Thanks for all the reviews! I forgot to say in the summary that this is the sequel to Chance.So, I'm saying it now. This is the sequel to Chance. Of course, Dick Wolf owns everyone except the characters I make up and/or created (especially Amy!). So enjoy this third chapter!

Cragen's POV - 48 hours

I was in my office late that night reading a couple things when I happened to look up and out my office window. Munch was fast asleep on his desk and Fin was nowhere to be found. I guess he went home already.

Right after they finished lunch, Warner faxed them her finished autopsy report. The body had thirty stabbed wounds and he was killed sometime between eleven o' clock and one o' clock at night which seemed right because the witness found the body around five o' clock in the morning. When Mario woke up from his nap, he told Amy that he left his house around seven the night before.

As for Mario, he speaks Spanish and English. His father was teaching him English before he died. He seemed to be taking the news about his father well, but then again, when someone tells you in your own language of something that severe, well then you know they're not joking. His mother is in a hospital right now for cancer treatment so technically he's not an orphan. But since his mother can't fly up to come and get him or no other family member currently living, then I guess I don't mind having him here for a while.

As for Amy and Munch, they got into an argument about her car when Fin disappeared to get dinner for them. Apparently, she had some money left over from her college fund that got depleted when her parents died, leaving her with an amount that was frivolous enough to pay off a lap top. Munch did get a little angry with her, but I guess they smoothed things over (if smoothing things over in Amy's language meant getting in Munch's face and reminding him that he was her uncle).

So Munch was asleep on his desk a couple hours later. Amy went to go up and put Mario to bed in the crib. It seemed strange to me that Munch hadn't left with Fin, but that's when it hit me.

Amy came down the stairs with a tired look in her eyes. She stopped at the coffee pot and poured herself a cup. She looked at Munch as she sipped it.

"Figures, that old man couldn't stay up long enough to wait for me," she said to herself.

I walked out of my office and walked over to her.

"He waited for you?" I asked.

She looked at me then to him.

"Since you know that we're related, then I can fill you in on another secret."

"Like what?" I asked.

"I'm living with him."

My hunch was correct, but I still did do a double-take on what she said to me.

"You're kidding," I said.

"Nope. He offered and I said yes. No offense, but those beds upstairs do need to be replaced," she said while she sipped her coffee.

"Take him home," I said, "He's had a long day."

"We all have. You don't mind watching Mario?"

"As long as you find him some other accommodations within the next few days."

"Don't worry. I plan on talking to Novak tomorrow on getting a holding restraint for him and I have someone in mind that can take care of him."

"Don't get too involved, Amy," I said.

She finished her coffee and smashed the cup in her hand.

"I'm not getting invested if that's what you're worried about, Captain."

"What you're uncle told me about your past, plus what I overheard today suggests otherwise."

"Like I said, I'm not invested in this case. Munch and Fin are the primaries on it and I'm the secondary."

Amy went over to throw the cup away and she woke her uncle up. They both left that night and went back to my office to go to sleep.

Forty-eight hours left until all hell broke loose…

So, what do you think? R&R plz.I know it's another short chapter, but the fourth one will be up soon.