A/N: HEY GUYS WOW THIS STORY HAS BEEN ON HIATUS FOR SUCH A LONG TIME AND I DO APOLOGISE FOR THAT BUT I HAD AN IDEA FOR HOW I WANTED THIS STORY TO GO BUT I JUST COULDN'T GET IT DOWN IN WORDS UNTIL NOW. PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK AND REVIEW

I was woken with a start by a blood curdling scream, sitting bolt upright in bed I looked around searching for the noise before jumping out of bed and making my way down the hall to the spare bedroom where Sophie was asleep. Searching the room to make sure that she wasn't in any danger I made my way over to her and sat on the bed, placing a hand on her shoulder, she looked up at me stunned for a couple of seconds before she flung her arms around my neck and sobbed into my neck. Twenty minutes later and after rubbing soothing circles into her back she had calmed down enough to fall asleep, I tried to untangle myself from her but after a couple of minutes I realised there was no point and lay down with her, falling asleep pretty quickly.

It was a couple of hours later that I woke and was greeted by a smiling face, Henry was smiling down at me and Sophia who had been asleep on the small bed. I smiled up at him and asked quietly

"What time is it?" I asked and he answered

"It's just after 7am, Lieutant Reece rang a couple minutes ago to say that she had managed to get an interview booked for you and Sophia with a child services member present just before lunch" I nodded, before looking down at the young girl asleep in my arms and knew that I was going to have a hard time listening to everything that she had to say in a couple of hours time.

"I also wanted to tell you that breakfast is ready, if you can seperate yourself from the little munchkin I suggest having a shower and changing before she attaches herself to you again. I'll keep an eye on her and see if she wakes" he said and I smiled, loosening the grip that Sophia had on me before managing to escape her grip and heading out of the spare bedroom and into my bedroom, grabbing my clothes for the day and making my way into the bathroom. When I exited the bathroom about five minutes later after having a quick shower I made my way across the hall to see that Sophia was just starting to stir and made my way to her side. Smiling at her as she gave me a sigh of relief before reaching out for me to help her up. I gave her a quick cuddle before whispering to that Henry had been the one to get her all her nice new clothes, she looked at Henry with uncertainty before whispering thank you to him and he smiled before he announced

"Banana pancakes are ready for the two of you girls once your dressed" I looked at Sophia and saw her face break out into a huge smile and I laughed of course having something like pancakes always made me happy and I should've realised that pancakes would've done the same for Sophia.

About five minutes later I made my way down the stairs and into the kitchen with Sophia attached to my hip. She was wearing the pretty floral pink skirt and the white leggings, the black boots and a nice white shirt with a pink flower on it, with a nice cardigan covering her to keep her warm. Henry smiled as he saw what she was wearing

"Oh don't you look pretty" he said a big smile on his face and she gave a small smile as she hid her face in the crook of my neck. Placing her down on the seat next to mine before making my way over to the counter to make myself a cup of coffee. I grabbed my phone and sent a quick message to Hanson to make sure that there was a photo tech there to take pictures of the bruises and things that covered Sophia's body. I was just sitting at the table with a fresh cup of coffee and a plate full of pancakes when Hanson text me back with a message saying: What the hell? Oh this man deserves to rot in prison. I sent back a quick message before enjoying my breakfast.

When Henry and I arrived at the precinct with Sophia, we were meet with even more stares than we were yesterday and I knew that it was getting a really hard for Sophia as she was clutching my hand tightly. After ensuring that I was alright in the bull pen, Henry made his way down to the morgue to examine the body of our victim. I gathered my things and made my way into the lunch room so that I could keep Sophia out of the main hustle and bustle of the bull pen. I had my folder of the case so far and my lap top as well as a couple of books that I had brought in from home and Hanson had brought in some colouring pencils and a colouring book for Sophia to do while she was here. So as I worked Sophia sat next to me happily colouring in, for the first time since I had meet the day before she seemed relaxed. I was half way through searching through Sophia and Jessie's background when Hanson knocked on the door, he had a look of urgency on his face and I looked at Sophia before whispering to her that if she needed me I would be just outside the door. When I was out of the lunchroom, I closed the door behind me and looked expectantly at Hanson who began speaking almost as soon as I was standing in front of him.

