Hey, Hey guy's next chapter up I have a day of classes tomorrow and I'm having trouble with my insomnia so I'm writing the next chapter up now.

Questions will be answered in future chapters like why she answers to Charlotte instead of Isabella the name she had been called her entire life.

Caleb was having some what of a nice sleep, the sky outside was a nasty shade of grey and the wind seemed hell bent on adding a chill to an already freezing cold day.

He was in the blissful half asleep, half awake type of daze, toasty warm from his yellow socks Charlotte had bought him, to the stylish duvet his mother had bought for him when he moved into his apartment sometime last year.

He was very tempted to go back to sleep.

If it wasn't for his damn cell phone preventing that very goal.

He was very willing to throw his fairly expensive cell phone against the bedroom wall, or just curse the person who decided to call him at 6am on a Saturday morning.

He briefly celebrated when the phone stopped vibrating against the set of draws next to his bed; he smiled to himself and snuggled deeper into the comfortably warm bed.

If looks could kill, his cell phone and the person who thought it important to interrupt his sleeping habits would be dead ten times over.

With a growl and an almost pathetic whimper as his hand reached out from the warmth of the blankets and into the cold unprotected air, Caleb grabbed his cell phone quickly and retreated safely back into the warmth. With minor success Caleb answered the cell phone with a growl.

It was too early in the morning to be polite.

His irritation only intensified when Reid's cheerfully smug voice greeted him loudly.

"Since when have you been a morning person?" Caleb asked scratching his matted down hair rolling his eyes at Reid's response.

"God Reid, Ellies got you wrapped around her little finger." Caleb mocked.

"Dude, you are so whipped." He smirked.

"That's disgusting Reid... I'm telling Ellie you said that." Caleb said with his face screwed up, trying to block out a mental image.

"See Whipped." He laughed at Reid's frustrated tone.

"Yeah, Yeah I'll be there... later Reid." Caleb said crawling deeper into the covers, he had made plans to meet the guys for breakfast, but he still had a few hours until he had to think about getting out of bed.

With a pleasant sigh, Caleb closed his eyes and drifted off into a peaceful sleep.

After waking up and getting ready, Caleb jumped in a cab and headed towards the diner that had become the general meeting spot for the group after they all found themselves in New York for work.

He was surprised to note, he was the last to arrive he took a seat next to Sarah, who offered a tight smile, the bags under her eyes suggested she was dragged out of bed sporting a hang over.

Caleb looked around the booth and eyed up all his friends from high school, it sometimes amazed him that they all remained friends after the graduation caps had been thrown at Spencer Academy all those years ago.

Pogue was sitting with his usual don't mess with me look, Caleb watched him touch the ends of his now short hair every now and then, having gone with an insistent Kate when his boss told him he had to get a hair cut or he may miss out on a promotion at the company who build and produced Ducati's, the dream job for Pogue. Caleb had to admit the cut did suit him once you got use to it, Kate was a stylist after all. She did that for a living.

Speaking of Kate, she was currently sitting next to Pogue giggling at something Ellie was saying; Kate apart from a few inches off her hair had remained relatively the same, she was still her same flirty self. Ellie on the other hand gained a bucket load of confidence at college and had become some what bossy. Both the Tunney girls were going to be forever youthful.

Reid took his usual seat next to Ellie, offering Caleb a smirk and raised eyebrow indicating that he did in deed do what he suggested he was about to on the phone. Reid's using had caught up with him over the years and although being only 25 he looked like a man in his early 30s.

Tyler was searching through the menu for something good to eat, no matter how many times they came here, he would always insist of looking through the menu thoroughly before he usually picked his usual, bagels and coffee. Caleb could see the bags under his eyes, although Tyler was no longer considered baby boy to the guys, Caleb still liked to look out for him, after Charlotte had left he had been pretty damaged.

Caleb frowned at the tough of his missing sister, she had been so strange those last couple of weeks before she disappeared, he never told anybody but when he went to check he apartment, it looked like it had been robbed a few dozen times. Charlotte wasn't the cleanest woman around but she always made sure that the public sections of the apartment were clean, but it looked like someone had been there searching through her things.

Caleb shook the thought, Charlotte had been reckless during her college and high school years but it never went above having one too many drinks or pulling a prank with Reid and Ellie.

He pushed thoughts of Charlotte out of his mind for the moment, thinking of her just made him broody as Kate called it. With a smile he turned to Tyler who had a look of sheer determination on his face.

"Hey come on Tyler, just get the bagels, we all know you want them."

