I went into to work the next day determined to find Olivia before anything happened to her. I got someone to run facial recognition on the suspect. Hopefully they'll be able to find out who he is, so that I can try and find any location where he would be keeping Olivia. I vowed never to fail a calling ever again. After I couldn't stop Harvey from jumping I didn't want anyone else to die from my failures. To my luck they were able to find out the name that belonged to the man in the picture. His name is Noah Taylor he spent some time in prison back in 2012 for assault and battery. Finding all of this gave me even more motivation to find Olivia. If this guy was the one who kidnapped her then I'm afraid to even think about what she's going through right now. I got to work immediately and started looking for any properties he may own. Luckily for me I had already found out what car he had the day of Olivia's disappearance thanks to the cameras in the parking lot of the restaurant. I tracked the car down, but was hit with a dead end. He must have switched cars, but unfortunately for me he must have borrowed someone else's car because there were no reports of any stolen cars in the area.
"Stone." Riojas called out to me as he walked over to my desk.
"Yeah"
"Any updates on the case I gave you?"
"I have a possible suspect. He was the only other person who had contact with Olivia the night she disappeared, other than her friends. I spoke to all of her friends and they all told me the same thing about that night. This guy came up to Olivia while they were having dinner asked her out on a date she turned him down and he didn't seem to like that she said no. I was able to get a facial recognition using a picture that Olivia posted; his name is Noah Taylor. The last photo Olivia posted on her instagram you can see that this guy was staring at her in the background. According to her friends the picture was taken after he went up to her."
"Have you been able to find him?"
"Not yet. I was able to track down his car to a gas station. That's when he abandoned it and started walking to wherever he went next. I was able to get access to the cameras in the area, but I lost him at one point since he entered an area where there were no cameras. I think that if he is the one who kidnapped Olivia he either borrowed someone's car or had help. Im currently looking through his profile to see if he has any properties that he could be hiding her at. While i was looking at his sheet I saw that he had been previously arrested in 2012 on an assault and battery charge. I have reason to believe that if he does have Olivia she may be in serious danger."
"Look through to see what else you can find on him. Keep me updated on anything new that you find."
"Okay." he walked away and left me to do my work. We put out an alert for other precincts to keep an eye out for Noah. So far no one has seen him. I did find that he was renting out an apartment here in the city. I got some officers to check it out, but they found the home empty. Luckily for me I found the address to his parents house. I thought it would be best if I took the trip down to his parent's. I grabbed my phone and keys and headed out.
"Hey are you heading home?" Jared said when he saw me approach with my car keys.
"No I'm not. Are you doing anything?"
"Just some paperwork, but that can wait what's up?"
"I found the address to my suspect's parents house. I'm going there right now to see if they've seen him or know where he could be. I was wondering if you wanted to come with."
"Yeah I'll come."
"Okay great." he grabbed his jacket and phone and we walked to my car. "Here you can drive." I said as I threw him my car keys. The drive to the house wasn't going to take too long. I spent the entire ride catching him up on what I've found so far.
"By the way I had a calling last night."
"You did. What was it?"
"It told me that time's running out."
"Do you think that your having a calling about the person Zeke needs to save?"
"It would be possible since it has happened, but I don't think so."
"Why not?"
"I have this weird feeling that it's about my case."
"Let's say it is. That means that Olivia is in serious danger."
"Yeah. I have to find her and fast before something really bad happens to her."
"Hopefully the Noah's parents will have some insight on his whereabouts."
"If not finding her will take longer and time is a luxury we don't have right now." We arrived at the house and knocked at the door. I noticed that there were no cars in the driveway. I'm really hoping that there's someone inside. We waited to see if anyone came to the door and after a few minutes and another knock on the door a women opened up.
"Hello can I help you with something?"
"Yes you could actually. Im detective Stone this is my partner detective Vasquez. We were wondering if we could talk to you about your son."
"Did something happen? Is he okay?"
"We should have this conversation inside where there's a little more privacy. May we come in?"
"Yes of course." She opened the door wide enough to let us in. "We can sit in the dining room follow me." We followed her to the room and sat down across from her. "What's going on?"
"Mrs. Taylor your son is a main suspect for a kidnapping case."
"What?"
"A woman went missing a few nights ago and she hasn't been seen since. The night of her disappearance she was eating dinner and your son was there at that same restaurant. He went up to the table she was sitting at with her friends and asked her out on a date. She rejected him and there are witnesses that have said he did not look at all pleased with her answer. We've found a photo of that night that was taken after the confrontation and he has been identified as the person who was staring at her from a few tables away. We checked his file and we saw that he has had a past with the police. He got arrested over an assault and battery case."
"My son has always had problems controlling his anger. Through the years we've tried to get him help, but he refuses."
"Has he made any contact with you in the past few days?"
"No he hasn't. I haven't heard from him in weeks. He always does that."
"What do you mean by that?"
"He'll call every once in a while and disappear for weeks."
"Do you know where he would be?"
"No I have no idea. I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help."
"Is your husband home?"
