Boyd sat outside the apartment in his car, his heart was racing. Jerry had rambled about blood and a struggle and something about the girls going missing. He watched as the street filled with cop cars, he saw Frank Best enter the apartment with a look of worry and pure anger on his face. This op was defiantly over. He took a deep breath and climbed out of the car. He took a few step forward and stopped when he heard yelling. He knew it was Sam, he also knew he'd be blamed on this. He entered the apartment, and began to look around.
"Oh no, you get he hell out of here," Sam yelled barging towards him.
"I need to be here Sam, I have to work out what happened." Boyd replied
"This is all your fault! what possessed you to keep something like that from us?" Frank and Oliver grabbed Sam to hold him back. Sam's voice began to shake, "I swear Boyd, if I don't get her back soon I am going to kill you," he shook off frank and Oliver and stormed outside. He went to the side of the building and sunk down the wall. He put his face in his hands and let the tears he'd been holding back fall.
Oliver went to check on Sam, he had been gone for five minutes. He walked around the side of the building and his heart crushed at the sight before him, his best friend was on the ground, quietly crying. Oliver took the few steps to him and slid down beside him. He put his hand on his shoulder. " We'll find her Sammy."
Sam looked up and wiped his face, his eyes were red and shiny. "You know the last thing I said to her was?" Oliver shook his head. "I told her we were done and I left." Sam let a few more tears fall, he didn't care who saw him at this stage. "I made a big mistake and I came back to make it right, but I was too late."
"Sammy, she knows you love her, and that you didn't mean it. She knew you would come back. She knows you enough to let you cool off for a while."
"I should never have left her, I should have told Jerry to stay with them. This is all my fault" Sam said angrily.
"Sammy you were not to know, either was Jerry, we'll get to the bottom of this."
"She was almost killed nearly two weeks ago. Her and Traci that guy Gary backed them up if it wasn't for him they'd be dead now." Sam said a few minutes later.
"What? we didn't hear anything about it. What happened?, everything we've received from Boyd never mentioned them being in danger."
"Yeah he covered it up. She only told me tonight, that was what the fight was over. They went to the warehouse for a deal, turns out it was a set up that turned into a shoot out. Three of them against eight guys."
"Really? how did that go down? There should have been back or even a surveillance team."
" Yeah, she said Boyd was there, but I don't really know how it all happened if he was here. They got away, that Marky guy sent guys after them. They managed to lose them and dump the car, Gary led them through the forest and they made it back to Boyd. He kept it all from me and Jerry and told them not to say anything he knew how we'd react."
" What?" Oliver was shocked anything thing like that means you are pulled off the case or put in a safe house. "He shouldn't have, I can't believe this, he sent them back in knowing all of this?"
"Yeah funny isn't it? He doesn't care about anyone as long as he gets the results he wants. Ollie, I want you to be the one to take me in when he's found dead ." Sam said seriously.
"It won't come to that Sam, we will find them. Hows about we head back inside and tell Frank what you just told me? With a bit of luck Boyd will get the boot when all of this is over." Sam nodded and got to his feet, taking a few deep breaths before they went back inside.
Andy and Traci were in total shock. "You are meant to be on our side Ray" Andy said quietly.
"I am on your side, I'm the one who offered to watch you so no one else would be near you. I've been trying to get hold of Boyd since it went down, just take these and don't worry." Ray handed them water and some blankets., "I'll be back soon, I'm going to try Boyd again." Ray left the room with a smirk they were easily fooled, or so he thought.
As soon as he was gone Andy turned to Traci, "He's in on this Trac, something is not right."
"How do you know?" Traci asked pulling one of the blankets around her.
"Because, he can't get Boyd on the phone, there is plenty of ways to get in touch. He could have called Gary, or used the radio or the surveillance team. He is not helping us, he's in on the whole thing."
"Are you sure Andy, I mean he could be trying to help us."
"I have a feeling in my gut, Sam taught me to follow it and always trust it. Sam.. I wonder did he come back yet, if they even know we're missing."
"I'd say they do now, Jerry would have called me a few times. If I didn't answer he'd come back to check on us."
"What if he thought we were asleep? It was pretty late." Andy asked.
"Damn it, you right" Traci replied, "he would have called once then left it."
