I don't own these characters just a fan wanting to tell as story. Hope you and enjoy! A special thanks to dancinkowgirl for editing this chapter :)

Danny got out of bed when his alarm shook him awake, he had gotten used to the feeling of sleeplessness. He couldn't remember for the last time he had had a good night's sleep. He got dressed and hurried down to get food ready. As he walked into the kitchen he saw that the coffee was already made. Sean was moving around in the kitchen making food.

"Good morning." Danny greeted, wondering how long his son had been awake.

"Morning," Sean replied, taking the pan off the stove and putting the eggs he had been making on two different plates. "Food's ready" he added, "I made coffee."

"Thanks," Danny said with a smile.

"Do you know what time you will be home tonight." Sean inquired, taking a bite out of his eggs.

"No," Danny remarked, "This case isn't an easy one."

"Does it have to do with the two women who were found naked with their throats cut?" Sean inquired.

"Yeah," Danny replied after a few moments, he wished that the news couldn't get their hands on the stories so fast.

"Who would do something like that?" Sean said, rhetorically, for he knew the answer.

"Thanks for breakfast." Danny said, grabbing his jacket and pouring himself a cup of coffee. "Have a good day at school."

"I will," Sean responded.

Sean finished up breakfast and headed to school.

He saw Sam, her brown hair was pulled back as she looked over her textbooks. She looked at him and flashed a smile, her blue eyes shining.

He grinned back and took his seat.

"Who are you messaging?" Danny asked as he drove to where the first body had been found.

"Sean," Maria responded, looking back at her phone with a smile. She really loved messaging Sean, was currently sending her random notes from his history class.

"He is supposed to be in school right now not messaging you!" Danny exclaimed, in frustrating.

"He already knows the material, and he is comprehending it all." Maria defended, "And it makes driving in the car with you just a little easier to deal with."

"I'm not that bad," Danny replied, indignantly.

"No, just quiet," Maria said with a grin. These were the moments she lived for. When they forgot about the cases they were working, and were just themselves, it happened rarely but she cherished every moment.

They spent the morning walking through the apartment handing out business cards hoping someone had seen something.

Then they headed back to the precinct and waited at their desk while working on other cases, hoping something would turn up.

"DNA just came back," Danny said happily after an hour of sitting. "Want to open it together?"

"Sure," Maria responded, walking to Danny's computer.

"Okay DNA is a match to an Angelo Lopez," Danny stated, "Already has a record for assault."

Maria's heart froze.

"Angelo Lopez?" She breathed, "Are you sure that's a match?" she begged desperately.

"Yeah, 99.9% match," Danny responded, looking up from the screen.

"What's wrong?" Danny worried, Maria was had practically fallen into her chair.

Maria was speechless, her face had grown pale and she finally understood the sinking feeling she had in her stomach during this case. Danny was getting seriously concerned because right next to the statement, no known address, was that Angelo Lopez also had a restraining order against him that have been requested by a "Maria Baez"

"He's your ex?" Danny asked, as seeing that the woman who had pressed the assault charges had also been "Maria Baez"

"Yeah," Maria said finding her voice again, "we dated in high school and then a little while after,"

"Baez, why did he walk after the assault charge?" Danny question quietly.

"It doesn't matter," Maria stammered looking at her hands.

"Well, I guess we know why they look like you," Danny remarked, as he saw Maria literally shudder at that statement.

"Danny, I think we need to check the Colorado cold cases for any other cases that match ours." Maria suggested, her voice as cold as if she was trying to turn off her feeling for the world, but Danny heard the slight shake of her vocal cords.

"Okay." Danny agreed. He was watching her, she looked shaken but he had no idea how shaken she was.

Her heart was pounding, and her head felt fuzzy. She still remembered what it was like to be thrown against the wall just because she had screwed up dinner. Just thinking of Angelo made her ribs hurt from the time she had been shoved into the kitchen counter. She thought this was behind her, but it wasn't, it was right in front of her and now he was hurting others.

"Found it." Danny exclaimed, "There are five unsolved homicides, each woman had a tattoo on her neck from 1-5 and the injuries matched the two victims they had found in New York. The deaths in Colorado took place about once every two years, and each victim went missing and then about two years later they would turn up dead." Danny explained.

"So he numbers them, which means we are missing six through ten," Maria remarked, it made her sick that he numbered them. He took the time to tattoo the numbers onto them.

"I'm going to put out an APB on his description," Danny stated, "Can you get the case files from Colorado?"

"Yeah," Maria nodded, she still felt numb. He was back, and he was grabbing women who looked like her. How long would it take for him to find her?

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