A/N: Originally, I was planning on updating this on Saturdays only, but I have recently decided that this story will be updated on Saturdays and Tuesdays!

Warning: This chapter contains mentions of violence through most scenes.

Chapter 2

Daphne pulled on her pyjamas, her favourite pyjamas. She had no matching pairs of them. Her pyjamas were just random t-shirts and random bottoms.

Tonight she is wearing a beige pyjama top, which is quite baggy, and a pair of checkered green bottoms.

Sometimes she wondered where she got her pyjamas from because she was sure some of them were not hers. She had wondered recently if any of the t-shirts were her father's. If they were, they'd be thrown out.

She had just taken a shower, a well-deserved one. She texted Fred and asked if she should order a pizza for tonight. She did not need to ask him, she and Fred loved pizza.

Fred replied almost instantly with a question mark. Daphne replied with the laughing emoji, then sent a separate message, I didn't need to ask, did I?

Fred replied with a no, and asked what time she wanted him over, Daphne said anytime was good, whenever you're ready.

She plopped onto the couch and wondered if it was worth putting the TV on. What was on? Crap movies, TV shows she has already watched, and the news.

Her father's face was bound to be all over the news, maybe they would mention her again, but they would show her mother's injuries. She did not need to see that again.

It started back in the Summer, 12th June, Daphne's sister had called her. She was worried, Daphne could tell by the tone in her voice. She said she needed a babysitter for the next day as she planned to go back to work from maternity leave and needed to have a meeting with her boss.

She told Daphne that neither of their parents had been answering their phones, Daphne told her that maybe they're just busy but Thalia said she had been trying for a few hours. Daphne agreed to go with her sister to her parent's apartment. Thalia said she'd pick her up as she had to drive past Daphe's apartment building on the way.

Thalia knocked on the door, 'Mom? Dad?' She called but there was no answer.

Daphne looked down the hall. Their parents had only one neighbour who lived on the top floor, unfortunately, he was on vacation, Daphne tried to remember, she thought that he said he was backpacking Asia.

If he had been home, she could have asked him if they had seen them leave the apartment.

But Thalia and Elizabeth Blake were close, they always told each other where they were going because it was likely that the other wanted to come along, or they would ask each other to pick something up for them.

'And they didn't say they were going anywhere?' Daphne asked.

Thalia shook her head, 'No' She replied, she quickly looked at her phone, no messages or missed calls from either of them.

Daphne fiddled for her spare key attached to her other keys and she tried it in the lock, but something was stopping it.

Daphne pulled the key out and knocked on the door, but no answer. Then she knocked again, but a bit louder.

'Did you hear that?' Daphne asked.

Thalia shook her head, 'No, hear what?'

Daphne listened again, and she heard footsteps on the other side of the door, so she knocked again and the footsteps stopped.

Then they heard a voice, 'Help…' it said

The sisters exchanged looks, 'Mom?' Thalia called now banging on the door.

Daphne pushed her sister to the side, before kicking the door and it swung open, breaking the door handle, the lock and part of the door frame.

'Mom!' Thalia exclaimed. They both looked at their mother, she had a gash across her forehead, cuts on her arms and some bruises too, black and blue ones.

Daphne caught something in her peripheral vision; her father.

'Dad?' She asked. He gulped nervously and made an attempted to flee the apartment, but Daphne, a highly skilled detective, stopped him.

Though Thalia watched, she couldn't figure out how her sister had tackled their father to the ground so quickly.

Daphne pulled out her phone and dialled 911, she told them who she was, where she was and what it looked like had happened.

Thalia went to her mother's side, the woman was frightened and flinched away from her daughter, they both cried.

'What the fuck are you doing?' Daphne exclaimed, putting pressure on her father's hands which she had pinned to his back.

He was in his work clothes, Daphne wasn't sure if he was going to work or had been already and come home. But she looked up at the clock on the wall, it was in the mid-afternoon so he probably hadn't even been to work.

Her poor mother had suffered for quite some time before Thalia had called Daphne.

When her father didn't respond, Daphne applied more pressure and her father cried out in pain, 'You're lucky I don't have my fucking gun.' She said through gritted teeth.

She looked over her shoulder and saw that her mother had finally let Thalia take care of her, and she was attempting to get her to stand so she could clean her up in the bathroom. But Elizabeth was still shaken and Daphne couldn't tell if she was too scared to move or if she physically couldn't.

I wasn't much longer before the police arrived, along with an ambulance.

Daphne discussed with the officers, Jacobs, Todd, Dale, and Henderson, what had happened when she and her sister arrived.

Thalia stayed with her mother when the paramedics took her down to the ambulance, and she was allowed to go with them.

