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About two hours after they got back from the house where Walsh had been keeping Angus MacGyver, Riley, Jack, and Bozer were in the war room, waiting for Riley to go through all the information she had about Jonah Walsh, Luis Gomez, and the drug that they were trying to recreate. Bozer however, was no longer awake. Having been up nearly 36 hours, he had finally fallen asleep on one of the chairs in the room. The other members of the team had gone back to where they were keeping the prisoners to see if any of them had any more information about Walsh.

"How's it going Riley?" James inquired as he entered the war room, lowering his voice a little when he saw that Bozer was asleep on the chair, snoring lightly.

"Still a work in progress. I managed to narrow down what type of vehicle Walsh has by comparing security images and videos near the house where Mac was being held within the half hour between the phone call and you guys arriving, to the images and footage of Mac and Bozer's house the night Mac was taken, but haven't found the right one yet, so I can't fully track it." Riley answered quietly, very aware that Bozer was sleeping.

James nodded, letting her know that he heard her before asking, "And what about checking Luis Gomez's and Walsh's associates? Find anything there?"

"I'm finding a few of Gomez's, but he is one smart cartel leader. The police in Mexico don't even know where exactly he lives, and he could have a lot more friends and cartel members than the police are aware of. And Walsh, well, we hardly have any information about him since he left the Phoenix years ago, back when it was DXS." The hacker replied, trying to keep from venting her frustration at how slow everything was going. Finding people on the computer was her one of her top skill sets, and she was failing, and the longer she continued to fail, the longer it took them to find Mac.

Oversight then came over to the young woman and handed her a flashdrive as he said, "Here, this will give you every security clearance you need to get into all of our files and records, as well as the FBI's, the CIA's, and even Interpol. It should help speed it up."

Riley instinctively took what she was offered before she replied, "Thanks."

James nodded in response, then looked around the room. Besides Bozer asleep in one of the chairs, the only other person he saw was Jack, who was standing in front of the screen that showed exactly what was appearing on Riley's laptop. The sniper hadn't said a word the entire time he had been in the room and the boss wondered why. Ever since they found out that his son was missing, it seemed that Jack had been constantly making snide remarks to him about Angus, but now, the man was completely silent.

"You okay Dalton?" James asked, coming to stand beside him though he kept his eyes on the screen just like Jack was.

"It's not me you should be worried about, sir. It's your son that was kidnapped, not me." Jack replied with a quiet yet angry tone. James took a deep breath but again, refused to respond.

"I don't even know why I keep thinking you should be more worried about Mac. You're the one who up and ditched him on his tenth birthday and had never gone and see him or even tried to in over a decade. Even when he started working for you, you never even bothered to let him know about it. Or when he quit. You just decided to keep acting like a ghost." Jack snapped, though he also kept his voice fairly quiet due to the sleeping member of the team.

"That's not true actually." James broke the awkward silence. Jack looked over at his boss, but before he could ask what exactly it was that he said that he had apparently gotten wrong, Oversight said, "I had seen Angus once, after I left, before he came to me wanting to quit."

Jack furrowed his brow, trying to remember if Mac had ever mentioned seeing his Dad after he left, but came up with nothing. As far as he knew, the kid had never seen his father since the day he left. So that meant that Mac had just decided not to tell him about it, or James was lying, or Mac had no idea about it.

"Cairo. I saw him after your guys' mission in Cairo." James revealed when Jack remained silent, still keeping his eyes on the screen. Riley, from her place behind her laptop, looked up at the two men when she heard that, just in time to see Jack tense up at the mention of the Egyptian capital.

Though she had head Mac and Jack's mission in the city was their worst one, that it was bad enough that they don't come to work on 'Cairo day', as the sniper dubbed it, she had never learned what exactly happened that day. She had wondered, and asked, but nobody told her anything. Part of the hacker wanted to ask again now, but she kept her mouth shut, not wanting to get in between Mac's biological father and the father who had actually been taking care of him for years.

Jack was stunned into silence by his boss's words, though instinctively tensed at the mention of the city that almost killed them. He remembered every event that happened in Cairo as if it was yesterday, though the days following were a bit fussy as they recovered from the mission. One thing that Jack was sure about despite the blurry memories though, was the fact that Oversight never came to see his son.

