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Chapter 1:

Emily walked into her dad's room on a late Wednesday night, she was uncertain about disturbing his deep sleep since he hasn't gotten much in the last three days that she's been there. She seriously debated whether it was that important or if should wait till' the following morning. She decided to wait. As she was tiptoeing out Cals' cell phone rang. Her dad, being a light sleeper, jumped out of the bad and sprang for the phone on the nightstand beside the bed. He answered with haste,

"What do you want?!"

"Uhh…"

Cal knew the voice all too well, "Loker, Tell me what you want, and it better be good cause you woke me up!" Cal heard multiple voices then and he recognized the two other women with Loker it was Torres and Foster. Before he said another word the phone went from Loker to Foster.

"Cal you need to get over hear fast"

"Why?! I was having a great dream"

"Haha your soooo funny, Cal seriously we've got a big case to deal with Agent Reynolds just brought it to our attention, turn the T.V on Cal, see for yourself."

Cal reached for the remote with ease and flipped to the local news channel.

"Breaking News is coming in right now, we go now to Maria who has just arrived at the scene."

"Yes, we're here and we are just getting word of a shooting inside of a gas station. The police have just recently released a report saying that this man has been on the run from them for the last 17 hours, and he is wanted for killing a family of seven in their sleep. We do not know the supposed motive for the suspect but he has been identified as Jack Reed. He is currently holding seven people hostage and says he will only speak to The Lightman Group. We have found out that the Lightman group is a company that helps the FBI solve cases by telling when people lie and why they do it .."

While all of this was unfolding Cal was rapidly throwing on his pants and buttoning up his light blue shirt, throwing on a jacket, putting his socks and shoes on, and fastening his belt.

"Foster, tell Ben I'll be at the office in ten minutes tops." he hung up the phone not waiting for her response.

He was so busy getting ready he didn't even notice Emily standing in his doorway with a look of shock on her face. At this point Cal cursed Zoë for having to take an 'emergency trip' all the way to California.

"Dad, I'm so coming with you"

"Ugh fine, it's not like I had a choice in the matter anyway. Hurry up, go get dressed we leave in two minutes Em."


Approximately 10 minutes later Cal was impatiently waiting for that elevator that seemed to know he was already behind on his schedule. After about 2 minutes of cursing to himself and pacing like a caged lion he bolted towards the door to the staircase. Em, who was lost in sudden exhaustion that had come upon her, looked after her dad with a "uhh no way" look and he didn't even look back, but instead yelled over his shoulder something about doing what she pleased, just not anything stupid and childish.

Eli Loker and Ria Torres were digging up more needed information on their new man, Jack Reed, Agent Ben Reynolds was talking to his superiors, Cal was focused on the screen in front of him, Gillian was focused on Cal and his masked face. She always wondered why he always shut her out…

"Foster… OI, FOSTER!"

"Hmm… what?"

"Jeez are you really THAT tired, I mean I asked you three times and you still didn't hear me?"

Gillian blushed, but immediately hid her face from him by giving her full attention to the screen. She was trying desperately not to give anything away in her facial expressions.

"Oh, sorry just lost in thought for a minute… it looks like he's kinda worried about something."

" I don't care about his bloody face… I mean I do but… I asked you if you had seen where Em was."

"No… Cal, you brought Em here?"

He was about to say something but was caught short of breath by a slap in the back. Who other than Jack Radar. Gillian saw Cals' jaw flex and his hands in his pockets tighten into balled fists. She didn't want him blowing a gasket in his own place of business…

"Cal, can I talk to you in private for a minute please?"

"Sure luv." Cal was reluctant that Gillian had saved him from planting a right hook right in Radars' face.

"Gill… been way too long, did you like the flowers? I'm so sorry I had to leave on such a short notice, but business called and I just had to answer."

Cal was so disgusted by his comment, and Jack had the nerve to step right in front of him blocking his view from Gillian. Oh, how he wanted to kill him right there. Gillian obviously saw Cal right before Jack stepped in front if him, she had to act now.

"It's fine Jack, I really need to talk to Cal in private though, so if you excuse me…"

Cal was literally being dragged out of the conference room by Gillian, while Jack stood there with a blank expression.