Thank you for all your lovely reviews for chapter one :) Here is chapter two, I hope you all enjoy it :)

It had been two days since Miss West had set her class the family tree project and the class were now having their afternoon lesson in the library so they could do some more research. Lucy sat alone at one of the computers in the corner of the room, in the search engine she typed in 'Donald Flack' for even though he wasn't a blood relative, to her he was still family. She had spoken to Miss West before the class had started and asked if she could include her uncles and aunts from the lab into her family tree and her teacher had told her she couldn't see why not.

"Oh, researching the fake family as well, are we?" Madison sneered as she came to sit on the computer next to Lucy's.

"They're not fake" Lucy replied.

"Well they're not related to you by blood, so they're fake"

Lucy sighed and turned back to her computer. She heard her Mother's voice in her head telling her to ignore the bullies, they weren't worth it. How could she though? How could you ignore something that happened on a daily basis?

"You should put in your Mum's name? I bet you'd get lots of results" Madison added "I know, I'll do it for you" Madison turned to her computer and began to type on her key board. "Oh would you look at this 'the girl who got away' 'the lone survivor' there is just so many... There is even pictures of her at the funerals an.."

"Shut up" Lucy shouted "Just shut up and stop looking up that stuff"

"It's a free country, I can look up what I like"

"Yeah well look up what you like but just don't do it near me" Lucy said as she stood up, tucking her chair back under the desk, she began to walk away just as Madison stuck her leg out causing Lucy to trip and land on the floor.

"Oh sorry, I guess you didn't see my leg there"

Lucy could feel the tears burning her eyes as she stood up and wiped herself down. She wouldn't cry though, not in front of Madison anyway. Looking around she could see the class was now staring at her, a few were whispering to each other and others were trying to hide their giggles at Lucy's misfortune. She needed to get out of here and away from all the staring eyes, without a second thought Lucy began to run from the library, something she would never normally do, running indoors and especially inside a library was a big no-no in Lucy's book but today she didn't care, she just needed to get away from everyone. Running down the corridor Lucy soon came across the girls toilets, pushing the door open, she went in and locked herself in one of the cubicles.

Sitting on the toilet seat, she pulled her knees to her chest and began to cry, how dare Madison bring all that stuff up about her Mother. At nine Lucy was now well aware of what her Mother went through as a teenager, she'd come across a photo of Lindsay and her friends a while back and after asking who they were, Lindsay had sat her down and explained who they were and what had happened to them. Lucy hadn't told anyone though, it had been her secret, so she had no idea how Madison had found out or why she'd chosen now to revel to Lucy what she knew.

"Lucy? Are you in here?"

Lucy looked up when she heard Miss West's voice. Knowing that her crying had given her up, she wiped her eyes on the back of her sleeve, taking one last deep breath, she stood up and opened the cubical door. "I'm sorry"

"No Lucy, you've got nothing to be sorry for. I've spoken to Madison and she explained what happened was an accident"

Lucy gave a slight frown, what had happened wasn't an accident, both she and Madison knew that but she wasn't going to tell the teacher that, what would be the point? "Yeah, I guess I just got a little embarrassed by falling over"

"Don't worry about it, are you ready to come back to the library?"

"Can I just get a drink of water from the fountain first?"

"Of course, We're just packing up in the library now as it's nearly home time, so if we're not there when you come back then we will be in the classroom, okay?"

Lucy nodded "I'll be quick"

"Okay" Miss West smiled "Talking of home time, I was meant to let you know that your parents can't pick you up today, so Adam will be there instead"

"Yeah, Dad said that he might have to send Adam or Flack to pick me up today, they've got a big case on"

"Okay, and you're sure your alright?"

Lucy again nodded "I'm fine thank you"

Miss West gave her one last smile before leaving the toilets and heading back to the library.

Lucy wiped her eyes one last time with the sleeve of her jumper before also leaving the toilets and going to find a water fountain.

Adam stood by the tree outside of the school and waited for Lucy to appear. He knew he could have parked in the school parking lot but ever since he'd been coming to collect Lucy, he'd always parked out on the road and then walked to this tree where he would wait for the nine-year old. He looked at his watch and noticed he was a little earlier today than he normally was, although he couldn't work out how as he'd left at the same time he normally did and had to stop at every traffic light. He sometimes believed that the traffic lights ganged up on him and if one turned red as he approached then it would send some kind of signal to the others to do the same. As he was early, Adam decided he may as well sit down and wait.

Adam picked at the grass in front of him until he heard the first children leaving the school. Looking up he tried to spot the blonde hair of the Messer's daughter, but couldn't see her yet. Although, knowing Lucy she's probably be one of the last out as she normally had to get something from her locker or had a question to ask the teacher. Being Danny and Lindsay's child, Lucy was very inquisitive and liked to ask a lot of questions, she always had done. Adam remembered when Danny brought Lucy in to the lab when she'd been two and a half and asked Adam to watch her while he went to speak to Mac. Lucy had asked Adam all sorts of questions about the lab and the people in it and although Adam was sure she didn't understand a lot of his answers, she'd obviously understood a few because when Danny came back, Lucy pointed to a white lab coat hanging up and told her Father it was so 'people didn't get boo boo's' and she then pointed to the table in the trace lab and told him it was a 'light table to see things'.

A noise in the near by parking lot pulled Adam from his thoughts, turning to see where the noise had come from, he saw a sight that sent chills down his back. A child was sat in the back seat of their car with her legs dangling out and her head cast down, while a man who appeared to be her Father shouted at her. To anyone else, it may just look like the child had been naughty or misbehaved and the Father was just telling her off but Adam knew different, the way the child was sat, the way she flinched when her Father reached up to run his fingers through his hair.

"Uncle Adam?"

Adam turned and looked up at Lucy who was now stood in front of him "When did you get here?"

"A few seconds ago, what are you looking at?"

"Oh...erm... nothing, I just thought I saw someone I recognised" he turned back to look at the child in the car but both her and the car had now gone.

"Oh okay" Lucy replied.

Adam stood up "How was school today?"

Lucy shrugged "Not to bad, I guess"

"You guess?" Adam asked as they headed towards his car.

"Yeah, it was okay just a bit boring"

"I thought you told me school was never boring?"

Lucy smiled "I guess I've changed my mind"

"Well I think we might have to do something fun to make up for this boring day you had at school"

"Like what?"

"How does going for ice cream sound?"

"That sounds perfect" Lucy smiled as they reached the car.