Here is chapter 2, the rating might change in future chapters but for the moment the rating stays K.

Detective Rush entered the office, heading for her desk. When she dropped her purse on her desk and turned around intending to get some coffee. She practically bumped into Scotty.

"Whoa, where's the fire?" Scotty asked smiling lightly

"I wanted to … " Lilly started but stopped when she noticed that her partner was holding two cups of coffee from the nearby coffee shop.

"You wanted what?" Scotty asked when he noticed Lilly wasn't planning on finishing her sentence.

"…get some coffee. I wanted to get some coffee." Lilly hasted to reply. Mentally cursing herself for being distracted about the fact that the second cup Scotty was holding was probably intended for her. Well she wasn't really distracted about the cup of coffee he was holding, more about the feelings inside her stomach when she noticed that Valens knew her so well.

"I thought you might want some coffee when you arrived, so I took the liberty of getting you some I know you like the coffee in the break room as much as I do, so I decided to get us some from the coffee shop." he answered. "I got you your usual, hope that's ok?"

"Yeah, that's great. Thanks" Lilly answered giving him a smile.

"You're welcome" Scotty answered cheerfully. 'Damn I love her smile' he thought, glad that he had succeeded in making her smile.

"Valens, Rush the boss wants to see you guys." Vera interrupted. "You know I wouldn't be mad at you if you brought me a cup of coffee in the morning Valens." Vera teased.

"Sorry Vera but as I only have two hands, I can only hold two cups." Valens replied while heading for Stillman's office.

Lilly smiled at the exchange between her colleagues while she followed Scotty to find out what Stillman had for them.

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As the two homicide detectives entered their boss's office, they noticed a women sitting in a chair opposite Stillman. The woman appeared to be 5O, and looked tired.

"You wanted to see us boss?" Lilly asked.

"Yes I did, this is Caitlin Spade." He said while indicating the women in the chair.

"Caitlin, these are detectives Rush and Valens. Can you tell them what you just told me?" Stillman asked the women softly.

"Well, I like you to reopen my daughter's case." Caitlin said with a broken voice.

"Can you tell us more about your daughter's case?" Lilly asked, making a mental note to watch her words because it seemed that Caitlin could start crying any minute.

"She went missing about 5 years ago. The police never found her; they searched for 3 months, but then gave up any hope of finding her alive." Caitlin said as one tear escaped her eyes.

"Madam, you do realise that your daughter might be dead." Scotty asked, he was sure the woman knew but he wanted to make sure she didn't get any false hoop of finding her daughter alive.

"I realise that detective Valens." She answered sadly. "but I need to know what happened to my daughter." She said determined.

"We'll look into her case. Can you tell us the details about the case?" Lilly said gently.

"My daughter Amber, was 15 when she disappeared. She had told me that she was going to a friend for the weekend but when I called to Mandy, Amber's friend, to check if she had arrived safely, I was told that Amber wasn't there yet." Caitlin said while crying, when she had composed herself a bit she continued. "The police thought she had ran away, but I never believed that theory. We had our disagreements, but I can't think about a fight close to her disappearing. Everything was normal. There wasn't any reason for her to run of." Caitlin finished.

"Was she acting different the last days before she disappeared?" Scotty asked when he noticed Caitlin seemed to be finished with her story.

"No, not that I noticed." She answered.

"Can you give us the date she disappeared and the name of the friend she said she would be staying with?" Lilly asked gently.

"She disappeared the 5th may of the year 2000. Her friend's name was Mandy Bowman."

"One more question. How come you want us to reopen Amber's case now?" Scotty asked.

"Her father died a couple of weeks ago. I need to know if I have someone left or not." Caitlin answered his question.

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"I found the box." Lilly told her partner. As Scotty walked over to have a look in the box he noticed that Lilly seemed to have trouble holding the box. Though she appeared to hide it by putting the box on the floor rather quickly.

After working about 3 years with Lilly he knew she hated it when she seemed weaker than him, so he didn't say anything about it.

"There's a picture of Amber in here and a lot of police reports." Lilly said slightly out of breath after she had put the box on the floor. 'Damn that box is heavy.' She hoped her partner hadn't seen the fact that she had put the box on the floor a little to fast, she knew it was silly but she hated it when someone saw she wasn't as strong as the guys. Scotty never seemed to have a problem with having a female partner, but she was always scared that if she seemed weaker than him that he would laugh with her. She knew that he had never gave her any reason to think that, but after working in a man's world for so long it had become normal for her to pretend to be strong. Sometimes she wished she could drop her walls and let him through, but she just couldn't.

"Here's the interview with Mandy." Scotty said bringing his partner back to the matter at hand.

"Listen to this, apparently Mandy was quite sure that Amber had ran away. She didn't want to tell the officers why she assumed this, but she appeared to be quit confident." Scotty went on.

"Maybe time made her more talkative." Lilly answered.

"Let's hope." Scotty said as he closed the box and started carrying it upstairs.

'So far for him not noticing the fact that I had trouble carrying the box' Lilly thought. She was sure he had noticed that she had had trouble because otherwise he would simply have read the report while walking upstairs and let her carry the box. What surprised her thought was the excitement she felt when Scotty carried the box. She knew that it would have been easy for him to just take the report and read it, so that she would either have to carry the box or ask him to carry it for her. As Lilly caught up with him she couldn't help but smile. Scotty must have noticed the smile on her face, because when they entered the office he was beaming.

"So, do you have a lead?" Jeffries asked.

"Yeah, we might. Can you tell Stillman that we're going to talk to Mandy Bowman?" Lilly replied still smiling.

"Will do." Jeffries replied.

As Lilly and Scotty left while discussing the case and the upcoming interview with Mandy, Vera turned to Jeffries and asked: "Am I going crazy or did something happen downstairs with those two?"

"You're not going crazy because that would mean you're not crazy yet, but I did notice the fact that they were bold smiling from ear to ear." Will laughed.

"I'm not crazy. And something is definitely going on with those two." Nick answered pretending to be mad for Will's comment.