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Chapter 9:

The two police officers and the two best friends sat in the office, waiting. They could do nothing else. Chief Vick sat at her desk getting the last few things ready for the drop. Lassiter sat in a chair at her desk wishing things were different. Gus sat on one side of the couch watching Shawn, wondering what was going on in that head of his. And Shawn sat on the other side of the couch resting his head on his hand, being uncharacteristically quiet. Lassiter broke the silence.

"This is some how your fault, Spencer."

"What?" Shawn asked snapping back to reality.

"Some how this is your fault. What case were you even working on?"

"We were working on the missing kids' case." Gus said.

"So you're saying it's my fault Jules was kidnapped because some disappointed parents asked us to look into the disappearance of the children."

"Yes."

"That's not fair. Shawn couldn't have known." Gus said angrily standing up for Shawn.

"That doesn't matter, now does it?" Lassiter said. "If Spencer hadn't been around, O'Hara would never have fallen for him and she wouldn't be in this mess."

"That's enough." Chief said. "Detective, maybe you should put your self in Shawn's shoes. He is doing everything exactly the way he should be which for him is surprising. Now, I'm going to ask you to back off or you'll be getting some unpaid vacation time. As for you Mr. Guster, I appreciate the fact that your standing up for Shawn when he can't stand on his own two feet but do you really think its wise to fight about this here?"

"Sorry." Gus said. Shawn wasn't paying attention. The office went back to being quiet. Chief pulled out the briefcase with the money. She opened it and placed Shawn's five thousand dollars in it. She dug around her desk for the ticket and pulled it out. She placed that in the briefcase as well. Lassiter and Gus watched Shawn. Suddenly, the room was filled with Hot Blooded by Foreigner. Shawn pulled out his phone and looked at the caller ID.

"It's him." Shawn said slightly more normal them he has been. He put it on speaker phone. "Hello?"

"Is everything ready?" Asked the kidnapper.

"Yea." Shawn said unenthusiastically.

"Good. I want it delivered by you and only you on that bike of yours."

"There's going to be a problem with that."

"What's that?"

"I had to sell it to get your money."

"Then, use your friend's little blue car."

"I wanna talk to Jules."

"That's going to be a little difficult. You see she is swimming in about 25,000 gallons of water. Tell me, Shawn does your phone receive video messages."

"Yea."

"Good. I just sent you a video of your precious, Jules. You have half an hour to get here." The line went dead. The four people gathered around the tiny screen to watch the video.

Jules was swimming in a tank half filled with water. The tank was three quarters of the way full. Shawn did everything he could to keep from crying. They didn't know how long she could hold breath.

"Hey look." Gus said. "It gives his phone number."

"That's Jules phone."

"This would be so much easier if we had a name." Chief said.

"His name is Derek Miller." Shawn said.

"You're just telling us this now?" Lassiter said.

"I just found out." Shawn said.

"Look. We have a location. It is time to follow through with the plan. Mr. Guster, please give Shawn you keys." Gus tossed his keys to Shawn his keys to Shawn who caught them. "Good luck."

"Thanks man."

"Be careful, Mr. Spencer." Said the chief. "We'll be ten minutes behind you."

Shawn nodded and headed out of the office with the briefcase. He started the car and headed for the factory.