Hey. It took me a little longer to post this, but I can tell you that the next chapter is as good as done.=)

So I really wanted to get this one finished so I might have rushed through it a little too quickly.

I still hope it is any good.

"Hey. Any news?" Becker asked Connor who watched the monitors of the ADD.

"Not since the last time you asked, which was like…" He looked at his watch and pursed his lips. "…mh, yeah, if we bend the rules half an hour ago."

The soldier thought about smacking Connor's head or making an inappropriate remark, but he felt too tired to do so. So, he just let the answer pass unremarked. Jessica was missing now for almost three days and no one had received any note on her whereabouts. Connor had tried everything to track her down, but the trail he first had turned out to be a dead end.

The waiting part was the most horrible thing Becker could think of, because for him time seemed to stand still. He would look at the watch every five minutes wondering why it hadn't been more time that had passed.

He turned away from Connor when he noticed that Abby was heading for him. Every time someone wanted something from him there was this little thing nibbling on his nerves ends and he couldn't help hoping that the hijacker had maybe gotten in touch or something.

But Abby just held out some sheets of paper to him.

"I need you to sign this!" Becker's face fell.

"What is it?" He asked disappointed.

"Protection fences for the animals in the menagerie." Becker looked at her crooking his eyebrows and making Abby roll her eyes. "Protection fences for the people who work in the menagerie?" She suggested annoyed. "Come on just sign it!"

Becker set his signature at the end of the page.

"When was the last time you have slept?"

"Er…"

"Becker, it doesn't help if you collapse."

"I won't, now stop getting on my nerves!" He snarled almost throwing the papers back at her.

The blond woman sighed before she turned around.

Abby started thinking to herself of just how much Jess had managed to change their super-impeccable-always on guard- Head of Security. He probably had never believed himself that this could have ever happened to him, but eventually it had.
It made him more human, Abby noticed.

She had always thought of Becker as tough, which he was, but right now she figured that after all he wasn't invulnerable.

Finally she made her way over to Lester's office to get his signature as well.

Even Lester was acting strange and confused sometimes. It was no secret anymore that Jessica was his favourite, so his behaviour was hardly a surprise.

"James, I need you to sign something."

"Miss Maitland, yes yes, come in." He stretched out his hand for the sheets that Abby handed over to him. While he looked at the papers and started signing them he asked:

"So, any news?"

"No, Sir."

He just acknowledged her answer with a headshake and put down the last signatures.

James Lester sared at the papers and after some minutes Abby wondered if he had suddenly forgotten about her for he just read through something.
She looked at him suppressing a grin.

Suddenly Lester became aware of her presence again:

"Anything else?"

"The request, Sir…"

"Yes, sure!" He handed her the sheets back. "Now, go back to work!"

Abby left the office with a shake of her head.

Emily caught her in the hallway.

"Abby, there are some letters for you."

"Are you playing postman now?" Abby laughed.

"I had nothing else to do."

"Is this all?" Abby asked looking through the letters. Emily checked the letters and parcels in her hands again. "Yes, that's…a parcel for Becker!" She breathed.

Both of them shared a look before they walked to his office together.

Emily didn't bother knocking but opened the door immediately.

Becker stood up. His eyes lit up as they approached him like this.

"What? What happened?"

Emily put the small parcel down in front of him. He stared at it.

His teeth started to nibble nervously at his bottom lip. The soldier looked at the women in front of him and down again at the table top.

"Open it!" Abby urged.

Becker grabbed it and just wanted to rip it open as Emily interjected:

"Wait! What if it is a trap? Some kind of letter bomb or something?"

"Emily, they check the post."Becker said slowly, but never the less he stopped. He threw another glance at his colleagues before he quickly just ripped it open.

Emily and Abby held their breaths.

Nothing happened.

There was a small box inside. Becker's hands were slightly shaking and he already imagined the worst things that could be in there.

The top came finally lose and inside was a mobile.

The three people stared at it. They just stared at it as if they had never seen one before.

"Is there something on it?" Abby asked Becker who searched it and then shook his head.

"Nope, there's nothing on there."

"So, now we wait?" Emily suggested. Becker drew a deep frustrated breath.

"Looks like it." His lips twitched.

Suddenly his fist connected loudly with the table making Emily jerk. "How I hate this!" His hands rummaged over his face and through his hair. He drew deep breaths.

"Sorry."

"It's okay."

"For how long had he been staring at that mobile now?"

"Er, I think since yesterday as he received it." Connor replied to Matt. "He had me check it for technical flaws and spyware."

"Found anything?"

"Course not. But I do felt like James Bond on a secret mission."

Matt rolled his eyes without replying to Connor and his boyish grin. Then he turned to walk into the other direction. Connor started after him:

"Matt I…"

Suddenly a mobile rang.

"I suppose that's neither yours nor mine." Connor said.

The two men shared a look before they turned to walk back to Becker's office. They watched how he rose from his chair and watched the mobile in his hands.

He opened his door and approached Matt and Connor who stared at him curiously.

"It's a photo of a street sign in Fulham." He showed them the picture.

"So, Fulham it is!" Connor said.

"Let's go!" Becker nodded marching towards the exit.

"Hey, do you think that's wise!?" Matt yelled after him and shot a glance at Connor who just shrugged and then followed Becker.

Thanks to the GPS they arrived in the right place in no time at all.
Becker parked the black SUV in the middle of the street and jumped immediately out to look around.

"So, what now?" Connor asked looking around as well.

"There has to be something around here!" Becker said running all over the place.

"We really should have told someone where we're going!"

"Matt, really why did you come if you are just whining?"

"Because someone has to be the sane one around!"

The mobile rang and interrupted there fight. Becker froze in order to pull it out of his pocket.

"And that would be the next clue." Connor stated.

"What is it?" Matt asked approaching Becker who became pale. He stared at a picture of Jess tied to a chair in a dark small room.

He couldn't see her face properly, but his guts tightened.

"We have to get her out of there!"

"Mate, we don't even know where that is!" Matt answered quietly looking over Becker's shoulder.

Becker felt like throwing the phone onto the ground.

Then it rang again.

His eyes grew wide. "It's him…" His brain was so on overload that he hesitated before he picked up the call with the suppressed phone number. Matt and Connor were just as edgy as he was. The cold rainy weather didn't seem to be that cold and refreshing anymore.

"What the hell did you do to her?" Becker yelled into the phone.

"Hello Captain Becker!" Ethan's voice said.

"So it is you!"

Thanks for reading!=)