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Chapter Twenty-One

Skin to skin, blood and bone

You're all by yourself, but you're not alone

You wanted in and now you're here

You're driven by hate,

Consumed by fear

Drowning Pool –Bodies

Twenty minutes later, after leaving the lab, Danny pulled up to Cory's apartment, still in disbelief. Sighing to himself, he got out of the SUV to go up to the apartment. He used his key, praying that Cory was home.

He walked into the apartment to hear the sounds of Evanescence playing. Shaking his head, he walked into the kitchen.

Cory smiled as he walked in, "Hey, sweetie." She frowned when she noticed his expression. "What's wrong?"

Danny's overwhelming fear for Carmen caused him to snap. "You're the one that sent her undercover you should know! If there's a hair harmed on her head you're responsible!"

Cory looked at him with a puzzled expression. "Danny? What are you talking about?"

"Why did you send Carmen undercover? She's missing and it's your entire fault."

"I didn't," she replied hesitantly, feeling guilty over the fact that she had considered doing that exact same thing.

Danny saw the way she hesitated and took that as a sign of guilt. "Don't lie to me, Cory. I thought I knew you. I thought I knew what kinda person you were, but obviously I was wrong. Flack was right. You are a cold-hearted bitch."

Cory stepped back like he had physically attacked her, feeling confused, but now feeling anger at his unfair assumptions. "Why the hell are you attacking me?! I didn't do anything…" she trailed off as Danny took a menacing step towards her.

"Bull shit."

Cory's eyes lit up in fury with Danny's inability to let her talk. "You know what, Messer. If you really feel that way, get the hell out of my apartment," she growled as she stalked past him. She walked to the door and wrenched it open.

Danny took her key off his key ring. "Fine. I don't want to be with anyone who puts their job before their family anyway. I'm disgusted with what you've done; you're like every other Fed I've met. You're ruthless and you don't give a shit if you have to step on your friends to get to the top. Don't bother calling," he snarled as he threw the key at her and walked out of the apartment.

Cory felt her anger drain out of her as she looked at the key lying on the hard wood floor. Her mind was whirling as she softly closed the door, then she realized what Danny had said about Carmen.

I never sent her undercover. I couldn't do that. She began to curse under her breath. "Jacobson, you son of a bitch!" she hissed as she grabbed her badge and gun then ran out of the apartment.

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The room was spinning and blurred and I could feel something cold and hard pressed against my face. Black blurs were moving, and I found myself with the inability to move.

"I think…waking…" I was catching snatches of conversation. My head was heavy as I tried to lift it, and failed. I was suddenly sitting upright; the blur in front of me spoke, as I felt my eyelids being opened, to check my pupils. A sudden sharp pain in the side of my face and I pressed against the hard surface again. My eyes snapped open as I was yanked up by my hair, an insistent tapping on my cheek was giving me focus.

"…Taylor…send you?" The fragmented words pounded into my brain as I hand on my shoulder held me up.

"Taylor wouldn't send me, she's too nice…" I mumbled.

"Mac…talking…Mac." The blurs were becoming shapes now. I realized they were people, I could put names to these people.

"Like my Dad, I want him to be my dad, is better than my dad." I huffed, before feeling my eyelids grow heavy. A dull blow to my face tilted my head, making my eyes close as the dizziness too over.

"Given her too much." Were the last words I heard before falling into oblivion.

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Cory marched into the FBI headquarters, almost seeing red with her rage. Her foot tapped impatiently as the elevator slowly made its way to her floor. As she strode her way out, once the doors had opened, she noticed that there were very few people in the building. Smiling to herself, she took that as a good sign.

She rounded the corner, marching in the direction of her team and stopped at the sight of Jacobson absently pulling at his tie, a habit that she knew was a sign of nervousness.

As she stopped by his desk, she drew a deep breath. "You stupid son of a bitch!" she screamed, her rage making her blind to any scene that she could make or it's impact on her career. "How the hell could you do something like that? It was not only idiotic, but dangerous as well."

