AN: Sorry, I was taking a day off from this story because being an associate teacher wore me out and a lot of planning for next week. You know, I am not looking forward to coming to work, but I love to see my students smile when they go into the classroom with their masks. Stay healthy and be safe!
Here is a new character appearing in this chapter. You will read thoroughly until it reveals a new character.
Enjoy it!
It doesn't make sense. I mean, I am the only biological child of this family. I grew up with those people in my whole life. I've never met this person before, but someone tells me that the doctor is my sister. I don't believe them either. I am going to find out who she is real.
There was a struggle in the greenhouse. Frost pointed his finger toward the soil; a big shoeprint printed that. Korsak and Jane followed a gaze of point until they looked at each other. Maura was amused by their actions but kept repeating a mantra in her head. Elizabeth was still outside, waiting for them to open up their discussion.
"I didn't see anything here, but I think I missed it while I was scouring for the evidence." Frost slumped his shoulders before looking at his partner. Jane gently patted his shoulder with a sad smile. Korsak exhaled out while he was waiting for something to drop a shoe on the floor.
"That's alright, Frost. We did all time. I almost missed the evidence by standing next to her. It happened in our case a few months ago, wait a minute!? It was you, Maur!" The honey blonde was unsure of her best friend's comment but finally understood her meanings.
"Oh, it was my mother's hit and run case." Maura nodded with a smile. Frost and Korsak looked at each other with giggles. Jane was speechless at the honey blonde doctor while shrugging with her shoulders. Korsak took a look in the greenhouse and questioned.
"Where did it go?" The detectives tried to get some attention on the shoeprints that were on the way. Korsak crouched and took a peek under the table in which the plants were in the potting boxes. Frost halted his steps and recognized the soil brand.
"Is it a match for our soil sample, Doc?" Maura gazed up to him and immediately glanced at the bag, which was half empty and tilted her head.
"Perhaps, but I would take a sample of that soil and bring it back to the lab. Again, I cannot confirm that it is a match to the soil. But it is possible to be matched."
"So, someone did all workaround in the greenhouse and heard two people coming from the roof access. They went to fight; then, someone left here immediately after it happened?" Jane thought it out before hearing Elizabeth's voice.
"No, Jane. It is impossible, I am afraid."
"How did you know if it is not?" Korsak sneered at the dark brunette woman in the leather trenchcoat. Frost sent Jane a warning gaze. The brunette detective rolled her eyes while whispered to her best friend.
"That's why I wanted them to be involved but not like this, Maur."
"I concur, Jay. Come see the shoeprint on the soil." The ladies left but abandoned Elizabeth, Frost, and Korsak in the greenhouse.
"Because something reeked in here. But it is not the flowers' fault. Oh, right. You have to find out about it later."
"Like what, Elizabeth?" Frost queried before raising his brows in the hairline. Elizabeth slowly looked at him for a second before glimpsing into Korsak's grey eyes. The men waited on her to say something. Maura scoured everywhere outside of the greenhouse, but it has vanished. Jane was frustrated with her count but wanted to listen to other's voices.
"Did you eat something, fishy? Or you go fishing? I can tell by the latter. It is a robust approach to this investigation. I believe that Jane told you that I was here on the other night, I assume?"
"Yes, she did. But it was not fair to have everything omitted from you to us. We've been active in this case for a few days since Nicholas Reed." Korsak explained with a nod. But he glared at her, and Elizabeth tilted her head. Frost made a little cough to avoid his shock at his friend. He never saw Korsak went chewing out on Elizabeth.
"To your perspective, I've been holding a truth from you, even Frost, am I correct?" She looked at the African-American man beside Korsak with her raising eyebrow. Frost smiled at his name, and it satisfied Elizabeth for correcting their name without assuming that the names went wrong by calling them.
"So? Jane told us everything about meeting you in the morgue, and it feared me most of the time that you trespassed into the building."
"Whoa! Hold on!" Jane heard Korsak yelling at Elizabeth and sent a look toward the dark brunette woman. Elizabeth held her hand up to her and shook her head.
"Let Korsak do it to me, not your fault. It's my fault. So, I apologize for omitting the evidence from you. But I can tell that the fishy odor still is sticking around in the greenhouse, and I can follow the scent if you like." Elizabeth nodded toward the greenhouse before looking at the detectives who were opening their jaw. Maura appeared beside Jane and looked at them with her disturbed face.
The honey-blonde doctor wanted the answers from Elizabeth but preferred to wait until everyone was gone so Maura could have privacy with Elizabeth in a one-on-one conversation. But her mind was keeping that mantra in the loop as Jane shook her shoulder to startle her. Maura slowly looked up at her best friend and gave her a sad smile.
"Maur, are you ok?"
"Yes, Jay. I am ready to leave. Are we done for now?"
