Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters of Crossing Jordan.

Summary: Jordan and three high profile bodies are suddenly missing while she was bringing them in to the morgue. Soon, they'll discover Woody is also missing, and their morgue friends start their frantic search. AU set after DOA and a sequel to 'Twelve Hours of Rush'.

Previously, on 'Twelve Hours of Rush'.-Jordan and Woody had been abducted by Mr. Green and his team. Woody had been injected with a drug that left him not only unconscious, but also appearing as though he were dead. Jordan had helped the mysterious Mr. Green and his crew to make a staged murder scene completely believable because she had been threatened with Woody's life. Although it all seemed to be work of criminals, soon Jordan and Woody discovered it was a rescue mission. Mr. Green was helping Helen, Debra, and Helen's children to escape from the clutches of a heartless, powerful man to whom Helen was married, Senator Bloom. He had been abusing his family, sexually and physically. In order to help them without implicating themselves as accomplices, Jordan and Woody let Mr. Green took them away to a remote, secluded location outside of Boston, with no cell phones or any other way to contact the outside world, with the promise that their friends and co-workers would be notified of their whereabouts after his people were safely away.

Acknowledgments. - To moviemom44. She's a wonderful beta reader, I do recommend her.

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Story:

Waiting for help to arrive.

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Chapter one. Kidnapped.

When the elevator's doors opened, Emmy was waiting for him. Her expression couldn't have been more anxious. She was squeezing a folder against her chest with her folded arms. Dr. Macy observed, worriedly, the disturbance that was taking place all around him as he exited the elevator. The usual coming and going of people in a regular morning work in the morgue had been interrupted. Some elusive members of the press had escaped from the fence that police had put around the building.

Spotlights, microphones and people gathered around him in the very moment Emmy greeted him with a desperate, "Dr. Macy!"

Detective Chandler was just behind Emmy, and a group of uniformed police officers started to disperse the journalists, while Chandler rescued the Chief Coroner, pulling him toward the crystal doors which led to the morgue's corridor.

They stalked toward Macy's office, with Emmy right on their heels.

"Dr. Macy… Dr. C. doesn't answer her cell or her phone at home! I couldn't contact Detective Hoyt either...Dr. M..." she struggled to say between faltering steps while she ran after them.

"I've already sent someone to check out Dr. Cavanaugh's apartment. But I have to be straight with you, Dr. Macy. I'm afraid she's been kidnapped." Detective Chandler closed the door behind them just a second before he expressed his suspicions.

"What?!?" A disturbed Chief M.E blurted out. Garret drew his attention to Emmy. She was staring at him apprehensively, standing very still beside the door. "You keep trying to contact Detective Hoyt, and call Nigel. Tell them we need them ASAP."

The minute he named the criminologist, Emmy's features transformed from extremely worried to downright horrified. Words came out of her like a string of trampled sounds, and at light speed she told him what she knew about the lanky British. "He's also missing, Dr. M. He and Doctor Switzer went to attend a call we received from Sheraton East Hartford. They were requested specifically. But they haven't returned yet, and it was ten hours ago, Dr. M… I called the police dispatch to ask for instructions, if we had to send them a van. But they told me they had no report of a crime scene anywhere near where Dr. Townsend and Dr. Switzer were sent. I've tried their cells, but they still haven't answered." She ended her report at the edge of collapse, taking swift breaths to recover oxygen.

Garret and Chandler stared at her, making an extraordinary effort to distinguish the meaning of all the words the flustered young woman had hurled at them. When she finished, Garret massaged his temple with his left hand and uttered in restrained anger, "What the hell is going on here?"

"I don't know, Dr. Macy, but we have to figure it out fast, because we have a US Senator in custody, accused of murder, and no bodies as evidence." He paced the hallway and rubbed his chin in frustration as he continued, "I don't believe this is random. Somebody went through a lot of effort to make this mess so they could make the bodies disappear."

Garret almost yelled to Emmy, making her jump from the spot she had been standing as he said, "Find Detective Hoyt. Keep trying on Nigel and Kate, and tell Bug to come here right now!"

Emmy disappeared behind the office doors' in a second. When she was gone, Chandler proceeded to tell Garret everything that had happened over the previous hours. So the older man learned how they had found Senator's Bloom family murderer in their house, all by gunshot wound. How Chandler had met at the crime scene with Jordan and with a new detective named William Hoover, from Dorchester.

"I asked at the precinct about this Hoover, but nobody knew him." Chandler sighed, as he finally took a seat on the couch, letting all his weight fall down on it. "He's a fake." He shook his head. "I didn't notice. I should have had him checked out before leaving him at the crime scene. But Jordan seemed to know him, so…" He shook his head once more. "She must have been acting under some threat…"

The two men continued discussing the possibilities, including how the initial evidence pointed to Bloom as the perpetrator.

