Chapter 2

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superlc529 - haha thanks, it is set just over a year after Henry and Jo start working together, so maybe end of season 1 ish? It says in this chapter too :)


"Henry Morgan? Are you absolutely positive Miss Hunter?" Hanson almost couldn't believe his ears, refusing to believe it; he stared at the woman almost willing her to say that she had misheard.

True, he and Henry may not have started out as the best of friends but he had been working with Jo for just over a year now and over the past few months it was almost as if they had become friends.

"Yes… is something the matter Detective?" Miss Hunter asks him, a puzzled look on her face, did she say something to offend Detective Hanson?

"No, thank you for your time Miss Hunter, if you excuse me I must go find my colleague. Dr Morgan is one of our medical examiners and a fellow detective's boyfriend. I'm sure another officer would be more than happy to show you out." Without even waiting for her answer, he quickly spun around and raced out of the room and next door into the viewing room.

Once inside, he saw Lieutenant Reese with her hand on Jo's shoulder called out her name.

"She heard?" Even though he knows she was watching the whole thing like he had asked her to, he asks anyway just to be sure.

"Yes, take her back to her desk then call down to the medical examiner's office. This had better be some misunderstanding!" This was the most flustered he had ever seen her and he stares at her retreating form before quickly turning his attention back to Jo.

When they reach her desk, Jo looks up at him with blank eyes.

"Did she say Henry?" She asks softly, fearing the answer she would be given. Without saying a word, he nods his head slowly and is about to say something to try and comfort her when she suddenly stands up.

"It can't be him. He was fine last night! I'm going down to find him." She says it with as much determination as she can muster and shoots off towards the elevator.

The elevator doors aren't even fully open when she bursts out of them at a run; her feet take her automatically down the corridor she has walked down countless times towards Henry's office.


When she rushes into the examining room, Lucas' head snaps up from the body he is examining with a puzzled expression on his face.

"Detective! I didn't expect you here today!" He says happily, still slightly confused. Instead of receiving a 'hello' like he normally does, he gets a blunt question.

"Where is Dr Morgan?"

"I thought you would know… he never turned up to work today, I just assumed that he was sick. And I know that isn't like him but-" She cuts him off before he can finish with an impatient look on her face.

"You never thought to tell anyone this?" Taking a proper look at her face, he sees the fear and panic in her eyes, her hands clench and unclench at her eyes and shifts from foot to foot.

"No… what's wrong Detective?"

"Henry… he- a woman came just now as a witness to a murder. The murder of a man she thought was called Henry Morgan that matches my Henry's description." She doesn't even notice the use of the possessive pronoun and if he wasn't so shocked at what she just said he would have laughed and made sure to remember Henry the next time he saw him.

His mouth opens and shuts without a single word coming out and with an impatient huff, Jo turns on her heel and stalks out of the room into the hall, heading back upstairs.


The minute the elevator doors open, Hanson knows something is wrong. Jo has a look on her face he has never seen on her before, a mixture of fear, sadness, anger and disbelief, not to mention the fact that she looked like she was about to start crying.

"He isn't there Hanson, he never came into work today. I was going to go and see him earlier! I should have called! Oh gosh, I should have made him stay later last night-"

"Martinez! This isn't your fault! We're going to find the sick man that did this okay! Anyways, we're not even sure if it is the same Henry Morgan, its such a common name as it is." He cuts her off, not letting her get worked up about it, the last thing she needs to do is blame herself for his possible murder. She stays silent for a while; just staring at him without saying a word before she slowly whispers a reply.

"Do we have a crime scene from Miss Hunter?"

"Yes it's on-"

"Martinez!" Lieutenant Reese stops him as she walks out of her office, judging by the look on her face she knows what the result of Jo's frantic search was.

"We can't have you on this case Martinez, you know that. Go home, find out if it's really him."

