I shone my torch across the floor in the house at the puddles of blood spattered across the floor. This was just the prelim and I had only walked ten feet into the front room. Something horrible had happened here, and I wasn't sure I had seen so much blood before. Catharine was already further in the house, when I heard her whistle lowly.

"How many?" I called out.

"So far in this room three." Catharine yelled from the other room.

I began to jot down all my notes, and followed my coworker's voice. I gasped all the bodies in the bedroom, it was far too bloody, even for me. I usually could stomach any crime scene, but this one was a mess and violent that I was feeling queasy suddenly. I coughed in an attempt to calm myself, but decided to take a breath outside. "Catharine?"

Catharine looked over at me, "Siv, are you going to be okay?"

I nodded, and without thinking about it my hand went to my stomach. "I think I just need to get a breath of fresh air, I'll be back in a second."

I walked out of the house, and for once there wasn't a white stick in-between my fingers. I realized that I hadn't smoked since I found out I was pregnant. I smiled to myself and then went back into the crime scene to process with Catharine. I noticed she gave me a suspicious look but I ignored it, so that I could get my work done. Any thoughts that didn't involve the crime scene flew out of my mind when I began to process the rest of the scene.

Once back at the crime scene, I took the blood samples and the hairs I had found in various places around the scene, particularly on the bodies, to Wendy so she could process them for me. Then I found Catharine in the break room to ask her what her opinion was, but found it odd the way she was cornering Greg with that same suspicious look she had given me earlier. Greg smiled at me, and nearly ran to door, only making me laugh at how ridiculous he could be. I kissed his cheek quickly, and then sat down at the table.

"I realized something today." I told him.

"What?"

I smiled over at him, as he was now sitting down beside me. "I haven't smoked in a really long time."

He smiled widely and hugged me suddenly. "Baby, that's great. Since we found out?"

We had forgotten that Catharine was still in the room, and she had grown curious. "Since you found out what?"

I nodded for Greg to tell her. "We haven't told anyone yet, but Siv's three months pregnant."

"I knew something was different about you!"

I just laughed at her; sometimes Catharine could be a little outrageous. I got down to business right then and there, reviewing what we knew about the crime scene we had surveyed. It had been a massacre, not something that I ever wanted to see again. An entire family of 6 were brutally murdered in their own home, all signs of evidence was throughout but no one to question about the on goings, no survivors, no witnesses and most importantly no suspects. If they weren't in the system, this was easily going to be a cold case, and one that I wouldn't be overtly happy about. Despite this heavy burden of such a case, the letter that had come in the mail was still in the back of my mind, but since no others had arrived I thought it was safe not to worry Greg about it. He was already extremely protective around me because of my pregnancy, and I didn't need him to get any worse.