Jarod had been working on infiltrating the Centre's system again when he thought he heard something. It was a distant sound that felt close. It took him a while to finally realize that it was his inner sense. He heard it in the voice of Riley reaching out to him telling him to leave his hotel room. He went out quickly and tried his best to give her a thank you. He only hoped it reached her. He went down the fire escape and walked to his car. He was walking across a large stretch of grass when he felt a sudden pain tear through his head. It was like a scream that went unheard, ,but
instead could be felt.

"Riley," Jarod knew automatically that it was her reaching out with all her might to anybody that would let her in. He looked up at the hotel room where she should have been, but his gut told him she wasn't there anymore. The pain in his head got stronger as a limo sped around a corner by him. In the sunlit sky all Jarod could see was darkness and feel the pain Riley felt. The anxiety and fear like that of Jarod as a young child. It was a recognisable pain. A true fear. In that darkness, he could make out only one thing. A face. The face of a child longing for help. Riley was in that limo, and she reached out to Jarod for help.



"Dammit!" Lyle said as he threw down a folder that had been in the room. "He got away again! How the hell does he keep on doing this to us?!"

"Now you know how I feel, little brother," Miss Parker said with a smile.

Everyone was piled in the room. The whole place had been searched. THis time no real
breadcrumb had been left behind. They could tell he left in a hurry. He knew they were coming. Now the question stirring around in Lyle's head was How?

"Riley, you didn't go warning Jarod about our arrival did you?" he said expecting a smart ass remark as usual. "Riley?" he asked after no answer. "Where's Riley?"

""Where's Willie?" Broots asked noticing his absence.

Lyle ran up and down the hallway with his heart racing looking desperately for Riley, but to no avail. She was gone. "Damn that Raines."

As his phone rang, Lyle answered it quickly in hopes it was somehow his baby sister.

"Lyle," he answered.

"What did you do with her? Where did you take her?" It was Jarod.

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"She reached out to me. She was in trouble. The pain in her eyes... What did you do to her?"

"She's in pain?" Lyle asked with a glint of sadness in his voice.

"The same pain I was in. The fear of being taken away. The anxiety of not knowing what's going on."

"You think I would do that to Riley? She's my baby sister for God's sake!"

"I think you'd do anything that twisted little mind of yours told you to. Now, where is she?"

"That's what I want to know. I may be ruthless, but I love my little sister and if anything happens to her..."

"It really wasn't you?" Jarod's voice went for being rough to being calmer.

"No!"

"Then who?"

"Raines. That little wheezing bastard!"

"How do you know?"

"Because his main man Willie is gone too."