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"Pancakes sound great." Jasper told her placing his hands on either side of the counter of her as she poured cream into the coffee. His time with her always felt so normal. He smiled down at her after the kiss she placed on his lips and as her hands roamed over his bare chest. Her next question took him a little aback. Surely he wanted to spend more time with her during the day; the time just hasn't been available with Grace and Thomas needing him too. But what was the plan today? That he didn't know yet. Hadn't checked in with his new blonde friend. What were you thinking you wanted to do today?"
He'd check in with Grace and Orion shortly. Jasp should really stop at his shop too today, but he wanted to see what her thoughts were. Surely he could slip in some extra time for her.

"Oh yeah, so sweet he will give you a toothache. He is my sweet child. Oh, it is kind of you to come down and check on us. Some of the swelling has already begun to go down. You are free to go in and see her. As you can probably imagine I am shaken up. Still a bit stunned, she is a tiny thing. The sort of violence and hatred released on her....just unnecessary. She would have been easily overpowered so I believe the main motive was the beating. They are talking about investigating it as a possible mugging, or sexual assault. I know those things were not what this was about. Really pisses me off actually." Lena realized she was ranting and suddenly stopped the onslaught of words.
"I'm sorry. The picture..." She took the photo and examined it carefully.
"I'm sorry..." She said with a shake of her head. She slowly returned the photo.
"Did you get to the people that were there? Two college age kids. The boy lives in the building. The police talked to them each briefly. I think they are doing the minimum here. They think it is gang violence, and will be dealt with on the street. I overheard an officer stating it was pointless to try to help those people, they have their own justice system. So...I know nothing will come of the Police's involvement." She paused as Tyson came zipping back to Lena. A half eaten candy bar in hand.
"Another one is coming Ma'." Tyson informed her.
"Honey, don't be rude. Excuse yourself."
"Sorry! Excuse me! Ma' there is another one coming!" Tyson stared down the hall and soon Killian came into view.

Killian walked straight toward the women. "Ladies..." Killian said calmly. Immediately he hugged Lena and handed her the flowers.
"May I...?" Lena nodded and had Tyson lead him off to Cadie's room.
"He has been a big help to her. Helping her through the mess prior to this one. I know he looks...dangerous. He can be trusted though." Lena rubbed her hands together. She was feeling chilled in that damn hospital.

She nodded her head at Lena's sweet tooth comment about Tyson. That was certainly the age when they were mostly sweet. Then listened as the woman ranted about the obscenity against her oldest child. Di sighed, taking the picture back from the woman and putting it in her bag. She had already known that was a long shot. But the two collefe kids would be good to check out herself."Don't be sorry, its a horrible picture. Just thought I'd try. Nothing has been logged into evidence, so sadly I think you're right that most aren't going to look into this, or it'll be handled outside the law." And then came Tyson running in with a half eaten candy bar stating another one was coming. Di looked at the boy confused. What did he mean? Another fed? Another cop? Another doctor? Her eyes followed the direction he was looking, and saw none but Killian walking down the hall towards them. Di stayed quite, just a nod of greeting as the man spoke to Lena. Green eyes watched the boy lead Killian to Cadie's room as Lena sang his praises.

Diana shook her head before looking back to the older brunette, "I'm glad you all have some help from that side. I'll do what I can to bring those men that did this to justice. I agree with you she didn't deserve it. Why don't you take your boy home. Get some rest. I'll talk with the hospital staff and make sure there's a list of visitors made and confirmed of who can see her." Di didn't know Killian's relationship with Cadie, but the girl did need help. Perhaps he would stay a while to let Lena get some rest even. Diana would certainly create that visitors list; stay if she had to be the one to enforce it. But she did also want to find these men before someone else created just more bodies out of them.

"I'm up for food always." Lincoln replied cheerily. He and his twin had always had huge appetites. The ongoing joke was they had twin tapeworms. Now that Lincoln was the only remaining twin he didn't go out to eat as much. No fun going to all you can eat wings or tacos alone. Same went for the buffets.
"So where are we going? Anywhere specifically you want to try?" He took off his hat and tried another one on as he spoke on the phone.

