1Chapter1- Cait

It was an ordinary day in San Francisco, Adrian Monk was waiting for his assistant, Natalie Teeger, and her daughter Julie. They were going to head down to the police station. Apparently Captain Leland Stottlemeyer had some big news for them.

Natalie finally arrived with Julie, so Natalie drove them down to the police station. They walked over to the Captain's office. Randy Disher was there waiting.

"Hey, you guys, the Captain will be up in a sec, just verifying some paperwork." Randy informed them.

"Thanks Randy," said Natalie, "so can you give us the scoop on this big case that the captain was telling us about."

"What are you talking about Natalie?" Asked Randy, "There's no big-oh, I guess I should wait for the Captain to explain."

"Explain what," asked Julie.

The Captain entered, "Hello Monk, right let's get down to business. You remember Trudy's sister Anne right?"

"Of course, the woman hated me never allowed me over her house!" Said Monk, "Why?"

The captain sighed, "Well she didn't hate you, there was a much bigger reason that she never allowed you over her house, please take a seat."

Monk sat down in one of the chairs in Stottlemeyer's office, and looked up at Stottlemeyer waiting for the explanation.

"Monk, do you remember when Trudy left for a big, important report, that lasted almost a year?" Leland asked.

"Yeah," said Monk, "What does that have to do with anything?"

"Well," said the Captain, " there is no easy way to put this but, Trudy, has a daughter Monk, and you're the father."

"What," said Monk, "that's impossible, Leland, Trudy would've told me!"

"Apparently she didn't think that the two of you would make good parents so she left your daughter to her sister Anne." Leland explained.

"How did you find this out?" Monk asked appalled.

"She's here Monk," said Leland, "Your daughter showed up a week ago and said that she wanted to find her father Adrian Monk, we went through paperwork and everything and her story checks out Anne admitted to the entire thing, and your daughter wants to meet you."

"How old is she?" asked Monk.

"I don't know Monk, she's a teenager, why don't you ask her yourself, she'll be coming in a few minutes." Stottlemeyer explained.

"How is this possible," asked Monk, "How could this have happened, how come she didn't tell me?"

"Look Monk, from the conversations I've had with your daughter, she seems to be a very nice kid, and I think that you would benefit from meeting her." The Captain explained.

"What is her name, what does she look like, is she clean?" Monk asked letting his brain overflow.

"Her name is Caitlin, when you meet her you'll see what she looks like, and her aunt says she's a neat freak, of course no to the extent that you are, but she's a very clean responsible person, and before you ask she has no criminal record." The Captain explained.

"Can I wait a little while to meet her, Captain, this is a bit overwhelming, I mean a daughter, me? Are you sure?" Monk asked.

"I'm positive," Leland said, "and I think that meeting her now would be a good idea, Monk, she's been waiting her whole life to meet you."

"Captain," said Randy, "She's right outside."

"Let her in," said Stottlemeyer.

A teenage girl with short black hair, and blue eyes like Trudy's, she was short, and had the same profile as Trudy, however she looked a bit like Adrian.

"Monk, Meet, your daughter, Caitlin Monk." Stottlemeyer said.

"Cait," said the girl, "call me Cait."