Chapter 2

Erin stood there with a deeply worried look on her face as suddenly she found her heart racing. "Danny, what happened to the kids? And Jamie? Where are they?"

Danny looked at his little sister swallowing deeply trying to choke back his fear he replied weakly, "I- I think we better w-wait for pop okay?"

His sister refused to hold back though and with tears in her eyes she exclaimed, "Danny don't you try to avoid this they're our family. Tell me!"

"Sis I promised pop I would tell you both when he got here okay?" But as soon as the words were out of his mouth, a deep voice replied from behind, "I'm here you can tell us Danny."

Recognizing the voice of his father the police commissioner he looked sadly up at his father as though he was about to break and spoke with a shaky voice, "D-dad I think you both better sit down."

Both of them had extremely worried looks on their face and Danny let in and out a deep sigh of regret and sadness.

"Dad, Erin," Danny began to speak quietly. "I-I got a mysterious phone call from someone this afternoon claiming to have taken our kids and Jamie hostage. At first I wanted to believe it wasn't true, but-but I-I heard s-someone s-scream in – in the background. I recognized it as Jamie's instantly. He's hurt badly I don't have to see him to know how bad it is."

"Oh my god." Erin replied, her voice trembling as she buried her head in her hands.

Danny turned to look at his father as he spoke. "Danny, how about the kids?" His oldest shook his head and replied, "I-I don't know. I have to call Linda."

As his father nodded he pulled out his cellphone dialing his wife's number. The phone rang on the other end for a minute before he recognized his wife's voice.

"Danny?" Her husband replied weakly, "H-hey babe."

"Is everything okay? Danny are you alright? What's happened? You don't sound good."

There was silence on the other end for a moment as Danny tried to pull himself together for his family.

"Danny?" Her voice came through again and he replied, "Yeah I'm here babe."

"What's going on?" She asked again her voice shaking with worry as she could tell this was not good.

"Babe, it-it's the kids a-and Jamie." There was silence on her end for a moment also as she knew what was coming before he said it.

Linda asked quietly, "What happened? Where are our kids and Jamie, Danny? Where are they what's going on?"

Releasing a sigh he replied, "T-they were taken earlier this afternoon. I-I'm with pop and Erin now. I got a phone call from some guy this afternoon at the station. He told me he had our kids and Jamie. I didn't want to believe him, b-but I-I…" He found himself unable to finish that sentence again as his voice cracked with emotion.

"D-Danny? But you what? What happened?" Now she was growing really worried.

"I-I heard a-a s-scream from the other e-end. I-I r-recognized it as Jamie's. My baby brother."

Taking a moment to process this she murmured, "Oh my g-god Danny w-what a-are we g-going to do?"

Finally feeling the anger he had felt towards the man release somewhat he took a deep breath in and replied, "I'm going to find them if it's the last thing I do I promise you babe everything's going to be okay. They will be okay I'll find them."

"I know you will Danny bring them home okay? And Danny? I love you."

"I love you too babe I gotta go I'll call ya later."

Slowly putting his phone away he caught his sister and his father watching him concerned.

Looking away he looked back and said, "I-I'm okay."

Asking the question they were all thinking Erin spoke up, "What are we going to do?"

Danny looked at his sister and his father clenching his fist wanting to smash in the face of the man who dared hurt his family. Angrily he replied, "Let's get our kids and our baby brother back. The man is gonna regret ever messing with our family."

With determination on all their faces the three Reagans got to work getting their family back.