DISCLAIMER: Walker and the gang don't belong to me. But man would I love to have Gage around for a while.

SUMMARY: Sydney's been taken by the gang that has Gage's little sister Jessie. One of them is a face from her nightmares who's decided that he'll keep her just sedated enough so she doesn't fight him when he decides that he wants her. What will Gage do when he finds out that they lost Sydney? How are they going to find her?

FEEDBACK: I thrive on it. I'll write without it but it won't be as fast or as often.


Sydney was trying to figure out how to flag down some help. So far, Michael hadn't raped her, just groped her a few times. She knew that that state of affairs wouldn't last if he decided it was time to take her.

She needed to send out a signal. But that was the problem. She didn't have a cell phone, or any way to tell them where she was even if she did. If she had a flashlight, -- that was it.

"Jessie, do you know if there's a flashlight around here somewhere?"

"There's one in the top drawer of the stand by the bed. I found it while looking around the room. Wanted to know what was here."

"Perfect." Sydney jumped off the bed only to sit back down because her head started spinning. She hadn't been able to eat much for the past few days just wondering when Michael was going to make his move.

"Sydney?" Jessie's voice seemed to be coming from a long way off. "Sydney, are you okay?"

"I'm not sure, Jessie. Can you get the flashlight out of the drawer? I may need you to do this for me."

"What's wrong?"

"Whatever drug they've been giving me makes me kind of weak." Syd heard the drawer open and Jessie fumble around a little for the flashlight that was in there.

"I've got it. What do you want me to do next?" Jessie felt good. She was going to help get them out of here.

"We have to wait until dark for the next part. We're going to flash an SOS out the window with the flashlight. It'll be a while probably before anyone actually notices it, but it's the best chance we've got."

"If it gets us out of here, I'm all for it." Jessie couldn't stop thinking about the things Michael had told her, all those things that he said would happen to her once they sent her out of the country.

"Jessie, you know that your brother won't let anything happen to you without payback."

"I know. I just can't help but think about what they told me would happen to me once they sent me to that man." Sydney slowly stood up and walked over to Jessie. She draped one arm over the younger woman's shoulder. "He made sure that he told me what they were going to do to me in detail. He seemed to enjoy making me nervous, if the tone of his voice was any indication."

"I won't let anything happen to you."

"And I won't let anything happen to you." The two women started to make their plans for how to flash out an SOS.


Julie sat next to her brother. He was finally asleep. He hadn't moved off the couch since Walker and Trivette had left.

"Snap out of it, Francis. Jessie and Sydney need you and you have to be ready when it comes time to bring them home," she whispered before going into the kitchen to start supper.

Meanwhile, Gage's dreams were awful things that he couldn't seem to wake up from.

Gage burst into a room in a warehouse. There was blood everywhere. He saw the familiar honey blonde hair of his sister poking out from beneath the bed. Running to her, he heard Sydney screaming from another room.

Stopping in the middle of the room, Gage couldn't decide whether to save Sydney or to check on Jessie. His heart was torn as he listened to Sydney's screams. It would take a lot to make Syd scream that way.

Looking at Jessie, he whispered, "I'm sorry, sis. I failed you again." He turned and ran toward Syd.

Bursting into that room, he discovered that Sydney had been tied up. The men in that room were beating her to death. Two were anyway. The third man was slowly cutting into Sydney with a very wicked looking blade.

"Sydney!" he yelled, running toward her. The men turned and saw him coming. The one with the knife made a vicious slashing motion and the three men ran from the room, leaving Gage with a dying Sydney.

After untying her, Gage sank to the floor, gently cradling Syd in his arms. He pushed the hair back from her face. "Don't leave me, Syd. Please don't leave me." Tears began to flow freely down his face as he gazed down into her eyes.

"I love you, Gage," Syd croaked out just as the light died in her eyes and she let go of her last breath.

"NO!!!" Gage screamed, sitting bolt upright on the couch.

Julie came running from the kitchen at the sound of her brother's cries. She sat down next to him. "Francis, what is it?"

"I have to save them. I can't lose Syd without telling her I love her and I refuse to fail Jessie again." He stood up. "Julie, I'm going to go take a shower. Will you call Walker and ask him and Trivette to come over here? It's time to find the girls."

Julie just sat there for a moment, dumbfounded. She shook her head and moved to the phone. If a nightmare could make Francis Gage get his head on straight to save the two girls he loved, then maybe nightmares weren't all bad.