Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters from Numb3rs….
Though I would love to… I don't… Otherwise Enjoy!!
" No Charlie you can't be dating one of my agents." Don yelled
" Look Don you need to accept the fact that Colby and I are happy together and I thought that I should tell you instead of keeping it from you." Charlie replied trying to stay calm
"Look buddy I'm trying to understand just give me one reason why I should be okay with this." Don asked afraid of what his brother would say.
"Cause……. Ever since Amita moved I was never happy unless I was with Colby, and I love him." Charlie answered.
It kept playing in his head over and over as he watched Charlie and Colby from his office. He agreed he hasn't seen Charlie smile in such a long time and now he knew why. Just sitting there lost in his thoughts he heard a knock at his door, it was David with a file for a new case.
As everybody gathered in the office, David filled everyone in on the latest murder.
"Charlie I don't think you should be in here for this." Don stated.
"Why? What is this about?" Charlie asked.
" It seems like there have been murders only a few blocks from your house." Colby answered.
" Look Chuck I didn't want you to know cause you'll tell dad and then he'll get all worried for nothing. Don said
"Don you should have more faith in me by now that I'm not gonna tell dad cause I don't want to have him calling my phone all day. Charlie said.
As they finished discussing the case Charlie wrote up a filtering algorithm to help find the killer and afterwards he left and headed back to Cal-Sci to finish grading a week worth of papers. Meanwhile they were letting Charlie's equation run its' search while everyone else did what Don instructed them to do him and Colby stayed behind and talked.
" Hey Colby is there something that you need to tell me." Don asked
" So I'm guessing that Charlie already talked to you about us?" Colby asked.
"Yea he did and I just want to let you know." Don begin to say before he was interrupted
" Yea Don I already know, you want me to keep Charlie safe." Colby said
" No I wasn't gonna say that because that's both of our jobs now, but I want you to know that if you ever hurt him or put your hands on him; there's not gonna be a rock in this world I won't turn over to find you and kill you with my bear hands. Do I make myself clear?" Don said with a calm but heavy tone.
"Yea man, is there anything else?" Colby replied
"How did you and Charlie become a couple?" Don asked not sure what he would get in return
"Well it happened back when someone tried to run Charlie off the road and he stayed in the garage forever trying to solve an unsolvable problem when I went in to give him some more data for one of his algorithm. I took him to a place where I like to think its right outside the city, and while we were there we made a connection and from their on out the rest is history." Colby said with a smile on his face
"Do you love him?"
"Yea man I do, and I want us to build a life together." Colby stated as he thought about his lover
" Well you guys have my support, as long as Charlie is happy and smiling then I'm happy." Don said
Charlie was almost done grading papers so he decided to take the rest home and do what he could be cause he was getting hungry. About 20 minutes have passed and he arrived at home ready to finish the papers and go to bed. As he began to dig in his pockets for his keys he felt a bag cover his head and his body being carried into a vehicle. He knew the neighbor well enough to drive home with his eyes closed; so he tried to figure out where the kidnappers were taking him. All of a sudden he gets knocked over the head because he kept mumbling to himself.
As everyone was back at the office discussing the case and going over evidence, Colby gets a devastating phone call.
" Hey Charlie" he started.
" If you ever want to see Charles Epps again I want $500 million transferred into a non-traceable account overseas. You have 72 hours before he dies " The kidnapper said as he was interrupted by an angry Colby
They all notice the look on Colby's face until he started yelling "Look you son of a bitch if you lay on a finger on him when I find you I will kill you." Colby said as Don ran over there and snatched the phone out of his hand. " Who is this" Don said but no one was on the other end.
" Colby what the hell is going on?" Don asked
Colby stood there frozen solid because someone has kidnapped the man that he loved. He thought to himself why wasn't he there to protect him and what have they done to him.
"Someone has Charlie and they want $500 million put in a non-traceable over seas account in 72 hours." he hesitated to say the last part because it put his stomach in knots just to even think about it. " 72 hours or he's dead." Colby said while he was shaking with both fear and anger.
" Okay, David get a location on Charlie's cell, Liz call my dad and let him know what's gong on and that we'll keep him updated." Don stated as everybody rushed off.
" Don I don't care what you say I'm going to do whatever it takes to get him back home safely." Colby said
" I know Colby I know but I need you to stay focused for me. I have just as much of a connection to this case as you do." Don said as he looked at the screen.
Meanwhile back at the warehouse Charlie woke up with a terrible headache as he slowly started to open his eyes. He saw light but he didn't like what else he saw. Looking around the room he saw water leaking from a pipe in the wall, broken glass all over the floor and he heard airplanes outside of the window above his head. He tried to remember where he was at and what warehouse like places are located by the airport, but his head was hurting to bad for him to think. Back at FBI HQ Colby was slowly losing his cool.
" Colby how you doing?" David asked
"How do you think I'm felling, the person I'm in love with is sitting somewhere scared half to death and I have no idea where he is." Colby said louder than he expected grabbing the attention of the rest of the gang
"Hey Colby calm down man come here sit down and let me get you some coffee." Don said as he made two cups of coffee.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Don asked
"No I don't I want everybody to know that every minute we sit around waiting for something to happen that's another minute that they could be hurting him." Colby replied
As Colby just sat there staring into oblivion so many things were running through his mind and he was just hoping that Charlie was okay and not harmed. All of a sudden his phone rang again he picked it up without even looking at the caller id.
" Hello" Colby started.
" Colby it's me." Charlie said as he heard his lovers voice on the receiving end.
" Charlie baby are you okay? Are you hurt?" Colby asked
When Don heard Colby say his brothers name he snatched the phone outta his hand so fast that he almost dropped it and Don said " You okay buddy?" But once again when he asked him a question he just hears the dial tone. Colby head just fell into his hands and then he heard Don say " We're gonna find him, he's your boyfriend and my brother and I would give my own life for his. We're not leaving here until we find him.
All suggestions for new chapters are always welcome…. Feedback good or bad is also welcome…