AUTHORS NOTE: I've lost my Cold Case rush! It's killing me inside! I shall need to watch more soon and get the love back!

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[Speaking to Nate]

It had taken them two hours to convince Nate to climb onto the right side of the bridge. Two long hours in the blustering wind, blocking up traffic and causing angry drivers to pip their horns causing Lilly to have the worse headache ever. Grabbing her coffee mug, she filled it with the horrible coffee that they served up here before reaching into her handbag and pulling out to painkillers. "Are you alright, Lil?" Scotty's voice said from behind her and she turned to look at him, a forced smile on her face.

"I'm fine," she said picking up his mug and filling it with coffee. "What do you think of Nate?" She handed it over to him before leaning back against the counter. Scotty looked down at his mug, his fingertip running around the rim.

"He's a diagnosed schizophrenic, Lilly." Scotty pointed out and she nodded. Due to his ex, Scotty had a clear understanding with people like Nate and sometimes Lilly was thankful to have him on the time at times like these. She knew that she'd have no way to get through to Nate with soft understanding whereas Scotty gets them.

"Do you think he did it?" He looked over at the woman and shrugged his shoulders. He knew they'd need to talk to him soon. "Come on then," she started to move towards the table but stopped and went back to fill a paper cup with coffee. The guy had been out in the cold for longer than they had so he was probably just as cold as they were.

Sitting down at the table, Lilly pushed the cup over to him. "Tell us about Leigh." She said. The boss had told them to read the file before they went in but Lilly had wanted to speak to Nate first. He obviously had something that he wanted to tell them and she was going to listen without previous muses from the earlier detectives.

He wrapped his hand around the cup, tears falling down his cheeks, "she was an amazing girl that stayed friends with me even after she broke it off with me because I was a little too crazy for her." He looked at her. "We dated before I was diagnosed and she was there for me after I was diagnosed too. Her friends hated me, really hated me and they couldn't stand that she wanted to be friends with me after the hell I put her through."

"You put her through hell?" Scotty asked.

"I was just possessive and felt as if she was conspiring behind my back. That was my main problem back then. I believed everyone was out to get me." He looked down at the cup, Lilly noticed that he hadn't took a swig of it yet. It appeared he was still having some serious issues with that kind of stuff now.

"Can you think of anyone that would want to hurt Leigh back then, Nate?"

"No. She was loved by everyone." Looking over at Lilly, "her friends hated me though. They were pissed seeing me and her talking together that day. It was literally that day too," he felt tears stinging his eyes as he looked over at them. "They were bitches to her and she jumped. Can't you see it's my fault? IT'S MY FAULT!" He shouted slamming his hands down on the table, upsetting his cup of coffee. Lilly and Scotty rose from their seats.

"Nate, you didn't make her jump!" Lilly said before looking over at him. "We're just going to go talk outside, okay. We'll be back to talk to you soon."

Standing outside, Lilly wrapped her arms around her chest and looked up at Scotty. "Now what do we think?"

"This obsession really makes me doubt that she jumped,"

"She didn't." They turned round to see the M.E. stood behind them. "Your victim was hurt beforehand. I don't know how they didn't notice but from the photos you can see bruising on the wrists and there is even scratch marks from where she's attacked someone. There was also skin cells found under her nails but there is no evidence of that anymore because..."

"They lost it." Lilly said angrily. How stupid could some people be in this place?

"Sorry Lilly," the M.E. said and Lilly just reached over and squeezed her shoulder. She sighed. They had nowhere to go on this. "I just thought I'd come and tell you myself that this is an unclosed homicide."

"She's only been dead a couple of years," Lilly said. "Could you get evidence off her body if we get permission to exhume the body?"

"Lilly, Kite's already told you that you can't waste their money on Cold Case's." Scotty pointed out knowing that it would upset her. She just nodded her head. "We can work the case on what we've got, I promise." He said squeezing her shoulders before looking over at Vera and Jeffries, "what you got?"

"I'm sorry, Lil." The M.E. said before walking away. Why did no one care about these cold cases?

TO BE CONTINUED...