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A New Family, a New Future-Part 18:

Jane was starting to worry that it was taking longer than she had expected for Frankie to find anything out on Chloe's mother. She had been on the verge of calling him out on it in the bullpen when she found him stood in front of her desk.

"I had to drag in Frost and Nina but you need to come with me now," he said before heading off. Jane quickly followed as her brother was not heading to the usual tech room.

"Found her," Frankie said before he closed the door after Jane and then looked at Jane, "sorry for all the secrecy but I had to find Maura as well," he said before Jane noticed her wife leant against the desk, "I'll let Frost explain."

"Well Frankie kept coming up against a blocker when he was researching Chloe's mother so he asked Nina and me to try and hack passed the blocker," Frost said.

"That is when I had to trip a few hacker tricks and then I came across this…" Nina said bringing up a witness protection front page, "it appears the Davis family are in Witsec," she said.

"What? Why the hell are a normal looking family in Witsec?" Jane asked, "where were they moved from?"

"You might want to sit down for this next part. No arguing Jane," Frankie said, "so Nina delved further into the files and found this…" Chloe's mother's file came up, "the family were moved when Chloe's mother witnessed a murder back in Chicago where the family is from."

"Who was murdered?" Maura asked, "I mean we all know Brian and Louisa lived there before Sadie's…"

Silence fell on the room as Jane and Maura were beginning to piece the jigsaw together.

"Wait…are you telling me that Chloe Davis' mother witnessed the murder of Sadie Vance?" Jane managed to utter.

"That is correct," Nina confirmed, "Brian brought Sadie back to be buried in the family grave and Chloe's family were instantly placed in Witsec and brought to Boston. It was why Chloe missed all that time with school because of the relocation…"

Jane and Maura looked at each other and then what was being said before silence fell on the room as Jane and Maura clearly thought about what had been said.

"This will change nothing between Louisa and Chloe. Chloe will probably know the reason why but not Louisa being Sadie's daughter," Maura said.

"Are you crazy Maura? This will change everything for them," Jane said, "the fact is those two girls are linked… If this gets out then it will change everything for them."

"How will it? Chloe isn't allowed to say and all we can do is arrange a meeting with Chloe's mother to say that we know who she is and the story. Yes it means revealing that we've done some work but we'll lie…" Maura said before Jane interrupted.

"You mean I'll lie so you don't get hives," she said, "Louisa cannot be at the house when we meet Chloe's ma."

"We'll have an uncle and niece night with her won't we Frost?" Frankie instantly said, "that way she'll be nowhere near the house."

"So we're all agreeing not to tell Louisa then I'm guessing," Maura said.

"That's the plan. I'll sort this meeting out with Chloe's mother and you two can have her Friday night as I know you are both off duty," Jane said, "and not a word to anyone outside this room."

Friday came and Louisa had been informed of her sleepover at her uncles' apartment and she was excited about it. She may have been 14-years-old but she was looking forwards to doing cool things with her uncles.

Louisa was picked up from school the only way she could be, by Frost in his undercover car, and the two headed back to the station before the two took Louisa back to their apartment.

Meanwhile Jane and Maura were stood anxiously awaiting the arrival of Chloe's mother. This could totally backfire on them but they had to make Chloe's mother aware that they knew everything but they wouldn't let it affect the friendship between the girls.

Eventually there was a knock on the door and Jane went to answer it and allowed the mother instantly inside before Maura walked over to them.

"Pleasure to meet you Mrs. Davis," Maura smiled.

"Please call me Linda," Chloe's mother said before being shown to the sofa and drinks were served.

The women talked about the girls and the friendship that had blossomed before Linda put her cup down.

"I sense that this friendly discussion is all just smoke and mirrors as to why I was invited here," she said looking between the two women.

"We know about Witsec," Jane said instantly taking the lead, "don't yell. Lou's never had it easy and for safety's sake I did a background check to make sure that there was nothing dodgy going on that could endanger Lou. I decided to get my brother Frankie and a couple of tech geniuses involved and the two tech geniuses found out that you're in Witsec…"

"Because you witnessed the murder of Louisa's parents," Maura said.

"That's private information," Linda said, "so you two, Jane's brother and these other two are the only ones who know?"

"That's correct," Maura said, "and we aren't about to tell anyone else Linda. We do not want to jeopardise your family's safety or even Louisa lose the only friend she has. You understand why we did this yes?"

"I know what that girl has been through," Linda said, "I remember watching her story and her being taken brought back to Boston watching her mother being buried. I remembering hearing that her father had been murdered and my heart went out to her. I knew whoever took her in would have their work cut out."

"I'm Louisa's cousin. I won't go into family details," Maura said, "but I am blood related to Louisa and that meant we were able to take her in."

"Chloe said you've adopted her…" Linda said.

"Yes because if anything happened to Jane I would be able to keep her but if anything happened to me Jane wouldn't automatically be allowed to keep Louisa," Maura explained, "Louisa was OK with it but she kept the Vance surname because it means a lot to her and we respect that."

Linda nodded as she took a sip of her drink before looking,

"You two are doing a good job despite the crazy hours," she said.

"Well Angela, Jane's mother, lives in the guesthouse and her hours mean she's often home in the evening if we're not. My mother, Constance, is often around currently, my birth mother, Hope, runs MEND and Louisa helps out there. We don't mind because Hope knew Sadie and it helps Louisa," Maura said, "then there's Uncles Frankie and Frost so there's always someone around to watch her."

"She's welcome around mine anytime," Linda said and Jane nodded thanks, "back to the Witsec situation… this won't endanger us will it?"

"No and we all know the risks," Jane said, "so we will also now be able to keep an eye on things. Us two and the other three involved won't breathe a word and nobody is none the wiser that we know Linda."

"Thank you so much. At least the girls are friends," Linda said before the trio returned to the pleasantries of the start of the evening and grew to know a fair bit they didn't know before.