prompt-Someone attacks Elizabeth (or tries to) and Henry can't a hold of her, all he for a while has are the (fake?) dramatized news reports, maybe she surprises him when she gets home, and Something with Conrad being a protective big brother like type to Elizabeth. I know I kind of went off topic with this! And I'm so sorry about lack of updates:)
The meeting with the foreign diplomats in India was going well. Everyone seemed to be agreeing, getting along, and becoming a step closer to a peace deal, Elizabeth and Conrad nodded at each other from the opposite sides of the table in agreement that this was going great. Or at least it was, until one of the Indian Ministers decided they didn't want the peace deal to go ahead, and voiced his very negative opinion on the whole situation, which did not help the agreement, and Conrad requested a time out, and he, Elizabeth and Russell left the room, and was lead into a private rom down the hall.
"What the hell was that?!" Russell said, stress in his voice.
"That was us saying goodbye to a peace deal with India. We cant sign the deal unless all ministers agree." Elizabeth said, and Russell shook his head.
"We need to figure out what changed his mind and change it back, we need this deal to happen." The president said, and Elizabeth nodded.
"I'll go and talk to him, see if I can figure out what caused him to disagree with the deal he agreed to not twelve hours ago." Elizabeth suggested.
"No, right now we need to leave, and make them chase us, they want this deal as much as we do, we will come back here tomorrow." Russell said, and both agreed, before heading out.
As they reached the car, paparazzi, news reporters, and a bunch of standbys gathered around them, the three of them continued to their car, but stopped and turned in the direction of the voice that had shouted for Elizabeth.
"Minister Shan, would you like to renegotiate the deal you just declined?" Elizabeth asked, looking at Conrad as he stood just meters in front of her.
"No. I didn't." He said, emotionless, and pulled a gun from his pocket, holding it up to three American government workers.
"Minister Shan, put the gun down." Conrad asked, stepping in front of Elizabeth as Russell pulled her back slightly. The DS agents pushed their way through the large crowd, but before they could reach them, the Minister grabbed Elizabeth and pushed her forward, gun to her back.
"Mr President. Mr Jackson. Follow." The armed minister demanded, and began to push Elizabeth forward, and against the DS agents request, Conrad and Russell followed in pursuit. Cameras were flashing, people were yelling, and news reports began to roll their cameras, and then it was headline news.
"Dad!" Stevie screamed painfully, almost dropping the floor, and Henry ran from the kitchen.
"Are you okay?" He asked in a worried tone, and Stevie stared at the TV, and that's when Henry heard it.
President Dalton, Secretary Of State Elizabeth McCord, and Chief of White House Staff Russell Jackson all held at gun point by Minister Shan, and led back into what is now being described as a hostage situation.
"Dad?" Stevie asked, and Henry hugged his eldest daughter, who in this moment looked so small.
"She's going to be okay." Henry said, trying to soothe his now crying daughter, and he turned off the TV as he heard Jason and Alison walk in. He couldn't handle them all being worried, he was too scared himself. He couldn't be strong for all of them.
"Is Stevie okay?" Jason asked Ali, who shrugged her shoulders as their sister cried into their fathers chest, and Stevie took a deep breath and looked at her dad.
"Everything will be okay." He told her, and Stevie nodded.
"Are you guys okay?" Alison asked as she walked into the living room.
"Everything's fine, noodle. How was your day?" Henry asked, hoping to start a distraction for his youngest and middle child from looking at news on their mother.
Back in India, the three of them were placed into a large room with one way glass, and Minister Shan continued to hold his gun up.
"Was there really any need for this, Minister Shan?" Russell asked.
"This seems to be the only way you will listen to my points." The minister said.
"We would have been more inclined to listen to you if you hadn't held us at gunpoint in front of a bunch of cameras, Minister." Russell snapped back looking at his phone to see multiple missed calls from Henry, and the presidents wife, along with quite a lot from his own, and Elizabeth looked at the president as he took a step forward.
"Now you have us here, what is it you would like to discuss?" He asked, and the minister put his gun down to his side.
"I am unsafe in my Country, Mr President. I am being forced into making decisions I do not agree with, decisions that will get me into trouble with the Indian Government." The Minister told them.
"What? Like holding the two most secured and ranked people in America hostage?" Russell clapped, and his gun rose towards him.
"If you dare shoot my chief of staff I shall have it that you stay in the country you so desperately want to be saved from." Conrad said, and the gun was lowered.
"Its not that I want to leave my country, Mr President, its that I want more control. More power. I want to be able to get out of the business I have found myself in." He said.
"And how do we come into that?" Elizabeth asked.
"You can hire me as a Indian diplomat, someone who holds the peace deal here in India, someone with power." The minter said.
"I'm afraid it doesn't work like that." Elizabeth told him, and the minister shook his head and began to pace.
"It has to! It has to work! I risked everything!" The minister began to raise his voice.
