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"Are you heading to the house?" Nick asks Eris as she slips on a pair of skinny jeans.

"Yeah I am. Do you want a ride?" Eris turns to look at him over her shoulder, smiling softly at him. Nick just nods as makes his way across the room, he kisses her softy before heading out to the kitchen.

She watches as he leaves the room, for a minute she considered it. Staying and being happy with Nick. But then she remembered all those young girls out there who dream of being in her position, then she met Jay and things staying making sense to her. Then things got real and deep like they always do, then to top it off Spencer died and moving to vegas to live in a bubble with Nick sounded pleasant. He never expected her to tell him things she wasn't comfortable with.

To him Eris was this beautiful, smart woman who stood in front of him. That to Eris sounded like the dream, they could be happy like that. But would they? Eventually he would want to know and sooner or later he would look at her differently. Look at her like she was broken. They all do.

"Where do the team think you were last night?" Eris smirks as she drinks her ice coffee with one hand on the steering wheel.

"You think they would believe anything other than I was with you?" Nick laughs

"No, especially Greg and Sara" Eris laughs as they pull up to the house. Still no word on where the family is camped out.

Eris just shakes her head laughing to herself as she makes her way to the backyard. Sipping her ice coffee as she goes, taking one last look over her shoulder as she watches Nick enter the hell hole of a house.

"Hey guys. What we got?" Eris asks staring into the pit of bodies that spans the entire backyard.

"We found 4 more bodies. We are up to 12" Greg looks at her from the pit "ID all of them" jay hands her the iPad.

"As far as we know they are all private school kids, roughly between 13-16" Jay continues to explain but Eris stops on a photo of one girl. She looks familiar.

"She's not" Eris says pointing to the picture.

"What?" Greg says "how do you know?"

"I know her. Elenor Bradley, She's was a private school kid but she's my age. I saw her about a year ago, if you're right about the ID she's less than a year old" Eris scans the file on the iPad.

"Eris how do you know her?" Greg asks, Eris looks at Jay and Simmons who just stare at her, there's a look in her eyes that tells them everything.

"Voight, backyard" Simmons says into the walkie talkie.

"Eris?" Greg asks "how long have we known each other?"

"Are you guys sure about the ID?" Eris asks

"Yeah we ran DNA, prints and she still had her ID card in her pocket" Greg says still staring up at her.

"Urm" Eris she as sits down at the edge of the pit "Greg you keep this to yourself until we find it necessary to tell everyone?"

"You got it" Greg says, worried about his friend now. Eris looks up as her father joins them standing around the pit.

"She was a patient with me at a private hospital I attended after a car crash when I was 15" Eris starts "the doctor who ran this facility raped us daily and abused our families money for years. I was attacked by another patient there, he held me down and raped me until I passed out. Then he cut me to mark me, It's where I got my scars" Eris holds her hands up.

Greg studies them, he had always noticed the scans but never questioned them. He loved her like a sister and he knew whatever caused them wasn't a pleasant memory.

"Eris I'm so sorry" Greg looks at her with this pained look on his face.

"Greg please don't tell anyone. Not until Voight and I decided it's pertinent to the case" Eris is practically begging him, they never should have needed to know that side of her.

"Yeah, I promise" Greg turns around getting back to digging.

"Eris you're sure that the same girl?" Hank asks his daughter as Jay helps her up.

"Yeah, we shared a room for 6 months. She would read me to me at night and we would hold each other after sessions to regulate ourselves again. When the inmates got loud, we used to hide under the bed together until they calmed down. Trust me I know her, check the body. She has a metal plate in her femur where she slipped trying to run away from a session with him" Eris spits out that last part. She always knew somehow he would come back to haunt her.

"I don't need to check. I've seen it. We are waiting for the serial number check to come back" Simmons says staring at his boss who looks like she's dealing with every emotion.

"Jay I want you to check every victim we have so far and check them against The Darlington Hospital. Get urm" Eris pauses, trying to figure out who knows about her past with revealing more.

"Gallagher" Simmons finishes it for her "get Gallagher to help" Jay nods as he walks back to the house.

Eris stares at the file, maybe this is her chance to finally get the man who destroyed her. He took away any chance she had of a normal life, she knew there was other girls who lives had been destroyed. Still being destroyed and maybe she can stop them.

"Are you ok?" Hank asks as her father

"If we do this. We do it properly. I don't want him getting off on a technicality" Eris says with her brow furrowed.

"You got it boss" Hanks taps her on the shoulder before turning back to the house.

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