"Traci!" Andy almost shrieked, she felt a lump in her sock and jumped to her feet. "I forgot I put my phone in my sock when we got into the bed."
"What?" Traci jumped up too, "why'd you put it there ?"
"Because I didn't want to wake you if Sam called."
"So, take it out, call them."
Andy pulled her phone from her sock, it was on silent and the vibrate set off. Andy flicked through her missed calls, "all the division must be on this, I have forty- eight missed calls, mostly from Sam, Jerry Frank, and Chris." She scrolled down further, "some from Dov and Noelle and Boyd too. I have a message too."
"What does it say ?"
Andy listen to it, she nearly cried when she heard Sam's voice. She moved closer to Traci so they could both listen, "Andy if you ever get to hear this I just want you to know I love you more than anything else in this world, I was just angry I never meant a word of it I promise if I get you back I'll never ever leave you again. Give Traci the phone Jerry wants to talk." They listened as Jerry came on the phone, "Trac I don't know what to say, we came back for Sammy to make things right and we got back to this. I don't know who's blood that was but I hope you two are okay. I love you and we will find you guys, no matter what it takes. So just look after each other until we do okay, I love you, bye."
Andy and Traci were now both crying "Andy we need to call them." Traci said shakily.
"We can't, we need to call someone that will focus on what we tell them, they will just be frantic and asked a hundred questions. We need to get straight to the point, we don't know how much time we have before Ray comes back."
"Okay, who are we going to call ?"
Andy thought for a moment, "Well not Boyd, if I ever see him again it'll be too soon the jackass." I think I'll just yell at him. Oh I know, Gary, we can trust him, he has the training." When Traci nodded she scrolled down until she found 'Jessie'. The phone rang for a while "come on" she chanted. 'Hello' came a mumbled voice. "Gary!" Andy breathed in relief.
"Gary ? What's going on Andy? what did we say about names?" Gary said sleepily.
"We don't have time for that Gary, we've been kidnapped." Andy hissed.
Gary bolted up in his bed, his training kicking in "what? are you okay? do you know where you are or who took you? what type of car was it? how many was there?"
"Yeah we're okay, no don't know where we are, I just know we headed south for about twenty minutes. There was two guys in the bedroom, one more driving. It was a silver SVU Gary.. Ray is here, he said he's just looking after us but I don't buy it."
"No, your right not to. That is not part of a UC, if it was I would have known you guys were gone as soon as it happened. I need to get down to the apartment I guess everyone is already there.
"I hope so, Gary if you see Sam, tell him we got the message and I love him, and if he still wants me I'll be waiting. Tell Jerry Traci said she loves him and not to worry."
Gary climbed out of his bed and began pulling clothes on. "Okay guys, sit tight. Now I know you have a phone I can start trying to trace your signal. I'll call you with an update, stay safe remember what a taught you. And keep the phone out of sight. Turn the backing lighting off so if I do call it won't draw attention if you are not alone."
"Okay, thanks Gary. Please hurry, after the last time I don't think he'll miss again."
Gary left his house in a hurry and sped of to the undercover apartment to fill Boyd in. He also pulled out some maps from under his seat trying to locate an area they could be. Ten minutes later he pulled up outside their cover apartment. He jumped out of his car and rushed inside, "where's Boyd!" he yelled causing everyone to stop what they were doing and turn his way.
Frank hurried over, "Boyd is no longer in charge of this, I am. what have you got?"
"The girls called me a few minutes ago" Gary replied. "Our undercover guy Ray is involved."
"What ?" Sam came barrelling toward him along with Jerry. "Are they okay? where are they?"
"Sam they said they were fine, they were okay."
"Fine? Who's blood was on the floor then? One or both of them are injured"
"They didn't say, I'll try call her. Leave it with me and I'll come back with an answer." Sam nodded and Gary went to walk away to make the call Frank stopped him
"No don't call her, just text they might not be alone. We a tracking her signal right now."
"I have that covered, I told her to keep the phone hidden if they heard someone approach. I told them to turn off the vibrate mode and the backing light, so if I do call while someone is with them it will go unnoticed.
"Okay, go find out if they are injured and report back to me and Gary" Gary turned back to him. Boyd is officially off this, he is to know nothing, you report to me now."
