Hey guys! I'm back. The leave I took really helped me out with this story and many more that have gone un-finished. I've finally figured out the rest of the story and I'm back to write it. Here is Chapter 3!
"Okay, I've gone though everyone who would want Jane dead." Frankie said as he paced through the bullpen. Korsak, Cavanaugh and Maura sat and worked hard to find Jane and save her and her baby.
"Well, that's a long ass list. You have people who she put away, the families of those people, past and present stalkers, past boyfriends, cops that hated her, and the list goes on. It's going to take forever to go though all of those people." Korsak said as he sighed and ran his hands though his hair.
"Fine, then start with the people with the most motive and... I know exactly who to start with..." Frankie said held up a file. He handed it to Maura for her to read. She opened it and her eyes widened.
"Frankie-" She was cut off by Cavanaugh.
"Who is it?" He asked.
"Lieutenant Colonel Casey Jones." Frankie said
"Frankie, He does have good motive but it's impossible that he took Jane. He hasn't been home since before Jane found out she was pregnant."
"Thats where I was stumped until I looked up his recent activity. He was put on a 2 week leave." He said as he pulled up the record on the computer.
"What for?" Korsak asked.
"Doesn't say. Maybe its just a leave." Frankie said.
"Okay, We can't pin it on him just because the army is giving him a break." Cavanaugh said.
"Yeah but, he made a shit ton of phone calls to Jane over the past couple of days. ." Korsak looked at everyone with wide eyes.
"Excessive amounts?" He asked.
"Yeah. l I took a look at Jane's phone records from a couple of days before she was taken. It was the usual calls, Me, Maura, Vince, Ma, Tommy, and work until 2 days before she got several calls, around 30, from a different number. Almost all of them were sent to voice mail except for the last one where she only talked on the phone for 3 minutes and 45 seconds. I traced the number. It's Casey's house phone." Frankie said. Cavanaugh looked at everyone and directed orders.
"Frankie, you and Dr. Isles go question Casey. Vince, look into more people, Starting with the stalkers. See if there are any connections to Hoyt as well." He said.
"What, like another apprentice?" Vince asked.
"Yeah. He trained 2, maybe he had more." Vince nodded and got to work. Frankie and Maura gathered their things and went to find Casey. Frankie was stopped by Cavanaugh before he could step onto the elevator.
"Frankie, I want you to treat this like any other case. That means that no matter what he says you do NOT throw punches. I know she is your sister but I can't have another pair of hands gone from the team especially when we don't have that much time left. Got it?" Frankie nodded. "Good. Now, go find her and bring them two home." He patted Frankie on the back and let the pair go find Jane.
Frankie and Maura arrived at the apartment of Casey Jones. They rode the elevator up and knocked on the door. They waited for a response.
"Frankie. Remain calm please. I don't want to have to stitch up your lip again." She said. He smiled at her comment. Casey opened the door and saw the medical examiner and detective standing there. He was shocked.
"Hey guys. How are you?" He looked behind them like he was looking for someone.
"She's not with us Casey. That's why we are here." Maura said. Frankie refused to speak to him just in case he would snap and kill him.
"Is something wrong?" He asked.
"Jane is missing. She was taken from her apartment last night." Frankie said. Casey's eyes widened and he was taken aback.
"What do you have so far?" He asked breathlessly.
"Well, we have a list of suspects that we are going though with a fine tooth comb. Yours was the first to pop up." Frankie said sternly. Maura rested a hand on his shoulder to calm him down.
"Me? Look, I know We've had some rocks in our relationship but nothing I would put her in danger over." He said. Frankie stepped closer.
"You sure about that buddy? Because if my girlfriend rejected my proposal then told me she was pregnant and intended to raise the baby alone I would be pretty pissed." He said with anger in his voice. Maura pushed him back.
"You got it all wrong Frankie. I understood why she turned down my proposal. It was wrong of me to take her away from her family and I understood why she would want to do this alone. I'm away all the time and bringing the court into this would just be a hassle." He said.
"What was with all of the phone calls?" Frankie asked.
"I wanted to talk to her, to tell her I was sorry for throwing all of that weight of marriage and leaving on her. We haven't spoken in a few months." He said with sadness in his voice.
"You know, It's funny how you came home for leave and she goes missing 2 days later." Frankie said with anger still laced in his voice.
"Frankie, They put me on leave because they know about Jane. They wanted me to be home for the birth of our child. A lot of those men know how it feels to miss the birth of their child. They didn't want me to go through that too. Even if we aren't together anymore."
"Where were you last night?" Maura asked.
"I had dinner at my parents house with my family. I left around 3 after we finished bull-shitting and I went home." He said.
"We'll need to verify it." Maura said calmly.
"Sure." He said as he grabbed a pen and paper and wrote down everyone who was with him last night.
"We'll check this out. Don't go anywhere." Frankie said sternly. Casey nodded.
"Frankie, would you let me know when you have something?" Casey asked. Frankie sighed and nodded then walked away with Maura close by.
Back at HQ, Cavanaugh and Korsak were working on everyone who would possibly have taken Jane.
"Okay so we have Dominick, The man who was so fond of Jane that he kidnapped her and pretended she was his wife. He's got 15 to life. He couldn't have done it." Korsak said. He closed the file and moved onto the next one.
"We have the 2 dumb asses who tried to sue her for her apartment. They are facing 30 years. They couldn't have done it." Cavanaugh said. "Put Hoyt's name though every data base. See if anything pops up that we haven't seen." He said. Korsak typed the name in and went though every database. Just then Maura and Frankie walked back into the squad room.
"Any luck?" Korsak asked without taking his eyes off of the computer screen.
"He has an alibi." Frankie said as he sat down at his sister's desk and began to check out his alibi.
"The blood we found was around 6 hours old determined by how dry the pool was which would suggest that the attack happened between 2 and 3 am. So if Casey's alibi checks out he couldn't have done it. I checked the blood and it came back as a male's blood. So it can't be Jane's." Maura said. Frankie slammed the phone down in frustration.
"His alibi checks out. He was at his parent's house until 3 when his sister drove him home because he was drunk. He didn't do it." Frankie sighed.
"Well, we are back to square one." Cavanaugh said. Just then a beep came from Korsak's computer. His eyes widened as he read the information.
"Wait. Back in 1992 Charles Hoyt signed a birth certificate in New York for a one Daniel McAllister." Korsak said.
"He delivered a baby?" Frankie asked.
"No, he signed under Father." He said. Everyone was shocked.
"So Hoyt has a kid? Poor kid." Frankie said.
"It says here that between 1990 and 1993 Hoyt lived in Staten Island, NY. I have the address here." Korsak said.
"Do you think that the mother and child still live there?" Cavanaugh asked.
"I searched the last name and only one came up living in Staten Island currently. It's worth a shot." Korsak said.
"Okay, You take Frankie and speed down to New York and find this kid and fast! Maura go back to Jane's apartment and see if you find anything unusual with the house, besides that it was completely destroyed." Everyone nodded and hurried to get their jobs done.
Okay guys. here it is! I know I'm jumping into conclusions fast but I'm not a big fan of writing long stories. I just don't want to get bored. I'll have Chapter 4 up when I come back from vacation Wednesday. See ya on the flipside guys! -J.A.