Part 1: One year and three months later
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Kat Miller walked through the door to go over to her desk when she looked towards the Boss' office to make sure he wasn't looking for her, when she saw her colleague Lilly Rush talking to a teenager with black hair.
She knew what this meant: a possible new case. She sat down at her desk as Nick Vera pulled out a doughnut.
"There one for me?" she asked him expectantly.
"Get your own doughnut." He grumbled. Kat rolled her eyes and took the second one off his desk and took a bite. "Hey!" he cried when he saw what she did. Kat just smirked at him.
"Snooze you lose." She said with a shrug and turned to her computer. About five minutes later Lilly walked over to the desks.
"We got a case." She said simply before walking to the cold room. Scotty Valens got up and followed her out along with Kat.
"Sixteen year old Sarah Leonard. Shot in the head after being sexually assaulted." Lilly read off the file, "she was in foster care. Both parents killed in a fire when she was five."
"Lived with foster parents Rose and Colin Phillips. She was just about to be adopted." Scotty read over her shoulder. Kat was looking at some of the photos that were encased in the box. "Bad luck."
She held one up for both of them to see, it was a picture of a sandy brown haired girl and Sarah.
"Sarah with her friend, Adriana, no last name, age eleven." Kat said as she read the back of the photo where it said who the two were.
"If we speak to Adriana, maybe she will know something that happened." Lilly said. Kat nodded as she looked at another photo which was young Sarah with her parents, when Scotty spoke.
"That won't be happening. It says here she went to It Academy lots of fosters kids go there, actually only they go there. Most of the kids there are terrified of police. Won't talk." Scotty said, "I had a case there once, the younger part of the Academy in a different part of town, actually I think I met this Adriana girl. She was around six though. Dark hair." He said.
"Well if she remembers you, she may talk to you." Kat said. Scotty nodded and continued to stare at the file before closing it and putting it down.
Curtis Bell sat in his office doing some last minute paper work that he was supposed to do the night before, but hadn't because his girlfriend was over.
He smiled at the thought of Kat but tried to push her out of his mind so he could finish his work.
He was just about finished, when the phone on his desk rang. Sighing, he picked it up. Making note of the time, he had a meeting in exactly an hour.
"Hello A.D.A Bell." He said into the receiver.
"Hello, this is Nurse Kelly Stires." Said the lady.
"What can I do for you today?" Curtis asked as he held the phone between his ear and shoulder and started to write on the paper.
"I'm phoning about Miss Rachel Strike, she said you both dated in the late ninety's, early 2000s." she said. Curtis froze, he hadn't heard her name since they broke up.
"Yes, we did. Why?" he asked.
"Rachel would like you to come see her, she has some important information to tell you. She is currently at the Drug Rehab in Fishtown." Nurse Kelly said.
"Yes… of course." Curtis said. "I have a meeting in an hour, but it most likely won't last for long. I can come about one?" There was the sound of flipping paper on the other line.
"Yes, we are free at that time. I'll see you then." The phone was hung up.
Curtis was confused, why did Rachel need to see him? It wasn't like they were even that close while dating, and she had always made it obvious that her drugs were more important than their relationship.
He sat back in his chair, a look of concentration on his face and the paperwork laid on his desk, forgotten. He was in deep thought, until he looked at the clock and realized unless he didn't leave that minute he'd be late.
Quickly, he stood up, stuffed all the papers in his brief case, and left his office to go to his meeting, but the only thing on his mind was what Rachel could possibly tell him.
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