"We even have a witness that has confirmed he shot his family, and then, he accidentally got himself injured. The GSR they performed on him turned out to be positive, but without the bodies, I doubt that we'll be able to prosecute him. Someone on his staff could have planned to make those bodies disappear, but then that implies that they knew he was planning on killing them. None of this makes any sense at all," Chandler finished and then sat quietly, thinking.

Garret was sitting at his desk and observed the detective carefully. "The vans we use here have a tracking system, but this particular one has been shut off. It only confirms it was planned… I lent it to Jordan last night, and it was still functional," he recalled, warily.

They followed their speculations until, ten minutes later, Emmy returned with an upset Bug right behind her.

"I have news from Dr. Townsend!" she said, a little less worried than the last time she was there. "He called five minutes ago, he said that he and Dr. Switzer were fine and on their way back to Boston. They'll be here in an hour. But I haven't had any luck with Detective Hoyt, Dr. M. He isn't answering his cell, or his phone at home, and he hasn't showed up at work yet."

"Jordan left with Woody last night, Dr. M." Bug interrupted. Garret shared a troubled look with Chandler.

"The last I heard was that they were going to have dinner together at 'Bella Firenze'," Bug informed them, uneasily. "I was teasing her about the fancy restaurant, and if that was going to be an official date or something, you know?"

"So, do we have the surveillance recording tape from the morgue parking lot?" Chandler asked to the Chief Coroner. "It might tell us if they left together," he added as Macy nodded at him. The detective had already got on his feet and was walking toward the door. "Meanwhile, I'll check Hoyt's whereabouts at the precinct. And I'll send someone to check out his apartment too." When the detective delivered the last words, he departed.

"Emmy, bring me the tape," Macy ordered to the startled woman, and then he addressed Bug, "Could you search for a signal of either Jordan's or Woody's cells? They might not have been able to answer them, but they still could tell us where they are."

"Yes, Dr. Macy," answered Bug, and both, he and Emmy left Garret's office quickly

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For more than half an hour, Garret had been studying the tape, until he finally succeeded in finding the moment when Jordan and Woody climbed into the morgue van. He had established they left together the night before, and Chandler had just informed him that there wasn't any sign that either of them had actually arrived at their apartments. It didn't tell him if they had been kidnapped together, because they could have ended somewhere else to spend the night just before Jordan had been called to attend the crime scene investigation. However, this pair had been tip toeing each other for so long… His best guess was that whatever had happened to Jordan, Woody had had the same luck.

Garret was immersed in his reflections when an agitated Bug appeared.

"Dr. M. I found Woody's cell signal! It's near Exit 20B of the I-93 tunnel." Bug hollered, excitedly.

Garret flew out of his chair and grabbed his jacket. "Let's go!"

They managed to escape from reporters outside the morgue's building, and traveled in Macy's car as fast as they could to where Bug had found the signal. It was a side street, just beside the highway. The street had a median with a flower garden and led into a big parking lot for a hardware store, which was pretty much the only building in sight. The morgue van was nowhere to be found.

They went into the store in search of Woody or Jordan. They ran frantically through the store's corridors, asking the employees if they had seen their friends, giving them Woody's general description and Jordan's as well, but they didn't find anything. No one had seen the couple they described. When they had finished their search, they talked about coming back, this time with pictures of Woody and Jordan, but with little hope of success.

As they were walking toward Macy's car, something drew Bug's attention to the ground, just beside the median.

"Look, Dr. Macy," he called out, rushing to whatever it was that he had seen.

Garret ran after him. "What is it, Bug?"

Bug had already taken something from the ground, almost hidden next to a plant on the sidewalk. "This must be Woody's cell!" He was inspecting the instrument, checking the information inside. "Yes, it is!" he confirmed.

Garret went to search for something more on the pavement, wondering if he could find an indication that Jordan had been with Woody at that place, when he found pieces of a cell phone on the street tarmac, surely destroyed by the tires of a car. "And this must be Jordan's," he uttered unhappily.

Bug approached him, observing the ground carefully. His intuition was telling him that they were just stepping on a crime scene, the place where Jordan and Woody had been abducted.

"There are tire tracks on the pavement, several marks that have to be fresh. And this!" 'Bug pointed to the pieces of a shattered headlight that were scattered on the ground. "This is it, Dr. Macy. I'm sure this is from the morgue van."

"We need to secure the zone and call for a CSU right now." Garret had already grabbed out his cell. "Jordan and Woody were kidnapped together, and I'm sure as hell that they threatened Jordan with Woody's life so she went to Bloom's house along with the faked detective to take the bodies away," he growled angrily.

Bug stared at his boss, with a worried expression, as he made the call.