Sorry for the delay in updating but real life has been abit more full on that I expected. I do hope you like this update.
As the officers along with the Homicide Detective's arrive at the location 40mins after leaving the Homicide, they gather with Wolfe and Jarvis as they make a plan of attack.
Jarvis takes control and sends a team around the back. Sending Duncan, Rhys and Lucy with a team of officers. Going through the front there is going to be Matt, Jarvis and Ally, while Wolfe stays with the car as back up if needed with other officers. They have closed off the roads around the house.
BACK AT HOMICIDE
Nick and Jen are sitting in the kitchen area with drinks while they wait, and this is where Waverley finds them sometime later.
"Nick, Jen I just gotten off the phone with Wolfe they were pulling up to the address five minutes ago. I don't think it will be long before they will be out."
"Thank you ma'am." Jen says quietly.
"Jen maybe we should try and work on some paperwork might help pass the time." Nick says as he places a hand over one of hers and gentle rubs his thumb on her hand. They look at each other and Waverley watches them with interest.
"I know honey and I understand that you may not won't to but we need to do something, Matt said he would ring once he knew for sure if they were in there or not. We've got to trust them to do their job." Nick says to her.
"But they have no idea why we have been left behind; I just hate lying all the time to them."
"I do too, but something's we can't share unless we want to be in a four by four cell."
"I know that, it's just hard that is all, not being able to tell them the whole story."
Someone starts to walks towards the kitchen area and Waverley sees them and shakes her head and gives them this look and they know to turn around and walk away.
"Imagine the number of times we nearly blew it when you came back and found me here. I struggled not to make you your drinks then what about that afternoon I did and Dunny nearly caught on. It's never been easy, and it never will be not with what we have experienced."
"Nick, Jennifer have you guys ever spoken to a counsellor about what you went through when under-cover?" They both shake their heads.
"How do you tell them classified information, personal information about a case one that you aren't allowed to talk about to anyone outside the people you have been told you can talk to, tell them what you experience. They have no idea of the hell that you can experience while under-cover. And it's not like you can turn down under-cover work. Not when it's SIS." Jennifer says "Since returning from secondment and finding Nick here and being able to talk to him has helped and having him there when we had the Surpomo Case before going back under-cover, we talk to each other as we were both there together he understand what I seen and how I feel as he was the one comforting me through some of the experiences. The SIS they sort of said if you need to talk here's a number but they are also very tight knit they don't allow much to get out, if anything at all." Jen says back to Waverley.
"Well I don't care what they say if you need to go speak to someone I'm sure Claudia would be more than happy and I can tell her any meetings you have with her that involve your under-cover work does not get recorded down. You need more than each other to be able to keep going on in life." The room is in silence for a few minutes when something clicks in Jens head and she speaks.
"Ma'am why did you say to keep going on in life and not to get over it? Everyone else just says get over it?"
"In this job there will always be events, experiences that you just can't get over. What you do is work through them learn to keep moving forward without letting them get much of a hold on you. You will always have good days and bad days. Would you like me to inform her about this?" She asks the two who are sitting down.
"Yea I think that might be good for both of us." Nick then says after a few minutes. Before they get up and start to head to their desks as they arrive at their desks Nicks mobile goes off, which causes Jen to jump and Waverley to stop and turn around and walk back over to them.
BACK AT THE HOUSE
"We will go in on the count of three." Jarvis says into the mic system that is hooked up with all the officers involved with the job."
"1…..2…3….GO, GO, GO!" Is heard and they bust their way through the front and back doors of the house.
They clear the first level, they do find signs of people living in the house, they then work their way upstairs. The first two rooms are clear, then the next door Allie comes too is locked, she signals to Rhys and they have a silent eye conversations which doesn't go unnoticed by the others she nods, and he busts the lock, she quickly scans the room in and as she sweeps something in the corner of her eye catches her attention as she returns her gaze to a dark corner something moves, something small. She looks back and Rhys as she holsters her weapon, and then signals to him to be quiet. He stands in the doorway to prevent anyone escaping and to also cover Allie.
She moves quietly to the corner, speaking softly at the same time.
"It's ok I'm a police women it's ok to come out." She says hoping it is the missing children.
"it's safe now no one can hurt you." She says and then she hears a muffled sound coming from that corner. She is closer enough now so she kneels down she wants to sit but knows it this is a adult and she sits she has no way to move in a hurry if they come after her.
"My name is Allie what is yours?" she says. The next things she notices is a small person running at her and wrapping their arms around her sobbing into her shoulder, the action having put her on her backside, and for someone with not mothering instincts she easily starts soothing the child. It takes another five minutes before she gets him to stop sobbing enough to talk to her.
"What's your name sweetie?" she says to him. The normal tuff as boots Allie is showing the others her softer kinder side.
"Billy, Ma'am have you found my brother and sister yet?" And this sets alarm bells off in Rhys head, he talks into his mic to inform them that they have one of the three missing children.
"Are they not here with you?" she asks him.
"No they left when I was sleeping so did Uncle Adam." He says his face looking so sad. Matt arrives in the room.
"When was this Billy?" she asks him trying to gauge how much time between them arriving here and Adam and the other two leaving the premises.
"I woke up not long before you guys arrived; I heard the siren that is what woke me up. And when I woke I noticed they weren't in my room I called out but nothing then I got scared and locked myself in here like mummy and daddy tort me to do.
"Ok go check the others rooms, Billy can you come with me please." Matt says as he tries to take the young child's hand, he notices how he refuses to let go of Allie.
