AN: Hi guys! Thank you so much for the sweet birthday wishes and reviews! Just to let you guys know, I only have a couple chapters left of this story before I finish this story and take hiatus before a possible SEQUEL, but only if you guys want one. Keep reviewing! -kittiesgalore101
"Are you sure this whole 'I have a learning disabillity and have to homeschool my core classes but can still participate in high school' thing will work, Q?" Bella asked as the family stood around a computer in CyberCom forging documents to present to the high school Bella was going to enroll in.
"Postive, I had a friend who actually had a learning thing and did this exact thing. Core classes at home, electives and other activities at school," Quinn reasured as she finished up.
"I have to say," Riley began, "This is going to be interesting."
"Interesting doesn't even begin to describe it. Considering the fact that we're at work on a Saturday morning," Quinn said.
Their Saturday morning took an unexpected turn when Riley's phone rang, "Hey," Her caller ID read 'Jameson'.
"They're gone, Riley! Gone! I just got up, and - and they weren't here-"Jameson's voice was fast and frantic until Riley cut him off.
"Okay, okay. Slow down, Chris. Who's gone?" The urgency in her voice kept her family on edge.
"Melissa and Bailey. Their gone," He said his wife and daughter's names.
"We're coming," Riley sighed and ended the call.
"What's going on?" Gabriel demanded.
"His girls are gone."
The sight the Vaughn family saw as they stepped out of their car was a tragic one. Jameson's modest house was covered in yellow crime scene tape and there was a broken window with a blood trail leading out. Multiple members of the Crime Scene Unit were placing evidence next to every little thing, down to a tipped over vase. One of them had the un-lucky job of typing the blood found on the window, which came with being pestered by Jameson.
"Please, I just need to know if they're hurt, please!" He pleaded with the woman to hurry.
"Sir-" She began, but Bella decided to go be a distraction.
"Hey, Chris," She gave him a welcomed hug. "Look, I know this is hard, but I promise you we will find-"
"Bella, do not promise me you can find them if you can't. Because if you don't, then I don't think I could ever forgive you. But not as much as I wouldn't forgive myself," He cut Bella off, almost crying.
"You're right, I cannot promise anything, but what I can do is assure you that everyone here cares about you and your family, and is putting everything they have into finding Melissa and Bailey," Bella said with an empathetic look in her eyes.
While she continued the conversation, Gabriel, Riley, Quinn and the newly arriving Kori went inside to go over what happened.
"So from the looks of it," Quinn pointed to a tipped over coffee cup, "The kidnapper snuck up on Melissa, and forcefully dragged her into Bailey's room. Hence the vase and rug," Quinn analyzed as she walked through the house.
"But if you look in here," Kori pointed through the door of Bailey's room, "She stopped struggling when he or she took the baby," Kori said as she walked towards the broken window.
"Then they forced them out the same window they silently broke to get in, and someone got cut," Quinn finished the story.
"Excuse me!" Kori got the Crime Scene Technician's attention. "Did we type the blood?"
"Yes, A negative," The woman replied.
"Not a match to either," Bella added from outside.
"We have an incoming call!" Another technician yelled to all the agents from another room.
"Hello?" Jameson answered nervously with the phone on speaker.
"Hey there," a disguised voice replied. "You know, those girls you have there are pretty impressive. The Norwegian one has spectacular English for her age, and Bella there has some people skills."
"What do you want?" Jameson demanded.
"Not sure yet," The line went dead.
"How is the kidnapper watching us?" Riley asked.
"Oh crap, how could I forget? We installed home security cams," Jameson sighed.
"There's no one viewing them that I can find," Gabriel said.
"Me neither," Bella replied.
"There's people out there good enough not to leave a trace," Quinn said.
"None this good, Q. I couldn't do this," Gabriel explained.
"I could. It's pretty simple with my chip," Bella contradicted.
"If you can't, but it's simple for you, there's someone out there who could do it also," Riley said with panic all over her face.
