine cellar room, there is a D.D pro with footage"
"Didn't we clarify that it's not a wine cellar room as they import the wine?" Shawn whispered to Juliet, who shook it off slightly annoyed.
"How did you learn how to access a D.D Pro O'Hara?" Lassiter asked in disbelief.
"I think the main question should be how the hell he could afford a D.D Pro in the first place" Lucinda retorted.
All eyes looked at her. She had made a valid point. It was a tension building moment and Shawn felt he had to dilute the tense atmosphere.
"Or she…" Shawn inputted, suddenly looking suspiciously at Lucinda.
"What?" Juliet asked in confusion.
"How did you know the store manager was a man?" Lassiter gave an 'I can't believe you just said that look' to Shawn.
"Why do people never check the women?" Shawn asked rhetorically.
"OH! There's Janet and Susan" Shawn announced pointing over their shoulder and running away.
"Wait… Why didn't he tell us that Susan was dead? We thought she was missing" Lassiter asked.
"Juliet just made the 'I don't know' sound whilst shrugging her shoulders and proceeding to follow him.
A/N
Sorry if this chapter is a little short but the minimum of a proper chapter in my opinion is above 1000 words. and this is!
Keep me posted as to who you think killed Buzz! Have a guess!
Will update again when I finish the next chapter!
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