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"Piper, sweetie..."Lila said softly as she came over and kneeled by Piper. "Where's Cole?"
Piper tried to remember what happened right before she was knocked out. She remembers changing Cole's diaper and then the stinging in her arm.
"Someone took him." She whispered. "Someone took Cole."
Logan's face went completely blank, the guys had worried expressions and the girls looks between shocked and pissed.
"Who would do something like that? I mean who would want to take away Cole from you. Hurt you that badly." Carlos asked, as they all started to think.
"Tim." Piper answered.
The guys and girls packed up her and Cole's things and she checked out of her room at the bed and breakfast. She couldn't really be there anymore without having anxiety attacks, nightmares, and rage moments. They put her stuff into her car and Logan drove them to his house. His dad was still at the hospital pulling a shift, so he could have tomorrow morning off. Thankfully, his mom was out doing some last-minute shopping which game them time to figure out what to do.
"It can't be Tim; he's incarcerated." Mel countered.
"We need to reconsider that, because there's no one else I could possibly think of that would care about me now. Who'd want to hurt me this bad?" Piper replied.
"Look, I'll call the jail, where Tim is being held. If he's there, then we need to come up with another plan." Lila picked up Logan's house phone and dialed the number to the jail.
"Yes...hi, I'm calling because I'm inquiring if your inmate Tim Gregory was still there?" Lila listened and waited. "No, I haven't seen him. I have no idea where he is. Thank you for your help." Lila said, fast and then hit the End button on the phone.
"We have a big problem. Tim escaped with two other inmates two days ago." Lila explained what she learned from the guard.
"Okay, so we know Tim escaped and that he somehow knew that you'd be here." Erika started. "But the question is how did he know were you where."
"The tracker." Mel said. "Remember Piper said that she found a tracker on her car on her way here."
"Which means that Tim had been looking for you ever since he'd be in jail." Lila finished.
"But I've been so careful, even Erika couldn't find me." Piper reminded them.
"He has to have someone that's a hacker." James said.
Everyone looked up at him. He shrugged.
"What my girl is a FBI agent, I picked up a few things. That and I watch a lot of crime shows." He said, as his answer for his brilliant realization.
"Let's say Jame is right and he has a hacker even better than Erika, why didn't he strike while she was in Colorado?" Kendall asked them.
"Because he didn't just want Piper." Erika said, looking at Kendall.
"He wants Logan too." Mel added. "He knows that Piper loves Logan. In his mind, the way for her to love him is to get rid of Logan."
"Then why take Cole?" Logan asked.
"When you want to hurt someone, you take away the thing in their life that will hurt the most before taking everything else. He knew that by taking Cole first, he'd hope to start breaking her." Erika explained.
"Look, I'm going to call Headmaster Oliver and see if we can't get some back up." Lila picked up her cell.
"No."
Everyone turned to look at Piper in shock. "What do you mean, no?"
"Exactly what I said. If Tim figures out that there's going to be a team of spies around here than he could take Cole far away and would be hard to track down." Piper reasoned. "Besides, I don't want anyone else to get to him first but me."
Lila put her phone back in her pocket. "She has a point. Fine, but the only thing I brought with me was my gun."
"Yeah, mine too." Erika said.
"I brought a few of my specialty knives, star blades, and I do have my issued FBI gun but I can't use that because then it would track back to me and I'm supposed to be following the law now." Mel added in her collection.
"Wait, a second." Carlos said. "You all brought weapons on you. How is that possible? This is a vacation."
"Sweetie, we're spies. It's kind of habit." Erika informed her boyfriend.
"You used to be spies." Kendall retorted.
"The saying is, once a spy..."Lila started.
"Always a spy." The girls finished.
"I'm sorry to do this but we'll be back in a few hours okay, James and I have to help Brooke with the Christmas tree. It's apparently a tradition." Mel said as she grabbed her coat.
"Yes, it is." James responded.
"Yeah, we better head out too. Carlos's family goes to the mass and I promised that I'd go with." Erika said.
"We will be back over here no later than 9." Carlos said.
"We better head out too. We promised Katie we'd take her to the ice rink before they closed and then go to the grocery store for food." Kendall reminded Lila.
"I'm sorry Piper, but we'll find Cole soon. I know it and you'll get your chance to have a go at Tim." Lila gave her a hug as the group headed out.
Piper grabbed Cole's stuffed lion after everyone left. Logan put some of her suitcases in his room and when he came back downstairs he found her curled on the couch staring at the wall. He thought about what Erika said earlier, having lost Cole seemed to have started to break her.
