When she wakes up the first thing she is dealing with is a pounding headache. The last thing she can remember is walking out of the supermarket with two bags of baby supplies making it about two and a half blocks away from the said supermarket being hit with something sharp on the side of her neck and then hitting the sidewalk hard. Right now she is blindfolded and bound by her wrists and ankles in a chair. At least she thinks it's a chair but it could be a bench for all she knows because from what she can tell there is no ambient noise coming from the room that she is in.
She knows that soon her mother and father will be worried about where she is and why she has not returned home. Maybe that in itself will get them to find her quickly. She's about to try to wiggle out of her restraints at her wrists that are bound together but she hears footsteps outside the door and stops any further attempts at trying to get herself free.
The door opens and she turns her head to the sound.
"Ahh good. You're awake."
"Who are you?"
"All in due time Ms. Sanfilippo. Tell me how does it feel to be a widow? Are the kiddies getting along well without daddy there to comfort them?"
"How the hell do you know that I'm a widow?"
"That's the easy part of the equation, what you should be asking yourself is how he got that way. But you Americans are so hung up on routine it sickens me. You get up at 4:30 in the morning, have your morning cup of coffee at precisely 4:45, then take your shower at 4:55, when that's finished you read the paper from 5:15 until 5:30 drinking the rest of your coffee and then getting ready to go to work. If you had been any kind of unpredictable your husband would still be here with you right now. He was very gullible and predictable but I will give you the fact that he was the one who wanted to advance his career to give you everything that you could ever want."
She couldn't see him but if she could she would probably rip his eyes out. A sickening feeling came over her because she knew that he was the one who had taken Kyle away from her and now she wants her revenge. But she still can't figure out why she is stuck here in this little room tied to a chair.
"What do you want with me?" Alexis demands.
"Well, I might as well let the cat out of the bag. A long time ago..." Collin started as if she were a little child and he was telling her a bedtime story...
"Your father decided to take matters into his own hands and act as judge, jury, and executioner. He single-handedly caused me to become fatherless in the blink of an eye. And now that he has you and a new set of twins the same fate will befall him as well."
"Wait who are you? And my father has killed no one to make you fatherless."
Collin's anger started to rise and he was so close to backhanding her across the face but he calmed himself down and explained to her rationally what happened that dreadful day.
"Eight years ago my father paid the ultimate price. He had wanted to take out his childhood friend for murdering his family and was going to do it through your father's new wife. But somehow he had figured out what my father was going to do in order to take him out. Knowing that he was going to die so he quickly transferred 2 pounds of C4 explosive into the back of his truck. Let me tell you something Ms. Sanfilippo there's not much a son can do to claim his father's body when it's in so many little pieces."
Alexis almost lost control her bladder. She never knew that Colin had a son. She strained against her restraints trying to get away knowing that she was never going to make it out of this alive. He'd probably wired her chair or whatever she was sitting in to blow the second of pressure came off of it. She really needed to warn her father but had no way of doing so with a stupid blindfold on her head and her hands tied behind her back. so the least she could do was get some information.
"What makes you think that my father doesn't know where I am right now?" Alexis asked.
"Oh, that's simple. I waited until you were alone to take you and that was a feat in itself because you're always out with your stepmother and father. Do you do everything together? I swear it's like a perfect family. Something I never had." Colin said with disgust.
Xx
Kate was frantic. Rick had finally come home after being relieved of command at the BDU and she was asking him for whatever he knew about their daughter's disappearance. But it sounded more like an interrogation on her part and he was sick of it. He knew she needed answers but what he needed was to find his daughter and he would gladly take her place if that were the case. He just doesn't know where to start. The video coverage they have of her shows her going into the store and leaving the store and then the rest of the cameras North of the store were inoperative from about a block away on. Their only break was an ATM camera that caught something that looks like a person being helped along a sidewalk but they couldn't be sure it was her. It could have been someone holding up a drunk coming out of the bar and not far from the store.
