The Following morning
All the agents beside Jack are sitting around going over everything they found the night before and any links to anything that they have also found with semi fresh eyes after a few hours sleep.
9am
"Agent Spade, Agent Johnson can you come with me please." Agent Jim Barrington asks the two. Sam and Viv both look at him, last time they saw this officer was just over eight and half years ago now. Bringing back memories that both have done their best to keep hidden away from everyone.
"Sam, Viv will you two be ok?" Danny asks and everyone around picks up his worried tone in his voice.
"We shall see, if it is anything like last time then no." Viv says.
"Danny what do you know that we don't?" Asks Elena.
"Last time we saw that Agent Sam and Viv were sent in on an undercover operation that didn't end well. Anything other than that will have to come those three in Jacks office." Danny says to Martin and Elena. He doesn't want to get into too much detail about it as he wasn't there, he didn't have to experience what those three did. Though he did see the effects it did have on them, till they were able to get themselves sorted out.
Jacks office
"Ok this case you are working on involves a case we worked on nearly nine years ago. After talking to the heads they have agreed that we can unseal Martin Stallone's file but there is a catch."
"And why am I not surprised that there is a catch to this Agent Barrington." Jack asks him not at all impressed to see him in his office after what happened the last time they worked together.
"The information doesn't leave this office."
"Then how am I meant to conduct my case, check their background, interview them, find out what they know and if they are behind this if it can't leave this office?" Vivian asks.
"Your case isn't Agent Malone leading this?"
"No not since my ex-wife and two daughters are involved I have stepped aside and Vivian has taken over." Jack says as if it is nothing new or unusually for Vivian to lead cases within his team.
"Agent Barrington all three of us here do not like you not after what you put us through the last time we worked together, right now we are looking for a missing eight year old boy, we all have had little sleep last night as we were here till the early hours of this morning, but we are all here still working to find this missing child all of us knowing how we would feel if it was us sitting there waiting for news, waiting for more information and also how upset we would be to find out the agents responsible for finding our child had decided not to push to uncover everything regarding their child. And if you do not let us use this information I will make sure that the parents and anyone else involved knows that it was you who stopped us from finding this boy alive." Vivian says so crossly and firmly at the same time that Sam and Jack just sit there with smirks on their faces and inside praising and thanking Vivian for speaking up.
Agent Barrington hands over the file to Vivian. "I can tell you one thing before you make the choice to open that file and also open a huge can of worms in the process, but the two names in there have nothing to do with your case."
"And how can you be so sure of this?" Viv asks as she places her finger inside the file ready to open it up.
"Because we know them, because they are still basically under watch by us. Not just by my team but by most of the FBI building here in New York." Jim says to them.
"Ok then why are these two in here then you could have spoken to me alone?"
"Because if you do decide to open that file Agent Johnson they will need to know." He says and that alone makes Vivian decide to open the file.
She starts to read the information inside the folder, as she starts to read it she becomes pissed and angry, she throws the file on Jacks desk before storming out of the office and heading off away from the office her mobile phone in her hand.
Jack takes hold of the file and opens it and lays it flat on his desk Sam comes around and starts to read it while standing beside Jack. As Jack reads the file he can't believe what he is reading, what he is seeing before his eyes.
Sam she reads it several times over and over again before her legs give out and Jack quickly wraps an arm around her and gentle sits her on his knee, not too worried about what the other agents outside the office see.
"No this can't be right we were told he was dead." She says weakly trying to absorb the information in front of her. "You Bastard." She says as she gets up and goes around to Jim and goes and pushes him.
"Sam calm down." Jack says as he goes around and gets in between the two to make sure Sam doesn't do anything stupid.
"Why the hell should I, this bastard's damn operation caused us both pain and suffering and now he's telling us this." She says as she turns to Jack and he can see the pain in her eyes.
"Agent Malone, Agent Spade."
"Don't Agent me you bastard you had no bloody right to do what you did back then. No right at bloody all." Sam says as she storms out of the Jack's office, slamming the door behind her, the sound of the slamming door causing everyone on their floor to turn and look towards her. Tears running down her face, the hurt and pain just becoming far too much for her.
"Agent Barrington I think it is best you leave my office right now." Jack says crossly as he goes to sit back down at his desk, he places his head in his hands as Jim walks out of Jack's office.
The next two hours goes by quickly for some but slow for others, Vivian returned about ten minutes after Agent Barrington left and was not telling anyone about what happened in Jack's office, she knows she needs to talk to both of them but how does she do this without pissing them off more and making them look like suspects. Everyone has noticed how Jack has stayed in his office and after witnessing the state one agent looked like after entering his office no one has gone in yet, they also noticed that Sam hasn't returned back to the office and when both Danny and Viv tried ringing her they would end up with her voice mail.
"Ok we only have use able to work this case so please put your heads down and work hard we need to find this boy what do we have so far."
"So far the Chicago office has been able to give us nothing, well nothing in the fact that so far they have found no one who could have done this that they have faced in court." Martin says as he flicks through the notes he has made.
"Ok Danny what about you?"