He walked over and sat next to her so he was facing her. "Piper, we're going to get him back."
"It's my fault." Piper said, staring at the wall.
"No, it's not. You couldn't have known this was going to happen." Logan reminded her.
"If I wouldn't have left you in the first place, maybe things would have turned out differently." Piper's gaze moved from the wall to his eyes.
"Or he would have still tried to take Cole." Logan said.
"But I would've had more training and I could have protected him. I wouldn't have let my guard down." Piper responded, near hysterics with trying to come up with possible situations that would have prevented this.
"This is not your fault. If you want to blame somebody, blame Tim. It's his fault. He's the reason behind everything bad right now. You will not let him break you. I'll be damned." Logan snapped, letting his own fury out but now at her, towards the situation. "You're not alone anymore. You have a family and we will defeat him together. Mama Knight, Katie, Lila, Mel, Erika, Kendall, Carlos, James, and me. We're your family and I know that we will get Cole back and the three of us will be together again soon."
Piper stared at him for a long time before she spoke. "You're right. I'm a fighter. I'm stronger than this and he will not break me. I'll break him. Cole needs me. He needs us."
Logan nodded. "And he has us. We'll do whatever it takes to bring him back." Piper laid her head down in his lap and he ran his hand through his hair in a soothing manner. Now, all they needed was a plan. Piper fell asleep, letting the his fingers and humming soothe her to a restless sleep. She woke up a few hours later, still in the same spot when she heard keys in the lock.
The front door opened and he heard his parents talking as they walked into the living room.
"We're home!" Johana stated upon seeing Logan before her eyes fell on Piper, who was clutching Cole's lion in her arms, head in Logan's lap.
"And who's this?" Josh asked. Piper sat up and wiped her hand across her face hoping to look a little more presentable.
"Mom, remember that girl I fell for during the concert?" Logan started, seeing as they didn't have any choice but to tell them now.
"Yes, I remember. Is this her? The girl you've been searching for over a year to find?" Johana asked.
"Mom, Dad, this is Piper. She found me." Logan said, forcing fake enthusiasm in his voice.
"I'm sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell. Not exactly what I expected of a first meeting." Piper spoke but her voice was solemn.
"What's wrong, sweetie? Did something happen?" Johana asked walking over to the couch and sitting down next to Piper.
"Um...it's our..." Piper stuttered but she couldn't finish her sentence. She didn't want this to be the way she introduced the Mitchell's to their grandchild. She shook her head looked down at her lap.
Logan took Piper's hand and linked their hands.
"Dad, you might want to sit down." Logan started.
Josh looked at his son and he took from the expression on his face that what he was about to tell them would change their lives. He walked over to his chair and sat down, trying to stay as calm as possible. "Go on."
"While Piper and I were together, our last night together before she left we were...intimate." He said, choosing a word that didn't make what they shared anything less than held in the highest regard to him. "The guy that tried to kill us was obsessed with Piper and has searched for her for the last year and a half. He's escaped jail and we believe he's here in the city."
"He has plans that will take her away from me. We're not really sure what his full plan is but the endgame of it all is that he wants Piper and he now has something that we'd do anything to get back. About six months ago, Piper gave birth to a little boy. He's my son. Our son." Logan squeezed Piper's hand to reassure her that he was with her all the way.
Johana stared at the two teens in front of her as she slowly processed what he said. "Are you trying to tell us that we're grandparents?"
They nodded. "Yes. His name is Cole."
"Are you sure it's yours?" Josh asked bluntly.
"Josh?!" Johana exclaimed in shock as her head snapped over to look at her husband.
"What? I think it's a valid question. What do you really know about her? And what is going to happen with your future?" Josh questioned.
"Is that all you care about? My becoming a doctor? Do you even have real feelings at all?" Logan asked. "You don't care that I've found the girl who I love, or that you have a grandson? All you care about is me becoming exactly like you." Logan stands. "Well, if being a doctor means that I don't care about my son's feelings or dreams or his life than dad, you can keep it because I refuse."
Logan then threw the picture of him, Piper, and Cole at his father who hastily caught it in his hands. "There's your proof."
Logan grabbed his coat and slammed the front door behind him.
"Wow, they were right." Piper breathed.
"Who?" Johana asked the girl.
"He really is an ass." Piper said, gazing at Mr. Mitchell.
The old Piper was starting to appear. She had been insulted a lot over her lifetime but this was just the best of it.
