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Chapter Five: Beth's Letter

FBI Department, Illinois

Lindsay and Samantha were still walking. That file Sam was holding in her hand intrigued Lindsay; she had to know what was in there. She knew Sam was trying to torture her; she wanted her to think more about the missing teenager than her case.

As they walked by a few desks, they saw FBI agent Jack Malone, sitting at his desk, working on paper work. Lindsay pulled up a chair and sat next to him. He glanced up from his work, raising an eyebrow. "What is it Monroe?"

"Spade here won't tell me what's in the file," she replied.

Jack turned his gaze on Samantha. "What's in the file, Spade?"

"Hey, I'm not going to tell her until she focuses on our case with the missing teenager," said Samantha.

Lindsay rolled her eyes. "I am focusing on the case. Now I know that file has something to do with me. Give it up."

Samantha lay the file down on Jack's desk, but put her hand on it, so Lindsay couldn't open it. She nodded to Jack and he took the file from her. "Jack reads it first."

Lindsay sighed. She knew that had something to do with her and being both Lindsay Monroe and Paige Hobson. She had a feeling that it was bad news by the way Sam was anticipating her reading it.

Lindsay thought about how she had reacted to this case a year ago. She had done nothing but cry, causing suspicions with her old CSI team. She had worried about the case so much that it got the best of her. She was still worried now, but she looked to finding her true identity as beginning a new life, starting over again. If she was really Lindsay Monroe, she would go back to working as a CSI, and work with Mac and Stella. But if she was really Paige Hobson, she would go back to jail, to serve the sentence she was given because she had killed General Gamba.

She didn't fear jail anymore. She deserved to be there, if she was Paige, but for a good reason. What she did, shooting General Gamba, had helped the country of Makeba restore order again. It had helped Adisa's people break free from that terrible leader. But then again, what she did might have not helped. And what she had done was wrong...murder was not the answer to solving problems…

When Jack was finished reading the file, he glanced quickly at Lindsay and then at Samantha. "Should we let her...?"

"Of course you should let me read it," said Lindsay. "If it's about me, why shouldn't I?"

Sam shook her head. "No, it's best that you don't read it."

Too late, Lindsay thought as she grabbed the file from Jack. She smiled at Jack and said, "I guess you should have kept a better grip on the file. Then I wouldn't have got it!" She got up from her chair and walked away, with Sam following her. She had to walk around the whole office to keep Sam from stealing the file away from her again.

"Lindsay, give that back!" exclaimed Samantha.

Again, she ignored her. What she thought was in the file was an answer to something on her case. But really, it was a letter from Beth Hobson, Paige's sister, along with background information on Paige. She had already read about Paige; the letter she hadn't seen before.

I hate her. She made the wrong decision. She was idiot in the making. First trying to save the world and then killing someone. Why did she bother trying? And then running off with that guy, he was the one who convinced her to kill that man. It would have been better if she were never put on this earth. Because of her, I have no life. Not anymore. Everyone thinks I'm going to turn into her, kill someone, go to jail, and then escape from jail just to go missing again. So find her! Find my sister, Paige Hobson! She deserves to die, in jail, where she belongs.

From her sister, Beth

Lindsay stopped dead in her tracks. She couldn't believe it, her own sister, or Paige's sister, was saying that it was her fault for ruining her life. She remembered Beth hadn't liked the idea of Paige and Adisa being together. She had known from the beginning that Adisa had been bad news. But this letter, it was full of hate towards Paige, hate towards her. She had to call Beth immediately and explain to her what was going on…

Samantha had already taken the file and the letter away from her. She was saying her name, but suddenly, the name Lindsay and Paige didn't sound right. The two names didn't sound like they belonged to her. Lindsay tried to meet Sam's gaze, but she couldn't.

"Paige!" exclaimed Samantha. "Are you okay?"

Paige, that was the name Samantha had been calling her. She remembered that she had told her to call her that. "Why did she write this?" Lindsay demanded. "When did she write this?"

"We received the letter this morning," replied Samantha. "The reason for her writing this, though, I don't know."

Lindsay shook her head. "She's angry at Paige," she explained. "I am not Paige. I am Lindsay right now. I shouldn't be mad at this at all."

Samantha was slowly shaking her head. "I didn't want you to see that. You may not know if you're Paige or not, but either way, I knew that note would hurt. When I read it, I just couldn't believe it myself why Beth had written it. I assure you, that note is probably just…"

"I want to call Beth," said Lindsay. "I don't care if that note was directed to me, or to the FBI, but I need to explain to Beth what's going on with Paige, with me having two different identities."

"No," said Samantha. "We can't call her until we've figured out your true identity. It's not safe for anyone else to know about you."

"Jack, Mac, you, and…" Lindsay paused. "That doctor, what was her name again? Dr. Lisa Cuddy? That's only four people."

"Four people are enough," said Samantha. "If more people know about you, the whole world will end up knowing. It's best to keep it a secret."

Lindsay thought back to when she was at the New York Crime Lab, the day of the evacuation. She had gone into the bathroom, crying, and signed her name on the bathroom stall, saying: Paige Hobson, Thursday, March 27, 2008. That had been last year. She wished someone had found the signature before the storm hit.

She turned away from Samantha and walked back over to Jack's desk. She lowered her voice as she said, "Jack, do you think I'm a clone?"

Jack raised an eyebrow. "Where did you get that idea?"

"I don't know," said Lindsay. "But it could be possible, don't you think?"

"Cloning is illegal," said Jack.

"It wasn't when I was born," Lindsay pointed out.

"The research was just being discovered for that then," said Jack. "It probably wasn't even around until you were a teenager. And plus, you have a memory of being Paige."

"What about DNA testing?" Lindsay questioned. "It's more advanced than it was last year; it could prove who I really am…" She knew that Samantha didn't believe DNA testing was more advanced in one year, because she, herself, knew that was a lie.

"DNA testing isn't more advanced than last year," said Samantha. "But I had thought about."

Lindsay slowly nodded. She wanted to have as much hope as she could. But it seemed as if her hope was slowly fading away. And thinking back to the conversation she had earlier with Sam, she knew that educated guesses or hypotheses wouldn't help her. What she needed were the answers, the real proven answers.

"We'll figure this out," said Jack. "I promise."

She wished she could share his determination, but now, she felt like crying again, just like she had done a year ago.

A/N: Hope you guys liked it! Next chapter will be about Cuddy and the other doctors...I can't really say the next chapter will be about House because there are chapters that are just about him coming up. And review at any time, any chapter! If you read the story before this one and didn't review it, it's okay to review now if you want! Tell me what you think! :)