13.

Six months later

Early one morning, a couple of hikers from Amity decided to take a trip through the forest that served as a boundary between Abnegation and Amity. A man and a woman, boyfriend and girlfriend, were walking and slowly climbing upwards, while bickering between themselves how far they had hiked the last time. Neither of them managed to get to a decision, but the atmosphere was light and comfortable between them despite the bickering. However the light atmosphere changed when they reached and stopped by a lake. What had caught the couple's attention was how quiet it was, normally there was animals or cracking trees that occupied the awkward silence, however there was no sound at all. It was dead silent. Concerned, the woman looked around her surrounding and her eyes stopped when she saw a figure lying in the shallow part of the water. The woman's concern was amplified as she took tentative steps towards the unmoving figure, meanwhile her boyfriend follow behind her in worry as well as curiosity to what was going on. They stopped in front of the figure to take a closer look and the first thing they noticed where the dead and empty eyes this person had before they noticed blood that was flowing from the chest and into the water, soaking the clear water with pure redness. The woman screamed and instantly leaned into her boyfriend's protective arms as he wrapped his arms around her in order to shield her from the sight. The man stared with shocked and horrified eyes as he reassured his girlfriend until she was calm enough for him to get the moment to call in the police. One thing was certain neither he nor his girlfriend would be able to sleep peacefully for months after seeing a dead corpse.

Sunlight beamed through the small crack of the window that wasn't covered by plain white curtains. It was a nice and warm glow, and was enough to wake Tris up from her slumber. She turned to her side in order to feel the other side of the bed, but was sadden when she realized that the spot was already cold. Four must have left the bed without her realizing it, something that was particular odd since she was normally a light sleeper, waking up by the slightest noise or disturbance. However it seemed whenever she and Four slept in the same bed, and in she meant in the literally sense when she said they slept in the same bed, she was obviously so relaxed that she didn't wake up. She closed her eyes again and tried to think of something else other than the fact that her boyfriend had left without saying a word, but her concerns evaporated when she heard the creak of her bedroom door open and heavy steps approached the bed before she felt the weight at the edge of her bed. She opened her eyes to see Four sitting there with this loving and peaceful expression on his face. Tris was almost taken back by the expression since she has never seen him like this for a long time. He was one of the few times in his life; he was actually happy and wasn't guarded to show his peace and happiness either.

"Hey," Tris whispered softly. Her arm reached out to touch him, meanwhile his right hand was stretched out and his fingers were loving and playful touching and caressing her arm. Then he whispered back with the same softness, "Hey, did you sleep well?"

She nodded her head before she replied, "Yeah, but I would have slept even better if I woke up to your warmth and protective arms."

Four sighed softly and replied, "I'm sorry, but my phone rang and I didn't want to wake you up."

Hearing that he had gotten a phone call early in the morning usually meant he got another case or something else that was serious enough like a family member had died or something. So she sat up, her facial expression was filled with worry and concern and was just about to ask what had happened when Four intervened and explained, "It was the dispatch, there is a body found in the woods by the border between Abnegation and Amity, and I was told to get there as soon as possible. However I didn't want to leave you without you knowing the reason why."

Tris nodded her head before she asked, "Do you need help? Uriah and I can be there if you want some more help with the case."

After proving her worth to Eric with the Lesbian case, she and Four got to work cases together as well as working on their own cases. And although neither of them said it they both knew that they enjoyed working together. They were partners; a powerful duo when they worked together as well as they was in private. It was funny how it was only a few months since they met up again and had difficulty trusting each other, especially compared how they were at the moment.

Anyways Four shook his head as a response to her question. "No, I think Zeke and I can handle it. And besides if we do need the extra help you are the first one I will call."

"Yeah, I know," Tris rand an awkward hand through her hair. "Its just that I want to help and seriously not start my day by doing boring paperwork."

It was almost a given that all cops hated doing paperwork, especially the detectives that had to write and be thorough with the paperwork otherwise their case could actually blow in their faces in court if it wasn't done properly.

Four only chuckled by her words and leaned in and pecked her on the lips. When he pulled away he said with slight humor, "I'm sure there is a murder out there that is dying to be solved by your beautiful mind and beauty. However until then you just have to suffer through the paperwork demons."

