Blood Rose

Disclamer//I own them..and my little maid up town

PLEASE I really need reviews Im putting this part up in hopes of them, because this will be the last part I place untill I get a few..it would be pointless any other way..and jsut so you know the NC-17 is in one of the later parts



Chapter 4

Luke had just arrived at his office door when suddenly he heard his name screeched across the room, turing his brows creaed together and he stook a deep breath as the Sarge came storming over to him.Luke had a pretty good idea what he was upset about, it was teh case Luke was willing to bet his badge on it.When Sargent Adama reached him he simply pointed to the inside of the office and waited for Luke to walk in before slamming the door and going off on him

"What the hell do you think your doing bothering patients at Jenkins, have you lost your mind, I believe your supposed to be working on your case, or ahve you forgotten we have four bodys and who knows when anotehr one could show up"

"Sir I.."

"I dont want to hear it Pon, on, your lucky I dont ahve your head for this, They called over and complained it seems to put a poor girl into shock"By this time Adamas face had begun to turn an odd shade of purple and Luke was counting to ten in his head to keep from yelling back after a deep breath Luke spoke

"I was working on the case, and if you d ahd ahve let me explaine, you would know I was talking to the only witness we have"

"What witness"

"A young woman by the name of Alexandra Kane, shes the only person to see this man and live threw it"Luke was having a hard time fighting back the smirk on his face, but Sarges next words made sure it didnt show up

"And what did she tell you"

"Ah...well you see thats the bad thing, she umm doesnt talk"Luke watched the look on Adamas face and quickly went on before he could yell again "Not that she cant she jsut doesnt, the shock of the whole thing, but trust me I know she saw him, I showed her a red rose and she nrealy broke my eardrums"

"So you think she'll be of help"

"When I get her to talk"

"You mean if you get her to talk

"When"

"Fine, but next time I want you to take TJ with you"

"I cant do that sir" Adamas face had gone purple again

"And why the hell not Pearson"

"Well after today its going to be hard enough to get her to sit still for me throw in another person and it will never happen, its best to leave me to it"

"Fine, but for now I want you to go home and sleep you look like hell boy Im amazed she didnt scream at the sight of you"

Luke forced a smile and nodded his head, there was no point in trying to fight that as well, he was lucky TJ wasnt going to be with him the next time he saw Lexa.He had told the truth when he said she wouldnt react well to him but he also didnt want anyone around with a Yes Sir Luke walked back out of his office and out of the building a wal walked threw teh rain to his car he started to think over his case, it had been the reason he looked like hell.It was eating away at him to know that as of right now he had no way to catch the bastered doing this he could hope he got sloppy but he knew it wouldnt happen he was to good for something like that.Luke had almost made it to his car when he saw a newspaper machine and inside it the bold headline asking if Ashtonville Police were really trying.Luke really did hate reporters they only made things worse.Once inside the car Luke put his key in and turned it at the hum of the vehicle he looked over his shoulder and backed out.Driving down the street he couldnt help but notice the people around him.The happy couples, hell he hadnt had a serious relationship well ever, never saw a need for one, but it did depress him at certain times of the year and seeing how Christmas was coming up soon he was in one of his moods.Taking a left he pulled into his parking spot and climbed out of the car and the stairs to his flat, he'd never thought very much of it but after seeing what Lexa was in he was quite happy with his two bedroom, two bath, home. The living room was a good size and so was the kitchen and it should have been for what he was paying, tossing his coat onto a nerby chair he walked staright to the fridge and started to look around for something to eat, it was only four o'clock in the afternoon and he wasnt used to be home this early, finding leftover spagetti he walked into the living room and plopped down on the couch before picking up the remote and turing on the TV, he groaned when the news popped on and they were covering what the had deemed the Romeo Murders, with a curse as they bashed his detective work he changed the channel and tossed aside the remote when a baseball game came on.When he looked down at his dinner his mind got sidetracked by the red sauce and soon he was thinking of Lexa again

"This is not good, not good at all"

With a sigh he tossed aside his food and stood up, with a strech he kicked off his shoes adn went to take of his belt when he noticed the state he had put himself into

"Wonderfull, just what I needed for a better day"

Shoving down his pants and waering only his boxers, Luke walked into his room and staright into the bathroom were he turned on the shower, and put it as cold as it would go.After he lost the boxers he stepped into the water and tried to get his thoughts under control

