Chapter Two

"Alexis, you're going to have to take it…"

"No, don't you dare say it. Not again! I'm not taking it easy. I'm getting my daughter back NO MATTER WHAT, and then I'll take it easy Monica." Alexis said stepping out of the hospital bed.

"Honey, please.." Ric didn't know how to feel. He felt the same as last year. One child kidnapped, another on the way.

Alexis just looked at Ric, "No." She simply stated as she stepped into her shoes.

"Alexis, I'm going to find her," Jason assured Alexis.

"No, I'M GOING TO FIND HER!"

"CALM DOWN ALEXIS!" Ric had to scream. She looked at him with a look that he had never seen. She was more than angry. She was fed up.

"Alexis?!" They heard Nikolas down the hall.

Alexis walked out of the room and into her nephew's arms.

"I'm here. Look at me. She's going to be fine."

"I'm pregnant Nikolas." His eyes widened. Nikolas shook his head in disbelief.

"Yeah, surprise! We'll figure that one out later…" Alexis looked back at Ric and Jason, "Let's go." demanded Alexis and started walking briskly down the hallway. The three men followed her. At the nurses station, Patrick, Robin, and Epiphany looked over to see Alexis Davis, the District Attorney, walking with an obvious purpose toward the elevator and slamming her hand on the 'down' button. She stood there, staring at the elevator door, arms crossed, waiting for it to open. The three men walked behind her not looking so confident.

"What was that about?" Patrick asked Robin.

"Manny Ruiz is about to meet his match."

"Samantha McCall. What a horrid, usual name. You're a feisty little one. Not like her." the tall blond stood towering over Sam.

"Should I call you 'Granny'?" Sam snipped. "Get out of my face. This will be the last time that you do anything to anyone ever again, so enjoy it while it lasts. You made a huge mistake Grandma, you have the wife of a cop, the ex wife and best friend to two mobsters, and the daughter of the strongest woman in this city. Who do you think is going to find us? I'm betting on the latter. Do what you want with me, just know, you won't get away."

"Oh, my dear, I've heard that so many times." Helena smiled sweetly at Sam. "I'm sure that Natasha would have said that after I slit your real grandmother throat, but she was frozen in terror. I'll bet she's at home right now…doing nothing."

Alexis looked at Skye in disbelief. "I don't care that you aren't with him anymore Skye, what is his cell phone number. Where could he be? You have to have some sort of idea. Tell me…NOW."

"Alexis, I honestly have no clue."

Alexis walked past Skye into the Quartermaine mansion. She looked around then walked into the living room. Edward was sitting with a scotch in his hand.

"Edward, Manny is responsible for Justus' death. He has my daughter, Elizabeth Spencer, and Carly. Lorenzo knew that Manny was alive. I have to talk to him. Do you have any idea…"

He looked up at her and just said, "No."

Lulu walked in the room. "Hi, um…I don't know where he is, but I know what might bring him to you. Let me call Diego. You can arrest him for something and…"

"Do it." Alexis looked at Lulu, gave a small smile and a nod, and walked out.

"I told you…counselor…I don't know." Lorenzo was sick of this. He watched the DA carefully. This was a side of her that he'd never seen. She was fierce. She was hard. He knew that she would keep him locked up until she found her daughter.

Alexis walked over to Lorenzo, sat back on the table, and leaned in to where her face was about four inches away from his. "Look at me." she demanded. He did as he was told. After what seemed like an hour of Alexis just staring into his eyes as if she were seeing what he was thinking, he looked away.

"No, I didn't tell you to look away…LOOK at me!" She was acting crazy. Lorenzo had never been this frightened of a woman before.

"Mrs. Da…"

"I didn't tell you to speak either."

He looked. She finally was done with him after a minute more. She turned and walked towards the door. "You're free to go…" she was still facing the door, "if you know what's good for you…" she turned to him, "you look for them to."

Lorenzo left the PCPD, and he started his search.

"Where's Mommy?" Kristina asked Viola, the huge bodyguard, and the policeman.

"Sweetie, she's going to find Sam." Viola responded.

"Did the blond lady take her?"

Alexis walked in to hear Kristina's last question.

"No baby, the blond lady didn't take her. Don't you worry okay, Sam's going to be just fine. Remember how I told you that Sam helped find you? She's really, really smart and really strong too. I'll bet that she finds us first! Guess what?" Alexis smiled at her beautiful little girl.

"What?" Kristina said sadly.

"Your brothers and your cousin John are going to come stay with you for a while. Mommy and Daddy Ric are going to be really busy until Sam comes home, so they are going to come stay with you for a while. Doesn't that sound like fun?"

"But…what if the bad people come take all of us? They took us before…"

"That's not going to happen darlin'. We have so many brave, strong men and women here protecting the house. There is no possible way that anyone bad can get in here okay. Listen, you know I love you. I need you to be strong for your little brother, sister, and cousin okay?"

"Okay. I'm brave and strong too."

"Yes you are baby." Alexis kissed her daughter goodnight and went to join Ric, Nikolas, and Max in the living room.

"Let's go." she told them and walked out.

"Manny, I'm really hungry." complained Liz.

"Where's Alexis?" asked Sam. "Please, just tell me…does Helena have her?"

Manny just looked at them and smiled.

It had been three days. Thankfully, Manny had let them huddle together with pillows and blankets on the floor to sleep. He had only fed them twice.

Carly hardly spoke at all. It was as if she knew that no one wanted to hear her right now. She was scared. The only thing she could think of was Jax. If he had just taken her with him, none of this would have happened to her. She just knew that he was looking for her now.

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"Jax!" Ric exclaimed when he saw Jax run from the entranceway at the PCPD.

"Give me updates."

"Nothing yet. The police have no idea. The FBI has no idea. Jason and his merry men have NO IDEA, and my wife is losing it."

"Where is she?"

"With Luke…in there." Ric pointed to the break room.

Anna just wanted to come to town to spend some time with her daughter, but she ended up spending all of her time at the police station and around town following leads on a psychopath. She knew Alexis Davis very well now and she saw a lot of herself in her. Alexis never stayed in one place for more than a few minutes. First, they searched the docks…all of them…every inch of them, then the warehouses, the hospital, even the police department and courthouse. There were crews searching all apartment buildings and houses. Nothing. It was as if these five people had vanished. There was no ransom note, no clues.

Robin and Robert walked into the police station searching for Anna. They instead found Alexis in the interrogation room alone.

"Alexis…" she didn't look up.

"Alexis, hey, hey, are you okay?" Robin asked.

Alexis looked up and fixed her eyes on Robert. She had a look of sheer terror on her face. Robert had the same.

"Robert."