"Well I decided to check more into this appointment and who would have known about it, this person had to know about it, had planned to do it on a day when the child would be removed from school and would know about it, but also Martin had to have known this person why else would he go happily with them, The head master statement stated that Martin looked happy and fine going off with this person, and also it seemed as if he knew this other person was going to pick him up. He also stated. We wouldn't have let Martin go if he had said he didn't know this person or had said why mummy isn't coming like she said. Also they don't normally allow them out without a permission slip but he was unable to get in touch with them and so rang the hospital who confirmed the appointment, he thought he had done everything he could do and knowing the child had medical issues he allowed it in the end."
"I also found out that Mr Stallone has issued divorce papers he did it just as they arrived here in New York. His were filed in the Chicago office but hers have been filed through a New York office, he is also asking for full custody of Martin on medical grounds." Elena says once Danny has finished speaking.
"So this could be more a parent trying to stop another parent taking their child." Vivian says to them.
"Have we had any luck opening up the adoption file yet?" Martin asks Viv.
"Yes we have and I will be talking to and conducting the interviews on the two involved. Danny I will also like you in there two please."
"Whatever you need Viv." He says to her not sure what is going on.
"Hi everyone." Comes from Hanna as she gets closer to the group, and she has baby Finn in his push chair.
"Hanna what are you doing here and with Finn?" Vivian asks concerned at why the two are here.
"Well I could be asking the same thing but Sam isn't answering her phone and the nanny tried dad with no luck and when she rang home I answered she had to run off for some family emergency and someone had to take Flynn, so I said I would pick him up and bring him here I said maybe they were busy but I see dad is in his office why isn't he answering his phone."
"Along story sweetie."
"It has to do with Martin doesn't it?"
"Yes it does." Viv says to her.
"Hanna what are you doing here with Finn?" Jack says as he walks towards the group having seen Hanna when he looked up and out of his office to check on what was going on around him.
"Well if you and Sam would answer your damn phones you would know that the nanny had to go due to a family emergency but as per normal you can't be contacted." Hanna bites back at her father.
"What do you mean Sam didn't answer her phone?" Jack asks her and she hears the worry in his tone of voice as he kneels down in front of his oldest child.
"The nanny has been trying for several hours to get hold of either of you two with no luck, so she rang home and I answered she told me you guys weren't answering. So I offered to get Finn and bring him here just in case you two were too busy to answer and knowing once here you guys would find out what was going on. I did do the right thing by going and getting him, bringing him here didn't I?" She asks her dad. Now concerned about if she had done the right thing by bringing Finn to the office.
"Yes sweetie you did do the right thing. Viv have you heard from Sam since the meeting in my office first thing?"
"Nope we can't get through to her either."
"Shit." Jack says knowing just where she will be and why she isn't answering her phone.
"I'll go get her."
"Jack?" Viv asks him.
"She will be feeling all over the place, she is deeply hurt right now, and properly feeling like hell. There is a place she goes to when she gets like this."
"I know she will be Jack and so are you even if you say otherwise. But once you two are back here I do need to interview you both for this case."
"I know Viv, but first I need to go get Sam." He says as he walks away from the group to go find her.
"Hanna why don't you go to your father's office with Finn, I'll be in in a few moments." Viv says to her and she gets up pushing Finn with her to her dads office.
"Viv what is going on, why do you have to interview Sam and Jack?" Martin asks and Danny is sitting there.
"Don't tell me that bastard been lying to you three all this time and more so took a child away from its parents without them giving consent?" Danny says out loud clicking on to what is going on and why there was the visit this morning. Vivian just nods her head.
"No wonder Sam reacted like she did, and Jack oh god, how the hell did he get away with doing that to them, and making you part of it all. And did Jack not kill him this morning then?" Danny says as he gets up and heads off to cool down knowing his temper is getting the better of him right now. The three left sitting there can tell he needs to take a break and no one bothers to follow him all knowing it is best to just let him go work it through on his own. Knowing that he will most likely end up in the FBI gym taking it out on one of the punching bags in there.
"Vivian is there something Elena and I should know about?" Martin asks and Viv sits there thinking.
"Yes you should know but I shouldn't be the one telling you, it is up to Jack and Sam to tell you two about it all."
"Well if you and Danny know why can't we?"
"It's not that simple Martin, there is a lot of information that goes with it all, and anyone who knows about what happened on that undercover operation won't speak about it because what happened wasn't nice at all." She say to them before getting up and going to see Hanna
New York City
"Sam sweetheart you ok?" Jack asks as he gets closer to her, she turns and he sees the tears that are falling, the wet cheeks and the red eyes from the crying she has been doing.
"No." She says as she shakes her head at him. "All this time I thought he was dead, I thought we had lost him thanks to that that idiot agent that sent us undercover." She says as she feels his arms wrap around her she turns and buries her head into his chest. "Why did they take him away from us Jack, why?" Sam says as more tears fall down her face.
"I'm not sure why they did it but I will make sure I find out why."
"But what about him; what about us; what do we do Jack?" She says to him.
"I don't know what we do about him, but right now we need each other to get through this, now let's head back to work. Viv needs to interview us."
"Oh god Maria she is going to find out now. Jack..." Sam starts saying as she gets worried about how Maria is going to handle the fact that she was pregnant with Jacks child.
"Don't worry about her sweetheart, if she says anything I will just inform her that she isn't any better either." He says as he leads her back to his car to head back to the office.