I am probably going to regret this but here I go.
There was only one person in her life right now that knew about the past. Her boss, he knew her when she was 10, worked the case that could have ruined her life if it wasn't already sucky to begin with. Two months passed on her 11 birthday, and she gave birth to the most beautiful baby girl she had ever seen. Then, gave the baby up.
22 years later.
Lilly was sitting at her desk, trying her hardest not to think about the day, August 28. She had hoped that working today, she wouldn't be so emotional. She was wrong, the day wasn't busy which meant plenty of down time to think about her daughter's 22nd birthday. She looked up at the time and groaned.
Her partner looked over at her "problems Lil?" he asked her with a slight frown.
She looked at him "huh what, no i'm fine".
They heard a noise, someone coming over to their area. The two of them looked over at the guest and analyzed her. Blonde hair, striking blue eyes and stance that made both of the detectives take notice.
Scotty spoke to her first "hi, huh can we help you"?
The young women looked at them for a second, before replying "I don't think so, I'm looking for the Lt in charge". "Any idea where he might be"? She asked the two detectives.
They looked at each other, before the blonde answered "I can go check his office, stay here for a moment". She got up after the young woman nodded her head.
The male detective looked over at the young women and started to analyze her again before asking "whats your name"? "My names Scotty".
She looked over at him, with eyes that looked so familiar he just couldn't place them. "Annaliese" she answered him but said nothing else.
He nodded, thinking to himself not very talkative but didn't say anything back to her, just praying Lilly would come back soon.
A second later, Lilly and Lt Stillman walked into the room and over to Annaliese. Stillman smiled at her "I am the Lt in charge, how can I help you"?
She looked at him, Scotty realized at that moment, the look she's giving the boss is the same she gave to him and Lil. Almost trying to determine how much she should tell him; it left him wondering what this woman knows.
Annaliese nodded, "can we talk in private"?
"yes please come into my office". Stillman said to her.
She dipped her head and followed him into the office.
Scotty looked at his partner "what is that all about?" "You think the boss knows her"?
Lilly, looking back to her bosses office, "not sure, maybe" she replies and looks back at her work in front of her. Lilly sighed again and looked up at her partner "hey Scotty, I think I am going to head out, see you tomorrow"?
He looked at the time, 5 o'clock pm, normal closing time if they didn't have a case, or files. He wasn't done with his paperwork but he knew she was. He nodded at her "see you tomorrow Lil, have a good night". She smiled at him and left the office.
Annaliese walked into the office with the Lt, and did everything in her power not to show her emotions. Keep your face blank Anna
He went to his seat behind the desk and gestured to a chair in front of it, "so how can I help you"?
Annaliese looked down trying to figure out how to phrase her information and her request. "Sir, I might have a case for you, a big one actually". "Homicide works cold cases right"?
He nodded, not quite sure where this was going.
"My name is Annaliese Rains, when I was 10 my family was killed in a fire". She stopped for a moment "it was accidental but that's not why I am here, 12 years ago I was placed in a foster care situation". Annaliese stopped again then looked at him "sorry, this is kinda hard, I have never told anyone about this". He nodded but didn't say anything. He gestured for her to continue talking. She started again "about a year in, I started to realize that something was wrong" "kids were disappearing, and not teenagers but kids between 3 and 8". "I asked my foster parents about it but I always got the same response, their social worker pulled them for some reason or another".
Stillman stopped her there "Annaliese right"? She nodded "I'm not sure what you have here but it seems like more than a cold case".
She nodded at him "it is, you see, I ran into one of the kids that was taken from the foster home, he was 8 but still remembered a lot of that time". "He told me that he was given a new name, a new home and new parents". "Which normally wouldn't be a bad thing but he said it was weird they told him he could never go by full name again, and gave him a completely new full name" "he never saw his social worker again after that." "Not for a home visit or anything, he told me the family treated him well enough so he didn't worry". "He turned 18 and started to look for his brother and sister that had also been in that foster home, they were 3 and 5". Annaliese looked down. Keep it together. Anna "he found them, they had been killed when he was 4 and she was 6". "He didn't find them until he was 19, because just like him, his siblings' names had been completely changed and any records of an adoption were nowhere." "He even went through CPS and they said the last known address for his siblings was the foster home ". Annaliese looked at her hands "the reason I am here today is because I think he was on to something and" she took a deep breath before looking up at him "I think it got him killed, so I started digging into it as well and than, I saw on the news that the old foster home was officially a crime scene because bodies had been found in the backyard". "That's where the cold case comes in; he was killed just after his 20th birthday, 7 months ago".
Stillman sat there trying to put together all of this information then nodded "give me his name, I'll see if I can look into it and everything else you told me ''.
Hoping that would appease her he went to stand up only for her to say "sir there's more, not really news but a request actually" he nodded and sat back down "sir, I've been in college for criminal justice since I was 18 and should have my degree in a few weeks". Here goes nothing. "Sir, I'd like the help in the investigation; you see, because I hadn't told anyone from what I saw when I was 10 I didn't want to believe him when he told me what he knew." "I brushed him off and tried to go on with life but then he died" she took a deep breath. "I need to make it up to him, and I know all the players, I stayed with the foster family until I was 18". "I could be useful to the investigation".
Normally, Stillman thought I would automatically say no but there's something about her face that I can't place. He nodded "you could be useful" he took a deep breath "I hope I don't regret this Annaliese but I am going to say okay, but you can't leave the office got it"?
She nodded so fast, with a huge smile on her face, just like her face, something about her smile shook him but he couldn't place why. "What's your friend's name; we can start tomorrow morning, none of my detectives are here anymore".
She turned in her seat to see he was correct, all the detectives and their stuff was gone. She turned back to him to see he had a pen ready. She grinned "Ill give you both names, the name he was born with was Jackson Reave". "The name his new parents gave him was Timothy Slate" she stopped for a second "uhuh the names of his siblings are Noah Reave\Miles Heart and Carol Reave\Martha Stone". She stood up "thank you Lt Stillman, what time I should be here tomorrow"?
He smiled at her "hows 9 for you"?
She nodded "perfect".
He walked her out, not saying anything but still couldn't help but wonder, why does she seem so familiar.
So new story and all, I am totally going to regret this but what can I say. I got into Cold Case, super sad how they ended it but okay.
Anyway, I wrote this story because I have never really seen a story about a possible daughter. Teenage or adult ish. So tell me what you think! I am hopefull about this story.
For my Unknown Daughter readers, I may start that one up again. I Watched a few older episodes of Blue Bloods and my mind\creativity is getting pumped up again.
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