Sorry for updating so late, I was super sick all last week and I am just now starting to feel better. Hope you enjoy! :)
Previous Chapter: "Brittany." Melissa says into the phone.
"You better tell me where she is Melissa this isn't right." Brittany is trying to keep calm.
"I told you that I would get my daughter and now I have her. We could have been a family again Brittany but you didn't want that." Melissa angrily says into the phone.
"No Melissa please just tell me where my daughter is please." Brittany is trying to plead with her.
"Too late." Melissa says hanging up.
"Hello! Hello! Damn it!" Brittany says leaning her head back.
"Did you get anything?" Santana asks angrily.
"We know the vicinity that she is in but her phone isn't picking up a set location. Do you know what kind of car she drives?" One of the detectives asks as he reads his computer screen.
"Yes it's a Nissan Altima. I had some of the people I work with track her for a couple of weeks and we have some information on her but not this location." Santana is trying to help as much as she can.
"We are getting closer and we have every cop out looking for her right now." The officer tries to reassure them.
"That isn't enough!" Brittany yells before walking outside.
Santana sighs before following her out. "What are we going to do?" Brittany doesn't know what this feeling is.
"We will get her back Britt it will just take some time." Santana moves towards Brittany reaching her hand out.
"We don't have time!" Brittany yells moving away.
"I know, but she doesn't want to hurt Madison." Santana tries to find some kind of positive.
"Is that supposed to make me feel better." Brittany is clearly not hearing anything.
Santana is about to respond when she hears her phone buzz.
"Hey did you find anything?" Santana asks.
"Yeah your PI George went to her apartment and found a map that has a few places circled near the cabin you guys are staying at. He also found a couple plane ticket receipts so I'm not sure what that means." Rachel tells Santana.
"Can you tell us the locations so I can get the cops to go there and look?" Santana asks.
"Yeah it's 3344 Sampson Street, 3467 Magnolia and then 5678 Murphy Street."
"Thanks Rachel." Santana comments writing down the three locations.
"What did she say?" Brittany asks before Santana runs into the house giving the police the three locations.
"Here these are three locations that you need to get your cops looking at now." Santana hands the head detective the sheet.
"Where did you get these?" The detective questions.
"It doesn't matter where. You have no leads as of right now so get your cops to search these three locations!" Santana yells clearly not caring who she pisses off.
He looks them over before walking over to the group and having them get the rest of the police searching these three locations.
When the police go to search the three different houses they look at the first two and find them empty but when they pull up to the third house they see a car out front.
"We have a vehicle on the property. Everyone take caution when entering." One of the officers speaks into his radio. They surround the house taking every precaution they can.
"House is fully secure. Any visuals?"
"I can't see any movement from out here. We may want to enter through the back but be cautious because the girl may be in danger." An officer says as they are watching the house.
"Alright on my go you four enter the front and you four enter the back. Our first priority is to find the girl." The head officer explains.
As they line up against the wall they nod towards each other. On three they enter from the back and the front of the house. The ones from the back searches the house starting with the kitchen.
The ones from the front go to search the bedrooms first. When they enter the first one, they see Madison laying on the bed.
"Found the girl." One officer yells out.
He slowly walks up to her not wanting to scare her. "Hi Madison I'm Officer McGwire. Your mom told us to come get you."
Madison is starting to cry and is scared. "Where is my mommy!"
"If you come with us we will take you to her I promise. " The officer says putting out his hand.
Madison is cautious but moves towards him. He picks her up and takes her to one of the detectives cars.
As they search the rest of the house there is no sign of Melissa.
"She must of known we were coming. We need to go check the woods she couldn't have gone far without a car." The rest of the officers turn their lights on the field and begin their search.
They search for awhile and can't seem to have any luck so they call on the search dogs to help. As the dogs pick up her scent they start to lead them to a closed off area where they see some movement.
"Over here!" The officer yells as the swat team starts to pick up their pace.
"You need to come out now you are surrounded and there is no way out!" One of the officer yells as they all have their guns drawn focused on the spot that the dogs have found.
In fear of them letting the dogs go Melissa stands with her hands in the air. The first few officers run towards her and knock her down. "Put your hands behind your back now!" One officer yells laying on top of her grabbing her hands to bring them behind her back. He handcuffs her and lifts her up.
