Year by year

Chapter 1

Italics=thoughts underline=flashback

Do you know how much can change in a year? Well, I didn't either but somehow my entire life was flipped upside down in just the short course of a year. "Hey, Eliza. Earth to Eliza.." "What? Yeah, sorry I guess I just zoned out a bit." I admit
"Well, zone back in you have a new case to work on."
"Oh ok, sorry Agent Sterling," I say timidly
"Ok so to start you off we have a couple of cold cases that should be pretty easy for you with your ability." She informs
"What ability? I was never told why being pretty good at recognizing what happened to someone and being kind of good at numbers is good/helpful. Much less has to do with anything!!!!" I exclaim.

Agent Sterling just sighs and rolls her eyes but before she could respond Liv, Michael, and Sloane all walk into the kitchen. "Causing trouble like always Eliza?" Liv jokes.
"N-no well not unless asking an innocent question that I NEVER get an answer for is 'causing trouble'. And BY THE WAY, I never caused any trouble. Besides it was creepy weird dude's fault for scaring me." I retort back.
"What 'creepy weird dude'? Oh, do you mean Briggs?"
"I don't know who the frick that is!!!!" I exclaim

"Ok now let's get back to work. So now these are victims-" Agent Sterling starts as she lays pictures out in front of me. I then turned my attention to the pictures and instantly recognized what kinds of killers we were dealing with, a couple of other random variables, and one of the victims in the picture. "Oh my gosh, I KNOW HER!!!!!" I exclaim as I pick up the picture with my friend and start to hyperventilate
"This is my friend Serafina!!!!" They all then crowd around me to look at the picture I'm holding.
"Wait, what?!?" Agent Sterling says as she comes over to look at the picture. She then takes the picture away from me
"Oh sorry, this is from....something else. Now, what can you tell me about these pictures spread out in front of you." She mumbles and quickly changes the subject.

"Oh right sorry. Um....for this girl these wounds up by her head were caused by something like....." I trail off as I look at all of the pictures of the scene then I notice that only one of these objects could have caused such injuries with only blunt force. "The huge lacerations on her head were caused by the shattered pieces of this pot and my guess is that she put up a fight so as a punishment, the UNSUB threw her into the pot. Which as a result caused injuries to her head but that wasn't what killed her. These wounds here are distinctly different than the others and I'm guessing that they are from a knife which is what killed her." I explain while brushing a lock of my a little bit longer than shoulder length light brown hair behind my ear.
"Before or after the blow to the head?" Agent Sterling asked.
"After."
"HOW?!?" Michael asks as Dean, Cassie, and Lia walk into the kitchen.
"Huh? How what?" I question as I tear myself away from the pictures.   
"How can you figure that out so quickly?!?" He explains.
"Oh...um that's easy. Look at the bruising around the wounds. See how there is none here?"
"Yeah?"
"That means that it was all done postmortem (after death) whereas this one here has a lot of bruising around it so it was obviously done antemortem (before death)." I answer.
"Oh that makes a lot of sense. How did you get to be so good at recognizing all of that?" Cassie asks
"Oh, my mom is a nurse." I say as I quickly try to change the subject, "So......what are all of you guys doing today?"

As I said that I sit upon the counter I was leaning up against. "Oh don't worry about them they are checking something out with me." The creepy weird dude said as he walked in.
"Am I going with everyone else or....." Liv asks
"Yeah, because you have completed your training. Whereas you, Elizabeth, haven't completed your training yet." Agent Briggs answers while looking straight at me.
"Oh, okay sorry Eliza," Liv says sympathetically.
"Oh no it's fine I'm used to things like this happening." I admit not really noticing the sudden eerie silence that has fallen until a few minutes later.
"Oh sorry, I didn't mean to make things so awkward. But um...don't you guys have a case or something?" I say hoping that they would leave so that I could be alone.
"Oh yeah well we will all be back as soon as we can. Now everyone GET IN THE CAR!!!!!!" Agent Briggs yells, causing me to look down and focus  on my hands, as everyone goes out and gets in the car, except for Agent Sterling.

"Um.....aren't you going to go?" I ask Agent Sterling. She then responds with "But someone needs to train you." Of course, she stays behind it's like she knew that I wanted to be alone and purposely stays behind for me.
"Okay great so what are we going to do next?" I hesitantly ask as I pulled my right knee up to my chest.
"Well how about we finish what we were doing before and you get off of the counter." Agent Sterling states.
"Um....how about no and I already finished that assignment a while ago," I tell her.
"Wow ok so then...why don't we get to know each other better then because I really didn't think that you would finish that assignment so quickly." Agent Sterling admits.
"Uh sure, what would you want to know about me?" I ask.
"Well, everything that you are comfortable with sharing."
"Oh...um okay well uh my life has never been really easy and uh I LOVE to read. Tell me something about you." I admit.
"I also LOVE to read...." Agent Sterling says