Lilly Rush sighed as she sat down at her desk for another long day at work. The station room was filled with the phones ringing off the hooks, and the other detectives were busy trying to cover them. Although Lilly and the rest of her squad solved cold cases they were just as busy as other homicide detectives. She was completely engrossed in the stack of files when a voice interrupted her.
"Any fresh murders?" Her partner Scotty Valens asked while that giving her that grin he knew she loved, even though she would never admit it.
"Ha-ha, very funny Scotty." She rolled her eyes and returned back to her files. "Don't forget Stillman wanted us to go through the Jackman files before we testify next week."
"Sure thing, Lil." He gave her that grin again and Lilly just laughed. As the hour passed Will, Nick and Kat came into the office. Lilly was still buried in her files when Kat's voice pulled her out of her own head. She looked over to see a teen girl standing over Kat's desk. She had beautiful long brown hair that was pulled halfway back, gently framing her heart shaped face. She wore a nice red wool coat, and Lilly guessed she came from money from the looks of her shoes. She made eye contact with the girl as Kat pointed Lilly out. Lilly got up and walked over to Kat's desk, and she tried to think if she knew the girl. The girl seemed nervous and she fidgeted with an envelope while looking around the room.
"Lilly, this is Musetta." Lilly smiled and shook the hand the girl had put out . Lilly knew she recognized that name from somewhere and she tried to place where she knew the girl from.
"Oh, please no one calls me that. Just call me by my middle name, Noel." Noel tried to smile but she was obviously upset.
"I'm sorry have we met? Do you have any information about a case?" Noel opened her mouth to speak and then closed it again while shaking her head.
"I'm sorry; I don't know why I thought you would know who I am. The last time you saw me I was a baby." Lilly put a hand to her mouth and took a deep breath as she realized where she knew her from. She just couldn't believe after all these years she had come back.
The rain pounded against Lilly Rush's windshield as she tried to drive safely down the alley. She was through with a long shift and she couldn't wait to get home. She groaned when she noticed a dark colored car in the middle of the alley way. She pulled up behind the car and got out to yell at whoever was stupid enough to block her way. Shielding herself from the rain with her coat she carefully walked to the driver's side window when a baby's cry startled her. When she looked into the driver's side window which was already down to tell them to move along she gasped. A handsome young man, about thirty, sat slumped over with a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead. She looked past the man to see who she assumed to be his wife with a similar wound. Trying not to get upset she looked into the back window and saw a baby squirming in its infant seat. She reached into her pocket and called it in to the station. The baby stopped crying and began to screech the most horrible sound Lily had ever heard. Only now did Lilly realize the rain had stopped. Despite knowing she would probably get yelled at for breaking protocol, she opened the car door. She gently lifted the baby out of its seat and rocked it gently. She realized she could stop thinking of the baby as it and as a when she noticed the pink sweater. She wondered who wanted to shoot these parents and what was going to happen to this baby girl.