Silence Ch. 7
Stirring slightly, Stella finally opened her eyes, and Mac was by her side in a second. Not recognizing her surroundings, she began to struggle, and Mac gently placed his hand over hers, calming her down.
'What happened?' Stella asked weakly, her green eyes focused on Mac's blue ones.
'Dani's missing.' Mac told her. He did not even try to hide the fact from her, for he knew that she would find out anyway.
The entire incident then came back to Stella, and her head fell back onto the soft pillow. 'I need to get out of here. I promised to keep Dani safe. I have to go find her.' Stella said determinedly, sitting up and getting ready to get off the bed.
'Lie back down, Stella.' Mac told her sternly. 'You have a slight concussion from the blow to your head, and you should have a rest.'
'Mac. We all know who took Dani, and how dangerous they are. Are you seriously telling me to just lie here and let them take her?' Stella asked angrily.
'Stella, all of us are out looking for her. If you do get dizzy in the middle of the investigation, that is going to slow us down. Besides, should something happen to you, what is going to happen to me?' Mac asked, using the guilt card. 'Come on, Stell. Stay in bed. If not for your health, for me?'
'Why do you have to guilt trap me?' Stella grumbled as she climbed back onto the hospital bed.
'You only agree because I am right.' Mac told her, kissing her on her temple. 'I'm going off to help them. Do you want me to get Jessica or Lindsay to stay with you?'
'No.' Stella answered immediately. 'I want them to help with finding Dani right now.'
'Very well, but the nurse will be keeping an eye on you, so do not even try to get out of the hospital. Promise?' Mac asked, raising an eyebrow.
'I promise.' Stella answered reluctantly.
Just as he was about to leave, he felt Stella pulling his hand gently.
'Yes?' Mac asked, looking at her uncertain expression.
'We will find Dani, won't we?' Stella asked.
'We will find her, safe and sound.' Mac reassured her as he hugged her close.
*Silence*
'I want to go home.' Daniela cried, as she struggled to free herself from Carina's grip.
'I know, sweetheart. We are going home now. You must have missed mommy and daddy.' Carina soothed her, holding on tightly to her.
'I want to go home with Uncle Mac and Auntie Stella.' Dani cried again, and Carina's face hardened.
'You will do no such thing.' Carina seethed as she slap Dani across the face.
'Shut her up.' Louie called from the front where he was driving the dirty white van.
'There now, Ella, everything is fine. You are going home with mommy and daddy, to a place where you belong.' Carina told her, trying to hush her.
'I am not Ella. I am Dani. And I want to go home to Uncle Mac and Auntie Stella.' Daniela insisted, and Louie landed a stinging slap on her face.
Daniela stopped fighting, her eyes wide with horror and disbelief sparkled in her eyes.
'Emily and Ella's parents never hit them. They loved them. You are not my parents.' Daniela yelled, and with that, she jumped off the seat and attempted to wretched the door open.
Pulling up to the side of the road, Louie switched of the car engine. 'That's enough, you little brat.' Louie snarled, and with that, he whipped out a syringe filled with medication, and injected into Daniela's arms.
'What did you just do to our daughter.' Carina yelled in horror.
'It's just a sedative, Carina. I promise, you will get your two days with her. I won't kill her just yet.' Louie assured her.
The medication started to take effect just then, but the entire conversation was heard and remembered by a half-conscious Daniela.
'They are going to kill me soon.' Daniela realized, as the sedative took hold of her entire system, and she fell completely unconscious.
*Silence*
'What have you got, Lindsay?' Mac asked as he hurried into the lab, hoping that Lindsay had managed to find something from the small amount of soil on the brake skid patterns, which probably came from the van that Louie and Carina used to kidnap Daniela.
'There is something weird in here. I found trace amount of human bone.' Lindsay told him, and Mac frowned.
'Did you check the composition of the bones?' Mac asked, and Lindsay nodded.
'The bones probably belonged to someone who died at least fifty years ago.' Lindsay started, and Mac cut her off.
'So now we have a fifty year old murder? That can wait for a bit longer. We have got to find Dani now.' Mac told her, and Lindsay rolled her eyes.
'Mac, let me finish. There was signs of termite damage on the bones. If the body was just buried in the soil, no termites will come. We usually only find these if the body was encased in a coffin.' Lindsay told him. 'I think that they are keeping her somewhere close to a graveyard.'
'There are so many graveyards within New York. How are we going to find which one.' Mac asked in frustration.
'Perhaps I can help with that.' Sheldon announced as he walked into the room, and handed Mac his touchscreen board. 'I found traces of aluminium in the soil, After I put it under the microscope, I found that it had a slight trace of blue paint mixed really well in there. I scanned the paint into the computer, and there was a result for it in DMV, showing us the brand of car. However, the car has not been in the market for years.'
'Old cars, graveyard. Melton car recycle.' Mac said suddenly.
'What's that?' Lindsay frowned.
'Melton Car Recycling Centre is in the Bronx. They moved there several years ago, but before that, it was a graveyard. There were a lot of protests at that time, because the bodies were just taken back out carelessly, and a couple of coffins were damaged, with the bones falling onto the ground.
'There is a very good chance that they have taken Daniela there.
'Let's go.' Mac ordered, and the entire team piled onto the avalanches.
*Silence*
'The thermal indicator showed that there are three people in there, one of them definitely a child.' Mac announced, and the team nodded, as they put on their bullet-proof vest and secured it with the Velcro straps.
'Let's go get Dani back.' Mac told them, and they all nodded.
As they walked into the room, a gunshot was heard towards their right. They immediately raced towards that direction, and stopped dead in their tracks when the three people they were looking for came into sight.
Louie was lying on the floor with a hole in the chest from a bullet, and Dani was lying a few feet from him, clutching her leg, which blood was oozing out of. And standing in the centre was Carina, with a gun in her hands.
And here we go, another chapter for you guys. I do apologize for not updating in forever, but I had too many exams on my plate right now, and updates won't be frequent, but I will try to update as soon as I can. Thank you to all of you who reviewed/favorited/alerted this story. You guys are the people who motivates me to write.
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