"Rick, what do we know?" Kate asks.
"Hey Kate, listen I'm stuck here. I don't know which direction to turn in because all we have is her going into the store and coming out of the store and that's it. There is a video from an ATM that has somebody that looks like her being helped along into the back of a black SUV. Facial recognition can't get a hit on either her or the person helping her if that is her by the way." Rick finishes.
"We need to find her." She pleads desperately.
"I know we do Kate and we will. We just need to backtrack her steps to when she left the storeā¦"
"No Rick you don't understand. This is all my fault. I'm the one who sent her out to get the diapers, the formula, and the baby wipes. It's all my fault." Kate says as her eyes start to glisten with tears.
"Kate listen I know that you send her to get what we needed but trust me this is not your fault so please don't beat yourself up over this we will find her. There's a logical explanation for why she was taken and I think that we will get her back in one piece. What I think is that she was taken to lure me to somewhere or even someplace. Where I don't know. But we've been doing this long enough to realize that the outcome is usually positive on our end. So let's put our heads together and think of all the cases that we had in the past for who would be the most likely to come after us for revenge because that's all I think this is, is straight-up revenge."
After reviewing most of the case files they had at home and since they couldn't get into the NYPD's computers because Rick was currently suspended they only came up with one name. But Kate had to make a phone call before she agreed with her husband. He was adamant about who he thought it was and because of that, she was on the fence. But after this phone call, it would all become crystal clear.
And that's another thing that Kate was unsure about. Why was her husband suspended from his job? So when they had found a possible suspect they were looking for, and Kate had made her call Lanie for some information, she decided to drill him about why he wasn't able to work anymore.
"So Rick I have a couple of questions for you. I need to know why you are home at 1:15 on Thursday when you should be at work. Why were you suspended?" Kate led with that because she knew that he was suspended. She had her little birdies everywhere.
"Well, my dear loving bride of seven years, I have been suspended because I am the commander of the BDU. And since Smitty and Dave got into the argument with Kang on the highway, the commissioner thought it would be prudent if I was suspended along with them. Now I don't know if this is to show me that he can flex his muscle and suspend me whenever he wanted to or maybe because it was the right thing to do. Even though I had no control over the situation of what was happening on the highway, the commissioner wants to know why I did not reprimand them when they arrived back at BDU. You could say that he is making a point."
"So what is he asking of you?"
"Kate let's face it I've been on the job for over 35 years. I run one of the most efficient and successful bomb disposal units in any city. Now, this is the first time I've ever been suspended from my job ever. And the commissioner knows it. So maybe he's sending me a message without actually telling me outright. But quite honestly now I think it's time that I hung up my handcuffs. I'm eligible for 75% of my retirement due to the fact that I have been blown up too many times for me to count. So maybe that's an option to get out before the fire burns me."
She had forgotten that he was a beat cop before he came to BDU. And she'd also forgot that he had put in 15 good years on the beat before he did his 20 at BDU well 19 and a half. So he more than earned his retirement but in a way she didn't want him to leave because it was all he had. Maybe she could make him see that it was just a simple set back and he could overcome what happened with the commissioner. But now they had bigger things to worry about and that was to get their daughter back.
Xx
"So what's your big plan? Why do you need me? Why don't you just take out my father? Are you not man enough?" Alexis hoped she was pushing all his wrong buttons just to get him to screw up. Now that he knew that she knew what he was going to try to attempt to do she was going to try anything to circumvent what he had planned. And if she lost her life in the process she knew that her children would be taken care of by her mother and father. So the trade-off was reasonable. But she had a sinking feeling about this guy. He wouldn't kill her, she just knew it. But at the same time, she needed some way to warn her father about what was coming his way. Being blindfolded really does suck because you can't see anything and she doesn't think that he will let her see anything either. So, for now, she's still his prisoner until something better comes along.