Daphne wanted her sister's car to follow behind the police cars, but she decided it was best to go to the hospital, she knew the officers would deal with her father.

Amid the panic as the police and paramedics arrived, Thalia had unknowingly dropped her keys, but Daphne had spotted them and picked them up.

She went down to her sister's car and drove to the hospital.

When she arrived, she met Thalia in the waiting room.

'They think she has a broken leg, but they're checking her out now.' Thalia explained, Daphne nodded and sat next to her sister.

Thalia laid her head on Daphne's shoulder and sobbed, trying not to be too loud. Daphne took her sister's hand and told her everything would be ok.

'How could it be?' She asked, 'Why would he do this?'

'I'm gonna find out.'

They were waiting for quite a while before the doctor came out.

He explained that Elizabeth broken leg and there was some damage to her wrist, along with bruises and cuts which have been cleaned and stitched up. She had a scan to check for internal injuries but had only a few bruised ribs. He explained that he wanted her to stay overnight so they could monitor her, and also because of the fragile state she was in, he said she seemed a lot more calm and relaxed around the doctors.

They were told that they were allowed to go and see her.

Daphne and Thalia went into their mother's room. She was glad to see them, relieved even. She thanked them both for coming to her rescue.

Daphne had asked why their father did what he did.

All Elizabeth said was, 'Go to his office, he's done bad things.'

Daphne asked Thalia if she could borrow her car for a bit, Thalia said it was ok. Daphne said goodbye to her mother and sister and she left the hospital.

On her way out she called Fred and told him what had happened and she asked him to meet her at her father's building.

When Daphne was a little girl, she often looked up at the building and thought that her dad worked in the clouds because the building was so tall. And when she looked at the huge GB sign at the very top, she always thought of the massive WAYNE ENTERPRISES on top of Bruce Wayne's building.

Fred had arrived just after she did, and he told her how sorry he was to hear what happened to her mother.

'She told me to look in his office because he's done bad things.'

'What does that mean?' Fred asked.

Daphne shrugged, and she pushed open the huge glass doors and they walked through the lobby.

Daphne caught the attention of Stephanie, the young girl at the reception desk. Daphne remembered Stephanie telling her that she was lucky to get a job here because she had children young and she struggled to find a job for a while, but she managed to pay her debts and had plans to take her children to Hawaii.

'Stephanie, I need to get to my father's office. Do you have a spare key?' She asked.

'Sure,' she stopped herself as she was about to stand from her chair, 'I need to know why though.'

Daphne rolled her eyes. She glanced at Fred and they both pulled out their police badges, they made sure to take them wherever.

Stephanie's eyes widened, 'Oh, ok.' She said nervously. She quickly got up from the chair and unlocked the cabinet behind her.

Finally, she pulled out the key to Mr Blake's office.

'Thanks.' Daphne said, taking the key, and she and Fred turned to the elevator.

'Is this about the payments?' Stephanie asked. Daphne stopped and whipped around, 'What payments?'

Stephanie knew she had thrown herself in it now, 'The uh…some of the missed payments.'

'I'll find out when I get up there.' Daphne said.

As they went through her father's paperwork, Daphne and Fred were both shocked to find piles of paperwork indicating that Mr Blake had not been paying some of his staff, and those who were paid were missing money. There were only a select few who had been paid properly, Daphne guessed that Stephanie might not have been one of those people, why else would she bring it up?

There was something else Fred had found locked in the drawer which he pried open. Several pieces of paper stapled together, and as Fred read through he realised that it was a list of lost items.

Dating back just over a year.

It was little things like missing hats, scarves or that one random shoe that someone manages to lose.

It was big things, iPods, phones, watches and various items of jewellery.

Fred showed Daphne and she read through them, something bothered her about this. Though there were no pictures, the owner of the lost item had written a description of the missing item, one of those items was a Rolex, not a fake, a real one.

She tried to picture what the Rolex would look like, based on the description, and she realised she might have seen it before.

She thinks she may have seen her father wearing it a couple of times, and she remembered that he said he was selling it.

'Oh, crap.' She sighed.

'What is it?' Fred asked, but Daphne pulled out her phone and called boss, Captain Williams, she explained to him that her father had just been arrested, and she and Fred were at her father's office and they had found some evidence of theft and he should come to the building.

She hung up. It wasn't long before Captain Williams and a team of officers arrived at the office and they began to file all the evidence into various boxes and transfer it to the station. Captain Williams apologised for what had happened to Daphne's mother, and he informed her that he was currently being interrogated at the station.

Daphne had taken the car back to the hospital and returned the keys to her sister, Fred offered Daphne a ride home and she took it.