So so so sorry for the long wait, I just had a weeks holiday and to be brutally honest, I just could not be bothered. But now I'm at school and the internet is down… I can write :)
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Greg had expected something by now.
You know, a ransom note, a cryptic phone call. Anything.
But it had been seven hours since his daughter had disappeared, and nothing had happened. But then he switched on the TV.
"We're so happy to have our baby girl back,"The man on the screen looked ecstatic as he held the child to him, "she has been missing for days. We were so worried we had lost her forever." The child in his arms stirred and Greg felt his stomach clench.
It was Beth.
"Why didn't you tell the police?" The reporter asked. The man sighed sadly and stroked Beth's arm gently.
"Because it would make it real. She has only been missing for a couple of days, and we were waiting until it was midnight on the third day that we called in the big guns." Greg snarled under his breath. The only reason you didn't call the police you jackass, is because that is my daughter. Beth stirred in the man's arms again.
"Daddy…" Greg thought he had to be dreaming. This was not happening. Someone was pretending to be Beth's father; his daughter was being bought into a new family, a family she did not belong to, while he stood there like a lemon watching it on TV.
"It's ok baby girl, I got you." Greg finally found his voice.
"Zoe! Zoe come here!" He yelled at the top of his lungs. Nick, Sofia and Zoe all rushed into the kitchen and gasped.
"That's Beth!"
"What is she doing on TV?" Greg snarled again, a low and dangerous noise that was more animal than human.
"That guy is trying to pass her off as his daughter! He says she's been missing for a couple of days, and that they just found her." Zoe ran to Greg and wrapped her arms around him.
"We're gonna get her back Greg." Nick looked unhappy.
"Ecklie is gunna be pissed Greg and you know it," Greg turned and faced him, shocked. Nick took a step back and thought before he spoke, "I mean, this is just from sight. That, to us, in undoubtedly Beth. But I can see a nasty lawsuit coming up, cos that guy is not gunna let go of her easy." Greg groaned in frustration, but could see his point.
"Guess we're going to have to do this the hard way."
MM
His plan was going well.
Very well.
That poor man, he really did believe that the Sanders child was his daughter. Well, the child had died a couple of months prior, and they both just looked so alike… The guy had even gone along with the press story. He was a wonderful actor.
"Sir, the plan is working!" Oh god, the rat.
"Yes," he drawled, not wanting to waste his breath on the useless animal, "it is working very well."