The older MacGyver took the sniper's silence as either permission to continue or as him waiting for an explanation, so James decided to give it and continued, "It was after you, Angus, and Nikki were brought back to the States, when you and my son were transported to the hospital. I went to visit him in the middle of the night when you were both asleep. I, I didn't want him to see me yet, to know that I was his boss but, after how badly he was hurt, I couldn't, not, see him.

"I stayed for the rest of the night before leaving early that morning so no one would see me, but I was there. It was the first time I truly regretted leading him into this business. But then, he just got up and got back to work. He wasn't going to let a bad mission and a bunch of injuries stop him. I know that you hate what I did, the choices I made, but you can't deny that as dangerous as this job is, Angus was born for it."

Jack then turned his head to look at his boss, about to deny what the man said just because it was a chance to challenge Oversight, a chance to challenge Oversight, and a chance to show the parent that just because he directed Mac into what direction he should take his life and watched from the shadows doesn't mean he knows his son, but suddenly found that he couldn't. Sure, he didn't think that Oversight really knew his son like he claimed, but Jack found he actually couldn't deny that James was right. It was like Mac was born for working at Phoenix.

Though the kid was young and a bit of a danger-magnet, Jack had seen within his first week at working for the Phoenix Foundation, when it was DXS, that Mac had found a place here. A job where he could utilize all of his skills, help people, make a difference. Not only that, he found a home, a family. It was why Jack had been trying to get Mac to come back. He belonged here.

"I got something." Riley told them, causing both Jack and James to turn to face. When she saw she had their attention, she said, "You were right. Luis Gomez is taking care of the supplies needed to make a new lab and recreate the drug."

"So if Walsh is on the run, he's heading to where Gomez has that lab set up. You have a location?" Jack asked, tone rushed and desperate.

"Yup." Riley informed them with a slight smirk, now feeling completely in her element and in control once again.

James also smiled before he said, "Then let's go."

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Mac woke to darkness. The last thing he remembered was being stabbed with a needle, again, and Walsh saying something about them not being found. As Mac tried to move his head, he quickly realized that the darkness was because of a black bag on his head, and that he was still sitting in a chair. It was different though. Before, his hands were tied to the arms of the chair, now though, his hands were tied behind the chair's back. Mac tried to move his wrists to see if he could free his hands, but he stopped when he heard footsteps coming towards them.

"Wakey wakey, baby MacGyver." Mac heard Walsh's singsong voice say as he ripped the bag off his head. Quickly regaining his senses, Mac looked around the room. It seemed like he was in a warehouse of some kind, but he wasn't completely sure. There were tables scattered around the room filled with medical and science equipment, and there were at least three other guards besides Walsh with them.

"Where am I?" Mac asked, turning his attention over to Walsh.

"You are our new lab." The bomb expert turned his head over to the right when he heard the answer coming from a voice that he didn't recognize. The person who answered came into the room, coming over to stand beside Walsh. He looked about the same age as his captor, but had darker hair, and more of it, and was slimmer than Walsh.

"So, this is your former partner's son, one of the people who have caused you such trouble." The man said after examining the blonde for a moment, then added, "You sure don't look like much."

"Looks can be deceiving." Mac responded, though his voice was a little muffled as he tried to talk without moving his sore jaw too much.

"Very true." The man, who Mac assumed to be Walsh's boss Luis Gomez, told him. He then took a few steps closer to the young man, then bent down a little so he was closer to the blonde and said, "I hear you still refuse to help us with our endeavor."

"You hear right." Mac said, trying to match the man's stare, though it was harder than it should've been due to both of his eyes being swollen.

"Pity, I had hoped that Jonah would have gotten a more cooperative answer from you by now. Guess he will have to continue with his persuasion until you say yes." Gomez told him before standing upright again and turning his back to the hostage and started to walk away. He stopped though when he reached Walsh.

"Don't kill him," Gomez whispered before glancing back at the blonde. He then turned back to Walsh and added, "yet."

"Got it." Walsh replied with a slightly sadistic smile, that grew larger when he turned to face Mac. The blonde tried not to squirm in his seat at the smile as he steeled himself for whatever was going to happen next.

AN – I know that we know very little about what actually happened in Cairo, but in my mind, and from what I remember of what they said happened in Cairo, I'm assuming that both Jack and Mac got badly hurt and nearly died, which was why they were both in the hospital. Hope you all liked this chapter. Next one will be up in about a week.