"I hope this was worth it because you will be going away for a very long time." The office leads her to the back of the police car.
"I wasn't trying to hurt her, I swear. She's my daughter I have every right!" Melissa yells back at them as they drag her towards the police cars.
"No you don't there are courts for this kind of thing. You can't take the law into your own hands by taking someone's child. You should be ashamed of yourself." The officer continues as he grips her tightly putting her into the back of the police car.
On the other side of town one of the detectives is taking Madison back to the cabin where Brittany and Santana are waiting. When they hear the car pull up they run outside.
As the detective opens the back door he lets Madison out.
"Madi!" Both Brittany and Santana yell as they run over to her.
Madison is crying hysterically and so are Brittany and Santana squeezing her as tight as they can.
"You're okay. You're okay." Brittany cries to her daughter as they continue to hug her.
She pulls back to look over her daughter to make sure nothing's wrong. "Did she hurt you?" Brittany asks.
Madison just shakes her head no. "I'm so sorry baby." Brittany tells her daughter before pulling her into another hug.
"Who was she mommy?" Madison is still crying as she asks this.
"Just a bad woman Madi that will never bother you again I promise." Brittany tells her daughter emotionally.
"She said that you told her to get me." Madison continues through sobs.
"No sweetie I would never have you go with someone you don't know okay." Brittany tells her daughter.
After a few seconds her daughter turns towards Santana who gladly picks her up and holds her tight.
"You're okay Madi I promise." Santana tells Madison as she lays her head on Santana's shoulder.
"I was scared." Madison whispers into Santana's neck.
"I know you were but you did such a good job that they were able to find you." Santana is so proud of Madison.
"I want to go home." Madison cries still leaning against Santana.
"We will baby right after we talk with the detectives and get our things." Santana tells Madison kissing the top of her head.
"Please don't leave me." Madison grips Santana tighter.
"I'll hold you the whole time." Santana whispers to Madison as Brittany and her walk over to the detective.
"Did you catch her?!" Brittany has mixed emotions.
"Yes Ms. Pierce she is in custody now."
"She better be in custody for a very long time." Santana comments.
"She will be. She will be charged with kidnapping, amongst every other charge that we can throw at her. I will keep you informed on her trial and charges." The detective tells both Brittany and Santana.
"Thank you, do you need anything else from us?" Brittany asks.
"No ma'am not at the moment. A detective may have a few questions for you in the next couple of days if you could leave your names, address and phone number that we can reach you at."
"Sure." Brittany tells the detective as he gets a notepad and pen out.
Brittany gives the information to the detective. "Do you need me to wait here with you until you get your bags packed up?" The detective asks.
"No we should be fine since she was caught. It won't take us long to get everything together, thank you though. " Brittany tells the office who then heads out. Santana and Brittany walk back into the cabin with Madison still clinging to Santana.
"Madi wants to go so I think we should just get our things and head out. I'll let the owners of the cabin know what happened and we should be good." Santana tells Brittany.
"Yeah let's go." Brittany starts to gather their items from all of the rooms.
"Madi I'm going to set you down okay so that I can get some stuff for us to go." Santana starts to put Madison down.
"No!" Madison yells as she holds tight to Santana.
"Okay, okay I won't." Santana says knowing that Madison is probably a little traumatized at the moment.
Santana walks back into the room where Brittany is.
"Hey she won't let me put her down so I'm not sure how much good I'm going to be." Santana looks to Brittany.
"It's okay I've almost got everything packed so just hold her." Brittany says rubbing her daughters back before continuing to clean up.
Santana walks around trying to pick up as much as she can. She goes out back to make sure they have everything there also.
Once they gather all of their belongings they head to Santana's car.
"I'm going to just sit in the back with her." Brittany says as Santana hands Madison over.
"I think that's a good idea."
"Hey sweetie I'm going to put you in the car but I'm going to sit next to you okay." Brittany says as she starts to put her daughter in.
"Don't go mommy." Madison says as she grabs for her.
"I'm not baby." Brittany gets in right next to her.
Santana gets into the front seat heading out. After about forty five minutes Madison is sleeping on Brittany.
"Why don't you try to get some rest babe now that Madison is asleep. We have a couple more hours." Santana whispers.
"I don't think I can sleep right now." Brittany comments looking at Santana in the rearview mirror.
