Chapter 2

His breath left his body as soon as those words reached his ears. "W-what do you mean she's missing?" he managed to stammer out.

"I just got a call from her school. She never came back after the kids were let out for recess," she replied her voice soothing.

"No, she can't be missing. You...you have to find her."

"You'll need to come down to the station or actually I'll come to you, you shouldn't be driving."

Hearing the knock at the door, Rick raced to open it. "Did you hear anything yet?" he asked as she came inside.

"No I'm sorry but we will find her," She said hesitating before placing a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"We looked around the schoolyard and surrounding area. There's no sign of her. Do you happen to have a picture of your daughter?" she asked.

"Yes right here," he said staring at it before handing it to her.

"We want to put her picture out there so we can see if anyone has seen her."

xxxxx

"Are we going to see daddy now?" Alexis asked the stranger from the backseat of the silver Porshe.

"We sure are little one," the woman replied with a smirk.

Alexis looked out the window at the houses whizzing by, "I can't wait to tell him all about my day," She said cheerfully. Finally they pulled up in front of a small, white cottage which seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. "Where are we?" she asked looking at the house in front of them. Bending down in front of her the woman said, "You're daddy set up a special surprise just for you. He'll be here in a few days and wants you to wait here for him while he gets everything together.

"Oh ok. I wonder what it is."

"It's gotta be pretty special for someone like you," she said ruffling Alexis' hair a little.

Alexis followed her into the house and looked around. It was a lot smaller than her own house, but it was nice. "What are we gonna do until he gets here? I don't have any toys."

"I thought you'd say that and guess what? I got you a little present," she said handing her a bag full of barbies and outfits.

"Wow, Barbies! I love barbies," she said sitting down on the floor in the living room to play.

'That'll keep the kid occupied for a while,' she thought with a laugh.

xxxxx

Rick sat next to the police officer who called only moments ago. At the moment she was on the phone with another officer. They were calling all the local stations trying to get Alexis' picture on all news so people would see it. It had been a few hours now since he got that horrific phone call that had changed his life forever. Detective Beckett hung up the phone, "Ok they all said they would run her picture and send the calls through the department."

"So what do we do now?"

"There's not much we can do but wait and see if anyone has spotted her. That and we have officers out there looking."

"So we just sit here?" he asked jumping to his feet angrily.

"I know this is hard for..."

"No there is no way I'm just going to sit here while my baby is out there all alone," he said.