"Yes, he is." Johana agreed. "Josh, our grandson is in danger and the only thing you care about is what it will do to Logan's career? One he hasn't even started yet."
"I'm sorry it's..."Josh started but quickly cut off.
"No, it's my turn to talk." Joahna stood. "You've been on Logan's case since he was born to become a doctor. Which he has said on more than one occasion that he still plans on becoming one. That's always been his dream but the band is also his dream and it's important to him. Just because he didn't attend school the same way as you did or starts college now doesn't mean he will never become a doctor. It just means that he's a teenager, well I guess he's an adult now and he can make his own choices without you trying to guilt or badger him into your way of thinking. You're just pushing him away like this."
"I just want him to be somebody. I want him to be happy." Josh said, as if they would understand where he was coming from. "When you lose focus on silly dreams you forget. Being a doctor means dedication and being in a band in a distraction. I loved playing the guitar when I was his age but my dad was right. I had to push my dreams a job for something real."
"So, you're basically trying to do what your dad did to you." Piper stated. "I get you want Logan to have a stable career, something he can count on but you say you him to be happy and be somebody that you can't see that he already is somebody. He is happy. Right now, being in Big Time Rush makes him happy but the knowledge of knowing he will eventually become a doctor in the future makes him happy to." Piper looked down at the lion in her hands before setting it next to her. "Everyone can see that he was meant be a doctor, he's very analytical, always estimating the pros and cons of things before reacting. At least with me he can be unpredictable and less controlled all the time." She laughed remembering there talks during the tour and at the hospital.
"I get where you're coming from because I can tell you love him, but Logan's is my first and my last. There's no one else in the world for me. I know he loves you too. You're his dad but you're going to have to understand that this is his life." Piper stood. "Now, I'm going to go out and look for Logan and I'll let you two discuss what you plan to do with all this information but I want my son to know its grandparents, considering you are his only grandparents."
Piper made her way towards the door but stopped in the entrance way. "Oh, yeah, and Mr. Mitchell, the next time you insult my being by doubting my feelings for your son or the paternity of Cole, I can promise you that you will not be involved in my son's life. I would usually offer to shoot you but I've changed, at least a little."
Piper grabbed her coat and made her way down the driveway. She looked up and down the street hoping for a sign as to where Logan could have gone. An indention in the snow caught her eye and when she walked to the right and towards the curb stopped her in her tracks. There two slide marks that were out-of-place in the snow because along them where multiple footprints.
She got a bad feeling in her stomach. She turned to go back into the house and call the girls when the mailbox caught her attention. The red flag was up meaning there was mail to be taken. She opened the flap and pulled out a brown envelope with something inside it.
Yeah, things we're going from bad to worse.
X~X It Takes Three X~X
"Would you shut that baby up?" Tim yelled, as the cries from the baby seemed to get louder.
"I don't know what you expect from me. I changed the kid's diaper, so he should be all set." His goon, Liam said.
"How about feeding the baby?" Raina offered as a suggestion.
She sat in front of the computers she had set up and monitored the cameras that she had the goons place around the warehouses on the entrances to help track anyone that came by or if their location was found.
"Did everything go as planned?" Tim asked Keller, one his friends he made in prison.
"Yes, actually he made it too easy. The boys are bringing him in now." He answered.
Tim nodded.
"Do you really think she'll come? Alone, to a place where she knows it has to be a trap." Raina commented as Liam handed her Cole and she fed him one of the bottles of milk.
"She will come to me and soon. Per the envelope we left in the Mitchell's mailbox, she can't afford not to. We have the things that mean the most to her in life." Tim said with smugness that everything was going according to plan.
Raina didn't say anything because she would like to poke holes into Tim's plan so much but the sooner she helped him with this, she could go back to her life and pretend she was an only child.
She looked down at Cole. He drank the milk up quickly, showing a sign that he was very hungry. "Don't worry, you'll be back with your parents soon enough." She whispered.
X~X It Takes Three X~X
Lila, Erika, and Mel showed up with the guys but she asked that they stay and talk with Logan's parents to give them some time to work out a plan. However, she did have James and Carlos bring up her trunk into Logan's room.
She set the enevelope on top of the trunk and placed the contents on top. There was a burner phone, a picture of Cole with a time stamp on it and Logan's cell phone.
Piper stared at the items as if expecting to come up with an answer just by looking at them.
"What do you want to do?" Lila asked.
"I want to put a bullet in something." Piper replied, rolling her shoulders back.
"Save it until we find Cole and Logan." Mel said.
