Disclaimer: I don't own Cold Case. I only own the victim and his family and friends and not to mention two furry things with four legs and the purr and lick each other constantly.

Chapter 3

"I can't believe you're opening up Adam's case" Adam's mother Florence said.

"Something new came up" Will said.

"Well what was it?" she asked.

"Someone apparently took a photo of his dead body before police came" Lilly replied.

"Who would do such a thing?" she said.

"We're not sure yet but maybe you could help us" he said.

"I'll try my best" Florence said sadly.

"Where were you the night he died?" Lilly asked.

"At the dance studio where I had to take his younger sister, Rebecca that night for jazz lessons. We came home around eight since we had gotten take out prior before coming home and there was a cop car outside the house who told us the news" she replied.

"I'm assuming you didn't take it well" Will said.

"Detective, I was coming to terms with my husband's death at that time, and trying my best to raise two kids and it wasn't easy" she said.

"Now someone mentioned that Adam was seeing someone the one night he was hanging out with Sara, do you remember what he was talking about?"

"Oh yes, he was seeing a grief counselor once a week. He took his dad's death really hard" she said.

"Was there anyone that didn't like Adam?" Will asked.

"Not that I can recall. Now that you mentioned it, in school there was this one kid at school. I remember him telling me about the events that happened….

Flashback

Elton John-Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

"Adam, honey is everything alright?" Florence asked her son late one night.

"Mom, I told you it went fine" he replied a bit harshly.

"Something tells me that I don't believe it" she pointed out.

He remained quiet until he looked up at his mother. "Joe told me that next week is our last session" he said.

"What?" she asked.

"Yeah apparently his job is being transferred out of state, so he said" Adam said bitterly.

"But he was suppose to help you cope with Dad's death" she said.

"I know and he has been helping but I don't know" he said sadly.

"We'll find somewhere else to go. I know we haven't been expecting this but I know that you'll be okay" she said, hugging her son.

End of flashback

"That happened a month before Adam died, my husband died, five months prior and dealing with both their deaths wasn't easy" she said.

"But you've managed to deal with it" Vera said.

"In time I did, but sometimes, you can't forget the ones you love" Florence said.

"Turns out that the counselor Joe Sanderson was leaving Philly before Adam died for Cherry Hill" Will said to the group.

"Do you know is he's alive?" Lilly asked.

"Died from a drunk driving accident back in '98" he replied.

"We could try talking to his sister, to see what she knew" Lilly said.

"She came in just awhile ago, talking to Scotty and Nick in the other room" Will said.

Rebecca Carter is twenty seven years old with long blonde hair and hazel eyes and has grown since 1995.

"My brother and Sara were almost the perfect couple when he was alive" she said.

"What makes you say that?" Scotty asked.

"One thing was obviously they would have their ups and downs but I was only twelve when he died and was trying to understand my Dad's death" she replied.

"Do you have any idea who wanted to go after your brother" Nick asked.

Rebecca was quiet for a moment before she replied, "Now that you mentioned it, not only my brother was seeing that low life of a counselor but there was something going on with him and his best friend."

"Why would you say it like that?"

"Detective, the counselor did help but it wasn't enough for him to cope with my father's death. I remember when it was after his sessions ended for good, he and his best friend Mitch came home and Sara was with them…

Flashback

Adam and Mitch are at the middle school, waiting for Rebecca to come out at the end of the day.

"So uh, everything alright?" Mitch asked.

"Why does everyone keep asking me that?" he said.

"Sorry dude, I don't you seemed like you're on a different planet" he observed.

Adam sighed as he ran his hand through his face and scratched the back of his neck. He wasn't sure whether or not he should tell Mitch. But then again, they were best friends since second grade and he knew Sara in middle school when she and her family moved to town.

"Look man, I got something on my mind but you promise not to tell a soul" Adam said.

"Not even my own parents?"

"Not even them, not until me and Sara figure this out" he replied.

"So it does involve her. What did you two do?" Mitch asked.

"Well, remember that one weekend at your party when your parents went out of town three weeks ago?" he asked.

"Yeah?"

"Well me and Sara we got well, um" Adam started to say when out of nowhere, Rebecca, then twelve years old pops up in front of them.

"Hey sis, ready to go?" Adam asked her. She nodded excitedly and the three of them started walking towards Adam's car.

"So what was that about you and Sara…?"

"Later dude, not here" Adam said as Rebecca looked at them curiously before they drove off.

End of flashback.

"They never mentioned it again. Well, at least not in front of me" she said, concluding her story.

"Did you ever find out after your brother died?"

"Not really, I guess it was too painful for my mom to even know until she found out afterwards. I never really asked" she replied.

"We located his best friend, he lives in Pittsburgh now" Nick said, later that night.

"Why all the way out there?"

"Apparently his dad transferred jobs after Adam died, supposedly it was because he didn't want to be around anything about Adam" he replied.

"That seemed a little suspicious" Lilly stated.

"Do we have anything that was going on between the couple?" John asked.

"Still not sure. It did seem off that those two were keeping something from everyone" Scotty replied.

"Could've been anything, unless it was a dark secret that it wasn't meant to know" Will said.

"Whatever it was, must've wanted Adam dead" Lilly said.

A/n: So sorry for the major delay. RL was in the way but things are okay until when the end of the semester stuff comes around. I do hope to finish this story before then.

Until the mean time, you know what to do. Stick around for next time!

Signed out for now,
Spikeluver89