Summary: Lilly has moved to New York and joined the FBI, Chris is in rehab and Lilly surrogate mother to niece until Chris is out, it has been five months since she moved and she hasn't seen or heard from any of her old colleagues from Philly until one day Scotty shows up out of the blue to tell her something.

Disclaimer: Don't own Cold Case or its characters, the rest of Lilly's squad are mine though.

Came to tell you something

Chapter 1: New York, New York

It had been five months since Lilly left Philly for the Special Federal Cold Case unit in New York. The decision to leave Homicide and her childhood city hadn't been easy but when Chris had gotten into a drug rehab programme up there she decided that, once and for all she wanted to put the past behind her and finally start a fresh so she put in her resignation and applied for the FBI. With the recommendations from, both agents Yates and Cavanaugh, not to mention a beautiful, heartfelt letter that Stillman had written she'd gotten in and was immediately placed in the newly formed Cold case squad.

The others had wished her luck even thrown her a going away party, but the one person who wasn't happy for her was Scotty. When she first told them she was leaving he thought she was joking, he laughed until he realised that she wasn't kidding. He couldn't believe her; she started this cold case squad all those years ago and now she was leaving it.

He went through several stages; first he was in denial, told everyone that she'd change her mind and not end up going. Then he was sad, he knew he was gonna miss her, finally anger, and at her going away party they had a fight and he didn't show up the next day at the airport with everyone else to say goodbye to her.

So there Lilly was in a new job, a new city and with a one year old to be a surrogate mother to. She was really enjoying her new squad. The agents that had been assigned to her were, young, full of that eager enthusiasm and energy that all new recruits seemed to have. There was Agent Gina Watson, 28 from Washington DC who Lilly had immediately became fast friends with. Agent Tim Simpson 27 a New Yorker born and bred, who at first didn't like the idea of taking orders from a woman but after they had solve their first case (In which Lilly had gotten the doer to confess in a matter of minutes) found a lot of respect for her . Finally there was Agent Dana Pitt the youngest of the group at 25 but just as eager to prove herself to her new Boss for whom she'd always admired.

They had solve ten cases already and the director of the FBI was praising their work, he seemed pretty pleased with himself for setting up the squad in the first place. Lilly got so sidetracked that she hadn't realised that five whole months had gone by and she hadn't heard from any one from Philly.

Until one warm summer's day, Lilly and Gina were walking back into the bullpen from a recent interview and Lilly was frustrated at yet another dead end their most recent case had taken. "I am tellin you he's our doer" Gina said for the thousandth time that morning and Lilly rolled her eyes "He has an alibi and until we can prove otherwise he's off the suspect list" Lilly said staring down at her case notes in her hand.

"Agent Lilly Rush, that's got a nice ring to it" a familiar voice called from across the room and Lilly looked towards her office were the voice came from. There standing in the doorway was Scotty; she smiled and walked over to him.

"Hey" she said as he moved out of the way to let her into her office "What are you doing here?" she asked as she put down the files she was carrying on her desk.

"My cousin was gettin married, I thought I'd see how my old partner was doin'" he replied, his eyes travelling over the royal blue carpet and the amazing view out the double glazed windows "Gotta say, you've done pretty well for yourself Rush" he continued.

"Thanks, can I get you some coffee?" Lilly offered "Feds have sprung for a new machine, it almost tastes like the real thing" Lilly said showing him to the breakroom and Scotty chuckled. "Sounds good Lil" he answered. She pours him a cup and indicates he should sit down "Lil, I wanted to apologise for the way I acted before you left" Scotty said.

"I am sorry too" Lilly said "You were my partner, I should of talked to you before I handed in my resignation" Lilly sighed and sat down next to him, her hands wrapped around the mug.

"Nah Lil I get it" Scotty replied

"No, Scotty we were...are friends" she corrected herself "I should of been honest with you, especially since all your help with Chris"

"How she doin' anyway?" he asked taking a sip of her coffee and looking surprising at his cup, it did almost taste real.

"She's alright" Lilly said "Her jaws healed and she's in rehab now, should be out in a month"

"What about the baby?" Scotty asked

"Annie actually lives with me" Lilly replied, she pulled out her wallet and showed Scotty a picture of her holding her niece.

"She's gotten big" Scotty said as he stared at the photo.

"Scotty, I'd really love to catch up but I am swamped." Scotty nodded and stood up.

"No problem Lil"

"How about we have dinner tonight?" Lilly said taking out a business card and scribbling her address on the back and handing it to him "Come over around eight" He nodded and walked towards the door.

"See you later then" he called.

Gina poked her head around the corner fixing her Boss with her customary smirk "What?" Lilly asked

"So was that the Ex?" Gina asked

Lilly let out a short laugh and shook her head "Nah that was my old partner from Philly homicide" Lilly replied "He was in town so he'd thought he'd come visit"

"You and him ever..." she trailed off and wriggled her eyebrows suggestively.

"Me and Scotty, no way we were just friends"

"Hey I was good friends with my partner back in Washington and you don't see him hauling his ass up here to 'visit' me" she said making air quotes around "Plus he is hot" she said looking down the hallway at Scotty who was waiting for the elevator.

"I think of him more as a brother than anything else" Lilly said "We've been through a lot together"

"Well if you ain't gonna tap that, I might have a crack while he's in town" Gina replied and Lilly laughed again.

"You do that" she said sarcastically and Gina laughed, walking back out to the squad room.