Thanks goes out to all those who reviewed my humble little story and sorryif I confused anyone withthe use of past/present tense all the research papers I had to do messed me up a bit. Here another chapter. Hope you like it. Please Review.It really helps.

Chapter Two

"I came to see how you were doing."

"You really didn't have to. I'm fine." Said Lindsay getting back to her work.

"Come on Linds. I known you long enough to know that it's not 'fine', as you say."

"V, I need to finish this and then we can go somewhere else to talk."

She sat waiting in one of the waiting room for Lindsay to finish whatever she had to finish. As she waited she took the opportunity to glance around at her surroundings. There were various people busying themselves with little tasks that at the very least would point them in the direction of a possible subject. Different little pieces hopefully fitting into the puzzle of who dunit and if they were really lucky they would know why. Lindsay always liked puzzles. V knew that real well after watching Lindsay piece together countless puzzles. A smile crept to V's face as the memory of the time her brother, Ray took a piece of the puzzle that Lindsay happened to be working on. Lindsay was going crazy looking for the missing piece. She couldn't eat or sleep until that missing piece was found. V laughed so hard as Lindsay chased Ray around the house to get the puzzle piece back.

"I got you a soda." V looked to the door. "I remembered you said that..."

"...coffee stops you from growing" Lindsay hands her the soda. "Thanks."

"So how are you? It's been awhile."

"Look I know that we haven't talked in a while...well... since that day, but heard about what happened and I wanted to know how you were." Lindsay sits down next to her.

"I'm fine, really I am I just wanted to know why." Lindsay says staring down at her coffee cup.

"The case shook you up didn't it? Her story was so parallel to ours that it you know…hit home."

"I don't want to talk about it." Lindsay says getting up to throw her cup away.

"You used to always say that. I know you better than that. Look,I know that I'm not the person you want to talk to or probably even see for that matter, but I'm here if you need to talk." Lindsay looks at her.

"You wouldn't know what its like to see ... what I see everyday, V, so I don't think that you could help me. You still live far away from the city. Far away from the pain."

"I see more than you think, Lindsay. I know what its like to be helpless. To see people who have been hurt and not be able to do more than ask why. Sometimes thats all we are left with and it hurts.Its frustrating. We can't do anything but our jobs."

"I can't stop think about it…about Sara Butler. She wanted to make something of herself. She wanted to be something beyond just another country girl. And she was murdered. Murdered because of a dream she had. I don't want that to happen to me. Throughout the entire case I thought about me. How I would know better than to walk in New York alone without protection. How not to trust the comforts and the safety that I was used to back home. I thought about me and what not to do that she had done. Is that selfish? To be glad that I'm alive while her family is miserable."

"Its not Lindsay"

"But when I heard all the things that Sara's father was saying in the morgue I understood. I knew that I probably would have done the same things Sara did because I would have been so used to trusting people and places that it would have cost me exactly what it cost her."

"Lindsay, I can't tell you that you would not have been in that situation or that you'd know what to do if you were but what I can tell you is that I'm glad that you weren't. You don't have to wonder the what ifs or even the why's because you are here now. Today. And that all that really matters, Linds."

"Thanks, V. I'm sorry I wasn't exactly welcoming to you earlier."

"Its okay, Lindsay. I know what you been going through and what happened the last time we saw one another. We're family, Lindsay. Its takes more than that to chase me away." Giving Lindsay's hand a reassuring squeeze.