- Dream Flashback -

A halfway conscious Addison laid on the floor with her eyes closed. Her head is throbbing and her eyelids feel heavy as she tries to open them. She could hear her children's cries, but she wasn't able to get up to help them.

"Mama! Mama!" A little girl about eight cried

"Ma! Ma!" A boy about thirteen cried "Mama!"

Then the little girl screamed, "Wake up, Mama!"

"Mama, please save us." The boy added

- End of dream flashback -

At the hospital with Addison, she wakes up abruptly and is visibly shaken. She knew she was starting to remember the day her family went missing, but she didn't remember who the kids were. She knew that she had kids, because of the picture that stood beside her hospital bed but that was all.

"Don't worry, babies. I'll save you." Addison promised as she glanced at the picture of her family "Mama will save you. Even if it's the last thing I do." But in the back of her head she thought, 'I just have to remember you first.'

A few minutes later, the nurse walked in with Derek behind her. He walked into the room and the nurse walked away.

"Hi Addie. Sorry Amy couldn't come. She had to go back to school." Derek said with a smile before kissing her forehead, but in like a friend way "So how are you doing?"

"Okay. I guess." Addison replied "I still can't really remember what happened, although it's coming back in bits and pieces."

Derek nodded, "Oh. Well, that's okay. It will all come back to you eventually."

"I know. And I do know that two of my children need my help. A little girl and a boy." Addison stated

"Okay well if they need help, I'll help you." Derek told his best friend. He picked up the picture on the bedside table, "Can you point out the ones that you saw? The ones that need your help?"

Addison looked at the picture and studied it before pointing to a light brunette little girl and a dirty blonde haired teenage boy.

"Briar and Benaiah." Derek said "That's Briar and Benaiah. They're eight and fourteen years old."

Addison stroked the faces of the pictures and mumbled with teary eyes, "My babies."

"You'll get them back, Addie." Derek promised her "You'll get them back safe and sound."

"I hope so. I really hope so." Addison responded "They were crying for me and I couldn't do anything. They trusted me to protect them and keep them safe, and now they're gone."

Addison started to cry and then Derek hugged her as he tried to console his crying friend.

Meanwhile at the police station with Detective Williams and Collins.

"I found something." Detective Williams said

Detective Collins looked at him, "What is it?"

"I got a call for Narcotics. There's a drug dealer they've been tracking. He's the biological uncle of two of the kids: eight year old Briar Denee Hanson and fourteen year old Benaiah David Hanson." Detective Williams explained "His street name is Candy Man, but his real name is James Hanson."

Detective Collins nodded, "Do they have any idea where he is?"

"No they've been trying to catch him for years, but he's really good at covering his tracks and over the years he's gotten better." Detective Williams responded

Detective Collins sighed, "Great. Another dead end."

"At least we have some suspects now." Detective Williams stated

"Yeah. You're right." Detective Collins replied

With Briar and Benaiah, the eight year old girl and fourteen year old boy. They're in North Carolina in their biological uncle's house. He's a drug dealer so he keeps them in a locked, windowless room until he needs them to make a 'delivery'. He's just using them.

In the locked room with Benaiah and Briar, they haven't been let out in three days. They are starting to get stir crazy and they are hungry as they haven't been fed in a day.

"Benny, I'm hungry." Briar whined

Benaiah sighed and hugged his sister, "I know, BD, I know. I'm sorry."

"I hate this. It reminds me of when we were in the foster system. Before we found our way to our mommies." Briar stated with soft cries

Benaiah nodded, "I know. Me too, BD."

Then Benaiah started pounding on the door and screaming, "James! James! Let us out! We're hungry."

"Shut up, kid!" James yelled "And stop that banging!"

Benaiah didn't stop. He kept banging and screaming. Eventually James came and unlocked the door.

"I thought I told you to shut up and stop banging?!" James asked rhetorically as he slapped Benaiah across the face and then kicked the boy in the ribs and stomach.

Benaiah was on the ground crying and gasping for breath.

"That will teach you NOT to disobey me." James scolded. Then he looked at Briar and pointed at her, "And you, tomorrow you have to make a delivery for me." Then he left the room, locking the door after him from the outside. The locks were on the outside of the door to prevent Briar and Benaiah from trying to escape.

Once James is gone, Briar hugs her brother as she tried to make him feel better. Just like he did for her in the one and a half years they were in the foster system before finding their way to their moms.

"Why's he so mean to us, Benny?" Briar wondered "He's our uncle. He's supposed to love us."

After catching his breath, Benaiah used all his strength to hug his sister back and then said, "He's no uncle of ours, BD. He's just a man with whom we share DNA. Mama's brother, Archer is our uncle. And Mama's best friend Derek is our uncle too."

Briar gave a nod, "Okay Benny." Then she asked, "Do you think that we'll ever go home?"

Benaiah nodded, "Yes, of course. Mama will find us. She'll bring us home."

"I hope so." Briar told her brother "I miss our mamas."

"I miss them too." Benaiah admitted. Then he repeated softly to himself, "I miss them too."

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