The house was silent. Mac couldn't hear anything except his own breathing. Ty had escaped, and most likely not been found. Yet. If Ty was found, James and Adrian would… Mac preferred not to think about it.

He hoped that he wouldn't be beaten today; he was already so sore and in so much pain.

Mac looked at the knife on the floor. The last thing he really, really wanted was to get stabbed. He'd have blood loss, and what if the knife hit an artery? He'd be dead before he could blink.

Sitting all alone in the living room made him start thinking. He thought about many things, his team, they were also his only family. He was not ready to leave them yet, especially not without telling Stella some things. He needed to tell her that she meant a lot to him. He was confused, for the first time in his life, he felt completely confused about his feelings towards Stella. They had been friends for so long and now he wanted something more. He couldn't remember when he had started feeling like that about Stella, but he guessed that he had been doing it for years. He just hadn't realized it until now.

If there was anyone that Mac would want to spend the rest of his life with, it was Stella. He just hoped she could put up with him. He still missed Claire, he would always miss her. And sometimes Mac Taylor pushed everyone out in a relationship, instead of opening his heart. He didn't really have an answer as to why yet.

His thoughts were interrupted as James appeared in the doorway. He looked furious at Mac.

"Your little buddy is gone. Completely gone. Like wiped of the earth." James growled, "Did he tell you that he was going to run away?"

"No." Mac said.

James chuckled, "Yeah… right."

James then picked up the knife and pushed it against Mac's neck.

"I'll ask again, did he tell you that he'd run away? And don't lie this time." James smirked.

"I'm not lying."

James glared at Mac and then pushed the knife harder against his neck.

"Last chance." James said.

"He never told me. I'm not lying."

Before Mac had a chance to react James stabbed him in the shoulder. Mac groaned in pain. He had been taken completely by surprise.

"This is officially your last chance." James smirked.

"Okay, he told me." Mac groaned.

James smirked at him, "I forgot to tell you that no matter what your answer is, you'll still be stabbed."

James stabbed Mac in the chest and stomach area. Mac screamed in pain and gasped every time the knife pierced his skin. He tried to breathe as James kept on stabbing more and more, as he just got more and more frustrated.

James then tipped the chair on to the right side and watched as Mac groaned and gasped, blood pouring from his wounds.

"I guess I'll have to clean up the floor later, since you're bleeding all over the place." James smirked and left Mac alone.

-I-

12:30

Lindsay had just been at her doctor's appointment. One day early. She was now back at the lab, and she had a little picture of the baby with her. As she already knew, she was 6 weeks pregnant. Her doctor had also told her that the baby looked healthy.

"Hey Lindsay!" Danny called from one of the labs.

"What's going on?" Lindsay asked as she joined Danny in the lab.

"I remembered that NY Public Library has surveillance cameras." Danny smiled, "I'm so pissed at myself for not remembering that earlier."

"Nobody else thought about it either, so don't beat yourself up about it." Lindsay said, "Let me guess? You found our killers?"

"Only one of them." Danny said. And pressed play on the video. Lindsay and Danny watched as Mac looked behind a shelf and then got knocked down with an iron pipe. He was then dragged out of the library. And the killer made the mistake of looking up to the camera just before getting out of the back door. Danny paused right at the moment when the killer showed his face.

Danny smiled at Lindsay.

"This is great Danny! Mrs. Wess can tell us which one of her sons this is." Lindsay smiled.

"Yeah, I'll have Flack bring her in." Danny said.

"I'll tell Stella what you found."

"Wait." Danny said, "So did you have an early doctor's appointment?"

Lindsay nodded.

"How did it go?" Danny asked.

"Good. I'm 6 weeks pregnant and the baby looks healthy." Lindsay said, "Listen Danny, if you don't want the baby, then that's your decision, but um…"

"You're keeping it." Danny said.

"Yes, I am."

Danny nodded, "Well, I already told you that I'll help you raise the baby. I'll take my responsibility as a father."

Lindsay nodded, "And how awkward will things be between us?"

Danny looked confused at her.

"Come on Danny. Ever since that night six weeks ago, things has been… weird."

"I know."

"So?"

"We'll take it slow. First we should save Mac and then get used to the thought of being parents in almost eight months. Then we can talk about other things." Danny said.

"Alright. Now you call Don and I call Stella." Lindsay said.

-I-

13:00

Mac slowly opened his eyes. His vision was blurry and his shirt was covered with blood. He tried to keep his eyes opened, but it didn't really work. Until he heard a scream. He knew that the James and Adrian had just killed someone else. Mac couldn't remember how many were left before it was his turn, but the way things were looking now, he'd probably die in less then 24 hours if he didn't get some help.

He looked down the hallway and saw Adrian carrying a big bag, with a body inside.

James walked in to the room, he was still furious. Which wasn't so hard to understand since Ty was gone. If Ty managed to get to the police, James and his brother would soon find themselves inside jail.

But Mac didn't know where exactly he was. A forest? Suburb? Or what? If miles and miles of wood surrounded the house, then Ty probably wouldn't make it. He would get lost and maybe even die. Or James and Adrian would find him. Both alternatives were bad, very bad.

"You know, I hate marines for one reason. Only one reason." James sighed, "They are trained killers."

Mac shook his head, it wasn't true. He was not a trained killer.

"Oh it is true. You see a big marine guy stabbed my father to death." James said, "And he did it because he had post traumatic stress."

Mac knew about that. He had seen some friends' chance because of a war. He knew that the marine that killed James's father probably hadn't known what he was doing at the time. That didn't make it right though, but neither was it a reason to kill innocent marines.

"You see the marines train these guys to become big and strong, and then send them over to Iraq and when they come back, they know all about combat and how to kill someone. And they take it out on innocent people like my father." James said, "So therefore this is my way of getting revenge of my father's death."

Mac slowly opened and closed his eyes. He couldn't stay focused and soon the became unconscious.

-I-

13:15

"Do we have an address?" Stella asked Don.

Marjorie Wess had identified the man on the surveillance tape as her son James. And now Don was trying to find and address for James Wess.

"Not yet." Don said, "This guy is hard to find."

Stella nodded. The entire lab was more cheerful, they all knew how close they were on finding their supervisor.

Suddenly a bruised man walked inside the PD. He was limping and bleeding from his nose ad mouth.

"Oh my god, sir, what happened to you?" Stella asked as she assisted the man in sitting down on a chair.

Danny handed him a glass of water.

"Call an ambulance." Stella said, "Sir what happened?"

"I'm an ex-marine." He said, "My name is Ben Mast. I made them believe I was dead."

TBC…

AN: School has started, so that means: homework. However, I'll still try to update weekly! Please Review!