Chapter one:
It was a normal day at the office.
Gavin comes in and looks around himself but frowns when he doesn't see Michael. He and Michael have been talking about moving in together for a bit but haven't done so yet. He turns to Ray. "Is Michael here?"
Ray turns to look to him. "Not that I know of." He responds.
Gavin frowns in worry. "Maybe he is sleeping in." He turns moving to another spot pulling out his cell to try to call the other. He waits for an answer but ends up getting the answering machine. He decides to leave a message. "Micool! where are you? You're late for work. Call me or come to work as soon as you can." He hangs up after that.
Ray looks to Gavin as Gavin goes back towards his own desk. "Any luck?"
"Went to voicemail." Gavin sighs.
"Maybe he's driving." Ray offers an explanation.
Gavin nods and sits in his chair.
Maybe doing some work will help distract himself until Michael arrives at work.
Hours later and no sign of Michael.
Everyone is growing increasingly worried as this continues.
Gavin, who had tried calling Michael a few times with no answer but tells himself it must be traffic, keeps looking from his work to the door so much so the others are surprised that he doesn't seem dizzy yet.
Finally after a few more minutes Gavin has had enough.
He gets to his feet so suddenly everyone turns to him. "I'm not going to wait any longer!" He declares. "I'm going to check on him!"
Geoff gets up but Gavin looks to him with fiercely determined eyes. "Gavin. I'm not going to stop you." He tells him after all one of the his family members might be in trouble. "Go."
Gavin smiles appreciatively and turns dashing out of the office to hurry away to find his Michael. He gets into his car and drives off deciding to head for Michaels house first. He gets there and sees Michaels car in the drive way. He parks on the edge of the street in front of the house and turns off his car before heading to go inside of Michaels home. He has a spare key but as he moves to put it in the key hole he freezes.
The inside door is open a little.
His heart rate picks up the pace putting his keys into his pocket again as he hurries inside. "Micool!" He calls out.
No response.
Gavin hurries further inside forgetting that he has his shoes though it wasn't like it mattered since they weren't muddy or anything. "Micool!" He continues to call out and he arrives at the kitchen and sees a chair had fallen down, a plate broken on the ground and some pancakes on the counter. His worry spikes at the sight of an obvious struggle. "Micool!" He quickly moves on heading now towards Michaels room.
But as he searched and searched he couldn't find Michael anywhere.
He now stands in the living room which is the last place he checked and he stares in horror mixed with disbelief that Michael isn't here. He jumps when his cell rings and he quickly grand it hoping its news on Michael since he found Michaels cell in the bedroom. He sees that it's Geoff but answers anyways as gears begin to form in his eyes.
...
Geoff was getting a little impatient so he decided to call Gavin's cell to check on how things are. He gets an answer pretty quickly. "Gavin it's me." He says. "Have you found Michael?" He pauses for a moment. "Hold on Gavin calm down. What are you trying to say?"
At this the other members glance to where Geoff is standing.
Geoff pauses to listen then his eyes widen. "Stay there. I'm coming to you." He says then hangs up.
Ray stands. "We're coming too!" He says in a tone that he won't take no for an answer.
"No time to dwaddle." Geoff responds and hurries out the door.
The others quickly following and soon they are in Geoff's car with Geoff driving as quickly as he can to get to Michaels house.
"What's going on?" Ryan asks. "Fill us in."
"I couldn't understand everything but Gavin is a mess. Something has happened at Michaels house." Geoff says. "That's all I know."
The others exchange worried glances and after a little longer they arrive at Michaels house.
Everyone races to the front door hurrying inside.
"Michael! Gavin!" Geoff calls as they begin the search.
They hear sobbing and follow it to find Gavin collapsed on the floor in the living room. They hurry over and Geoff falls to his knees next to Gavin pulling him into his arms in worry. "Gavin! Talk to me Gavin!" He says reaching towards the other.
Gavin sobs some more.
Geoff turns to the others. "Go! Find Michael!"
They nod and rush off to begin searching the house.
"He's..." Gavin tries to speak through his sobbing. He's extremely worried and seems to be at least a little broken.
Geoff turns back to him. "Gavin. What's going on? What happened? You need to speak to me."
Gavin lets out a few more sobs then tries to hold back his sobs as he speaks. "He's... He's gone! He's gone Geoff!" He bursts into a fit of sobs.
Geoff's heart sinks at this and he hopes that Michael is found to prove Gavin wrong. He doesn't want to believe that something has happened to Michael.
The others come back to the living room as Gavin is starting to calm down.
Geoff turns to them.
"The only thing we could find was an obvious struggle scene in the kitchen." Jack says.
Geoff's face turns to horror at the news.
"Taken." Gavin whimpers. "It's... It's obvi... Obvious he's... He's taken!" He says between sobs.
"Ray! Call the police!" Geoff orders.
Ray nods and quickly moves out of the room.
"Jack. I want you and Lindsay to go back to the office in case something comes up there." Geoff continues tossing Jack his keys. "Don't crash."
The two nod and head off to return to the office.
Geoff turns to Ryan. "Ryan I need you to stay here."
Ryan nods. "Will do."
Geoff nods. "Go watch for the police arriving."
Ryan heads off to find a good view of the front.
Geoff turns back to Gavin. "It's ok. We'll find him." He tries to assure the other as he stays with Gavin trying to give him as much comfort as he can right now.
Ray comes back from calling the police. "They're on their way." He reports.
"Hear that Gavin? The police are coming." Geoff says still trying to reassure Gavin.
Ray comes over and crouches on the other side of Gavin.
As time passes Gavin's sobbing fits seem to be not as bad anymore as he is trying to sob with no more tears left making the sobs dry.
Ryan comes over to the others. "They just pulled up."
Geoff notices the sirens he missed when he was too focused on helping Gavin. He nods to Ryan. "Good. Make sure they get inside."
Ryan heads to the front door and opens it.
The cops are hurrying towards him.
Ryan opens the door letting them inside in which they do. "Geoff, Ray and Gavin are in the living room. The owner of this place Michael is gone. We believe he was kidnapped due to the scene in the kitchen." He explains to the officers of the two cars that pulled up.
"Search the house! Look for anything else that might help." One officer tells two others who leave to do so then he turns to Ryan. "Can you take me and my partner to the others?"
Ryan nods and leads the way to the living room.
The house is cleared and becomes a crime scene.
The Achievement hunters are all questioned and were soon allowed to go back to their office.
Gavin however wants to stay as he cries after getting some water into his system. He clutched Michaels favourite shirt holding it to his chest or brining it up to sniff at Michaels scent on the shirt.
A female officer stays with Gavin as they sit on the couch in the living room. "I understand that this is hard." She says. "But have faith. He will be found."
Gavin sniffles and stares at the shirt clutched in his hands. "I just want my little Micool to be ok." He whimpers.
The female officer puts a comforting hand on his shoulder. "We are doing everything we can to find him."
And so the investigation for Michael begins.