It was getting dark outside as the last storage box was dropped onto the conference table with a resounding thump. At least half a dozen more sat next to it and the rest of the space was already covered in stacks of folders.

"Thanks" Chloe said as the officer left and she opened the new box and took out more files. Dan lifted the lid of the box nearest to him and stared at it all in disbelief.

"You really want us to go through all of this?" he asked.

"Getting the old CI files was your idea" Chloe reminded him.

"Yes, but I didn't expect there to be this many" he said with dismay.

"With nothing else to narrow it down we have to check every case Jade Beltran ever assisted on. There has to be something here as to why someone would want her dead. Where are we on Beth's juvie record?"

"Still waiting on a judge to sign off. Apparently, her parents have put in a complaint about you and Lucifer" Dan said and Chloe looked up from her pile in surprise.

"What! Why?" Dan only looked are her and raised his eyebrows. Chloe sighed and returned to her file.

"I need to start leaving him in the car" she muttered to which Dan smiled.

"It's holding things up but we should have it in a day or two" he confirmed.

"Ok, what about the gun?" she asked

"Ballistics matched so it's definitely the murder weapon. Ella's still trying to see if she can get anything else off it but with it being submerged in the water, it's a long shot. We did a sweep of the area surrounding the stream and found tyre tracks, possibly a motorcycle, she's running those too. Maybe we'll get lucky."

"Maybe. In the meantime, we can make a start" She pulled more from the box and sat down.

"We?"

"You're here to assist on cases so…" she pushed the stack of folders across the table, "assist" Dan shook his head, smiled, and accepted the folders as he sat down.

"Isn't this something your consultant should be helping with?" he asked as he opened the top file.

"Lucifer hates paperwork" Decker replied absently as she flicked through the folder in front of her before setting it aside and pulling out another.

"God forbid we ask him to do something he doesn't like" Dan murmured and Chloe eyed him between reviewing files.

"I thought you two were getting along?" She asked.

"What gave you that idea?" He looked up with a slightly confused expression.

"Oh, I don't know. Just lately things between you two seem less…" She struggled to find the right word.

"Bitchy?" Dan suggested.

"I wouldn't put it exactly like that" Chloe said, although she tried not to nod her head in agreement. It was exactly like that.

"I thought we had an understanding after what happened with you and Professor Carlisle but it seems like we're reverting back to 'old times'" Espinoza said with a frown, although he did admit to himself that Lucifer's taunts had become less vicious. Granted the guy still called him names and mocked him but now it came across more like a twisted sense of banter rather than a malicious attack. Not for the first time he found himself wondering if Lucifer had even been anything other than an arrogant jerk.

"I'm sorry Dan" Chloe broke him out of his musings and he shook his head.

"It doesn't matter, let's just focus on the case. The last thing I want to talk about is Lucifer"

"Detectives, look who I found!" Lucifer said ecstatically as he entered the room. He smiled and held the door open as Amber followed behind him. She seemed less nervous than before but still gave the impression that she would rather be anywhere but here.

"Amber?" Decker stood as the other woman entered. She seemed none the worse for wear from her dunking in the river. She had obviously changed but her overall style choice of mute colours and multiple layers remained the same with her platinum locks twisted up out the way.

"I…found some of my sister's letters" She pulled her hand out of her pocket and held out a bundle of folded papers, "They're from back when we still talked. She mentions some of her friends from back then. I thought they might be useful"

"Thank you, that's amazingly helpful" The Detective took them and tried to ignore Lucifer gloating behind her.

"You wrote actual letters?" Dan asked and Amber gave a shrug.

"Mom was old school. No electronics, computers. After we… moved out… it was just something we kept doing... at least for a while" Dan and Chloe exchanged a look but didn't say anything. The fact she'd been taken into care was currently irrelevant to the case so if she didn't want to bring it up they wouldn't either.

"Was there something else?" The Detective asked, changing the topic, as Amber shifted nervously.

"I'm not sure, just...I got the same bad feeling" she managed.

"The same feeling that you had about Beth and your sister?" Decker asked and Amber nodded.

"I think something bad it going to happen" The psychic admitted and Chloe took a slight breath to stop herself saying something that would destroy the trust she'd gone through the entire woodland trek to create.

"Another premonition?" Lucifer asked earnestly and Decker was shaken out of her own thought gathering by her partner's immediate acceptance of Ambers claims.

"Lucifer" Decker said sharply and when he looked at her she tilted her head to show her irritation before returning her attention to the conversation at hand. "Amber, you were very helpful in the woods, somehow, and thank you for the letters but I'm sure whatever you're feeling is just stress from everything that's happened. If we find anything we'll let you know"

"Hold on Detective. You said yourself that Amber's been very useful. Surely this is worth investigating?" Lucifer interjected and Dan looked down with a cough.

"Lucifer, can I talk to you for a minute" Chloe said and nodded her head to the other side of the room. Dan remained silent and tactfully looked the other way as the two of them moved to the corner.

"What?" Lucifer asked as he lent down towards her.

"The only logical explanation of how she led us to that gun is that she knew it was there" Chloe tried to keep her tone level as she explained her position.

"Because she's psychic" He said in a matter of fact manner that she found almost as irritating as when he danced around the truth.

"Or because she's involved somehow. And until I know for certain I'm not going to go chasing visions when there's real police work to be done" She waved her hand to indicate the table covered in paperwork.

"So, I'm on my own then" He said as he straightened up and pulled at his cuffs in a way she knew meant he was annoyed.

"No, Lucifer, that's not what I…" she started but he had already turned back to the others.

"Amber, let's go and look into this feeling of yours, shall we? We'll leave the detectives to the real police work" He said as he swept out of the room without a backwards glance. Amber looked like a deer in the headlights as she looked between Chloe and Dan before giving an apologetic shrug and hurrying after him.

"You're right" Dan said, "He must really hate paperwork" to which Chloe could only give a sad laugh as she sat back down and dove back into the files.