Just to let everyone know this book was made way before Demi changed pronouns and I will continue doing what I have been working on so please DO NOT attack me over it! & this book is 100% fictional and has nothing to do anyone's real life!
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*three day time skip*
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(Darryl's pov)
These past few days have been insane I have been going through thousands of evidence boxes to see what we are dealing with and Looking over old interviews of the suspects at the time and of course piles of paperwork my favourite.. NOT!

According to the Boston police the case is from 1992 and hasn't been solved they believe the one who done it maybe dead or possibly in prison because he was never caught but he went back to killing again until 2007 and hasn't killed since.

They also told us that this was my father's case but he never got a chance to solve it or find the killer because at the time he wanted to focus on his kids after all I was turning four years old and Emily was ten years old and James wasn't even thought of yet.

My father was a cop from 1978 to 1995 of what my mom told me Dad was one of the best cops out there he got a lot of criminals off the streets and gave a lot of the victims of the crimes justice and closure. He is still my greatest hero even though he gave up his career just to help my mom take care of three kids is incredible.

My Dad is still a great man and I still look up to him even though sometimes we fight but I still idolize him.

After I stopped thinking about my dad I started to get out of bed then I grabbed my phone from the bedside table and started texting Demi a good morning text.

Text Message: Good morning beautiful, I miss you and the kids so much and it drives me crazy that it's been four days since I haven't heard or seen your faces. I hope the kids are doing good in school and I hope our baby isn't giving you a hard time. I love you all so much and I will text you again in the night time :) LOVE: Darryl

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I started to walk over to my closet and I picked out a whitish grey button up shirt with some black dots all over it and a pair of jeans.

Then after I was done putting my clothes I combed my hair then I grabbed my deordant and started putting some on.

Before I left the hotel room I grabbed my gun, my handcuffs , my badge and my cell phone then I started walking out of the room.
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I locked my door then I started walking out of the hotel and raced into the rental car.

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I started to put my seatbelt on and started to drive away from the hotel then I started getting on the highway. As I was about a hour away from the Boston police station I stopped into a near by coffee shop that didn't have a drive thru.

I found that odd since I'm in a big city and usually most big cities coffee shops has drive thrus.

So I parked my car in the parking lot and got out of the car then I walked into the coffee shop.

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When I walked inside I was hit with the smell of eggs, bacon, coffee and so many other breakfast foods.

The aesthetic of this coffee shop looked like it was very 50s to early 60s inspired because it had the big red old school booths, Elvis Presley decor on the walls, leather chairs and so much more that came out of the 50s and possibly the 60s.

So I walked over to a red leather booth and started looking at the menu because the smell of eggs and bacon made me hungry.

As I was looking at the menu a guy who looked a lot like James came over to the booth I was sitting in.

"Is this seat taken?" The guy asked,

"No it's not." I replied as I continued to look at the menu.

"Thanks." The guy said.

Then while I was done looking at the menu I figured it who the guy was.

"James?" I asked with a confused look on my face.

"Yeah." James answered.

"What are you doing in Boston?" I asked.

"I was going to ask you the same thing bro." James answered.

"I'm here to work on a cold case with my detective partner." I said.

"What about you ?" I questioned.

"I'm here just wanted to visit one of my favorite places in the world." James answered.

"Where's your girlfriend?" I asked.

"Oh Holly; we're on a break." James answered.

"I'm going to regret asking this; but why?" I questioned with a confused tone in my voice.

"We just want some time apart." James replied.

"That's understandable." I said.

"Where's Demi?" James asked.

"She's home." I answered.

Before James could talk a waitress came by and I told her what I wanted and James told her he wanted a coffee.

So she took my menu and rolled away on her rollerskates.

"That waitress is so hot." James said trying not to smirk.

"Control yourself dude, you're still in a relationship." I replied firmly.

"I'm not stupid but she is still hot dude." James said.

"Yes, I get it you are attracted to her." I replied trying not to get annoyed.

"Do you think she's hot? James asked.

"I'm not going to answer that." I answered with a serious tone in my voice.

"Why not dude ?" James asked with a chuckle.

"For one thing I never hit on waitresses and second I'm a happily married man FYI." I explained.

"Oh yeah: I forgot you're old fashioned." James sighed.

"I'm not trying to come across as a asshole but no wonder you're relationships never work out you're cheating on them with women like her." I explained.

"Like you ever did that to someone you dated?" James scoffed,

"No I have not because all of the relationships I was in before I got married to Demi was like either we broke up, the woman cheated on me or she ran over to you whilw she was dating me." I answered.

