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Hey readers,

Hope you're not getting tired of the story yet : )

Even though we are getting closer to the end there are more chapters left and I hope you'd want to read them.

"What?" Nick asked "I was there earlier, they gave her antibiotics to prevent an infection, what happened?" he felt nauseous, he felt like he couldn't just stand there, all he wanted to do was to run to her.

"I don't know exactly, but they said they caught it fast"

Nick shook his head "I need to go see her" he said quietly.

"Look" Liv said "they told me we can see her only later, I think it's best if right now we focus on finding the person who did this" she glanced at Fin, who also looked worried "that's what she would want" Nick looked down on the floor, he tried to fight the tears that were about to burst out of his eyes, he just couldn't think. He heard Liv ask Fin to step out for a moment.

"Nick" she said after Fin left "I'm sorry" she moved closer to him and touched his arm, he looked at her.

She could see the pain and worry in his eyes, they were moist so she knew he was fighting tears "I understand you want to be there with her right now and you can go to the hospital if you want, but they won't let you see her right now and we need your help here"

Nick nodded, she was right, there was nothing he could do to help her there, but if he stays at the precinct he could help her get the answers she needed. He hoped that when they do find whoever was responsible he could keep his hands off of him, but he wasn't sure he won't lose control.

They heard a commotion and walked out of the office.

"It's your fault" it was Tim, he was shouting at someone and Fin made sure he didn't get too close to him and asked him to calm down. Nick recognized the man, he'd seen him once before, at the entrance to the precinct. It was Hawkins.

Deputy US Marshal David Hawkins despised social media, any form of it. It made his job so much harder. Some of the witnesses had problems closing their accounts and many times they cried and promised not to post anything. He missed the days when it didn't exist, when you couldn't google someone and find out everything about them. His colleagues teased him about it, saying he was too young to be a grumpy old man, he didn't deny it and told them they should accept him for who he was – a grumpy old man.

But that was the reason he liked working with older witnesses, or those who were in the program for years. People he didn't have to worry that they might write a status or a tweet with their location (something that did happen with someone he worked with). Like Tim Rollins for example. The case was transferred to him after the other Marshal retired and from the file it seemed to Hawkins that there were no problems with the witness. He was even happier to receive the news that Carl Jeffries was dead. Which meant Rollins could actually go back to being Tim Rollins.

But things didn't go smoothly. Before he could give him his old documents Rollins disappeared. It got even more complicated though when he got the news that on the same day another witness was killed.

Since Carl Jeffries was a very big offender the prosecution didn't' want the hole case to lean on Rollins' testimony. They managed to convince another witness to testify and he joined WITSEC as well. Obviously Rollins had no need to know about it. But the fact he disappeared on the same day as the murder was very suspicious.

Hawkins figured that Rollins didn't have too many options. He knew his relationship with his ex wife wasn't good and the only other family he had were his two daughters. The younger one was wanted for murder, but no one knew where she was, and Rollins probably didn't know as well.

But the older daughter was a detective. So Hawkins made his way to New York to meat detective Amanda Rollins. He couldn't tell her the entire truth, not if she was helping her father, so he said that Tim was a person of interest in an investigation. Something told him she was lying when she said she hadn't seen him for years. He decided not to push right away.

Despite what some people thought, Hawkins wasn't lazy or stupid, he just didn't like it when people made it harder for no good reason. He knew she was lying, he told her she could be in danger but she seemed to ignore that. He followed her, thinking she would lead him to her father, but she didn't leave her apartment and the next day went to the precinct. Hawkins had to check other leads as well so he left her alone for the time being. But then he got a call.

It was another detective, he said he was her partner and that he had to talk to him. Hawkins didn't mind going back to the station, he could feel something was up but tried to be vague because he didn't know what it was.

When he walked out of the elevator he was surprised to see Tim Rollins. He walked other towards him but when Tim saw him he looked mad, he got up and looked as if he wanted to hit him. He shouted "it's your fault" at him but someone stopped him from getting to him. From the sound of his voice he figured that the man who asked Rollins to calm down was the detective who called him, Tutuola.

Fin asked Tim to sit back down. He did as he was told but kept his eyes on Hawkins.

"What's going on?" it was Liv, she walked out of the office and Nick was right behind her.

"I'm Deputy Marshal David Hawkins" he introduced himself.

"Sergeant Benson" she said "these are detectives Tutuola and Amaro" she gestured at them "lets talk in my office" she suggested and they all walked after her.

"Stay here" Nick whispered to Tim.

Liv didn't waist anytime once they were all in her office "I understand you've been looking for Tim Rollins" she said "and you approached his daughter about him"

Hawkins nodded "and I guess she lied to me since he is sitting right there" he pointed at the door.

"The thing is deputy" she looked at him "Amanda's been hurt, she's in the hospital right now and we need to know how you're involved in this"

"I'm sorry?" Hawkins looked around at the three of them "I had no idea anything had happened to the detective, but I can assure you I have nothing to with it, I warned her about it"

Nick shook his head with disgust "you warned her about it?" he asked him "did you warn her about this?" he asked and took the page from Liv's desk and handed it to Hawkins "did you warn her that Carl Jeffries is still alive? After you told her father that he was dead"

Hawkins looked at Nick with confusion, what was he talking about? He looked down at the piece of paper he handed him. It was a page from a newspaper. He looked at the photo on it, then back at Nick and again on the photo, checking the date of it and of the newspaper.

It was Carl Jeffries. He was still alive? But how could that be, he was dead, there were evidence.

But it was him in the picture, he had no doubt about it. That means someone faked his death. He sat down without taking his eyes on the pictures.

Nick and Fin exchanged looks. Nick though Hawkins looked genuinely shocked by the revelation Jeffries was still alive. But if he didn't know about it, then who was behind this? There was no way Jeffries could pull something like this alone.

Who was helping him?