I was so excited to get so many reviews on chapter six I had to give you guys chapter 7 as soon as possible. Thank you all for your support! I am extreamly excited that all of you enjoy the new Mouse. It makes me feel good that I am doing the old series some kind of justice.


As me and Catherine reached the door I stopped to let her pass by me and nearly knocked into her as she came to a halt right after entering. Her expression was one of awe and shock.

Mouse had taken her place behind the panel of computers and the flat screens were alive with images. After putting on her head set she turned to me and Catherine. "Is this about a case? Am I allowed to ask what it's about?"

Catherine's head snapped towards Mouse quickly, "Case?"

"Yeah." Mouse replied quickly. "You're a detective, right?"

"Yes, but I don't remember telling you that." Catherine said carefully and skeptically.

I felt the air tighten in my lungs. I looked at Mouse quickly who also looked slightly shocked that the information had slipped out. Then Mouse rubbed the back of her head.

"You didn't. I saw your badge and just assumed." Mouse finished with a nervous smile.

I released the breath of air I had been holding slowly. Catherine looked down at her hip and then at Mouse with a suspicious look. I was sure if Mouse had told her the truth of how she knew who she was Catherine would never have forgiven me.

Mouse was trying to get things back on track and ask Catherine "What is the intersection you wanted to take a look at?"

Catherine regained her equilibrium and quickly gave Mouse the address. To which Mouse wasted no time. Her hands were moving at blinding speed. I heard JT walk in behind me and heard a small gasp leave his mouth.

"Look at the left flat screen it is going to pull up your intersection. What exactly are we looking for?"

Catherine moved closer to the screen Mouse had pointed out. As Catherine's focus was on the screen I took this opportunity to look at Mouse. She must've sensed my stare because she turned to look at me. She had on a remorseful face and mouthed the words "I'm sorry".

Catherine was still looking at the screen and didn't noticed our exchange, "We are looking for a black SUV. It passed by the intersection in the early hours of the morning."

Suddenly the activity on the screen came to a stop. Then life started to move backwards. Mouse wasn't looking at the big screen but was looking between the two monitors in front of her. Looking back at the screen and watched most of the day unfold. Then in the dark hours of the morning, a white car was parked on the curb next to the section of the lot that was visible in the camera. Because the tape was moving backward it looked like a man stepped out of the car. "THERE!" Catherine yelled and the video came to a stop.

Catherine's nose was almost touching the screen and her eyes were now squinting trying get a better look at the man. "Can you enhance the image?" she said intensely.

"Working on it." Mouse said. The sound of fingers on the keyboard working. "For convince there is always a sacrifice, in this case, quality."

Suddenly, the right flat screen flashed on and the white car came up on the screen. The car came closer and closer to the intersection. Before the car moved out of sight it came to a stop. Both images were starting to become less pixellated. The white car became clear first. "We got a license plate!" Mouse said still focusing on the other image.

Catherine put her phone to her ear. "Tess. Just got an anonymous tip on Maria's kidnapper." she stopped to allow Tess to talk. "Yeah, I went back to the lot and there was a homeless man who saw a white car picking up a man who exited the SUV. And he got a license plate number." Catherine waited and then gave Tess the number to run.

While all this was unfolding I noticed how tired Catherine looked. It took everything in side me to look away from her instead of reaching for her and enveloping her in my arms. I saw that JT was looking over Mouse's shoulder in shock and awe. Mouse's eyes were now focusing on only one monitor now.

"Tess is running the plates." She came towards Mouse's work area.

"I'm working on the image but...I don't think I'll be able to pull an identification." Mouse updated. She was still tapping on the key board looking at the image. "It's too pixellated. UH!" Mouse wasn't giving up.

"Well we have plate's so once we get an address it won't really matter." Catherine said looking down willing her phone to ring.

"Thank you Mouse. I know this wasn't easy." I said.

Mouse's mouth twitched up in a smile and her shoulders shrugged. As if to say, this is an average day for me.

"I am sure its easy to break in to anything when you have daddy's money to buy the best equipment." JT said his voice laced with jealousy.

Mouse didn't seem effected by JT's comment. And I had to remind my self that she probably had to deal with many comments from her classmates during college.

Mouse turned to face JT and crossed her arms. "If there is one thing I learned from my family it's, if you want something done right do it yourself. All my equipment, even though my dad financed it all, was built by me." She said smugly. "All the programs I have were programmed by me." She turned her chair back around to face the screen.

I threw JT a disapproving look. I was use to him being overly cautious but not rude. I wasn't quite sure what had gotten into him.

"Do you have a permit for this?" Catherine was at the far end of the room and was holding up a gun."

All eyes fell on Mouse. She jumped out of the chair and walked toward Catherine with wide eyes.

"It's not what it looks like." Mouse said putting up her hands. Catherine looked at the gun and then at Mouse.

"Really!? Because it looks and feels like a gun."

"But it's not." Mouse reassured her. "May I show you?" She reached out for the gun.

Catherine handed Mouse the gun unsure about her decision.

"Um, can everyone get behind me?" she motioned where Catherine was standing.

Once everyone was behind her she aimed the gun at the far wall. When she pulled the trigger there wasn't the usual sound that comes from a gun. Instead, there was a soft air sound and on the other end of the wall a small spot was on the wall.

"Its a tracer. I modified the gun to shoot out GPS tracers but" She turned to face the wall again and the small black dot stared to slowly slide down the wall. "I can't get the stupid thing to stick." She said with a slight hunch in her shoulders. "The problem is I'm not a Chemist. So every formula I come up with doesn't work." She through the non harmful gun on the work table with frustration.

"Why would you need something like that?" JT ask genuinely.

Mouse shrugged, "Build it and they will come. I could sell the patent and possible strike it rich." She said with a smile.

"Yeah like you really need the money." JT chuckled looking around the room.

"My parents are rich. Not me. I'm not disillusioned about that fact." She said. At that JT looked at her as if seeing Mouse for the first time.

A phone ringing cut through the silence.

To everyone's surprise it was mine. No one need me to announce the person that was calling me. Because the only person it could be was the only one that was missing from the room. I looked at Catherine you turned away. And with nervous knot in my stomach I answered the phone to stop it from ringing.

"Hi Alex."