Disclaimer: I do not own Lie to Me or any of it's characters. Well, except for Becca.
Becca peered out the window. As soon as her dad had left, Emily had received a phone call from her boyfriend, Dan. He apparently had something 'important' to tell her. Becca didn't mind, though: the phone call had allowed her to see the small little chat that Dr. Lightman had with some woman he had called Torres. Torres, whoever she was, seemed angry with him. Becca mouthed the words 'bathroom' to Emily, who nodded quickly, and wandered out of the office. Where is she-? Becca thought, suddenly seeing the swish of black hair to her left.
"Hey!" she called out. The woman didn't respond. "Uh, Torres?" That caught the woman's attention. She whipped around, her expression turning from annoyed to confused and curious.
"Who are you?" she asked. Now she looked like she had completely forgotten about her encounter with Dr. Lightman. Curiosity seemed to replace her angered look.
"Oh, I'm Becca," she replied with a smile. "You know, Emily's friend?" There was realization on Torres' face, followed by a faint, angered look. "You don't seem to like her dad so much, do you?" Shock appeared now.
"How did you know that?" Torres asked. She had never met a teenager who could read her expressions before. The girl wasn't a natural, was she?
"I heard you arguing with him," she replied simply. "Any reason why?"
Torres paused and stared at the girl. Okay, so maybe she acted a little obvious in her chat with Lightman. Maybe the girl wasn't a natural. Maybe she didn't even know anything about micro expressions. She was a teenager, after all. Should she just tell the girl about the reasons? What the hell, it couldn't hurt, Torres concluded. She focused her attention back on Becca, who was looking back patiently.
"He has different methods of solving cases that I disagree with," she said cautiously. "He does anything he can to solve the case in time."
"Like what?" Becca asked, trying not to sound too curious. "I mean, isn't that what people usually do? Try and solve the case on time, I mean."
"Oh, he goes far on that. He didn't tell me my boyfriend was missing due to a mall bombing, doesn't fill me in on what he's doing…"
"So his methods just leave you out? Those reasons are extreme, sure, but I'm just wondering if they affect anyone else?" Becca hoped she didn't sound too obvious, but apparently Torres, who liked to talk about Lightman's methods, didn't mind too much.
"Oh no, it effects everyone. One of his schemes ended up with Foster getting attacked by a copycat rapist. You should have seen the way he left with Reynolds when he heard the news, and luckily, they arrived before the copycat could do anything."
"Wow, you must have some pretty hard cases," Becca said, trying to remember who Foster was. She knew she heard that name somewhere…
"Becca!" someone called behind her. Emily. "What are you doing?" Torres slowly walked away, back to her pile of reports.
"I ran into somebody who works here," Becca replied. "She seemed nice."
"Oh. I could probably show you around, if you want, while we wait for my dad to finish up."
"That would be fantastic." The two continued along the hallway, Emily pointing out every office and room in the building that she knew of. Everything's going just as planned, Becca thought. Then again, this is only the easy part.
"You look like something's bugging you," Loker said, catching up to Torres.
"Oh, it's you," Torres said, turning to see Loker coming up beside her.
"Yeah," Loker stated with a confused expression, "Who else would I be?"
"Some strange girl just came up to me to ask a few questions. Becca, her name was."
"Oh, Emily's friend?" Torres gave him a questioning look. How did he know more about what's going on than she did? She was getting paid to work here, unlike Loker, the unpaid intern. "I overheard Lightman talking to Foster."
"That would explain a lot. Is that how you always get your information?"
"What, eavesdropping? Well…" Loker followed Torres down the hallway, arrogantly recalling the news he'd gotten from overhearing the conversations between his two bosses.
Gillian sat across from the screen, Cal right behind her. They had just received a new case where the chief of some financial company was murdered.
"All of the workers seem to show no signs of lying, except for the last two," Gillian said, pointing at the two employees on the screen.
"Yeah, we'll have to ask them a few more questions," Cal replied absentmindedly. Why was Alec arguing with Gillian? he wondered. He knew they had a few issues, but what would make Alec show up at The Lightman Group if he wasn't picking her up to grab something to eat?
"What?" Gillian asked, seeing that something was obviously on Cal's mind.
"Why was Alec here?" Cal asked. He decided to take the chance; he wasn't sure if she would actually tell him or not. The 'line' usually prevented him from asking those types of questions, and it stopped Gillian from answering them.
She sighed. "I thought you might ask that," she said with a sad smile. "It's just that…Alec and I…we're separating. I'm…I'm moving out…and he's still not sure that I should go. He wants to talk more about it first."
"I'm sorry, luv." They stared at each other for a moment: Cal noticing the sadness on her face while Gillian observed the concern in his.
Suddenly, the door burst open, and two girls stepped inside, laughing. Emily and Becca.
"Hi, Dad," Emily said. "Oh, hi Gillian." Emily turned back to her dad as Gillian pretended to look over the suspects for the case. She looked up to see Becca staring at the first suspect with an odd look; a look of shock? No, that would be sort of normal, it was more of fear, but why?
"-still have to finish up a few things. Get back to the office; I'll get you when I'm ready."
"Could we go to Dan's house?" Emily asked. "Just until you're ready…"
"Are his parent's home?" Cal asked, seeing the answer already on her face. "No, you're not going over there alone."
"Dan and I won't be alone; Becca will be there with us."
"And you'll make sure my daughter doesn't have sex with him?" Cal asked, turning to Becca this time.
Becca just stared in surprise. "What? Um, yeah, sure…" Cal noticed as Becca tugged on her bracelet. A manipulator, maybe?
"Just stay here, okay, luv?" he told Emily.
"Fine, Dad. C'mon Becca, let's go." With one last glance at the lying suspects, Becca followed Emily out of the office. Cal watched them leave before looking back to Gillian.
"Should we get going, then?" Cal asked, getting up from his chair.
"Yeah, let's go," she replied, grabbing her bag. The two left the office, stopping only for Cal to tell Loker to make sure Emily and Becca stay put.
Author's Note: Okay, so I will be continuing this story. You'll find out more about Becca in the next chapter(hopefully). I'm not sure when that chapter will be finished, but I'll try updating this story as soon as I can. By the way, thanks for all the reviews!! I'm glad you guys like the story so far, and please continue to review this story.