"Minister Shan-" Elizabeth began, but the sound of her voice only caused his anger to rise, and his eyes met hers and he leaped and grabbed her wrist and pushed her, his body following, causing both Russell and Conrad to run forward. Conrad looked at Elizabeth, the woman he had trained, the woman he had thought of as a sister since the day they met, and he lost it. Grabbing the Minister by his jacket, he pulled the man from Elizabeth by the back of his jacket and threw him to the floor, before leaning down and placing his index finger on his chest.
"If you ever lay a hand on my secretary of state ever again I will see to it that you are never, ever involved in a diplomatic or foreign agreement ever again, are we understood?" Conrad spat, and the mean nodded with fear, and the president stood up and turned to Elizabeth.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
"I'm fine." She nodded, still a little shaky, and at that moment over ten DS agents ran in with guns, and grabbed the three Americans.
"The place is set to blow in just under two minuets we need to go" One shouted as they rushed the three out of the room and into a exit.
Henry and Stevie planted themselves in front of the TV, watching news reports, looking at the same images over and over, when breaking news broke over the screen.
"The Indian Embassy is set to blow in less than five minuets, all reporters, standbys, and paparazzi are forced to leave the area as over ten of both Secretary McCord and President Daltons security run in as there has been no sign of them for over two hours." A reporter said, and Stevie released a shaky breath and Henry swallowed a lump in his throat, and just as he went to speak, he watched as the Embassy blew into tiny pieces, and the screen go dark, and his mobile, and landline phone rang at almost the same time. He jumped up and grabbed his mobile, hoping he would he his wife's voice.
"Hello?" He said.
"Dr McCord. It Nadine. I'm sure you've just seen the attack..." His wife's chief of staff said.
"Yeah. Have you heard anything? Is she okay?" Henry asked.
"I'm afraid we lost contact just as the DA agents began to run with her, I cant tell you if they got out in time, I'm very sorry." Nadine told him, "If I hear anything I'll be sure to give you a call." She told him, and Henry thanked her and put the phone down.
"Is mom okay?" Stevie asked.
"I don't know.." Henry said, placing his fingers over his wedding ring, and silently praying that she would be returned to him unharmed.
The three of them were threw to the ground, along with their security, as the place they just ran from blew up right before them, flames catching onto small bits of wood, and she was slowly picked up by two agents, and rushed to her car, once in it, Conrad looked at her.
"Are you okay?" He asked her once again.
"Yeah." She nodded, catching her breath.
"Are you?" Dalton asked Russell, who just nodded, placing his phone onto the seat next to him as it no longer worked.
"We know you will all want to contact your family but I'm afraid that its not an option, we have no way to safely sallow any calls until we are back onto American Soil." Matt said to them, and they sighed.
"Is there anyway we can let them know were okay?" Elizabeth asked.
"No Ma'am, I'm sorry." He told her, and she leaned her head back.
"Its going to be all over the news." Dalton said.
"Well, it will make for one hell of a surprise." Russell tried to joke, and it worked, and Elizabeth and Conrad both smiled slightly.
It had been hours since he'd last heard anything from Elizabeth, or anything at all to do with her. The news reported every half an hour than non of them had been seen, and that no one had been found from the blown up Embassy, except the body of the man who was the reason his wife was in there in the first place, and that did not help settle his mind.
"Dad, I'm scared. I don't know what-" Stevie said, and Henry's heart broke as she started crying.
"I know you're scared, baby. But everything will be okay, I promise." Henry said, holding her gently.
"Are you going to tell Ali and Jason?" Stevie asked, knowing that they'd kept them away from all things news and media since they'd gotten home, and that they were now peacefully asleep and unaware.
"If we haven't heard anything by midnight then yes, I will." Henry said, and Stevie looked at to see the time was, ten forty five pm.
"She's okay right?" Stevie asked, and Henry nodded.
"I hope so." He said quietly.
Elizabeth arrived at her house at eleven fifty, and she sighed in relief, she couldn't wait to hug Henry, to let him know she was okay, they'd not had the time to call him after landing, as they had to get past lines of cameras unseen, and assure their safety, she wasn't even sure her staff were aware, but all she wanted was her husband. Her best friend. And so she got out of the car and walked to the door, taking a breath as she walked in, and her whole boyd relaxed as she heard him call her, and as he speeded to the door way, she watched his body relax, and before she could blink she was in his arms, wrapped around him tightly, and she rested her head into his chest and wrapped her arms around him, and she began to cry.
"Are you okay?" He asked her, for so many reasons.
"I'm fine. I'm okay." She nodded, and Henry kissed her softly, cupping her cheeks, before gently pulling away, his eyes meeting hers, and he wiped her tears.
"I'm so glad you're okay." He said to her with a smile, and she mirrored it.
"Me too." She nodded, before engulfing herself into his arms again.
"Mom?" Stevie said as she walked into the hallway, and Elizabeth left her husbands embrace to be caught in her eldest's.
"I'm okay, baby. I'm okay." Elizabeth said, holding her daughter close.
"I missed you." She told her mother, and Elizabeth cupped her daughters face.
"I'm not going anywhere." Elizabeth told her, and Stevie nodded with a smile.
And in that moment, the three of them forgot about the ordeal they'd been through, and took inn the moment that not ten minuets ago, they could only have dreamt.