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Chapter Twenty-Four: Let The Games Begin.

"How are you coping?" Will asked walking with his brother through the corridors of the hospital, it had been a rough couple of months and he wished there was more that he could do to help Jay in his time of need. His brother hadn't been back to work at the station since the search for Caitlyn had been called off, not that Will could blame Jay; he would do the same if anything happened to Natalie and no one was looking for her.

Jay had managed to assemble a small team to help him continue the search for Caitlyn, but with each passing day it was starting to dawn on Will that perhaps Jay would not get the ending that he wanted. Mouse and Mercedes made up the main parts of Jay's team, both doing what they could to keep Caitlyn in the spotlight and for people to watch out for Edward despite there being no sign of him. They'd been joined by Trudy and a couple of the guys from Firehouse 51, everyone hoping for some sign that Caitlyn was still out there and they wouldn't just be bringing her body home to bury it beside her parents.

"I'm doing good man. Dr Charles seems pleased with me," Jay replied with a shrug of his shoulders, he had reached out to the doctor for some help especially with his frustration with how things had worked out at work. This was not how he thought things would go when he got out of hospital, he hadn't considered that he'd be the only one still looking for Caitlyn still; even Alvin seemed ready to bury her at this point.

Will nodded his head, he was glad to see his brother taking his therapy sessions seriously; they seemed to be really helping him with all of this and maybe even preparing Jay for the worst. Rounding the corner into the ED, Jay and Will were silent both knowing that things wouldn't be returning to normal for a while; there was no telling just how this case that Jay was running would work out.

It could end with no answer at all since Edward had this ability to disappear without a trace, the man was hard to find and wherever he had Caitlyn was certainly that. Will couldn't help but prepare himself for the day where he might have to sit his brother down and tell him that it was time to let this go; Caitlyn was gone and there was a time coming where there would be nothing Jay could do about that.

What Will wasn't prepared for was for Jay to step into one of the bays and grab the patient that Dr. Bekker had been working on by the shirt and drag him from the hospital bed where he was being treated. A shout of horror coming from both of the doctors as Jay reached for his gun and pressed it against the man's threat; a dark look on Jay's face while the man almost seemed amused by what was happening.

"Where is she?" Jay demanded unable to believe that the idiot was actually here in Chicago, his heart pounded and he didn't care about the blood that stained his shirt; the newly stitched up wound on his shoulder telling Jay all he needed to know. The two men stared at each other, the tension in the air almost palpable and neither one willing to back down before Will tried to get Jay to let the man go.

"Jay what are you doing?" Will asked trying to wrangle his brother away while Dr Bekker moved to summon security annoyed at the fact that her patient was being accosted in such away. The commotion attracting the attention of Connor Rhodes who stepped in and paused when he saw the situation at hand; he moved to pull Jay away with the help of Will only to have Jay shrug them off. It was at that moment that security arrived and grabbed onto Jay, they pulled him away from the patient and forced him to let go of him while Dr Bekker apologised and started to led her patient away.

"That is Edward Olinsky. He abducted Caitlyn nearly three months ago," Jay seethed unable to believe the nerve of the man that had not only shot him but had taken Caitlyn all that time ago. The fact that he had chosen willingly to come to a Chicago hospital meant that he couldn't have been too far away; it also meant that Caitlyn might be still in the area.

Edward stared back at Jay for a moment before he shoved Dr Bekker to the floor only to find himself suddenly being tackled by Connor; who pinned him down on the floor as Jay was released by the security guards and move to help him knowing that finally they could put an end to this.

Standing behind the two-way glass to the interrogation room, Jay ignored the looks that he was getting from Erin; he had no desire to talk to her or anyone especially while Hank and Alvin were talking with Edward. After being arrested at the hospital, Edward had been brought right here to the station and they'd been interviewing him ever since he had arrived; it had also meant that Jay had to face his former team-mates.

Hank had reassured him that his spot in intelligence was still his, when he wished to return since he was actually on furlough now since Hank had filled out the paperwork for him. His eyes stared at the man that had taken Caitlyn away, his mind replaying the moment of his shooting and her abduction wishing that there was something that he could have done to change it. Instead Caitlyn had been held hostage by this nutjob for the past three months and Edward didn't seem to care about the fact he was in police custody; it all seemed like one big game to him right now.

"Last chance Edward. Where is Caitlyn Jones?" Hank asked wanting answers, the case reopened now that Edward was in custody and they now had a ticking time bomb on their hands. Edward's reappearance in Chicago did not spark hope in Hank or Alvin in finding Caitlyn alive; the man kept a low profile for a reason and whatever he was doing now made them uneasy. The amused look on Edward's face was starting to make them uneasy and Hank could only imagine what he found amusing at a moment like this; the entire situation didn't feel right in his book.

"She's your daughter Ed. Just tell us where she is and we'll go get her, it's that simple…" Alvin said trying to convince him, he didn't know what Edward's game was but he had no interest in playing it. If Caitlyn was still alive then they had to find her, Alvin couldn't help but think that they'd fallen into some kind of trap especially knowing just what his brother was like.

"Come on Alvin. You know what I do to people. She tried to kill me so now she must join them," Edward stated leaning forward, his eyes staring up at his brother as the realisation of just what he had done to Caitlyn started to sink in with Alvin and Hank. His words received no reply as Alvin stormed out of the room, he looked pale and he couldn't believe that he had left her to that fate.

