"Jac?" Mo questioned. She had been discussing a patient with Elliot when Jac had ran onto the ward and she was clearly distressed and out of breath - which was highly unusual for the consultant.
"Mo, shes- she's gone." Jac blurted out as she placed both hands firmly on the nurses station to steady herself.
"What?" Mo asked confusedly.
"You've got to help me Emma's gone, Jonny's taken her. Please Mo, where would he have taken her?" The consultant demanded desperately.
"No. No you must've gotten it wrong, Jonny wouldn't just run off with Emma, he's borrowed money from me for a legal team he wouldn't just through that all away." Mo stated.
"He took Emma to the park this morning, he took Emma from my flat and the nanny let him take her. That was about 9am and now it's almost 5pm do you really think he's just taken her for a eight hour walk?" Jac snapped.
"I agree with Mo Jac, I don't think Jonny would just take Emma away from you. Besides, I think you need to calm down because we all know that Jonny would never place Emma in harm's way." Elliot said wisely.
"You don't think Jonny would take Emma away from me? Well then why is he trying to get custody over her?" Jac argued. "Look please, I've checked the park and his flat, do you know anywhere where he might be?" Jac pleaded.
"Um... Maybe he took her to Bonnie's grave?" Elliot suggested.
"No, she was cremated." Mo informed the professor quietly.
"Right that's it, I'm calling the police." Jac stated.
"I don't think there's any need for that." Elliot said sternly as he had begun to lose his patience with the consultant over the weeks because she had done so little to comfort Jonny who had lost the woman he 'loved'.
"Elliot my 14 week old daughter has been missing for 8 hours and I can't get hold of Jonny at all. He's practically kidnapped my child. I think there's every need for the police." Jac argued as she dialled 999 on her phone and then put it to her ear. "Hello I need the police. My baby has been unlawfully taken away by her father and she's been missing for 8 hours. I don't know where he has taken her and I can't contact him at all." Jac said down the phone.
Midnight
Jac sat on the edge of her bed, still in her clothes with her keys in her pocket ready to leave at a moments notice just waiting for some news about her daughter. She had a dim lamp on, which added a warm glow to her and her daughter's bedroom but Jac still felt cold and nauseas as she had no idea where her baby was. She had been out looking for hours and used almost a full tank of petrol in her car which she had opted for instead of her bike in case she did find her daughter and she needed to take her home. But she had stopped looking because she didn't know where else to look. The police had searched Jonny's flat after breaking the door down, only to find that there were few clothes left in the property and no toiletries leading to the suspicion that he had packed up, grabbed his daughter and left. Though his keys and car hadn't gone which had led to a little confusion.
There was alert on his passport so he wouldn't be allowed to leave the country, which gave Jac a little reassurance along with the fact that all local airports had checked their database and Jonny's passport had not been used, let alone the fact that Emma didn't even have a passport yet.
She felt tired and her eyes were tremendously heavy, as she stared at the little cot besides her bed where the blankets were still scrunched up and kicked about in the position that Emma had left them in when Jonny had taken her. But she couldn't fall asleep. Not knowing that her daughter wasn't safely in her cot because there was something inside her, that she rarely felt, making her feel absolutely awful. It was love for her child and becuase of that love, she needed to know that her little girl was safe.
The next day, Friday 5pm
Finally, Mo had finished her shift and so she went to the locker room to get changed out of her scrubs. She had one place in her mind where she thought Jonny would've taken Emma because he had always bragged about how he wanted to raise a family in his old family home up in Scotland because the home had been left to him after his parents died because he was the oldest child out of him and his sisters. She sure as hell hoped that he would be there, otherwise she would be travelling for hours for no reason. But she knew if she told Jac then jac would just tell the police and then Jonny would get in trouble.
She hadn't been able to get through to her best friend. But not just on his phone, she hadn't gotten through to him for weeks as a friend because he had only been angered by the death of his fiancé. She grabbed her keys and her bag, and then made her way down to her car before she began to make the very long journey into the night.
Emma had been missing for over 24 hours now, and Mo could only imagine how awful Jac felt because for once in here life, the consultant had not turned up to work - understandably of course, but everyone had imagined that she'd still come in to work and then lock herself in her office. Instead, she had spent it at home, and at the police station giving every single detail about what the two looked like, and what Jonny had taken of Emma's things, including all of the nappies that Jac had, and most of her clothes and formula.
Mo tried ringing Jonny once more, even though she was driving. But of course, she went straight through to voicemail.
"You're dead Maconie." Mo muttered as she put her phone back on the dashboard and increased her speed a little make her journey shorter. She just hoped that it would be worth it...
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