"Got it" Gary walked quickly away and began texting hey you girls okay? Guys want to know who's blood is on the floor here are either of you injured?" Gary closed his phone thinking it might be a while before he got a reply. He was surprised when his phone beeped almost straight away:
'It was mine, head wound not bad, stopped the bleeding with piece of my pj bottoms. Tell Sam and Jerry we're fine. Traci hurt her shoulder in the struggle but, WE ARE OKAY.
'Okay good to know, sit tight coming for you soon.'
Gary walked back over to Frank. "blood was Andy's, she has a head wound but she's okay they stopped the bleeding with some of her bottoms, and Traci hurt her shoulder other than that they are fine."
"Great news, now what else do you know? what did they tell you when they called?"
"The said they went south for about twenty minutes from here. There was two guys in the house and one driving a silver SVU."
Frank nodded and turned to the room, "Alright everyone listen up" the room fell silent as everyone gave him their full attention. "McNally and Nash are doing fine, the blood was McNally's" he could see Sam clenching his fists in the corner. "She is fine Sammy, she managed to stop the bleeding and cover it up. We have information they are about twenty minutes south from here, they were taken in a silver SVU. I need someone to pull everything they know on this Ray guy and someone get me a map of the surrounding area. "Lets move people, it's been three hours already."
The room came to life as everyone scattered to do what they could. Sam and Jerry stayed in the corner, Sam was still looking at Gary. "If the other undercover guy is in on this he could be too. Guess we'll just have to watch him." he said to Jerry.
Andy and Traci sat in the room looking around, Andy spotted a vent in the roof. "Trac? you think we could get out through here?" She asked getting to her feet.
Traci followed her lead and stood beside her looking up. "um, I think we might, but how are we going to get the cover off? and how do you know it will lead us outside?"
"I can see street lights, its still night so we have a better chance of not being seen. If it doesn't lead outside at least we'll get out of this room. I think I can pry it off if I put enough strength into it ."
"Right, you need to stand on my shoulders, check it out first" Traci replied positioning herself under it.
"Alright" Andy replied. Traci put her hands together and Andy put her foot in them and bounced a little before both of her feet left the ground. She stood on Traci's shoulders and pulled at the cover. "It's loose, it'll come off easy."
"Try it now" Traci whispered.
Andy pulled at the cover it came away quickly. She made enough space to stick her head through, she looked left and right and pulled her head back out. "If we go right I think it leads outside, the lights are stronger that side, we'll both fit easily."
"Are we going now?" Traci asked.
Andy shook he head "no, too risky. We'll wait until Ray checks on us again and as soon as he leaves we'll go."
"Okay, you better get down now. I think I hear something." Traci said looking towards the door.
Andy quickly fixed the cover and jumped down, both girls flung themselves on the floor just as the door opened. This time it wasn't Ray, "now I've got you" Marky laughed. "You won't get away this time, you two won't get in my way. You see the biggest deal of my entire life is going down tonight and I can't have you there. I am not willing to share, it's nothing personal." He winked at Traci, "you can thank your lovely sister for all this."
"This is what all of this is about Marky?" Andy jumped to her feet "a stupid deal ? I don't give a shit about it, let us go and I promise I won't turn up. Like I said I don't care anymore."
Marky laughed. "You promise ? I find that hard to believe. Doesn't feel good not being in control does it ?"
"Well, it might have something to do with the fact we were kidnapped. Afraid to take me on alone Marky?" Andy smirked.
Marky smirked back, before Andy knew it he shot his hand out and slapped her hard across the face. "Don't feel so sure of yourself, honey."
Andy stumbled backwards, she wanted to cry out at the pain shooting through her face but held it back. she wiped the blood off her mouth, "that all you got ?" She challenged.
"Kellie shut up" Traci whispered behind her.
" I'd Listen to your sister, you know that's your problem you don't know when to shut it. No wonder AJ's off sleeping with everyone."
The words stung Andy deep to her core, she had forgotten all about her fight with Sam. "And what would you know about me an AJ ?"
"Not that I care but I kinda feel sorry for him. Does he know you're banging one of his friends? Strangers maybe? but his friend, that's gotta hurt" he chuckled. "Anyway, times up, I gotta go. Have fun ladies and hopefully I won't be seeing you again." He smiled and left the room laughing before locking the door behind him.
