Hey guys thanks so much for your reviews glad you are liking this, and that Jamie Bamber didn't disappoint ;p hehe. Now I think this is my longest chapter to date, and also some revelations take place would like to know if any of you realized them :) Enjoy :)

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Alex kept a firm hold on the photo evidence as he made his way back to his car. He just hoped that they would have some more look with this photo, too add as more evidence that something was not right regarding Danielle's death. As his boss had told him before he left that, he was doing this on his own until there was further proof than on some lipstick the girl owned to prove she might still be alive.

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They had arrived at R&R and were now sitting outside. Roxy turns to Alex.

"You not comin' in?"

"No. I've err, got to stay with the evidence." He nods to the back of the trunk where the evidence was as he spoke.

Roxy nodded, and laughed a little as she spoke.

"So you wouldn't want me to bring you a drink back out then would you?" Alex laughed slightly at this.

"Not unless it was water." At this Roxy cringed.

"Ewww. Water what's that, only clear liquid I know of begins with v." She smirks. Alex smiles. She seemed to have recovered.

Roxy opened the car door and peered back into the car, looking a little nervously now.

"What do I say to her?"

"Just tell her I'm outside waiting to discuss some developments in the case…" Roxy nods.

"What if she's in a state…?" At this, Alex felt bad, because if she was in a state it was his felt. Nevertheless, he still allowed a small smirk to appear on his face.

"You're her sister; I thought you could handle her?" Roxy smirks too.

"I can. I will okay. I should not be no more than five mins, actually 10 tops might need a strong drink if we end up fighting. Any more than 20 and come to my rescue…"

"I thought you could handle your sister?" Alex smirks.

"I can take care of myself after…" Alex allows a genuine laugh to escape, Roxy does too, as she turns and closes the car door behind her.

She took a deep breath as she prepared herself for what lay ahead.

Ronnie was sat at her desk in her chair staring ahead, nothing seeming to sink in, especially by Jack who was sat crouched besides her trying to get her to talk to him.

At the sound of the office door opening Jack's head whips round, as he sees Roxy he turns back to Ronnie and drops his head. He stands up and turns to Roxy. Roxy who having seen the state Ronnie is in pales slightly, was she strong enough to hear what she had to say, to deal with what they would no doubt have to do at the police station.

"Maybe you can get through to her Rox… I don't know what it is… I contemplated phoning an ambulance if… Look can you get through to her Rox she hasn't told me anything, all she's said is it can't be true…"

"How long has she been like this?" Jack does not say anything but looks back to Ronnie a sad longing look appears on his face.

"How long has she been like this Jack?" Roxy snaps. Jack turns around.

"I don't know, I came in here 15 minutes ago an' she was already like this." Jack runs a frustrated hand through his hair.

Roxy starts walking towards Ronnie, Jack moves out of the way, as Roxy kneels in front of Ronnie. She places her hands on Ronnie's face, gently moving it to look at her own. Her eyes wouldn't focus on hers though; they seemed a million miles away.

"Ron, Ron, it's me. Look at me Ron, what is it. What is not true? Is it what Alex said…?" At that name Ronnie's head snaps to Roxy's her eyes immediately locking on hers.

"What's Alex told you?" Jack looks on confused as he hears the first real sentence leave Ronnie's lips.

Roxy's surprised by Ronnie's quick answer she's taken back a little.

"What has he told you? Where did you see him?" Ronnie asks demandingly.

"He, he came to the flat, he wanted to apologise to you…" Ronnie stands abruptly.

"Where is he now?" Ronnie turns to Roxy asking her. Roxy stands up receiving a desperate look from Ronnie. Roxy began to wonder what exactly had gone on between the two.

"He's outside…He wants to…" Roxy couldn't get the rest of her sentence out as soon as she had said he was waiting outside Ronnie burst past Jack not even acknowledging he was there and straight out the office through the club and began making her way up the stairs.

Roxy ran after her, Jack after Rox having recovered from his brush off.

They made their way outside to witness Alex exiting his car quickly towards a stationary Ronnie.

Roxy and Jack watch on as Alex begins to make his way from around his side of the car towards Ronnie. He stops in front of the car as Ronnie begins to speak.

"Is it true, what you said?" Roxy barely heard her. Alex nodded.

"I don't want you to get your hopes up… I should never have told you before…"

"No, no… any hope, anything is better than what I've been feeling these past months. Even if it turns out to be a mix-up… Having some hope, feeling something, if it takes away the pain even for a day…"

"There's been a development…" Ronnie wipes a tear, from her cheek; she locks eyes, with Alex.

"I think its best we discuss it down at the station." Alex looks in the direction of Roxy and Jack. Wondering who he was. Why was he in the club with Ronnie? It wasn't his business though. It shouldn't be.

