Disclaimer: See last chapters.

A/N: The next few chapters are from the rest of the casts POV.

~ Five Months In ~

Chad looked at the large billboard outside the studio, shaking his head. It had been five whole months, five whole months of hell. He looked down at the floor before walking over to the board, his eyes wandering over her face, that beautiful smile he was so sure he would never be able to see again.

"She's still alive." He jumped at the voice behind him, surprised when he saw a red-eyed Tawni Hart sitting down on the steps, he hadn't noticed her when he walked from his car. He shook his head, "Is she?"

"I can feel it.. we're best friends.. we tell each other everything, I know I may not be the best.. best friend but I know so much about her. I know she is still alive. Surely you must know it too?"

"I hope so..." She nodded, standing up to walk over to him, hesitating before awkwardly wrapping her arms around him. He sighed, doing the same to her. Sonny's kidnapping had taken it's toll on everyone. The cast of So Random spent almost every moment of every day together, and Chad had got closer to every single on of them as he found himself spending less and less time over at the Falls.

Marshall completely isolated himself, he would sit in his office and stare at the cast photograph that had been taken just a day before she went missing. Marshall was laughing at something Sonny was doing at the time, and even Chad noticed the radiating smile that she gave the camera seemed to stand out from everyone else; even Tawni doing her best pose.

Sonny's mother usually sat in her dressing room, holding some of the costumes Sonny loved dearly. She'd talk to herself, going over and over the whole situation as she tried to make sense of it, phoning the Police now and again, but otherwise coming up with nothing.

Chad had to take time away from the Falls, spending most of his time with the cast or in his own dressing room. The time off was supposed to do him some good, as the rest of his cast and the show producers, thought he would come back a little happier, ready to start the new season of MacKenzie Falls, but instead, he came back even worse than when he left.

He'd lock himself in his dressing room with a photograph of him and Sonny at the beach, it was taken just a few days before she was kidnapped. He would touch her face lightly, looking into her bright eyes as she grinned, trying to read her face, hoping there would be something there, some kind of clue.

He read every single article on the case, watched everything to do with it and even talked to the FBI and Police working on getting the only girl he'd ever loved, back to him. He'd phone them up every single day, six times, asking if they had got any news. It was his routine, it would never change until she was back where she belonged.

He held back tears now as Tawni clung to him, she sniffled a little before pulling away to look at the billboard of her best friend, "She's going to be okay, they're going to find her." She whispered before turning quickly, walking to her car.

~ .. ~

Mr Condor watched his young cast falling apart, frowning as he thought about what he could do. He had a heart, but he this was for the best. He needed his ratings back, and it was never going to happen unless they snapped out of the depression the whole younger generation of his studio had found themselves in for the past five months.

He shook his head before calling all of them to his office, biting down on his lip as he tried to think of the reactions. He sighed when they all knocked on his door only five minutes later, none of them sitting down when he asked them to.

He looked at every single one of them before sighing and looking down at the desk, "You have to snap out of this, or I'm going to have to audition for new cast members." He bit down on his lip, waiting for the shouts of anger, surprised when none came. He looked up at them, sighing,

"... Fine." Tawni said, "It's not the same without Sonny anyway." Mr Condor looked at all of them, frowning at the rest of the cast as they shook his head.

"I'm not going to give up on her, and you asking us to change how we feel, means you want us to." Chad finally spoke up, "I don't want to be here anyway."

Grady sighed, "You can't force us to give up." Mr Condor nodded, "I'm afraid you're all going to have to leave then." Chad nodded, being the first to walk out with his head held high, for the first time ever, not caring that he had just lost what used to be the most important thing in his life – he had a girl to find.

One month later.

"It's been six whole months," Chad slammed his hand down on the table, looking at the photographs they had stored in his house last month, the teenagers had started their own case, certain they could find her.

"Chad, I know I have said this before but maybe we need to consider the possibility that -"

"Don't you dare say it, okay? I would know if she was dead, don't even go there." He turned around, punching the wall as hard as he could, he would know if she was dead, he loved her so much, he would know.

Grady put his hand on the boy's shoulder, shaking his head, "Calm down." None of them wanted to think about Sonny being gone for good.

"She's going to be okay, she has to be okay." He muttered, shaking his head and looking back at the board.

"Right, what do we have so far?" Zora spoke up, looking around the room, "We know he was stalking her, but we don't know exactly for how long and as soon as we find out how long, we can find out when she met him and therefore have a list of suspects."

"Did anyone notice when she started to change a little?" Nico asked, biting his lip in deep thought,

"The first time she told me that she could feel someone watching her, was about a year and a half before she went missing." Tawni spoke, "I didn't think anything of it.. I was kind of jealous." Chad paled at the thought of his girlfriend being stalked for that long.

"I just.. brushed it off and told her to tell her mom, and put extra locks on her doors... I told her she was being stupid and that she wasn't famous enough or popular enough to deserve a stalker. She never mentioned it again until six months before she went missing, when she said she saw someone standing outside her apartment."

"Okay, so that was a year ago now, she called me to ask me to check it out. I stayed with her for a week and there was nothing, and when I looked around I found nothing but a stray dog. She was convinced that was what it was and she never mentioned it again, not to me anyway." Chad finished for Tawni, frowning.

"I went to hers for a sleepover about four months before.. one of the doors was unlocked, she looked terrified and looked around to see if anything was missing but nothing was, so she locked it again and didn't talk about it." Tawni sighed, they had gone over this so many times, it was hard enough they were all blaming themselves for certain points they could have done something.

"So, at the moment let's base this on starting a year and a half ago, give me that list of people she would have met." Zora shook her head, "What if we're going about this the wrong way? We've gone through that list before, police officers, members of family... we've looked at everyone except... except the media."

Chad gulped, turning to face the whiteboard, "We should have thought of this before, what was happening two years ago in December?"

"Why then?"

"He must have taken her for a reason in December, let's go on the theory that the date he took her, that was the date he first met her." Tawni nodded, typing in something on her laptop,

"We were in New York, filming a chat show."

Nico groaned, "There were hundreds of people there, there was a lot of press... it's too broad."

"We'll go through those hundreds, whatever it takes to find her, we won't give up." They all nodded, getting up to get ready to through the whole amount of press that was covering their trip to New York.

He smiled a little at the thought of finally having something to go on, and he was going to check out everyone until they find her – no matter how long it took.