Disclaimer: this is for the first chapter as well. I don't own them but im
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Bobby stopped short. Staring up at him was a girl. Not a girl, a woman. He
made a move to grab her, meaning to take her into custody, but he stopped
when she pressed herself against the wall. She looked like a deer caught in
headlights. You could almost touch the fear flowing from her.
Her clothes were torn, shabby and worn. Her hair hung down her shoulders,
limp and dull. She looked like she hadn't eaten in weeks. Her lips were
cracked and bleeding.
Bobby held out his hand to help her up, but she only curled up, trying to
get further away. "Hey." He said to her gently. "I'm not gonna hurt you."
The girl looked at him, then his hand. He could see her thinking,
calculating whether or not to trust the stranger now offering her his hand.
He could see that something had happened to this girl, something that made
her distrust everyone.

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Alex looked over at her partner. What was he doing now? He was crouched in
front of the closet and muttering apparently to himself. She stepped closer
to see what he was doing.
She almost had a heart attack when she saw Bobby pull out a young woman
from the closet. The woman spotted the body lying on the bed. A shadow came
over her face and she screamed, clapping her hands over her head. Bobby
turned to her. "Alex help."
She ran over as the woman collapsed. Bobby caught her before she hit the
ground and Alex helped him lift her. She was surprised at how thin the
woman was, and how easily they could lift her.
"We've got to get her to a hospital." Alex said to Bobby who nodded lifted
the woman into his arms.
"C'mon it will be faster this way' he said, leading the way to the SUV. The
officers at the door backed away to let the pair through.

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Bobby sat on the chairs in the emergency room while Alex filled out the
forms the nurse had presented them with. She was having a hard time because
they had no idea who the girl was. She sighed and walked over to her
partner. She almost laughed when she saw how uncomfortable he was. Then
again he had always hated hospitals. They reminded him of his childhood,
and his mother.
"I can't fill these out until we know who the hell she is."
Bobby nodded. "She saw what happened Alex. She was afraid. She knows who
did this and it has made her distrust everyone. I had to coax her out of
that closet."
Alex nodded. Her cell phone in her pocket broke the silence. "It's the
captain."
Bobby watched her take the call. Nodding and frowning. Watching her
expressions and trying to work out what was happening. Alex came back over.
"Her name's Torilette, Torilette Miller. The woman in there was her mother.
She has no other family and her father left when she was five. No one's
seen him since."
Bobby nodded. "I guess that leaves her in our custody, unless her father
shows up."
"She doesn't need to be in anyone's custody Bobby. She's 25 years old."
Remarked Alex.
"What? She looks barely older than 15!"
Both fell silent, trying to comprehend what had happened. A doctor strode
up. "Are you the detectives here with woman that was brought in earlier?"
"How is she?" Bobby asked"
"She's fine. Severely malnourished and the drugs haven't helped either."
"Drugs?" Alex question, shooting a confused look at her partner.
"Yes, I thought they were self injected, until I tried to give her an
injection myself. She's an....she has a severe fear of needles. On closer
inspection, I saw the needle marks were messy. As if she was struggling. I
think she was forced to take them."
Bobby and Alex both looked at each other, both asking the same question in
their head. Who would force this girl to shoot up and what for?
"There's more." The doctor continued. "There are scars all down her back.
Untreated whip marks. She was whipped and left without ever having medical
treatment. There are also signs of untreated broken bones. Messy splints
have been put on and the bones have healed incorrect. This woman's bean
beaten and I'd say left for dead.more than once. The problem is, she's
survived."
The looks of questioning on the detectives faces increased.
"One more thing.she won't talk. To anybody. She won't let us touch her. The
only treatment we've been able to give her is by observation tough we did
manage to get an IV in to help with the malnourishment. But she pulled it
out."
"Thank you doctor. Is there any chance we can talk to her?" Bobby said.
"You can try, but I highly doubt she would respond."
"I'd like to try"
"I don't see why not" The doctor replied shrugging. "Room 18 just down the
hall and to the left."
'Thank you."
The detectives swept down the corridor in silence. "Do you think she'll
talk?" asked Alex, looking up at her partner. "I dunno," he said, looking
back, "But I have to try. After all, we need to know what she knows' in
order to catch this guy. She's the only lead we've got."
Alex nodded and looked back down at the floor. They stopped out in front of
the door. Bobby knocked on the doorframe. Torilette looked up. She seemed
dwarfed even more by her surroundings. She was sitting on her bed. There
was a tray of food sitting on the table next to her, but it hadn't been
touched.
"Torilette, Can I talk to you?" Bobby asked. Torilette looked up, stared
and nodded. Bobby sat down on the chair next to the bed. Torilette stared
up at Alex, now standing behind Bobby. "This is my partner Detective Eames,
but you can call her Alex."
Torilette stared at Alex, eyes full of curiosity. The fear and pain of
before had disappeared. She stopped staring at Alex and stared at the wall,
seemingly uninterested with anything. Bobby looked at her seriously.
"Torilette, we're going to have to ask you a few questions now about what
happened."
Torilette's head snapped back from the wall she had been staring at.
"I know this is going to be hard on you but I need to know who did this to
your mother, and why, so others don't get hurt."
Torilette's eyes filled with tears and she curled up into a ball, refusing
to make eye contact with Bobby.
"Torilette I need you to help me, if you tell me what you know, we can help
you stop whatever is making you unwell."
Again she just stared into her curled up knees, still sobbing quietly.
"Torilette, why did this man kill your mother?"
Torilette's sobs grew harder. She looked up at Bobby. She stood up, back
facing the two detectives. All of a sudden, her hand flew up and knocked
the tray of food flying. She began to scream. "THEY'RE ALL DEAD. ALL DEAD."
Her screams alerted a nurse who came running. Torilette was now on her
knees, screaming with balled fists covering her eyes, as if trying to block
something out. When she saw the nurse with a sedative, she threw herself
against the wall. The screaming had stopped. She was now muttering no over
and over.
"Help me." He nurse said to Alex, who helped the nurse, holding the frail
girl down while the nurse injected her. Her body went limp and Alex lifted
her onto the bed. Bobby, who had been standing there, unable to move,
walked over and lay a hand on the girls head, smoothing her now clean hair.
She smiled and fell asleep under his cool touch. The nurse motioned for
them to leave. As Bobby walked out the door, he heard a weak voice coming
from the bed. "My name is Tori, Detective Goren."
Bobby acknowledged what this meant and left Tori to sleep

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Well there's another chap to keep ya goin. Hope ya all like it! ;)