"Jo I just got off the phone with the women's refuge centre where our victim and Sophia had spent the last three months, apparently they checked in two weeks ago after the courts announced Jessie as Sophia's only legal guardian. They were supposed to be there until a spot opened up in the centre in Pensylvania which apparently had happened over the last couple of weeks which was why the two of them where here in New York" he explained and I nodded

"Talk to our contacts in Boston and see if they can get anything on the court case that happened in Boston, we're going to need everything we can to help us put away this dude once and for all. Maybe even talk to whom ever was managing their case at the women's centre and see what they had reported of their findings. I found some disturbing things on that little girls body and I would like to know what exactly he has been doing to her" I said and he nodded

"Of course" he said before returning back to his desk. I looked across to Lieutenant Reece's office and saw that she was talking to the child services worker as well as the photo tech who had to have clearance on this case from child protective services to take pictures of Sophia. I looked down to the watch on my wrist and groaned there was about five minutes before I had to take Sophia in for her interview. I made my way back into the lunch room where I was greeted with a sad pair of eyes

"I have to talk to lots of people don't I?" she asked and I nodded

"There will be me and someone special from the child protective team and there will also be a member of my team in their as well, she won't be in their for long. Shall we go meet them Sophia?" I queired and when she nodded I took her hand and we made our way over to Lieutenant Reece's office. I knocked on her door before I heard a come in and we made our way into my bossess office.

"Detective Martinez, Sophia this is Julia Stewart she is the lady from child protective services who will sitting in on the interview, and this is Detective Kylee Fry" she intorduced and I nodded, seeing the look of relief that was on Sophia's face that she wasn't going to have to be faced with any males I took her hand as we made our way to the interrogation room.

I sat on the opposite side of the table from Sophia and the child protective services lady. First I had Detective Fry take the photos of the bruises and scars all over Sophia's body, something that hadn't been noted when Jessie and Sophia had entered the womens refuge centre two weeks ago according to what Ms Stewart was saying. Once the photos were taken I steeled myself to ask the questions that would either make or break this case and get this little girl the justice she so rightly deserved after the life that she had been through.

"Sophia is it alright if I ask you some questions that will help us find out what happened to your mummy?" I asked and Sophia looked up at me and nodded. I smiled sadly before asking the basic questions, things like age and where she had been living? What she knew about her mum and dad's relationship? And then the tough questions began.

"Sophia, why were you and mummy in the women's refuge centre?" I asked and she looked at me sadly

"Mummy said it was to keep us safe before we had to go to Pensylvania. She said it would keep us away from daddy and away from his anger. We weren't there long, I think it was maybe like two days after we got there that daddy came and started banging on the door and began screaming and yelling at us through the door. Mummy began to get really worried and after that she talked to some people who said that they wanted to move us, somewhere where daddy couldn't find us. Mummy told me a couple days ago that we were being moved and that we had to pack and get all things together so that we could leave" she said and I noted jotting down what she was saying.

"Why did you stop in New York?" I asked and she frowned

"Mummy said that we stopped in New York so that we could sleep for the night. We got off the bus before we started walking. It was so cold and I was freezing, before we made our way down the path we were heading down towards the motel before mummy saw something and we rushed down the alley and mum told me that she had to put me in the bin, she told me I had to promise not to move or say anything no matter what, so I did. I stayed in their the whole time and tried not to make a sound or move" she said and I nodded, again making notes before asking the next question

"Would you be able to tell me what you heard?" this time when she started to talk I noticed the tears in her eyes and I felt so bad for making her relive the traumatic experience of a couple of nights ago.

"I heard him walking down the alley, asking where I was before he lost it when mummy said who? He was saying things like how could you take her away from me, and you didn't think I would find you. He was saying lots of mean things to mummy. And then there was lots of yelling, saying that mummy had no right to take me away from him. After that he lost it and all I could hear was lots of punching and I could hear mummy moaning and gasping before there was nothing. The next thing I heard was someone coming down the alley way and then the sirens" she said tears flowing freely down her face now. I felt my rage almost bursting and knew that Hanson who was behind the glass watching from the observation room would be just as outraged as I was.

"Who was it that did this to your mummy Sophia?" I asked and she sobbed before saying

"It was daddy". With that confirmed I got up from my seat and made my way around the table and wrapped my arms around the little girl, who looked so incredibly broken.

From the observation room Reece, Henry and Hanson all let out gasps when Sophia confirmed each of their fears. Each of them looked at each other and saw the anger and rage written on each others features, Reece was struggling to keep the tears back and Henry had to admit that he was stuggling to as well. Wiping the tears from her face Reece left the observation room but not before saying

"You make sure that you get concrete evidence to put that lowlife scum behind bars, we need to make it stick to get justice for that little girl. Do what ever it takes" she said and both Henry and Hanson nodded.