Danny looked down at Lindsay with a sense of warmth surrounding him. He had never felt this way about anybody before. She did the impossible: she stole his heart.

Lindsay had fallen back asleep again. He rose from the couch and went into the kitchen to get some coffee. He moved around the kitchen like an expert, gathering the coffee grinds and the coffee filters with ease.

Cutting on the percolator, he took a seat at the kitchen table and placed his head in his hands. He pondered the meaning of why things happen to good people, and why they happen to the one that he loves. He loved her, he didn't know if she loved him but he knew that he would give up everything to be with her now. And he meant every word.

He was so into his thoughts that the sharp shrill of his cell phone shocked him into the current world. He reached for the phone quickly so it wouldn't wake Lindsay up.

He walked into the hallway and began to talk.

"Messer."

"Danny, it's Mac."

"Mac, hey listen, I had recorded Lindsay and had her recall what had happen to her. She told me that it was a guy called Anthony Garrett and that he was paid to beat and rape her."

"Listen Danny it was James Vackner who planned the whole attack on Lindsay."

Danny tried to jog his memory on who Vackner. Lindsay a while back said that she went to visit a suspect in jail. She said his name was Vackner. He was the one who killed that girl dressed in the mermaid costume. He remembered it like it was yesterday. Lindsay was very upset that Vackner could not give an explanation why he killed the girl, not one. It tore Lindsay up. Danny assured her that he was in the place that he belonged and that sometimes, we don't know why people do the things they do.

"Mac, that's good. Vackner is in jail and I'm assuming that Garrett is in jail so everything's set, right?"

There was a silence in Mac's voice.

"Right Mac?" Danny answered.

"Vackner was released."

"What do you mean he was released?" Danny seethed, clenching his
teeth.

Mac sighed.

"The defense did not have a key document that was needed for the pre-trial and the judge dismissed the case."

"I can't believe it Mac, Vackner's a free man. That Son of a Bitch!" Danny said, angrily.

"Oh my God!"

Danny turned around and saw Lindsay standing at the doorway. She was white as a sheet and Danny make it just in time to catch her fall.