Before James could talk the waitress came back and gave us our coffee and my food.

I thanked the waitress and then she rolled away and served someone else.

Remember that girl you dated in college named Ella?" James asked.

"I don't remember but go on." I answered.

"Well, you could add her to the list of girls who ran over to me." James bragged.

"Hold on wait... YOU DATED ELLA? The psychopath that has made my life and Demi's life a living hell. " I asked with a confused tone in my voice.

"Yes I did and she did what." James answered with an even more confused tone in his voice.

"You honestly have no idea bro." I said as I started to eat the eggs.

"How long have we been out of each others lives for ?" James asked.

"Way to long." I answered.

"If you want if you're still in Boston we could talk about her in private because I really wanna know that information." James said.

"Maybe sometime soon but what ever information I tell you DO NOT AND I REPEAT DO NOT mention or say anything to your girlfriend or our parents." I responded firmly.

"Message received." James said.

As I was eating I started looking at the time and it was 8:23 am.

"Damn it I'm gonna be late for work." I replied as I quickly got out of the booth.

"You could finish off my breakfast and can you pay for my bill and don't hit on the waitress." I added with a serious tone in my voice.

"Okay then and about the waitress thing I'll think about it." James said as he slid the plate over to him.

I just rolled my eyes at him and ran over to my car.

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As I left the coffee shop I started to drive straight to the police station and hopefully I'm not late because these cops are strict and they expect you to be there on time.

While I was driving I parked my car next to liv's rental car and quickly grabbed everything I needed and got out of the car and ran inside.

●⊙○⊙○●IN THE BOSTON POLICE STATION●⊙○●⊙○°□°○°⊙
"Good morning Darryl." Liv greeted me.

"Good morning; I hope I am not late because I stopped at a coffee shop for breakfast cause I was so hungry." I whispered.

"You're not late but I recommend you get something from the hotel next time." Liv said with a serious tone in her voice.

"Thanks for the heads up." I responded.

"Good morning Detectives." The Boston Captain chimed in as he walked over to main room.

"Good morning sir." Liv and I greeted as we followed him to the main room.

When Liv and I walked to our desks I started looking through some files.

"Have you made any new discoveries ?" Detective Conan asked.

"Sadly, I haven't but hopefully we will be able to." I answered.

"What about you Olivia?" Detective Conan wondered.

"I haven't made any new discoveries but I have a theory." Liv replied.

"Spill it." Detective Conan advised.

"My theory is that whoever murdered these people may have some type of personal connection because detective lovato and I discussed when we were looking at the crime scene photos all of the vics are all shot in front of the head and only one of the vics has a stab wounds so all of these attacks aren't random." Olivia explained as she pinned each picture of the victims on the board.

"Great theory." Detective Conan said proudly.

"Thank you sir." Olivia smiled.

After Liv smiled at him detective Conan walked away.

"We make a pretty good team; don't we ?" I asked with a smile

"Yes we do." Liv answered while smiling back at me.

I smiled back at her then we continued do more work.

After a few hours of work it was time for our lunch break.

"Liv?" I asked.

"Yes." Liv replied.

"Do you want to go out for lunch ?" I wondered.

"Sure, but we have to be back here at 1:20 sharp." Liv accepted as she grabbed her jacket then we headed out the door.

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When we got inside Liv's rental car we put our seatbelts on.

"Where are we going for lunch?" Liv asked.

"I'm kind of in a mood for Chinese food." I answered.

"That sounds good to me!" Liv squealed as she started to drive away from the police station.

I just smiled at her.

"How has everything being going at home with Demi?" Liv asked while keeping her eyes on the road.

"She is doing okay the last time I spoke to her and I know she wasn't the happiest mood when I told her I had to come to Boston." I explained.

"That's understandable because we have no idea when we will ever be able to solve this cold case and what I heard this was your father last case he tried to solve but gave up after a few years cause he wanted go focus on his family." Liv said as she pulled into a Chinese restaurant.

"Yes it was and if we do solve this I know my father would be really proud of me." I replied.

"Of course he will because after all you followed in his footsteps." Liv said as she started driving to the drive thru and stopped at a speaker.

Before I could say anything Liv started ordering our lunch she got herself a fried rice with cherry chicken balls and for drink she got herself a green tea. I got some egg rolls and some fried rice with a green tea as well.

