Mac was awaiting the results of Rebecca's own investigation when he heard the doors open and noted Stella. "She's out there with Flack still. But she sent me a picture with a name and said to run it through CODIS and AFIS. See if we have something. The name Chelsea Reinhart," she greeted.

"CODIS hit almost instantly. Arrested by Danny 3 times in a row in a year for drug possession. All the reports mention GHB and cocaine. I don't see why she was asking us to," Mac began before they pulled up a report and they all saw the image they didn't expect. Isaiah and Rebecca were caught on a security camera with her moments before the crime. "Nevermind."

"She didn't do it Mac. I ran the evidence on all of them and the only female donor was Chelsea Reinhart. But there was no DNA that belonged to another female donor and no male donors either," Danny reported walking in and smirking. "But we got a female and male donor from a piece of Rebecca's apartment. No matches to the Diner family at all. So Isaiah was there but he was there as a thug. Rebecca must have seen him and known she stood no chance."

"She stood a chance against her foster brother," Stella answered and Mac nodded before she realized too. "But she must have known the kind of muscle that the thugs packed and knew she stood no chance against the thugs, so she let herself get beat up."

"She wouldn't just get beat up for no reason. We all know this. Rebecca Manx is a fighter," Mac began before he saw her return with Flack. "Too stubborn for her own good," he added as she walked in and smirked at him before dropping a folder. "Not taking the hints?"

She snickered and stood straight looking him in the eyes. "Taking them and ignoring them like usual. I believe it's somewhere mixed in with your bullheaded comment," she added. She revealed the buildings that she snagged an image of. "Talon used to hide drugs. That much I know. The Diners knew Talon too and Isaiah was a friend to him. Though I'm still lacking the actual connection here. Isaiah never knew about the drugs. I never told him," she responded.

"Maybe you didn't need to. We found traces of a drug on your living room floor from the struggle," Hawkes began walking in and kissing her cheek making her blush. "Finally," he responded and she glared at him before he chuckled. "Anyways. The trace was cocaine and we found epithelial under your nails. So while you didn't fight, you scratched at them. Isaiah was who you attacked. But we also finally got another DNA profile and you're in luck. They are in CODIS."

"Who?"

"Chelsea Reinhart," Lindsay answered handing her a folder. "She's under your nails and in your apartment quite recently. Her blood winds up on the floor beside where you originally were attacked. It had a slight drag mark matching your pants catching a drop of the blood and dragging it with you. We checked your personal effects and found your DNA, Chelsea's and Isaiah's. But Isaiah is barely on it so he certainly did the job quickly," she informed.

"We have warrants," Hawkes added and Rebecca nodded closing her eyes. "We need to get him Rebecca. Even though he's your brother by adoption. You can't let crime go unpunished," Hawkes warned looking at her and she sighed nodding at that. "We'll get him."

"I'll be here processing something from the apartment that doesn't make sense," she assured. Hawkes looked at her shocked as she walked into Trace and that made Mac and Stella follow her. "I figured you two wouldn't take long to follow."

"What didn't add up?"

"This was recorded to be on the ground, but I know I snagged it off an attacker. Couldn't see who, but I gripped it as tightly as possible and didn't even let go of it when I dragged myself over to the phone. Memories are starting to creep up on me," she explained.

"If you didn't have it in your hand when you were transported, your death grip must have loosened. So when the blood loss caused you to faint, you must have let go. That's why it was recorded to be on the ground near your body," Mac responded before he saw her grabbing the orange glasses and her UV light. He grabbed a set as well as Stella. When they were running over the bracelet, Mac stopped at one little charm. "This one isn't absorbing any light. It's deflecting."

"Not many jewels can do that. I know diamonds bounce UV light away from it. But I don't know many others." Mac nodded and pulled off the charm and looked at it. "I'll run it past EDNA and verify." Mac nodded knowing why she wanted to do it. "If it's a diamond, I know who's it was."

"Emilia's?" She looked at Stella shocked and she chuckled. "I figured it out. You seemed to have a close connection to her," she explained and Rebecca snickered at that. "Well closer than your relationship to Martin," she amended.

"I've had closer relationships to others than them," she responded nonchalantly walking away with the charm in an evidence bag. Stella looked at Mac shocked who was merely smirking at the confession that slipped out of her mouth.

"Who could she possibly have been closer to? Her parents?" Stella was missing the obvious clue she dropped.

"Us," Mac answered looking at Stella. "She's still working up the nerve to say it. She's good at dropping hints. Not so much with outright blurting it out," he answered before he watched as EDNA was getting to work for Rebecca and she looked to be okay but he knew better. "She'll be done soon. So I'll send her back to the apartment. As in her's for now. I think it might be good for her to head home."

"She's covering something, isn't she?" Mac nodded before he saw Rebecca smirking as she looked in the microscope and she grabbed the evidence with the glove still on and plopped it back into the bag and also printed off EDNA's results.

