A/N: I'm back with another chapter! Told you that it would pick up! I'll update twice a week (or something) so that this will (almost) last as long as the winter hiatus. I hope everyone likes the story. Any idea where Jenny and Riley could have gone? r&r if you would? Yours 'till the wheels fall off ;)

"Bones sinking like stones, all that we've fought for. Homes, places we've grown, all of us are done for"-Coldplay


Esposito was over in a heartbeat, Lanie in tow. Beckett arrived moments later, followed by Castle. They all sat. Everyone except Ryan, anyway. He couldn't. There was too much nervous, pent up energy for him to just sit down and pretend like everything was okay. Finally, Beckett spoke.

"We're going to have to do this by the book, Ryan," she said softly, standing up and putting a comforting hand on his shoulder. He shook it off and spun around to face her.

"We're wasting time just sitting here! If I do this by the book, they can be gone!" he shouted, pointing to the door, "Dead!"

"Calm down, bro," Javier told him, pulling him back by his belt loop, "Yelling at Beckett's not gonna get us anywhere." Kevin knew that his partner was right, but that didn't mean that he was ready to accept it. He couldn't.

"Look, we'll start now for Jenny-" Kate began.

"Off the record," Castle added. She nodded and continued on.

"Off the record, and then when the time comes tomorrow, you'll file for Jenny and we'll start officially. Right now, we'll file for Riley." She handed him his house phone, and he rolled it over in his hands a couple of times.

"You can do it," Lanie encouraged. He knew that he could do it, that wasn't the problem. The problem was what chain of events making the call would set into play.


Kevin came back in from the bedroom, phone grasped tightly in shaking, pale hands. Everyone was bent over something at the kitchen table, and they all stopped and stood when he entered.

"Did you file?" Lanie asked first. He nodded, unsteady, and Javier was across the room in a second to steady him. He clenched his jaws against tears that he knew were coming. Calling had been hard, even harder than walking into the nursery and knowing that his baby girl wasn't there. Filing the report made it hit home: he was useless. He was a cop, and somehow he had allowed someone to walk right into his home and take his wife and baby. He had failed her. Ryan nodded and leaned against his partner. He didn't trust himself to speak yet.

"Sit," Esposito told him, pulling out the chair he had vacated moments earlier. Dazed, Kevin did as he was asked and looked down at the table.

"You found the note," he commented, picking up on the way his voice seemed to quiver. He cleared his throat and tried again, "They pinned it to her...to her teddy bear-" His voice caught in his throat, and he finally broke down. He grabbed onto the first person he saw without thinking. He didn't have to open his eyes to know that it was his partner.

"We're gonna find them, bro. I promise."


When she came to, the only thing that Jenny could think about was her baby.

"Riley?" she whispered loudly, panicked. She sat up too quickly, and her head spun. She pressed herself against the cold floor once again.

"Riley!" she said, louder this time. She struggled to piece together what had happened, but it just wouldn't work. The last thing she remembered was saying goodbye to Kevin. And now she was here...Where ever here was. Jenny waited for a few more moments before she got up again. She was in an empty room. The only door that she could see were two steel ones, and even though she tried her hardest, they wouldn't budge. She sunk to the floor. Where was Riley? Where was her daughter?