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"Patrick, come on!" Danny yelled.

Matt had a megaphone in his hands. "Ethan, the building is surrounded. Let Jess go and no one will be harmed!"

"He won't do it!" Abby stated again.

"What if he opens an anomaly and escapes?" Becker asked. He was tensed and could hardly hold it together. Officially he was not on duty, but of course he would never stay away.

Lester just kept his fingers crossed that there wouldn't be another faux-pas. As soon as he had heard what had happened he had made it very clear that he didn't want to have Captain Becker there, also because of the paperwork he had to go through if something went wrong.
He insisted to be on the coms with the team so he would be in the picture and up to date the whole time.

"Can he do that?" Abby asked Connor referring to Becker's question.

"Well, technically…maybe…that is, if he has the know-how and enough power…"

"Ethan!" Matt shouted again. "Let her go!"

It was already about to get dark and soon they wouldn't be able to see anything anymore.

It was hours ago as they had received the first hint of Jess' whereabouts. Ethan had denied giving Becker the exact coordinates but he had narrowed it down to some places. Becker had become more and more furious because Ethan had obviously been enjoying the game. Connor was the one who had been able to trace the phone call back. Not that Ethan hadn't assumed that, quite the opposite, he had counted on it.

The team had come as planned and immediately sealed the parking lot off that was in front of the small house that might have been a store some years ago. They had kept their distance because Ethan had made sure of that.

"Aw, d'you hear that? Your friends do care about you!" Ethan spat. Jess was tied to a chair and trembled. Her eyeliner was smudged, her hair dishevelled, and her clothes partially torn. She was tired and exhausted.

"What do you want from me?" Her voice cracked slightly, however she took a deep breath. "They will get you anyway!" She tried to sound as harsh as she could.

"Ah ah ah, I wouldn't be so sure about it!"

"We will and then we'll lock you up where you belong!"

"You are either brave or stupid." Ethan pressed a loaded gun against her head. "But you are lucky that I need your boyfriend!" He ripped the aid band off that had tied her to the chair and yanked her up, the weapon always pointed at her head.

Jess bit down on her lip in order not to scream at the sudden pain rising on her arms. The cold thread against her head made her knees go weak and she started to sweat. Ethan yanked and pushed her forward towards the door of the small cabin. He opened the door just wide enough for the ARC team to see her and the gun next to her head.

Becker gasped. No!

He balled his hands into fists and clenched his teeth. Jess felt weak and if Ethan wouldn't have held her up she would have fallen down, for sure.

"Okay, I will let her go, if you give me Captain Becker instead!" The hijacker yelled.

Hot tears sprang to Jess's eyes as she slowly shook her head with her eyes fixed on Becker, but Ethan shook her violently so she would stop it.

"You can have her dead or alive, depending on the decision of Captain Becker!"

"I'll do it!" Becker's voice was loud and steady, his eyes always on Jess.

"No!" Everyone whispered.

"Becker!" Matt tried to negotiate, but Becker shook his head.

"Rather me than her! Besides we can find out what he is up to. Think about it. He wants me for a reason!" He hissed.

"What if it's just about revenge?" Emily objected.

"He would have killed her already if it was that! No, there's something else, what with all the stuff he stole!"

"Come slowly closer and show me that you are unarmed!" Ethan yelled.

Becker took off his jacket.

"Becker, really, this isn't clever!" Danny said.

"There is no other way! I have to get her out of there and this is my chance!"

"Captain, you will not hand you over!" Lester ordered over coms.

"Sorry." Becker answered and started walking towards the cabin after he put a small EMD, he shouldn't even have what with the 'not on duty' state, onto the floor.

He slowly approached the former store, although his team colleagues and friends tried to hold him back.

"No! Come back here!"

"What about your knife?" Ethan asked loudly.

Becker froze and his face showed his utter surprise for merely a few seconds.

Angrily he took his knife out of his boot and threw it onto the floor.

His team shared some concerned looks. Everyone one of them had a bad feeling, for Ethan knew things he shouldn't know at all.

Becker went on.

"Is that all?" Ethan asked.

"That's all!"

"What about your black box?"

"Don't have it on me!"

Ethan glared at him for some endless seconds. "Mobile?"

Becker shook his head and shrugged but he kept walking slowly. His eyes were still fixed on Jess who tried to stop him with her eyes, her body language, everything she had. But as desperately as she tried she knew he would never listen to her.