After Liv told the woman at the drive thru what we wanted she drive to the cash window and then put her credit card top of the machine and it said approved.

Then Liv drove to the food window and we waited.

A few minutes past and Liv handed me the food and placed the drinks in the car coasters. Then Liv drove away and headed back to the police station.

When Liv got to the police station she parked the car and then we just started eating our food.

"I'm really liked your theory." I said.

"Thanks and if it wasn't for us going through some of evidence I wouldn't even came up with it." Liv replied as she started drinking some of her tea.

"No problem." I said as I started to grab one of the egg rolls.

"What do you think of this case we helping to solve ?" Liv asked with a confused look on her face.

"So far it's pretty difficult because there is so much evidence to go through and also we have to go out and find this guy that's if he isn't dead or prison for robbery or something that has nothing to do with murdering anyone." I explained with a serious tone in my voice.

"You have a point." Liv agreed as she started eating some rice.

"I've been thinking about something lately." I said with a serious look on my face.

"What is it ?" Liv asked getting a little concerned.

"For the past year I was thinking of going to take over the squad back home." I answered.

"I'm not trying to rain on your parade; but our captain doesn't retire in two years time." Liv implied as she started to wipe her mouth with a napkin.

"I know." I hinted.

"But when he does retire in two years you should go for it." Liv encouraged with a smile.

"The thing about it is that it will be a tough job and also controlling a whole squad is going to be difficult." I sighed.

"Darryl, you're damn good cop you've helped so many people, got a lot of criminals off the streets, helped solve almost 30 cold cases within your seven years of being a cop, you helped families get justice and closure and I know you can do this." Liv explained.

"When I first came into the LAPD squad room you took me under your wing and helped me with the ropes and you taught me everything a cop should know and if it wasn't for you I wouldn't be having a seven year long career and have this wonderful friendship and partnership with you." I smiled as I started drinking some tea.

"I can't take all the credit you learned things yourself like making a criminal confess until he cracks and arresting the most disturbing criminals off the streets." Liv giggled.

"To partners." I said as lift my paper cup up.

"To partners." Liv repeated as she hit my cup against hers.

After that we continued finish off our food then we took our garbage and got out of the car.

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Before we got into the main room we threw our paper bags away and the empty green tea cups in the garbage then we walked into the main room.

When we got in the main room there was big boxes of evidence from the years 1992 to 2007 but before we could look at any of the huge boxes.

Detective Conan and Berman came into the room.

"I hope you too enjoyed your lunch breaks." Detective Conan said as he walked over to his desk.

"Yes we did." I replied.

"Benson, I'm really impressed with your theory." Detective Berman beamed.

"Thank you and I give Detective Lovato credit as well." Liv repsonded.

Berman just gave Liv a slight grin.

"I suggest with the new forensic technology we could try to find hidden pieces of evidence that can connect with the killer. I explained with a serious tone in my voice.

"Its impossible to re look through every piece of evidence belonging to the case with new forensic tech." Detective Berman scoffed.

" I know there's a a lot of evidence and it will take a few months or so to go through everything but if we don't want this killer to roam on this planet any more we should go through it." I said with a serious tone in my voice.

"I agree with Detective Lovato on this one but we should all wear gloves and be really careful with all of this evidence because some of it is ten to twenty years old." Liv explained as she walked over to the first aid kit and grabbed a box of examining gloves.

"That's if there is any evidence that the examiner missed and if anyone finds some carefully take it to the examiner office and let them have a second look." Detective Conan advised as he grabbed some examine gloves.

Everyone but Detective Berman took part in it. He just went back and looked over interrogation intreviews.

As a few hours went by Myself, Liv, detectives Conan, Carey, Jameson, Radwoski and a few others looked through boxes and boxes of evidence from 1992 to 2007.

As the each box was looked through Liv took a piece of paper and wrote the year next to each box we emptied. When we were finished with that year.

Detective Carey took a old fashioned camera and she took a picture of everything we took out. Then I grabbed a folder and wrote the year 1992 picture of evidence.

It took about 3 hours to get through one box because we had to be VERY careful and some of it was taped in a evidence bag and it was indestructible. But we took the pictures anyways.

By the end of the work day was over we got through two years of evidence 92 and 93. We still have about fourteen to fifteen years of evidence left to go through and hopefully anything from the years 92 to 2007 will help us catch this killer.

"Great work everyone." The Boston Captain announced gleefully.

"Thank you Detectives for helping out and we will see you all again Tomorrow." Sergant William advised.

