Chapter Nineteen

Author's Note: Thanks to all who reviewed last time; they mean a lot and so nice to wake up to. More notes at the end, enjoy.

Disclaimer: Any characters you recognise from the show aren't mine and also I own the mistakes.

That-Geek.

-SHANDY-

When Rusty and Rose showed up in the murder room they watched as the team bustled around the room, spotting Sharon in her office.

"Where's my mom?" Rusty asked the room, they all paused for a second and then continued to move. Provenza made his way over to the young boy.

"We sent her to the break room with Sykes, she's good and we're hopeful we can help her" He explained placing a reassuring hand on his shoulder, Rusty glanced down at the floor then at Provenza, with a grateful look on his face; Before heading to the break room

"So, is my mom really busy?" Rose asked cautiously, Provenza shrugged. With a roll of her eyes she headed to her mom's office. Knocking she waited for a response and entered when she heard one.

"Afternoon, sweetheart. How was school?" Sharon smiled as Rose sat in front of her.

"It was good, so, erm, has anyone called you today?" Rose asked leaning forward in her chair.

"No," Sharon replied slowly, "should I be concerned?" She raised an eyebrow at her daughter, who scoffed.

"Absolutely not, I thought Auntie Eryn might have called, anyway, busy day?" Rose shrugged quickly changing the subject which didn't go unnoticed by Sharon.

"Why would Eryn be calling?" She sighed, her head lulling to the side. It wasn't as though Sharon didn't love her older sister, but she was lively, her second marriage had instilled a new lease of life into her and she never seemed to sit still.

"I might have mentioned Grandma being, a teeny, tiny bit lonely. So, she's coming here for her birthday" Rose revealed with an awkward smile. Sharon let out another, deeper sigh.

"Alone?" She checked a nervous expression on her face.

"No, she's bringing her family. I haven't seen Jess in ages, Mom. Don't you think grandma would appreciate the company" Rose smiled, which calmed Sharon, slightly. Her sister's family was still young. She had remarried after coming out and falling in love with a woman, Nora who she married and moved to Norway with.

"Of course, but Eryn's so…so" She struggled to find a word for her sister.

"Bossy, stubborn, challenging" Rose suggested, "Mom, the two of you are very similar" the young teen deadpanned, prompting her mother to laugh a little.

"I suppose. I'll call her, I haven't seen her since your grandpa's funeral, so not the best of times. We could probably fit them at ours" Sharon smiled seeing that obviously meant a lot to Rose the chance to see her cousins. Rose grinned and put her thumbs up at her mom.

"Awesome, Ingrid is small, so she would probably fit on the sofa thing from Emily's room, but if we put that in mine, then Auntie Eryn and Nora can sleep there. I could probably share my bed with Jessie" Rose rambled as her mother chuckled and selected her sister's number on her phone.

-SHANDY-

When Andy returned with Gary's parole officer gave a full account of what he knew and it matched well to the story that Mr Lewis had provided. The case had now become quite unclear.

Provenza updated the Captain on the progress and what the parole officer had told them matched up to Lewis' story, which left the team in a rather confusing place.

"We don't have many more leads to follow up on Captain" Provenza concluded his explanation to Sharon who hummed in response.

"I mean…we could interview Rusty, he might…" Provenza began

"No, he is already racked with worry. Don't bring him into this yet." She sighed, getting heavily involved in this case was a risky move for Sharon and she couldn't deny that she didn't trust Sharon Beck at all.

"Captain, Provenza. I have something you might want to see," Mike's head popped around Sharon's office door. With a nod to Mike, the two exited the office and into the open bullpen. Mike called everyone over to his desk which was strewn with letters.

"I started by comparing the writing of Mr Lewis from the form he filled out when he arrived and I found many subtle similarities so at first I thought he had tried to cover up his natural writing but then," he paused reaching for the list Sharon Beck had written out, "I happened to glance at this list and from the smudge on a lot of the letters, which is a tell-tale sign of a left-hander and well we all saw Mr Lewis write with his right hand and Ms Beck with her left so, I looked into the differences and the similarities on this lit and sample of the letters" He rambled on and began to explain the specifics of each letter.

