Thanks to everyone who is keeping up with my story, and all the reviews! Glad you are enjoying it.
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"Hey," Jo greeted Mac, "Is Adam here," she pointed to his station.
"I haven't seen him," Mac answered.
"That's odd, he's got files lying out, his computer is on," Jo observed.
"Maybe he left them out, he seemed to be distracted yesterday," Mac pointed out.
Jo shook her head, "No we left together and I saw him turn it off, and put the files away."
Just then Cheryl walked by, "Have a good one guys," she began, "Oh hey did those file help Adam," she added.
"Wait, what file?" Mac asked with confusion.
"The file from the state police from Phoenix, Arizona." She answered, "Anything else."
"No thanks have a good day," Mac finished.
The two walked over to his station, laid out where pictures, two of which Jo recognized Adam took them, but the third wasn't taken by Adam. But the two victims from their crime scenes looked a lot like the one picture from the Phoenix file.
"What is the connection?" Mac asked as he picked up the file. He looked at the name. "Charles Ross."
"Wait, that's Adam dad."
"I'm calling Flack, sending him over to Adams' place," Mac said with a sound of concern.
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Flack walked up to the apartment door, turned the handle and found that it was locked. "Open it," he told the apartment super.
Flack stepped inside the apartment. "Wow, talk about OCD," Flack said to himself. He noted that nothing seemed out of place, no pictures. He went through some of Adams' drawers and that's where he found the cards, from his Aunt and Uncle. He noted that whatever woke up Adam he left in a hurry.
"Hey Mac, I'm over here at Adam place, this guy has a serious case of OCD, and no sign of pictures, it's almost as if an orphan lives here." Flack observed. "It does look like he left in a hurry, and you said Cheryl saw him at the lab, do you know what time?"
"Okay, I'm heading over now," he told Mac and hung up.
"What kind of trouble are you in Ross?" Flack asked himself as he looked around the apartment.
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His head hurt, he slowly opened his eyes, and realized that he was nowhere near the parking garage; he wasn't sure where he was. All he knew was the end of a gun was very unpleasant. He slowly looked around trying to get an idea of where he was. The warehouse distracts.
He heard steps coming close to him, "You no good for nothing," he growled as he kicked him, Adam rolled over on his side and Charles Ross kicked him again, Adam wiggled and tried to move out of the line of fire. He kicked him again, and again, but Adam refused to make a sound. "Yup look at the fear, I can smell it," he whispered into his son ear as he brought him up by his hair. "Come on, no sense in being brave now," he scolded his son. "Same old Adam," he leaned down and that was when Adam saw his opening, he brought his fist up and met his father jaw. Sending Charles Ross stumbling back.
Adam got up and ran, he had one chance and that was one find a place to hide, and get help.
Charles Ross shook off the semi pain of the hit and gritted his teeth, "you forget what happened last time you bucked me boy," his father growled. Charles Ross tucked the gun back into the waist of his jeans, smiled and started the game.
He remembered he still had the scars on his back to remind him, but he wasn't a child anymore.
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"Any sign," Mac asked with concern?
"Nothing yet, I've got Danny pulling the security feed," Flack told him.
"Danny's' got something," Lindsay told them coming up to her Boss and Flack.
"I've got Adam coming in roughly two hours ago, and then he heads to his station. Makes a phone call, he seems pretty upset after the call, so I had Lindsay dump his cell phone, he made two calls. One was to a Detective Thomas, and the other to a Doug Ross."
"Tell me you have more than this?" Mac asked.
"I do, he then walked outside and towards the parking garage." Danny told them.
They pulled their guns and went level by level and no Adam.
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I've got blood," Lindsay hollered.
"I've got drag marks," Jo added.
"What was Adam doing up here? He doesn't drive," Mac said reminding them that Adam had sold his car.
They all looked at each other. They didn't have an answer. Until now most of Adam past had been a secret. And they had to uncover his past and fast. None of them knew how long Adam had, or if he was still alive.
