Title: No Rest For The Wiccans
Rating: M
Summary: When teens that practice Wicca are found dead it is up to Tony and Carol to figure out what the killers sick motives are. Of course they get a little help from Rowan Gant. Wire in the blood, Rowan Gant Investigations Crossover.
Disclaimer: I don't own Carol, Tony, or any of the authors blood and gore. I don't even own M.R Sellars characters. I just like to take them out and play with them.
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To Writerapprentice: the killer does have a motive, like all killers do. But you'll be shocked when you find out who it is. Thanks for your review.
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Chapter 6
He watched the whole thing unfolded and he had to admit that he was having fun watching it. His brain told him that the police should be happy that he had gotten rid of the witches mother, should be celebrating, but he knew that the police never acted like that. They had to find the killer. Well they weren't going to find him and that he would make sure of. He would take a rest and then he would hunt down the next witch and this time he wouldn't be as careless as he had been with the first one.
He would find the parents, he would question them, and if they didn't denounce their witch or warlock children then they would burn and then so would the witch or warlock. He turned and disappeared as though he had cast his own spell.
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Tony got his hands on the photos the next morning. He had been thinking about both murders and wondered why they hadn't found the car, or truck, yet. He checked his schedule and saw that he didn't have any lectures, which was good. He could visit Carol and see how things were progressing. He took his keys, plastic bag, and then left.
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Rowan was a little surprised to be summoned so early in the morning by Paula but he joined her in the car twenty minutes later.
"Is your wife asleep?" Paula asked.
"Yes but I left her a note telling her where I'm going," Rowan told her. "So did you tell her about what I said?"
"Yes but she doesn't believe that there's another reason that she was blindfolded," Paula told him.
"Of course not," Rowan said. "People like to believe that it's normal for someone to blindfold another person. Of course we all know that sickos like this don't conform to any kind of rules."
Paula had to agree with that.
"So what made you decide to do this?" Paula asked.
Rowan sighed.
"I have a friend that works for the force and he sort of came to me," Rowan told her. "I soon found myself sucked into this. Nothing that I've faced has ever made sense but I've always managed to help the police find the bad guy. I'm just sorry that someone that murdered in the states has decided to add England to his list of fun places to kill people."
"Do you think it's the same person?" Paula asked.
"I don't know," Rowan answered. "But I do know that he will kill again and this time he's not going to make the same mistake that he did make."
"What do you mean?"
"He knows that he should have killed the mother first, if she didn't disassociate herself with her daughter. If she did then she probably would have been alive, but she would have to live with the fact that she caused her daughter death. You see back a long time ago it was considered a mother's duty if her daughter was brought before the Inquisition on the suspicion of witchcraft. Probably would provide some evidence on her own part, all lies, and then she would be there when she was burned."
"Nice mums," Paula commented.
"That's probably what the mums thought at the time," Rowan said. "But this isn't then and parents don't want to live with the fact that they might have caused their daughters death. So what I think is that the killer followed Sally and at least found out where she worked, confirming that she was in-fact a witch even by association with the store, and then mapped out the best way to get to her. He kills her, burns her dead body, and then finds a way of finding out where the mother lived. Now he believes that the mother has to be a witch herself because she didn't publicity disowns her daughter. He forces her to confess to things that she didn't do and then hangs her."
"But he didn't leave a necklace," Paula said.
"True but next time he will," Rowan warned. "And that will connect the two murders to the next one."
"Wow, your good," she commented.
Rowan grinned at her.
"I give Ben Storm all the credit," he commented.
When they pulled in they both walked in and headed for the floor that Paula worked on. As they took the elevator Paula turned to Rowan.
"What made you decide to become a witch?" she asked.
"It's a long story," Rowan answered. "But I'm glad that I'm one. I can help people that that makes all the spirits that I see well worth it."
Paula didn't quite know what to say to that.
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Carol was waiting in her office when Rowan appeared. She looked at the man and for a moment he could pass as normal but then the necklace that he wore flashed in the sunlight and that told her that this man was far from normal. Of course she could say the same thing about Tony and she wondered if crime just breeds strange people that happen to be damn good at the job.
"I'm DCI Jordan," Carol said, extending her hand.
"Rowan Gant," Rowan said, shaking it. "So Paula told me that you wanted to see me."
Carol nodded.
"Would you like some tea?" she asked.
"That would be nice," Rowan told her.
Carol left the office and went to make the tea. When she came back she saw that Rowan hadn't moved from his position.
"Give it time to seep," she said, putting the cup down. "So what do you think about our little murder investigation?"
"Miss Jordan, I don't think murder is little or the people that help in solving the crime," Rowan told her. "I also tell that your not exactly comfortable talking to someone that claims to be a witch."
Carol was shocked at how well he was able to read her.
"A lot of people aren't," Rowan went on. "But I help people that need it and consider that part of my life just as fulfilling as the religious part of it. Now I was just telling your lovely Paula of my thoughts on the murders."
"Are they connected?" Carol asked, knowing that she would ask Tony later.