"No, we have to stay here because Frost will collect the evidence. You come to help Elizabeth and me to find the footsteps or scent which she mentioned in the conversation. Korsak is staying with Frost until they return to the station and lead upon the case when we get back from our search."
"Ok." Maura nodded to her and continued trekking toward the greenhouse where it began to happen. Elizabeth observed the ladies in her keen eye and glanced at the men who were arguing about the situation between them and herself alone. She didn't care about the men but wanted to protect the ladies from the chaos she knew. It was her big concern about Maura because the honey-blonde woman was the biological daughter of Patrick Doyle.
Elizabeth slowly walked to be with the ladies on the search. She tilted her head and felt a cold wind against her. It was an alert to her. The dark brunette woman turned around to face the situation but was sure that someone watched them. Maura kept walking to the potting boxes at the end of the greenhouse. Jane was with her. Elizabeth low-growled, but Jane and Maura heard her until they reached the dark brunette woman.
"Elizabeth? What's wrong?" Maura questioned. The men ceased their argument when Jane yelped at them to be quiet. Elizabeth closed her eyes and waited.
"I feel a cold wind against me. I believe that someone is watching us. Jane, we have to hurry up before they catch us."
"Who?" The brunette detective unclasped her weapon out from her belt and sent the men to do it simultaneously. She hid Maura behind her to protect her. Elizabeth started to growl louder before walking out of the greenhouse. The detectives shifted to follow her, and Maura was petrified about what-if cases.
Elizabeth approached the stranger who was standing there behind the roof access door. Others went bewildering at the stage. It was a white man in the black t-shirt and khaki pants with leather oxford shoes. He looked rugged but neat on his appearance. The dark brunette woman waited until the voice was speaking.
"Hello, Élisabeth. It's been a long time since you disappeared on us. So, what happened to you?"
"Don't call me that name. It's only sharing with my close friends and family. You didn't deserve some dignity."
"Why didn't I? Did they know what you are, Élisabeth?" The man smirked before taking a look at Maura, who was behind the brunette detective.
"Don't!" Elizabeth growled. The man took his eyes off from Maura to the dark brunette woman and tilted his head.
"Oh, I like you, a feisty woman. Why do I should be looking at your friend? I don't guess, but I know that I am correct so, you are Maura Isles. But a Doyle, a biological daughter of Patrick Doyle. Well, when you come to visit him and please send him my regards."
"How did you know my father?" Maura demanded when she came around her best friend, but the detectives were still pointing their weapons at the man. Elizabeth knew that the guns were worthless because they were bulletproof. The man chuckled and indicated a point to Elizabeth's figure.
"Did Elizabeth tell you? I guess not. We were acquainted a long time ago before you were born. Oh, I remember that day when you were born and stayed beautiful when you grew up. But the same day, your father took you with him when he left me somewhere like trash." He scowled. Elizabeth stepped up closer and gave him a warning. Maura clasped her arm to calm down but keep staring at him. Jane slowly took a glance with the men before giving a stinky eye toward the man who faced them.
"Patrick is not my father anymore. I am an adopted daughter. I just met him a few years ago, and we didn't speak to each other after it happened." Maura stated. Elizabeth low-growled at herself and wanted to yell at the honey-blonde woman for telling everything about herself but sent a warning glare at Jane. The brunette detective got a note from her and walked upon to get Maura behind them. The man smirked at them and sent a look toward the dark brunette woman.
"Give my warmest wish to Patrick Doyle, Élisabeth." The detectives went bemused before looking at Elizabeth. Maura was shocked too. It was a perfect time when the man was vanishing from their sight. Others sought him but left with nothing. The honey blonde doctor slowly trekked to Elizabeth and gave a glare at her. Elizabeth was miserable at the situation where they would find the answers from herself and moved her head to look at Maura.
"What did he mention about my father?"
"I thought you said that he is not your father anymore. So, I don't have to tell you what's going on with your father. I think that you should see him soon. I guess that it is coming to the end that I predicted. I have to go." The dark brunette muttered before Jane reached her to stay with them.
"No, Elizabeth. You should go with us. I think it's time to tell us the truth."
"I agree with Jane. I mean, again. You are omitting everything that Maura should know." Frost shrugged with an explanation. Korsak nodded with him before glancing at the dark brunette woman. Elizabeth exhaled in the air and nodded to agree with them. They were relieved that she came to an agreement but wanted to make her tell everything right away, and it was not this time because they were still in the search.
"The smell is gone now. I suspect that the man who came here recently and wiped everything out. Now, I am smelling nothing. That's why I got you to hurry up, but we didn't have time to collect your evidence." Elizabeth twirled her hand toward the greenhouse. The men were grinning at them and got the bags out in their jackets to show them that they did collect everything. Jane slowly smirked at her partner and looked at Maura, who was in her world but sent herself a sigh.
