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The Surprise That Would Change Everything-Part 4:

Louisa was sat on Maura's MacBook on her Facebook page telling her friends that she was safe, but she wasn't telling them where she was. She was looking at some photos of her and her friends when Maura walked in and stood behind her.

"They your friends?" she asked causing Louisa to jump in her seat. Louisa nodded before turning to face Maura.

"Want to go and get something to eat?" Maura asked.

"Yes please," Louisa said before Maura led her to the cafe.

Angela was wondering when Jane or Maura would arrive when her eyes caught sight of Maura and Louisa walking into the cafe and sitting down. She walked over to them and smiled,

"Maura, the usual?" she asked.

"Yes please and Louisa will have a..." she stopped, unsure what the young girl was having. Angela looked at her before turning to Louisa,

"How about a few of my bunny pancakes and a chocolate milkshake?" Louisa nodded and Angela went to get their food.

Louisa looked at Maura,

"Who's that?" she asked.

"That's janes mum, Angela. She's like a second mum to me," Maura said, "she's ok to talk to," she smiled before Angela brought their food and drinks over.

"Maura? Can I have a word please?" Angela asked. Maura nodded and followed Angela.

Jane was sat on Louisa's bed looking at the photo wondering how Louisa was linked to the person in the photo. Her thoughts were disturbed when Frost walked into the room.

"What's with the case?" he asked.

"Thought Louisa might want some of her things," Jane replied, pushing the photo out of sight before getting up, "right let's head to the victim's workplace," she said before heading out with the case,

"Is that the girl Cavanaugh is fuming about?" Angela asked Maura.

"Yes. Her name is Louisa Vance and her father was murdered. She is under janes care with me at least until the investigation is over. Jane and I are going to talk to her and see what she witnessed," Maura said before heading back over to Louisa, who was slowly eating her pancakes.

Frost was driving when he noticed that Jane wasn't paying attention to anything.

"Are you ok?" he asked.

"Yeah just worried about Louisa," Jane said, glad she didn't get hives from lying like Maura did. Frost nodded, not believing her but deciding not to pressure her, but, at the same time, realised that something at Louisa's house had freaked her out.

Maura had decided to leave Louisa in the cafe with Angela so she could carry on the autopsy on Brian without the worry of Louisa seeing anything. She told Louisa that Angela would be keeping an eye on her before she headed back down to the morgue.

Angela decided that she'd go over to Louisa and sit with her. She grabbed a pen and some paper and went and sat by her.

"Do you know who I am?" Angela asked.

"You're Jane's mum," Louisa said, "Jane's nice, Maura too."

"That's right. I'm Angela and Maura told me your name is Louisa. Now here is some paper and a pen so you can write or draw things," Angela said, I'll get you another milkshake darling," she said before getting out and sorting out another milkshake.

Jane and Frost were now looking through Brian's desk at work and found a drawer in his desk was locked and no sign of a key. Jane wondered where the key was. She saw one of Brian's coworkers walking by and hurried over to the door.

"Excuse me," she said, "do you know where Brian Vance kept the keys to his desk?" she asked.

"Yes," the woman said before walking into the office and moving a plant pot, revealing a hidden bit of floor, "he thought nobody knew about it, but I found it accidentally," she said before opening the drawer for them.

Maura was now looking at the tox screen for Brian when she noticed the high readings for drugs in his system and yet there was no evidence to say that Brian was involved in drugs. She text Jane before heading back to the cafe to see if Louisa knew anything about what Brian was into.

Jane looked at her phone,

"That was Maura. She's found drugs in Brian Vance's system. Look for any signs of a laptop, money, anything that could connect him to drugs," she said before going over to the filing cabinet and looking through it.

"Louisa I really need to ask you some questions," Maura said as she sat opposite Louisa. The girl nodded and put her pen down. Maura waited a few moments before wondering if Jane should have been the one asking the questions. Jane...she wasn't there, so Maura knew she'd have to do it.

"Was there anything that seemed out of the ordinary at home?" she asked Louisa. Louisa looked around and shook her head. Maura had an idea and picked up the bits of appear and lead Louisa back to her office.

Maura let Louisa get comfortable on the sofa before turning to her,

"Will you tell me now?" she asked softly.

"Sometime he'd get a call and seem upset or scared and then every so often there'd be a knock on the door... I'm saying too much," Louisa said before finding her hands in Maura's,

"You can trust me," she said softly, "so what happened when the knock on the door happened?"

"He'd send me to my room and tell me to stay there. I usually hear raised voices and some man shouting at dad," Louisa said, "he'd threaten to hurt me," she said before crying.

Maura kept hold of one of Louisa's hands as she phoned Jane to fill her in on things before Jane said that they had found Brian's laptop and were heading back to the station to see what they could find. Maura said for Jane to join them to find out how much Louisa knew before turning and seeing Louisa asleep. She laid Louisa on the sofa before going and looking at the tox reports again