Author's Note: To those of you who liked 'Unwanted,' here's the sequel to it. I wasn't going to start this until later on this year, but seeing TaiE, and listening to 'Your Face' tonight kind of inspired me. I'm changing Rylea's name to Kennedy in this, as well.

Title: Your Face – Inspired by a Mandy Moore song
Author: neon
Summary: This is the sequel to 'Unwanted,' so in order to understand this, you'll probably want to read that.
Kennedy is finally coming to grips with the fact that she can never have Nick as more than a friend. She starts dating around, but can she stop thinking of Nick? And can Nick stop thinking about her?
Remember, though, if you do decide to read that, the character on Rylea is actually Kennedy. Hope you enjoy…
Disclaimer: I don't own anyone but Kennedy, Jenna, Anna and maybe a couple other characters you haven't seen on TV. Alliance, CBS, Jerry Bruckheimer and Anthony Zuiker own everything else. Maybe someone could buy them for me for my birthday? June first! I'll be extra good! I promise!
Here goes nothing…

~~ Introduction ~~

After two months, Kennedy was finally getting used to the blood, gore and guts of investigating crime. She was quite proud of herself, really. She'd done better than she ever thought she would. But, this case was too much for her to handle. She looked beside her at Catherine, whose face held the same expression as hers did…one of complete terror and total grief.

The girl before them was pinned against the wall by her clothing, her blonde hair was completely shaved off and on the floor beside her, and she had a huge pool of blood below her. "Oh my God…" Kennedy gasped out as she glanced over at Detective Lockwood. "Do you have any idea who this poor girl is?"

"Brittany Jenkins…" Detective Lockwood answered. "She was nineteen, and she had just moved in her, a day ago."

Catherine looked at Kennedy, and shook her head. "Some people sicken me…really, they do…"

Kennedy nodded in agreement. "What could have happened? It's scary, really, thinking of what may have pushed a human to do this…" she sighed, looking around the room at all the music posters. Murder INC? This girl was asking for death even in her posters! Even though Kennedy knew that Murder INC was the name of a record company, she chuckled at this thought a little.

"It really doesn't take much…" Catherine told her. "She probably wouldn't give herself up to someone…"

"We're not allowed to be biased, Cath…" Kennedy said, sounding like her father, as she leaned over to pick up a clump of hair. "If we were, I would, but we're not…"

"You're definitely your father's daughter, Kennedy," Catherine grinned snapping a picture of the body, then watching David Phillips, the assistant coroner, enter the room. "Hey David…"

"Hey Cath, hey Kennedy, you guys done with that?" he asked, pointing to the body.

"That?" Kennedy asked, tilting her head in anger. "Her name was Brittany…"

"Well then," David shook his head. "Are you guys done with BRITTANY?" he grinned at Kennedy, and then pointed back at Brittany again.

"Cath needs to get a couple more pictures, then we will be…" Kennedy laughed, and put the clump of hair in a bag. "Hey, Cath…"

"Way ahead of you, K…" she nodded, aiming the camera at Brittany again, and taking three pictures, each at a different zoom and angle.

Kennedy looked toward the door, just as Detective Brass entered the room. "Hey, Jim…" she glanced Catherine's way, knowing this would automatically get her attention. Kennedy was the only one in the lab who knew that Catherine and Jim had something going on, and this was only because she had walked into Jim's office, to see them sharing a long passionate kiss. "Do you know if dad is on his way or not?"

Jim shook his head, seeing Catherine out of the corner of his eye, then smiling. "He got caught up in a 419 at the Stratosphere Tower…"

"Busy day…" Kennedy sighed.

"In this business, busy days are bad…" Catherine knew this was what Kennedy meant. "Did Gil send anyone in his place, Jim?"

"Yeah, he sent Nick…" Jim nodded and watched David carry the body out of the room. "He should be here any minute…"

The name Nick sent chills up Kennedy's spine, still. Even after all of what she'd been through, she still had a deep 'thing,' as she called it, for Nick. She just didn't want to push herself on him, and lose the friendship that she'd worked so hard to achieve. No way was she going to let a crush get in the way of that. She had to get over him, even if it meant dating around, and finding someone that she liked more than Nick. Even if it took forever.

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~~ The Song ~~

'Your Face' – Mandy Moore

Oh yeah
Your face
I'm still not over
Your Face.
Headlights break through the rain
Over London's winter light.

I came all the way here tonight
To look in your eyes.
I came all the way here tonight
Just to see you.

Your face
Holds me over
Your face.
It wipes away the rain,
With a hundred summer skies.
And every time I talk to you
It's like I'm alright.
And every time I talk to you
I get a little closer to light.

You are the face
That heaven shown me
When I needed someone,
Someone to love.
And stay
You showed me
The quiet kind of love behind your face.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Your face,
Let me show the world,
Your face.
All the stars and suns above
Are jealous in it's light.
You steal the sky away from them
And bring it aside.
You steal the sky away from them
And bring it to life.

'Cause you are the face
That heaven showed me
When I needed someone,
Someone to love.
And stay
You showed me
The quiet kind of love behind your face.