The Perfect Family

Morning Before New Investigation

Chloe"

I walked into the office determined to have the case. I just had to convince Andrew that it was worth taking a look at. I quickly glanced around the office before spotting him at his desk. I thought he would agree to take a look at the case. After all, it’s not like he can ignore me at work.

“I need your help” I said, rushing up to him.

“With what?” he asked, confused.

I walked over to my desk, got the files out of my desk,put them in the box. Then I picked up the box and sat it on Andrew’s desk. Andrew looked at the box before picking up his coffee cup, and headed toward the break room. I followed him.

“I called you yesterday” I said, trying to start the conversation I knew we needed to have.

“It was a day off “,he answered my unasked question “The case?” he asked before I could ask more personal questions.

I rolled my eyes and stated” The case is almost 12 years old.”

“Did you talk to Jefferson?” he asked.

“No, I wanted your opinion first.”

“I’ll look at it “ he said, handing me a cup of coffee.

“Thank you” I said, kissing him on the cheek and leaving the break room.

Andrew:

I continued to watch her even after she left. I breathed in her lavender scent that still lingered in the air.

Slowly, I made my way back to my desk. I sat down in my chair and pulled out a file. I started to read them. As I read them, the more and more the case wasn't making any sense. The evidence was still in the box and not in the evidence locker or returned to the victim's family. This case was a s**t show of an investigation. I looked at Chloe who was turning on her computer. When her computer turned on she was looking for something.

"What are you looking for?" I asked her.

"I'm looking for the digital." I looked at her for a few more minutes before going back to the files on the desk. As I read the file, I had a piece of paper next to me to write down questions and there were a lot of them and this is only the first file.

"Did you find the file?" I asked her.

I didn't know if she was ignoring me because she was focused on what she was doing or if she was still mad at me for ignoring her yesterday. After a few minutes, Chloe got up and went towards the printer's room. I continued to look thru the file. It was a very long file for a file that didn't tell me much, but there were dozens of pages. When Chloe was back, she handed me a file.I grabbed the file out of her hand and set it down.I held her hand and kissed it. It was my way of apologizing. She smiled at me as she walked back to her desk. Before I even opened it, I noticed that the file was a lot shorter than the original file. The digital file was just supposed to be a scanned copy of the original file. This case was going to be hell to try and solve.I shook my head and got up from my desk.

Chloe:

While Andrew was getting more coffee, I took the rest of the files out of the box, and sat them on his desk. I grabbed the box with the evidence and left to take the evidence to Anthony. On the way, I wondered why the evidence wasn’t in the evidence locker and that added to the list of questions to ask the detectives when we spoke to them.Now I was in a rush to get started on the case when I decided not to wait for Andrew to take the evidence to Anthony. I impatiently tapped my foot, waiting for the elevator. After a few seconds of waiting, I decided to use the stairs.

As I climbed the stairs, the box got heavier and heavier. I instantly regretted using the stairs, by the time I made it to the 7th floor I was out of breath. I have to workout more, I said to myself as I tried to catch my breath.When I got to the door of Anthony's lab, I waited a few moments before going inside. When I finally caught my breath and went inside.

“Tony”, I called out.

“Yes” he said

“I have some evidence that needs to be reexamined please.”

“Whatcha got for me? ”he asked happily.

“It’s from a cold case” I said, handing him the box. He took the box from me and handed me some paperwork to fill out. He called out the numbers I needed for the paperwork. After a few more minutes, I was finished .

“Here is your paperwork” I said, handing him the clipboard.

“Thank you and get out” he said. “ Any specific order you need, done in” he continued while gently moving me toward the door,

“Nope” I said, popping the p

“Great” he said as I waved bye. I got kicked out quicker than normal.Tony was a happy guy but hated it when people were in his lab. He had an assistant at one point but he was so OCD that his assistants ended up quitting after a few days working with him.

Thank god that the elevator was fast getting up to me . I didn’t want to wait for the elevator, but I also didn’t want to take the stairs again. When I reached my floor again, I went straight toward Andrew’s desk.

“Where were you?” he asked, looking up from his file.

“I went to take Tony the evidence that was in the box.”

“There was evidence in the box?”

“Yes, it was there when I found it.”

“ This could ruin the investigation”

“The first one, yes definitely, ours not so much. What do you think about the case?”

“It’s a s**t show of a case" he said, still looking thru a few of the files.

"Yeah I know that" I said as I smiled up at him, excited to get started.

" Its a good first case"

“ I knew you would say that.”

