Chapter 2 – Old Friends

Staring down a giant hole in the middle of the rink, Peter and Olivia blinked. Peter looked down at his hands and noticed that his hands were covered in blood. Not his.

"Peter what is that?" Olivia leaned over further into the empty area and found something they made her physically sick. She couldn't get up fast enough because of the ice and so she just had to lean to her side and let her stomach empty. She could vaguely heard Peter retching next to her and neither of them could get away from the hole fast enough to escape the smell.

The smell of rotting flesh, sulfur and something unrecognisable filled the rink and sent everyone outside gasping for clean air.

"Walter have you smelt anything like that before?" Peter asked as he tried to rid his clothes of the horrid smell.

"Yes but I wish not discuss it here or now. Please have whatever is in the whole brought to the lab so I can examine it" and with that Walter was already walking to the car.

"Ok Liv, that is one of the most disgusting things I have ever smelt. Are you oke though?" Peter watched as she washed her mouth out with water but the look on her face told him that it wasn't working. As she stood, he noticed that she had taken her skates off and replaced them with a pair of runners. She was now shorter then him again.

"I'm going to need a drink after this is think," Olivia smiled up at Peter but her eyes glanced over his right shoulder and locked with someone. Peter noticed the shift and turned to follow her eyes and was able to only just see a whisp of brown hair take off in the distance and he felt the gust of wind that told him Olivia had taken off after the hair and so he followed.

The wind whipped around him as he tried to keep up with Olivia, she was fast but he was faster. They were gaining on the girl and he suddenly noticed that she was a lot smaller than both of them, he wondered if she was just a girl.

Turing a corner into an alleyway, Peter stopped dead in this tracks. There were brick walls surrounding them, with nowhere to go and yet the girl had disappeared. Peter was launched forward when Olivia slammed into the back of him, sending the both to the floor.

"Shit, Peter I'm so sorry. I wasn't expecting you to stop." Olivia's breath was short and forced as she pulled herself off the ground.

"It's ok Liv, I shouldn't have stopped like that…where the hell did the girl go?" Peter look around the alley and his eye's darted upwards and that's when he noticed the telltale sign of dark hair heading over the roof. They'd lost her.

"There is no way she could get up there, is there?" Peter seemed to ask into the air and Olivia's eyes darted from side to side.

"Yes there is. She jumped from the dumpster, to the drain pipe and then the ladder. Simple parkour, if you know how to do it that is. Come on we better get back and get a sketch out. I think we are going to need to talk to her." Olivia sighed knowing she had lost someone of interest. If it wasn't a long day already, it's going to be now.

"Liv, what was is about her? You just took off…" Peter reached for her arm to stop he from leaving. Her arm was frozen from both the rink and the run in the cold wind. He left her shiver. He took off his jacket and give it to her and she took it with a smile.

"She, smiled at me and even before I moved towards her she ran. I've been doing this a long time and I know when someone is involved." Olivia shook her head, "Come one, we can go past HQ and get this sketch done before heading to the lab," Peter watched as she grabbed out her phone and began to text someone, "Astrid is on her way to the lab now, she will meet up with Walter. We can deal with what we have to then." She didn't even look up at Peter as she began to walk away, and he just followed behind her.

FBI Headquarters.

"Are you sure this is her Aget Dunham?" the sketcher showed her the drawing and she nodded but before he was able to start running it through the system Peter took it from him.

"Peter what are you doing?" Olivia sounded shocked and her eyes widened.

"This will take too long, I know a guy who can help." Nodding to the artists Peter turned away with his phone to his ear.

Of course he knows a guy, why wouldn't he? Olivia couldn't help but laugh. She should have known he knew a guy.

"Thanks Malkshim…yea I sent the photo already…wait you know her?...what do you mean I do to?" Peter locked eye's with Olivia who just watched him. She watched as his chest fell with a heavy sigh, "Thanks man…yea don't mention it."

Hanging up the phone Olivia watched as he brought his hand up to pinch the bridge of his nose. Slowly making her over to him, he answered her question, without hearing it or opening his eyes.

"Liv, we have to go out tonight. There is a club on 5th avenue called The Mersh." Peter turned away from her but she stopped him with a hand on his arm. The warmth made him swallow the lump in his throat and he turned to face her.

"Who is she?" It was a whisper but Peter heard it all too well.

Taking her hand from his arm he brought it to her side but never let it go, "Just the daughter of someone I used to know. She is about 15 years old now and I wish we didn't have to go and see him."

"Why?" She was never going to let this one go and he knew it.

"Because he used to beat her when she was a girl, she ran away and came to stay with me for a bit, I promised her I would never tell him where she was but if she is here, where I am, that means he knows where she is as well. He can help us find her, that is, if he doesn't kill me on the spot." Peter squeezed her hand slightly and dropped his head.

Olivia made sure to make him look at her when she spoke next, she brought her hand to his cheek and raised his head, not caring that they were in the middle of headquarters.

"Hey don't worry, I'll make sure nothing happens, I am after all the one who carries the gun." She made sure to recite his words to make an impact. He smiled down at her, turned on his heels and walked away.

Olivia just stood there and watched him leave, it wasn't until he called her name did she follow.

"Let's get to the lab and see what Walter has for us. I'm driving." Peter held the door open for her and she walked outside into the afternoon air. Pulling Peter's jacket closer to her she could smell his scent and it intoxicated her.

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