"Allie take him downstairs we will check the rest of the house again." As Matt talks to Allie Rhys hears something and tells them all to be quiet. He faintly hears again. HE quickly checks the ceiling of the room and finds nothing and so he checks every other room on the top level of the house till he finds what he is looking for.
"Cover please." Rhys says as he finds something to hook the hook on the roof. Matt and another officer provide him with his much needed cover, he then pulls on the hook and it opens up with a ladder.
He quietly goes up the ladders just before he puts his head in he gets out his gun but leaves the safety on just in case. His gun goes through first before he then carefully lifts his head into the attic. There is faint light coming in from the window at each end of the attic as he scans the room he finds the other three people they have been looking for.
"Adam Rogers this is Detective Rhys Levitt, Homicide please step forward with your hand up." And Rhys is surprised when he does it without an issue..
Adam tells the other two to go to the officer, and Rhys finishes climbing into the attic to allow the other two children to climb down the ladder.
"Detective Levitt, I'm no threat. I have an ankle holster on my right leg there is a weapon in it." He says as he quietly walks up to Rhys with his hands on his head he puts out his right leg and allows Rhys to take the weapon out before going down the ladder himself. Rhys following.
"Why didn't you come out when we arrived?"
"The door jammed and also I wasn't 100% sure if you where police or SIS."
"Still you should have come out and made yourself known." Matt says sternly to the man
"No way is there any SIS agents with you?" He asks
"No just Homicide and police officers."
"Good." He says relief sounding in his voice.
"We are going to take you into custody and take you down to the station for questioning these kids have been missing and they have family worried about them." Matt says as he gets Duncan to escorts them down. As he rings Nick.
"Nick its Matt we have them." Relief flooding through him.
"How is he Matt?" he asks
"He looks fine but by the looks of it Child services are already here." He says as he sees the lady they deal with off and on when kids are involved
"No don't let them take him bring him back here please."
"Nick you know the drill."
"Yes I do but his parents are right here they can't take him."
"Nick."
"NO Matt I don't care what she says if it is the normal hag we deal with but he needs to come here we need to see him Matt." There is silence between the two, before Matt speaks again.
"I will see what I can do. See you guys in about an hour or so." He says before hanging up. Matt walks over to the lady form child services to find out if Billy can go with them.
"Ma'am I'm sorry but Billy is coming in with me." Matt says.
"No he isn't he is coming with me he has no living parents so he is now in our care until we can track down family and make sure they are able to care for him."
"He has living parent's ma'am and they are waiting at homicide for him now if you will excuse me Billy is coming back to Homicide with me." Matt says and for Allie this sounds weird.
"Matt his real parents died when he was three days old. I know I did his back ground check." She says. Matt gets pissed off with her and sends her this look. But as he won't let Allie go to go with child services, he also decides to add this to his advantage.
"Look you have to bring them to Homicide for questioning anyway, He can ride with me and Duncan and Kingston to the office and from there you can decide what is going to happen, and also see his parents. Plus it looks like he is refusing to let go of Kingston as it is and you do not have enough room in your car for all of them as none of them can be place in the front seat of your car, since it has air bags in the front and children under seven shouldn't be riding in the front seat of cars that have airbags." Matt has decided he doesn't really care if this case is closed or not he is going to reunite Billy with his parents, even if he has to overdo the rules and regulations a little bit to get his way.. The lady is not happy but agrees to it in the end.
Nick and Jen sit and wait in Homicide for the gang to return. First to arrive is Rhys and Lucy who say a quick hello before sitting down to write up their reports.
Ten minutes later Duncan arrives and he starts talking to Nick and Jen.
"How did it go?"
"Not to bad, we found them all safe and sound. Billy had locked himself in a room the other three were up in the Attic, Rhys was the one to notice a sound that lead us to finding them, I thought after we were informed they were no longer there that they had left him behind. HE had attached himself to Allie though and I must say I was shocked to see her so motherly. She does have a soft side." Duncan says and Rhys hears what he says and smiles to himself.
"That must have made her feel uncomfortable." Nick says in reply to what Duncan has said.
"She didn't seem to mind to be honest; well that is how it looked to me. Though Matt was having a hissy fit at the child services lady over Billy. Hey Allie you managered to get rid of your tag along?" Duncan says when he notices her arriving without Billy.
"Hey, Matt has him along with someone called Chris the same guy you gave heaps to the other day Nick, and Jeremy Byrnes." She says as she sits down and her desk and opens up her laptop.
"Hey Nick, Jen did Matt say anything to you about who Billy's parents really are. He told the hag from child services they were here at Homicide waiting for him." She says as she starts typing away
"Matt was properly saying that to allow the boy more time with you we heard from Duncan how he wouldn't leave your side."
"No he was stuck to me until he saws Chris then he took off towards him so I escaped before he noticed I was gone."
"That is so mean Allie." Says Duncan and she gives him one of her looks.
"Yea you shouldn't leave a little boy alone like that when he has attached themselves to you." Lucy says and as she looks up she sees Matt with two other people and the little boy Billy walking onto the Homicide floor she starts to wonder why they are hear. But before she can get a change to answer the boy speaks.
"MUMMY, DADDY." Billy yells as soon as he sees Nick and Jen, who when they hear his voice both turn around and the smiles that are on their faces at seeing their boy makes Matt feel so much better for pushing for them to see their boy now instead of waiting. The rest of the Homicide gang are left speechless at what the boys says.
Billy runs straight towards Nick and crashes into him as he gives him a cuddle and kiss, before going over to Jen and doing the same, but Jen then picks him up and sits him on her lap. Tears running down her face as she holds on to him tightly.