This fic is a sequel to Privilege. Therefore, I suggest you read that first. If you really don't want to, below is a summary of what happened in Privilege. It will give you the major stuff. You just may miss some of the allusions, which to some is not that big a deal.
WARNING. IF YOU PLAN ON READING PRIV FIRST, DO NOT READ THE FOLLOWING.
Prologue:
While Martin tries to work up the courage to ask Sam out, the team investgates the disappearance of 14-year-old Carolynn Casper. Carolynn works as a model for Live Now! magazine. From her manager, they learn that she often has irrational mood swings. Video surveillance near Carolynn's home shows she and her best friend Cai having an argument, after which Cai flees and Carolynn begins to place a call in a neaby phonebooth, but hangs up. After she leaves, Cai returns and makes a call of her own. The team discovers that Cai was calling a psychiatrist, but because the psychiatrist, Nancy Dawson, cannot reveal what her clients say to her, the call is a dead end. Carolynn's call, however, yields more interesting results: she almost called a local priest, Channel Garver, who went missing later that same day. Danny and Viv go to check it out. Sam stays at the office doing research, where she receives an anonymous boquet of flowers.
Upon arrival at St. Anthony's church, Danny and Viv learn from another priest that Garver had been worried that day about a confession someone made to him. Carolynn's jacket is found in the confessional. Meanwhile, Sam discovers that Cai is pregnant with the child of Carolynn's boyfriend, Zar, which is what the argument was about. Sam and Danny deduce that Carolynn has gone somewhere to kill herself, that she confessed she was going to to Garver, and that he followed her to stop her himself rather than break silence about the confession.
In the mean time, Sam receives more flowers, this time accompanied by a threatening note. It doesn't bother her too much, but she tells Martin about it. Later, when she expresses her fear that Carolynn is already dead, Martin kisses her on impulse. When they leave that night, they discover that Sam's car has been smashed and graffitied, and there is a single red rose lying on the driver's seat. Though worried, Sam keeps up her "tough girl" attitude and refuses to spend the night at Martin's appartment, so he goes to her appartment to keep her company until she's calmed down.
The next morning, Danny discovers that Carolynn had a brother who O.D.ed years ago, that Cai's mother and Carolynn's father were having an affair back then, and that Dylan O.D.ed in the back shed of a restaurant. Jack, Viv, and Danny go to the shed and find it empty, but realize that Carolynn was recently there.
While there, Jack receives a call from Martin saying that he and Sam were run off the road by a masked man who called Sam a slut. Sam's ankle is broken, but luckily they were near her apartment, which is where they are now. Viv convinces Jack that Martin can take care of Sam, and that Jack needs to focus on finding Carolynn.
Jack, Viv, and Danny deduce that Caolynn went to steal pills from Nancy Dawson's office, in order to kill herself the way Dylan did. At Dawson's office, they find Garver, but learn that Carolynn is already heading back to the shed.
At Sam's apartment, Martin and Sam find another threatening note from her stalker resting on her coffee table. Marin calls an ambulance for Sam's ankle. A paramedic enters, lurs Martin out of the room, and locks the door. Sam realizes that he is in fact her stalker, not a paramedic, and that he is Richard, a man she only ever met once, back at the Live Now! office.
Danny finds Carolynn back in the shed. When she realizes she's been discovered, she decides not to wait for the medication to take effect. Instead, she turns her father's gun on herself. Danny manages to smack it out of her hand, and holds her as she whispers that she's pregnant too, also by Zar, and cries.
Richard attempts to rape Samantha, but she fights him off. Martin forces his way back into the room to help. Finally Richard is bent over on the ground, breathing hard. Sam picks up her gun and shoots him.
Sam, Martin, and Carolynn are rushed to the hospital. Martin finally asks Sam out. They all make it, but will Carolynn's baby survive the effects of the medication? Will Cai's baby live?
Does Richard?