"Oh crap," Gabriel groaned.
As soon as they figured it out, the phone rang again.
"Trace it, Bell," Gabriel whispered.
"Hello?" Jameson answered again.
"I see you figured me out," The no longer anonymous voice replied.
"Do you know what you want now?" Jameson asked calmly.
"That I do. I need a word with that little girl of yours, Gabriel."
"Is the firewall down yet?" Bella asked, now back at CyberCom.
"Just a minute, it's not necessarily easy thing to do," Nelson told the impatient teenager. "They're down, but watch out."
"You're kidding me, right?" Lillian reacted to Gabriel and Riley's news.
"Nope, it's Mei Chen, tried and true," Gabriel said.
"Give her what she wants. Their are lives at stake," Lillian sighed.
"That's the thing, she wants a render with Bella," Gabriel admitted sheepishly.
"What?!" She exclaimed as she marched towards Clockwork.
"Look, it's the only option. Trust me, I know it's risky but we all know Bella can do it," Gabriel tried to reason as he and Riley followed Lillian.
"Dose she have her?" Riley asked Nelson as they walked into the lab. She hated seeing her daughter hooked up to all those monitors.
"I think so," He replied, banging on the keyboard.
"Well this is an interesting venue choice," Bella looked around what seemed to be a hospital waiting room that she was rendering.
"Thought you'd appreciate it," Mei Chen appeared from out of no where. "This is a centimental place in your family."
"I don't believe we've met," Bella said with her signature sass.
"Mei," She held out her hand. "I'm a- friend, of your father's."
"Bella," She reluctantly returned the handshake. "Care to tell me why this place is significant?"
"I see you haven't heard the story," She pointed towards the image of Riley shoving Gabriel through the window.
Bella then turned to see the desperate face of her father'a first wife with a hand towards Gabriel's outstreched one. "Who is that, what's going on?" She sighed with fear in her eyes.
"I believe that's for another time. I do have those girls, remember?" Mei taunted.
"Where?" Bella demanded with authority.
"A warehouse, near Chandler Square."
"Bella! Bella!" Gabriel and Riley yelled until Bella's eyes flew open.
"What?" Bella asked as she began to tear the electrodes off.
"We were losing you. Do you know where they are?" Riley asked.
"Some warehouse near Chandler Square," Bella hopped off the table and pulled out her phone to get in touch with her sister.
"Great, like good things ever happen there," Gabriel sighed sarcastically as they walked out.
Quinn, Bella, Kori, Gabriel, and Riley nervously drew their guns as they prepared to raid.
"Federal Agents!"
They ran in and out of rooms, until Quinn heard muffled screams. "Guys! In here!" She yelled.
Four other flashlights illuminated the dark room, they saw Melissa Jameson tied to a chair and gagged.
"Quinn?" She asked quietly as Quinn knelt beside her as carefully took the clothe out of her mouth.
"Yeah, it's me, you're safe," She said in the most encouraging tone she could manage.
"Where's Bailey?" She started to panic. "Where's my little girl?"
"We're gonna find her," Gabriel reassured as he lead the girls out of the room.
"The woman who took you," Quinn began as she helped Melissa up. "Do you know where she went?"
"I don't know, I think she just left us. I heard her talking to someone," She accepted the sweatshirt from Quinn, for she was still in a tee-shirt and flannel pants.
"Okay," Quinn sighed.
"Look who we found," Riley turned the corner quietly holding little Bailey.
"Oh thank goodness you're okay!" Melissa held her daughter and started to cry.
"Let's get you two home," Gabriel lead they way out of the ominous building.
As they drove up to a still crime scene tape covered house, Melissa was the first one out of the car. Her husband ran to greet her with open arms.
"I am so sorry, and I will never let this happen to you ever again," He whispered in her ear, they were both crying.
"Now you're gonna make us all cry," Riley fought her own tears as she handed them their baby girl.
Gabriel hugged all three of his girls, "You know, it's the hard things we go through together that make us closer."