"Okay well I'm right here if you need to talk." Santana says looking back at the road.
After a couple hours of driving Santana pulls over at a convenience store to get gas. "Hey babe do you want anything? Water?" Santana parks in front of the gas pump turning the car off.
"Yeah a water would be fine. Thanks." Brittany tells Santana tiredly as she gets out to go pay.
After a few seconds Madison starts crying opening her eyes. Brittany still has her arms wrapped around her. "Hey Madi it's okay baby, mommy's right here." Brittany tries to rub her daughters arm trying to calm her.
"Why did we stop!" Madison starts to bury her head into her moms stomach.
"Hey Madi it's okay, Santana is just getting gas and some water for us." Brittany is trying to calm her daughter down.
"She is going to get us mommy!" Madison cries into her mom.
"No baby she isn't, she is with the police officers now she can never get you again." Brittany tries to calm her daughter again.
Santana is walking back to the car where she sees Madison crying and Brittany trying to calm her. She rushes to the other side opening the door.
"What's wrong?" Santana asks sitting on the other side of Madison trying to rub her back.
"She just heard the car stop and got upset." Brittany starts to get tears in her eyes also.
"Madi, honey it's okay mommy and me are right here okay." Santana says as Madison slowly starts to calm down.
"I'm going to get the gas really quick and then we can head back out." Santana tells Brittany as she quickly gets out wanting to get the gas as quick as possible. After a few minutes she finishes up and gets back into the car to get back on the road.
Once they are driving again, she looks back to see Madison is back to sleep and Brittany looking out the window.
"Is she going to be okay?" Santana asks concerned.
Brittany looks to Santana and sighs. "I don't know San. Who knows what she went through when she was with Melissa. Just the fact that we stopped in the car freaked her out. We probably should take her to see someone when we get back or at least talk to someone about what to do."
"Okay I'll look into it as soon as we get home." Santana looks to Brittany through the rearview mirror. After a couple more hours they finally get back to Brittany's apartment.
When they do they are both so tired so they just leave everything in the car. Santana gets out first going into the back to slowly grab Madison to carry her inside.
When she starts to do this she sees Madison start to stir and tense up. "Hey it's okay it's just me. Go back to sleep baby." Santana is rubbing circles on her back. After hearing Santana's voice Madison loosens up a bit and rests her head on Santana's shoulder. Brittany gets out too as they head up to the apartment.
When they get to the apartment they take Madison to get a bath since she probably would feel better after one.
"Hey Madi, mommy and I are going to give you a bath okay and get you some clean pajamas." Santana tells her as they bring her to the bathroom.
Madison stands still holding onto Santana as she undresses her. Brittany turns the water on and waits until it warms up before putting her daughter in.
They bathe Madison and wash her hair before Santana goes to get a clean pair of pajamas for her to wear.
"Here baby we are going to put these on." Santana says as Brittany gets her daughter out and dries her off.
"I bet you feel a little better being all clean." Brittany gives her daughter a small smile.
Madison isn't super responsive so Brittany and Santana change her and carry her to their bedroom.
Santana lays Madison in bed as Brittany covers her up.
"Hey babe go get a shower and then I'll get one after you. I'll just lay with Madison until you get back." Santana gives Brittany a small smile.
Brittany looks to her daughter before looking at Santana and walking towards her. She leans down to give her a peck before pulling away. "I love you." Brittany says as she kisses her one more time.
"I love you too." Santana smiles as Brittany walks away to get in the shower. Santana puts her head up and sighs. She can't believe they let it get to the point where Madison was taken. Santana keeps her hands tightly around Madison as she tries to get some sleep.
After a little while Santana hears the bathroom door start to open. When she looks over she sees Brittany in a pair of shorts and a t-shirt.
"Feel a little better?" Santana whispers.
"Yeah it does help. You can go now, I'll lay with her." Brittany starts to walk over to the bed before Santana slowly removes her arm from around Madison not wanting to wake her.
Once she does Brittany takes her place and her daughter curls up into her.
Santana gets a shower and when she comes out she sees that Brittany is asleep with Madison wrapped up next to her.
She gets on the other side of the bed slowly sliding in before laying down and covering herself up. She is exhausted and tries to get some sleep even though the nights events are still running in her head.