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Loving Mothers

Flashback:

1938

(This can't be love: Benny Goodman)

This can't be love, because I feel so well,
No sobs, no sorrows, no sighs.
This can't be love; I get no dizzy spells,
My head is not in the skies.

"-Hello pretty lady" Sue looked up and smiled at the handsome man who just entered the kitchen. She quickly cleaned her hands full of batter.

"-Guess who just got promoted?" he said, taking her in his arms for a spin.

"- Mister Davis, you are crazy" she could not stop laughing

"- Crazy about you Mrs Davis". He kissed her deeply and finally let go of her. She started whistling to the music the radio was playing, put her hands back in the batter while her husband went outside. She could see him out of the window, reaching down for a little girl with his dark hair and her clear eyes. She could hear them laughing.

"Ok sweety, I have to go change before dinner, why don't you go help your mother dressing the table." Katherine was still whistling when her daughter entered the room.

"Mom, mom. Grandma said ladies were not supposed to whistle. She says it is not lady like." Her beautiful, joyful face suddenly turned a bit more serious as she turned to her daughter.

"And what else did grandma say?

- She said that a lady needed to know her place if she wanted to be happy in this world. She also said that daddy was not from our world. What did she mean? Daddy is just like us.

- Yes sweety, daddy is just like us. Well, grandma is talking from a different time, darling. You, my love, will achieve great things and you might even be able to whistle once in awhile. Come here"

- The little girl put her head in her mother's neck and whispered: "I love you mummy"

"I love you too sweety pie"

My heart does not stand still, just hear it beat.
This is too sweet to be love.
This can't be love, because I feel so well,
But still I love to look in your eyes.

Philadelphia – 2008

"Lil', Scotty, new case."

Lilly slowly stood up. She had not slept well the night before. It had been awhile since she had dreamt about the shooting but it had all come back as she was closing her eyes while drifting to sleep. Even the morning coffee did not seem to wake her up. "Scotty looks tired as well", she thought, "hmmm probably another lady in his life". They both did not have much luck with their personal life since they had become partners.

" New Case? I thought we only were taking care of the old ones…

- Vera, stop looking at my doughnuts, we already established that we were not close enough"

Kat and Vera's usual bickering brought a small smile to Lilly's lips.

"So new case?

- Glad somebody finally asks" Stillman replied. "Sue Davis. Female, 32 years old, disappeared in 1943. Her remains were just found at a construction site. It made the headlines at the time. Her parents were the Barringtons, very powerful and rich family. They offered quite a consequent reward for any tips leading to her recovery.

- Do we know the cause of death?

- Her skull was crushed.

- How do we know it's her?

- Well…she still had her necklace and wedding ring. They were both in bad shape but after some work, they were able to read the inscriptions. Her necklace had her maiden maid as well as her baptism date and her wedding ring was engraved "I love you birdie". We could find those descriptions in the file.

- Any relatives still alive?

- Her husband, her daughter and her younger brother. Her husband is now 96, he was gone when his wife went missing.

- Gone?

- Germany, battlefields. He did not find out about it until he came back in 1946. He fought to get his daughter's custody. Lost. Not enough money against the Barrington's empire. He lives in the Cathedral Village in the Andorra neighborhood.

- Does he know we found his wife?

- Not yet.

- Valens and I will go there, Kat and Vera why don't you pay a visit to her brother. By the way where is Will?

- He took the day off."

They all looked at each other, remembering what this particular date meant for their friend and colleague. It was the anniversary of his wife's death. He had made an habit of spending this day alone, eating at their favourite restaurant, visiting her grave, doing things they used to enjoy doing together.

"Ok, then Scotty, let's go."