“ Are you ready to talk to the Director?”

“Yeah let’s go”

We silently walked to Director Morgan Jefferson’s door and when they got there, I knocked

“Come in,” his deep, powerful voice commanded.

“ What can I do for you two?” he asked as he gestured for them to sit down.

“We found our first case,”I said.

“ OK, do they follow the guidelines that I gave to you?” he asked, looking at Andrew.

“Yes “, Andrew answered.

“the basics of the case?” he asked, slightly impatient.

“Bree Benson was abducted from in front of her house on October 12,2004”, I told him and handed him a file.

The director took the file and he paged through it quickly.

“No known enemies, no witnesses, four out of seven suspects have an air-tight alibi”. Andrew picked up from where I had left off.

“ The 12th year is coming up and that is exactly the deadline I’m giving you to solve this case.”

“What if that’s not enough time?” I asked.

"I'll adjust the deadline as needed as long as you are making progress on the case," he answered me.

Director Morgan:

“ I just want you to remember you can’t solve them all”. I looked at her right in her wide green eyes, her long curly red hair that stopped just at the middle of her back, freckles covered her face. She had a passion for the job and would work non-stop to solve any case. Then I thought of how I had almost lost her this summer. She needed someone to look out for her. Who better than the man who has been her partner for 4 years now. They make an excellent team and now they will make excellent leaders for the team of agents that I wanted to create.

The junior agents walked into the room pulling me out of the thought I just had.Chloe looked like she was relieved by the distraction she hated when I looked at her like that. She said it was like I was looking into her soul. I laughed in my head at the thought.

“Alright , this is Sabrina Levettey”. I introduced

The woman with the dirty blond hair, and chocolate brown eyes, a wide toothy grin, and a face that lit up with excitement. I then turned

my attention to the man who looked as though he was angry, his long blond hair was in a ponytail, and his hazel eyes were guarded like he was hiding a secret.

“Mikel Weatherly” he introduced himself.

Chloe looked at him and then looked at Andrew. Andrew's hair was a chestnut brown that sat neatly , and he has deep blue eyes that could pull you in, and his smile was infectious.

“Okay” I said, pulling them all out of their thoughts. When I was sure he had their full attention, I continued “This is your new team member. Chloe Adam and Andrew Scott will be your team leaders .In this division you will specialize in cold cases, and only cold cases." I looked at Chloe when I said that"Your first case is the Bree Benson case and you have two weeks to solve it.” When I finished talking, all of them looked at each other.

“Go,solve the case” I said, dismissing them all.

Uncle:

"I can't keep doing this," I said,

" You have to" She said as she stroked my arms.She kissed me and I pulled her closer.

"I love you but we can't do this for the rest of our lives."

" Just a couple more months and he will have his family, and he won't need us any more."

"Do you really think he is gonna just let us leave?"

"Yes, he will. We are gonna start our own family and we are gonna be happy." she kissed me again.

"Lizzy" I said, stopping her.

"What?"

"We need to get out."

" We will just not now."Lizzy started to kiss me again.

Lizzy unbuckled my pants, and slid them down. I didn't stop her. Then she straddled me and she kissed me. Before we went all the way, the Doctor came into the room without knocking.

"S**t" he said as he turned around to leave the room. "Get dressed and come help me get rid of something." he said as he left the room, slamming the door behind him.

" We'll finish this later" Lizzy said as we finished fixing our clothing.

We left the room and went to the dining room. There was a dead body on the floor. It was a little girl. She couldn't be more than 10 years old.

"What happened?" Lizzt asked.

" She wouldnt shut up"he said. " Next time get me a quieter one" he said as he looked at her body.

I didn't want to talk to either one of them at that moment. That is the worst part of what I do. I went to the closet and pulled out the cleaning kit. I pulled out the plastic sheet and laid it on the floor. The Doctor helped me move her body on the plastic, then we wrapped the plastic around her. Lizzy shook open the construction bag and held it open while we pushed her in. "Go start the car" he said to me. I left to start the car.

Lizzy:

I was so happy when he left the room. I was alone with the man I really wanted.

"How long do we have to keep doing this for?" I asked him.

" until I find the perfect person, but I think that we already have her. We just have to test her will and strength."

"I can't keep this up for too much longer. He can't handle our lifestyle."

" It won't be too much longer and we still need him for a little longer. Who's gonna clean up our mess if you are not strong enough to help me move a body or to help me get them." he said to me. He hurt my feelings a little but I couldn't tell him that. That would make him see me as weak and he apparently already saw me as a weak person.