Prodigal Son; Malcolm Bright

8.00

The next day, things hadn't exactly gotten better. I couldn't get breakfast and I wasn't talking to Malcolm so I could call and ask him to get me some. I walked into the station and headed straight in my office, shutting the door.

Malcom Bright

We all watched Celine from the meeting room, she had her head down on her desk. I turned to see the rest of the team looking at me.

Malcolm: What?

Dani: What's wrong with her?

Malcolm: I don't know. I called her last night, but she didn't answer

JT: Maybe something happened

Gil: Maybe somebody should go and talk to her

We all turned to look at Gil, and he read all of our facial expressions before slowly nodding his head.

Gil: Yea that's a bad idea

I waited around until she went to the bathroom at the same time that she does every day. I hurriedly entered the office and grabbed her phone looking for something that would tell me what happened, I noticed she had a call from my mother yesterday.

I sighed and immediately left to go over to my mother's house. When I first entered the house, I decided not to announce myself. I needed to figure out what she'd done first. I noticed there was a file sitting on the table I picked it up seeing it had information about Celine in it. I heard footsteps and turned around to look at my mother.

Mother: Malcolm...

Malcolm: What did you do?

Mother: I was just trying to make sure that she wasn't using you-

Malcolm: What-did-you-do?

Mother: *sighs* I just had somebody pull her file from the station

Malcolm: And you accused her of using me for what? Money. She's not the kind of person she is

Mother: So, she just tells you the baby is yours and you believe her

Malcolm: The dates match-

Mother: You didn't know her before that night Malcolm, you don't know what she was doing-

Malcolm: But I know her now!

One of my mother'sassistants, Logan, entered and she turned to look at him-a small hint of fear in her eyes.

Mother: Logan now's not a good time

Malcolm: What is it Logan?

Logan: I was just coming to let you know that the DNA results are here

Malcolm: DNA results? How'd you even do that?

Mother: I made and call and had Logan go and pick it up-she should really get a new doctor

Malcolm: How'd you get my DNA?

Mother: I used one of the straws you'd used when you were over here last week

Malcolm: You're crazy. Logan would you mind reading the results out loud.

Logan: Um-it says the probability of paternity is 99.999%.... can I go now?

Mother: Yes

I shook my head in disbelief of my mother, deciding it was time for me to go and find Celine. She was still at the station and in her office, except she was reading. Most people had clocked out for the day, so it was relatively quiet. I walked into her office and sat in front of her.

Malcolm: We should talk