Chapter 10

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Audrey was getting ready for school; it had been back in session for a week now, and she was excited to be a junior. She had turned seventeen a few days ago and enjoyed her birthday. She had a party with her dad and Stella and the group from the lab plus some friends. The best thing was that the last three weeks she was getting much better with help from the psychologist; she was only really having trouble at night. Her bruises were gone and her scar was faint, and she had gotten her cast taken off yesterday.

The only problem was that they hadn't caught the guy that attacked her yet. Audrey knew until they did she wouldn't be able to fully move on. Her dad would not rest either in till they did. Stella would go to work while she was at school, then Audrey would meet her at work and stay for an hour. Then they would head home, and Mac would come home after. They still didn't leave her alone; they were even cautious of letting the school know to keep an eye out for anyone who looked suspicious. Audrey took one last look in the mirror and grabbed the watch her dad and Stella got her for her birthday and went into the kitchen to eat breakfast.

When she reached the kitchen, she found that her dad and Stella were still getting ready. She grabbed a bowl and poured fruit pebbles with some milk, then grabbed a spoon and sat down to eat.

She picked up the issue of Vogue Teen that had come in the mail yesterday. She opened it and started to flip through the pages. She looked up to see her dad enter the kitchen.

"Good morning, sweetie. Did you sleep well?" Mac asked as he walked over and kissed Audrey on the forehead.

Audrey swallowed her mouth full, "Good morning, dad, and yes, I did."

Mac smiled at hearing that his daughter had slept well. "Good," he walked over to the coffee machine and got himself a cup coffee.

Stella walked into the kitchen, "Good morning, Audrey. Are you ready to go?" Stella asked.

"Yeah," she got up and put her bowl in the sink.

"Mac, I will see you at work," Stella leaned over and kissed him.

"Okay. Love you," Mac said.

"Love you too. Audrey grab you stuff; you don't want to be late." Stella went to the front door to grab her stuff as well.

"I love you, dad. See you later," she quickly hugged him and grabbed her bookbag and went to join Stella.

"I love you too, Audrey. Have a good day at school."

"I will, dad. Bye" she yelled as she and Stella left.

CSI NY

Mac sat at his desk. It was four o'clock in the afternoon, and he was waiting for Audrey to arrive and check in with him. As if on cue, she came into his office.

"Hey, dad, I'm here," Audrey said as she threw her bag on the couch.

Mac looked up at his daughter," Hey, sweetie. How was school?"

"It was good; I have some homework. I'm going to do it later though. I want to go talk to Sid about a project I might do in science," she said as she went over to Mac and gave him a kiss on his forehead. "Is that okay?" she asked.

"Sure, but I want you to do your home work as soon as you and Stella get home," Mac told her as she was almost to the door.

She turned around and smiled at him, "Okay. I will see you before I go home."

"Okay, Audrey, be careful."

"I will," she said as she went quickly down the hall towards the morgue.

Mac just smiled and thought about how far his daughter had come since that night. He was thankful that she was okay. He looked down at the file he was going over and started to review the evidence on the case his team was working on. About ten minutes later his cell phone rang; he looked at the caller ID and didn't recognize the number.

"Detective Taylor," he answered.

"Hello, detective," the cold deep voice responded.

"Who is this?" Mac asked, alarmed.

"That's not what you should be concerned with, detective. You should be trying to catch the guy who attacked your daughter." His voice sounded like he was smiling.

Mac was furious. How dare he. "Who are you?" He was trying to keep his anger in control, but what the guy said next made his blood run cold.

"I'm the guy who attacked you daughter. And what a little fighter she was," he said coolly.

Mac jumped up and started to run towards the lab to trace the call."You son of a bitch, you..."

He was cut off by the deep voice, "Now, detective, I would not make me angry. You wouldn't want me to hurt her again. Or how about that pretty girlfriend of yours... what's her name? Oh, yeah, Stella. What a pretty name. It's almost as pretty as Audrey."

Mac stopped dead in his tracks he looked over at Stella, who was looking back at him. "You leave my family alone, you hear me; you want to talk, you come to me." He looked at Stella, who was coming towards him with a concerned look on her face. He mouthed to her to trace the call, and she quickly went to do that.

"Detective, don't worry; you will hear from me again. I wouldn't worry about tracing this call. I would be more worried about where Audrey is right now." The phone went dead.

Mac dropped his phone, "Stella, forget that. We need to find Audrey now," he yelled as he took off for the morgue with Stella following.

When Mac and Stella reached the morgue, Mac stopped suddenly with Stella bumping into him. "Mac, what is it? What's wrong?" Stella asked him in a panicked voice.

Sid looked up to see the two: Mac looked angry and Stella looked worried. "What's wrong?" he asked.

Mac couldn't speak because here sat the man that his daughter was supposed to be with, and he was alone.

Mac turned to look at Stella, "Oh god, Audrey's missing."

"What do you mean Audrey's missing?" Stella panicked.

"I think the guy who attacked her has her - that's who was on the phone. She was supposed to be down here talking to Sid," Mac told her as it was getting harder to breath due to the panicking.

"Not again," she said as tears started to fall.

"I'm so sorry, guys, but she hasn't been down here," Sid informed the distraught couple.

Mac ran over to the phone, but before he could call anyone, there was a scream that sounded like Audrey coming from the hallway outside the morgue.

All three took off running towards the door.

"Audrey!" Mac yelled, hoping it wasn't too late.