A/N: This is my first foray into Sue Thomas F.B. Eye although I have written other genres years ago. Please review and let me know if I should continue.

Disclaimer: The characters don't belong to me, they belong to Paxson Entertainment. I'm just having a bit of fun with them.

Key: Signing in bold. ~ thoughts ~

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Fate Unknown

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Jack Hudson sat at his computer willing himself not to look at the empty desk beside him; his face as white as the shirt he was wearing, still haunted by the memory of the young blonde woman in the county morgue…

Her face had stared up at him with lifeless eyes, angelic even in death and for one moment he'd thought that this time it was her. A fear had clutched at his chest causing him almost as much pain as the night of his heart attack.

"Agent Hudson?" a disembodied voice had come to him, shocking him back to reality. "Is it her?"

He'd opened his mouth to speak but nothing had emerged so he'd merely shaken his head 'no' and strode quickly away, practically running in his haste to get to the restroom. Over the years he'd hardened himself to where he could control his emotions when viewing dead bodies but not this time. He'd just made it into a cubicle before losing the small amount of food he'd managed to force down earlier that day.

Taking slow, deep breaths, he'd finally managed to get himself under control and walked over to the wash basin splashing cold water on his clammy skin before looking into the mirror and seeing someone he'd barely recognised. A face etched with desperation – ashen grey with haunted eyes. An expression he'd seen many times when going to inform relatives that a loved one was either missing or dead but he'd never even considered that one day it could be him making the identification.

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