"Tao, what is your point?" Provenza groaned stopping Mike mid-explanation.

"Ms Beck wrote them and tried to copy Mr Lewis' writing" Tao concluded, the team stood back, it was a shock, although Sharon felt that she shouldn't be surprised.

"Where is Ms Beck now?" She asked looking to her colleagues.

"In the break room, Ma'am" Julio responded, "Should I bring her to the interview room, I believe she's with Rusty" He looked expectantly at her, but she shook her head and looked at Provenza.

"Lieutenant you are the lead on this, so, go ahead." She smiled and swiftly made her way to her office. She felt dejected that once again Rusty was going to be hurt and she couldn't do much to stop that.

A few minutes after she had entered her office a knock her door made her smile.

"How you doing?" Andy asked, sitting beside her on the small office couch. Sharon shrugged.

"Dejected. I know Rusty isn't my child, but I care for him as though he were and" she huffed not really knowing where to go with that sentence. She let her head fall onto his shoulder.

"Yeah, I get that, the kid has charmed us all in his own special way. Look at the positives, his mom is treating her addiction and Rusty is pleased with that." Andy attempted to improve the mood but instead, his comment prompted Sharon to stand up.

Rusty exited the break room and walked through to the door of Sharon's office. His mom was scared, and he knew the signs that she was getting ready to run and he didn't want that; not again. He pushed the door open.

"I mean, I know that woman is his mother, but I don't trust her to keep him safe. She isn't exactly mother of the year…" Sharon ranted to Flynn. Rusty stood there for a second and then spoke.

"Wow, Sharon I thought you were ready to support me and my mom." Sharon whipped round and only caught sight of him leaving the bullpen. She dashed out of the office and towards the breakroom, they couldn't get far. Except they got further than she thought.

"Damn it" She muttered seeing the empty break room. The farthest door coming to a close she made her way over quickly to the door yanking it open and then dashing down the corridor to the stairwell.

"Rusty!" She shouted as she saw a flash of his blonde hair moving down to the bottom floor, she went after them down a few floors her heels slowing her down immensely she huffed and sat on the step of floor 6. She put her hand to forehead and sighed again. When she stood Sharon very slowly made her way back to the bullpen.

"Did you catch them?" Andy asked. Standing up and making his way over to her as she entered.

"Would I be on my own if I had?" She snapped shaking her head. Her hand combed through her hair, her eyelids sliding shut, she sighed and ran her hand down his arm.

"We'll find him Captain" The team started talking over each other on a strategy to find them and alerted parole so that everyone would be alerted to his disappearance with his mother. Sharon slowly walked to her office racking her brain over the events that had just transpired. How could she have been so insensitive to speak about the other Sharon knowing Rusty was in the building. She huffed as she sat on her office sofa. She had let her emotions out of control and that was the thing she had always tried to avoid doing especially when her children were around.

She sat forward her head on her knees, taking deep breaths. What was wrong with her? Rose had run away from her and now rusty, just as they had finally learned to trust one another, more importantly, he had learnt to trust her.

She sighed heavily and grabbed her coat and swept through the bullpen ignoring the voices of her colleagues asking where she was going she got into her car and drove away. There was only one person who could give her kind of decent advice in this situation.

-SHANDY-

Author's Note: So, I want to briefly touch on the guest reviewer, who I can't personally message; so here we are. The 'Shandy' word is a page break I guess, I saw it done a lot when I started writing fanfiction and it's just a habit now, and it's that word because originally this was a very Shandy centric tale and other words were too long or short. Obviously, I wanted to see Sharon's character be explored in deeper depths; much like anyone and that is coming up in the next chapter, so hold your horses.

Normally I would personally message reviewers, but I can't do that with guests.

Thanks for joining me

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