“I am sure Eric wants a news conference with you,” Len replied.“Oh joy. There should be plenty of time for that before I leave,” I replied.Jus... then the guards at the East entrance requested a supervisor, “The mayor is here demanding unlimited access.”“I’m on my way,” I replied as Len, Sherman and I walked that way.When we got to the stopped vehicles at the gate a very angry mayor got in my face.“I’m the Mayor and I demand access to the grounds.”“The grounds have not been deemed safe yet; we. ‘Ashley, are you planning to come over early tomorrow to visit, or will you be coming later in the afternoon with your parents?’ Ashley, who? My parents? With Sunny, Louis, Jeff, Sandy, Harri and Sam? I sat there in stunned silence. ‘Ashley, are you okay?’ asked Harri. I turned to Jeff. He had that same stupefied look on his face. Good. It wasn’t just me. I turned back to Sunny, shaking my head slowly and said, ‘Nobody said anything. I didn’t know.’ I probably could have answered the question. Melanie Rogers was the current DCU chief. A biologist herself, she had worked for the FBI for eighteen years and, had anyone asked her, would have said she’d seen it all. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) analysis is routinely used to link criminals to crime scenes and provide identification information that is even more exclusive than fingerprints. In one of the thousands of cases her unit was responsible for, a large number of blood samples had been submitted to the lab which had been collected at. ‘What are you doing?’ I asked.‘Sorry,’ She replied. ‘We’ve been told to discharge your girlfriend.’‘What?’ I shouted.‘I’m sorry. I thought you knew.’ She continued, looking visibly upset. ‘Finance told us last night that as you could no longer afford her care then Rachel was to be discharged this morning. The Doctor argued with them but they wouldn’t budge.’‘But, we don’t know what we’re doing, I don’t know how to care for her or what she needs. We don’t know if she has any brain damage, she.