"So, he gave us Logan's phone so we couldn't track the location and he left the phone so that the call can't be traced back to him, leaving you with no other option than to follow his instructions." Erika stated as she started to pace.
Piper looked over at Cole's lion and she started to think.
"Cole," she muttered to herself. "Cole."
Lila looked at her. "Yes, we're going to get Cole back."
She shook her head. "No, I put a tracker in his diaper bag."
The three girls looked at her. "Brilliant!"
"I was going to say, paranoid, but in this case great job." Mel commented.
Piper pulled out her phone and started the app as it located the tracker. "It seems like it's just outside of the town."
Erika opened her laptop. "Give me the address."
Piper read the address off and Erika pulled up the blueprints and virtual schematics.
"Okay, the building has three entrances, front, back and side. It's two stories. There are some blind spots inside but I have a feeling that he has camera's around this place."
"Why do you think that?" Mel asked.
"He was able to find Piper when even I couldn't and put a tracker on her car. He's capable of having cameras around so he's not caught by surprise. He still wants Piper." Erika informed them.
"Okay, so does this place have vents?" Lila figured that that there wouldn't be any camera's set in that direction.
Erika looked at the schematics. "Okay, yes, I found one that will take us through the building without having to be seen."
The phone rang. Everyone's gaze stared at it.
Piper took a deep breath before answering. "Tim."
"Oh, my dear Piper. You've certainly grown up the last eighteen months. Having a kid, I hear does that to you." Tim said as if he was in no hurry.
"What do you want? You've taken my son and his father."
"I want you of course. Only you. If you come alone, then no harm will come to your son or his father for that matter, as long as you come to me willingly." Tim responded.
"I want proof of life. I need to know that both my son and Logan are alive." Piper stated
"Well, Cole is sleeping right now so I don't plan on waking him up. The lungs on that kid is astonishing. But I can prove Logan's alive." Piper heard a shuffling of feet, clanks of metal and a door opening.
"Piper?" Logan's voice came over the phone.
"Oh, thank god." Piper said. "I promise I'm coming for you both."
"No, Piper, don't come here. It's a trap." After he said that she heard a smack and groan come through the phone.
"You've got your proof. Now, you have extactly one hour to get 19 Old Man's Rd. Any tricks, cops, or spy friends seen and well, you'll have to live with the consequences." Tim said before hanging up.
Piper threw the phone at the wall and it broke apart.
"I have one hour to get to the place. If he sees any cops, spys or tricks that I'll have to live with the consequences."
"It's a trap." Mel reminded her.
"I know. But that is my son and boyfriend in there right now and I don't care if it's a trap. I won't be the reason they die." Piper said firmly as she opened up the trunk. She pressed on of the outside metal buttons on the trunk and panel slid down and inside the secret compartment was a few knives, explosives and guns.
The girls gawked at the treasure trove she had hidden.
"I might not be a spy anymore but I'm not stupid to believe that I wouldn't need these things anymore." Piper placed a few of the mini explosives into her bra since she knew they would check her for weapons, no one is going to cup her breast.
"We're coming with you." Lila said.
Piper put two knives into her boots and one gun behind her back and another within the back of her bra strap.
"You don't even have your weapons on you." She reminded them.
"We can get them. We can't let you go in there by yourself. We're still a team." Mel replied.
"This time I'm going to be putting a bullet in him. He's trying to take away my family." She sighed before looking at their determined faces. "Fine. You've got thrity minutes to get back here or I'm leaving without you." She conceded.
They nodded and headed downstairs and out. She closed the trunk and grabbed her jacket, headed down the stairs and stopped into the living room to let the Mitchell's know that she'd bring their son back when Josh stopped her from saying anything. She was surprised to see James and Kendall sitting there though.
"Piper, I owe you a big apology." Josh said as he looked up from the pictures in his hand. "Cole, looks just like Logan did at that age. I'm sorry I insulted you. You see Logan is our only child and I've always wanted what's best for him. It was a proud day when he told me he wanted to be a doctor like me. This was something I could share with him. But I've seen that I've only been driving him crazy and that's not what I want. I want you and Cole to be apart of our lives and be apart of our family. We'd be honored if you'd be apart of our family."
Piper gave him a soft smile because she could tell he meant every word he said. "I'll bring them home and we can have our first Christmas together as a family." She said lightly and it worked to lighten the mood.
She walked out the door and got into her car. She know's what she told the girls but she couldn't wait for them. She had to finish this to save the two people she loved the most. She'd enter the lion's den by herself.
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