Seeing her again: Chapter 1: Eric & Bella

"Can't you stop talking?" Bella hadn't the nerves for her annoying brother. Her long dark brown curls fell from her shoulders. Beside her was her older brother Eric. And he was really old. 30. Bella was only 16. Eric's right leg in plaster and on his head he had a laceration. And blood ran out of it. Bella took a handkerchief and wiped it away. They were standing in an elevator. And trying to find the right stage.

"Don't you want to see her?" Eric was a nice guy. He loved his job. And his job got him injured.

"Sure I want, but please stop telling me what I should do. Please?" Isabella begged like a little girl. She loved her brother. Really, but sometimes he was annoying.

When they stopped in floor 5, they thought, they had found the right stage. They searched for an office and found. The head of this lab was Mac Taylor.

"We're right." Eric smiled. Bella just rolled with her eyes. They went to the office but Eric wasn't very fast with his crutches. Bella opened the door.

"Hello." she said. Stella, Mac and Adam looked at her and Eric.

"What can we do for you? Stella asked. She thought she had seen this girl before. Bella looked like somebody she knew.

"We are searching for Detective Lindsay Monroe, Ma'am." Eric said this very politely.

"Eric, her name is Messer. Forgot that? Did the bomb blow away your brain?" Bella smirked.

"Good. We are searching for Detective Lindsay Messer, Ma'am." Everyone laughed. And Mac and Stella wondered why this guy was so polite.

"We will call her." Mac answered. Then Lindsay came in.

"Eric. Bella. Hey, why are you here?" Lindsay was really happy. She almost shouted. Then she saw Eric's leg.

"What did do?" Lindsay was worried.

"Only my job. I'm alive." he said.

"He almost died and he should be in hospital because he has a concussion."

"Thanks Bella, but I'm an adult man." Eric looked angry to her. Bella laughed. Lindsay saw the faces of Mac, Adam and Stella and said:

"That's my brother and my sister."

"Petty officer Eric Monroe."

"He's a marine. He is always like this. And when I say always I mean it honestly. My name is Isabella Honor Monroe." she said.

"You are younger then your siblings?" Adam was a little bit confused.

"You should ask my mother why." Bella laughed.

"O.K. again, why are you here?" Lindsay said. She smiled. She loved Bella and Eric.

"I search for the perfect university and I visit Columbia." Bella said.

"And I was sent here because of my injuries."

"Aren't you too young to visit a university?" Mac asked.

"Whiz kid skipped two grades and gets a scholarship." Eric explained everything."

"Idiot wants to become a doctor, after 911 he becomes a marine." Bella smirked.

"What do you want to become and which universities want to have you?" Stella asked.

"Physicist, because it's a great job. I will study biology secondary. I have got the commitment of Yale, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford. My favorites are Harvard, Yale and Columbia." Then Lindsay asked:

"How is it at home?" Bella was silent. She didn't speak a word.

"Hey, Lindsay asks you something" Eric was worried, like Lindsay.

"Like every time. Liam and I celebrated our 3 years anniversary, his brother Chris broke one leg oh and Mom is an alcoholic." Now it was silent. Lindsay wasn't sure what she should thinkor say. Maybe Bella was right. Her mother had drunk very often. And after they're father's death everything was very complicated. And now Lindsay noticed how much complicated. And in this moment Eric thought the same. Mac, Stella and Adam were quiet too. Adam knew how it was when one of the parents drunk. It was like hell.