Chapter 4

They moved Elaina into a private room and Sab finally went in to see her. "Hey Elaina. What's up?"

"Me, barely." Elaina was sitting up with Frank holding her.

"You don't sound as bad as they said."

"She has improved a great deal, since we talked this morning. The more she talks the better she gets," Frank said proudly.

"I'm supposed to find out what the doctor looked like. Otherwise we'll never find him."

"I guess that's a problem." Elaina stopped to think for a minute. "He's about 6'2", 185, mid forty's, short dark hair, he had a dialect that he tried to hide, he wasn't very good at it."

"What kind of dialect?" Frank asked.

"Irish or Scottish, something from that area."

"What about a first name?" Sab asked as she made notes.

"Dillon."

"That'll help in finding out if he's a real doctor. Jake and Cody are checking out the office. Dee also told them to find any type of security tapes they could in hopes of getting a picture."

"Dee seems to be doing a good job, even recruiting someone that isn't suppose to be working yet." Frank looked at Sab.

"I'm not working exactly. I'm here and they need the info, so I volunteered to get it."

"How often have you called them?" Elaina inquired.

"I've talked to Cody early this morning and I called Dee after you were moved in here."

"Why don't you call Dee from in here, let her know the description." Frank handed her the phone after dialing the number. Elaina and Frank realized that Dee was saying more than Sab; which told them something was up.

"What's wrong?" Elaina asked as she hung up.

"I need to talk to Frank, alone," Sab told her.

"No you don't. Talk in front of me or not at all," Elaina insisted. Frank shook his head in agreement.

"This is just a theory they have, I don't like it. I'm just the messenger."

"Tell me Sabrina," Elaina demanded.

"They think you may have been the shooter."

"Just how did they come to that conclusion?" Frank was angry.

"Because they're right. I did do it," Elaina confessed.

"What did you say?" Frank was totally shocked.

"I've been having memory flashes. My talking in my sleep was me remembering."

"We asked you about that, when it happened. Why didn't you tell me then?"

"If you remember, I was a bit under the influence and my head was exploding in pain."

"Sorry, I just wish you could've told me before." Frank hugged her closer to him.

"Why didn't you say something to him when you started talking?" Sab asked.

"Are trying to get me in trouble?" Elaina joked but no one laughed.

"Why didn't you say something?" Frank asked her this time.

"I wasn't sure that what I was seeing was real, but if they have the theory that it was me, then maybe it is."

"What are we going to do now?" Sab wondered.

"You're going to go get my gun and take it to them," Elaina informed her.

"You're going to give them evidence against yourself?"

"Sabrina, I was drugged, I wasn't in control of my actions. There's no judge or jury that would convict me."

"Besides she has enough money to pay off a judge, should it get that far." They looked up to see Maria.

"Very funny, cousin. But it's true," Elaina agreed.

"Maria, stay with her. I want someone with her at all times," Frank ordered.

"Afraid I'll run away?" Elaina asked.

"No, afraid that the good doctor may return to take you out."

"My friend and I'll be right here with her." Maria showed she had her gun with her.

"Sab and I'll go get the gun and take it to Dee. I'll be back before the physical therapist gets here." Frank kissed her goodbye.

"Where's Derek?" Elaina asked Maria as Frank and Sab left.

"He went to my place to get some sleep, you don't mind do you?"

"No. I'm grateful he actually went."

"He said he wanted to be back for your therapy."

"Good speaking of therapy, how is yours going?"

"Fine, next subject." Maria wasn't going to discuss it.

"I think I'll just take a nap." Elaina wasn't going to fight with her.

******

Frank and Sab brought the gun back to HQ and handed it to Dee. "I want to know what the tests show, good or bad," Frank told her.

"I'm not going to hide anything from you, I promise," Dee assured him.

"What brought you to this theory that my wife is a killer?" He didn't want them to know she said to him.

"Well from what Cody and Sab told me about Elaina talking in her sleep as well as knowing she was taking a mind control drug, I just put two and two together."

"Have they found any security tapes yet?" Frank asked.

"They just called in they're bringing in a few. There was an ATM across the road and the building itself has security cameras, so hopefully we should find something out soon."

