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"Well, the victim is Ashley Mason, she went missing five months ago, she was only sixteen." The ME explained, "The injuries match, Amanda Fletcher autopsy, though it looks like he didn't do such a great job of cleaning this body, I did find some flesh under fingernails, I'm running it the DNA now."

"How long has she been dead?' Danny questioned,

"Two or three weeks," She stated,

"So now it's just the waiting game?" Maria inquired.

"Basically while we wait for the DNA to come back," Danny said with a sigh. "Let's go make a call on her sister."

Danny knocked on the door.

"Hello," A women with copper hair said, as she opened the door.

"Hi are you Anna Stevens?, I'm detective Reagan this is my partner Baez, we need to talk to you, can we come in?" Danny said,

"I am, have you found Ashley?" She questioned clutching the cross that hung from her neck as she led them to a sitting area in the apartment.

"Her body was found this morning by the river," Maria said as gently as she could when Anna had taken a seat.

A dry sob wretched the women's body.

"Oh, God!" She sobbed, covering her mouth with her hand, "I told her running by the river was dangerous." Anna said her voice full of emotion. "What am I going to tell my parents, they trusted her with me, after the wedding."

"We are so sorry for your loss," Maria said, trying to be kind.

"What happened?" Anna asked, trying to calm herself down, the news wasn't completely a shock, her sister had been missing for five months.

"It looks like she was abducted," Maria glanced at Danny trying to figure out if they should tell the broken sister about her sister's injuries, "Her body was left by the river, naked, and um injuries-"

"Oh, Lord have mercy." Anna breathed catching on to Maria's meaning, "my sister," Anna lost all control she had and broke down. Her shoulders shook with sobs. Maria's heart broke for the grieving sister, and she could tell Danny was going through a lot. A man came through the door.

"Anna, what's going on?" He asked, coming to sit by her side.

"they found her body?" Anna sobbed, gripping onto his shirt and burying her face into his shirt. He wrapped his arms around her.

"Oh," he said quietly.

"We will see ourselves out," Danny said, seeing that the married couple needed to be alone to grieve seeing that now wasn't a good time to ask questions.

"I should get home," Danny added when he looked at his watch as he walked out of the apartment.

"Tell Sean that if he is up for it, I'm willing to work with him tonight," Maria said, wanting to not let Sean down though she was secretly hoping that he would cancel.

Maria flopped on her bed, exhausted. Two bodies in one day, and probably by the same killer. She hugged her pillow to her just wanting to sleep but feeling dirty from all the death she had seen today. She eventually pulled herself up from the bed and got into the hot shower. She flinched with the hot water hit her skin, she let it rain over her. She didn't understand but this case was concerning her. No case had ever scared her, but this one had. The victims looked so much like her, and something deep in her stomach was telling her there was a reason for that. She curled up on the floor, of the shower. Trying to stop the tears that came to her eyes, the women were so young, they both had lives ahead of them and they were dumped like they weren't even people, just things to throw away. She tried to forget what Amanda had looked like just lying there, so young but so lifeless. She couldn't help the sob that broke free from her. Danny had always told her there would always be one case that would never sit right and would get too personal. Was this was hers? How broken Anna had been, her baby sister had been tortured and murdered. She wondered how Danny did it, he took every case so personal, how did he not crack. She scrubbed her body from head to toe hoping it would help get rid of the dirty feeling, but it didn't. It took her a few moments to get out of the shower after she had shampooed her hair. Once she was out she changed into her leggings and an oversized T-shirt. She grabbed her phone and saw a message from Sean.

Sean: Dad said that you are willing to come and help me with school, still up for it?

She sighed, she wanted to lie down and sleep but she had told Sean she would help.

Maria: Yeah, I'll be over in a few.

Maria thought about changing but she was too comfortable, and why should she have to change just because she was going to Danny's. She grabbed a hair tie and pulled her hair into a messy bun, grabbed her keys and left. She pulled into Danny's driveway and got out. She knocked on the door, Sean answered it.

"Thanks for coming!" Sean said, gratefully.

"Your welcome," Maria said with a tired smile.

Sean and Maria walked to the kitchen table.

"Hey, do you mind if we move to the sofa, I don't want to sit at a hard table," Maria suggested.

"Sure," Sean agreed.

"So, what are you having trouble with?" Maria asked as Sean opened up his textbooks.

"Just understanding the material," Sean said, "My teacher just doesn't explain it well, and learning it by myself just isn't working."

"Okay, what are you guys learning?" Maria inquired making herself comfortable.

"Linear equations," Sean said opening to a page in the book.

"Oh, those are rough," Maria said with a laugh taking the book and looking over the page to make sure she understood what she was supposed to be teaching.

Danny didn't hear her come in, he was focused on the crime scene photo's that were laid about in his room, as he tried to make sense of the case. No connections between the victims, only the way they died. They had been dumped in different places. One was a module and the other was a teen." He sighed, he needed coffee if he was going to stay up much longer as glanced at the clock and saw that it was already eleven.

He walked down the stairs surprised to hear the laugh in his living room.

"Now when I was in high school this stuff wasn't half as hard." Maria was laughing.

Danny was surprised at the sight that met him his living room. He saw Sean and Maria sitting on the couch, cups of coffee in their hands, textbooks lay forgotten on the coffee table. That wasn't what surprised him, it was Baez, he had always seen her look professional and there she sat in an NYPD shirt and leggings, Her hair which was always carefully curled pilled on top of her head in a bun. She also wore no makeup, he was pretty sure it was the first time he had ever seen her with no makeup on. He liked it there was a natural beauty to her face.

"Hey dad," Sean said, seeing his father.

"Sean, what are you still doing up, you have school tomorrow and it's ten already,"

"It's elven?" Maria exclaimed the time had pass fast then she thought.

"Yeah," Danny replied, pouring himself a cup of coffee.

"I should get home I have work tomorrow," Maria said reluctantly.

"Okay," Sean said slightly sadly. He enjoyed Maria's company.

"Drive safe," Danny said, Maria grabbed her things.

"I will," Maria promised.

Maria drove home feeling much better, being she Sean the feelings of death and grief as washed away. Though she noticed something, Sean corrected her when she slipped up, and he didn't seem like he needed help. She didn't understand why he was lying but she thought it was worth looking into.

I hope you guys liked that chapter! I had a lot of fun writing it!