"so" Scotty started as they walked across the lawn to the house " Vera and Miller are going to talk to the Dad?"

"yeah, after we get back, we have the only car available for our group to use" she replied, then added "well I guess we better see what Arnold has to say…"

After knocking on the door it was opened within a few seconds by a older man with greying chestnut hair.

"Hi, welcome, please come in" he greeted, showing them inside the house and leading them to the table, where he sat down in one of the chairs.

"what can I help you with?" he questioned and the detectives sat across from him, on the other side of the table.

"we were wondering of you knew someone named, Clarice Harvard?" She asked, showing him a picture of a woman with short blond hair and shadowed blue eyes.

"not personally, met her kid once though…"

December,15/2003

Marissa had just entered Arnolds house, in tow behind her was a young boy dressed in overalls.

"Hi, Mr. McLane" she greeted with a nod of her head.

"you can jus call me Arnold, Liam and a couple friends are up stairs in his room" he told her " and your brother can go play with Liam's younger cousin, I think there about the same age"

"thanks Arnold" she said with a grateful smile, leading the boy into the living room, right as she was about to head up stairs a group of about four kids came down.

"Hey Marissa ! You made it!" Liam greeted happily, even his dad could see the boy had it bad for this girl.

"Hi Liam" she replied softly, nervous around the other guests, letting her hair fall down slightly she waved at them.

"Hey are you Clarice Harvard's daughter?" one of them, a girl who looked about 14 asked, she had dirty blond hair, which she curled and pinned up, her brown eyes were layered with make-up.

"Umm, yeah why ?" Marissa replied, her voice almost angry.

"because, she's a slut and a whore, and she better not ever come near my dad again!" the girl yelled at her "and you better leave because you look like her, and you don't know how much me and my mom hate her, she ruined our family!"

"Della!" Arnold said sternly " you will not talk like that in my house, or you will be leaving !"

But it was to late, Marissa's eye's filler with tears as she glared at the girl in front of her, her hands clenched in fists

"why did you say that? My mom-" but the other girl cut her of an whispered

"your mom is a whore, just like you"

Before any one could react, Marissa had swung her fist back and slammed it into the other girls face.

"you may be able to insult my mother, but I am NOT her, and you aren't gonna insult me" she yelled furiously.

"Girls!" Arnold yelled " Liam I think the party is over, Marissa, you can walk home, Della get in my car, your going home too"

"what about me 'n' Jared and Chris?" he asked, referring to the two guys with him.

"they can stay, They didn't do anything wrong" his father replied, " as for your cousin and friend here" he referred to the two girls, one clutching her jaw and moaning " they are going to head home, I don't want any fights in my home"

"I'm sorry Mr. McLane" Marissa mumbled, walking quickly to grab her brother they left within a few seconds.

"serves that bitch right, at least now I know where her mom is, I'm sure MY mom will be pleased, she's not worthless like hers" Della muttered angrily.

"Della, shut it, go get in the car" Arnold snapped at her.

"yes uncle Arnold" the girl said, although she was still clutching her presumably throbbing jaw, Arnold couldn't find it in him to be mad at Marissa, he had to admit, his niece deserved it.

"See you dad" Liam said, glaring at Della.

"The guys talked about the girls fighting the whole night" the man replied with a bit of a chuckle.

"but that was the last time I ever saw the kid"

"what about the next night, she said that she gave you a gun" Scotty asked him, his voice suspicious.

"I wasn't even in town that night, I had a flight to Canada, you can check the records, the only one home was Liam"

"Okay, we'll be looking into that" Lilly said, thanking the man they started to head back for the car.

"well, we know Liam wasn't for Clarice living, and if Marissa wasn't lying then he would have been the one who shot her" Lilly said thinking out loud.

"also the one girl, Della, her mom had it in for Clarice, we can go talk to her too" Scotty said.

"yeah, and hopefully we get some new info on the dad, or rapist, even without her here we can check his DNA with the kids"

"well, I guess we better get back to the office and tell Boss what we found out" Lilly said, stepping up to the car door and un-locking it.

Sitting inside she waited for her partner to get in

"hey wanna grab lunch on the way back?" Scotty asked, gesturing to his watch which showed it was almost one.

"sure, I guess we have enough time to run through the drive through at McDonald's" Lilly said, as she started the car and they drove back through the town.

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A/N Hey Guys, I know this chapter isn't very good, it's mostly written as a filler, I'll have posted the next one soon, I haven't been updating as fast because of the end of the year and school stuff, I think I'm failing almost all of grade nine, because I didn't even get to try like 4 classes, the only one I passed in gym, I'm even failing English !! Which sucks. Well , tell me what you think, and if it's to OOC, but anyways, leave a review if you like, I AM going to make another story after this case is solves, I guess it'll be like a part 2. But I want at least 30 reviews first, I mean even if all you say is " HI !!" I'm happy, I just like knowing people are reading my story J