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"It really doesn't make any sense, Katie. He just stopped as soon as he saw you." Logan was pacing back and forth down in the waiting room, where the group was gathered. Katie shrugged. "Maybe he wasn't looking at me. Maybe he was just lost in thought because of something one of us said. There are lots of possibilities," Katie answered, leaning back in the hard blue chair, trying to get comfortable.

Trinity sat in Kendall's lap. James turned to examine his niece. "Maybe he was looking at Trinity. She does look a lot like him, and he might've been thinking about how Katie was pregnant before he left." James suggested. Kendall frowned, bouncing Trinity up and down. "I don't know. To me it sounds like he was out doing something…dirty." He said, not wanting to really get into his theory around little Trinity.

Jo rolled her eyes and shook her head. "Well, who knows where he could've been? He could've been hurt, you know, trying to live on his own after all of these years." Kendall gave her a glare, and she shrugged. "Come on, this is Carlos that we are talking about here. The same guy who your Mom used to make dinosaur chicken nuggets for and he used to make them talk. At the age of fifteen." Jo stressed the last part.

Kendall shook his head. "That is probably true, but he made a lot of money from being in Big Time Rush with us. I mean, it wasn't a lot compared to like, Justin Bieber or something, but he had enough to keep him alive for two years in the bank." Kendall pointed out. Katie huffed, blowing some hair out of her eyes. Kendall did have a point.

"But your mom made sure that we didn't have any access to those bank accounts until the age of twenty one, so that we would have it for things like college or something." Logan pointed out (1). James nodded in agreement, snapping out of the silence he had been in. "Remember? She was talking to us about it and we thought it was such an incredibly stupid thing for her to do, because we were all always broke." James reminded his friend. Kendall rolled his eyes, and James took this as a sign that Kendall didn't have a comeback.

"Carlos isn't twenty one yet?" Jo asked in confusion. Katie shook her head. "His birthday is in May; he is still just twenty now." Katie answered. Jo nodded, her blonde ponytail bobbing up and down. Trinity snuggled into Kendall's chest. They all sat in silence for a while, and soon the soft snores of Trinity were heard. James decided to break the silence at that moment. "Kendall, what exactly do you think Carlos was out doing? He's Carlos. He isn't like that." He pointed out.

Kendall shrugged. "People can change, can't they?" Was all he said. James' face twisted in anger, but he didn't say anything more when he saw the sleeping Trinity in the blonde's lap.


"Do you know what happened yet?" Was the first thing that Mrs. Knight asked when she saw the group in the waiting room. Logan shook his head. "They are examining him now, and we haven't heard anything yet." Mrs. Knight noticed how tired Logan, Katie and James looked. Kendall and Jo were a different story, because she knew that they had probably been at a club or something.

"How long have they been checking him out?" Mrs. Knight asked suspiciously. Kate shrugged while trying to wake up the sleeping child that was now in her arms. "A while, I guess."

Camille walked in without saying a word, and sat down next to Logan, squeezing one of his hands. Katie felt a pang in her heart when she saw this. When was the last time someone had held her hand like that?

Mrs. Knight took a seat next to Katie, staring at her sleeping granddaughter. This was going to be a long night….


"Katie, wake up." Katie heard a distant voice as she was shaken by a pair of strong arms. She opened her arms and blinked a few times before she could see clearly; James standing in front of her, his expression slightly excited. "They are going to give us info about Carlos."

This made Katie sit up instantly, her head spinning a bit as she did so. A doctor, or a nurse person – let's just say someone who worked in the hospital who were in uniform – stood in front of the group. Katie noticed that Kendall, Jo, Trinity and Camille weren't in the room anymore. Katie started to freak out when she didn't see her daughter, and James started rubbing her back. "It's okay. Everyone else went down to the cafeteria for breakfast, and they took Trinity."

Katie nodded, letting out a few sighs. No one spoke for a few moments, staring at each other. "How'd it go?" Logan asked, filling in the silence. The doctor person sat down in a chair next to the group, then got back up. "Maybe we should take this into my office." He suggested, looking uncomfortable as he turned and looked at all of the other people in the waiting room.

Mrs. Knight nodded slowly, getting up out of her chair, followed by Logan and finally James and Katie.

James was an awkward subject for Katie. She often thought about dating him while Carlos was gone, but she knew that she couldn't do that to him. Besides, James was out with another woman most of the time, either to get his mind off of Carlos or just for the hell of it. Sometimes she thought of him as a surrogate husband – if that made sense. He took care of Trinity and was a great brother to her, sometimes even better than Kendall. Did Katie want more than that? Maybe.

The group followed the man down the hall to his office, which was basically a plain white room with diagrams of the human body all over the walls, and pictures of kids and a woman on his desk along with a computer and a few of those puzzle games that you filled with water and tried to get the ball to the bottom or something like that.