"Do you want me to meet you down there?" Ronnie asks quickly.

"You can come down with me now if you want, your sister Roxy needs to come down too, to make a statement?" At this, Ronnie turns her head quickly to Roxy who looks down. Ronnie turns back to Alex confused.

"Roxy? Why do you need to speak to her?"

"If you take a seat in the car I can take you down to the station and I can explain it all there." Ronnie nods at Alex's request. She begins to make her way to the passenger's seat, Alex copies, and both pause, hands on the doors as Jack shouts.

"Is someone goin' to explain what's goin on here?" Everyone turns to look at Jack.

"Not now ay Jack." Roxy tries to silence Jack who shakes his head.

"No. No, I was sat in there for 15 minutes getting the silent treatment now suddenly Roxy turns up says Alex, and she's running around like she wasn't just starin' at nothin' for god knows how long…"

"Wow 15 minutes Jack. You really are a saint… Sorry stubborn. I didn't ask you to sit with me, god I thought you would've took the hint and done one. You don't normally stick with somethin that aint interested…" Ronnie nastily snaps.

"Ron…" Roxy wasn't sure what was going on, she wasn't sure why she was defending Jack, was she?

"No Rox… Are you comin' or do you want to stay and comfort Jack?" Roxy was taken a back by Ronnie's coldness, she watched as Ronnie opened the passenger side and got in closing the door and staring ahead. Roxy looked to Alex who offered her a sympathetic smile.

He was not sure what had gone on between the three of them but he could tell there was history and ill feeling. Alex got into the car and started the engine. Roxy turned to Jack a moment before walking forward and getting into the backseat of the police car. It soon sped of leaving a confused Jack as to why Ronnie and Roxy were going to the police station; he didn't know they were in trouble? Who was this Alex? He seemed to be a police officer. Why did Ronnie seem to trust him and snap out of her trance-like state at the mention of his name? What was it that he held?

Yet he held nothing romantic, as he would be left to think, but hope. The hope that her daughter may still be alive. Furthermore, answers to all that had been going on in the past months. Yet could Alex hold more answers than just finding a missing daughter?

The ride to the police station was an awkward and silent one, nobody speaking until the arrival at the police station when Alex directed Ronnie and Roxy into an interviewing room.

Ronnie had been puzzled by Alex bringing in something from his trunk, but hadn't questioned it further until he brought it into the room with them and placed it on the table, did she realize it concerned her, and it concerned Danielle.

Having taken a seat and started proceedings Alex lay the evidence before Ronnie.

Ronnie held a hand diligently a top of the picture.

"It's okay; you can look at it… I just need you to look at it and tell me if you recognize anything in the picture before I send it away for testing."

"Where did you get this?" Ronnie looks away from the picture towards Alex. Who looks to Roxy, and Ronnie realizes what had happened.

"How long have you had this?" Ronnie snaps at Roxy who was sat beside her, she winces slightly at Ronnie's tone.

"I was trying to protect you! Jeeze Ron, you wouldn't think I was protecting you from some psycho who's obsessed with you!" Roxy snaps too, going on the defensive, she couldn't understand why Ronnie was acting like this.

"No, you're keeping me from my daughter!" Roxy's shocked by this, not having expected Danielle to be mentioned like that. Ronnie turned to Alex ignoring Roxy.

"When did you get this?" Ronnie asks hoping to get her answers from Alex.

"Ron, Danielle, she's dead… Why would I be keeping you from her?" Roxy speaks aloud, also questioning Ronnie who turns addressing her.

"No. She. She might not be…" Ronnie tries to keep herself under control, and the tears at bay.

"No. Ron, Ron you saw the body. You went to the funeral..." She had, hadn't she? Roxy had not gone to neither so she could not be sure, but she had been told by Stacey, by Andy. He was Danielle's father he wouldn't lie about Danielle dying…Yet Stacey had been to the funeral too, so there was a funeral, so there was a body right?

All these thoughts were going through Roxy's head, which was soon interrupted by Alex speaking hoping to put the sisters on the same page somewhat and at least not at each other's throats. Although it appeared that, that is what they did often and would not change.

"There's been a development with the case. We were able to isolate some prints on the lipstick that was left at the club… Now, there were several prints some old and some new… They all belonged to Danielle Jones." Alex tries to relay what had gone on to Roxy as best he could. It would not help the look of complete confusion and shock, to appear on her face.

"That's not possible…" Roxy mutters.

"That's what we're trying to figure out." Alex continues addressing Ronnie now.

"Can you take a look at the photo for me please? Does anything make sense to you?"

Ronnie's brow creases in thought as she looks at the photograph.

