CPOV

"What do you mean 'missing'?" I feel like my world is crumbling around me. Missing?

"I don't believe she has been kidnapped or anything like that" he says carefully "about a month after the crash she left a note in Escala. She left. No one has heard from her and we don't know where she is. I'm really sorry son." he says sympathetically.

"We have to find her! That is my number one concern right now. Is Taylor still with you guys?"

"Yes. Him and Gail have stayed. They are very loyal to you." Wow..

"Taylor is the first call I need to make. Can I use your phone? Mine is with my belongings but it's dead."

"Certainly. We should be landing in about an hour and a half.. I understand that you want to connect with everyone and find her but you need to relax some first. The hospital only gave me permission to discharge you under the impression that you would take it easy for some time and follow up and Bellevue Medical as well as having Grace check you over as soon as we get back."

Okay, I guess me demanding they let me out of the hospital after being in a coma for some time without any regulations was unreasonable. "Fine. But how the hell am I supposed to relax? Ana is gone and no one knows anything? She could be hurt somewhere or..or worse."

"Look, we all thought she needed some space and would come back but she hasn't. I'm sorry son. And I'm sorry to say that our first priority needs to be your safety."

"What do you mean my safety? What's going on?"

"Like I said, you chopper went down because of sabotage. The way it was set up unless there was an expert flying, which thank God it was, it would have crash landed. We still don't know who is behind this and that is why we have to keep this-you under the radar while we find more information."

"But if Ana is waiting for me? How will she know I'm alive if no one can really know?"

He doesn't say anything..

"Can't someone at least ask around for her? I have to find her dad. It's important."

"I know son. And we will but we have to do it the right way. We can have Taylor and Welch look in to it. I'm pretty sure they already have but it wouldn't hurt to ask. Maybe they know something we don't. But right now on this plane, you need to rest and prepare for your mother and Mia once you get home."

"I'll try." He's right. I know my mother will be smothering me (in a loving way) and checking over me as promised however Mia will probably try to pounce on me and ask me a million questions.

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I'm woken to gentle tapping on my shoulder.

"Son, we're about to land."

Really? That was a quick. I feel like I've only been sleeping for five minutes. I slowly make my way to a seat and buckle in.

"How are you feeling."

"Based on everything that I've been told and where I have been all this time, I don't feel too bad dad."

"I'm glad you're back."

"Me too. Now if we could just find whoever is behind this an Ana, I would feel a Hell of a whole lot better."

We pull in to a closed private hangar, exit the plane, and make our way to my childhood home.

Author's Note: Again, this was a story that I had written a long time ago and took down with the intentions of restarting it soon but I haven't yet gotten the chance to do so. I will never abandon a story and I will be returning to this one (as I have done with others) when I have the chance and feel like there won't be super long waits between the chapters for all of my stories.

Thanks for reading!

-Ari