All Gods Children – A Waking The Dead FanFiction

Rating - M will contain scenes of a sexual nature

Summary - Boyd/Grace and OC - Grace forms a bond with a young woman involved in the case they're working on. Will be pre season 4, but does not relate to any episodes so no spoilers

Disclaimer - I do not own any rights to waking the dead or it's characters.

Chapter One - Facts from the past

Pre scene

It was 2am, the young residents of Leighton Hall were in bed, but nearly all lay awake, listening to the cries and screams that filled the corridors and hallways of their home, cries and screams that could be heard all over the house, some of the youngsters hiding their heads beneath the covers trying to block out the blood curdling sounds, they all knew who it was that screamed for help from the depths of the house, but they were all too afraid to venture out of their bedrooms, too afraid that the next scream could be theirs, so they ignored them, no one knew what time the screaming stopped, only that eventually it did, and somewhere in a darkened room within the house, one of their number sat on a stone cold floor, the smell of blood in the air, the only noise now was that of a shovel digging in the grounds, no one dared to look out of a window, no one dared to open their eyes, most were simply frozen with fear, just like every other night.

Present Day

Dr Grace Foley stepped out of her car, the cold winters air hitting her as she did so, it was a dreary and dark October day, the derelict building in front of her had been vandalised several times over, but through the layers of spray paint you could see the grey stone building that once was Leighton Hall children's home. The home had been closed down around ten years ago and since that time the building had not been used. A voice suddenly brought grace to her senses

"Morning Grace, nice weekend?" It was Frankie, who as always was the first on the scene, she was suited and booted in her forensic overalls and gloves, face mask round her neck so it could be pulled up at any moment, depending on what they were to find in the gardens of Leighton Hall.

"Yeah not bad thanks, same old routine, what about yours"

"Oh you know me Grace, work, work and more work, I got this called in on Saturday morning"

"Really, what is it exactly"

"Remains of two babies, well two at the moment, it might be more yet, they're still searching"

"Babies? Any idea how long they've been there?"

"I'd say at least ten years, but nothing positive yet"

"What about the age, or cause of death"

"Again, nothing definite yet, but they look new born, as for cause of death, nothing obvious, I'll know more when I can get them back to the lab"

"Who found them"

"The Police, they have been investigating this place for a while, they had a tip off that something or someone was buried in the garden, they weren't expecting this though"

"I take it it's a child abuse investigation"

"Yeah, but I don't know who made the allegation, or who's been accused"

"It would never surprise me of this place"

"You know of it then"

"Yeah, it was known as a dumping ground" Just as Grace was about to elaborate her mobile started to ring, she looked at the display, "it's Boyd" she said before answering, the call was short and sweet, "He wants me to meet him back at the office"

"Well I may as well come with you, I'm done here, until they get the remains back to the lab, well unless they find more"

"Did you not bring your car"

"No Boyd brought me over from the the Lab, he was here first thing"

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Back in the office a short time later, the team congregate around the table to discuss the case

"Okay, Frankie, tell us what we've got" Boyd spoke first

"Okay, well all I can say at the moment, is that we have the remains of two babies, discovered in the garden of 16 Leighton Hill, they look to have been there longer than ten years, but that's just an estimate, there are no obvious signs of cause of death, so we won't know more until after the PM, I would estimate age to be new born, but again"

"We will know more after the PM" Boyd finished her sentence for her, and Frankie nodded her head and smiled as his hands animated what he was saying. "Okay, Mel, what can you tell us about no 16 Leighton Hill" He sipped from his coffee as he finished speaking

"Well, it's a large Victorian detached property, up until ten years ago, it was known as Leighton Hall, and was used by social services as a children's home, it housed around 14 children at anyone time, the house had been converted into mostly bedrooms" Mel pasted inside and out diagrams of Leighton Hall, on the glass screens.

"Well you lot have been busy this weekend" Grace commented as Mel finished speaking

"Ah but we saved the best for you Grace, what can you tell us about Leighton Hall" Boyd knew Grace had experience of social services, having worked as a psychologist within the service for a short space of time

"Well, it wasn't a nice place, it was known as a dumping ground for kids that had no chance of being fostered or adopted"

"What sort of kids fitted that criteria"

"Older kids, around 15 or 16 years old, kids with behavioural problems, kids with health problems, those from ethnic minority's, the list goes on really, too many troubled youngsters and no where near enough foster parents, Leighton was more known for housing older kids"

"Okay, Spence has a list of the last residents to be at the home before it was closed down, I was hoping you could get the files from social services, whilst he works on tracking down where they are now."

"Okay" Grace took the list from Spence, and headed to her office

Spence also pasted the list onto the screens, for all to see

Jessica Rudman - 13

Samantha Holland - 16

Clarinda Leachman - 15

Paula Jones - 16

Sandra Green – 15

Lisa Carp – 16

Joanne Taylor – 15

Philip Connelly – 15

Daniel Adams – 16

Miles Griffiths – 15

Marshall Griffiths – 15

Keith Johnson – 16

Joseph Patterson – 15

Ryan Knox - 16

After all had been given relevant tasks, the team dispersed, Boyd headed to Grace's office, "You okay" he asked as he sat on the chair on the opposite side of her desk

"Yeah I'm fine thanks, why?"

"It's Monday morning Grace, I'm just catching up, no ulterior motive"

"That'll be a first then"

"You're so bloody cynical"

"That's because I've worked with you for too long"

"Too long eh?"

"You know what I mean, Boyd. Did you actually want anything"

"Well now that you mention it, did you know any of the social workers at Leighton Hall"

"No, I never actually worked at the Hall, I did 2 months of cover working for the team that covered that area, child psychology isn't my speciality as you know, but I wasn't working at the time, the opportunity came up and I needed a job, I never really got involved with any major cases."

"So you don't have any contacts that you could call on for some insider information"

"No, sorry to disappoint you"

"Don't be sorry Grace, you disappoint me so well" he smiled as he walked out of her office

Spencer walked into Grace's office a while later "This has just arrived for you, it was sent by courier" He placed a large package on her desk and then turned and left

"Thanks Spence that's the files from social services I've been waiting for" Grace said as he left the office

Grace opened the package and took out the large selection of files, she sorted them into male and female files, and then started to go through them, writing a brief outline of each resident as she did so, just the basics, Name, age, reason for being in care and a brief background, the next time she looked at the clock it was 4.30pm, she gathered her papers and files together, and put them in her bag, grabbing her coat she headed out of her office, poking her head around Boyd's office door on her way

"I'm gonna finish this off at home, call me if you need anything" she closed the door before he had a chance to question her about her reason's for leaving the office early, it was totally out of character for her, and she half expected him to follow her out of the door, but he didn't, perhaps he realised what the date was, perhaps he remembered.

Boyd listened to Grace's words, she'd closed the door before he'd had a chance to say anything, he knew full well what today's date was, and why she was leaving early, he didn't know whether to mention it to her or not, in the end she left before he had time to respond.

Okay, this is my new fiction, hope you like it, I'm on a bit of a writing frenzy at the moment, so I won't neglect any of my other works, as always your reviews are greatly received and appreciated, this will be quite a long fic I am already up to chapter 17 pre-written. Thanks for taking the time to read