"I believe they are, but that's my own personal opinion," Rowan said. "Of course when you have that itch, which tells you that your right, that won't go away you know that your right. Especially when it happens time and time again. I was right when I said to Ben that Porter was alive and well and when Ben found out that he was, well he had to eat his words."
"I bet," Carol said.
"I also told him that when he met up with me he was preaching, not something that Catholics does," Rowan went on. "Porter believes that in his own version of a perfect world and he doesn't care who he has to hurt to get that across."
"According to Storm he tried to hang you," Carol said.
"Yep," Rowan said. "I'm the big, bad, warlock and he's just the sane person that believes that I belong in the Otherworld, as Felicity would call it. But what he forgets is that no sane person would believe in killing other people to get their own point across. He's a nut, a nut that might be out there. Is he dead? No one knows, but if he is then something freaky is going on.
"I believe in spirits, I believe that good ones that died at the hands of evil can come to those that wish to see their killer caught. I've encountered spirits that feed on the evil of the kinds of people that killed them, and I've encountered Porter, a man that if he's dead he's doing something to enable to continue his crimes. Just because you're dead doesn't mean you're done."
"Sounds like a theory that I never want to prove," Carol said.
"I hope you never have to," Rowan said.
She suddenly looked up and saw Tony.
"Excuse me for a moment," she told Rowan and left the office.
When she saw him she tried to put on a smile but Rowan's words were echoing in her mind. Not that she would believe it but something deep down told her that his words just might be true.
"Tony, do you have a profile for us," she asked.
"Not yet," Tony said. "So who were you talking to?"
"Well someone that handles what goes bump in the night," Carol said. "Names Rowan Gant and he helped the St. Louis Major Case Squad solves some nasty murders. He's come over to help us, to help you, in trying to solve these murders."
"Is he any good?" Tony asked.
"Well I could ask the states the same question about you," Carol said. "But yes, I believe he's good. Of course not as good as you."
Tony gave her a big smile.
"I'll take you for that complement," Tony said. "So when do I get to meet him?"
Before Carol could answer the phone rang and she took it.
"Jordan here," Carol said, holding up a finger to tell Tony 'in a minute.' "Yes, of course. Bring her in."
And she hung up.
"It seems that someone followed Paula," Carol told Tony. "And I think she's mad. Couldn't understand a word she said."
A few moments later the door opened and a volley of red hair and anger came pouring into the station room. The woman started speaking in Gaelic and it didn't take someone to know the language to know that she was mad.
"English, please," Carol said.
"Where's my husband," the woman asked, her accent apparent through her anger. "Rowan Gant."
"He's in my office," Carol told her.
"Good, I'm going to beat him," the woman said. "Going to the station without taking me. I'm not a little girl, you know."
Carol noticed that Kevin was trying to not grin.
"I'm sorry, she sort of got ahead of me," the officer told her.
"That's alright," Carol said. "Mrs. Gant-."
"I've kept my maiden name," the woman told her. "You can call me Felicity."
"Felicity, your husband is this way," Carol said.
"Good, you can hold me back because it's going to take all the Irish Goddess to keep me from killing him," she told Carol.
"I'll be right back," Carol told Tony and led Felicity to her office.
"Lovely girl," Kevin commented.
"And a witch," Paula answered.
"A witch," Tony said.
"Yep, they both are," Paula told him. "I asked him why he does this and he said that he likes helping people."
"Well I think their both nuts," Kevin said.
"I heard that," Felicity yelled and Kevin stared at Paula.
"Looks like we're going to be seeing plenty of her around," Paula told them.
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"And when were you bloody going to tell me where you were going," Felicity asked, her tone showing her anger.
"I didn't want to bother your sleep," Rowan told her.
"Oh please, don't give me that line," Felicity said. "I thought you had another sleep driving episode again."
"Sleep driving," Carol said.
"Yes, Rowan has a bad habit of that," Felicity told her. "Always manages to end up at the scene of a crime. Remember the last time."
Rowan groaned.
"Don't remind me, please," he said.
"What happened," Carol asked.
"Ended up almost at the murderer's doorstep," Felicity told her. "He vowed not to do that again and when he was gone I thought he had done it again."
"Well I didn't," Rowan told her.
"Good," Felicity said. "And from now on you're going to include me in this. And don't bring up the fact that I was possessed by the spirit of a dead woman that was known as the voodoo witch. I'm not having you drive off somewhere and end up the prime suspect in a murder."
"Okay, okay," Rowan said.
"Good, now I'm starving," Felicity said. "I'll be back with some breakfast."
"I thought you ate," Rowan said.
"How could I eat when I thought that you were sleep driving again," Felicity told him and then left.
"Lovely woman," Carol commented.
"Yes and I love every fiery bit of her," Rowan said, which was true.
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A/N: Wow Felicity has a temper to match Carols. Also I got the next Rowan Gant book and the author stated that Felicity is Irish. Sorry if I got that wrong. Next chapter: An entire Tony/Carol moment and send me some reviews, I live on them.