Why do I keep on coming back here? This is the place where he left me eight years ago; just before I found out I was pregnant with his daughter. Every spare moment I got I came here at the moment my daughter is with my father, he promised me today would be different I've waited eight years for him to return and that my prayers may have finally come true. My hair was now at my hips, I'd been keeping it trimmed but never really cut, my clothing hadn't changed so here I stood in central park under the tree were we'd carved our name on our first date back in high school. My black trench coat covered my blouse and jeans. My hair done back in a bun. I had a fake smile planted on my face, I'd been here for almost eight hours now. But I wasn't about to give up.
Another hour passed and I got a call from dad saying he'd feed Delia and put her to bed and that the spare bedroom was waiting for me when I got home. I thanked him and started making my way towards my car on the other side of central park. Suddenly out of nowhere two men dressed in all black grabbed me and ran with me towards where I have no idea they'd covered my head with a black bag and taken me from central park, away from my life.
I woke in a dark room with one of my arms locked to a chain that was connected to a wall. I wasn't about to give up; I didn't know how long I'd been paast out or even where I was but I had to stay strong for my baby girl and my father. I knew I'd been out for a long time as my stomach sounded like a freight train rumbling past the building. I hoped they whoever they were would bring me some food sooner rather than later, I was starving. Sitting in the dark and thinking of my daughter I didn't hear the door open at all, so when I saw my two captors walk into my room I almost wacked them both until they put clorofoam under my nose knocking me out and taking me somewhere.
This time when I woke it was in a bigger room and I was stripped naked lying on the floor, my captors mumbled something in an ear piece and exited the room, only to return a couple of minutes later with a man who looked worn out and malnurished as if he had been here for a really long time. They dumped him on the floor and left the room. I ran to the body on the floor and turned him over, gasping I saw him, the love of my life for the first time in eight years I was so happy to see him as it had been so long since I had done so. I kissed his lips and then as he started stirring I remembered I was naked.
"Rick" I breathed covering myself in the best possible way I could.
"Kate?" he asked confused
"Richard its me" I told him smiling and touching his face as he opened his eyes and gazed at me
"Oh my god Katherine" he said sitting up and looking at me smiling and then shock as his eyes roamed over my body
"Kate I don't mean to be a prune but where are your clothes?" he asked
"I think our captors may have taken them" I said shrugging.
"Oh. I might find it a little hard to keep my hands off of you then as I haven't you know had sex in eight years" he told me with a glint of arousal in his eyes
"Rick neither have I" I confessed. With a small look down at his lower half then back up to his face I knew he wanted this as much as I did.
I felt so happy and content laying in Rick's arms. It was now two months after I'd been captured they'd drugged us a couple of days ago and taken us to a new location. Rick had asked me about my life and I'd told him about Delia and he now knows everything about our daughter. He can't wait to meet her; if we ever get out of here. It had been three weeks and I was getting smaller and smaller, weaker as I became starved. There was only two meals a day and enough for one of us at a time so Rick being the gentleman he always was tried to give me his share but I refused so he got the dinner meal and I got the breakfast one. As each day passed I wished that my team and brothers Javier Esposito and Kevan Ryan were still trying to find me and bring me back to my daughter. I missed her so much. By this time Rick and I had planned a way to escape, he was weaker than I was but I was getting pretty weak myself so we wanted to escape by the end of the week, by now we'd gathered enough weapons and ammunition to make our escape. Our captors let us out every day at different times for half an hour mainly for a shower and a little bit of a run, but when we started talking about a way to escape I'd found a stash of their ammo and slipped it into the two sizes too big clothes they made me wear and brought them back to our room.
Today was the day of our big escape the last thing we needed to grab was one of the guys cellphones and to do that we would have to shoot one of them and drag them back into the room whilst the other one was on their lunch break. They always left the building and went down the street for lunch. So just after the first gurad said farewell Rick and I walked up to the door knocked and then shot the guard down as he opened the door. There was no one else here now apart from us; grabbing his cellphone with Rick keeping guard I dialled Espo's number. When it went to voice mail I tried Ryan whose phone also went to voicemail. Sighing I tried Gates; she picked up on the second ring.
"Hello Captain Victoria Gates speaking"
"Captain its me; I need someone here immeadiately, there is another captor here who is very malnurished and he just happens to be my boyfriend who I thought had died eight years ago" I told her
"Kate oh thank god your alright, Espo and Ryan just got back I will get them to track your phone and get them there as soon as possible. Stay safe detective" she said hanging up.
It was three hours later when Espo and Ryan finally turned up and just as I was about to thank them for saving us when I felt my legs give way. I collapsed. I woke a couple of hours later laying in a hospital bed, the constant beeping of a heart monitor let me know that they were concerned for some reason.
"She's coming around" Rick said squeezing my hand lightly.
"Kate?" he asked
"Rick" I breathed opening my eyes and seeing not only Rick, but my father and Delia but outside the door there was also Espo, Lanie and Ryan.
"How do you feel?" he asked squeezing my hand.
"Tired and sore" I told him smiling weakily.
"That is to be expected for someone who has been malnourished for the last two months and for someone who is now eight weeks pregnant meaning that the first couple of days within your capture Kate you fell pregnant, now so far I can tell you that your baby is doing well given everything that has happened to you whilst you were held captive. But with a couple of weeks of eating properly and the right amount of medication both of you should be back to perfect health in a couple of weeks" the doctor who I hadn't noticed on the other side of my bed told me.
"Wow" Rick breathed squeezing my hand.
"I'll leave you to catch up with your friends and family and then I'll send the nurse in to give you a once over before you can sign the release forms" he said smiling at us.
