Hey all,
I know I said that I axed this story but slight change of plans. I didn't want to delete this but I didn't want to leave it unfinished so I'm gonna finish it with the help of some of you. I thank you in advance. Enjoy the final chapter : )
Ethan's court case was tomorrow. Detective Bishop sat at her office. She was stuck at crossroad with Ethan's case but she had to prove his innocence. She didn't know Ethan personally but the thought of seeing a innocent man go down? She couldn't live with herself. She threw her pen down and rubbed her face in her hands. She was startled when an unread folder got slammed on her desk. She jumped back slightly.
"Graeme!" Detective Bishop exclaimed. Graeme was her partner.
"Apologises Chrissie, but I thought you might like to see this." Graeme placed his hand on the folder and opened it for the detective, now revealed as Chrissie to read. "Caleb's post mortem. The results came back-" Graeme was cut off by Chrissie.
"I'm not going to read it if it's bad." Chrissie bit her thumb anxiously as her hands were cupped together.
"Just read it and find out." Graeme instructed. Chrissie looked with a worried face but a few seconds later, she smiled and jumped up.
"Brilliant!" Chrissie got her results.
"Care to enlighten me? I didn't read it as it had your name on it specifically." Graeme spoke.
"The blade was used by a left hander. Ethan's right handed." Chrissie excitedly spoke. Graeme continued to listen. "A grey hair was found on Caleb's clothes when Ethan is blonde and Caleb was ginger and there was some blood found on Caleb, that wasn't his or Ethan's"
"Okay, so the DNA from the blood." Graeme spoke.
"Exactly. The criminal must of cut himself at one point." Chrissie continued to speak excitedly as she continued to flick through the results. "And the blood belonged to Conner Matthews." She ran to her computer and looked up the name. "Convicted and done twice for GBH. So his record says a lot and it's the same description that Ethan told me." Chrissie smiled still.
"So this means..." Graeme wheel his hand.
"Mr Matthews is our guy." Chrissie spoke for him as she grabbed her car keys. "Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a real murderer to arrest." Chrissie spoke as she left. Graeme said no more as he followed his partner out of the station.
Ethan and Cal sat in they're living. Ethan's court case was in fourteen hours and all Cal could do was calm his brother down every time he thought of it. As far as Ethan knew, he was guilty. He was guilty for a crime he didn't commit. Him doing his job got him into trouble.
"Do you have your suit ready?" Ethan asked Cal nervously.
"Yes, Ethan. Look I know it's hard but try not to think about it." Cal spoke. Ethan jumped up in disbelief.
"How can I not Cal?! I'm getting sent down for something I didn't do!" Ethan outbursted. "I'm not allowed to work. I can't even leave the flat because I'm afraid someone is going to call me a murderer and throw stones at me or something!" Cal stood up with him. He placed his hands on his pacing brother.
"Ethan, look at me. Ethan, look at me!" Cal repeated. "It will be fine." Cal spoke slowly. Ethan's anger left his body suddenly.
"Sorry." Ethan spoke as he looked down.
"Don't worry. Let's just take a breath." Cal smiled. "Do you want a coffee?" Cal asked. Ethan shrugged his shoulders for an answer. Cal took his hands off Ethan and went to the kitchen. Ethan collapsed onto the couch, exhaling deeply.
As Cal boiled the kettle, there was a knock at the door. Cal turned his head towards the door then looked at Ethan. Ethan looked at the door with his eyes then looked at Cal worryingly. Cal went to the door. He opened it.
"Detective Bishop?" Cal smiled a little.
"Sorry to disturb you, Dr Knight but can I come in?" Chrissie asked.
"Yeah, of course. Come in. Ethan's in the living room." Cal smiled as Chrissie walked in. He shut the door then followed Chrissie into the living room.
"Good evening, Dr Hardy." Chrissie smiled lightly. Ethan looked up at her.
"Hi. What's going on?" Ethan asked as he turned the TV off.
"Well, I thought you might like to know that we have arrested and charged someone with the murder of Caleb Craigs." Chrissie spoke. Cal looked at Ethan then looked back at Chrissie. "I called the Crown Court. I've cancelled your hearing." Chrissie watched as Ethan stared at her, star struck but Cal couldn't contain his excitement.
"Detective, I don't know what to say. Thank you so much." Cal smiled. Chrissie went to stick out her hand to have it shook but Cal hugged her. After Cal broke his hug, they both looked at Ethan, who was still quite stunned. "Ethan?" No reaction. "Ethan?" Cal waved a hand in front of Ethan's face.
"Leave him Dr Knight. It's a lot to take in." Chrissie spoke. "I better go. Take care of yourselves." Chrissie smiled then went into the hallway before Cal followed her.
"Detective." Cal called after her. She turned her head to face Cal. "Let me walk you to your car." Cal smiled. Chrissie smiled and nodded.
Once they got to Chrissie's car. Cal started an interesting conversation. Completely irrelevant to Ethan now.
"So what's the rule on officers staying in contact with their cases?" Cal asked.
"You mean the people involved? Ideally we are not meant to stay in contact personally." Chrissie saw Cal's disappointing face. "But you weren't part of the case and I've closed it now." Chrissie smiled as did Cal.
Chrissie got into her car. She started her engine and rolled down her window to still talk to Cal
"Right, well thank you for everything again, detective. You really saved my brother's neck." Cal smiled as he leaned into Chrissie's window.
"I'm just glad to of helped. Take care, Dr Knight." Chrissie smiled.
"It's Cal." Cal chuckled lightly.
"Chrissie." Chrissie smiled as she started to drive off. Cal watched her drive away, putting his hands deeper in his pockets until he found a piece of paper. He took it out and it read:
"Let's go for coffee sometime. Chrissie." The note read with her number and a smiley face. Cal beamed as he read the note, looked back at the direction Chrissie left and then walked back up to his flat.
So I decided to send Cal on a date with the detective. I'm honestly quite glad I got this finished as I do hate leaving things unfinished. I will reveal a couple of useless trivia though:
Bishop is my name (some of you may know that anyway)
Chrissie is the main character in the story I'm writing, she too is a detective but the surname is different.
Detective is my dream job.
Like I said "pointless trivia" but it's fun to know things.
See you all soon. Thank you all for your support so far :D