Chapter1: A box and a picture.
When Lilly came home that night she felt sad and a bit angry because of what the baby found at the police station had made her remember. She opened the drawer of cupboard that was standing in the hall. She took a picture on which we could see a young woman lying in a hospital bed holding a newborn in her arms. She began to cry but there was no one around to comfort her. She put the picture where she had found it. She thought that never again she would be able to feel this love between a child and his mother like she had once experienced.
She then went to her bedroom and looked at herself in the mirror: her skin was even paler than usual and her eyes were surrounded by a blue circle, a sign that she didn't sleep very well the past nights. Her bed was undone, the lilac sheets were on the ground, and the room was a total mess, something unusual for her, detective Lilly Rush, the most meticulous person her partners knew.
She went to the closet and opened it. She searched for a few minutes, and then found what she was looking for: a shoe box on the top of which the name "Roseanne" was written. Inside there were some newborn clothes, a pink rabbit and sonograms. She didn't exactly know why she had needed this now because it had been a long time since she had looked inside of it for the last time. Maybe it was seeing this child whose mother had left on the street just because she hadn't any babysitter.
She was still thinking as she heard the doorbell ringing throughout the apartment. She wondered who was disturbing her at this time except one of her work partners. When she opened the door she saw Valens standing there. It was then that she realized she was still crying, her eyes were red and puffy and her whole make up hiding her hurt face was gone.
-Hi Lil! he said warmly
-Hello Scotty, she answered, what brings you here?
-You seemed upset at work; you were acting odd right before you left.
-Come in, maybe I can get you some coffee.