He smiled when the rest of the group joined in with good natured jokes and teasing, Caleb looked around the booth at all the smiling faces, giving one last thought to his sister who he missed dearly. He hoped was alive and well somewhere.

...

Tyler finished up the rest of his coffee and stood with an apologetic smile.

"Sorry guys, my editors on my back about finding a story." He said with a shrug, truth be told he was just happy his time in the obituaries was over.

"Oh come on Tyler, stay a little longer, I felt like I haven't talked to you in ages." Kate offered with a bright smile.

"Sorry Kate, some of us have to work weekends as well." He offered in a joking manner.

"Lies, nobody works on Saturday... why Tyler Simms your just a dirty liar who lies aren't you?" Kate responded with a laugh, the two had gotten closer when Charlotte left, she helped him with the basics, she was probably one of the best friends he could or would ever have.

"Seriously though, I have to meet a source like... five minutes ago, you know how those whistle blowers are." Tyler said with an eye roll before waving goodbye the rest of the group and hurrying downtown to meet his source.

He hated lying to his friends, but he didn't want to get their hopes up, there was an old cash reward poster up for Charlotte and every now and then somebody would ring trying to claim the twenty grand, some tips turned out to be legit others, were just hoax's, jerks with nothing better to do than make prank phone calls.

He really didn't know why he was bothering, this guy even over the phone crept him out, Tyler pictured him straight away; overweight with a bushy greying beard and one too many bald patches to call a shaved head.

Tyler was irked to know that his description of the man was spot on, a few tattoos adding to the bad ass effect. Resisting an eye roll Tyler walked over to the man who insisted they meet at a playground, god only knows why.

"You Tyler?" he asked with a rasp, years of smoking had ruined his breath, teeth and skin.

"Yeah, you Rich?" Tyler asked sarcastically feeling the need to be a smart ass to this guy for some reason.

"Don't get cute with me boy, I have information about your little girlfriend." Rich announced with a sneer, Tyler would have been worried that the man would walk off with the information, if Rich's eyes didn't already have money bags in them.

"Fine by me, I'll just give the twenty grand to somebody else." Tyler said turning his back on the large man and walking off back down to the car park.

"Damn it kid, wait." Rich announced moments later, causing Tyler to smirk a very Reid Smirk.

"I saw ya little girlfriend, remember cause some jerk in a Rover tried to pull her into the car, she got pretty beat up trying to fight him off." Rich said, his face was one of pure concentration as he tried to remember the events of two years ago.

"Do you remember anything else, a licence plate, what the man looked like... a name anything?" Tyler asked desperately.

"Yeah, I saw him, he screamed money looked like he was late 20s maybe early 30s, skinny guy from what I could tell, but he backed some muscle somewhere cause it took a bit of strength for him to let go of her arm... I think he had curly brown hair and was a pale guy." Rich said with a shrug before his eyes widened."

"Oh, I think she called him Kane." Rich offered proudly, Tyler had to admit he underestimated the guy.

"Do you know what, Charlotte was doing here, had you seen her before?" Tyler asked finally looking hopefully at Rich.

"Yeah, I seen her couple of times, pretty girl like that gets noticed round here, but she always went to Ricky's house, and nobody messes with Ricky's girls." Rich said with a shrug.

"Where could I find this Ricky?" Tyler asked excitedly.

"Ricky died, last year... but for an extra five grand I can tell you what Ricky specialised in." Rich said, Tyler could practically see him rubbing his hands together greedily.

"Deal." Tyler said, looking up from his note book he was writing in.

"Ricky was a wiz with computers, he use to make fake ID's for the kids round here, his forgeries were pretty valid, say if one wanted to leave the country under an assumed name, Ricky could do that for you... so what do you say Nancy Drew, got yourself a good lead." Rich asked, having rolled a smoke during the conversation he lit it up and cocked an eyebrow.

"I have to check it out, but yeah, it seems pretty valid." Tyler said snapping his notebook shut and looked the middle aged man up and down.

"I want cash." He said before turning his back and walking away, turning only for a moment to offer a threat.

"If I don't get my money boy, you better hope you can run as well as your little girlfriend, cause I'll be coming for you."

He said with a final puff of his smoke, he flicked it into the sandbox and walked through the trees at an impressive speed. Tyler watched him until he was gone, a little unnerved by the threat.

But his nerves outweighed the almost giddy feeling Tyler had from solving the case, because he knew Kane, Kane was a scientist that worked at the Lab with Charlotte.

Kane Yantos had also been the last man to see Charlotte before he disappearance.

Do you like it? Mysterious enough for you