DB laid in bed. His body and mind screamed for sleep but it wouldn't come. Downstairs he could hear the TV blaring out, Charlie was watching cartoons. Maya was sleeping over at a friend's house. He could ask him to turn it down but then Charlie would argue that otherwise the house was too quiet without the TV turned up. He was right without Tom's laughter, loud personality their home had become a silent graveyard filled with the memories of ghosts. Everything was hanging by a fragile thread that could snap with one harsh word or a slammed door.

"You know I always know when you're faking being asleep," Barbara whispered from the doorway. DB caught the faintest whiff of her perfume from where he lay. "DB, are we okay?". Her voice sounded desperate for reassurance, for him to tell her everything was okay and that they could get through anything.

The words of comfort were lodged in his throat. Unable to go away but not able to be spoken either.

"Come, lay with me for a little while?" DB asked quietly, keeping his eyes closed.

"Your avoiding the question," Barbara told him climbing into the bed and snuggling at his side. He could hear her breathing, hear himself breathing. Time stretched out with seconds feeling like hours.

"Did you find Dino? Because if you did, we could place it on Tom's grave on my next day off," DB suggested reaching out for her hand. "All of us, as a family it might help Maya and Charlie,".

"Yeah I found Dino, and I'd like that. Tom loved that toy. Do you remember the time he flooder the bathroom because he and Dino were diving for pirate treasure?".

"When we tried to tell him off, he burst out laughing, then so did we because when he laughed it was infectious," DB reminisced, gripping her hand tighter.

Finn let out a sleep groan at the sound of her phone ringing. Rolling over, she answered her phone "Finlay here," she through a yawn.

"Julie, did I wake you?" her mom asked, her voice buzzing through the phone.

"It's fine I had to get up soon, anyway," Finn told her sitting up and stretching. She had only slept an hour but she would not tell her mom that and get a lecture on how her sleepy pattern wasn't healthy.

"How are you settling in?," Finn didn't have to see her mom to know she was twisting the end of her shirt in her hand. She worried too much but then again as her mom was always fond of saying "You always give me a reason to worry, Julie,". It was never intentional but somehow she did.

"I'm settling in okay. Just solved my first case and everyone at the Lab seems nice. I'm looking for cheap apartments near close to the Lab. I haven't been here long enough to cause trouble but when I do you will be the first to know," Finn tried to joke, brushing the hair out of her eyes.

"Given your ability to cause trouble from the moment you could walk I believe it. I've for to go your brother and Jess are coming for dinner. Love you, speak later in the week,"

"I love you too, mom," Julie whispered before hanging up.

Finn dragged herself out of bed and into the bathroom. Shower, get dressed, grab a coffee and something to eat then go to work. Hopefully on a case a lot complicated than her first.

And that's Dino wrapped up. Next chapter up will be Crimson Lullaby pt 1. Which I hope to have posted tomorrow.

I'm thinking of changing the fic title suggestions welcome