Friends Forever?

Chapter 31

Emma took the kids inside and the party ended so the guests had all left along with Ruby. My people from the lab came down to my house. Claire and Jim stood there staring at the skeleton. "I need you to tell me first who this kid is and how he or she died." They nodded.

"Of course Killian," Claire says as she puts her gloves on. "Female, Caucasian, child, approximately 7-10 years old." My heart dropped hearing her say that. "According to the insect activity on the body I say she died 3 years ago." I gasp. "How did she die?" "We will know more when we take her back to the lab."

"I need to know everything about this kid, everything." They both nod as they put her in a body bag. "I will be there in 30 minutes." They nod as they walk away with the body on a gurney. I walk back inside and I see the twins playing with some toys in the living room.

I look over and I see Emma in tears. "Killian was that our daughter?" I sigh. "The physical markers are similar to those of Aqua." She shakes her head. "Our little one can't be dead Killian, our Aqua can't be dead." That's when Angela and Jackson walk though the door.

"Sorry you guys, traffic was horrible but here we are for the party...." She looks at us and gives us a weird look. "What is going on?" Jackson walks over to the twins as Angela walks up to us. "What's going on?" "There was a body in the backyard and it matches Aqua's physical markers." She gasps as she rubs her belly.

"No my little one is dead?" Emma walks over to her and hugs her. "I am going to go change and see if the body is my daughter and if it is, I'm going to kill that bastard who killed my daughter." Angela nods as she's hugging Emma. "Jackson can you stay here until I come back?" He nods. "Good and again congrats on the baby." He nods and smiles.

I make my way up the stairs and change. I grab my badge and gun and made my way down the stairs. I make my way to my car, I get in and drive to the lab. I get there and I see Claire analyzing the bones. "So did you find anything else on the body?" She nods. "This is what she was wearing," she says and points at the bag. I look at it and sure enough I see the bracelet.

I put the bag down and sighed. "Have cause of death?" "Well it seems that she was really malnourished." My heart broke again. "Did she starve to death?" She sighs. "Seems like it." I shake my head. "She does have two broken bones." "Where?" "The arms." I shake my head.

"Ok good job keep looking." I walked into Chloe's office. "How's the facial reconstruction going?" She nods. "Almost done." She finished the drawing and scanned it into the system. I look at it and my heart dropped. The face looked like my little Aqua's. "Ok let's run it through the missing children's data base." I nod.

That's when I see something that ended up killing me inside, the body was my little Aqua. "I'm sorry Killian, but it's Aqua." I nod. "Are you Ok?" I nod. "Yeah yeah, I'm just..." I walk out and I make my way to the lab. I look at the skeleton and my mind pictures her little face and smile.

"Did you get the ID?" Jim asks as he's scraping something from one of her ribs. I looked away and wanted to cry but of course I couldn't. I turn back around and nod. "Yes that right there is Aqua Jones, my daughter that disappeared all those years ago." They gasp.

"Killian I'm sorry." I nod at Jim. "We will get to the bottom of this," Claire says and I nod. "Thank you." They all nod. "I just have to go home and let the family know." They nod. "Take your time Killian." I nod at Claire. I make my way to the car and I sit there.

That's when I burst out crying. My heart hurt, my little love is dead and was buried in the backyard this whole time. After I have a good cry, I wipe my tears and made my way back home. I turn off the car and got off. I walked inside and I see the twins asleep on the couch. I then see Emma, Jackson and Angela sitting all around the dinning room table.

Emma gets up when she sees me. "Killian..." I give her a sad look. She shakes her head. "That skeleton was our baby girl?" I nod. She runs up to me and buries her face in my chest. I hug her and I try to comfort her. My God her sobs are just tearing through my soul.

"Our baby is dead Killian." I nod as I hug her tighter. Angela walks up to us and is in tears. "So my niece is dead?" I nod. Jackson walks up to her and hugs her. "I can't believe this Killian." I nod at Jackson. Emma backs away and stares at the twins. "They never got to meet their big sister and now they never will." I nod.

"How did she die?" I sigh. "Emma..." she closes her eyes and sighs. "Killian, How did our daughter die?" I sigh. "Well it's not certain, but it seems that our daughter suffered from malnourishment." She gasps. "She starved to death?" I nod. "They're still trying to figure that out." Emma shakes her head.

"That bastard starved our little girl until she died." I nod with tears rolling down my cheek. "I guess my parents were right, well sort of." I gave Emma a weird look. "What do you mean?" "They called me saying that one of the partners from the Institute is trying to kill me." I gasp.

"Now I think that it's true and they are starting through our kids." I shake my head. "Emma no one will touch your or our family, I'm going to assign a body guard to all of you." Everyone nods. "Whoever did this to our daughter is not done, so we will not let him win, we will catch this bastard and throw him in jail." Emma nods.