You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~Author Unknown

Harry sat in his car the next morning trying to bring himself to start the ignition and drive to Mayflower to see Isabelle. He sighed loudly for the tenth time as he couldn't get his brain and body to function in unison. A blast of cold air brought him to his senses and he looked round to see Nikki slipping in the front passenger seat beside him

"Hi?" he said looking confused as Nikki pulled the car door shut

"Hi" she said breezily

"What are you doing here?" he asked

"I'm coming with you" she said firmly "I've seen you, you're just sitting here doing nothing"

"Am not" Harry replied sulkily

Nikki rolled her eyes "Harry I want Isabelle to be as innocent as you do, but we're never going to find out unless we can get her to open up"

"Don't you think I know that" Harry snapped, a second passed before his features softened and he grasped Nikki's hand

"I know" she replied to Harry's unspoken apology " She needs all the help she can get"

"I know" Harry said taking a deep breath in and letting go of Nikki's hand

He started the ignition and they pulled away towards Mayflower and an uncertain future.

As soon as they got to the unit, Martin led Harry and Nikki through the maze of corridors and out into the small garden that was part of the unit's grounds. Nikki gazed around at the neatly cut lawn and the pruned flowerbeds which was sharply juxtaposed in their beauty with the big wire fence that surrounded the grounds.

"How's she doing?" Harry asked Martin

"She's bearing up" Martin replied "I think she's still shaken up from the visit from the police yesterday"

At this Nikki couldn't help but release an angry sigh and Harry gave her hand a gentle squeeze

They walked over to the middle of the garden where Jack was watching Isabelle a short distance away

"She's in her own little world at the moment" Jack explained as they watched the young girl

Isabelle was gently spinning round and round, humming a wordless tune to herself. Her long black skirt flicked out around her ankles with each spin and she seemed unaware of anyone else's presence in the garden

"Isabelle" Martin said slowly walking over to her

Isabelle suddenly stopped spinning and fell to the ground with a thud; the dizziness obviously getting to her head slightly. She crawled over to one of the flowerbeds and started digging in the soil with her bare hands. The adults watched her carefully as she extracted a small object from the moist peat, com0plelty unaware that she was being observed

"What have you got there Belle?" Jack said sitting beside the young girl

For the first time Isabelle was aware of the people who were watching her and clutched the item tightly to her chest

"Isabelle" Martin said crouching in front of her "Open your hands"

Isabelle frowned and bared her teeth at the doctor; suddenly her gaze fell over his shoulder to where the two pathologists were standing. Martin took this momentary distraction as an opportunity and gently prized open her hands and took out the shard of glass that she had wrapped her hands around.

As soon as Isabelle realised what had happened she threw herself to the ground and wept with a dramatic lament. Her screams and wails of despair echoed across the grounds

"Belle" Jack soothed placing a hand on her back

Isabelle shook it off and writhed away from human touch. She twisted over until she was lying on her back and suddenly her face stopped contorting and her face relaxed as she drifted off into her little world once more

"I'm sorry you had to witness that" Jack said moving away from Isabelle and towards Harry and Nikki

"Don't apologise" Harry said never taking his eyes off the girl

"She's still very worked up after the police came to see her yesterday and the doctor's have had to increase the medication she's on"

"Has she been sleeping?" Nikki asked

Jack shook his head "Not without the aid of medication" he sighed "I wish I knew what was going on in her head sometimes and I wish I could help"

"You are helping" Harry nodded "You've taken time to try and understand her, that's more than most people have done"

Isabelle suddenly disrupted the gentle silence that had fallen among the adults as she flipped onto her front and started to scream once phrase over and over again

"Devil daddy!"