It was 4pm on a Wednesday afternoon and Danny was with Flack following up a lead. They were in midtown at the local dance studio; they needed to talk to one of the dance teachers as one of his prints were found on the victim's doorknob to her apartment. They entered the studio and they were told that their possible suspect David Haines was in studio 5. The two detectives made their way to the studio, as they got there they peered in to see at least 10 people, but they were more like students and there was a mixture of boys and girls. David Haines was with one girl student near the front helping her with her routine to the song 'Let me think about it' by Ida Corr vs. fedde le grand. But when they looked closer they saw the girl had golden brown straight hair that was tied back, she was wearing a white button down and some small blue shorts with blue leg warmers and some little white pumps. Danny instantly knew who this girl was, Lucy Messer.

Danny opened the door with Flack and everyone turned round.

'Dad? Uncle Don? What are you doing here?' Lucy asked, while the rest of the team carried on dancing.

'Were here to talk to David Haines.' Danny replied in a professional manner.

'Lucy, take a break go talk to Ryan and we'll pick up where we left off.' David said while he had an arm round Lucy's shoulders. Danny felt anger in him when he saw the arm around his daughter and also how he talked to her almost as if she were a dog. Doing what she was told Lucy trotted off to talk to Ryan.

'Mr. Haines, I'm detective Don Flack and this is Detective Danny Messer, NYPD.' Flack told David.

'Lucy's dad, hmm maybe you can tell me why she comes here crying her eyes out all the time.' David huffed out while crossing his arms in front of his chest.

'This isn't about my daughter; we want to know what your relationship was with Fiona Phillips.' Danny said sternly, obviously irritated.

'We dated for a couple of months; I broke up with her last week it wasn't working. She wasn't upset it was like she was expecting me to say it. Why?'

'Well Ms Phillips was found murdered last night, where were you between the hours of 7pm and midnight last night?' Flack questioned.

'I was at the hospital visiting my mum, I'm sure they can verify that. Is there anything else detectives because Lucy's got a competition coming up and we need to practice.' With him saying this is clearly annoyed Danny. What competition? Why hasn't she told me? I need to talk to her later.

'For now.' With that they left for the lab.

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The Messer family sat down at the dining table to eat dinner. Danny and Lindsay were discussing their cases and deciding what to do at the weekend, while Lucy was helping AJ cutting up his tea and talking to Tommy about the tooth fairy. Danny cleared his throat to get Lucy's attention.

'Luce, you never told me about this dance competition.' Danny asked.

'Dance competition?' Lucy was obviously confused to what he was going on about.

'David Haines he said you had a dance competition.' To which Lucy rolled her eyes.

'He's such a creep it's unbelievable!' Lucy yelled in anger.

'Lucy calm down now!' Lindsay shouted at her daughter; however Danny was more concerned about what this teacher was doing.

'What do you mean Luce?' Danny asked her.

'He touches people up all the time its sick. He broke up with his girlfriend because he thought that Shannon really liked him and that they could go out on dates. Shannon's family got a sexual harassment order against him it got that bad. We asked for a new teacher but the owners said the reason wasn't good enough to get rid of him and we need help as we've got the big talent show at the end of this semester at school. He's a good teacher but seriously he freaks me out.' Lucy explained.

'That could help me with my case.' Danny concluded.

'Lucy has he ever touched you?' Her mother asked in concern, in return Lucy just looked down and scraped her fork along her plate.

'Lucy has he?' Lindsay put her hand on top of her daughter's hand.

'No, but he keeps asking me to stay behind and talk about social services and finding me some erm... foster parents.' Lucy looked at her parent; Lindsay had silent tears running down her face while Danny was on fire.

'HE'S FINDING A NEW HOME FOR YOU?!' he yelled at the top of his voice, making AJ and Tommy wince at the loudness of her dads voice.

'I told him not to, but he said that you don't look after me and the boys well enough and we deserve better, I'm sorry ok I didn't ask him to but he just did it, I don't wanna go, I wanna stay here.' Lucy said with tears forming in her eyes. Danny saw the tears and realised her needed to calm down otherwise everyone would get upset.

'No I wont let that happen, why don't you three go upstairs and me and your mum will sort this.' Lucy nodded.

'Right, come on AJ and Tommy lets go watch toy story in my room.' Lucy grabbed their hands and they went upstairs.

'I want ice-cream!' AJ shouted.

'I've got Ben and jerry's!' Lucy cheered.

'YAY!!' Tommy screamed and all three of them ran upstairs.

'I'm not letting anyone take my kids away from me.' Danny stated.

What's gonna happen to their kids?? R&R PLEASE :D

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