Everyone sat down and the doctor folded his hands on his desk, taking a look between everyone who was in his office. He cleared his throat. "Well?" James asked, sounding impatient. The doctor looked up at him and nodded. "Well, we aren't exactly sure what he was doing while he was gone. We are working closely with the police to try and find out, and we would like to have him speak to a psychologist so that we could get a bit more information out of him." The doctor started.

Logan's eyebrows furrowed. "Well, what do you think that he had been doing?" He asked. The doctor shook his head before answering. "To be honest, I am not exactly sure. I was told that the only reason that the police found him was because he was in a car accident, apparently with another person in the car. The car was stolen, and that started a car chase with the police, resulting in the crash." The doctor explained.

Katie's eyebrows rose. "He was in a car chase?" She asked. The doctor paused for a moment, and then shrugged. "The police had to chase the car that he was in, yes, but I don't believe that this Carlos was the one driving the car. I don't exactly have permission to tell you this, but the other man who was in the car is currently in this hospital."

James almost slammed his shaking hands down on the desk. "What else can you tell us?" He asked in a quiet voice. The doctor cleared his voice again. "I don't understand why he struggled so much during the examination, unless the bruises we found were signs of physical abuse…"

At this Katie's eyes widened. "You think that they are signs of abuse? Where else would the bruises be from? God, what kind of doctor are you?" She threw her body back in her seat in anger. The doctor's mouth opened and formed an "o".

"Katie!" Mrs. Knight admonished. The nineteen year old just rolled her eyes. Logan was trying to think up different reasons of why Carlos would have so many bruises. James' mouth was opened slightly in amusement, because he totally agreed. Katie had taken the words right out of his mouth. Mrs. Knight turned back to the doctor. "I am so sorry. She was up most of the day, and I am sure that she didn't mean that…"

The doctor shook his head and waved the apology away. "It's okay; I understand. We do think that physical abuse is the answer, all though the bruises could be from pulling stunts or something along those lines. Many young men and women alike try to pull the stupidest stunts while other people place bets on them." The doctor explained. Mrs. Knight smiled and shot Katie another look, which she ignored.

The doctor went on. "We have found evidence of different burns on his arms, as well as different broken bones, some new and some as old as two years. Many different cuts and stains of dried blood. I'm guessing that he hasn't had a shower in a while." Katie winced when she heard this. She wondered if some of the broken bones had been cause by Kendall, before Carlos left.

"Do you want to know what I think happened?" The doctor paused for a moment before continuing. Logan was listening intently, obviously calculating something as the doctor spoke. James looked down at his sneakers, his hands clenching into tighter fists by the second.

Mrs. Knight's hands were shaking, but she managed to keep her on the doctor as he spoke. As for Katie, well, she was a mix of everyone. Her shaking hands were in fists, her nails digging deeper into her skin. She stared at the pictures on the doctor's desk. The woman, who he guessed was his wife, was very pretty. Two little kids, as well, who looked just like their Dad. Or maybe they were his niece and nephew.

Katie knew that she was only thinking these things to take her mind off of Carlos. She made herself angrier by doing this, but she knew that if she seriously considered the things that the doctor was saying, she would start bawling.

"Judging by the background information you gave us about the day that he disappeared, and the examination…. I have speaking with one of the officers, and we think that he ran away for sure. We aren't exactly sure if was running away for good, or just to clear his head. The way that he was struggling… the man that he was with in the car, did something to him. Don't take my word for this, though. The police want to speak to the other man in the truck to get more information. I would speak to one of them about this case." The doctor finished.

Katie sat in her seat, frozen. Mrs. Knight stood up and shook the doctor's hand. "Thank you for the information." She said with a small, forced smile. "We will begin treating him right away, but we might have to keep him sedated throughout the process. I am so sorry." He apologized.


Kind of short chapter. Sorry, but I wanted to update this story. I tried to answer a lot of questions in this chapter, and I know that there are still some questions to be answered. Sorry if it is a bit too lacking in info or anything like that. I like to have suspense in stories.

(1) I was reading the review from iluvbtr166, and I was thinking about what she said with Carlos and the money. But did you notice how he never seems to have any money in the show? He is always broke or something…then I was researching and I read that kids (under the age of eighteen or twenty one) who work in the music or acting business have to have a bank account where a certain percentage of their earnings have to be deposited and they can't access it till they are 21 or 18, so this was kind of my variation :)

Thanks for pointing that out.

Thanks to:

iluvbtr166: Uh, yeah... tried to add explanations for that stuff in here :/
I know that my writing can be confusing sometimes, so sorry :(

Freakycutiecarlos: Thank you! Your review made me feel so happy! And you kind of find out what happened to Carlos in this chapter…again, thanks :)

Anonymous Skrtle: I guess the stuff that happened to him wasn't that bad…but then again, I am always ready aghast, so it might seem kind of normal to me :) Thanks for the review

BTRlover98: LOL, thank you for your super long review! I LOVE THOSE! LOL.