Tris let out a small laugh. "Compliments doesn't get you anywhere, Mr. I'm sure I'll remind you the same when our roles are reversed and you are stuck with the paperwork. Then I will have my sweet revenge."

Four responded by frowning by the thought himself doing the paperwork, but a moment later he chuckled once more before he stood up from the bed and began putting on his clothes he had left on the floor last night. Seeing as it was no point in staying in bed, especially without her handsome boyfriend in it, Tris got up as well and put on a long-sleeved shirt and dark pants before she ventured into her kitchen to prepare a light breakfast. Putting on the coffeemaker and bread in the toaster, she turned to ask Four if he had time for breakfast, which he answered that he didn't, but promised that he would make up for it later. And it was without saying how exactly he would make up for leaving early. So with a quick kiss and goodbye Four left, leaving Tris alone in the loneliness of her apartment before she too left and headed down to the station and start her day at work.

Slightly irritable that he had to leave for a crime scene instead of spending his morning with Tris had left Four almost inapproachable. Most people stayed a distance away from him whenever he was in his moods, of course that didn't include Zeke who was more chipper after having his morning coffee. And because of his cheery partner, they walked into the forest where the crime scene was located in this awkward atmosphere that could cut through glass, but Zeke didn't seem to bother by that fact as he said, "So seeing as you are in one of your moods again, I'm going to assume it is either because of the case or because dispatch interrupted your morning with the missus. By the way how is Tris?"

Four rolled his eyes by the term his partner had used for Tris. They had only been together for six months and their friends were already making jokes that they were husband and wife, not boyfriend and girlfriend. In a way his relationship with Tris were similar to a marriage, but was also constructed as a partnership with the whole 'I got your back, you got mine' reasoning.

"Tris is fine and yes, dispatch did indeed ruin my morning," Four scoffed. "And before you make some crude remark or joke about the matter I'll remind you that I would rather have a new case than be stuck at the station doing paperwork like your brother and Tris is doing right now."

Zeke groaned by the sound of paperwork, being reminded of the never-ending stock of paperwork he had on his desk back at the station. While he was a good detective with good people skills to match, he was absolutely hopeless to get him to do his paperwork on time and always ended handing it over at the last minute. And even though Four also hated doing paperwork, he was at least able to do it and do it on time.

"I agree that having this case sound a lot better than doing paperwork," Zeke coughed, trying to cover up his satisfied smirk. "So did dispatch inform you much about the body they found?"

Four shook his head and answered, "No, only that it was discovered here in the forest by the lake and that a couple of hikers called it in. Hopefully Christina can give us more clue as to what we are dealing with here."

Christina did indeed give them clues as to what had happened once they arrived at the crime scene and found her leaning over the body in order to make the initial examination. The victim was a lying where the hikers had found her, a woman dressed in plain and simple clothes while her hair, which was ash-blonde and had previously been in a neat bun, but right now was hanging in a messy manner. Grey eyes were watching them, almost haunting and telling them to solve whoever did to her, and Four couldn't help but feel slightly eerie about those eyes, but when he shook his head to shake his disturbed mind before he looked again into their eyes which now expressed emptiness that was caused by death.

"Who is she?" Four asked as he turned his focus on Christina, who had just finished making her initial examination.
"She appears to be a woman in her late twenties, early thirties. However I can't confirm my assumptions because there was not found any wallet or ID on her body," Christina answered. Zeke arrived shortly and stepped into the conversation after he was done talking to the other officers on the scene and continued answering her response, "And the officers didn't found one either, so for now she is a Jane Doe."

Four nodded and returned to look at the victim in question. He didn't have to be smart to know that this woman was most likely from Abnegation based on her appearance, which he was quite familiar with, but what he found hard to believe was that someone would kill a woman from that background. Then again someone from that background might appear as small as a mice compared to others, but he had learned that appearances could be deceiving, especially people from Abnegation.

Christina explained to him and Zeke that the woman received a through and through bullet to the chest and she advised them that the bullet might still be in the forest somewhere. She also estimated time of death as a couple of hours before the victim were found. However she would make a further examination back at the morgue. And then everyone began getting ready to either try to find that bullet or preparing to go back to the station. Four scoffed and put his hands into his pants pocket. He didn't know why but he felt that there was something familiar about the whole case like he had seen it before, but it was possible he was confusing it with one of the many other cases he had worked on. Still he couldn't shake the feeling away and then it hit him like a bullet.

