by eburburan

Created on: June 23, 2009   Last Updated: June 25, 2009

Murder In Room 262

Chapter 2

Beams of sunlight pierced the separations between shut curtains. The apartment complex overlooking the now nearly iced over Potomac River, began to bustle with the usual morning activity. Sounds of workers dashing to their rendezvous with daily routines intermixed with the quiet hum of elevators.

Silence however reigned in tiny apartment 12E, its lone resident recuperating from the previous evening's social rigors of Georgetown's buoyant nightlife. A young woman in her late twenties, Alex quickly became swept away by the hard partying lifestyle of the DC social scene. With her favorite watering hole, "Mr. Smith's, " two short blocks away; she was a well known regular patron of that old and highly respected establishment. This was in spite of her being a recent arrival in the nation's capitol. Having assumed the rigorous investigative duties of working for the FBI just fifteen months prior, she felt it also important for the purpose of maintaining her sanity to awash herself equally in the raucous DC party scene.

The tiny one bedroom apartment was both expensive, given its centralized location, and sparsely furnished with only the bare necessaries; a consequence of Alex's modest government salary. The sweeping vistas of the Potomac, viewed from her abode, were well worth the steep price. The western corner exposure allowed her to gaze upon the beautiful foothills of the Appalachian Mountains during the day and the lights of Northern Virginia at night.

Regarded by members of the opposite sex as extremely attractive, the tall and slender red haired Alex had no shortage of eligible and ineligible suitors. Her daily after work exercise routines at the FBI's expansive gymnasium facilities were looked forward all too eagerly by her male co-workers. At this point in her life while she appreciated the male attention, Alex chose to carefully sidestep involvement in any romantic entanglements. She viewed such relationships as draining upon her burgeoning career which was rapidly moving in the right direction with two promotions in the past year.

Outside her apartment complex the noise level suddenly elevated as an out of control vehicle crashed into a utility pole less than a block away. The sound of emergency vehicles responding to the scene caused Alex to slowly stir from what been a quiet slightly hung-over nocturnal bliss. Instinctively attempting to block out the commotion Alex rolled over into the fetal position draping her

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