Chapter Ten

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Chapter Ten

Finally the door gave way with a huge groan and the two cops spilled through into the darkened hall. Harry pulled his torch from his pocket and shone it around, yet it offered little in the way of illumination.

"Which way?" he asked his partner who followed hesitantly behind. She looked around, as if she were searching for a way to answer his question.

"This way" she told him, and began walking away, the whole time looking around her for some clue as to her friends' whereabouts. Harry followed behind her, yet neither felt the need to speak as they travelled forward lost in their own thoughts and observations. Finally they cane to another locked door at the end of the hallway, though this one was going to be harder to break through. The two exchanged a glance then both turned to the side and ran up together desperately shouldering the door in an attempt to budge it open.

Fuller drove as he had never driven before, he had a feeling deep in the pit of his stomach that Harry and Judy were close to finding the missing officer, the problem was the feeling was more of a deep rooted worry than of relief. His sirens blazing and lights flashing he drove through the quiet dark street, determined to get to his kids before it was too late.

"Damn it! It isn't budging!" Harry cursed, his shoulder now aching from using it repeatedly to batter on the metal door before him. Judy kicked the door hard in reaction, for she was just as frustrated as her partner.

"They are in there Harry! I just know it!" she told the young officer beside her, tears welling in her eyes. She felt so helpless, every time they felt they were getting close to the missing pair it was as though some cruel twist of fate pulled the rug from under them and sent them crashing straight back down to the floor again.

"Come on Jude, Tom never gives up, and neither will we!" Harry encouraged his partner, he could tell she was hanging on by a thread at the moment, and he needed her calm and thinking straight else she would be no help to him or their two missing colleagues when they found them.

Finally Fuller pulled to a stop in Hoffs' and Harry's last known position, the drive across town had seemed to take an eternity yet in reality it was less than ten minutes. He leaped out of his car leaving the lights on and the keys in the ignition. He sprinted through the open doorway and down the corridor, not hesitating for a second. His heart hammered in his chest, and his breathing sounded ragged to his own ears from the exertion, yet he did not stop or slow down for a second, his heart and head were both telling him that he had to get to Hanson, and he had to get to him right now.

Hoffs and Ioki were tiring, they both had sweat dripping down their exhausted faces, yet they would not stop until both of their friends were safe and sound. Their hearts leaped when they felt the door finally begin to give way under their combined pressure, and they exchanged a weak smile. It was at that moment that they heard approaching footsteps; a person wearing heavy boots was running their way at Olympic speed. The partners nodded to each other, and both took a step back, drawing their weapons from their holsters. They ducked back on opposite sides of the corridor, and aimed their weapons at the quickly approaching figure.

"Freeze there ass hole!" Hoffs screamed, when she could make out the dark clothing, her finger tensed on the trigger, ready to fire in a heartbeat, she just managed to snap her arm away in time before she shot her boss. "Jesus Captain, don't do that to me!" she yelled at the sheepish looking Fuller, who after a second seemed to fold in on himself with his hands resting on his knees and his head bowed desperately drawing in the breath that he had denied himself in his haste to get to his boys.

"Haven't found them?" he asked through his pants.

"No, we're just trying to open the door" Harry replied.

"Well what are you waiting for then?" Fuller prompted, standing back to allow his officers room to slam into the door. After he had got his breath back enough, Fuller joined in on the mission and in no time the three cops had managed to get the door open. They breathed joint sigh of relief when the door swung open to reveal a none too worse for wear Doug Penhall, yet the grins soon faded from their faces when they noticed that said officer was currently in tears desperately pumping on his partner's chest trying to force some breath into the still lifeless form of Tom Hanson.

End Chapter Ten

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