Case Closed AU

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)

"Hmm…Hey ma'am?" Irene asked after watching how Camilla treated her son's girlfriend, causing Camilla to stop outside of her husbands study door. Gently tugging the womans head down till she could whisper in the womans ear.

"H-How did you know?!" Camilla asked falling onto her butt in shock at whatever it was Irene said to her. The other three looked surprised at her reaction.

"I suspected from the way you looked at the picture earlier, and how you wanted to know as much about her as possible, then the way you snapped at her just now but then looked sad and regretful for saying that although not many would notice it. Sucks you got stuck with a detective that's used to reading people… and as an actress I need to know how to notice subtle things like that." Irene said with a grin.

"Your reaction to me asking you just confirmed that theory." Irene said with a shrug before she turned dead serious as she turned to the other three behind her.

"Sorry but the case is on hold. I'm stealing boss lady here away for a brief talk." Irene said pulling Camilla's cloths to try and get the woman to follow her… even though she had no idea where she was going. Recovering quickly Camilla picked up Irene and then walked briskly to a room where she closed and locked the door.

"You plan on doing something to your husband don't you? He recognized your daughter was the one dating your stepson, his son." Irene said without preamble after the door was shut and locked.

"Yes. He… he threatens her. He doesn't want her dating his son… possibly marrying her if they have their way. I…I can't bear the thought of him hurting her. I treat her so… meanly because… because I didn't want to draw my husbands attention to her. I recognized her long before he did and…I was just trying to protect her." Camilla said sighing brokenly as she sunk into a chair in the room.

"Despite the acting though, he still recognized her as your daughter from your first marriage. He didn't want her coming in and ruining what he had built up. I'm guessing he's been making threats concerning her since he found out?" Irene asked causing Camilla to nod with her head buried in her hands.

"Does she know you're her mother?" Irene asked typing out a text message to Rachel while Camilla had her head buried.

"No. I-I had a mental breakdown after my first husbands death… my baby girl was given to my sister-in-law and I was married to that scum of the earth before I left the mental institute. My poor baby Jasmine…I had only been allowed to name her before she was taken." Camilla said looking ready to sob, not noticing as Irene looked at her phone before unlocking the door and opening it silently, motioning for the person coming in to be quiet.

"So since your husband was threatening to kill your only daughter you plotted to kill him. You called for the detectives so that you could find a way to bring your relationship to your daughter to light, therefore unveiling your motive for plotting your husbands murder." Irene said causing Jasmine to cover her mouth to hide her gasp of shock.

"Yes. I… I'm a coward…I couldn't… can't tell Jasmine to her face that I'm her mother…I can't find any way to tell her myself… that's why I wanted you and those other two to dig up her past. That way she'd learn about me being her mother… that way I can try to make up for all those years I've missed of her life…make up for all the bad things I've ever said about and to her. I…I didn't want to treat her that way but…I'd do anything to protect her! Even if it meant killing my husband or myself!" Camilla said strongly although tears were sliding down her cheeks as she said that.

"Do you really think that acting mean and cruel to her was the only way for you to protect her! You could have recorded his threats and alerted the police or a detective agency so that he'd be arrested and she'd be safe!" Irene said strongly and causing Camilla to slam her fist into a table in front of her.

"I've tried that! The officer I spoke too said that he wouldn't be caught dead or alive investigating or arresting a diplomat! He didn't take me seriously! That's why I went to you and Detective Moore. I knew that as you were digging up info on her for me you'd not only uncover that I'm her mother but also the threats he kept sending her! Even though she pretended it was okay I knew that those threats were scaring her and shaking her up! How dare he?! After everything else he'd taken from me! My first husband, my sanity for a while, my freedom… most importantly my daughter! After taking all that from me he still wasn't happy! He wanted to permanently take my daughter from me! He wanted to kill her knowing full well that she's my baby girl. I can't stand him!" Camilla ranted as she stood up angrily, he eyes flashing angrily while tears slid down her cheeks.

"He already took her away from me for most of her life! I wasn't able to be there for her first words or steps, her first day of school…her graduation… everything in between…I wasn't there… all because he drove my first husband to suicide with false accusations or corruption… he drove my mind to a mental breakdown… he forced me to marry him…he stole the most important person in the world from me the moment she was born and there was nothing I can do about it!" Camilla said angrily, self-loathing and hatred clear in her voice as she sunk to her knees and sobbed, clutching a pendant around her neck tightly in her hands.

"My baby girl. My little Jasmine… the only picture of her that's really mine… is the one taken just after she was born. My sweet baby I love you somuch..." Camilla trailed off clutching the pendant and sobbing her heart out, causing Jasmine to no longer be able to hold herself back as she rushed across the room and sank down on the floor next to her mother. With tears in her own eyes Jasmine quickly wrapped her mother up in a hug.

"It's okay mom…I love you too." Jasmine said softly as she held her mother who looked at her shocked for a minute before smiling widely and latching onto her precious child, the tow holding each other and crying heavily.

"So you were plotting to kill me all along you ungrateful wench! I knew that when I forced your brat onto those relatives of that man I should have just made them kill her!" The diplomat himself, Rudy, bellowed as he slammed into the room, causing Irene to swirl around to face him with her face set into a scowl.

"Don't talk about her like that! She's done nothing to you except be born and it wasn't her fault that she was born!" Camilla snarled at him as she jumped to her feet, standing in front of Jasmine protectively as she glared at her husband.

"I'll finish it then! I'll kill you and her in one stroke!" Rudy said charging the two women with a knife in his hands, causing Jasmine to scream while Camilla froze up in horror. Quick as a flash though Irene was in front of the two, intercepting the knife. Jasmine really screamed then, especially since some of the blood splattered on her and Camilla.

"That's… enough… of that." Irene panted out as she glared up at Rudy who stared at her shocked, backing away from her in horror and pulling the knife out as he did so. Irene staggered slightly and fell to her knees as she weakly clutched at her chest where the knife had gone all the way through her chest and out her back, narrowly missing her heart but nicking her left lung.

The last thing she heard before passing out was Rachel's horrified scream.

"IRENE-CHAN!"