Part four is a little short, and sad. Thanks for all the great reviews, I'm glad you're all enjoying this.
-egbkid


Logan sat as Max paced in front of him, in her hand was a piece of torn coloring book with a quick note written on it in a red marker, both from McKenzie's room. Max had found the note and the marker on the roof.
"What does it say?" Logan asked, putting a hand on Max's arm to stop her.
"It says 'I have the child. I won't hurt her, I just want her to be safe, and she can't be safe here with you. I have evidence of them closing in on Seattle, and they may know you have a child. They would easily capture her, so I have decided to take her with me to keep her safe. It would do you good to go back to Portland; they never knew you were there. You will see your daughter again, but for now, don't try to find us.
Zack.'
Why, Zack? Why did you have to take her? You could have just warned me!" Max cried, tearing away from Logan's grip and pacing again.
"I have to go after them! I can't let him do this!"
"Max! How are you going to find Zack? He probably had McKenzie an hour after we were asleep, and is probably half way to Canada by now, if that's the way he took her. He could have taken her anywhere in this country, we don't know..."
"LOGAN! Don't you think I know that? Zack is best out of all of us for hiding! What are we going to do?"
"There's only one thing we can do at the moment. If this was twenty years ago, it would be to call the police. But for now, all we have in Eyes Only. I'll send a message out. I can't put it across America anymore, but I can at least get to Oregon and Idaho. If he hasn't left those states yet, maybe someone will see them."
"Yeah, and do what?"
"I have contacts in almost every town and city in both states, maybe one of them will answer me."
"It's not going to work. There's nothing we can do but try to go after them." Max stopped directly in front of Logan, she stood with her hands on her hips. Logan could tell she was very upset, but didn't want to show it as crying. Instead, she showed anger, so he showed anger back.
"Work with me, Max! Can you honestly think of something better to do at this exact moment? The longer we discuss this, the farther away Zack gets with McKenzie. God knows what kind of excuse he gave her as to where we are! This is the only thing we can do at the moment, and I'm going to do it."
He turned to his computer and started turning things on. Max's reflection in the monitor turned and leaned it's back against the doorframe, arms crossed, angry at the fact that Logan yelled.
Once the transmission was done, Logan turned back to Max. She now was squatted down on the floor, arms crossed and resting on her legs, tears streaming down her face. Logan approached her, and she glanced up at him, wanting the tears to stop, but unable to make them.
"It's ok, Max." Logan said, putting a hand on her shoulder. "It's ok to cry. We'll get McKenzie back. I promise." He drew Max into a hug. "We won't stop until we find her..."

To Be Continued...