Where it is, Chapter 29. And yes, i know its not that long or good but its part of the story that i had to write and get done.


Megg impatiently tapped her feet on the pavement. He said they would be there ten minutes ago, did he not understand the concept of the word emergency?

Her eyes wondered from the road to the sidewalk leading to their destination. The same place she had gone to last week.

Megg had been looking for Jackie starting with the most obvious place first, her studio. When she got to the third floor, Megg could tell from the old 80's alternative music that was coming from the room that Jackie was not there but Sam was. Without knocking, she walked into the room to see Sam standing behind a painting, staring at it.

"Have you seen Jackie?" He looked up at the sound of her voice. Instead of answering her, he motioned for her to join him. Megg walked over to where he was and looked at the painting. What she saw shocked her. It was Danny. There was something about his face, the way that his eyes made contact with the viewer, the way that his mouth looked like it would change to a grin at any second that made the painting look personal. Finally she tore her eyes from the painting when Sam spoke.

"You know him?"

"It's Danny," her eyes scanned the other pictures in the room. There were no other pictures of Danny, no photographs, drawings, nothing. Jackie must have been working from memory.

That had been two weeks ago. The day after that she had called Dougie and together they came up with the idea that they had to do something. That is why Megg was currently sitting outside in the cold waiting for them to arrive.

"Megg!" Dougie's voice came from her left. She looked over to see Doug walking toward her, a few steps behind him was Danny. "We would have been here earlier but someone is being a jerk today."

"I don't know why you dragged me here." Danny mumbled just lout enough for Dougie to hear.

"Because," Dougie turned to face him. "There is something that you need to see." Dragging him feet, Danny followed Dougie the rest of the way to where Megg was sitting on a short brick wall. She greeted Danny with a smile and Dougie with a quick hug before leading them toward the art building. Once there, she lead them up to the third floor and pushed open the door, there was a quick shuffling sound from inside.

"What coffee?" Sam quickly hid his coffee mug as they entered the room.

Megg laughed, "Jackie's not here, it's just me, Dougie and… "

"Danny," Sam finished for her.

"Yeah… Guys this is Sam." She introduced the three guys while looking around the room. Something was different the paint of Dan was gone. "Where is it?"

"Down the hall and to the left," Sam pointed them in the right direction. Megg muttered a thank you and ushered them from the room.

"What the hell are we doing here?" Danny spoke up halfway down the hall.

"All you have done since we left is complain. We are here because you…" Dougie stopped when he realized that Danny wasn't listening. Instead he was standing at the end of the hallway looking toward the left. Dougie and Megg followed his gaze, the wall was covered with student paintings but their eyes quickly found Danny's face among them.

Dougie broke the silence a few minutes later, "Dan?"

Danny jumped slightly at the voice of his friend. "Its…She…I…Jackie…" his voice was shaking.

"Are you ok?" Megg asked putting her hand on his shoulder.

"I…I think I messed up…"