Caught in someone else's past
Chapter one
She was staring at the envelope in her hands, her thought process was going wild, it couldn't be could it, addressed to her? What did they want with her but more importantly how on earth did they find her? She turned the envelope over in her hands debating over and over whether or not to open it. It was exactly as she remembered it, the red ink and the swirls of the letters such a contrast to the content she knew would be inside. The words were so carefully written with all the time and care in the world. She remembered the first time she received a letter like this, she must have been around 6 years old, she marvelled at the ink and the writing, no one writes like that nowadays but as she ran to show it to her parents, that she had received her own letter, they got angry and hid it away. She didn't understand then what those pictures meant with her head in a red circle or the significance of the writing but she had often thought about it and now she knew that a disturbing message lay behind the calm of those word; they aren't in a rush they will take their time but slowly and surely they will get you.
Lily had always been a private person, it probably stemmed from the years she spent trying to convince everyone that she was fine. If you didn't let anyone know anything about you then they couldn't use it to hurt you. If you didn't tell anyone what was wrong then they couldn't take you away from your family. So she hadn't let anyone in, not even her sister knew everything about her , she kept herself to herself and tried to pretend like nothing was wrong and so she became a master of manipulation, only allowing people to get so close before shutting them out, it was one of the reasons why she was so good at her job. But she was so skilled that now she was so good at it she didn't know how to stop she didn't know how to ask for help.
Work that day had passed in a blur; they were investigating the unsolved murder of a 9 year old girl back in 1987. There was little evidence and no one seemed willing to talk, not even the girl's parents, which bothered Lily more than she was willing to admit, how could they not care about what happen to their daughter, did they not want justice or answers? But it was the end of the day and Lil needed to put it out of her mind for the rest of the night besides she had something else to sort out.
"Hey Lil, I'm on my way out want a lift." Scotty asked as he walked passed.
"No thanks I got some things to do first."
"Ok I'll see you tomorrow"
"Bye"
What she had said was the truth, but she could tell by the look on his face that he didn't believe her either that or he thought she was up to something, which was also true. She had brought in the letter she had received that morning it had been burning a hole in her pocket all day and kept her wondering if they were watching her.
She knew what she was doing was basically grasping at straws, these men were far too skilled to slip up on something as simple as a letter but she had to do something, so she walked down to forensics with the letter hoping someone down there could tell her something that would help bring them down.
She sat watched as trace looked over the letter inside and out, she went over the facts again and again and kept coming back to one conclusion; this was her Dad's fault, her Dad's problem that she had somehow been sucked into, so to fix the problem that had now become her problem she had to find her Dad.
Well that was easier said then done, she was screwed.