"Thank you doctor" I smiled at him.
"I'll be outside I know that the others all want to talk to you, I'll be just outside if you need me" Rick said smiling warmly at me. Over the last two months I'd found out that Rick had had no choice but to leave me, he and Alexis wouldn't have lived if he hadn't gone with them. He knew well enough that our captor had planned everything from the beginging. I knew he'd had no choice so I'd forgiven him. After he'd been captured I saw Alexis at least twice a week, Martha, his mother had made sure of that especially once she found out about Delia being her grandchild, she was great and Alexis had always been a great big sister.
"We'll wait outside too" dad said leaning over and kissing my forehead as Delia kissed my check.
"Thank you" I whispered to the both of them.
"Katie. My god never ever do this to us again" Lanie scolded
"I fainted Lanie I didn't really have much of a choice. I'm two months pregnant, I've been malnourished and survivng on one meal a day whilst trying to feed two instead of just myself. I'm sorry for the scare but I don't really have much of a choice do I" I said a matter of factly.
"Right sorry. I didn't mean, I was so scared Katie your my best friend since primary school and I your pregnant with Rick's child again this is so cool" she said trying to explain herself.
"Its alright Lanie. I'm fine should be released in a couple of hours" I said happily, placing my hand over my small bump that I hadn't even noticed until now.
"I love it when you two freak out over each other. I missed you Kate, it hasn't been the same at work since you left and now it will be like normal again at least for a little while until you go on maternity leave" Ryan said happily
"I don't know how long I'll be in but it'll be at least another month depending on what Rick and I decide to do" I told them all to which they all smiled. They knew how much it hurt for him to have left me and now they more than likely knew the truth given that I had been out for a couple of hours.
"Its fine sweetie you need normality back in your life and I beat that Delia will be happy to meet her father properly and I'm sure Alexis will be over the moon about seeing her dad again. Speaking of which her and Martha went to Paris with Meredith; sort of a get your mind of your missing fiuartive mum and daughter and come spend some quality time with me, I need a reason to actually stay in Paris. However we phoned them for you and told them that both you and Rick were safe and Alexis screamed so much she couldn't even speak to Rick properly, it was a mix of that and the tears that were streaming down her face. Martha said that they would be catching the next flight out of Paris and see you in a couple of days. Meredith might be a little pissed but who are we to deny pissing of that bitch" Lanie said smugly. All I could do was laugh.
By the time dad left Rick and Delia had spoke for a good hour, my baby girl had meet her daddy and she knew the whole truth as to his absense. Rick had gone with my father and was staying the night with us at home. I wanted to talk to Delia and make sure she understood everything between her and her father and understand that she was going to be a big sister and also tell her that we were moving in with Alexis, Martha and Rick. She was sitting on my bed and playing with my fingers when I finally decided it was time for her to find out the full truth.
"Hae baby girl, come here" I said patting the part of the bed that meant she could sit right next to me and rest on my shoulder.
"Is something wrong mummy?" she asked
"You are such a sweet smart girl. I just want you to understand everything, and I know that you will probaby be feeling very overwhemed with everything at the moment and it will take some time for you to adjust but you need to know. Are you ready?" I questioned
"Yes mummy, whatever you tell me I will try and understand as much as I can, I will do anything for you mummy cause I love you" she said with a big smile on her face.
"You know that Rick is your daddy, right?" I asked when I got a head nod I continued
"The day he was captured I found out about you, I found out I was pregnant with the best thing that has ever happened to me. But Rick and I had been friends for a long time, since the very start of primary school, we were friends with Aunty Lanie and Uncle Javi and Kevan. We didn't start dating until after I joined the poice academy, after I got over the fact that he had married Meredith and they'd had Alexis together. We dated up until the day he left do you understand that?" I asked, the look of understanding as to why we spent so much time with Alexis and Martha finally dawned on her
"Mummy, Alexis is my step sister isn't she?" she asked I nodded my head
"Which makes Martha my nana?" she continued, again I nodded
"Which makes me, you, Lexi, Martha and now daddy my family" she said her face beaming with happiness.
"Yes. But there is also someone else as well" I answered
"Who?" she asked confused
"Your baby brother or sister. De I'm pregnant" I told her and as soon as the words were out of my mouth she was hugging me and kissing my face all over.
"Thank you mummy. Thank you thank you" she squealed as the nurse came back in with my release papers.
"Am I interrupting something?" she asked
"Nothing really" I said happily as I signed the forms. Once they were signed and I was dressed in my own clothes instead of the hospital gown I grabbed Delia's hand and walked down to my car which Lanie had drived down.
We were almost home when I looked at Delia
"De; you have to promise that when Alexis and Martha get back you can't tell them about your baby brother or sister ok thats something that me and daddy need to do ok?" I asked her making sure she understood.
"I promise mummy no spilling the beans to either of them" she said zipping her lips and throwing away the key, I had to laugh. Finally we arrived back at my fathers house and Delia was almost at the door when Rick opened it and said
"Theres my baby girl. I missed you" he smiled kissing her all over her face.
"Daddy its been two hours" Delia shook her head trying it hard not to laugh
"So I missed you" he said smiling
"I missed you too daddy" she said kissing him on the check before running inside.
"I missed you too my love" he whispered as I walked past, sneaking his arm around my waist
"Oh god I missed you too" I said kissing him on the lips.
"I want you and Delia to move in with my family like we were going to do eight years ago" he stated
"I would like that" I said kissing him more forcefully on the lips.
"Should we ask our baby girl?" he asked unsure
"Of course Rick; thats what she's been waiting for" I said smiling.