"But sir…"

"No buts Martinez. Go home." Defeated, Jo slumps her shoulders and heads towards her desk to gather up her things, trudging towards the elevator, she is about to step into it when she suddenly spins around and shouts across the bullpen to Hanson.

"Have we got a time Hanson?"

"Yea, 10:45 why?" He shouts back almost immediately with a baffled look on his face.

"Just checking!" She replies before turning back to the elevator.

When she reaches the ground floor, she heads towards her car, frantically running over what she could do in her head and if Henry really was the murder victim or if it was just some coincidence, although she tried not to think about it, the more she thought, the more she realized that it probably wasn't a coincidence. All that did was further plant the feeling of dread into her stomach.

As Jo drives back towards her apartment, she realizes that one simple thing she forgot to do in her panic, actually call Henry.

She couldn't actually call him of course –she tells her self the next time she sees him, if she sees him, she will force him to get a phone- but she could call Abe to see if he was just at home with him.

With one hand on the steering wheel, she finds Abe's number in her phone and clicks on it, with each ring her fear grows until the phone cuts to voicemail. Panicking, she turns her car around and drives as fast as she can towards the antique store before she even realises what she is doing.


Abe is upstairs preparing a cup of coffee when he hears the bell chime downstairs even though he hadn't opened the shop today. Must have been old age.

"I'm sorry but we aren't open today!" He shouts down as he walks slowly down the stairs leading to the shop. "You're welcome to come back-" He stops short when he sees Jo run around the corner with a look of fear and panic on her face.

"Jo?! What's wrong?"

"Henry… he… Where's Henry?" She asks quickly, looking behind him hoping to see his face from around the door smiling at her like nothing was wrong. But one look on Abe's face and she knew that he wasn't here.

"He isn't here, I assumed stayed at yours last night and went to work from there." Abe couldn't tell her that the last time he had seen Henry was at 11 o'clock last night when he had picked him up from the river, but he had assumed that Henry had gone back to Jo's afterwards so he was telling some sort of the truth.

He felt bad the minute he sees Jo slump her shoulders but he presses his lips together tightly, it isn't his secret to tell. Henry would contact Jo soon anyways.

"There was a murder last night… a witness came forward and said the victim's name was Henry Morgan…" She mutters, looking at him with pleading eyes like he would contradict her and say Henry was fine.

A feeling of guilt swells within him as he realizes the pain and fear she must be feeling right now, it was okay for him seeing as he knew his dad was fine but she didn't know that and he couldn't tell her. He was going to have to speak to him about his secret soon.

"A what? I'm sure it isn't him Jo, he will be back soon I'm sure." He tries to feign ignorance and reassure her but he can soon see it did nothing to reassure her.

She is about to turn around and leave when Abe speaks again.

"Would you like to stay for some coffee until Henry gets back?" She smiles at him gratefully, following him up the stairs into the apartment.

As he bustles around the kitchen preparing another cup of coffee, he sees her pick up one of Henry's scarves and clutch it tightly to herself.

He smiles as he sees the expression on her face, he could clearly see that the Detective loved his father very much and Henry was being dishonest to her.

Abe chuckles quietly to himself as he thinks her reaction when Henry does return, his father was in some serious trouble!

Jo paces around the living room that has become so familiar to her while Abe prepares the cup of coffee, she smiles when she sees that some of the pictures around the apartment that were originally only of Abe and Henry are now replaced with some of her and Henry together although the majority of the pictures were of her.

She jumps slightly when her phone suddenly starts to ring. Fumbling around in her purse, she finally finds her phone and picks it up.

"Hello?"

"Martinez! We've got him!" The voice of Hanson shouts down from the other end of the line, he sounds almost excited.

"Hanson? Who?" She asks, still confused.

"Henry! Doctor boy is here!"

She almost drops her phone in shock and joy when she hears what he has said. Apologizing to Abe and quickly explaining the conversation she hurries down the stairs and towards her car.

"I'll be right there."


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