AN: Alright, for some reason or another I'm on a Riley kick this week, so here it goes.
Disclaimer: If I owed CSI I would be writing this to mess with your head. I am not.
Slight Riley/Greg.
Riley Adams closed her eyes slightly as she looked at the small child on the morgue table. Her blue eyes were closed. Riley had seen them at the scene. They were a purplish blue color, like the inside of a blueberry. Very pretty. Beautiful even.
Her lips were a blueish color from the cold of the morgue. Her skin had a blueish tinge. There was a faded blue streak in her light blonde hair.
Riley would have thought she was beautiful had she not been only nine.
She sighed.
She hated cases with dead children. She supposed everyone else did too. It was never a good shift when a kid died. Kids weren't supposed to die. Kids were supposed to be fun loving and innocent. She guessed that's why everyone else hated child murders.
That wasn't why Riley did however. She guessed that was part of it. But it was the main reason. No the main reason why Riley hated seeing dead kids was because they reminded her of her little Kitten. Kya. Khajag Zabel Adams.
Her daughter. Well she was, until she died. And unsolved case.
Riley was still in college when Kya died. She had changed her major when Kya died. She hated the way they couldn't solve the case. So she had decided to try to do something about that.
Riley was in high school when she had gotten pregnant with Kya. Her mother had been furious. As had her boyfriend, Ari's parents. Ari Kasabian.
She hadn't liked Ari much, she was going to dump him. But then she had found out she was pregnant. She had let Ari name her. He chose Khajag Zabel. Khajag because Kya had pretty blue eyes. Like his own. Zabel after his younger sister who had died before they moved to America.
But then Ari had gone back to his home country about a month after Kya was born. Riley never saw him again.
Kya had pretty blonde hair, like the girl on the morgue table. Her eyes matched those of the Janie Doe too. Blueberry colored.
Before Ari left he had called her his little Blueberry. Kya had always smiled at that.
And Kya had liked to eat blueberries too. They were her favorite food.
Riley looked at the Jane Doe. She looked a lot like Kya. If Kya wasn't already dead and buried Riley would have thought it was her. She had the same face, the same eyes, the same hair. Not that Kya would ever be allowed had a blue streak in her hair.
But Riley knew there was no way that this girl was Kya. Kya died 5 years ago.
It had been a cold February day. Right after Valentine's Day. Riley took Kya to a field by their apartment. Kya loved to play in the snow.
The field was a good place to bring a three year old to play. There were no houses, no people to bother. Actually there was one house. The Killam's. They were an elderly couple who had a lot of foster children. At the time there was a boy, Charlie and two girls, Shannan and Jessie.
Shannan was 15, she had been there the longest. Over a year. Sometimes when Riley brought Kya to play, Shannan would bring Jessie out. Jessie was four. She did that day.
While the two girls played in the snow, Shannan and Riley had talked. That's what they always did. They had looked away for a second and the two girls were gone.
Riley looked for them while Shannan called the police.
The police couldn't find them. Two weeks later Riley received a package that turned out to be Kya's body. Jessie was never found. There was no one to ship her body to.
The sound of the morgue door opening snapped Riley out of her thoughts. She looked behind her. Greg.
Greg noticed the sad look on her face.
"Are you ok?" he asked.
Riley nodded looking back to the table.
"Do we have an ID?" she asked.
Greg nodded.
"Her name is Katya Isabella Kasabian."
Riley looked at him funny. Kasabian was Ari's last name. Riley didn't think that was a very common last name.
"What?" asked Greg, "Do you know her?"
"No. Are you sure the last name is Kasabian?"
Riley looked at Katya.
Greg nodded.
There had to be some connection. This girl had Ari's last name. Her name was similar to Kya's. Both their middle names were Isabella, Zabel being a form of it. And Ari had had another little sister by the name of Katya.
He had a lot of sisters. There was Maral, Zabel, Yeva, Katya, and little Sarah. He also had a little brother, Levon. There were seven of them.
And this girl looked so much like Kya too.
"Riley?" asked Greg's voice.
She turned to him.
"Are you sure you don't know her?" he asked.
Riley nodded.
"Sorry. She reminds me of someone. Have you contacted her parents?"
Greg shook his head.
"No. Catherine is doing that know."
"What are their names?"
Greg looked at her funny.
Greg looked at the file.
"Raven Sabella and Ari Kasabian."
Riley nodded.
"No wonder she looks like Kya" Riley mumbled without thinking.
Greg looked at her.
"Riley? Who's Kya?"
Riley looked at him without saying anything.
"Who's Kya? Why does Katya look like her?" Greg tried again.
No answer.
AN: Well, this turned out more complicated then I expected. I was just planning for it to be rambling about a lost child and the color blue. Oh well. There will be another chapter, making this my first multi-chapter thing. :D
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~Ino