"Al? What's going on?" Adam asked having never seen his partner like this, he wasn't the only one to approach Alvin and he hoped that this meant that now that they had Edward that it would be a breeze finding Caitlyn. He looked over Alvin's shoulder to where Jay had appeared with Erin, he nodded to the man knowing that if it weren't for him then Edward would still be out there and they would have screwed this all up.

"It's a game," Alvin whispered shaking his head, he feared for Caitlyn now and he should have known that this was Edward's endgame; his brother had thought he was so smart last time. But this time, this would be his master piece and Alvin had played right into his hands; he should have kept looking for Caitlyn, helped Jay when he had tried to push for the search to continue.

"And what happens if we lose?" Jay asked wanting to know just what sort of game Edward thought he was playing; he just wanted Caitlyn home safe and he couldn't imagine what she had been through these last months. They were so close and he could feel it, they just needed to beat Edward at this and then they could bring Caitlyn home and throw away the key for Edward. Turning to look at Jay, Alvin was silent his eyes searching the man for something that he didn't know how to put into words especially knowing how much Caitlyn meant to Jay.

"Caitlyn dies," Alvin stated without any other way to break the news, he couldn't imagine how they would find her in time when he'd never been able to find any of Edward's victims in time before. They had a race against time and the clock was against them, Alvin didn't want to even think of the cruel way that his niece would die at her own father's hand.

"We've got six hours to find her. Let's move," Hank stated coming out of the room where Edward was being held, they had to act now and there was no time to waste; they were behind already and they would need all the help that they could get. It was time to call in every favour that he had, they weren't going to rest until Caitlyn was found.

Wincing as she woke up, Caitlyn slowly reached for her throat and brushed her fingers against it tenderly; she didn't know where she was or what had happened but it was silent around her, she guessed she could count herself lucky to be alive. It had crossed her mind when he had been strangling her that she would die on the floor of that abandoned house and he would perhaps leave her body there.

Upon opening her eyes, Caitlyn realised that maybe being dead might not have been the worst of her problems; she reached out into the darkness before her, only for her hand to be stopped inches above her. Running her hand over the top of whatever had stopped her, Caitlyn swallowed thickly as she slowly came to realise that she was trapped in some kind of box; her hands moving quickly to feel the cold, hard plastic that seemed to surrounded her on all sides.

Her mind raced with possibilities about what had happened after she had passed out, her searching hands paused when they came across several objects that had been placed at her side; she felt them with her hand trying to feel what they were. A thin like tube thing made her close her eyes and she was almost relieved when she meant the tube and it made a snapping sound before a faint light appeared.

Shaking the glow stick, Caitlyn allowed it's light to shine in the box that she was being held in; her hand shaking as she realised that she had been placed in some kind of coffin. Her hands instinctively moved to the top and started to push on it, tears forming in her eyes when the lid didn't budge and she felt sick; she pushed for a couple of more minutes hoping for some kind of movement.

When that didn't work, Caitlyn moved to see what else was at her side; she held the glow stick in one hand while she held up each item that she found so that she could see them. There were a few more glow sticks, a tape recorder and finally a handgun that had been placed at her side; her hand quickly placing the gun back down when she saw what Edward had buried her with.

Resting her head back, Caitlyn stared at the ceiling for a moment before reaching for the tape recorder and pressing play.

"Hello Caitlyn," Edward's voice greeted her, his voice devoid of all emotion and Caitlyn wondered if he felt any guilt for what he had done; whether he even realised that he had nearly killed his own flesh and blood. Caitlyn stared up into the darkness, her hand shakily holding onto the tape recorder trying to build up the nerve to listen to everything that the mad man had to say; she couldn't imagine that it would end well for her either way.

"Now you know why mummy dearest was so afraid of me. You will be my greatest achievement, my ultimate creation," Edward's voice continued, his words sending chills down Caitlyn's spine and she closed her eyes. She wished she had some idea about what had happened before she was born, no one had told her nor did she understand why her mother had been so scared of Edward. Even before he had turned around and murdered her mother before her eyes, Caitlyn wouldn't have guessed that she would end up here in some kind of box.

"We could have been a family. The three of us but you and your mother just had to mess it all up and now I will complete my life's work, no more weakness," Edward's voice mused, he seemed almost pleased with the idea that he could complete what he called his life's work. Caitlyn's hand clenched around the tape recorder, her eyes staring ahead while she listened on to his rambling; he would have probably turned on them sooner rather than later even if they had complied to what he wanted.

"You're currently buried six feet under ground and the game can begin," Edward's voice taunted, his words making Caitlyn pause the tape and replay it several more times. With each time she heard him say that she was buried under ground, she felt faint and her hands became clammy; she felt breathless and her hands shook as she tried to wrap her head around this.

"You'll have perhaps six more hours of oxygen left before the tank runs out… then it's nighty, night," Edward continued to taunt, his words barely registering to her while she worked out that she would die here. No one had been able to find her in that basement or the abandoned house, how the hell where they meant to find her while she was buried six feet under.

"That is if you don't pull the trigger first," Edward's final taunt came, the recording going silent as Caitlyn dropped the recorder and started to slam her hands into the roof of the coffin that she was buried in and screamed.

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