"No he's at work."
"Do you know if he would know anything that could help us?"
"Not that I know of. As far as I know he knows as much as I do. Him and our son didn't have the best relationship, but I'll ask him when he gets home."
"Here's my card if your son contacts you or your husband knows something please give me a call. Thank you for your help."
"No problem. I'll let you out." We followed her back to the front door and walked out. Once we were in the car we talked.
"I can't believe that I got nothing out of that. I was really hoping they could help."
"Maybe they still can. If he contacts them then they'll call."
"For now I'll just have to keep looking and hope that he makes contact with them." We arrived back at the precinct. I sat down in my chair and sighed in frustration. How could it be possible that I get close to finding an answer, but don't get anything. I don't know how much time I have left and I don't want to fail this calling. I already have to be worried about Zeke's calling and now I have my own problems too. A few hours later I wasn't faring any better than I was before. Everything that I've found has hit a dead end. He doesn't even have any social media that could help me find out any of his close friends or any possible places he may be. The phone on my desk rang and I picked it up.
"Hello 129th precinct this is detective Stone speaking."
"Detective Stone this is Mrs. Taylor." I perked up at the name. Hopefully she has something that will turn my day around.
"Mrs. Taylor how can I help you?"
"He made contact with me. Noah called me a few minutes ago."
"Okay I'll be on my way"
"Okay" I hung up the phone, grabbed my phone and jacket. I walked over to Jared.
"Hey Noah made contact with his mom. I told her we would head over there."
"Okay lets go." I didn't even notice that he didn't give me my car keys back until he pulled them out of his pocket just now. We arrived rather quickly much quicker than last time, but that's because the traffic from earlier died down.
"Come in." said Mrs. taylor the minute she opened the door we walked in and she closed the door behind us. We walked back to where we were sitting earlier.
"Move and I shoot." We both looked to the side wall in the dining room and saw that Noah was standing right there with a gun pointed at us. "Grab your guns and kick them towards me. If you even try and shoot I will shoot her." He said while pointing the gun at me. "And by the looks of it I'll be killing two people at once so I would be really careful with what you do." We both put our guns on the floor and kicked them towards him.
"Please don't hurt them." Mrs. taylor said to her son. She turned to us and tried to explain herself to us. "I'm so sorry I didn't want to do this, but he threatened to kill me if I didn't."
"Noah you don't know what you're doing? You need to let us go or you're going to be in more trouble than you already are. You don't have to do this." Jared said.
"That's where you're wrong. I'm not going to be in any trouble. See I'm going to take all three of you with me. Only you three know that I was even here in the first place. No one is going to know where to find me. Grab your keys your driving." he said to Jared. "Now lets go." we followed him out and got in the car. We followed his directions until we ended up at an abandoned warehouse. "Give me the keys." he said while pointing the gun again. Jared threw him the keys without question. He brought us into a room and put us all in he locked the door and I could hear his footsteps while he was walking away.
"What are we going to do?" Mrs. taylor said.
"We still have our phones." I said looking at jared. We both took them out, but to our disappointment there was no service in the area we were in.
"Great nothing." Jared said.
"Don't worry we'll find a way to get out." I had an idea, but I didn't know if it would work. In that moment we hear footsteps coming back towards the door. "Put your phone away it's the only thing we have left that we can use we can't risk him finding them." The door opened and he put someone else inside the room my luck might be turning yet. He decided to throw Olivia in the same room as us.
"Is your name olivia?"
"Yes it is, who are you?"
"My names Michaela Stone I'm a detective. I was assigned your case. I've been looking for you for a few days now. Are you okay?"
"Other than a few scrapes I'm fine, thankfully. How did you end up here if you're a detective?"
"We were tricked which reminds me." I turned to Mrs. taylor. "What happened after we left?"
"Nothing at first. I got a call after an hour of you leaving. I tried to see where he was and he caught on to me. It didn't help that he had people watching both me and my husband. He didn't want us talking to the police. He hung up the phone and then a few hours later he popped up on my doorstep and you know what happened next."
"Why didn't you call after he called you?"
"I didn't know if I could. He's my only son I didn't want to see him behind bars again, but I knew that calling you was the right thing to do. I was struggling with myself, by the time I finally decided to call you he was at my doorstep. I'm so sorry had I called you the minute he hung up on me we wouldn't be in this situation right now."
"Now we just have to figure out how to get out. We don't have our guns or the car keys and we're miles away from the city." I pulled him off to the side and spoke quietly so that Olivia and Mrs. Taylor didn't hear what i was saying.
"I have an idea, but I don't know if it will work."
"I'll take anything I can get, what is it?"
"I've let the callings tell me what to do and I've always trusted them, what if I try and see if I can get them to listen to me."
"You mean like talk to them."
"Yeah except not actually talk. The voices are always in my head I'll just try and talk to them and see what happens. I mean what do we have to lose."
