***I DON"T OWN THESE CHARACTERS****

Danny sighed as he skimmed through papers. He dove for his phone the second it rang.

"Detective Reagan, it officer Cooper?" The voice on the other line stated. "I check her apartment, she's not here."

"Thanks Cooper, keep me posted." Danny said hanging up.

The canvas of his neighborhood had turned up nothing. A few people said they had seen Maria talking with a woman with brown hair, but that they had seen the woman in the neighborhood multiple of the residents knew the woman's name though.

"Damn it." Danny cursed. He couldn't start treating this as a missing person's case for forty eight hour. Anything could happen in forty eight hours, and if she was with Angelo, it wasn't going to be good.

"Reagan, TARU got a ping on her phone, it's somewhere off the interstate." Sarge said, coming out his office, "Let's move!"

Danny scrambled to race after his boss.

"I'm driving." Sarge declared.

Danny reluctantly consented, He didn't want to be sitting around, he wanted to be doing something, driving would be something. He knew it was best not to argue with his boss though.

Danny tried to keep his mind from wandering. Did Angelo have her or was it something else? Why was her phone on the side of the interstate? Was that where her body had been dumped? Danny pushed those thoughts from his mind, he couldn't let himself think like that or he would get distracted from the real point. He had to find her.

It didn't take them long to arrive at the place TARU said the phone had pinged. Sarge pulled the car to the shoulder.

"I guess we just have to look around to see if we find it." Sarge suggested.

They both got out of the car and began looking around in the grass. They knew that TARU's placement wasn't going to be completely accurate, but who ever had taken Maria could have thrown her phone out the window while they speed down the highway. Danny was walking along when he saw a glint of sun. He looked back to where he saw the flash and saw something on the grass, he knelt down and saw a rose gold iPhone in the grass. He grabbed a pair of gloves from his jacket and carefully picked up the phone. He hit the home button. The phone still had charge it, and he recognized the lock screen. It was older picture of Maria and could of her girlfriend from the 5-4.

"I found it!" Danny called, "There's one problem," Danny added with a sigh. "It's thumbprint protected, and we don't know her pass code.

"Welcome back home." He said his voice was so soft and almost kind.

"Angelo, what am I doing here?" Maria demanded. She tried to keep her voice calm, but she was petrified. She knew what he had done to the other woman, why would he treat her differently?

He looked surprised by her question. He advanced closer to the bed.

"I saved you!" He explained, "I brought you back to me. Now I can keep you safe and now I can protect you. I thought you would be thankful."

"Thankful?" Maria scoffed, she was gaining courage. She knew he might kill her, but she would rather be killed now than later after being tortured.

"Yes," He snapped. "I saved you from having to live a life without me! I love you Maria and you love me."

"No I don't." Maria objected sharply.

"Well you will again, one day I promise!" He assured, there was a glint of anger in his eyes from her outburst.

"After you torture me into doing your bidding?" Maria muttered under her breath.

"No, well, only if I have to." Angelo said, his voice growing cold. "I don't want to hurt you, but I will if I have to."

Maria stayed quiet, she saw he was near a breaking point. Memories of how he had beat her came flooding back. Her brave words seemed reckless now. She didn't want to feel his wrath, she didn't want to be hurt. It always hurt more than she remembered, she didn't want to find out how much it would hurt again.

"We were happy once Maria, we can be happy again." He entreated, softly stroking her cheek. She pulled away from his hand, disgusted by what he had used his hands for. He had killed twelve women, some of them where just girls just blooming into woman hood.

"You will love me again Maria." He avowed. There was a coldness lifelessness in his voice that left Maria shivering for minutes after he had left in the basement. Is this how he had treated them all? Had he thought they were her? Or where they just distracting to make him forget her? It was her fault, it was all her fault. She should have left him sooner, she should have left the first time he hit her, she should have pressed charges and she shouldn't have talked to Sofia. She wanted to cry, but didn't want Angelo to think he was getting to her. Would Danny find her? Would Danny find her in time? Had her message sent? She had done her best to type out the name "Sofia" before she had passed out. She pulled her knees to her chest and wrapped her hands around her legs the best she could with one handcuffed to bedpost.

"Dad any news?" Sean questioned as Danny entered the house.

"No" Danny answered. "We found her phone, but it's a new one and we can't get in."

"Oh" Sean sighed. "Do you think her ex-boyfriend has her?"

"Yes" Danny replied. "Who else?"

"Dad, do you think he's going to kill her?" Sean asked, his voice cracked in concern.

"I don't know." Danny sighed sitting on the couch next to his son. "Where's your brother?"

"Upstairs talking to Emily." Sean answered. "They've been talking for about two hours."

"Well, who can blame him." Danny said with a slight smile. Today had been rough, Maria's disappearance had taken his mind off of Linda. His sargent sent him home to be with his family. He had been working for too long and there was nothing he could do to help Maria. Now that his mind was no longer distracted he remembered it all to clearly.

"Baez" Maria said answering her phone. Her face went pale. "Oh god!" She breathed.

"What's wrong?" Danny questioned.

"Yeah I understand, thanks for calling me first." Maria said, her voice thick with emotion.

"What's wrong?" Danny demanded. Maria had tears in her eyes.

"We need to talk in private." Maria said, trying to keep herself together.

They made their way to Sarge's office.

"Danny, I think you should sit down." Maria started.

"Who is it?" Danny demanded. he knew there was only reason that Maria would tell him to sit was that someone in his family had died.

"Danny…Danny it's Linda." Maria said keeping a sob from coming out instead.

She had been with him, she had held him when he broke. His wife, his beloved wife. They had called her first because they knew he couldn't get in a phone call without possible damage to himself or others.

"Dad are you okay?" Sean questioned.

"Yeah" Danny answered. "I'm just thinking about your mom."

I hope you guys liked that chapter. I took some liberty in having Maria find out about Linda's death before Danny.

Sorry for not posting sooner a few of my health issues flared up pretty badly and I spent a few days on the sofa in pain and didn't feel like writing very much. But I hope this chapter might make up for some of the wait. I have ideas on what to do next I just have to write everything out. I have a couple crazy weeks coming I'm going to try an update as much as I can, but who knows with my schedule.

Eliza