We continued working on the scene and as soon as we where finished I packed my kit and watched Cath. She was putting the last samples in her kit. She stood up and we walked out of the garden. She opened the gate and held it open for me.

My hand touched hers when I passed her; a shiver crept up and down my spine.

I looked at her and she smiled back. “Shall we grab a bite before heading back to the labs, we could both use the break?”

“Just tell me where, I’ll be right there, I want to see Ryan before we go.”

Cath nodded, that night she’d seen a small piece of the person that Sara really was. She never thought that Sara would be this different; she always thought that she figured Sara out.

Cath nodded, “The diner where we went the other day with the team.”

I nodded and walked to the ambulance, not really knowing why I wanted to see Ryan again. I wasn’t like I could bring his parents back, or his sister for that matter. I placed my kit in my car and closed the door.

“Sara!” Ryan cried when he saw me. He was still sitting on the bed in the ambulance, and someone had put a blanket around his little shoulders.

“How’s Ryan doing?” I asked the paramedics.

“He’s fine, considering what happened.”

I picked Ryan up as a woman approached us.

“Social Services, Alyson Parker.” She introduced herself to the paramedics and me.

I shook her hand, “Sara Sidle, Las Vegas Crime Lab.”

She nodded, “The one who found him.” She said while she pointed at Ryan, who was in my arms. I looked down at Ryan, and I noticed that he’d fallen asleep against my shoulder.

“Yep, that’s me, that’s my colleague Catherine Willows.” I said when Cath joined us.

I knew by looking at Ryan that it was my job to inform him about his family. You can call it maternal instinct or something. But I knew that I gained his trust and that I was the only one he would believe. I looked at Cath seeking for help and she knew what I meant.

“Miss Parker, can I have a word with you.” She asked in her most professional voice, which made sure that she didn’t want no for an answer.

Miss Parker nodded and followed Cath.

“He doesn’t know what happened yet, my colleague made sure that he didn’t see anything. She found him in his sister’s closet,” Alyson nodded. “Can we take him to the crime labs to ask him some questions and secondly, he can drive there with one of us in one of our SUV’s. They have blacked out windows; the photographers can’t take pictures that way. We don’t want that the killer to see his face all over the newspapers, now do we?” Alyson could only agree.

Cath walked back to me, she smiled. “He’s coming with us, you owe me big time.” She said with a huge smile on her face.