They came back to the Boston Police Department by using the morgue doors. Elizabeth didn't detect herself out in the station but wanted to be in a subdued place for a while. Jane understood the secrecy that Elizabeth held for a long time because she could see the dark brunette debating in her head. Maura went into the office for a few minutes to reel everything from the crime scene. Korsak and Frost put the evidence away to the lab for more tests then came back in the morgue so they would have a full conversation.
Elizabeth leaned against the sink and waited on them. Jane held a finger up to them before going into the office to find Maura sitting quietly behind her desk. The honey-blonde doctor didn't notice her best friend entered the room, but her mind went spiraling with answers to the truth about her father. Jane slowly turned the desk chair around to face her on the eye contact.
"Maur, are you ok?"
"No. I don't understand how it is impossible that the man knows my father?"
"I don't know too. But, you have to come out and listen to what Elizabeth says about it, Maur."
"Jay, I don't want to listen to the truth from her. I want to see Patrick Doyle in person an,d we didn't see on eye contacts."
"Eye to Eye, Maur. Anyway, I need you to be with me, and the guys are still waiting for you."
"But."
"No buts. Come on, Maur!" Jane tugged her wrists to get up and led her shoulders away to the morgue room. The people in the morgue looked at the honey-blonde woman. Elizabeth was still in debate with her mind but watched the ladies coming in from the office. Jane sent Frost to close the blinds. Maura decorated the morgue windows to cover privacy so she could focus on her work on her solo. Korsak gave her a smile before looking at Elizabeth to resume the discussion.
"I am sure that you all wanted to know why I knew Patrick Doyle. I can't explain the situation about him but prefer to let you see him. Before you interrupt me, I want you three; Jane, Korsak, and Frost to check out in prison. Also, I prefer that you will ask a warden from the federal prison. I tell ya, he is not there anymore."
"What? We've put him in prison because of the case that pinpointed on him." Jane explained. Elizabeth nodded before continuing with her starting conversation.
" I'm aware of it, Jane. You have to find a warden for this specific reason. Then, you finish your investigation on Patrick Doyle, and I will take you there without any complaint from you."
"Korsak? What do you think?" The brunette detective looked at him. Frost looked down at his hands while listening to their conversation. The veteran cop gazed at his old partner before giving the nod. They quietly agreed, but Maura brought it up.
"I'm coming too."
"What, no! Maur, it's dangerous for you to come with us."
"Jane, let her be. I think that she need to witness what she sees in prison. I promise you, I have a friend who is in prison, and he is my guy to protect your people. He was done with his time but preferred to stay there until his death." Elizabeth held up her hand before nodding at Maura. The honey-blonde woman sent her a nod of thanks before glancing up at her best friend, who was still struggling until giving up her scolds.
"Fine, Maur. You stay with me all the way."
"Yes, Jay." Maura sent her a smile before waving her hand to go on." Elizabeth exhaled in the air. Korsak and Frost took a glance at each other before looking at the dark brunette woman with their curiosity.
"I am sure that you know this man, Gabriel Dean?"
"Yes." Jane was surprised as the guys did too.
"Gabriel was the one who put Patrick on the charges, but it was not Patrick's fault when it happened. You should go see him when you arrive in VA."
"Why? Dean is an FBI investigator, and he investigated the case of Patrick Doyle. He made me put Patrick in prison for the charges he did to the people in Boston."
"Well, you didn't see two sides of a person. Dean, what can I call him? An arrogant but yet thirst for the attention man. But in your words, Dean is a fucking asshole." Elizabeth shrugged before looking at the men. They stifled laughter but stayed in a straight face. Jane caught them by her glaring but let it go on.
"Jay, she is right. Why did you have him at your place?"
"Maur!" Jane was flustering at a statement. The men went eye-widening at her. Elizabeth hid a smirk. Maura rolled her eyes while sighing.
"Anyway, my point is that Dean didn't know that Patrick escaped without detecting his footsteps. I think that you should know about that. I won't explain everything until you witness yourself to see what happened to Patrick Doyle." Korsak and Jane looked at each other with a nod before Frost questioned everything.
"How did you know that Patrick escaped?"
"Frost, this time, it's coming in the clear as you asked me. Colin, come out." The man appeared from the morgue doors and strode to Elizabeth. Maura, Jane, Korsak, and Frost went jaw-slacking at sight. They saw him when they were in the case of Patrick Doyle and believed that Colin was dead. Also, Patrick Doyle was disguised as someone to see Maura at her work.
Colin was the dark blond man in his black turtleneck and black jeans with combat boots. He was pairing in a match with Elizabeth in their fashion styles. But his face was ashen like white paint over his face. Elizabeth glanced at her friend with a smile.
"I feel your sense when you came in. What are you doing, Colin?"