"Go now Traci" Andy whispered.
"Let me see your face, that was really stupid Andy" Traci said pulling her face towards her. She examined the red mark all down the right side of her face, "looks like it's going to bruise under your eye."
"Yeah, yeah we'll worry about that later. Get your ass up there" Andy nodded her head upwards "come on."
Traci grabbed hold of Andy's shoulders and began to climb up, pulling the cover off she squeezed her whole body into the vents. She turned and began to pull Andy up, Andy had sent a quick text before jumping to grab Traci's hands.
Back in the hose Sam was pacing, they couldn't trace her signal and Gary hadn't heard from them in over two hours. "it will be light soon, we gotta find them." Sam finally said.
Gary had been watching them most of the night, he knew what Sam was thinking he could tell from his body language and the glances thrown his way. He still hadn't told them what Andy told him to tell them, he sighed and walked over "guys can I talk to you for a minute outside.?"
Sam and Jerry looked at each other but followed anyway. "What is it? did they call again ?" Jerry asked hopeful.
"No, I just want to talk to you. Look I know what you guys are thinking, don't. I am not in on this, I have not heard from Ray either, I would never do anything to hurt them. We've became friends the last couple of weeks, I want them back safe too you know."
"We never said you were in on this" Sam replied
"You don't need to, I can read you. I have a message from the girls for both of you, I sorta hoped they could tell you themselves. I guess I should tell you now." He waited for them to nod before going on, "Andy said she loves you Sam, and Jerry, Traci said she loves you too. Andy also said they got your message and not to worry about it, if you'll still have her she'll be waiting."
Sam's heart sunk at his words, of course he still wanted her. "Did they say anything else?"
Before Gary could reply his phone beeped in his pocket, he pulled it out read the text and smiled, he looked up to see Sam and Jerry staring at the phone, he turned it towards them. "Guess I should have waited for them to tell you themselves."
Sam read the text out loud, "found a way out making a break for it." The phone beeped again in Sam's hand, Gary nodded for him to open it. 'warehouse off the highway, see a sign for a furniture store. home store and more ? Big park beside it.' Sam sent a quick reply ,that's my girl, we're coming baby, I love you, Sam' and hurried inside to find frank.
Andy and Traci had been in the vents for ten minutes now, the way Andy thought led outside only led to a room on the other side of the building. They had turned and went back the other way. "Traci, look out there" Andy peeked through a tiny hole and saw a sign, she pulled the phone and sent another text. They made their way along and came to another opening. They both froze as they heard movement underneath them. They listen as they heard three voices, two they knew as Marky and Ray the third she was nearly sure was that guy Jamie something Boyd had shown her in the club.
"What do we do with the girls? Ray asked
"I don't care, call daddy for a ransom or kill them, I really don't give a shit, here" Marky tossed him something. "Burn the place down, with them in it."
"Boss? are you sure you want to do that to McIntyre? I mean kill his daughters?" Jamie asked.
"Well blame his stupid daughter for crossing me, burn the place down" he barked and stormed off.
"I am not doing that" Jamie said a few minutes later. "I can't kill two innocent girls, I'm letting them go Ray. As soon as the deal is done I'm letting them go. I'll make them leave town, but I am not killing them."
"You're such a wimp" Ray laughed. "Who's gonna miss them? they're just a pain in the ass. We can push McIntyre out and take over with that Kellie one gone."
Andy and Traci waited until they left the room. Andy frantically grabbed her phone and typed a message to Gary, hurry gonna burn the place down we can't get out also deal going down at the warehouse later Marky gone Ray deffo in on it he's the 1 with the matches that Jamie guy is here he doesn't wan to kill us go easy on him. Andy sent the message and pushed Traci along "come on, keep moving, we need to get out before the whole places goes up."
Sam still had Gary's phone is his hand, they had located the place Andy was talking about. They were just loading up to leave when the phone beeped, Sam's eyes widened as he read the text "lets move! the place is being set a light they're trapped!" he said frantically jumping into a car pulling Jerry and Gary with him. He started the engine and took off at speed followed by a dozen or more cruisers.