"No tricks or she dies!" Jess swallowed and suppressed a wine. Her body had started tremble and she didn't know how to stop it.

"How do I know you'll let her go unharmed?"

"You simply have to trust me."

Becker stopped walking. "Trust you?"

"Oh oh…" Connor whispered, but Abby nudged him to keep quiet.

"You do what I tell you: she lives, if you don't: she dies. No matter where you are."

Becker's features were deadly serious. He looked into Jess' eyes that had turned red because of the tears then he gave a curt nod, despite her look, or probably rather because of her look. He wanted to have her out of Ethan's hands as soon as possible, not matter what.

By now the soldier had reached the entrance, so Ethan yanked Jess out of Becker's way, although she tried to stay on the threshold in order to keep him outside.

"It's okay Jess!" He said quietly. He wanted to touch her but didn't dare to.

As Becker was inside Ethan quickly shoved the girl out of the door that fell shut behind her with a loud bang.

She stumbled and fell to the ground.

"Becker!" She tried to stand up and turn around as fast as she could, but her knee screamed in pain and red blood was immediately oozing out of it. A cry of pain escaped her throat and tears her eyes. The pebbles in the wounds burned like hell.

Abby immediately ran up to her. "Jess, come on!" She hoisted her up. Connor was suddenly there on Jess' other side taking her other arm. She had no power to resist even though she wanted to. She wanted to break through the door and keep Becker close to her.

Together Abby and Connor brought her to the restricted area.

"He'll be fine!" Abby tried to soothe her.

Ethan pushed Captain Becker into a windowless room next door.

"What the hell do you want?"

"Oh, I'd have to kill you if I told you!" He joked.

"You can kill me right away then, because I won't cooperate without knowing the purpose!"

Ethan shrugged keeping the gun pointed at him.

"Jessica was such a pretty girl!"

"I rip you apart if you harm her!" The soldier growled menacingly and straightened up in front of Ethan.

"Then I recommend you do what I tell you to!" He replied in the same ponderous tone of voice.

Becker stared at him clenching and unclenching his fists. His teeth already hurt from his tightened jaw muscles.

Ethan pulled a small black gadget out of his pocket. It was an I-Phone on which he pressed a few buttons and then showed it to Becker.

He sharply sucked in the air as he watched Abby and Connor helping Jess to get to the medical team.

Cross hairs were displayed on her head.

"I am watching her, you see."

"Bastard!" Becker snarled.

Ethan just grinned. "Keep that in mind!"

"What the hell do you need me for anyway?"

"Well, I hear you have been to the future."

Becker was stunned. "What the…Bloody hell! You can't know that!"

"Oh, that was a secret? Well, oops!"

"No one knows!"

"Yes, I do!"

"How?"

"Well, the staff knows everything."

There was Matt's voice again. "Ethan, you can't escape! Let Captain Becker go and give up!"

"Like hell!" He chuckled creepily.

"So, how do you plan on getting us out of here?" Becker crossed his arms over his chest feeling more confident.

Ethan grinned again. He pulled out another small gadget and pressed some buttons. The soldier raised his eyebrows sceptically at the I-Pod thingy.

Something pushed against his memory, but he couldn't grab what it was.

Suddenly red lasers came out of the device and formed the shape of a ball.

A strange sound escaped his throat.

"You recognize this?"

The lights grew until they had the full size of an anomaly.

"You have been there?" Becker couldn't grasp a clear though although he had the feeling that this shouldn't surprise him this much.

"You'd be surprised." Ethan grinned.

"You have been to the future!" Becker whispered, stating the obvious.

"Now go!" Ethan commanded. "I don't have to remind you about the gun pointed at Miss Parker's head, do I?"

"Matt, I have an awkward feeling!" Jess said watching the building with a blanket around her shoulders.

"Me too!" Abby agreed. "We haven't heard anything for ten minutes now and he couldn't have come out!"

"What does he want with Becker?" Emily asked.

Matt drew a deep breath. "Okay we're going in!"

"Do you think that's wise?" Connor asked. Everyone looked at Danny to see what he thought about this. After a while he nodded.
"There's hardly anything else we can do."

"Ethan! I give you ten seconds to respond before we come in!" Matt said into the megaphone.

He looked at everyone, counting silently, then he nodded to the armed soldiers around them.

In no time had they crashed through the door.

But the rooms were empty.

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