"So this is a diamond. But it's a rare one. I was able to track down the last known shipment from the other computer. The mass purchaser? The Diner family. So I was right. Chelsea though. I don't get where she comes into this," she explained.

"Running her picture and name through CODIS was a start. But maybe we're looking at this from the wrong angle. You said you held onto that bracelet so tight that you know you had it until you were unconcious. If it really is Emilia's, then why did one of the attackers have it on?"

"No idea. No break ins reported in that area," she responded looking at Mac. "I don't even think she had a daughter. Isaiah was supposedly her only," she assured. Mac frowned and then knew he had to pull her from the case.

"I have an idea. You won't like it, but it might just help us out. Go home and stop working the case. You'd be surprised at what we can get when someone who knows a suspect or a witness isn't involved anymore," Mac informed.

"Mac," Rebecca responded.

"Do not make me transition it from a request to an order," he warned her looking straight into her eyes. "Rule 2. Remember that and remember what's beside it," he reminded and she tensed at that. "Do not make me turn it into an order," he repeated.

"Fine," she responded taking off her lab coat and grabbing her bag before looking at him. "Apartment 1 or 2? 1 being mine, 2 being your's."

"1 for now. We'll come pick you up when we're done. If we get a new unrelated DOA, you'll be the first one called," Mac promised and she nodded at him. "Please try to avoid any more trouble," he added and she chuckled at that as the elevator door closed. "I mean I know I wanted to take her on, but some days I question what we took on."

"We took on a teenager in an adult's body. While Rebecca's very professional, she's also never really been allowed to be a teen. So some of it's teenage rebellion that was shelled up," Stella explained looking at him. Mac chuckled at the reference knowing in a way it was true.

Meanwhile, when Rebecca got into her apartment, she smiled as she saw the little stand that was filled with pictures again. She had buried all of them in books, but somehow finally felt the nerve to have them out again. Standing in the front of them all was a picture of Rebecca, Mac, Stella, Flack and Danny after her first case closed. She for once smiled around them and Mac couldn't change that he was proud of her. She had used unconventional thinking to get to the answer. "Hey," Flack greeted walking in with Aiden.

"If you're here because Mac asked you to keep me from leaving? Don't bother. I got the memo," she assured and Aiden showed her a dead body. "DOA? Unrelated?"

"Completely," Aiden promised looking at her. "I don't mind working alongside you guys. Mac told Flack to come pick you up," she informed. She smirked grabbing her kit and walking out with him to the squad car and as they were drove over, she saw Mac and Danny waiting for her. "You should have seen her confusion."

"Assured to be unrelated," Danny chuckled looking at her. "So has he briefed you?" She shook her head and Flack chuckled at that.

"Your DOA is a Chelsea University student. He's in Lit. The victim's name is Talon Rensean," he informed and Rebecca nodded putting her gloves on and looking at the body and pointing to a hand. "What's up?" Mac looked and nodded at her.

"Cadaveric spasm. He had something in his hand. But I don't see anything here," she informed glancing around. "This must have been a simple fight gone wrong. Regardless, I want Sid to look him over." Rebecca grabbed paper bags and put them over the hands of the victim and used zipties to hold the bags to the wrist.

"I didn't expect you to vouchsafe at the scene. I figured you'd take trace at the scene," Danny explained and Rebecca smirked as she looked over him and then glanced over to Danny and he nodded at her knowing her unspoken question. "TOD was estimated to be about 14 hours ago."

"Long enough for rigor to set in but not long enough for it to break," she mused. She then saw the ME van. "Get him out of here," she assured the Medical Examiners. As Mac saw the body getting lifted up, he paused them and Rebecca glanced to see what he was looking at and snagged a few pictures of his back.

"Explains why he was on his back. Wounds on the back. Hopefully Sid can get you a weapon," Mac mused before she walked around the scene and then glanced up and covered her mouth.

"Danny? Call the Coroners again. Tell them we'll probably need," she began counting and then sighing. "5 vans. 10 bodies up there and 2 per van," she responded. Mac rushed over and looked where she pointed. "We aren't looking at a spree I don't think. I think it's a serial."

"Let's see what Sid has to say about that," Mac responded as he looked at her. "It seems you were meant to be at the hanging tree," he mused darkly. Mac knew why she called the tree they were at, 'The Hanging Tree'. Her and all her school friends used to hang upside down from the branches.

"Strange things did happen here. No stranger would it be, if we met at Midnight in the Hanging tree," she mused sadly.

(A/N So Rebecca's story is still developing. You can see the cracks in her mask starting to bubble to the top which is why it's a slow steady progress. I don't mind reviews for ideas or criticism. Also the last few lines are referencing the song the Hanging Tree by James Newton Howard and Jennifer Lawrence)