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Quote: Right next door or miles apart, friends are always close in heart. -Unknown

"Miss. McClatchy's daughter will have to be informed of her mother's…suicide." A young man who was with the paramedics informed Alex, "Do you know where we could find the child?"

"I'm sorry that I can't be of any help, I don't know where the child is, I called the house of the kid she was staying with and the mom said that the two girls had gone out." Alex said her voice now devoid of emotion; it was like she'd become separate from the rest of the world.

"I'm sorry miss. It's always a horrible ordeal with someone takes their own life."

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"Beth c'mon we'll save this Alex chicka on time."

"I doubt that…"

"Listen I just thought of something…we needa get off this here ship soon right?"

"No shit."

Tabitha simply rolled her eyes at this last comment, "Well the cruise-ship is bound to have a fire alarm and if we pull it then the ship will haveta go to shore then we can get out hidden with crowd."

A small smile escaped Bethany's lips, "Great. One thing though…you remember last time a pulled that fire alarm at the school?"

"Oh right…it spread ink all over you…you don't think the fire alarm here will be like that do you?"

Bethany thought for a moment trying to think of a way to pull the alarm without being caught. The fire alarm was just beside the door, it was then that she noticed a ruler on the desk, "I have an idea," she began, "Lets use the ruler, it should work right?"

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What am I supposed to do? The former ADA questioned herself, where do I sleep, I certainly can't go back into May's cottage…what about Bethany?

"Miss?" A police officer asked interrupting her thoughts, "Can I get you to come with me?"

"What-why?" Alex said, suddenly worried, all they had to do was ask her name and she'd be in trouble, witness protection would find out.

"Just so we can ask you about Miss. McClatchy's behavior and moods."

"I've only known her for a week or two…All I can say is she seemed quiet."

"I see well, if you could find her daughter that'd be great."

She was sitting on the ground hugging her knees, "I'll try calling around for her." She said sighing and getting up going back into the cottage. She hadn't known May but what would lead her to kill herself? A feeling of guilt began to sweep through her Alex Cabot would have noticed that May was depressed, she thought, Alex Cabot would have realized that something was wrong before it was too late.

Her thoughts momentarily shifted to Olivia a former best friend and the look of hurt on her face when Alex told her the truth, would Alex's other colleagues share those same hurt looks when Olivia told them?

Finding Bethany is what's important now, she reminded herself, she couldn't let Bethany down as well.

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Bethany attempted to pull the fire alarm with the ruler but was having difficulty Tabitha of course didn't do much except throw in a few sarcastic comments here and there. Tabitha was always the overly sarcastic one, most people got tired of her sarcasm after awhile but Bethany knew that on some level Tabitha was an intelligent and resourceful person who was always there for you if you needed her. Bethany in truth was frightened of not having her around anymore when she went back home. She knew was lucky for having a cottage so close to the city.

Still Tabitha was someone that people noticed, Bethany on the other hand was usually quiet around people, no one knew much about her personality not even Tabitha. She often wondered if she hadn't been nearly shot and killed as a child would she have turned out the same way? Or would she be an out-going and happy kid just like all the other children her age?

She'd seen a lot for a kid her age, she'd seen her mother being abused by a boy-friend and looked into the face of madness as she had a gun pointed at her not to mention when she was five seeing her babysitter be run over by a car (the babysitter did however live but had two crushed legs). Bethany was just a kid she shouldn't have seen all those horrible things it wasn't fair.

"Uh Beth, you gonna pull the alarm or what?" Tabitha said breaking her chain of thought.

"You do it." She muttered, her mind once again lost in thought. Who am I? She asked herself, oh that's right a shy, frightened, and cynical little girl. Just think I had to do a background check on Alex before I could trust her, Bethany remembered.

Just then Tabitha succeeded with pulling the fire alarm, ink of course came gushing out but missed her, "C'mon quick Beth! Run! Don't worry I've got the diary!"

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Alex looked about the cottage hopping to find some clue as to where Bethany would go, but of course Bethany didn't leave any notes to her mother, who never seemed to care when Bethany vanished, maybe it's true what May said, Alex thought, maybe she really doesn't love her daughter.

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"Listen 'Liv I know this whole Alex lying to you thing is hurting you, even if you're in cop-mod so why don't we just talk 'K?"

"I'm fine Elliot and I'm not in cop-mod. Besides Alex is just a former colleague. I'll live."

Elliot rubbed his eyes, annoyed with his partners resistance, "Well whatever I'm here if you ever feel like talking."

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"I can't believe that worked." Tabitha said as they stood with many other people on a dock.

"Yeah whatever lets find that cop guy."

"Do you think he's still around I mean all he did was guard the dock right he might have left before the boat took off."

"Even if he isn't here he'll still guard the boat again when it returns to the dock tomorrow."

"Yeah…hey Beth you don't think they'd look for finger-prints with the whole stolen diary fire alarm being pulled thing do you?"

"Yeah but they'll never see us save for this moment on the dock."

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A car was driving to the cottage a shadowy figure steering the wheel. It frightened the man when he saw the ambulance a police cars swarming the cottage, they couldn't possible know that he was an assassin, even if the cops did know that they wouldn't be able to know he was going to murder someone at that cottage on that night. He drove around the neighborhood and asked a few people if they knew what was going on. The first five people he asked had no idea but he struck luck with the sixth.

"Yeah this lady committed suicide."

The man wondered weather it was the same woman he'd been sent to kill but decided to check later that night to see if anyone was around the cottage, after all the woman who had committed suicide and his victim might not have been the same person.

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