After they said that all the detectives left the police station.

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When I got off work it was almost 11:30 pm and I have to wake up at 7:30 am again tomorrow morning. To do this all over again until it's time to nail the song of a bitch.

I walked over to my rental car and I started to get inside the car.

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As I got inside the car put my seatbelt on and started to headed straight to the hotel because I feel so exhausted from today and I know tomorrow is going to another exhausting day.

While I was driving for a few minutes my phone started to beep like crazy so I just shoved the phone in the glove box and I'll deal with it when I get to the hotel.

I wonder how Demi's doing I know she's going to busy and tired because of her preganacy and also having to take care of the kids as well. But I know she has her friends helping out when she needs it and I just hope the kids aren't giving her a hard time.

I love Demi so much and I am so lucky to have her as my love of my life. I miss that woman so much it drives me crazy but good thing is that everytime I turn my phone on I can look at her on my home screen of a picture of us at our wedding.

Demi and I have had a bunch of arguments within our relationship but we still love each other no matter how stupid the fight was,

To get my mind off Demi for a little while I finally got to the hotel.

As I got to the hotel I parked the car then I took the rental car key out of the ignition while getting my phone out of the glove box and started walking inside the hotel.

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When I got inside I walked over to the elevator because it's the quickest way to get to the top floor and as I was waiting Liv came in.

"We meet again stranger." I chuckled.

"Nice to meet you too; stranger." Liv giggled.

Before I could talk the elevator door opened and we got inside then I tapped on the 8th floor button.

"I'm so tired." I yawned.

"Me too; all that work warned me out." Liv said.

"I'm not trying to sound like a people pleaser but; what the hell is Berman's problem? I asked with serious tone in my voice.

"I have no idea what his problem is." Liv answered.

"Honestly I don't care if the guy hates me I'm only here to do my job and help out and that's it." I said with a serious look on my face.

"Exactly and besides I don't think we are going to see him again." Liv repsonded,

"True." I agreed.

Before Liv could talk the elevator landed on the 8th floor.

"Where is your hotel room ?" Liv asked.

"It's all the way down the hall." I answered as we got out of the elevator.

"Since you were almost late for work ;do you want me to make you breakfast tomorrow." Liv wondered.

"Thanks for the offer Liv; but I don't think you need to do that." I said letting her down gently.

"Come on Darryl; I insist and honestly don't mind making breakfast for two also we could talk." Liv repsonded trying not to get annoyed.

"Okay fine; you can do it." I advised.

"Great; I'll see you at 7." Liv exclaimed as she saw her hotel room.

"See you then; goodnight." I said.

"Goodnight." Liv replied as she unlocked her hotel room and went inside.

About a few minutes of walking I found my hotel room.

I place all of my  equipment on a table  then I started takes my  shoes off then my  clothing and kept my boxers on.

Then I started to sit on the bed and  go through the text messages I received today I  got a text message from Demi and the unknown number.

When I saw the unknown number I ignored it and started  looking at Demi's messages she sent me when I was working,

Text Message: 9:04 am: Good morning handsome,  I just wanted to let you know I love you so much  and the kids are doing good in school and tomorrow I'm going to find out if we are having a baby boy or girl.   I hope you're doing well. Love: Demi xo.

Text #2 : 10:45 pm: sends photo.

Hey handsome, I  hope you had a good day at work and staying safe of course if you didn't  have a good day  at work I hope the picture cheered you up ;)    I love you so much  babe ❤ ps I miss you  so much! Love; yours always Demi. Xoxo ;)

Before I could respond to her text message I was blown away from her beauty and she looked so hot in that picture.

I eventually responded with this  Hey honey, I'm so sorry for not responding I was stuck at work 😔  and you look gorgeous in that night gown if I was home I would kiss you all over ;)   I love you so much beautiful and I can't wait to see if we are having a boy or a girl.  Good night Dems. I love you 💗 love : Darryl.

After I messaged Demi's  messages back I waited for her to respond back.

A few minutes past and I got no answer so I think she's asleep.

  So I turned my phone on mute then I pulled the blankets over me  and turned the lights off and went asleep.

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Hey guys I would like thank you guys for getting this story to 500 reads that's so amazing and I appreciate everyone who reads and supports  my story you guys are the best!

I'm so happy that this chapter isn't 6k words long like the last two chapters that I've posted before but I really hope you guys enjoy it.

Please tell me your thoughts it really helps me a lot!

I hope you have a great day and please be safe through these crazy times!