Lena nodded her head. "Yes, we were actually heading out. Tyson needs to start getting ready for bed. Goodnight." Lena said and Tyson walked out just in time.
"Goodnight, and thank you!" He called as he returned to his candy bar. He gave a little wave as his Mother lead him away. They joined Archie and headed out of the hospital. Lena headed to her car. Archie to his, and Tyson climbed right in.
"Hey! Ty! How did you get in?" Lena asked as she approached the car. Ty shrugged.
"It was unlocked."
"Get out the car!" She hurried over and snatched Tyson's arm and yanked him from the car.
"Ow! Mom!" Lena walked around the car and opened the back door. Nothing in there. She opened the hatch back and immediately slammed it shut. Several large dead rats had been placed in there.
"Ew! Ew!" She pulled Tyson away with her. She would go alert Agent Peck. She wasn't sure if this was connected to Cadie or not, but if so maybe she could get some information to help her investigation.

She hurried back into the hospital and through it. She kept her son close to her. He complained and whined about being tired and his arm hurting but she ignored him. Now wasn't the time to indulge him. For all she knew the person who had broke into her car was still around.

"Good Night." Diana replied with a smile. When the other woman turned away to collect her son, the brunette walked over to the nurse's desk in the area that Cadie was being held, creating her request. She made sure Lena and Tyson of course were on the list, as well as Orion and Killian. Di left Ben off, and really wasn't sure who else to add, so it was left at that. As she was turning to go, she frowned seeing Lena rushing back in directly walking in her direction with Tyson complaining but held to the other woman's side. Something must have happened. Lena's face was written all with some type of disturbance.Di closed the distance between them,
"What happened?" She asked quickly. No need to waste time.

Lyn nodded as she took some clothes out of the closet and laid them on the bed. "Taco's sound great. And I'm sure if he's with us, he'll have his own; your's will be safe." She replied to her cousin with a laugh. As he mentioned he wanted to just meet at the house. Lyn hesitated a little. Sure they had everything cleaned for the most part, window would be taken care of within the next hour. So... "Uhh... yea sure we can get together here. I'll see you at 1 Lincoln."With plans made, Lyn said her good-byes and hung up the phone. Hadn't she gotten ground beef last night? Lyn walked out of the bedroom and into the kitchen to make sure she didn't have to stop at the store to grab anything. As she did so she called to Lucky, "So Lincoln's gonna stop by at 1 for lunch. Just FYI." Satisfied that she had everything in the kitchen she would need, Lyn called in the dogs before walking down the hall again back to the bedroom to shower. As she did she called to Lucky, "The insurance guy for the window should be by soon. I'm just gonna shower. Can you let him in if he comes?" With that said and done, Lyn walked into the bathroom attached to the master bedroom. She turned on the water and some music on her phone, before walking back into the bedroom to undress. Moving back into the bathroom singing along with the music from her phone, Lyn stepped under the warm water.

When Lyn stepped out of the warm water and wrapped herself in a towel after drying off, she quickly combed her red locks and tied them up in a bun. Her fingers turned down the volume on her phone now that she was out of the shower, and then she rubbed cocoa butter over her form before stepping back into the bedroom to change. With her stomach bump growing larger, pants were starting to get too tight to be comfortable even standing and many of her shirts were beginning to stretch. A sigh left her lips, guess that meant she'd actually have to go get some new clothes before this whole things was over.

Walking out of the bedroom, she saw that the insurance guy indeed had come and was taking care of the window. Once he was done, Lyn pack Zeke into the car and drove to the clinic. She was there for less than an hour for the surgery, and by the end she had a ballless Zeke in the back of the car still passed out. It was lucky she had Lucky today. Since he could help carry the 50 pound dead weight of the pup. Once back at the house and with Zeke settled on his dog bed, Stasha sniffing him before following Lyn into the Kitchen where she started to get the taco ingredients ready.

Diana walked past the woman and child, calling over her shoulder,"Stay here. I'll check it out. Which car?" After Lena's reply, Diana went straight into the parking lot, finding the car quickly. Her green eyes looked it over as she walked around the car, looking for new scraps or flat tires. There was none of that. Next Diana stepped in and opened the trunk, letting the stench of death roll over her. Covering her nose,she looked at the mess disgusted. Closing the trunk again, Di quickly went to her car, got some gloves and a bag, then started cleaning the rats out of Lena's trunk. Some were full bodies, some were headless, some had entrails pooling out of their bodies. Tying off the bag, Di set it on the ground as she check the front of the car for anything. She would take the rats in, see if any prints could be lifted off them. Leaving Lena's car, she dropped the bag at her own, then went back into the hospital.

To Lena she said, "It's cleaned up, I'm going to look into it immediately. Call if anything else happens." Di would certainly be paying Ben a visit. But while there was a man in Cadie's room that could possibly be attached to it. Di was going to start there. Because she didn't believe in coincidence either. Strolling into Cadie's hospital room she closed the door behind her and stared at Killian accusingly,"Do you have anything to do with the rats in Lena's car?"