Jacobson looked up at her in shock, realizing that his carefully constructed plan to rise to the top was falling apart like a house of cards in a hurricane. "I don't know what you're talking about," he tried to lie as he edged away from the outraged Cory.

Cory saw red as she stalked towards him, a hunter going after her prey. "I'm talking about you putting an innocent NYPD detective undercover, without my authorization."

Jacobson felt his own anger rising at her words. "Look, no woman is going to tell me what I can and can not do. I did what was necessary to bring down a brutal gang."

Cory felt something snap inside her at his high handed assumption that just because she was a woman he didn't have to listen to her. Before she realized what she was doing, she had slapped him.

Jacobson looked at her, anger and humiliation washing over him. "You bitch," he muttered as he began to react.

Cory smirked at him. "Like I haven't heard that before and believe me. Coming from you? It's a compliment," she spat back.

Jacobson raised his hand and without a thought tried to return the physical blow. Cory saw it coming and within seconds had captured his arm and thrown him to the ground, twisting it painfully behind him.

Flack

Flack walked onto the floor where Cory worked, looking for her boss' office. Danny had arrived back at the lab less than an hour after he had left, seething in rage. When he had asked Danny what had happened with Cory, Danny have just said in a monotone voice that he never wanted to hear her name again.

Taking that as confirmation of his worst fears, he had made his way to the building. Stepping out of the elevator, he was looking for Agent Michaels office, when he heard voices raised in anger. He walked around the corner to see Cory glaring at another agent. Shame filled him when he heard her say that the man had put Carmen undercover without her authorization, then he watched in fascination as they began to fight.

Finally coming to his senses, after seeing Cory throw the man to the ground, he walked up behind her to hear her say, "Give me one good reason not to break your arm right now."

Flack bit back the laughter that was bubbling up inside of him and he reached down and pulled Cory off of the man.

Cory looked up and saw Flack pulling her off of Jacobson. "Let me go, Flack," she muttered, fearing that he was going to yell at her like Danny did.

Flack saw the pain etching her features. "Don't kill him, Cory."

"I'm not going to, but that doesn't mean that I can't hurt him. He's the one that put Carmen undercover, without my knowledge."

Flack nodded, still a little angry. He looked at the man, trying to get up and quickly knocked his legs out from underneath him. "Stay down unless you want me to beat the shit out of you," he growled.

"I had considered asking her to go undercover for me, but I realized that I couldn't do that to you or Thomas. It was too dangerous. He saw my list of possible UC's and must have contacted her," Cory trailed off as a furious looking Agent Michaels walked into the office.

"Agent Reid!" he bellowed. "What the hell are you doing?"

Cory visibly flinched at the man's tone, but squared her shoulders. "Agent Jacobson contacted an NYPD CSI and without my knowledge or authorization, put her undercover without backup. As a result, she is now missing."

Agent Michaels looked down at the man, still lying prone on the floor. "Who?"

"Carmen Devine."

Agent Michael helped pick Jacobson up off the floor and frog marched him to his office as he motioned for the pair to join him.

Cory and Flack nodded as they began to follow him. "When I'm done with him," she growled under her breath so low that only Flack could hear, "he's not even going to be able to get a job as a rent-a-cop."

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Bad2wolf2mcgee: lol I was like that with the Danny and Lindsey storyline! I was like noooooo! I also would have liked to know if Louie lived or died too. He was never really mentioned after the ep. Lol That's what I love about writing, you can do anything if you use your imagination. Lol I didn't realize that about Thomas, I may just have to put that in, at some point. Lol I was like damn it your right you made me laugh.

Forest Angel: There's some things you need to see before they find her. The case kind of has an aftermath but not one you expect.

Bluehavan4220: lol hopefully this will have answered a few of your questions regarding Cory's roll! Thanks for the review!

Sparkycsi: lol I loved the bit you wrote in that capter about her practically breaking his arm and Don's like don't kill him. It's a situation I can actually imagine. Is your cold better?