Hey guys, so sorry for the timing of this fic time wise and date wise I know theres been at least a week since my last update and i can only apologize again for not updating sooner, just, work has been really tough and not been getting home till late, and not had enough time to write. I managed to write some tonight, but, again, i must apologize as it is shorter than what i normally post. However I hope you enjoy it, and I will try and update twice tomorrow, once more with this and again with my other. :) Thanks again for all your lovely reviews you guys are awesome... oh i must point out, someone commented on the date being wrong, i used an online calculator where the end date is added onto the sum so it adds a day on lol... it works out well for the fic actually lol the number 23 :D hehe, anyway I've chatted enough hope you enjoy the fic more than my rambling :D lmao :)
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The wait until Alex returned was a long and tense one. Awaiting news to conform that the small hope she held onto was warranted, and her daughter could actually be alive.
Roxy was still trying to process it all, she couldn't understand what was honestly happening around her, yet she wanted to believe it, just as much as Ronnie.
Although questions were swimming in her mind, ones that would not shift. Was. Why is she doing this? If Danielle was alive, why didn't she just tell them she was alive, that there had been some mistake?
If she knew what they were going through, why didn't she want to end this pain and suffering they were all in, believing her to be dead. Did she want them to suffer? Did she want Ronnie to suffer?
She didn't want to tell Ronnie these thoughts though, although she was sure they would cross her mind too.
Both Ronnie and Roxy turn to the sound of the door opening, and watch as Sergeant Steele walks in.
His face was hard to read as he took a seat before them.
"Was it there? Is it her? Is it my baby?" Ronnie barley gives Alex a chance to sit down before she throws her questions at him.
"The officer I dispatched to that spot, did find a rose… He's on his way back now as we speak with the evidence." Ronnie lets out a shaky breath as Alex explains that once they had the flower it would go with the collection of evidence they had, to build up the case.
He also, told how he had rushed the photograph forward, making it a priority to be printed and compared to the other known prints of Danielle.
"Now you must understand Ronnie, this is an extraordinary case, and is most likely going to take quite a lot of time for the truth to be revealed. There are a lot of avenues and people that I need to speak with, once we get the okay on the prints."
Ronnie hadn't deluded herself and expected to get all the answers right away; it was just so frustrating not knowing how to feel and what to think.
"I know it's frustrating, and I want to keep you as best informed as I can, but I can only tell you what I know, and right now, I'm just concerned as to why Danielle hasn't come forward." Alex more or less read both Ronnie and Roxy's minds. He presses on though.
"… I just want to prepare you, as we need to look at all the possibilities. If she's alive, where is she? How has she survived for this long? If somebody has her, is this a cry for help, if so why not just come out and say so?" Alex honestly explains.
Ronnie didn't know what to say, she couldn't say she hadn't thought that herself, she had, but she couldn't understand why when Alex said it, did it scare her even more.
Was it that if her baby was alive and on her own, and no one else involved why wouldn't she come to her, didn't she want her? Had she remembered all the horrible things she had done and had second thoughts about wanting to be in her life?
On the other hand, if someone was keeping her baby from her again, was the thought that her baby could be in danger too much to comprehend, so she pushed those thoughts away.
It was a strange feeling that fell upon her, as she thought of her father as someone keeping Danielle away from her. That thought had never entered her mind before not honestly, could her father really be involved this time around. It was his sole mission after all, all her life, to keep her from her baby, and to punish her. He had done it before by firstly forcing her to give her baby away along with her heart, and then, later claiming her baby had died years before, when she wasn't. He had just wanted to punish her.
When Danielle had revealed herself to him, he had kept it from her and tried to get rid of Danielle twisting everyone and messing with Danielle's mind as he had done her so many times before.
Therefore, now, her father making everyone believe Danielle to be dead wouldn't be too much of a stretch to assume. For he had made her believe it once before, so why not again, and to increase the pain by having her see the body in the morgue. She suddenly remembered her fathers request for him to go to the morgue with her. Was that so he could see the pain first hand. If so, how did he pull it off?
"The morgue." Ronnie speaks aloud.
"What about it?" Questions Alex.
"The men there, if Danielle was alive shouldn't they have known? Who or what got put into the coffin if it wasn't her?" These were the avenues Alex would need to go down, he was surprised though that the thought had come to Ronnie as quickly as it did.
"That is a line of enquiry that we're going to go down. If these prints are confirmed, and we're to assume Danielle is alive, the only way we can truly have those assumptions confirmed is by opening her coffin." Ronnie's face pales.
What if Danielle was alive, she didn't want her baby being dug up and her peace disturbed.
Yet as Alex had said, the only way to truly, know, if she was alive, is, was she put into that coffin.
"It's going to take some time, I'm going have to speak with the Police in Telford where Danielle is buried and with her adoptive Father, as at the time of her death he was the one who had sole rights to Danielle and it will be his permission we need to exhume the coffin." Ronnie winced as Alex spoke of the position she held where Danielle was concerned. She was nothing.
Roxy sent a glare to Alex who even though speaking sensitively, still managed to upset Ronnie so he carried on, as there was more to come.
"I'm going to need to speak with her adoptive father in regards to the people he dealt with for the funeral and whether he does grant permission for us to exhume the coffin."
Ronnie covers her eyes a moment and takes a deep breath. None of this felt real. She felt as though she was dreaming. Roxy places a comforting hand on Ronnie's back, Alex is quiet a moment before speaking once more, whilst standing.
"I'll give you two a moment, whilst I go and make some calls." Ronnie had kept her face in her hands whilst he spoke, Roxy was the only one to acknowledge him leave. Alex couldn't help but feel sorry for Ronnie, and what he had to say, but he wanted to be honest, and prepare her, because, either way she is going to get hurt. Because, she's got her own ideas already worked out, and however, things end up, its not going to be how she had planned, and realistically, he couldn't' see a way why Danielle would be doing all this, to help Ronnie, but only to cause her pain.
Alex went to another part of the station to talk to a fellow college who was helping him with the case when the officer returned with the rose. He went to greet him and get some information of him, then went and placed the rose with the other evidence. The rose wasn't needed for anything else other than creating a time line of these events. Making it possible to be Danielle. If those prints turned out to be hers.
He decided to follow up on that, so, he went somewhere more private and used a phone to get in touch with the forensics person who was doing the prints for him.
It took him a while to get through to the person he wanted, but finally he was speaking to the person in the know. He listened intently as the forensics person explained his findings. Luckily he had seen the prints as a must do, and had just finished his examinations.
As it turned out there were a mixture of prints on the photograph, but he had been able to identify separate people's prints and had discovered a set off Danielle's. It was covered slightly by another print, but he had been able to identify enough unique markers to confirm an identity. It was definitely Danielle Jones.
This gave Alex the lift he needed; now he would be able to carry on with this case properly and search the avenues he had wanted to as now he would have the go ahead form his boss.
After speaking to his boss, Alex checked his watch and instantly cringed; quickly making his way to the room, he had left Ronnie and Roxy. Over an hour ago. He cursed under his breath; he could not believe he had left them there for so long he had gotten completely side tracked with the case and the results of the prints. He just hoped that Ronnie, and Roxy were still there and were not too pissed with him when he returned that they left before he got to update them with his findings.
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Hope you can drop a few words on what you like and think is going on in the fic as well as this chap :) cheers guys for sticking with this and me, I'll hopefully reward you with an update 2moz a longer one as there is much to talk about... isn't there? :p x