Hey, hey, hey.

Rick had arrived back at the precinct and decided to take the stairs to give him some time to think things through. Once he reached the floor he saw Kate just sitting at her desk. He took a deep breath and approached her with coffee in both hands.

"Hey, thought you could use this." he said handing over the coffee "Oh thanks," she said happily taking a sip, "Everything okay at home?" she asked.

"Yeah, just had to send an email through to Gina about a book tour." he lied.

"Okay, well Ryan and Espo are on their way back with Sera Jennings. You wanna join in the interrigation?"

"Yeah, sure why not." he said slowly sipping his coffee.

"So Sera, tell us why your blood was on the edge of the bin in the alleyway," Kate asked looking at the girl. The girl didn't look up, "Our detectives noticed a cut on your hand when they picked you up from school. So we can pin you to being at the crime scene, unless you miraculously have an alibi that can get you out of this situation. Tell us what happened Sera and maybe we can help you. Maybe get you a deal."

Sera looked up, "I didn't kill that guy, we were only walking by." she said looking at the detective.

"Whose we?" Rick spoke up.

"Me and a friend, we were gonna go to Starbucks. But when she heard the noise in the alleyway she wanted to go check it out, and when we went into the alley I leaned against the bin and then when she told me to run I got up and we made a run for it. I must've cut my hand when I went to get up."

"Okay Sera, did you see the guys face? What he looked like? Anything that could help us?" Kate asked

"No, it all just happened too fast for me. It was crazy, one minute were walking, next were in an alleyway and after that were running from two big scary guys."

"Wait two guys?" Rick asked

"Yeah. I didn't see their faces though."

"You said before she, whose she, Sera?" Kate asked

"My friend. But I can't say anything she loathes cops, especially detectives."

"When you ran Sera, which way did you run then?" Rick questioned.

"South, the way we came from." Sera said confidently.

"Okay Sera. Until we have solid proof that your alibi checks out, you're gonna have to stay here. But Sera just know whoever your protecting, in the end their gonna get hurt, and it will be on you." Kate was only trying to trick her into giving her name, but she didn't budge.

"You know what maybe you should look more into your own family, instead of investigating this family. These brothers seemed to be two peas in a pot but you and your sister, don't even seem related." Sera was furious by now. She would never let anyone hurt her. Kate stood up and out of her chair, mad about what Sera had just said. She headed out with the file in hand and went into the bathroom, collapsing to the ground with tears streaming down her face.

By the time Kate had pulled it together and headed out of the bathroom, Rick was already waiting outside the bathroom. "You okay?" he questioned.

"Yeah, I'll be fine." Kate answered.

"We- ahh, we let Sera go."

"What?! Why?!" she yelled.

"Her story checked out. Tori went through video surveillance and found that Sera was in fact telling the truth, and I really think you have to see this for yourself."

They began walking back to the IT room when Rick stopped her, "Kate, I want you to be ready for what your gonna see next okay?"

"Rick whatever it is I can handle it. Really I can." She assured him.

They walked in and Tori all ready to show Kate the footage. "This is footage from a store just down the street from the crime scene, we see Sera with someone else we assume is the friend and seconds after two men follow them," Tori said, Kate swore that the other girl looked so familiar, "The we start getting street cam footage of the two, they lose the two men after three blocks but continue running, then after another four blocks they decide to stop." Tori continued on, " Thats when we get a clear image of Sera's accomplice." Tori zoomed in on the face and froze the footage. As Kate stared in disbelief, Rick and Tori just stared at her.

"Kate, please, say something." he spoke up

"Did you do facial recognition?" she asked

"Kate, we gave Tori a recent photo of her and its been confirmed. Its her Kate. And today when I went home, I kinda lied and invited Sophia over, to talk about the whole guardian thing and she told me Gracie's been in the city for just over a month. Kate I'm sorry but its her, its Gracie." Rick confirmed it all.

"Gracie?" Kate questioned under her breath.

Oh goss man, thought I updated this... Maybe not, hawrighty then please forgive me. Merry LATE Christmas y'all... Oops :L