"Wait!" Four exclaimed, catching everyone on the scene of attention. "Widen your search, there might be another body here!"

Everyone just stared at him, not sure what the hell was going on with, meanwhile Zeke and Christina looked like he was crazy. And when they asked him why he believed it was another in the forest, but Four bluntly ignored them as he ordered them to around and gave them guesses as to where this unknown body would be. People thought about it for a moment before they did as he ordered and they all began searching, trusting his hunches.

It took a while, but they found a second dead body in the deeper parts of the forest, hidden underneath a couple of leaves and made it hard to see from a distance, but they had indeed found a dead body, however this time it was of a man. The man appeared to be around the same age and dressed similar as the woman, so it was most likely he too was from Abnegation. The difference between him and the woman appearance wise was that he had dark hair, which normally would have been groomed and nicely-kept but was currently a big mess, and dark eyes to match.

Christina looked over to the body, meanwhile Zeke stood next to him and asked the question everyone had been wondering about, "What made you believe there was a second body at the scene or rather how did you know?"
Four was too serious to joke or shrug it as gut feeling, instead he replied firmly, "I have seen this before."

Zeke's eyes dilated in surprise and yelled out incredulously, "You have seen this before! Where have you seen this before?"

Christina answered before he had the chance to explain, which he was actually thankful for because he wanted more evidence that supported his theory before he was willing to share it with Zeke and the others.

"The man was killed by a gunshot to the back, same caliber as the wound on the first victim," Christina turned the dead man's back to show the entry wound and stated that as far as she could tell there weren't any exit wound, so it was possible that the bullet was still stuck inside. However again she would need to bring the body back to the morgue to retrieve the bullet for analysis.

Needless to say, Four was anxious to check if his suspicion was true or not, so told Zeke he would head back to the station and that he would wait for them to get back. Zeke was fine with the arrangement, but asked if him leaving early had something to do with that he had seen this crime scene before. Four only nodded, not really giving his friend and partner much details to go on, but Zeke didn't ask further questions. So Four left ahead, taking the car with him, knowing that Zeke would catch a ride back from Christina or one of the officers.

And as he drove back to the station all he could think about was the case and his suspicion regarding that he had seen the crime scene before. Honestly, he hoped that his suspicion was wrong and that he was just being paranoid or something. No, that was wrong word for it, he actually wished and prayed with his whole heart that he was for once wrong regarding his suspicions, because if he was indeed right then this case wasn't going to be the only thing that was going to become a lot more difficult. If Tris learned about this then he feared that she was going to head down a dark path, and this time he wasn't sure if he could bring her out of it, especially since the last time he did so she broke up with him because of his attempt to save her soul from the pain and despair. So if there truly was a God somewhere Four begged him to not let his suspicion be true since he didn't want to lose the one person he loved more than anything in the world.

"I'm done with the Capitated-head case from three weeks ago," Tris informed her partner, who was sitting on the desk across from hers and was literally going mad over the stocks of paperwork that was lined up. "How is it going with that Dead Witch case?"

Uriah groaned as response and almost threated to throw the file in the air in frustration. Luckily she managed to convince him not to that since it would mean that he would start the whole file all over, which was even worse than doing it once. However that didn't mean that he wouldn't stop complaining about it either.

Uriah rested his head against the desktop and said annoyed, "Why does it have to be us that has to stay here and do boring paperwork, while Four and my brother get to work a case?"

Tris shrugged her shoulders; "Because Eric hates us and will be on our ass if we don't finish half of these reports before the end of the day."

Just as she said that Uriah received a text on his phone, so he opened it in order o read what it said and shortly exclaimed in annoyance, which made her raise her eyebrow. She wondered if he was finally going crazy or something, and Uriah must have seen her facial expression because he held out his phone to let her read the message. She took it and it said:

Hey, little bro

Since you are already stuck at the station, doing paper work, can you mine as well?

You owe me a favor, so you will do it.

See you later

Z

Once she was done reading her gaze moved towards Zeke's desk to see the stack of files that was as high as a tower, which was ready to tip at any moment. Then her gaze moved back to their desks to find the six files that they had left, which would normally mean that they would be done with the paperwork before shift was over, but if they added Zeke's share then they wouldn't be done with the paperwork before next year.

