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Sean lay in bed. He tried to sleep but he couldn't. Was Maria okay? Was his Dad okay? Danny had seemed off while he was home and Sean couldn't help but wonder if Maria's disappearance was affecting him more than he was letting on. Sean tossed and turned. He knew that Maria's phone could hold the answers to where she was and what had happened. What could her pass code be? Sean tried to figure it out based on her was so important she would use it to lock her phone? It was a six digit code, which probably meant a date and a few moments it clicked in his head. He jumped up from bed and scurried to his Dad's room. He knocked sharply on the door.

"Dad are you awake?" He questioned loudly.

The door opened and Danny looked exhausted but he hadn't changed out of his work clothes yet and files were strewn all around the room.

"What?" Danny questioned.

"I think I know Maria's pass code!" Sean exclaimed.

"Really?" Danny said in disbelief. "What is it?"

"I don't want to say until I know I'm right. " Sean remarked.

"Well, I have the phone with me if you want to try." Danny said, taking the phone out of his pocket and handing it to Sean.

Sean took a deep breath if he was right than he was going to have to tell Maria's secret to his Dad, and if he was wrong than they were back at square one. He carefully typed in 030813 and he heard a familiar click and the phone unlocked.

"I got it right." he breathed in disbelief. "I got it right!" He announced.

"What is it?" Danny questioned taking out his notebook to record what Sean said.

"030813" Sean answered handing the phone back to his dad.

"This really helps Sean, how did you ever figure out?" Danny asked.

Sean stiffened. "Um, it-it's kinda a secret. Maria told me in-in confidence." Sean stuttered.

"Okay, that's fine." Danny shrugged. He wanted to know, but right now he didn't care too much he just wanted to find Maria before it was too late. "Head off to bed now, you need sleep." Danny said, squeezing his son's shoulder. "Thanks for this."

"Your welcome." Sean answered heading back to his room to get some sleep.

Danny quickly pulled up messages to see if Maria had texted anyone before she went missing. Sean was the last person that she texted, and when he opened the thread he saw and unsent message just waiting to be sent.

"Hey, running a little slower than I thought, be back in like fifteen minu-" The message ended, like she been stopped while typing it.

He opened his and Maria's thread to see if she had a message she hadn't sent to him. There were three letters waiting in the typing box.

"Sog" He stared at the message and tried to figure out what "Sog" meant. He placed his head in his hands. He needed sleep, he wasn't going to be any help to Maria if he wasn't able to function. Every second wasted and Maria could be getting one second closer to a living Hell. He looked up and saw Maria's work file. He glanced over it, her hire date was up top and then he saw the date that he and Maria were partnered together March 8th 2013 and then it hit him 030813. Sean had figured that her pass code was the day she had been a partner with him. What did Sean know that made him come to that conclusion?

Maria groaned as she moved her wrist. The handcuffs had rubbed the skin red and blisters had begun to develop. She didn't know how long she had been in there, but what she did know is she was thirsty and that her stomach burned with hunger. She hadn't eaten since supper yesterday. Well, she thought it was yesterday but the basement didn't have any windows so she couldn't tell exactly what time of day it was. She was pretty sure it had been several hours since Angelo had been down here. She closed her eyes and tried to sleep but the fear of what Angelo was going to do to her burned at the back of her mind. She startled up from the bed when she heard the door at the top of the stairs.

Angelo came down the stairs carrying a plate of food. Maria's eyes stared at the plate, she was desperately hungry, but the thought that Angelo could have put something in the food made her wary.

"I brought you tacos, your favorite!" Angelo said.

She hated his voice, it was so soft, so kind, but she knew what he had done. How could he treat her like he loved her when he had her handcuffed to a bed and had killed so many women? He placed the food on the bed next to her left hand so she could grab it if she wished.

"Did you put anything in it?" She questioned

"No, not that way." He said shaking his head. "It's clean I promise, I don't want to hurt you, remember that."

Maria reached across and grabbed the taco. She was so hungry she didn't really care if it was drugged she just wanted food. She devoured the food quickly after her first bite.

"I'm sure you have a lot of questions." Angelo stated. "You can ask one."

"Why did you kill the girls?" Maria asked. She feared what he would do to her for asking but she needed to know.

"I didn't kill them!" He protested. "They killed themselves!"

Maria looked at him, deep in his eyes she saw that he wanted to believe what he was saying.

"They all tried to trick me into believing that they where you so I would love them and then they felt so guilty that they killed themselves." Angelo explained.

Maria couldn't believe what she was hearing. He had convinced himself that this was going on.

"Angelo, that's not what is happen-" Maria started but he cut her off by slapping her.

"YES IT IS!" He screamed, and he rushed from the room.

Maria brought her hand up to her face and felt where he had slapped her. Tears rushed to her eyes from the stinging pain. She could tell that her face was starting to swell where he had struck her.

"I can't do that again." She remarked a tear stealing down her cheek.

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