Natalia yawned and leaned on her desk in her apartment, tapping a pen on the desk while searching for any information she could get on the murder. She went through the tapes on her computer and found next to nothing on it. Maybe she just needed to sleep on it, recall something that could have been important in a dream. She sighed and sank back in her chair. "Why do I feel like I can open up to these people?"

She leaned back and turned up the classical music that was playing. She looked at the clock on the wall and closed her eyes. "God, I have to go to work in two hours." She stated, her voice slipping from monotone, to an almost normal tone. She rubbed her eyes and plopped down on her bed closing her tired eyes.

Something started buzzing and she looked at her clock. "Ah, damn it. It's already been two hours." She got up, took a shower, and slipped into a navy knee-high dress that hugged her small frame and put a jacket on over the dress. She slipped on some black flats with a bow on the front, grabbed her bag and printed some notes out as she got herself some coffee from a pot in the kitchen.

She hurriedly grabbed the notes and knocked on the door of the spare bedroom. "Joseph, get up, time for you to get ready for school." She heard a groan. "5…4…3…"

"I'm up, I'm up," A husky groggy voice said from inside.

"Alright," She said her monotone returning.

"You really have to stop using the monotone," Joseph stated, opening the door and staring at Natalia. "It really creeps me, and other people out."

"Just get ready, and if I hear you are late again, you're going back there," Natalia called as she grabbed her coffee and left.

-o-o-

"We should interview friends, family, teacher, anyone we can…" Natalia stated, holding up a big stack of papers and a cup of coffee as she talked to Ria.

"Thank you," Cal stated walking by and taking Natalia's coffee.

"Hey! I only got two hours of sleep last night, give my coffee back," Natalia stated, going after Cal.

"Why did you only get two hours?" Cal asked, taking a sip out of the cup. Natalia's eyebrow twitched and she dropped her monotone and spoke quietly.

"Collecting evidence, I have a list of people who hated Mara and the other girl Claire, mostly boys who couldn't get into their…" Natalia coughed slightly. "Panties. Also, they were both the top in their classes, no criminal record, both go to church; I don't see how someone would want to murder them."

"You take all of your cases this seriously?" Cal stated, taking another sip. Natalia looked to the side toward her office.

"No," Natalia responded and took a couple sheets of paper off the top of her stack and handed it to Cal, then took her coffee back as he looked over it. "Thank you."

"Oi, next time add some more cream and sugar," Cal called after her as she walked into her office and closed the door. She placed all of her things on the desk and made her way to the lab.

"Have any new people we need to interview?" Natalia asked Ria as she walked in.

"Uh, yeah, Lightman just gave me this list…" Ria stated looking over at Natalia.

"Huh, I wonder who had time to do that…" Natalia stated, not wanting to take credit for the work she did.

"Yeah, we both know it wasn't Lightman," Ria said, laughing slightly and looking through the list.

"We are going to need to go back to the school and interview the students…" Natalia stated, pulling her keys out of her pocket. "I'll drive."

"Okay," Ria smiled slightly, standing up and following Natalia.

-o-o-

"So, what you're saying is that both girls were homophobes?" Ria asked the boy sitting in front of her.

"Both of them? Would you know of anyone who would murder them because of it?" Natalia asked the boy, who nodded his head and looked behind him, then lowered his voice and stated:

"His name is Nate. He's gay if you didn't already catch what I was saying. But he has access to the whole school 'cause he is part of the student council or something," The boy looked at the two women who nodded.

"That you for your time Gabe," Ria smiled as the boy walked out. "Well Natalia, we have to find ourselves a Nate."

"Yes, yes we do." Natalia responded; fixing her white colored hair that was in a bun. The two women stood and left the room to have a visit with the principal.

-o-o-

"Why did you kill them?" Ria asked. The boy frowned, confused.

"Kill them? Why would I do that?" Nate asked, his eyebrows knitting together.

"Look Nate, we know that you are gay, and that those girls were homophobes. Were they making-" A cell phone buzzing interrupted the interrogation. Natalia took out her phone and smiled lightly, her eyes widening as she looked at the screen.

"I have to take this," Natalia stated. "You can continue." Natalia walked to the other side of the room away from the conversation. She answered her phone.

"Is something wrong, you usually don't call me during school hours," Natalia asked, her tone rising slightly.

"Its fine, Nat, its just…" Joseph trailed off.

"It's just what, Joseph?" Natalia asked, swallowing.

"That case that you are working on, with that murder of those girls… well… the same thing happened at my school…" Joseph stated, cautiously. Joseph could hear his sister's breathe catch in her throat. He knew that she was scared, for his safety. That's why she was taking care of him, because his dad couldn't.

"You know where the Lightman Group is right?" Natalia stated quickly.

"Yeah, its just down the block-" He was cut off by his sister.

"Go their now and say you need to talk to Dr. Lightman, tell him you're my brother and whatever you know. Go now, okay?" Natalia stated. Joseph nodded, but realized his sister couldn't see him do that.

"Okay, Nat," Joseph stated, ending the call.

Natalia turned to Ria, her face flushed of what little color it had. "R-Ria…"

"Yes?" Both she and Nate looked over to the very pale woman.

"Another murder…" She swallowed. "At my brother's school."

-o-o-

DUN…Dun…dun…. Well, I hope you liked this! Joseph is about a year older than Emily is. Just a fact if you were wondering. ANYWAYS, review please. I tend to go faster with encouragement! Bye!