Caroline Dumas waited up for her daughter to return home. She looked at the clock on the VCR, it read 12:15.
"Where is Kimberly?" Caroline wondered. "Maybe Jason knows."
Caroline left her house and went over to Scott's house. She rang the doorbell; Detective Maxwell Scott answered the door.
"Carri, what are you doing here?" Max said.
"Can I speak to Jason?" Carri asked.
"Do you know what time it is? Jason's asleep." Max said.
"Please Max, it is important." Carri begged.
"Max, honey, who's at the door? Oh hi Carri, what are you doing here?" Amanda said.
"Mandy, she is here to Jason. Why don't you stay with Carri, I will go get Jason." Max said.
Max went up to his son's bedroom. He was fast asleep. Max leaned down to wake his son up.
"Hey Jase, wake up." Max said.
"Dad? What is going on?" Jason asked rubbing his eyes. Why was father waking him up?
"You have company. Put a robe on and come downstairs." Max said then left the room.
Jason looked at his clock, maybe Kim is back with any luck. What if this is about her disappearance? Jason took a deep breath and went down stairs. He saw Kim's mother standing there.
"Carri?" Jason said.
"Jason, do you know where my daughter is? Is she out with Tommy?" Carri asked.
"Carri," Jason said again.
"If you are covering for her, please just tell me." Carri said.
"If you are covering, you better start talking now." Max said sternly.
Jason and his friends agreed not to tell, but now he is being backed into a corner. Jason just stared at the ground.
"Jason, please she should have been home over 2 hours ago. But, she hasn't shown up." Carri begged him.
"Talk now or you are grounded." Max said.
"Carri, Kim isn't with Tommy. I wish she was, but she's not." Jason said
"Then where is she?" Carri asked.
"I don't know. She was supposed to meet us at the basketball and never showed. We looked for her and all we found was her backpack. I was hoping that she set it down and got distracted and went to the mall. Jason explained. He lied on the last part, but he couldn't tell about the chloroform.
Carri looked like she was going to pass out. Amanda helped her sit down.
"Why didn't you say something earlier?" Max asked his son.
"I was hoping, she went to the mall." Jason lied.
"Do you have her backpack?" Carri asked.
"Yeah, I was hanging onto it for her." Jason said.
He didn't actually have the backpack. It was at the Command Center.
"Can you go get it?" Carri told him.
Jason went to his room and teleported to the Command Center to retrieve the bag. He was also sure to remove the morpher and the power coin and left them there. He then brought the bag downstairs and handed it to Carri.
"Come Carri, I will take you home. Don't worry, Max will find her." Mandy said.
After Carri and Mandy left, Jason was looking up at her father.
"Night Dad." Jason said heading for the stairs.
"Freeze! Sit!" Max commanded.
Jason turned and went to the couch to sit.
"What aren't you saying?" Max asked.
"Kim is always being harassed by kids at school, but they would never hurt her." Jason said.
"Are you sure about that?" Max asked.
"No, I am not sure. We have always had to save her, before it goes too far." Jason said.
"Does this happen often?" Max said.
Jason nodded.
"You said 'we' whose we?" Max asked.
"Zack and Billy help sometimes. But, mostly it's Tommy and me." Jason said.
"Alright go to bed." Max said.
Jason went back to bed.
"Please Kim, wherever you are, please be okay." Jason said staring at the ceiling
