"Lockwood! You've got a package."

His eyes came from the paper work he was doing and instantly went to the brown box covered in gift paper. Reese frowned in confusion but took the box his colleague handed to him.

He shook it, trying to decipher what was inside. In his line of work, he had to be wary of everything he got.

His eyes were attracted to the blue paper stuck in the middle of the box. 'Hope this helps you Agent Lockwood.' The handwriting was perfect, elegant and refined. Looking around the box, he noticed there was no name or return address, sighing he looked at Arden "when did this arrive?"

"A few minutes ago."

Nodding Reese tore the gift paper and opened the box. Inside there was a video camera.

"A camera?" Remi voiced confused.

"Does it have a memory chip Lockwood?" the captain questioned.

Checking quickly Reese confirmed the cap's questions, "yes."

"Remi."

"On it boss." Remi nodded curtly as she snatched the camera from Reese and flew from the room with the rest of the team trailing behind her. Remi marched up to the I.T room on the floor her team worked on. As she spotted the blonde hair tech guy she grinned.

"Hey Benny" she called.

Ben tensed at the sound of Remi's voice then turned around with a grin of his own on his pretty face.

"Remi, always a treat to see you darlin'" his southern accent clear as he spoke.

"Likewise Benny, I've got something that I want you to look into" Remi said while waving the video camera in her left hand.

"Anything for you."

As soon as Ben took the video camera, he went to work on it. The team only had to wait a few minutes before he had every file on it pulled up on the large projected screen.

"Click on the most recent one" Reese ordered.

The video soon played, although it had noise in it the team and Benny could still see and hear everything clearly.

On the screen was the Sterling family, when Nicholas Sterling was still in the family.

"Mom, dad, we want to wish you guys a wonderful 22nd anniversary. We hope that you will continue to show us and the rest of the world what love looks like, we are very grateful for all that you've done for us." A fifteen year old Vivienne said as she smiled at her parents.

"That's absolutely right, because without you, we wouldn't be here" ten year old Levi grinned cheekily as the guests laughed.

"To mom and dad" Simeon raised his glass, signaling for the rest of the guests to do so as they toasted to his parents.

"What's that in the corner of the screen? It looks like something's moving" Arden noted.

Ben had seen it too "there's someone sharing the frame here."

"Who?" David asked.

"A ghost."

"Come again?"

"The tape's been used before, and it's been recorded over. The camera however didn't fully erase the original data." Ben explained.

"Can you pull it up?" Reese questioned.

"Gimme a sec."

Ben eliminated was currently on the screen and another video began to show. "It's Christmas" Arden smiled, Christmas happened to be his favorite holiday.

"Can you sharpen it Benny?" Remi asked, she was annoyed with how video was all blurry and missing some pixels. After a moment, the video became clearer and they were even blessed with the sound.

Vivienne reached for a piece of bread and bit a tiny piece. "What was that?" Marian snapped as she stalked over to Vivienne glaring down at her.

The young girl turned to her mother, "what was what?" she was confused, she had no idea what she did.

"You just reached for food with your filthy little hands, have I taught you nothing? Where are your table manners Vivienne?!" her voice rose scaring the girl.

"Marian, there's no need for-"

"Shut up" Marian spat silencing her husband, turning back to her daughter she yanked Vivienne from her seat "and you come here, you want to act like an animal? I will treat you like one."

"Mom! Wait...I'm sorry" the girl cried helplessly.

Her cries fell on deaf ears as her mother put a hand on her head and forcefully shove her to the floor "get down on your knees!" she hissed.

"Oh my god" Arden whispered as he and the other's watched the insanity.

"Is that a dog bowl?" Remi asked in disbelief.

With every passing second Reese felt anger rise inside of him, his fists and jaw were clenched tightly as he tried hard to contain his fury. He watched as Marian Sterling forced her daughter to eat from a bowl like an animal while the rest of the family stood around doing nothing.

"That poor girl" Ben shook his head.

"How could someone do that to their child? Their own flesh and blood?" Arden voiced his thoughts aloud. He was starting to see how naïve he'd been with the job, he realized his captain's words when he was talking to him a while back about people having different faces for different occasions.

"Wait, look at this" Ben caught the attention of everyone as he played another video.

"Mother and angel should be home by now" Simeon noted.

"Do you think angel will like what I bought?" three year old Levi asked as he grinned, up at Simeon.

"Of course buddy, she loves anything you give her."

"Who the hell is angel?" Reese frowned.

"Alright guys, you know when you step into the house what happens" Nicholas reminded his children.

"Yes daddy, we remember" Vivienne said softly.

"It's not like we can forget" Simeon grumbled as they entered the house. They went straight into the living area; they were greeted by the sight of Marian holding an unconscious little girl that looked about the same age as Levi.

The children gasped alerting Marian of their presence, "Call an ambulance! Right now!" she barked.

Simeon had ran out of the room to find the telephone, Nicholas had dropped the camera and shopping bags on the table and ran up to his wife and child. He grabbed the little girl from Marian's arms and lightly tapped her face, "Angelica, sweetheart? It's daddy... what happened Marian?" he asked in panic.

Marian was hysterical, she couldn't form words, she was all but sobbing on the carpet while pleading for the child to open her eyes.

"What did you do?" Vivienne whispered.

Marian gasped as she heard her daughter's question, during that time Simeon came back in and ran over to his father and sister. The thirteen year old glared daggers at his mother.

"You did this" he hissed "I know you did, what have you done to angelica you monster?!" he screamed now.

"Please...let me..." Marian cried.

"No!" Simeon screamed pushing the crying woman away.

Vivienne and Levi walked slowly over to them, both not sparing their mother a glance. Vivienne had tears streaming down her face.

Levi tugged on Vivienne's dress, tears running down his own chubby cheeks "what's wrong with angel?"

"Nick..."

"Stay away from us you damn monster, stay away from me and my children!" Nicholas Sterling bellowed at his wife.

The video immediately ended after that statement. The room was thick with tension of what they had just witnessed, no one missed the large bottle of bleach that sat on the coffee table, they all knew what had happened but one of them didn't want to believe it.

"She-did she give that little girl..." the question hung in the air. Did Marian Sterling kill a three year old little girl?

"Ben, I want to know who that child was and I want to know right now" David commanded.

Ben nodded silently and he pulled up a file on the Sterling family. "Her name is Angelica Sterling cap; she's the Sterling youngest child and is deceased as of April 13th 2001. Cause of death, the mother said she was doing laundry and forgot a basket upstairs, she left out the bleach and when she got back it was uncover and the little girl was unconscious."

Remi scoffed "sure, she just conveniently left it out, what a load of bullshit, that woman's sick in the head no amount of therapy could help her."

"She's a monster" Arden whispered as his body vibrated out of anger. He couldn't imagine his fiancée doing that to their two year old daughter; he'd probably end up in prison.

Every agent in the room agreed with him. Marian Sterling was truly a monster.

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So...what did you think? Marian's a piece of work isn't she? Question for you readers: Hypothetically, if you had the chance to come face to face with this woman, what would you all do to Marian Sterling? I'm eager to know.

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