Note: hey guys, back with another story. It's finished and will be posted every other day. A massive thanks to wenwalke, she is the beta queen and I'd be lost without her, especially for title ideas.

Disclaimer: I do not own H50 or make any money from this. No copy right infringement intended. Just doing it for the love of whump.

Chapter One

Steve and Danny pulled up outside the house that contained their latest crime scene. HPD were already on scene, so they entered the house. Inside the living room they found Max knelt next to the body of a young woman. The woman's shirt was stained red from her own blood, and the cause of death was glaringly obvious, thanks to the knife sticking out of her chest.

"Afternoon, Max." Steve greeted the medical examiner.

"Afternoon, Commander, Detective." Max said standing to greet them. "I have only just arrived so have only had time to do a preliminary assessment, but I'm going to go with cause of death being a stab wound to the chest."

"Ya think?" Danny snorted pointing to the knife left sticking out of the woman's chest.

"I will know more once I get the body back to the lab and perform a full autopsy, but I expect it to show the knife hit the heart and cause almost instant death." The medical examiner replied oblivious to Danny's sarcasm.

"Thanks, Max." Steve said, "Do we have an I.D?"

"Yes, a Miss. Laura Shift. She resides here with two housemates, one of which is in the bedroom with an HPD officer. She appeared rather upset."

"Well that's to be expected, Max, her roommate is dead." Danny replied, "I'll go talk to her."

"Sure." Steve nodded then continued to take in the rest of the scene. There was a chair tipped over, and a smashed vase with flowers scattered across the floor. Walking into the kitchen the floor was covered with smashed plates and the remains of someone's lunch was splattered across the wall, the bowl it had once belonged to lay at the base, smashed to smithereens. "Looks like someone was really angry, CSU will need to process this whole area." He ordered the young HPD officer that was standing guard.

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Danny entered the bedroom and found a female HPD officer sat with a young brunette. Tears stained the young woman's face which was as white as the sheets on the bed she sat on. Her top was stained with blood where she had wiped her hands clean.

"Detective Williams." The HPD officer said rising to her feet as he entered the room and introducing herself, "Officer Jenkins. This is Miss. Alexandra Shift, sister to the deceased. She was present at the time of the attack. It seems Laura and their housemate, Channing Scott, got into a fight and Channing stabbed Laura."

"Thanks," Danny said nodding to the officer and then moving to the distraught young woman's side. "Miss. Shift, my name is Detective Williams I'm with 5-0. I'm so sorry for your loss. I appreciate how upset you are right now but I need to ask you some questions. Would that be ok?"

Alexandra wiped a hand across her face and nodded, "it all happened so fast." She whimpered. "Channing came home and saw Laura with the flowers. For some reason Channing has had a crazy idea that Laura has been seeing her ex boyfriend. She hasn't though, she wouldn't do that. Channing saw the flowers and wrongly assumed they were from him, they weren't. I bought them. I wanted to cheer her up, because of all the tension. We had asked Channing to find somewhere else to live, she has changed recently. We haven't found any proof but we think she has been taking drugs."

"What happened when Channing saw the flowers?" Danny gently asked.

"Channing started to scream at Laura, accusing her of seeing Jake."

"The ex boyfriend?" Danny confirmed and Alexandra nodded.

"Laura told her she was being stupid, that they were from me, but Channing wouldn't listen, she picked up a plate from the dish rack at threw it at Laura. I was making soup for us both, for lunch, and tried to get Channing to calm down. But she threw one of the bowls of hot soup at me. She just went mad and started throwing all the plates around. Laura just picked up the flowers and marched into the living room. She is...was so good at not letting people get to her." Alexandra continued doing her best to not break down.

"You're doing really well Miss. Shift." Danny said softly.

"Alex, please." She replied with a sniff.

"Ok, Alex. You are doing really well. What happened once Laura went into the living room?

"Channing grabbed the knife, she looked crazy, her eyes were massive and she was red in the face. She ran after Laura, and as Laura turned around, she...she..."

"It's ok." Danny said placing his hand on her shoulder. "I get the picture. What happened after?"

"I think she realised what she had done. She just ran out of the house. I ran to Laura. I tried to get help. To help her. I knew I shouldn't pull the knife out, but...but..."

"Her injuries were too severe. Alex, you couldn't have done anything to save your sister. We're almost done here, I just need to ask. Is there anywhere you can think of that Channing might go to? Someone close? The ex boyfriend?"

"She might have gone to Jakes' but I don't think he would help her. He broke up with her because of her behaviour."

"What about family?"

"Her parents are dead. They died in a car accident when she was little. The only family she has is her grandmother, Mrs. Lomax. She raised Channing. She lived with her up until moving in with us. We met at college and we wanted someone to help with the bills, and at first she was nice... But then..." Alex broke down in tears.

"Thank you Alex. I appreciate how hard this has been. Officer Jenkins is going to take you down to the station. We will need a formal statement. She will also help you contact anyone that needs to know. I promise you we will do everything within our power to track down Channing and bring her to justice for your sister's death."

"Thank you." Alex said through tearstained eyes and Danny left the room, receiving a nod from Officer Jenkins in confirmation that she would take care of their witness.

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Danny re entered the living area and found Max ready to remove the body. Chin and Kono had arrived and were talking to Steve.

"Hey guys." Danny acknowledged joining them, "I just spoke with the deceases sister. She witnessed the whole thing. Our murderer is a Channing Scott. The girls got into an argument and Channing stabbed Laura. It sounds like she may have been high on drugs. The sisters had suspected she had started using but hadn't found any evidence. There has been tension between them all for a while."

"Well at least we know who did it." Kono stated.

"Sure, we'll inform HPD. They can put a BOLO out for her. They don't need us, they can handle this." Steve explained.

"I thought we could help look for her, it's been a slow week for us. I'm sick of paperwork, especially after all the trouble you caused last week. We could help HPD out. I promised the sister we would find her and bring her to justice." Danny explained.

Steve rolled his eyes, he was never gonna here the end of his slip up last week, and he was still waiting for the Governor to get the budget report for the damage he caused. "Fine, ok. Did she have any idea where Channing might have gone?"

Danny smiled, "she did. There is an ex boyfriend but I think he is less likely. The most likely place she would go to is her Grandmother's; she was raised by the woman."

"Ok, you two stay here and work the scene. Get a dog squad in to go over the house, especially Channing's room. See if we can find any truth to the drug story." Steve ordered Chin and Kono. "Danny and I will go speak with the grandmother."

TBC