Disclaimer: I love In Plain Sight but sadly I do not own it or any of it characters and affiliations.

Summary: I wrote this story after watching the preview for "Rubble without a cause" and just now had a chance to finish the first chapter. Not sure if it will be a one-shot or not though.

Pairings: Mary/Marshall because I think Marshall is the only one Mary could ever be with......and no I do NOT feel sorry for Raph with the comment.

Rating: T for safe but it might change if I add more chapters.

He hadn't heard from her since the first explosion racked the building. There was no word on her or her witness. Marshall was breaching a panic he never wanted to feel again since Mary was kidnapped.

Another monsterous explosion moved throughout the building and everyone around unwillingly froze to watch as more than three quarters of the structure Mary and her witness were trapped in, came tumbling down to the ground. Marshall ducked to avoid the falling chunks of concrete and when he looked up again, his panic increase to it's highest degree. All anyone could see was a mangled pile of stone and concrete. It looked as if nothing would be able to come out of that mess.

"MARY!!!!!!!", Marshall screamed.

He ran. He falt out ran as hard as his body would let him run. Forget the fact that the doctor told him not to for atleast a year. Forget that his lungs were already screaming at him to slow down. He HAD to get in there. Suddenly there were arms holding him back, Stan.

"Stan let me go!! Mary's still in there, I have to find her!!"

"Marshall! You can't go in there, we don't know how stable the building is", Stan tried to reason with his inspector.

"MARY!!!!"

Marshall let another gut renching scream, only this time Stan could hear the breaking in his voice near the end. Marshall gave the building one last look before he finally broke and landed on his knees right there in the blocked off street.

Everything around him told Marshall that it was over. There was no way anyone, not even his tough-as-nails Mary, could make it out of the crumbled heep of a building now. Marshall was smart and his mind was swarming with statistics, and facts ranging from laws of gravity and other parts of science, to how much impact the pieces of rubble could have on his partner, his Mary.

He couldn't take it. He couldn't stand even the idea that she was.....

NO! Mary was alive! She had to be...... Marshall's thoughts trailed of as his emotions caught up with him. Emotions that Mary would laugh at and tease him for showing so blatantly, and in public no less!

Marshall finally couldn't hold them back any longer. He let the tears fall for the fear he felt for his partner, his best friend, his Mary. Yes she was HIS, and he would fight with everything he had for her in any situation so long as she stayed....HIS. He loved Mary with every part of him. He knew Mary of all people was the hardest person to love, for she found it nearly impossible to love anyone in return, but he loved her and there was nothing in the world he would do to make that love for her go away.

He also knew that technically it went against EVERY protocal and rule of WITSEC, but he also knew Stan. Stan would turn a blind eye so long as they did there job as well as they always did and managed to bring each other alive while they did it. Well he couldn't very do all that without HER could he.

"Mary", he whispered. His voice was hoarse and hardly sounded like his own right then.

I can't lose her, I can't, Marshall thought, I need her, I love her.

As Marshall looked up at the destroyed building again he saw something different, something that made his heart wrench and hurt even more.

It was a cage. A cage that was much to small for the creature it imprisoned. His beautiful, exotic animal was trapped in cage that she didn't belong in. She was locked in a cage that Marshall had to get her out of.