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Hope you're having a lovely month! The sun is finally shining here in the UK. Updates on here will become a little weird. I'm trying to catch up on my AO3 account so one fic will be updated once a week for a bit whilst I catch up on there. Basically I want all the same parts posting for all my fics on the same day so that's why the posting schedule will be a bit odd for a bit. Thanks for bearing with me. Big thanks to Lazytown200, Sweetkid45, JaneAndMaoura05, Guest, SallyRally, Vbbneighbor, Sunshine and Rain for their reviews. Oh and to the guest that is late to the fandom: Better late than never!

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A New Family, a New Future-Part 12:

Lunchtime was awkward as Louisa could eventually feel all eyes on her and she sighed and just played around with her food. She heard her phone bleep and pulled her phone from her jacket and saw that Cailin had sent her a message. She smiled and replied to the message before replying to one from Maura. She didn't really say much and she knew that would worry Maura but she was aware of eyes on her.

"Maura have you heard from Lou?" Jane asked as she walked into the autopsy room.

"Yes but she's not saying much at all and I'm worried that something has happened," Maura said.

"Well there's not a lot we can do to help her. She's at high school now. We can't just go strolling in. All we can do is talk to her later about it all," Jane said, "now have you started the autopsy yet?"

"I was about to," Maura said, "and then you came in worrying about Lou."

"Can you make any assumptions?" Jane asked before hearing the usual Maura Isles answer.

"Now you know I can't do that Jane," Maura said before beginning the autopsy.

"So where do you live?" Chloe asked, trying to keep her new friend distracted from the whispering.

"I live on Beacon Hill," Louisa said before Chloe gasped

"I live on the next street so we must get the same bus," she said.

"Yes we must do, just at different stops," Louisa said, "Jane's going to be walking Jo Friday when I get off the bus as she doesn't want me walking the way home on my own."

"Well that's understandable and I know it'll take you a little while to trust me and I totally understand that after everything that has happened to you," Chloe said, "I think I'd be the same."

Louisa just nodded as she played with her food again and went rather silent. She did want to talk but had no idea what to talk about. Luckily for her the bell rang to warn them about afternoon classes starting and the two cleared their things away and then headed to the toilets to make sure they looked OK before they headed to their final two lessons of the day. The two had agreed to get the bus together as Chloe would get off the bus so she wouldn't have to face Jane at all. That was the way Louisa wanted it until she decided the time was right for Chloe to meet Jane and Maura. She'd mention Chloe name but not much more.

Finally the end of the day arrived and the two girls were sat on the bus.

"I'll save you a seat tomorrow," Chloe said before she got off the bus. Louisa began to look out for Jane and she soon saw her as the bus stopped and got off with a boy.

"Good day kid?" Jane asked as Louisa stroked Jo Friday before walking to the house. Jane looked and watched before hurrying after Louisa only to find the girl had gone to her room as soon as she had set foot in the house.

"We'll talk to her at dinner," Maura said, "she's probably just tired and wants to rest before dinner."

"That or something has happened," Jane said before taking Jo Friday's leash off and watching as the dog headed straight for Louisa's room.

"Jane don't start making assumptions until we have spoken to her because that won't help anyone," Maura said, "now go and set the table." Jane knew not to argue and she headed off to set the before calling Louisa when the food was on the table.

Louisa had changed and went and sat at the table.

"This looks yummy Maura," Louisa said, "bet Jane isn't keen because it's healthy," she smirked and the Italian before beginning to eat her dinner.

Finally Maura had had enough of the silence and looked at Jane before she looked at Louisa and thought how to phrase her words before Jane just looked at Louisa.

"How was school? You've barely said a thing about it since you got home," Jane said before feeling Maura's eyes on her.

"Yes darling," Maura said, "did it go OK?"

Louisa sighed. She didn't really want to talk about it but felt eyes on her.

"Well everyone was whispering about me and figured who I was pretty quickly," Louisa said, "so yeah apart from having to deal with that all day and not really having a clue what to do about lunch everything went well. If it wasn't for Chloe I'd have surely drowned."

"Who's Chloe?" Maura asked.

"Chloe Davis. I kinda bumped straight into her as I was walking into the school," Louisa explained, "she showed me around and helped me when we were acting out famous people and somebody did an impression of me. It was OK though. I coped with it fine," she said before eating again.

"But other than that you had a great day?" Maura asked.

"Yes it was fine. I have homework to do so I'm going to go and do that after dinner," Louisa said, "because I want to get it done and out of the way."

"Sensible idea and it also stops it piling up," Maura said, "now if you can carry on with that all year I will let you have a reward."

"A semester would be a better idea," Jane said, "reward her at the end of each semester." Maura looked before nodding and Louisa finished her food and then quickly hurried of to her room.

"She's not telling the truth," Jane said.

"Oh I know she's not," Maura said, "but eventually she will come to us so until then we just have to keep an eye on and hope that she can handle herself."

"That or try and get Cailin to have a word with her," Jane said before she went and grabbed her phone and called Frankie.

"What's up?" came her brother's voice.

"Can you do a background check on a Chloe Davis and her family? She's befriended Lou and I just want to make sure that everything is fine," Jane said.

"Yeah sure thing," Frankie said before ending the call. Jane put her phone down and looked at Maura, "better safe than sorry."

"OK you got me there," Maura said before going to clear away the plates and load the dishwasher worrying about what Louisa hadn't told them.