"Wake up, sleepy heads."

Andrew shouted as he placed the last set of dishes on the table. Upon hearing no reply, he started shouting again.

"If you two don't wake up now, you are not getting anything for breakfast nor lunch."

He sighed and started walking towards the bedroom door. When he opened the door, he saw Alexander talking with someone on the phone.

"Yes, we will be there in 20 minutes."

Alexander said and hung up the call. Andrew was surprised to see him awake would be an understatement. Out of the three friends, he was the one who usually wake up late.

"Sebastian, Sebastian, SEBASTIAN!"

Alexander called the still sleeping person.

"What?"

Sebastian asked to which he replied, "Wake up, we have a case."

"No wonder you are up early," Andrew mockingly said.

The car stopped in front of the river that goes by the name Beaver where the body was being found. Alexander got out of the car, followed by the two other boys.

"Tell us something about this masterpiece, David."

Alexander said to his assistant when he saw Andrew bending down, clearly excited to work on the body that lay motionless in front of him. Bringing his little tool box out of his pocket, he began to examine. While Sebastian went to take a look around the place, David opened his mouth.

"Um, it was Xia Yao who found this body, he said that he came here in the morning to- something along the lines of a bath or catch fish when he saw the body floating on the water."

"Bath in this freezing water on a cold December morning? I don't know that for sure but what I know is that guy surely would never try to come near a river again. Think he would be traumatized, huh?"

Alexander replied, a hint of teasing clearly visible in his voice.

"Why don't you ask him that yourself if you are that interested. Maybe help him as well to get over it while you are at it."

Sebastian mockingly said as he returned from his short trip, two plastic bags and some photographs in his hand. He gave those bags and photographs to David as Alexander continued to ask a few more questions.

"What about this body, anything about it?"

"This 'it' is a girl, have some respect for the dead."

Andrew suddenly said but it seemed as if no one paid attention to him.

"Unfortunately no, sir. The team is still trying to find out and I don't think-"

"What do you mean by, 'still trying?' What happened to 'being the first group in finding information about someone?'"

Alexander cut off David with yet another question.

"Well sir, if you are lazy and don't even step your holy feet in the station. Plus the fact that you do not work nor make your presence visible except for few occasions, it is likely that your disciples are gonna follow your lead and do the same."

Sam, the other officer came for the rescue, a smirk evident on her seeing the annoyed - speechless expression on her senior's face.

"Whatever you are gonna say, stop. David, can you ask someone to send this body to my lab? And please see that no more damage happens. Sam, please inform others no more holidays, it's time to get back to work."

Andrew completed his little speech and got up. Seeing everyone nod their head, he muttered a "let's go" as he made his way towards the car along with Sebastian and Alexander while the other two went to complete their own tasks.

"Did you find anything?"

Alexander said as he and Sebastian barged into the lab without even knocking.

"Manners, ever heard of that term?"

Andrew said, removing his glasses and gloves, while he continued.

"Anyways, yes, I found a few things. Like, this girl was being eaten by dogs is only a cover-"

"I think we already established that fact when we saw- one, the body floating; two, the words written on the right hand; three, the blood stains that meant she was being dragged."

Sebastian interrupted him but stopped when he noticed the glares that were being thrown at him by a certain not-so-pleased looking man.

"As I was saying, it is clearly a cover but you will be surprised to know, there are no other marks in her body except the bites and the words mark. Not even an injection mark and that could mean two possible things. One, the killer gave the girl pills to make her unconscious before writing and feeding her to dogs or, she became unconscious during the process and ultimately died. However, I low-key think it is the latter one. Oh, and her age seems to be around 18 to 22 years."

"How rude."

Alexander commented, before asking Sebastian if he found anything.

"According to these photographs, she was brought to that river." Placing two pictures side by side, one that showed blood on the ground and the other plain ground, he carried on. "Look here, in the first picture there is blood clearly visible on the ground. And before you say it, I have got it checked by Angie, the blood is of this body laying here. In the other picture, there is no blood and the difference between these two places is just a few- but you know what, judging by the expressions, I can tell you already know that. The killer is smart I must say, left no evidence of car tyres or anything except for this blood. Your turn now, who is this?"

"Yeah, about that-"

Alexander started but was cut off by a knock on the door. A female officer came in upon permission and handed Alexander a file. Opening the file, he started.

"Okay, let's see. Her name is Emily Hudson, she is 20 years old. Her father died in a car accident and her mother died when she was born. She lived with her aunts, Lily Hudson and Ria Hudson. Apparently, she was also reported missing three days ago. And- well that's it. Call these two ladies, will you? We got some interrogation to do."

He said handing the file back to the officer who, at the order, took her leave.

"Come on, we are yet to have lunch, let's go."

Sebastian said as he started making his way towards the door, along with Alexander and Andrew.

"What was written on the hand again?"

Alexander asked as he saw Andrew finding the key to lock the lab's door.

"Game on."

Andrew replied as he successfully locked the door.