Chapter 7

Maureen, Joanne and Ally all entered Detective Thins office, all eager to hear the information he found on Sara.

"Thanks for coming." Keith said.

"Thanks for calling." Joanne said, and then motioned to Ally. "I hope you don't mind, but we brought our daughter with us."

"Not at all." Keith smiled, and turned his attention to Ally, who was sitting on Maureen's lap enjoying a happy meal from McDonalds. "Nice to meet you Ally."

Ally bit into her cheeseburger, and gave him a ketchup covered smile. "Hi!" She chirped with a mouth full of food, while digging in her bag to grab her french fries. "Want one?"

"No thank you." Keith chuckled.

Ally just shrugged and leaned against Maureen. She didn't really care why she was there, she was just happy she had food.

Joanne couldn't help but laugh at her daughter. She had to be the cutest little thing ever. Her attention however went back to the detective.

"So what did you find out?" Joanne asked.

Keith pulled out a folder, and began reading through the papers. "I found out she is a cocaine user, and is living across town in an old broken down house with some guy. I don't know if he is her husband or what, but from the looks of it they don't make very good money…unless they spend it on drugs, which could be a reason they took Jake. If they have him and claim him as their own, they can get money."

"Back up here for a second." Maureen said catching on to something more important. "You know where she lives?"

"Yes." Keith confirmed.

"Why are we sitting here then? Let's go to her house!" Maureen demanded.

"You guys should really call the police first." Keith said. "Plus you don't even know if she really has him."

"She gave me enough proof to show me that she is capable of a kidnapping." Maureen said while she stood up, making sure to keep Ally and all her food intact. "Come on Jo!"

Joanne stood up as well. "It's true. This woman wanted Jake the moment she laid eyes on him."

"I really don't think you guys should go." Keith said. "At least wait until the cops get there first."

"There is no time!" Maureen said and raced out the door, Joanne quickly behind her.

"Well…let me come with you. I am a cop. I'll radio for back up." Keith called out, while running after them.

"So what's the plan?" Joanne asked, as her Maureen and Ally sat in the back seat of Keith's car staring at the house in front of them…Sara's house.

"I call the cops, and we wait." Keith said.

"No…if she has Jake and sees cops it will spook her, and it might make her hurt him." Maureen said. "I'm going in."

"No!" Joanne said while grabbing her arm.

"Yes." Maureen said while pulling her arm away.

Keith sighed. "Let me go in, I'm the real cop."

"No!" Joanne and Maureen shouted at the same time. "She'll know something is up if a random guy comes to her door and asks about Jake."

"And she won't if you two show up? You are Jake's mothers." He said with an arched eyebrow.

"You want me to go in?" Ally blurted catching on to the argument they were all having. "It's just a house, what's the big deal?"

"It has monsters in it Al." Joanne said, and Ally quickly lunged towards Maureen for protection. Joanne smirked. "Ha, now you have to comfort Ally, looks like I'm going in."

Joanne quickly climbed out of the car, and Maureen huffed. She couldn't move, Ally was clutched onto her for dear life.

"Al you have to let go, I need to go save mommy from the monsters." Maureen said. "Keith will be here to protect you."

Ally nodded and slowly pulled away, and when Maureen got her chance she jumped out of the car, and dashed for Joanne.

"You have crazy mothers you know that." Keith said while helping Ally climb to the front seat.

Ally just shrugged. A huge pearly white smile then formed on her lips. "So who's your favorite Power Ranger?"

Joanne stopped walking when Maureen caught up with her. "Maureen! You're supposed to be in the car with Ally."

Maureen rolled her eyes. "Jake is my son too, I get to help with the rescuing."

"Fine." Joanne said and the two headed for the door. "Just act cool…we don't want to scare her away."

When they reached the door they loudly knocked. It took about two minutes before Sara pulled it open, her eyes widening at the sight.

"Go away." She said.

"We just want to know if you know where Jake is." Joanne calmly asked.

"Why would I know?" Sara asked

"Maybe because you made such a big deal about taking him away from us." Joanne spat.

Sara scoffed. "Well I don't. So you can leave thank you!"

"Let us look around." Maureen demanded.

"No, it's my house I don't have to let you in." Sara said.

Joanne stepped forward. "Well you rudely let yourself into our house." She smirked, and roughly pushed Sara aside, and entered the house. "So let me do the same."

Sara regained her balance and was ready to attack. "You bitch!"

Maureen thankfully grabbed her in time, and pulled her back. "You will not hit my wife!"

"Fine I'll hit you then!" Sara said and slapped Maureen across the face.

Maureen held her jaw, and began to laugh. "Oh you slut." She then pushed Sara against the wall and the two began to fight. "Joanne go look for Jake!"

"You won't take him back!" Sara said and managed to get free from Maureen. But not for too long, Maureen tripped her and pinned her to the ground.

"Jo go!" Maureen ordered, and the lawyer nodded and quickly ran to search the house.

"Jake!?" Joanne called out.

Jake heard that sweet familiar voice from behind the bedroom door. He wasn't sure if he was just hearing things, but he began to call out anyways. "Mama!?"

"Jake?" The voice was starting to come closer.

"Mama, I'm in here, I'm in here!" He cried out.

With in seconds the door was open, and Joanne ran for Jake, who instantly had his arms wrapped around his mama, tears freely flowing down his face.

"Oh thank god I found you!" Joanne cried, holding Jake as close as possible.

"Joanne!" Maureen called out and ran into the room. "We have to go!" Her eyes however landed on Jake, and the rush to get out of the house vanished from her mind. "Jake?" She whispered, her own tears stinging her eyes. She quickly had her arms wrapped around the both of them in a three person hug.

"Put the child down!" Sara said while slowly entering the room with a gun in one hand.

"That's the reason why we had to leave…" Maureen said to Joanne.

"Stand up…and back away from the child, and no one gets hurt." Sara said.

"No!" Joanne said and put Jake behind her.

"I guess I'll just have to kill you." Sara said with a wicked smirk.

Maureen stepped in front of Joanne." Listen…just let us go, and everything will be fine."

"No!" Sara yelled. "I want that kid!"

Outside Ally glanced out the window, noticing a guy enter the house where her mothers were. "Uh oh, another monster." She whispered to herself. Carefully she climbed out of the car and headed for the house, she had to warn her mothers!

Meanwhile Keith was sitting there with a smile on his face, still talking about his favorite Power Ranger. "He has real cool hair, and he is red, my favorite color…" he however stopped when he noticed Ally was missing. "Damn this family is crazy!" He shouted and jumped out of the car.

Ally followed the man who entered the house down a hallway. She even managed to enter the room he went into unnoticed. A smile soon spread on her lips when Jake, Joanne, and Maureen entered her vision. They found Jake.

Sara stood there still holding the gun in her shaking hand, not at all aware that two new people entered the room.

"Say goodbye." Sara said and her finger began to pull back the trigger.

"Mommy!" Ally called out and ran for Maureen, jumping into her arms, and the aim of the gun.

"Ally no!" Maureen shouted, but it was too late, a gunshot went off.