So she asked, "Is he serious? We would never be finished if we did his too."

Uriah groaned before he answered, "He is serious. Last time we played poker I lost the game to Zeke, and I didn't have enough money to pay him so I offered to do a favor for him. And this is him using his favor."

Tris leaned back in her seat, thinking how much she wished they had a case so they didn't have to stay here and do Zeke's paperwork. And it was like her prayers were answered when Eric entered and said with a snarky tone, "You two nimrods, you have a case."

She and Uriah looked between one another, not sure how to respond to their lieutenant. They were pretty used being insulted and given rude nicknames like Twiddle-Dee and Twiddle-Dum, Starsky and Hutch, and Shaggy and Scooby, but still they were shocked that Eric was willing to change their assignment and actually give them a case since after the last stunt they did on their last case that ended a few blown up squad cars as well as his own personal cabriolet they had been sure that it would be a long while before they were allowed a case. But if he ordered them to do it then who were they to question his authority anyways, besides it would also mean that they wouldn't have to do Zeke's work, which was a plus.

"Where are we supposed to be going?" she asked as she put on her jacket and retrieved her keys and threw them to Uriah, who managed to catch them with ease. Eric snorted and mumbled something about that he wasn't their personal sectary and the information they wanted was already sent to the police scanner, so they had to check it out for themselves. She and Uriah just shrugged their shoulders and headed out of the office and down to the parking lot. They wouldn't waste time sitting around just in case Eric changed his mind, so they drove to the crime scene, but what they found what something they had not been prepared for.

Four was looking through his desk drawers, searching for the file he had in mind and let out a relieved breath when he found the file in his bottom drawer behind some cold cases. He pulled the file out and closed the drawer behind him, then took a quick look around to see if Tris or Uriah were anywhere close by, which they thankfully wasn't, before he opened the file and began reading the information the file contained. He pulled out crime photos that was almost identical to what he had seen back at the crime scene, the only difference was that crime from the photos were twelve years older and the two bodies were not a young couple, but a middle-age married couple that had been found at the exact spot as their current victims had been found.

The more he read and reviewed the content his suspicions proved more and more likely, but he needed Christina to confirm it at the autopsy. Looking at the watch, they were probably back at the morgue by now, so he might as well get down there already and greet them and inform them of a potential link to their case.

So he grabbed the file and put it under his arm before he walked out of the office and took the elevator to the morgue and found Christina and Zeke there already, ready to cut the bodies open.

Christina looked up from her inspection of the bullet wound from the female victim, taking a sample from the wound track with a Q-tip before placing it inside a container for further analysis. "Hey, I have already taken blood and samples to the lab to check for alcohol and drugs and etc. I was just about to make the Y-incision."

Her expression changed when she saw his dejected expression as well as body language, so she asked bluntly, "Four. What is going on? Did something happen with Tris or something?"

Of course she would think that it had something to do with Tris, his girlfriend was the only one who could bring out more emotions in him than anyone else and they all knew that if something had happened to her then things would go straight to hell.

He shook his head, but his demeanor didn't light up. "No, she is fine as far as I know, but I'm not sure how long she is going to be."

Both Christina and Zeke frowned their eyebrows in concern and waited anxiously for him to continue. He sighed heavily before he continued saying, "I told that the crime scene seemed familiar to me, well I was right and I found which case it was too, but the thing is that it is a cold case that has been cold for over twelve years."

Zeke nodded, "Yeah, but that's norm with cold cases. So what is the big deal about this case?"

He sighed once again and handed over the file to Zeke, who took with a weird expression on his face like he wasn't what to think. Then he said finally, "Because that cold case happens to be a big deal to someone else here at the station, one of the reasons why she became a cop in the first place."

Zeke opened the file and read quickly through the content before he looked up to look at him with shocked eyes.

"You're serious about this? Tris's parents were murdered and it wasn't solved, and now we have a murder scene that looks exactly like the one that happened twelve years ago."

Christina turned around and exclaimed, "What! Let me see that!" She grabbed the file and read through it and as she read her eyes grew wider and wider for each minute. When she finally looked up she asked with a worried and almost agitated, "Does Tris know about this? About this recent case as well as you dragging up her parents murders case up again."

