It was 7 o clock on an early Sunday morning when Gabriel received a call from Lillian

"Gabriel, we got…..a problem."

"What is it?" a tired Gabriel mumbled as he tried his best to stay awake lying on his warm bed

"A woman was …murdered."

This wasn't the first time Gabriel has heard about murders and all, it was no biggy for him. It was almost "normal".

"Yeah, okay, so? Someone died, so what? Millions of people are dying right now, actually, an hour ago, 6 people had just died in Virginia" Gabriel taunted. He just wanted Lillian to hang up, he needed his beauty sleep, especially on a Sunday.

"Victim is Bonnie Neal, a surgeon, she was found dead in her house tied to a chair and examiners say she'd been tortured for several hours. A video also went viral of her getting beaten."

Bonnie Neal, suddenly Gabriel felt wide awake. That name sounded familiar, way too familiar. The next thing he found himself doing was snooping around in her personal file.

Bonnie Neal, born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She moved to Washington when she got married to Nathan Neal, a chemist working at the white house. They had two kids together, a girl and a boy.

Their names, I need to find their names Gabriel thought.

Gabriel dug deeper into her file. Finally, he found it and his heart skipped a beat when he saw a family pic. Their names were Riley and Michael Neal.

"GABRIEL! You with me?"

Gabriel snapped back to reality.

"Yeah….I'm here."

"You weren't talking for the last few minutes. What were you doing?"

"I was….in her personal file."

"You should have asked me, we already have all the information on her, born in Victoria, British Columbia, She moved to Washington in the year-"

Before Lillian could say another word Gabriel cut in.

"Yes Lillian for gad sakes, I know!"

"Well do you also know-"

"She's Riley's mother?"

"Yes."

"Yes, I know."

"Riley could be in danger."

"Well right now we have no idea why her mother was killed, we can't come to a conclusion too fast. She's a surgeon right? Who knows, there are a lot of crazy patients these days. If the surgery goes wrong, it could traumatize the entire family . Riley could be totally irrelevant. "

"Should we at least tell her?"

"No, Riley had a tough week, we shouldn't make it even worse. We tell her when everything is solved. How and why she died."

"Hold on I'm coming over right now." Gabriel jumped out of bed and reached for his shirt.

Gabriel walked into his kitchen and straight to his window. He saw Riley's pouch, but her blinds were down. He wanted so badly to go over to knock on her door to check if she was okay but he also knew Lillian was right, Riley had a tough week and she deserves some rest.

When Gabriel got to cybercom, the whole team was already there, well, except Riley of course.

"I never knew you worked on Sundays." Gabriel smirked at Nelson.

"Please, Lillian dragged me here."

"Gentlemen, I need you to focus. Just 5 hours ago, a video went viral of a woman getting beaten, 3 hours ago, she was found dead at her house. No fingerprints, no weapons were found on the premises. It was clean except for the victim's own blood. "

"Looks like professional killers." Gabriel watched as the disturbing video streamed.

"I'm going to cyber render this video."

Before Lillian could stop him Gabriel had already zoned out.

Gabriel entered the vid. He saw Bonnie Neal on a chair. Hands tied onto the armrest. She had a lot of broken glass behind her, Gabriel kneed down to get a better look at it. He saw a reflection. He was trying to make out the faces of the intruders. When he got the faces, he looked over his shoulders before walking over to the figures. There were 5 men, Gabriel saw that all of them had a similar tattoo on their arms. The tattoo looked familiar to Gabriel, he remember seeing it when he was on an undercover job 10 years ago where he was posing as an associate, trading goods with Cosa Nostra one of the dangerous mafia groups in the USA before leading them into a deadly trap and blowing them all up and nearly dying himself

Drugs, mafia That's it! Gabriel thought. He did face recognition on the men and sure enough, all of them were part of that mafia group.

"Cosa Nostra is part of this murder."

"What! Gabriel! Do you know what the Cosa Nostra is? It's one of the most dangerous Mafia groups around! What would that poor woman be doing with that mob?"

Gabriel shrugged,

"That's what I saw in my render."

Lillian continued,

"Victim is 53 years old Bonnie Neal, and now, we just found out she's Riley's mother, Bonnie also had a son named Michael, Gabriel, what can you tell us about him?"

Gabriel chip automatically starting searching for a guy named Michael Neal.

"He's 6 years younger that Riley, 24 right now. Bonnie gave him up for adoption when he was nine. That's the same year Riley shot Bonnie's boyfriend."

"Riley must've been 15, probably too old for adoption." Jameson added

Gabriel carried on.

"When Michael was taken into foster care, he was reported to have run away several times. He joined the military when he was 18. He did 7 successful tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. I see lots of hospital records, looks like he was shot several times. He resides in Washington at the moment."

"There's nothing suspicious about him." Lillian said in disbelief.

"Wait, he brought a plane ticket from Washington to Virginia just last week, it was scheduled to land last night. He's here."

"Well I suppose we know where to start." Lillian stated. "

"Wait" someone called out.

Gabriel looked over, it was Riley. How long had she'd been there? Did she hear everything?

"Riley what –"

"I'm very clear of what is going on right now Gabriel. And I want every single one of you out of this. This just got personal, and I don't want anyone of you be part of this."

For Riley, the last 2 days had been very different than what everyone saw on the outside.