"You think it's him"? Fin asked driving to Brooklyn,CT.
"I'm not sure, but it always could be." Munch couldn't get Dria out of his head. How confused and innocent she is.That drove his thoughts to Amanda and her family.
"Munchkin, hello?"
"Huh, what?" Munch snapped back to reality.
"Good to see your still alive and that you can hear me now." Fin smirked.
"Hey Fin?"
"Yeah."
"Have you ever thought about Dria?"
"Of course I have, man she's like our case duh!"
"No, I mean-"
"In a sexual way, hell no, your sick!"
"NO, like what her life is like and how it will change if Amanda doesn't come home?"
"Oh, well sort of, I mean she's pretty messed up now, this is to much for a 13 year old to handle, why you want to adopt her?"
"That thought occured to me if she didn't have parents, but she does."
"Then why do you keep thinking of her?"
"I honestly don't know, after what happened today at the restaurant, her face literally was burned in my head."
"Yo man, I understand, you remember the Farachelli case?"
"Who doesn't, brother and sister being sexually and physically abused by their own parents, they were a wreck." Munch remembered.
"I couldn't stop thinking about them for months, even after the case was finished, how could their own parents do that to them?"
There was an awkward moment of silence before they turned into the school.
"Hey, it's summer, nobody should be here." Fin stated.
"Schools' usually open sometime in July for class postings and new students."
"Oh." Fin should have thought of that. They walked into the building and recieved some confused and angry stares from people. The two ingnored it and strolled into the office.
"Good afternoon gentlemen." the office lady greeted.
"New student information goes on these forms and do you have him and/or her with you now?" She seemd bored of saying that all day.
"Ummm, no, Detectives Munch and Tutuola, Special Victims Unit, we need to speak to the principal." Munch informed her.
"Oh, sorry my mistake, but I'm afraid Principal DeAngelo isn't here right now." she smiled.
"Maybe you can help us?" Fin took out a picture of the perp and handed it to her.
"Can you tell us his name and address please?"
"Sure that's the janitor Mar-." her voice was cut off by an ear-piercing scream and a child running down the hall. Somebody was chasing after her!
"HELP!" the kid yelled at the top of her lungs. Munch recognized the man chasing her as the janitor.
"Fin, that's him!"
"I'm on it!" Fin took off running after them. He was catching up to him. When he got into reach he tackled the man, arrested him, and told Munch to take him to the car while he went to go find the girl.
"Your in big trouble mister." Munch told him as they were walking to the car. He just spit on Munch's coat.
"More trouble!"
"Sweetie" Fin called softly.
"It's o.k, I'm the police, the man chasing you is gone, you can come out now." he heard soft wimpering.
"Honey, really I'm here to help."
"That's what the last man said." A girl came out of the shadows.
"What man?"
"A so called police officer." She ran into Fin's arms sobbing loudly saying how she stupid she was.
"Your not stupid, it was a mistake, it's o.k." he cooed.
"NO! I heard about the girl who went missing at camp and after that i should have known!"
"Shhh, tell me your name and I will really help you." his heart was breaking for this girl.
"Lyndsay Renolds." her sobbing became louder. Munch walked back into the school to get Fin when he saw Lyndsay and him embraced in a hug. He backed away. FIn heard him and looked up from Lyndsay's shoulder, motioning him to come closer.
"Lyndsay, this is detective John Munch, he's gonna take you to the restroom and get you cleaned up o.k?" she looked at John and nodded in approval.
"Come on, take my arm and we'll get you cleaned up and then get you some food." They walked to the bathroom while Fin phoned Olivia.
"Liv, I need you to do a missing persons for a Lyndsay Renolds, 13,... thanks." He sighed and decided to take a little trip to the Farachelli's while Munch took Lyndsay for food and a doctor.
Fin knocked on the door 3 times before getting an answer.
"Detective Tutuola, hi, good to see you!" Iris Farachelli greeted when she saw Fin.
"Hey Iris." he gave her a small hug and walked in. He had been on Iris and her brother Toby's case and they had all became great friends.
"Toby, come down here, I have a suprise!" she called from the bottom of the stairs.
"A suprise!" Toby shouted back running down the stairs.
"Fin!"
"Hey, what's up Tob!"
"Why you here?"
"Just in the neighborhood and thought I'd stop and see how you guys are doing."
"Fine, I made the baseball team and Iris got her drivers license!"
"Really, wow, that's great!" Fin was really happy to see them finally getting it together after 5 years. They were only 13 and 8 when somebody finally reported the abuse and had a tough time leaving their parents.
"You want something to eat?" Iris asked.
"No, actually I should get going, my partner should almost be ready by now." The sad look on the childrens faces tried to convince him but he knew that the janitor was still in the car, and Munch and Lyndsay should be done by now.
"Have him come too." Toby tried to convince.
"Sorry guys, but I need to go, maybe some other time since Iris drives now." he flashed Iris proud-father smile and led himself to the door.
"See ya Fin, keep in touch!" they called as he walked out the door.
"Bye."
Hope you enjoy it! Any suggestions are welcome. Just so you know, there will be a sequel called "Hostage" so look out for that after! This story is TBC...