Suzy, what she said her name was, wasnt a very bright girl infact she was rather ditzy and her bubbly voice was starting to get on his nerves, he had told her his name was Stephen, a lie of course like he would use his real name.For teh fun of it he had also died his dark black hair a blond and got himself some facial hair. He really didnt look that bad but after she was gone he didnt plan on looking like this ever again. Only moments after he had introduced himself to Suzy in the bar she had started chatting away, and while that did make his job easyer he wanted her to be finshed as soon as possible she was gving him a horrible migrain, it turned out she had been a part of the Omega Destiny Gammas, a cheerleader, yes a natural redhead and she had giggled when he'd asked her how tall she was which turned out to be 5'7, and had all but invited him back to her house.of course he turned her down but he had gotten her number and promised to call her within the next couple days so they could go out together.She was so his. After kissing her on the cheek and excusing himself 'Stephen' had walked outside to where his car was parked.Suzy didnt know it but she had jsut uped her death by several days.Infact by the end of the week she would be gone after all Christmas was only three weeks away and he was hoping that the string of murders would flush Alexandra out and she could get ahold of her.He wouldnt kill her right away like he had been doing ot the others, sure he had been hacking them up but that was always after he'd killed them.Once behind the wheel he had turned on the radio and changed it so to AM hoping to catch something about the Romeo Murders, hmph there was nothing cute or romantic about them he would have to make sure Suzy was a little worse off then the rest so people would start to understand better.Hell he might even send that stupid rent-a-cop they had on the case a letter.He seemed to be lost, he might even mention Alexandra that woudl no doubt send him for a spin, yes thats what he would do as soon as he got home he'd right the letter and send, no he wouldnt right it he'd use a typewriter and he'd find a piece of paper from the ground mabey like a scrap off an old Dingos Dino Burgers bag, he'd have to get a new one though one without his prints on it but that woudlnt be to hard.Yes he had his plan all worked out it would be so much fun to send that damn cop for a loop and watch him try to scramble around and figure out what it all meant.Infact he'd even send the letter tonight



Luke woke up with a start he'd had another dream about the girls they'd found calling out for help only this time he had seen Lexa that was what had woken him.It was really starting to get out of control he didnt even know the woman yet he couldnt stop thinking about her, not to mention the fact that she was in Jenkins, true that it was only becuase she refused to talk and was a slight danger to herself.Rolling over Luke saw that it was only two in the moring and kicked back the bed sheet before standing up and walking over to his window, looking out over the city he let out a breath and walked out of his room, he needed something to drink anything to drink.Once he reached the kitchen he had went staright to his liquor cabnet above the sink when he noticed a piece of paper poking out from under his front door, arching an eyebrow he grabbed a napkin before walking over to it and bending over ot pick it up, returning to teh kitchen he set it down at the table before pulling out a chair and sitting himself, with the napkin he opened it and over the picture of Dingo the Dino was a message


Dear Detective,

It would seem to me that your having quite alot of trouble trying to find me, why I think you should mearly give up I have taken pity on you and decided to help you somewhat.I will tell you something and how you use it will depend if you ever get closer to finding me, but even if you were to find out its use it wouldnt really help, because even she cant find me, but Im rambling what I wrote this for was to tell you that all my fun centers on Alexandra the beauty I let ll tll those years ago, she was perfect and I rather enjoyed marking her as mine.If you were to find her which now shouldnt be to hard you'll know why I pick my victims as I do.Yes lovely Alexandra is the reason for it all.....Who knows mabey I'll write again soon

Lovingly Yours,
Romeo


Lukes anger had steadily grown as he read the letter but after reading him talk about marking her as hin Lun Luke was ready to kill she had only been eleven, and now to say all this was because he let her go, resisting the urge to crumple the letter, Luke picked up a plate sitting on the table and flung it across the room and against the far wall, not at all calmed down Luke stood knocking teh chair he'd been sitting on over as she stormed over to his phone not giving a damn about the time he called TJ first and then Adama, as he grabbed his coat as well as a plastic bag and after using teh napkin to put teh letter inside he stormed out of the flat and down to his car, as his car roared to life he peeled out of the parking lot and not caring about the rain flew down the street cursing the asshole the entire way

Chapter 5


"What he hell do you mean its most likly not real" Luke had been arguing with Adama for the last twenty minuets, and the Sarge wasnt ahppy about getting up at two-thrity in the morning "How the fuck can it not be real"

"Watch your mouth young man, why would he leave a note"

Luke had to stop from letting his mouth hang open, it was all right there in the letter.The man had said so himself becasue they had nothing else to go on.It was mearly to piss them off

"Your joking right, its right there.Hes taunting us because we have nothing, he doesnt even know I have already found Lexa"

"Well if shes so important then why doesnt he go to her himself, we dont know what he looks like"
causcause he doesnt know where she is, but hes hoping I'll take him there.He knows where I live and I can promise he will be paying attention to where I go.He wants her thats what all this is about.Those other woman are subs for her, and I'll be damned because you dont want to see whats right infront of you that he gets her"

"Boy I've..what the hell are you doing"

