Disclaimer: I don't own them, but I think I already said that

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The ride back to the precinct was silent. Both Bobby and Alex were still taking in what had just happened. Bobby wondered why she had freaked like that. Especially when he asked why her mother was killed.

He felt a sadness then. This woman was in a lot of pain. She had lived through a hell of a lot. Somehow, she was connected to all these woman. But how? All the woman matched the same description. All between 30-40 years old, yet all appeared to retain their youth. All of them had been treated well. All had expensive places to live; all had the latest designs in their closets. And yet none of them seemed to have a source of income. No jobs, no bank accounts. No relatives.

All of the women were orphans or runaways. Many of them had turned up on the missing persons files from 2-3 decades ago. All of them had disappeared without a trace and all of them had now turned up dead. But how was Tori connected?

Tori was 25 and she had not been treated well. According to her doctor, she had been beaten several times, and denied treatment. She was forced to take drugs and she was obviously not fed or clothed well.

"Alex, I want to go back to that apartment."

Alex looked at up at her partner.

"What for Bobby, the local's said they didn't find any thing out of the ordinary?" Replied Alex, turning her eyes back onto the road.

"Since when have we trusted them to come up with the important stuff?"

Alex raised one eyebrow, then turned off to road they were heading down. A few minutes later, they were in front of a large apartment block in the better end of the city. They flashed their badges at the doorman who nodded and waved them to the elevator. "Why do you think the mother was living so well while Tori was on the streets?"

Alex looked up. She had been wondering the same thing. "I don't know. Maybe she resented Tori and kicked her out. Probably blamed her for her father leaving."

Bobby nodded. "But she seemed really torn up about her mother's death. If her mother treated her so badly why would she have reacted so badly? And why was she in the house anyway?"

"I don't know but I think this goes deeper than we think. I think these women were all connected because they knew something. Tori knows too but something makes her different from the others. I think we should look at her father. I think he's involved in this."

Bobby nodded and crossed the tape that covered the apartment door. Everyone had left with everything gone through and all evidence gathered. Bobby went straight to the closet he had found Tori in. She had been so scared.

He looked through each shelf care fully. Mostly linens, a few board games, nothing you wouldn't find in a normal household. He climbed on the bottom shelf to look right up the top. His head smacked against the roof. It moved. Bobby looked up. A panel of the roofing had moved a crack. Bobby moved it aside and felt around. His hand came upon a box. "Alex, come over here."

Bobby jumped down and opened the box. Inside, there were a few photos of what looked to be Tori, her mother and father. She looked to be about four when the photos were taken. He shuffled around some more. A birth certificate for Tori and her mother. He picked up the folded document and something fell out. It was a death certificate. It was for Tori.

Alex walked into the room. 'What is it Bobby?"

"Did Deakins actually get hold of a file on Tori?"

"No, she didn't come up. She doesn't have a record Deakins assumed that the girl was the Tori mentioned in her mother's file. She had quite a sheet. Why?"

Bobby showed her the certificate. "Because this says that she's been dead for 15 years."

Alex read it, muttering to herself. "Died of cerebral hemorrhaging due to an aneurysm present at birth? But the doctor showed me her file at the hospital when I gave him the forms. According to it she was a healthy baby, had all her usual checkups, but there was nothing after she was 10. If she had died then, her file would have been destroyed."

Bobby nodded. "The doctor who signed the certificate." he snatched it back from Alex. "Doctor Simon Frued. Do you get the funny feeling he's in on this as well?"

Alex nodded. "Alright. But we have to go back to the precinct and tell Deakins what we've found.

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Bobby was silent all the way back to the precinct. Alex knew there was something bothering him. After all being partnered for three years could tell you a lot about a person. "Whats up Bobby?"

"Nothing" Bobby replied, still staring aimlessly out the window.

"You're a bad liar you know."

Bobby looked at her and smiled.

"This is getting to you isn't it?"

Bobby sighed and looked down. "It's just this girls been through so much. Whoever did this obviously doesn't want her around. She's been knocked around and shoved aside. She has no one to depend on and yet she still holds hope. I can see it in the way she fought that nurse. If she had truly been affected by what happened in the way that she appeared, I think she would have just given up. After all she's been through, she still has hope. I want to help her. To stop the person or people that did this to her."

"Reminds me of someone I know."

Bobby smiled again. "No. She's been through much more than I did. I still had family who cared for me after my dad left. Mum did what she could before she went into the institute. I wasn't beaten and used."

Alex nodded and pulled up into their usual spot in the car park. Walking to the elevator, Bobby still wondered what must have happened to that girl. How long had this torture gone on for her? He couldn't help it. Usually he didn't have to deal with live victims.

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