Four felt ashamed over the fact, so his eyes moved to the floor to look at his shoes, but this action was enough to confirm her suspicion.

She sighed heavily in a overdramatic manner, while waving her hands in the air and said, "Are you going to tell her about the fact that this case appears to be identical to her parents murder from the location to the background of where these people came from?"

He thought about it for a moment, he knew that Tris had right to know about this, but he didn't want to open the can of worms just in case he was wrong. They hadn't found anything substantial that supported his theory. For now it was only circumstantial that there was two murders that looked and happened at the same place. So he decided it might be best to keep this piece of information between them for now, at least until they had something more concrete to their suspicion.

"No, I wouldn't tell her yet," Four answered. "Not until I know for certain I'm right. So I'm asking you to keep it between the three of us. Christina, you will have to look at the autopsy report from the Prior case as well find any evidence that connects the two murders. Zeke, you and I look through missing persons, in order to find the identities of our two Does, then we will work our way from there. Until we find something that supports my theory about the two murders being connected, we will threat these two murders separately. Okay?"

Both Zeke and Christina nodded reluctantly, both feeling that Tris should at least know that they are looking into her parents case, especially since they didn't know if she would be okay with them looking and poking into the case without her permission. However they knew that he did have a point about keeping quiet, seeing as she had not brought it up the entire time they had known each other. So the good points weighed heavier than the bad, so they did as Four asked. Christina went back to the bodies meanwhile he and Zeke headed back upstairs to BRIC to see if their two victims had someone out there who was missing them.

Tris and Uriah found themselves in an apartment in uptown parts of Dauntless, one of the nicer parts of the city where the rich and famous lived, which was a perfect yet opposite description of their murder victim. His housekeeper found Mr. Jonathan Hawkes, the head of a high-profiled security company, dead in his apartment early in the morning.

"Whoa, so this is how rich people from Dauntless lives," Uriah exclaimed in awe and surprise as they entered the apartment and was escorted by one of the officers to the bedroom where Mr. Hawkes's body was lying on the floor in a red pool of blood. Everything in the apartment was installed with latest high-tech security system from alarm to the door till having a panic room installed inside his bedroom. "But seriously what kind of person sets up his bedroom to be a panic room that can only be opened with the right combination code or when timer were off?"

Tris chuckled, she too didn't understand why their victim had taken security measures so far, but they might learn the reason why when they began trying to figure out who had done this to him. She looked down at the body, seeing the blood coming from the victim's neck, most likely caused by a sliced artery, but they needed the medical examiner to confirm cause of death. However the medical examiner was being awfully late and they couldn't do much until he got here to tell them as much as he could about the body before the autopsy. Normally they worked with Christina on these cases, but seeing as she was currently busy with another case, probably Four and Zeke's case, so they were stuck with the next best thing, Matthew. The young medical examiner seemed like an okay guy, around Four's age, but she didn't really know him well enough other than that he was good at his job and very often late to crimes scenes.

"I'll go and talk to the housekeeper about what she knows," Uriah said, pulling out his notebook and pen from his jacket pocket. "Will you stay here with the body until Matthew gets here?"

Tris nodded, figured out that she could take a look around the room while waiting for Matthew. Carefully avoiding compromising the scene, she looked to see any other way to enter and leave bedroom, however she quickly learned that there wasn't and the only entrance was the same way they came in. She noticed a remote control on the nightstand and picked it up to look at it closer. It was too small to be a television remote control and he didn't' have automatic window blinds. So what exactly was this remote used for?

Her curiosity was spiked as she pushed on button and then things started unexpectedly to happen. Metal blinds from the outsides covered the windows while a large heavy metal slide door locked the door entrance. Uriah yelled out for her as a way to warn her, but everything happened so fast that she couldn't get out in time, so she found herself locked and trapped inside the bedroom with a dead body and with no other way of escape.

"Oh, crap," Tris said and then ran an annoyed hand through her hair. "Just exactly what I need, being trapped inside a room with a dead person. Every girl's dream."

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Thanks again for the amazing response I have been receiving, I really appreciate it. Now Tris's parents murder arc had started, but it wouldn't be the main focus right now. However it will be brought up and investigated on, so stay tuned for more.

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