Her mouth widens in shock as she sees the rose, sees the spot of Danielle's 'death'. Only five people knew the significance of that spot. Nobody else was there that night. Nobody except Janine who hit Danielle, and watched as Ronnie broke down holding her baby. Roxy and Stacey who witnessed the final moment between the pair too. Then there was herself but she wasn't doing this. That left Danielle, unless it was one of the others, but she couldn't understand any reason they would have for tormenting her like this. Yet why would Danielle?

"What is it?" Alex asks

"That's, that's the spot Danielle… Where she was hit… That rose, I gave you the other I received… I didn't know there was another… I don't… How long ago was this took?" Ronnie tries to process things.

"I'm not sure, but, we can check to see if there's a rose at that spot now. I can send an officer there now and we'll have a few days gap of when it could have been took."

Ronnie looks to Roxy.

"Did you receive this?" Roxy nods, Ronnie shakes her head.

"When? Why didn't you tell me?" Ronnie questions Roxy although not as harshly as before but still somewhat demandingly.

"I told you… I thought I was protecting you… it was last night, and I…I panicked ok, I was going to tell you but…" Roxy trails off, beginning to get herself worked up, Ronnie places a hand on her arm, and Roxy turns to face Ronnie, her face sad.

"It's okay Rox. You didn't know… To be honest, you probably did the right thing, if I'd found out last night I probably would have ripped the photo up in frustration…" Roxy manages a small smile.

Ronnie squeezes Roxy's arm as she turns to address Alex. Honestly, she probably would not have ripped it up, yet only this morning did she know it could be Danielle, who was sending them, it could be Danielle's prints on them, and she did not want to do anything to jeopardise finding that out.

"Can you find out if there's any prints on here?" Ronnie needed to know.

Alex nods.

"But first, I need to know…"

"I don't know anything okay, I told you about the spot… The numbers… I have no idea… All I want to know is my baby's prints on this?" Ronnie snaps slightly.

She quickly recoils though.

"I'm sorry… You didn't deserve that, you're just doing your job."

"The numbers… You receive them every time?" Ronnie nods at Alex's question.

"Mostly… Why?"

"Do you notice a pattern in the numbers?" Ronnie shakes her head.

"I was looking over this case a lot, and the numbers puzzled me… but now… Do you remember the last time you received something from this person?" He was ready to say Danielle yet it was too soon.

"Erm… About, three weeks ago, I think…" Alex nods.

"23 days ago…" That number again, she remembered now she'd seen it spray painted on the wall, had Danielle done that too. What did it mean?

"September 10th you found the rose with the card saying 162. Now this photo, the paper the person is holding, it reads 184. Now my maths isn't brilliant but I'm pretty sure that's 23 more…Therefore…"

"The numbers are dates?" Ronnie thinks aloud, Alex nods.

"It's starting to look that way… If we can figure out the weeks, if we just work backwards, we can find the meaning to the words on the back… How quickly did you forget?" Ronnie got a sick feeling in her stomach as Alex spoke and began jotting down. She did her own calculations in her head, she did not need to she knew the reason, partly anyways; everything was starting to add up. Granted none of it made any sense now, but things were starting to add up, and it was confirmed when Alex next spoke.

"The 2nd of April… Wait, isn't that…" Alex was good at remembering key details and he remembered the 2nd April was the date Ronnie had said…

"Danielle… The night she… Left me…" Ronnie couldn't bring herself to say died, what if it wasn't true, she didn't want to wish it on her daughter anymore.

Roxy was sat in complete shock. It was as though she wasn't in her body, but sat watching everything unfold around her. She had no input in it at all, and, she could hardly make sense of it all, but things were beginning to make sense. Well questions were beginning to rise.

That's what Ronnie and Sergeant Steele got from that too, more questions. Alex dispatched an officer to the spot Danielle was hit, and sent the photo of for testing. He left Ronnie and Roxy a moment so they could have a break. He got himself a coffee, and went to fill in his boss. As they waited to hear back from the officer, all they could do was wait, and hope. If there was a rose, that meant the photo was took recently, as the rose was left recently too, that meant if there were prints amongst Roxy's on the photograph, and they turned out to be Danielle's that meant, her prints were left there as early as last week.

That meant Danielle had to be alive. That meant Alex's boss had to give him more support on this. That meant Ronnie could hold on to her hope.

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So, a few answers there, at least about the numbers ;p is that what you thought they meant? More thoughts about them may be explored as Ronnie begins to wonder why Danielle is doing what she is... If it is Danielle doing it ;p hehe. Hope you enjoyed it, would really appreciate your thoughts on this, and any ideas etc I'm open to listen too :) Thanks for reading an update should be up soon x