5:30pm - Uptown NYC

Two young girls were walking down the street discussing their day at school. One was a short brown haired 12 year old and her friend was a taller blonder 13 year old.

"Sheeshhh! School's getting tougher. Wanna come over to mine? We could rent a movie ... copy each others homework. Have a laugh... how about it?"

"I can't, I promised my mum that we'd have quality 'mother – daughter' time tonight, and I really need to keep her onside." replied the blond haired girl.

8 hours later

"Hi this is Malone, we have a case. Meet me in the bull pen in 40 minutes"

Kat threw the phone down and groggily reached for her nearest item of clothing, hoping that it wasn't unprofessional. She laid her hands on what seemed to be a blouse and turned on her bed side lamp. She checked that it looked clean and threw it on. Dressing quickly in semi-darkness Kat allowed her mind to wander off. Wondering what the case would involve, if she would have to work with Danny and why Jack was giving her almost an hour to meet him. In her last job she would get a call and be expected to have been there 2 hours ago.

She picked up her phone and her hand bag and rushed out of her apartment, remembering to lock up after the spate of recent break-ins in her building.

She arrived at the FBI office 20 minutes later; shocked that there had been no traffic ... and that she hadn't been pulled over for speeding.

Finding Jack she apologised "Hi, sorry it took so long"

Jack looked to see who was talking to him, saw it was his newest agent and fired into an explanation of what they currently knew "That's OK we're waiting for Viv and Sam to get back from the victims home with more information. This is what we know. Mother arrived home around 6 expecting to spend some quality time with her daughter. Daughters name is Alicia Stone. She's 13 years old currently living with her mother but apparently the father's in the process for fighting for custody – and winning. Daughter's not usually one to not turn up when plans are made, both parents have spend the last eight hours calling every known friend and family member trying to find out where she might be. Eventually they called us in."

"Did they contact the school?" Kat asked expecting Jack to reply, but to her shock another voice took over.

"School ended at 3, we called the grounds but the caretaker is away so there's noone on site after school hours"

"That's great... so what ...so what do we do first" she stuttered, mentally berating herself

"You surely got the Malone speech when you started – right? Before we can find the victim – we need to get to know the victim... so we now search every available avenue in the next 48 hours to find her... and we've been partnered up again so we'll be going through her phone records together. I hope you've brought your reading glasses because you'll be needing them" Danny began to walk towards the large conference table in the middle of the bull pen while Kat looked at Jack for confirmation but he was gone, instead she saw the large white board – on it was a picture of a youngster who looked more likely to be on the walls of her school for winning "cheerleader of the year" than on a missing board. In the picture she looked happy it seemed to be a blown up family picture as the background looked as green as grass.

Kat walked towards Danny, where he'd pulled out a chair opposite him for her. She picked up the pages he dropped in front of the chair and began reading. After five minutes she had to speak.

"How do we know these calls aren't the parents?"

"Because Alicia has mummy and daddy wrapped round her little finger enough to have her own phone in her bedroom, these are those records... we'll go through the household phone records later – since this is her phone line, I'll bet the most important calls came to this phone."

"Does she have an answering machine? Should we not listen to that?" again Kat interrupted the silence.

"Viv, Sam and Martin are at the house, they'll do all of that we just have to find numbers that seem to be being called often or numbers calling often – think you can handle that? Or is it not exciting enough for ya'?" Danny mentally berated himself for taking his tiredness out on her. But every time he read a line she kept interrupting him and in the end she had got on his nerves.

Kat settled herself down for a night of reading and noticing different number after different number and in the end she went to her desk and got a large pack of highlighters. She thought to herself that she needed to do this her way and she began highlighting each number in a different colour – until she realised that one number kept popping up and she looked at Danny and asked him to read his frequent number ...

"704-8848, why'd you ask?

"Bingo, I've had the same number 23 times so far – should we call it?" excitedly Kat turned her page round to Danny, showing her multi-coloured page which did indeed have one colour continually popping up.

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More soon hopefully :-)