IM SORRY I WASN'T THERE

CHAPTER 6

A/N: Hi everyone, I hope that you like this next one, sorry it's taken me so long to put it up I've just been really busy. Please like and review. I don't own any of the characters expect the OC.

When Steve opened the door there was complete silence and zero movement. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. Nothing had been cleaned up since that night. The furniture was still broken, blood stain on the floor, glass everywhere. He couldn't move, he was still in shock. There was a few more moments of silence before Steve jumped at the feeling of someone nudging him. He turned around to find Mae standing behind him.

"Hey Daddy, can we go in?" Mae ask her father curiously

"Um in a minute sweetie, there's just something I need to do first. Why don't you go to the car with Aunty Kono and get a snack from your bag" He told her. He was glad that she didn't insist on going in at that moment because she didn't need to see it again and have to relive it.

Danny waited for Mae to be far enough away so that she wouldn't hear him.

"Hey Steve, what's going on" He asked, wondering why he won't go in

"Why has nothing been cleaned up. The Crime Scene clean-up crew obviously haven't been here. It's been 2 weeks, they should have been here by now". He asked a little angry, trying not to start yelling.

"Are you serious"? Danny had a look inside the door and he was shocked at what he saw also. "I can't believe that they haven't come through yet. I personally called them myself when we released the scene. They told me that they were coming that day" Danny replied to Steve, trying not to get angry himself.

"I am really sorry Steve, I didn't want you guys to have to see this especially Mae again" Danny admitted.

"It's okay Danny, it's not your fault. Can you and Chin please just help me try and clean this place up a bit before Mae come in here"? He asked his partner and team mate.

The three of them went inside and tried to clean up as best they could in a short time frame. They moved the broken furniture outside, swept up the broken glass, cut the blood stain out of the carpet and cover the spot with the couch. Once everything was somewhat okay, Steve gestured for Kono to bring Mae inside and they all got stuck into sorting out everything in the house.

Kono and Mae started in Mae's room where they packed all her belonging into boxes and brought them down to the car. Whilst the girls were doing that, the boys began sorting out the kitchen and living room. They sorted it out into three piles, one was items that they were keeping and the second was of items that they were giving to charity and the third was things that they were throwing away.

Once those rooms were completed, they all braked for lunch. They had just decided to order pizza to the house. Once the pizza had arrived, they brought it outside to the backyard and sat around eating and talking for about an hour. After lunch, Steve and Kono went upstairs to start doing Alexis's room. Steve really didn't want to have to go in there but he knew he had to. Kono offered to help him which he took her up on.

"I don't feel comfortable going through her things" Steve admitted to Kono

"I know, but its better you doing it then somebody that she never knew" Kono told him

"Yeah, I guess so" Steve said

Whilst Steve was cleaning out Alexis's drawers, he came across an envelope with his name on it. He had no idea what it was. He put it in his pocket to bring home and read. Once the whole house was cleared, they all decided that they were tied and just wanted to go home so they did. Once Steve and Mae got home, Steve made something for Mae to have for dinner and then she went to bed. He then decided to go lie in bed and read the letter that he got from Alexis. He went up to his room, got comfortable and opened the letter.

Dear Steve,

I'm guessing if you are reading this then something has happened to me and you have met our daughter Mae. She is so amazing. I can definitely see a lot of you in her. I am so sorry for keeping your daughter from you for all these years. I did it because I was mad at you for the way our relationship ended and that was wrong. I should have gone about it in a different way and I have always regretted it and I'm really sorry. I am really happy that you have now got the chance to meet and see her and I know that you both will be really happy.

Mae never deserved not knowing you and neither did you. This is the biggest regret and mistake of my life. I just want you to know that I never stopped loving you.

Love you always

Alexis

Once Steve read the letter, he folded it up and put it into his bedside table. He could feel a water like feeling down the side of his face which made him realise that he had been crying. He moved down the length of the bed and started to fall asleep with Alexis's words floating around in his head.

Sorry I took so long to update. I'm not so sure about this chapter. I had trouble writing this chapter so I thought I just needed to upload it to get it over with so I can move onto the next one. So I hope that you liked it if not I'm sorry.

P.S. does anyone know why my chapter wouldn't upload. I've wrote 6 chapters for this story so far and the first 5 of them have uploaded without any issue but then I try to upload the 6th chapter and it wouldn't let me, it just kept saying it wasn't saved in the right format. I've done nothing different this time from last time so I have no idea why it wouldn't let me upload it.