You're Never Alone
Disclaimer: Nope I don't own anything in this story. Except for the idea... :)
Timeline: Umm...whenever I guess. Wait! It's gotta be before that "Anne" came along! Grr! She ruined everything! cries
A/N: Well, this is my first fanfic. I hope I do all you J/S shippers and fellow authors proud! I'm doing this in hopes of becoming a beta for some of you people that are reading this. winks So, this is created and betaed by me. :) Enjoy reading! Reviews are HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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The office was still. Papers were spread out across the table in the bullpen. Chairs were pushed in. Computers were turned off. The face of the missing girl, Alexis, was hanging silently from the white board. In front of the board, stood Sam, staring. Her eyes were bloodshot from the lack of sleep these past days. Her body was still. Her face showed no emotion. This case had affected the team, probably more than any other case. Each of them wanted desperately to find this little girl and return her to her family, but time was quickly running out.
Earlier that day…Martin and Danny had just come back to the office. They had been following up a lead that had lead to a dead end.
"Hey Viv." Danny said as he entered the bullpen with Martin, who just smiled, at his side.
"Don't go to far." Viv said in response.
"Why what's up?" Martin asked as he rolled his chair out and sat.
"Apparently, Jack wanted to talk to us as soon as you two came back."
"Alright. Um...I'm gonna go get him. Maybe we can speed this up a bit."
Danny stood up and walked over to Jack's office. Through the windows he could see that Sam was sitting across from Jack's desk. It looked as if they were having an intense conversation, but then he saw them both break out in laughter. He hadn't seen Jack or Sam laugh like that in a while. He walked up to the door and knocked. Jack signaled with his hand for Danny to walk in.
"Um...I'm gonna go...back to my desk." Sam stood up and Danny noticed Jack follow her with his eyes.
"How'd it go over there?" Jack asked.
"It was a dead end." Danny replied. Jack's ounce of hope that had been etched on his face was gone. "Viv told me that you wanted to talk to us?"
"Yeah. Everyone's over there, right?"
"Yup."
Jack and Danny stood up and walked over to the conference table in the bullpen and sat down. The other three members of the team also took their respective places. Jack sat at the head of the table with Danny on his left and Viv on his right. Sam sat directly opposite of Jack with Martin on her right and Danny on her left.
"So, what happened?" Jack inquired, directing his question to Danny and Martin.
"The address that we got tipped about, our suspect's 'address', turned out to be a local Wal-Mart. It was a dead end." Martin quickly replied.
Jack sighed. "Um...phone records?" Jack directed his question towards Sam.
"I really didn't get too much from 'em. There were hardly any calls made at all. I mean, I don't know if they use pay phones or what, but there's...nothing." Sam replied looking at Jack.
"Do they have cell phones?"
"No."
"Alright. Um...we might not get to much from them anyways. Maybe these people really didn't make calls. Viv?"
"Well, I was looking at the surveillance tapes and I was able to see Alexis with a man at a gas station. I called the gas station and the cashier remembered seeing them because Alexis left with a 'boat-load' of candy, if I may quote the cashier. So, I kept looking at the tapes to see if I was able to find anything else and nothing showed up."
"Well, at least we have a clue of where they might be."
"Jack?" Viv asked.
"Yeah." Jack replied as he stole a glance of Sam.
"It's close to midnight, I need to go home to my family, as much as I would like to stay, we really have no lead, and you can use some sleep."
"Alright."
"Goodnight everybody." Viv gathered her things and walked off.
"I stayed here all night watching the phones, I think I'm gonna go home tonight and get some sleep." Danny said.
"Okay. 'Night." Jack replied. Just like Viv, Danny gathered his things and left.
"You know, I think I'm gonna go too. After all, it is Sam's turn to watch the phones." Martin sluggishly and teasingly said.
"You just don't let me forget it, do you?" Sam questioned with a smile.
"Nope." Martin smiled. "Goodnight guys." Martin rolled his chair in, put on his jacket, and walked towards the elevator.
"Well..." Jack stood up and broke the silence.
"You going home?" Sam asked, secretly wishing he wasn't.
"No, I think I'm gonna go do some paperwork."
"Alright then."
Jack turned around and walked back to his office. As he walked, Sam never took her eyes off of him. When he disappeared into his office, she turned around and walked over to the table where several telephones stood. Her eyelids began to get heavy and her stomach began its noise making.
It was almost one o'clock in the morning and she remembered that the last time she ate was seven hours ago. She stood up, saw that Jack's desk lamp was still on, and walked over to his office with a smile plastered to her face.
TBC... :)
