Favored Grace

by Chloe1

After four years missing Amita returns to Charlie in an unexpected way that will forever change the Eppes family, and in time for a major hate crime that the team must solve. Its my first Numb3rs fic, so be sure to review!

1. Chapter 1

This is my first Numb3rs fic so please humor me, I don't own the characters if I did I would be able to pay off my loans by now. This chapter is short but it set the stage of whats to come, it starts out personal and then develops into the case, you will see why later.

May 12, 2013

2:26 PM

Charlie was digging in his desk looking for the lecture, he was going to be late if he didn't find the lecture notes soon. He pulled out a thick stack of papers out of his bottom drawer, and sighed in exhaustion when he realized that the lecture was probably buried within the stack. He hadn't used this lecture in four years, but after last weeks discussion he felt it would be best to use this topic again. He began sorting through the papers when a photo fell from the stack. He looked down and at the picture of his past.

It was a photo of him and Amita taken four years and three months ago, two months prior to her leaving. He thought things were going good, then her family came to visit shortly after the photo was taken two months later she was gone leaving behind a letter from her father telling him not to go looking for her. Despite this warning he tried he used some favors through the FBI and looked at flight records returning to India, but never found her name on a passanger manafest, he couldn't find it on any domestic flights either. She had packed all her things while he and his father were at class and left, without an explanation, though Charlie always blamed her family. Charlie studied the photo closely, it was by the coy pond in his backyard, they were sitting perched on a rock, Charlie leaning forward hands clasped in front of him, a smile on his face, and Amita leaning against him her arms wrapped around his shoulders. Strands of her black hair framed her face in almost an angellic manner, the corer of her eyes crinkled when she laughed, she had joked about the photo op claiming it was engagement photos. It was four years ago, but it felt like an eternity he wondered where she was now, he hoped she was happy. Charlie was about to put the photo back in the drawer when he stopped himself, he took the photo and placed it on top of his desk. He turned back to the stack of paper and found the lecture notes among the other old lecture notes, and left for class with only a minute to spare.