"I guess try it." I smiled at him and we walked back to the rest of our group. I didn't know what to say to the callings. I've never had to talk to them, but I'm hoping this works. If you can hear me please help me. I've never asked anything of you until now. Contact Zeke or Ben and lead them to my location. Please whatever you are, you're my only hope of getting out of here alive. I guess I'll never know if they actually are listening unless Zeke and Ben show up and that's if they show up.
"What time is it?" I hear Mrs. taylor ask. I pulled out my phone and checked.
"It's ten thirty pm." I responded to her.
"My husband must be worried sick." She said
"Don't worry we'll be out of here soon." I said
"Are you sure of that?" Olivia asked.
"I hope so. By now our boss will have noticed we didn't come back. He knows that we're aren't the kind of people to leave work without telling him. He probably has people looking for us."
"Hopefully they'll find us soon I've been here for a few days and I just want to go home and see my family." I grabbed her shoulders gently and tried to reassure her.
"Don't worry you will see your family again and you will leave this place that I can assure you. Nothing is going to happen to any of us." I said facing Jared and Mrs. Taylor. In that moment we heard screaming coming from somewhere in the warehouse.
"Someone's here." Jared said. We heard a voice nearby and immediately recognized it as our captain's voice.
"Riojas." We both said facing each other. We walked over to the door and started screaming for him to come near. The door opened and none other than Riojas was on the other side of it.
"Are you guys okay?"
"Yeah we're fine."
"Is everyone else okay?" He said looking at Olivia and Mrs. taylor.
"Yeah we're okay." They both said.
"Okay follow me I'll get you out of here." We followed him out of the warehouse. Since Olivia had been here the longest she was taken to get checked up. Mrs. taylor was taken to a cop who would take her home and Jared and I filled Riojas in on what happened.
"How did you find us?" I asked him.
"We had some help." He motioned for one of the officers and a minute later he came back with Ben and Zeke. Ben pulled me into a really big hug the minute he reached me.
"I'll give you guys some privacy." Riojas said.
"Are you okay?" Ben asked me.
"Yeah I'm fine. We all are. How did you know where to find me?"
"We both got the same calling and it lead us to you." Zeke said.
"I can't believe it actually worked." Both Ben and Zeke looked at me with confused expressions except for Jared who knew exactly what I was talking about.
"What are you talking about?" Ben asked me.
"I asked the callings to lead you to me. I thought I would give it a chance since I had nothing to lose and it worked. I wasn't sure if it would."
"I didn't know we could do that." Zeke said.
"Yeah neither did I until now." I was going to say something else, but instead I Iet out a big yawn.
"Alright let's get you home." Jared said
"Yeah I'm so exhausted. How did you guys get here? Did you bring your own car or hitched a ride?"
"We hitched a ride. We took a train to the precinct since Grace had the car." Ben responded back.
"Okay let me go ask one of the officers to get our keys from the suspect and then we can head home." Jared said. He came back a few minutes later with the car keys in hand. "Alright let's go." All four of us walked to where the car was parked and got in. To get to the warehouse we had driven an hour and a half; we were all the way on Long Island.
"Shit." I said.
"What, what's wrong?" Jared asked worried that there was something wrong with me.
"We forgot to tell Riojas that we were leaving. He's probably wondering where we went."
"Don't worry about that I made sure to tell him before I came back to you guys."
"Okay good." I looked behind me and saw that somehow along the ride both Ben and Zeke fell asleep. Ben's head was on top of Zeke's head and Zeke's head was resting on Ben's shoulder. I needed something to lighten up today after everything that happened. I took out my phone and started taking picture's these were perfect to use for leverage when I'll need a favor.
"What are you doing?" Jared asked me.
"Taking pictures."
"Pictures of what?"
"Why don't you take a look for yourself?" I showed him the pictures on my phone and he laughed at the sight. "I needed something to cheer me up. Today has put a heavy weight on me."
"How are you doing?"
"Im good."
"You know that's not what I meant."
"I'm a little scarred. I was used as leverage against you today. I knew that nothing would happen to me, there's no way you would have let that happen, but I still felt scared for my life and the life of our child."
"It's over you don't have to worry about it anymore. You're safe and that's all that matters. Like you said I will never let anything happen to you. I would rather put my life on the line if it meant saving you."
"Thank you. For everything you do and have done for me. I don't know where I would be without you."
"I will always be there for you no matter what." He continued driving the rest of the drive was silent the only thing distracting me were our hands that were intertwined I was making small circles on Jared's hand with my thumb. The next morning I went into work and finished up the paperwork for the case I was assigned. Since the culprit was found and detained there was no need to keep me on as the lead. I was able to see Olivia, she came in for questioning. I asked her about everything that happened the minute she walked into that restaurant. I could tell some parts were harder to talk about than others so I made sure not to push her to hard. I felt proud that I was able to bring her home and I also felt relieved that I got to her just in time. Now the only thing that is worrying me is Zeke's calling. Since that day he hasn't gotten another one, but I know he will soon. We've been keeping a close eye on the news just in case the person we need to find is found, but so far there hasn't been anything. For now it's just a waiting game, a very boring one.