"Calling Jenkins.....Yes, hello. This is Detective Lukas Pearson I need you to ge tge the name one of your patients is under.....then give me to him...Sir yes thats right its a matter of safty and a police business...Miss Alexandra Kane...what to oh I dont know....make it something noremal like Smith, Jenna Smith...And no one on that staff is to refear to her as Lexa outside of her room understand....If someone shows up and asks for Alexandra tell them you have no one wuth that name there.Do you understand me...good"

"Have you lost your mind"

"I dont want to hear it. You ignore whats right there.im going to go home and go ver the case and I dont plan on coming in tomorrow if aing ing comes up have TJ call me"

With that Luke walked out of the room and outside, he didnt go staright to his car instead he started to walk around the streets thinking, He for the life of him couldnt understand why he was suddenly so protective of Lexa, hell he didnt even know the girl.With a groan he rubbed his temples and turned around to head back to his car, as he got to his door he looked back behind him at the buliding and sighed.He had no idea what to do and if he kept popping of at Sargent Adama like that he was going to get his ass hung.With a shake of his head Luke got into his car and drove back home, he didnt bother to turn on his radio it would only prove to make his migrain worse, what he needed was to go see Lexa again but there wasnt a chance she'd want to.While his thoughts drifted the drive home was rather short and in no time he was walking up the steps again.This time when he got home he didnt get foor or sit down to watch TV instead he sat down at the coffee table and jsut stared at the wall.If things didnt start to come together in this damn case he was going to drive himself insane and end up next door to Lexa

"Fuck"

With that Luke dropped his head and rested his chin on his forearms, seconds later he was asleep

Luke jumped up from his seat at the table and looked around for teh phone.He had no idea what time it was nor did he care.When he found it he put it to his ear and turned it on praying it wasnt TJ with bad news

"Hello"

"Afternoon Lukas"

Luke clentched his eyes closed and silently cursed, he would have taken almost anyone over his mother, dragging a hand down his face Luke glanced over at the wall clock and saw that it was eleven, he hated that number

"Mother, what can I do for you"

"I know that your busy and dont like these family things but do you think you could clear enough space to visit your family on Christmas eve for diner"

"You make it sound like I avoid family gatherings"

"Thats becasue you do Lukas"

"Im sure you've seen the news but I can..."

"Good, now how about a date"

"A what?"

"A date Lukas your not going to be coming alone again are you"

Luke sucked in a breath and as calmly as possible started to talk to his mother again "Mother, if I do come alone again it really shouldnt matter" Sometimes he really did want to kill her, ok bad choice of words

"I really hate to see you alone"

"I have another call Im going to have to let you go mother" With that Luke hung up on his mother and switched lines "Hello"

"Good day Detective"

"Right, can I ask who this is"

"Of course you can doesnt mean I'll tell you, but do let me tell you that this is coming from a payphone so theres no way to trace it"

"I asked who you

"Temper,temper Detective Pearson.I'll never tell you anything if you act like a small child, but if you must have a name then by all means call me Romeo"

"Bullshit"

"You do have a dirty mouth boy, but if you need proof then I guess I can tell you more about Alexandra. Would you like to know exactly what I did to her that night"

"Don't, what the hell do you want" Lukes hand gripped the phone and it took all his will power not to tell the man to blow himself and slam the phone down "I highly doubt this is a social call"

"That mouth of yours is going to get you into a lot of tourble one day, but I can over look it for now.I was bored and decided to inform you that within a couple days there will be another one for you.Oh that reminds me did you find my letter this morning"

"Yes"

"And what did you think of it, are you going to look for Alexandra"

"I take it you want me to find this..."Luke caught himself before he called her Lexa and gave her away "What was her name again"

"Alexandyou you need to pay attention..didnt you read my letter"

"I skimmed threw it some didnt pay much attention, its stil to early to think about it" Luke should know better then to egg on a killer but he couldnt help himself "Not to mention I thought it was a fake"

"I already offered you proof to that but you turned it down"

"Because you sound like a crackpot fan of the killers and I dont want to waste my time listening to your cock-an-bull story"

"I warned you that, that mouth of your would get you into trouble boy, so the next time you find a body I'll leave something just for you and tell Alexandra when I find her that this time when I take her I will make her scream like the little bitch she is"

With that Romeo slamed the phone down and Luke hung up his before leaning agasint the wall and sliding down it to sit on the floor,dropping his face into his hands he clenched his eyes shut, what the hell had he just done.What kind of dumbass egged of a killer.That sealed it he needed to go see Lexa again, and while Luke was driving to the Ward he tryed to ignore the part of him that was seeing Lexa for other reasons

Luke arrived at her room door about an hour later and tood a deep breath before knocking on it, he only knocked so that she knew someone was about to come in and when he stepped into the room, she instantly turned her back to him and stared into the corner, rolling his eyes Luke closed the door behind him and went to sit down on the far side of the bed.Turing to face Lexa he took a deep breath before talking

