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Chapter 4: Found
Everyone was in the kitchen one morning crowded around the laptop as Nora talked on her cell phone. Charles stood near her and tried to listen to the person on the other end. On the computer screen, they saw Chandler laying across the bed and trying to get away from the person that had just come onto the screen.
"What's going on?" Joey knelt down beside Monica and held her.
"I don't know." she whispered. "But he's afraid."
"Look, I don't have it all yet. But I have most of it. I need more time." Nora spoke into the phone as everyone crowded around the laptop. "No. I can get the rest to you within a couple hours. No!"
Suddenly, on the computer screen, they heard a loud gunshot and Chandler screamed before the screen went black.
"What happened?" Ross demanded.
"I lost the signal." Travis' hands were a blur as he started typing away on the keyboard. "I can get it back. I'm sure of it."
"Please hurry." Monica cried as Jack and Judy came over and held her.
"Give me the phone." Charles took it from Nora. "Michael? If you really just shot our son, then you'll never see the money. I can get the rest to you within the hour."
"I got it." Travis said and Monica rushed over. She watched the screen intently as Travis continued to type away.
"Is he ok?" Monica asked softly.
"I can't tell yet."
"He just hung up on me." Charles put the phone down on the table.
"What else did he say?" Nora asked.
"He's giving us an hour. But that's it."
"I just broke down the last firewall." Travis told them.
"What's that mean?" Rachel asked.
"It means that I've pinpointed their location."
"A-Are you sure?" Monica asked.
"Positive. They're holding him in a warehouse down at the docks."
"So what happens now?" Phoebe asked.
"You are all going to stay here while we go and check it out." Agent Marks told them. "It's too dangerous for you all to come."
"No offense," Joey looked at the agents. "But we're going down there no matter what you say. The choice is whether we're going with you or not."
"All right. But you all have to stay out of our way."
"And listen to what we tell you." Agent Parker added.
"Fine." they all followed them out of the apartment and got into the squad cars and they sped away from the building.
Chandler's heart was still racing after they hung up on his parents. The sound of the gun was still echoing in his head. He felt the kidnapper tighten all the cuffs and could hear him doing something near the foot of the bed. Suddenly, he heard a beeping noise and knew what it was.
"Good luck getting out of here in one piece." they snickered as they left the room and the door slammed shut.
"Monica," Chandler whispered. "I love you. Please find me."
The squad cars pulled up to the area of buildings by the docks and everyone scrambled out. Five more cars pulled up and the SWAT team got out and came over to them.
"There's only one possible building that they could be in…" the SWAT team huddled around a blueprint of the building as the others stood off by the squad cars.
"I hope he's here." Monica sighed. "He has to be."
"They'll find him." Joey assured her.
"All right. Let's go." Agent Parker glanced at them. "You stay out here until we tell you it's ok."
They all watched as the teams went into the building. They all started pacing as they tried to wait patiently for any news. Suddenly, the doors to the building opened again and two people were ushered out in handcuffs.
"That's Michael." Nora stood up abruptly.
"That means that Chandler's in the building." Monica said.
"Let's go." Joey told them.
"They told us not to go in unless they said we could." Ross told him.
"Well, I don't care." Monica told him. "My husband's in there."
Monica followed behind Joey as they all went into the building. They walked down the narrow hallway and saw the agents outside an opened door. They pushed their way through and saw Chandler restrained on a small cot as Agent Ward slowly approached the foot of the bed.
"Chandler?" Monica asked softly.
"Don't come in." Agent Ward told them.
"What's going on?"
"There's a bomb." Agent Marks told them.
"Oh my god," they all gasped.
"Not to worry. Agent Ward spent ten years on the bomb squad before he joined us." Agent Parker told them. "He never lost anyone."
"But is Chandler ok?" Ross asked.
"As far as we can tell. The ambulance is on its way."
"Ok, Chandler." they could hear Agent Ward tell him. "I need you to stay very, very still while I do this."
They all watched as he took out some kind of tool and messed with the wires. They heard a snap and Agent Ward turned to look at all of them and smiled.
"I stopped it." he told them.
"Let me in, then." Monica pushed her way in. "I want to see my husband."
"Monica?" Chandler turned his head in the direction of her voice. "Is that really you?"
"It's me." she assured him. "Are you ok?"
"Get these cuffs off me. They're really digging into my skin." he moaned.
"We got it." Agent Ward unlocked the cuffs from his wrists and his ankle as Agent Marks took the tape off his eyes.
Chandler slowly pulled his arms from behind him and lay flat on his back. He slowly opened his eyes, but closed them against the bright light.
"Too bright," he mumbled. "It hurts my eyes."
"Here," Joey heard him and reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out a pair of sunglasses and handed them to Monica.
"Better?" Monica asked as she placed them on Chandler.
"A little." he whispered.
"Coming through," a couple EMTs came into the small room with a gurney.
"He looks a little dehydrated and malnourished." one of them said. "Did they let you eat at all, Mr. Bing?"
"No."
"Are you hurt anywhere else other than your leg?" the other one asked as he pulled up his pant leg.
"My hand." Chandler tried to lift his right hand that was poorly wrapped in a cloth that was blood-soaked.
"He's lost a lot of blood." the cloth was unwrapped.
"My hand feels numb." Chandler mumbled.
"Let's move him." they transferred Chandler to the gurney and started to push him out of the room.
"I'm riding with him." Monica followed them down the narrow hall and outside to where the ambulance was waiting.
"Chandler," Nora and Charles spotted them and rushed over to him. "Are you ok? I'm so sorry."
"It's not your fault." he said softly.
"We need to get him to the hospital." one of the EMTs told her. "He's lost a lot of blood."
"We'll follow you." Charles told them as Monica climbed into the ambulance and took Chandler's good hand.
"Mon," he turned to look at her.
"It's ok. You're going to be fine."
"I love you." he whispered.
"I love you, too." she smiled at him.
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