Here's the next chapter, enjoy :)

Danny read the piece of paper in his hand five times before it finally sunk in. He hadn't wanted to believe it, he couldn't believe it but this piece of paper in his hand confirmed his worst nightmares. Lindsay was dead and this death certificate proved it. Screwing it up, he angrily threw it across the room. His beautiful wife was gone, dead and he hadn't even had a chance to tell her he loved her. He'd left the house the morning he'd got taken and because of a stupid argument he'd not even kissed her. She'd been right about the argument and he knew it, he should have been quieter, let her sleep but he didn't. Oh how he wished he had now.

He thought of Lucy, his beautiful daughter, god he hoped she was his. In his heart he knew she was, she looked like him, had a lot of his mannerisms like his messiness and his stubbornness, but what if Lindsay had wanted revenge? Would she stoop so low? No, of course she wouldn't, Danny knew that. Lindsay loved him and she wouldn't be so childish as to sleep with someone else. What if she'd had a moment of weakness though? What if she'd been drunk and thought it was the best thing to do at the time? He knew his whole world could potentially come crashing down around him when Owen brought the results of that DNA test back. He'd lost his wife, he couldn't, wouldn't lose the next closest thing he had to her. He needed Lucy, just like she needed him, he was her Daddy, the only Daddy she'd ever known. Surely Owen couldn't expect a three-year old to understand that her Mum had died and her Dad wasn't her Dad? Surely he wouldn't completely turn her little world on its head by taking her away from everything she knew? Danny laughed at himself, what was he thinking, if this man was sick and twisted enough to kill Lindsay then he'd have no worries about taking Lucy away from her loved ones. Pulling his knees to his chest, Danny rested his forehead on top of them and sobbed.

Mac, Jo and Hawkes all arrived outside Owen's apartment block down Oak Street. "Everyone ready?" Mac asked as they made their way up the steps to the entrance of the building.

"As I'll ever be" Jo replied.

Mac pulled his cross out from under his vest and gave it a kiss "You two take the elevators and I'll take the stairs" he told them as he tucked his cross back into his shirt.

"Okay, stay safe" Hawkes said before him and Jo walked over to the elevators.

Mac climbed the stairs, his hand stayed rested on his gun which was still in its holster, he wouldn't pull it out, not yet anyway. Making his way up to the second floor he walked along until he came to 25A. He knew he should wait for Jo and Hawkes to get there before knocking but if Danny and Lucy were in there he wanted them out as soon as possible.

"NYPD" he shouted banging the door.

An elderly woman came out from the apartment next door "May I help you dear?"

"I need to ask you to go back inside, Mam" Mac told her showing her his shield.

"Oh but you won't get any answer from that apartment, Owen the nice young chap who lives there, he left this morning and hasn't been back since"

"Did he say where he was going?"

The elderly woman shook her head "No, but he's been disappearing like that for a few mornings now, I'm hoping he finally found himself a job"

"I don't suppose you have a key to his apartment do you?"

"Why yes actually I do, let me just get it for you" she smiled before turning back into her apartment to fetch the key.

"Is he in?" Jo asked as she came down the corridor with Hawkes.

"No, but his neighbour is getting us a key" he replied "Hawkes did you get that warrant?"

"Right here" Hawkes smiled pulling the piece of paper from his jacket pocket.

"I'll need you to show that to the neighbour while Jo and I check the place over, okay?"

"Okay"

The elderly neighbour shuffled back to the door "I found it, for some reason I'd put it in my bread bin, but anyway here it is" she smiled handing the key to Mac.

"Thank you, my colleague here, Doctor Hawkes just has the warrant to show you" Mac told her as he undid the lock.

Walking into the apartment Jo and Mac put on their gloves and at first didn't see anything out of the ordinary, there was a small sitting room with a couch, coffee table and a TV, a few beer bottles covered the coffee table but that was normal for single man's apartment. The kitchen was bigger than the sitting room and was laid out as you expected a kitchen to be. Jo opened the fridge and noticed that there was plenty of food in there.

Next they made their way to the bedroom and that's when things started to turn less ordinary. Jo picked a picture up that sat on the bed "Oh lord"

"What?" Mac asked coming over.

Jo showed him the picture, it was a family picture of Lindsay, Danny and Lucy, the three of them were walking through central park. Danny and Lindsay both had hold of one of Lucy's hands and were swinging her in the air, such an innocent picture but Owen had drawn thick red crosses through Lucy and Danny's faces and wrote the words 'happily ever after is no more' at the bottom.

"Do you think he's been stalking them?" Jo asked.

"From that picture I'd say so but we'll need to find more proof"

"Okay" Jo put her case on the bed, opening up an evidence bag she slid the picture in and placed it in her case. "I'll check under the bed"

"Okay, I'll do the wardrobe" Mac told her making his way over. Pulling open the door he shifted through the stacks of clothes.

Jo knelt down and looked under the bed, she spotted a blue box pushed right to the back against the wall "Ah what's this?" she wondered pulling it out and placing it on the bed.

"Found something?"

"I think so" she said as she pulled off the lid. Looking through she was shocked at her findings, there were ticket stubs to baseball games that she knew Danny had attended, theatre tickets for shows Lindsay had gone to, and photos, so many photos, ones of Lucy, ones of Danny, ones of all three of them together but mostly the box contained hundreds of pictures of Lindsay, her at crime scenes, waiting to pick Lucy up from school, in her car. "I'm gonna bag all of this, have you found anything?"

"I'm not sure" he replied pulling a brown envelope from the wardrobe and carrying it over to her. "It's got Owen's name on and was stashed right at the back of the wardrobe"

"Let's open it and find out"

Mac opened the envelope and pulled out two pieces of paper, he took a quick glance at the first sheet before looking at the second "Oh god"

"What?"

"He's got someone to make him some forged letters"

"What's that one for?" Jo asked.

"It's a DNA letter stating that he, Owen is Lucy's Father"

"And he's planning to show this to Danny?"

"That's what it looks like" Mac replied solemnly. "We need to get all this stuff back to the lab and any more bits that can be used"

"Okay" Jo placed the blue box into an evidence bag, closing her case she lifted it and the blue box up "Want me to take Hawkes back with me?"

"Yes, get him to go over these letters we need to find out who sent them as they may know where Owen has Danny and Lucy"