The Search…:
FBI Field Office: L.A:
Colby heard only a few words from the conversation with me. He'd heard dessert, Charlie and triangulate. He didn't know if Kali had heard him or not but went immediately to where Charlie was and told him what he'd heard from me over the phone. Charlie sat at his computer and typed in my phone number, searching for a signal. If Colby had been able to get me on my cell for a few minutes, then there was a possibility that I had told them exactly where to find me. Charlie waited a few minutes to let the system triangulate where I was and then put it up on the main screen. The whole team plus Ian, Lt. Walker, Amita and Larry were in the WAR room, waiting for what the search would bring up. Colby getting ahold of Kali had been the first major step in trying to find her, now they just needed a location to start looking.
The FBI had already searched the whole LA area and had come up empty handed. Now with this new information, it was starting to look like they would find her. When the search area came up on the main screen, all looked in disbelief. The search area was big, but Kali's cell signal was moving so they knew that she wasn't hurt, at least not that bad. But the area they were to be searching was still pretty big. Charlie turned towards Don.
"Where exactly is that Charlie?" Don asked.
"It's in the Mojave Dessert. She was left in the dessert. So what Colby heard was right. She had told us exactly where to look for her."
"Can you make the signal portable so we can find her faster, so we know exactly where to look for her?" David asked.
"Of course, I'll upload it to your GPS devices in the cars. And you should probably have a helicopter on standby or ate least in the air when you find her. Being in the dessert as long as she has already been and probably without water, she's going to be severely dehydrated. Not to mention the fact that she probably doesn't have food or won't know where to look for food in the dessert."
"I wouldn't be too sure about that Professor," Ian began, "I've looked over her file, before she joined the Bureau, she was with her father at his job. He was a survivalist and he probably taught her how to survive in a dessert if she ever needed to. Her father is known around Quantico, he teaches a lot of people, whether they be civilians, military or law enforcement, how to survive in the worst places ever. If anyone knows how to survive, it's Kali."
"Well, then she's going to have a long night because we're not going to be able to get out there till the morning. And there is no point in looking for her in the dark when we won't be able to see anything. We'll alert UCLA to what is going on and have a helicopter on standby just in case she is in worse condition then we think."
"Good idea. Though we may lose her cell signal during the night. She'll most likely turn it off to conserve the battery longer." Amita said.
The team alerted UCLA Medical Center on what was going on and had a helicopter standing by just in case one was needed. Then they waited until the morning to continue the search, though it was one long wait, since they all kept looking at their watches.