"I came to bring you a message. One of ours found the cameras which happened in the greenhouse. I think that we found him."
"Wait a minute, where did you find the cameras? I searched for it all night!?" Frost was in awe but pissed off. Colin stared at him and exhaled in the air.
"That's the place you missed. It was throwing in the dumpster bin between the restaurant and bookstore."
"Oh, you mean, the alley?" Jane issued away. Colin nodded at her before facing Elizabeth.
"Do you think that they need to know about something?"
"Colin, they wanted to know what happened to your father. But I can't omit everything else that we've been keeping the secrets for so long. It's time to let them come in and see what they need to understand our situation."
"It's your decision, Élisabeth." He looked at her with a smile. Elizabeth sent him a scolding look but smiled at it. Maura clasped her hand on the brunette detective and whispered.
"Jay, did you see what I saw?"
"Yes, I thought he was dead! We put the case to rest when it came to Patrick Doyle. It was years ago, Maur!"
Frost and Korsak heard the ladies' conversation with their nodding rapidly. Elizabeth and Colin looked at each other with their grins before Jane interrupted.
"How? I thought you are dead."
"Well, that one is another time to have this conversation in the future, Jane. This place is not a place to hear about this situation, which I am in with Élisabeth." Colin shook his head with a sad smile. Elizabeth sent them a sad face but went on with her words.
"Now, I promise you that Colin and I will get you when you are done with the prison. I better go with him and see what he saw on the cameras. Frost, I'm sorry that it cannot be in the evidence because it is too dangerous for you to hold it on. But, we will bring you to ours and see that you will be receiving the same dignity as ours."
Frost understood with a nod. Korsak tilted his head but looked at Maura and continued to question her.
"Doc, when did you see him for the last time? I mean, being alive?"
"I don't know him until he showed up on my table, Vince."
"No, I think Korsak meant, by the means, Patrick Doyle." Jane clarified Korsak's question, and he nodded to the subject. Maura realized the issue Korsak inquired.
"It happened when I came to visit him in prison and planned to ask him about my biological mother. But I got nothing from him. So, I decided to cut our bows."
"TIes, Maur. Cut our ties." Jane was still resentful at the idioms but lines too. Maura waved her hand at her best friend but continued to stare at her half-brother.
Korsak nodded at her answer. Colin was still in the debate on how to greet his half-sister that he barely knew in his whole life since he was gone. Elizabeth cleared her throat by processing the conversation. Others came to pay attention to their depth of discussion.
"So, I'll be back in two days. Colin will keep me updated when I am gone. So, he will be around. You know he will be there in a second. I promise you. He is a safe option to stay near and also on my demands too. He obeys my rules. If you act recklessly in VA, I will give a message to my boss. So be it." Elizabeth nodded to her friend. The detectives and Maura were in their thoughts as they processed about seeing Colin in the flesh. But they didn't see them leaving in a second and questioned in their mind to be discreet.
Colin and Elizabeth disappeared in a second as they realized that they were gone already. Korsak and Frost looked at each other and knew that they had a lot of doing before they depart for the prison in VA to see Patrick Doyle in the flesh. For Korsak, he had to come to see Lieutenant Cavanaugh at his office. Frost went on surfing to get the plane tickets for all of them to go together. It left the ladies alone in the morgue and absorbed everything in words from Elizabeth's mouth, but their eyes tricked them when they saw Colin.
It's arriving at this time.' Someone whispered Maura's ear. It startled her. She looked around in the morgue, except the two of them were still standing beside each other. Maura was perplexed at the whisper but felt a cold wind. She quickly clasped her hand on Jane's arm until it was tightly wrapped.
"Maur, it is hurting."
"Sorry. I think someone is watching us. Elizabeth mentioned that she felt a cold wind. So, I felt it too. Did you, Jay?"
"No, I don't feel it. So, you felt it?"
"Yes, Jay. I think that the whispering in my ear that stated, 'It's arriving at this time.' I don't know what it means." The honey-blonde woman stared at her best friend with her confusion on the statement that she heard. But Jane exhaled in the air before looking up at the window. She saw a woman who was staring at them. It shook up Jane and Maura heard a gasp from her best friend.
"Jay, what's wrong?"
"It is that woman who kept staring at us. It's from your window over there!" Maura was perplexed before turning around to face the window. The woman was not there anymore. Jane stuttered some words with a loud gesture toward the window. The honey-blonde woman was uncertain that Jane saw someone out there, but it confirmed her suspicions that she felt a cold wind. It was a woman who caused the cold wind to caress Maura's body.
AN: I changed my posting schedule. I told you that I would post a chapter every week, but I decided to change it to Saturdays only - early morning to post a section. So, I am sending my apologies, but best wishes to y'all for being a teacher to your students this year, And we pray for better health and stay safe.