"Hey, how are you doing today......fine sit there like that I have nothing else to do today.Infact I dont have to leave here until my phone rings, and I promise it ringing will not be a good thing for either of us"

Lexa stayed staring at the corner, and Luke shurgged his shoulders it was going to be hard to get threw to her after the last time and he had known that, so leaning back he waited, and wait he really did.Infact he sat there so long not sa any anything that he drifted off to sleep, by that time Lexa was peeking over her shoulder to see what he was doing.When she saw that he was asleep she crawled over to where he was and looked at his profile.At first glance Lexa would have put him in his mid-thirtys but it was clear his job was taking a toll on him physicaly: the hair right above his ear had a small amount of grey in it, he had stress lines by his eyes and bags under his eyes.He looked so peacfull with his eyes closed and his head titled to the side, Lexa wanted so bad to reach out and touch him but she knew better then that.It would only prove to get her into trouble, so she just sat there next to him while he slept.When some time later she saw his fingers start to drum across his thigh she scurried back over to her corner and stared at it, when he didnt make any noise she peeked over her shoudler to find his eyes still closed but his fingers moving every couple seconds, when at last she saw his eyes start to crack open she turned her face back to the wall, She felt the bed move under his weight as he sat forward and streched

"Crap, what time is it" Lexa still didnt move but she guessed he was looking at his watch "Shit I planned on taking a nap but not a three hour one, Please dont tell me you sat there that entire time"

This time Lexa did turn and had an eyebrow cocked up at him

"Right bad choice of words but hey yo..." He was cut off by the ring of his cell phone and he grabbed it off the bed, flipping it open he put it to his ear "Speak to me TJ"

"Bad new boss"

"Tell me you didnt find another one"

"Ok we didnt find another one"

"Damn it" Luke was rubbing the bridge of his nose, Lexa noticed anytime he seemed upset he rubbed somthing, his nose, his temples,and she thought she had seen him use the heel of his palm one time to rub his eyes "Why do I get the idea that this is worse then the others"

"Dunno, but it is"

"Alright what do we got"

"Same as always btween 5'6 and 5'8, red hair, legs for days" Luke glanced over at Lexa, yup legs for days would figure"Green eyes and..."

"And what TJ"

"Well ummm you see this time he didnt just cut up her face" Slash was a better word for what he did " Her mouth well"

"Its well what TJ"

"Sewed shut

Lexa watched all the colour in Lukes face drain away at what ever TJ, whoever he was, said.Ever so slowly she inched her way over to him so that she was sitting next to him again.He ld crd crushed infact he almsot looked like he could cry, if he even knew how to do such a thing and Lexa felt as if her own heart would break.As Lexa looked at him she thought over what Luke had been saying on his end of the line, another one. Another what mabey she didnt want to know

"Did he leave anything else"

"The rose and wrote smartass in her blood beside her head"

"Oh shit..Do we have an" Luke paled even more and looked ready to colapse on the spot, and before Lexa could stop herself she'd reached out and cuped his chin with her hand, and Luke's head snapped over to face her "ID?"

Lexa went to pull her hand back and Luke in a flash had her wrist in his, he slowly shook his head no and then got back to the conversation

"Sorry I missed that what'd you say"

"I said her name was Suzy Sinclair age twenty-five"

"Where are you at" Lexa tried to tug her hand free and Luke tightned his grip "Is that a dog in the background"

"Yup we think its her's and were at Cynder Park very middle"

"Who found her"

"Jogger, female"

"Alright I'll be there as soon as I can, I have to finsh up here"

"Your still at the Ward, hell Boss its nine at night"

"I know that, and why do you insist on calling me boss we have the same job" Lexa tried to get her hand free again and failed she was now glaring at him and he tried to keep a straight face "Never mind we'll talk later, I have to go"

"Sure thing, boss"

With that Luke hung up the phone and turned his body to face Lexa's she was still trying to get her hand free, shaking his head Luke let her wrist go only to crush her agasint his chest, tight in his embrace Lexas eyes were big and her body was tense but she didnt seem to be afraid of him, like she had earlyer he cuped her chin is his large palm and smirked down into her face

"Now,mind telling me why you felt the need to hold my face"She only blinked at him "Damn it I know you can talk, theres nothing stopping you but yourself" Her eyes narrowed at him and her jaw set "What the hell are you afraid of he cant fucking touch you hear, just fucking say something Alexandra" Her whole body went ridged and she reeled back like he had struck her "Shit Lexa I didnt mean it, I" but she was already pushing agasint his chest trying to get free and he finally let go of her, rather then just go to the other end of the bed she all but flew off of it and sat in the far corner of the room, with a sigh he rose to his feet and silently walked to the door, reaching for the handle he opened the door and got ready to step out but before he did he gave one last parting remark "You know he wrote and called me Lexa, its you he wants and I cant help you if you wont let me" With that he walked out of the room and closed the door behind him