This story refers back to Caitlin and Hawke's kidnappers in "Blinded by the Light" that were never caught.

Chapter 1

Caitlin plopped her suitcase down on the hotel bed and looked around the room. "Wow Hawke," she said. "This is one of the nicest rooms I've ever been in. I can't believe that it even has a bathtub in the corner."

Hawke smiled. "Yeah, I asked for a room with that option. I thought it'd be nice if we came back later tonight, got some wine and enjoyed the tub."

Caitlin walked over to String and kissed him. "You are such a hopeless romantic Stringfellow Hawke," she said.

String cocked his eye at her and laughed. "No, I just like to…"

Caitlin punched him in the arm before he could finish. "If you know what's good for you," she replied. "You won't finish that sentence."

Hawke laughed again. "Okay, okay," he replied. "Is it okay to say that it's because I love you?"

She grabbed him and gave him a tight hug and then kissed him again. "You can say that as many times as you like," she replied. "I can never hear it enough."

"Speaking of love," he said. "I still can't believe Doc is getting married tomorrow and he's only known this woman for two months."

Caitlin pulled away from him and sat down on the bed. "I know," she said. "It does seem kind of strange for Doc but I'm happy for him."

"Yeah, I am too," replied String. "Guess we'd better get going soon. If we leave Dom alone too long in his room he'll probably be ordering room service and going to bed."

Caitlin laughed. "Okay, I'm really anxious to meet Mia and see why Doc's in such a hurry to marry her."

Hawke and Caitlin swung by Dom's room which was down the hall from theirs and the three of them took their rental car out to Doc's place.

When they got there, the tavern was filled with almost all of Doc's friends. He introduced them to Mia and they liked her immediately. She was a bit quiet and stayed close to Doc, keeping her hand on his arm as they talked to everyone.

Caitlin sensed that the situation seemed to be overwhelming for Mia so as soon as she saw her move away from the crowd, she went and joined her.

"I guess all this can be a bit overwhelming," said Caitlin. "Doc's a great guy though. You're one lucky woman."

Mia smiled at her. "Oh, yeah, thanks," she replied. "I think so."

"Are you okay?" asked Caitlin.

"Yeah," replied Mia. "I just have a lot of last minute details for the wedding on my mind."

"Oh, I can understand that," replied Caitlin. "Don't worry things always have a way of working out."

"I appreciate you saying that," she replied. "I sure hope so."

The rest of the evening was spent on stories of how Doc and Mia met as well as tales of Doc's bachelor life. The crowd laughed as each of his friends had their own story to tell. Caitlin noticed Mia had gone to the back room. Before she followed her she stopped and told Hawke that she was going to go and see if she could help with last minute wedding details.

"That's a good idea," said Hawke. He kissed her before she headed in the back to find Mia.

When Caitlin caught up with her, Mia was getting into her car. "Mia, wait up," she yelled as she opened the door and got in with her.

"Caitlin, I'm sorry, I'm in a bit of a hurry," she said "I've got some things to take care of for tomorrow."

"That's why I'm here," replied Caitlin. "I'm going with you. You shouldn't have to do all of this last minute stuff on your own."

Mia tried to convince Caitlin to get out of the car but it was too late. She spotted the large black car behind her. She quickly pulled her car from the curb and got onto the main road.

"Caitlin, I am so sorry to drag you into this," she said.

"Dragged me into what?" asked Cailtin.

"I don't have much time to explain it all right now," she said. "All I can say is that there is a car behind us and the men in there want me dead."

"What?" asked Caitlin. "Why don't we turn back to the tavern and get Doc and Hawke?"

"We can't," she replied as she sped the car up to over 90 mph.

It was clear that the car behind them was doing well at keeping up. Caitlin looked back and held on.

"When we get around this next corner I will slow down," replied Mia. "When I do, you need to jump and roll as far down the hill into the trees as you can. The car is going to go over the cliff and they need to believe no one survived."

"Why?" asked Caitlin.

"I'll explain it all later," said Mia. "We only have a few minutes. Get ready and do exactly as I told you."

Mia swung the car around the corner and slowed down as she said she would. Caitlin had no choice but to jump as instructed or she'd go over the cliff with the car. She jumped out and hit the embankment hard before rolling down towards the trees. Before she stopped rolling, her head hit something and her world went black.