Chapter 3

"Nikki, I need to talk to you for a second ok?" Nikki nodded. "Ok," Nikki ran out of the room first. Cameron turned to Miss Tori, "Miss Tori, um I'm going to take Nikki home early today ok?"

"Fine by me." Tori responded. Cameron walked out. Olivia stood shocked, her feet glued to the ground. Finally she exited. She ran to catch up with Cameron who was being dragged down the hall by Little Nikki.

"I didn't know you had a daughter," Said Olivia.

"Well, we just met, that doesn't surprise me very much. Nikki, baby," Nikki stopped and turned around. Her dark brown eyes gleaming with happiness. "I need to talk to you about Lisa." The happiness disappeared entirely from the young child's eyes.

"She's gone," she said. Looking down at the ground. Cameron got on her knees in front of her daughter.

"What was she like before?" She asked gently. Olivia was impressed at how sweet she sounded.

"She was really nice. She used to share her cookies with me." Nikki smiled, which caused the two adults to smile. That little girl had an angelic face, (course most children that age do).

"She did?" Nikki nodded. "Well that was nice. Kid, did she ever say anything that might have worried her? Anything at all?" Nikki's smile faded.

"This one time, a man came to her door. He made her scared." Cameron reached out and pulled the little child closer to her.

"What else? Did he say anything? Did she say anything that might have scared you?" Her words were pushing Nikki to keep speaking but her tone was still gentle and kind.

"He started screaming,"

"At who?"

"Her brother." Nikki looked directly in her mother's eyes. Her tears started to flow onto her young smooth cheek. Cameron and Olivia started to wonder the same thing.

What could her brother be doing to cause a man to come to his door screaming?

Cameron and Olivia walked through the playground searching for eight year olds that possibly knew Lisa Larkman. So far, most of her friends had stayed home. Except for two. Olivia and Cameron headed towards the girls as Olivia kept asking Cameron about her private life.

"Are you married?" She asked.

"No," Cameron responded.

"Divorced?"

"No, I've never been married."

"One night stand or ex?"

"Ex. Is that it? We got some eight year kids to interrogate about their missing friend." And with that Olivia stopped her questioning.

Olivia and Cameron decided to split up, Liv would take one girl, Cameron would take the other. Olivia walked up to this little red headed girl with pale skin and a lot of freckles. She was playing hopscotch.

"Carol Grady?" the girl stopped jumping to look at Olivia. She nodded. She wasn't crying but her eyes showed of inner turmoil. "Hi, I'm Olivia, I'm a detective."

"Is this about Lisa?" She asked. Her voice was frail, like she didn't use it often. Olivia nodded.

"What can you tell me about her?"

"Not much," Jessie Callister told Cameron. They were sitting on a park bench as Jessie colored in a coloring book. "Lisa was nice. We would play together sometimes, but I would rather be by myself."

"Why?" Cameron asked.

"I'm an only child. I guess I'm used to playing by myself."

"Sounds lonely."

"Sometimes. Those times, Lisa would always ask me if I wanted to play jump rope. She was real nice."

"Jessie, did anyone ever scare Lisa or hurt her."

"The only time I remember is when that guy came to her house," Carol told Olivia.

"Ok, and what happened?"

"He started screaming something about Sam, her brother, that Sam owed him Coke. Lisa went into the fridge and grabbed him a can, but he didn't seem happy about it." Olivia smiled. "She said he scared her."

"Did he hurt her?"

"Lisa didn't tell me." Carol started to put her chalk away. Olivia was satisfied about the information she had received. As was Cameron.

The two detectives brought Anika to the ice cream shop before taking her home, then headed back towards the station house.

"We talked to him," Elliot started after hearing Olivia tell him and Fin about what they found out about Samuel Larkman. Sam's picture hung up on the board next to his sister's. "He didn't seem strung out or anything."

"Elliot these are children, they don't know how to lie," Olivia explained.

"He might not use the drugs," Suggested Cameron. Elliot looked at her like she was insane.

"Why would he sell the drugs if he didn't use them?"

"It's a quick buck," Fin offered. "Dealers make a load a cash on the street. Not all of them use either."

"And if he owed his supplier money, why not offer his sister up for collateral?" Olivia finished.

"Exactly," said Fin.

"Look I just," Elliot sighed. "I'm having a hard time thinking that this kid set up his sister to pay off his debts when he isn't even a junkie!"

"I agree, but we can't rule it out as a possibility," Cameron said.

"Did you find anything out on the supplier?" Fin asked.

"Nada," Cameron said. "None of them saw it. But Nikki said that Lisa mentioned that her mom was home when the guy came to their house. Maybe she can tell us."

"I doubt she'll tell us anything just now. She just lost her daughter, she's going to see it as we're trying to take her son away from her too."

"Well where else can we go? The only lead we've got is a fifteen year old kid! We have no body, no visual. We don't have anything!"

"Did the M.E. take a look at the bullet they found in Munch yet?" Cameron asked, rubbing her neck with her left hand, trying to massage the knot out. It wasn't working very well though.

"We sent it down to the lab. Results should be in by now, I could give them a call," Elliot offered.

"That's going to have to wait." The four detectives turned around. Cragen stood before them with a grim face. "The hospital just called. Munch had a heart attack.

Alright, I'm expecting to get a couple more "Don't kill Munch's" for this one. Um well that was the fourth page to this story. Tell me if you like it! I hope I didn't confuse you, I'm trying it out like it would be a case on the actual show, you know how Elliot will ask a person a question, but the person talking to Olivia will answer instead? That's what I'm going for! R&R please! Will get better, I hope. And um, people will start to like Cameron eventually, but hey they weren't too fond of Alex or Casey when they started either! Enjoy!