"I have to get back with Elaina, Sab are you coming?"

"I'm going to stick around and help here. I won't over stress myself," She promised, noting he was about to say something.

"Don't tell them what Elaina said to us," he whispered to her. "I'll see all of you later." Frank took off back to the hospital.

******

Later that afternoon Elaina met her physical therapist. Frank and Derek were in the room with her when he came in.

"Hello Mrs. Donovan, I'm Billy Logan your therapist. You lucked out with me I'm also a speech therapist."

"Good, one less name to remember." Elaina smiled at him and shook his hand. "Tall, dark and handsome is my husband, Frank and the other handsome guy is my son, Derek."

"You're much too young to have a son that age," Billy complimented her.

"I like you. You can stay as long as you want." Elaina started flirting with him. "If they leave us alone who knows what will happen."

"Watch it, Lady," Frank warned. "Remember, I do carry a gun."

"So do I but not at the moment," She said winking at Frank.

"I take it you two are cops?" Billy asked.

"Sort of. We're federal agents," Elaina told him.

"I know a few of those. I'm originally from Atlanta. I gave therapy to a few agents down there."

"I'd never have guessed from the southern accent," she teased him. "I guess we should get this therapy started."

"From what I'm hearing you don't need me as a speech therapist. You seem to be doing good on your own."

"Once she started talking, we couldn't get her to stop. She keeps getting better and better," Derek told him.

"That's normally all it takes in cases like hers. Well, I guess we'll start on your leg then." He went to work showing Derek and Frank the exercises she should do to strengthen her leg muscles. Then did the same for her arm and hand. They worked together for an hour. "I think we've done enough for today, there's a rumor going around that Dr. Nathan is sending you home very soon."

"I like that rumor, he knows I hate this place," Elaina told him.

"I'll be back tomorrow, and when you're released, we'll have one or two sessions at your house."

"Sounds good to me. Do you like horses, Billy? I'd love to go horseback riding again, between the weather and my hospital stays, I haven't had much of a chance."

"Yes I do. I use horses as therapy for paralysis victims the movement of the horse massages certain muscles and it helps with the therapy. Horseback riding is great for your condition too. As long as you don't fall off."

"I've never fallen off a horse, knocked off yes but not fallen." She looked at Frank as the culprit of being knocked off of the horse.

"I think I have a proposition for you Billy," Frank said thinking about what Billy had said.

"What would that be?" Billy asked.

"Our ranch in Montana is a working ranch, I figured we could make our ranch here useful, too. How would you like to use our horses in your therapy sessions with your patients?"

"They would have to be train to be around wheelchairs, some horses shy from them and the horses have to be really gentle."

"I can handle that. I'm also a horse trainer in my free time," Elaina said proudly. "I think my husband has a great idea."

"I'll definitely think it over and get back to you. I'll see you tomorrow, maybe, I'll have answer for you." Billy left them alone.

"You think pretty fast, I do like the idea for the ranch," Elaina told him.

"Hey, how did it go?" Maria walked in the room.

"Pretty good, Mom likes him and was flirting with him the whole time."

"With Frank and a gun in the room; living dangerously, cousin."

"I think I'll go home and tell Sarah and Meg the good news, that you may be home soon," Derek said.

"When you come back, have Becky bring your car and you drive mine, so it's here when I get to take your Mom home. If she hasn't dumped you?" Frank joked.

"No, she hasn't dumped me. I'll be back in a few hours, you want anything from home?"

"No just give my baby girl a kiss for me," Elaina said.

"I will. Love you." He kissed her and left the room.

"I've got to go, too, cousin. I have to work at the restaurant tonight."

"Everybody is deserting me," Elaina said pouting.

"Not me sweetheart, I'm here until you go home." Frank hugged her. "Do this cousin a favor, will you?"

"Sure as long as it's legal," Maria quipped.

"Bring us food that's edible. How they expect a person to get well eating the food here is beyond me," Frank said, playing with the food tray.

"I'll send something over from the restaurant." Maria waved as she left.

"Alone at last," Frank whispered to her. Then phone in her room rang. "Donovan."

"We have the report back on her gun, it was the same one used in the murders," Dee informed him.

"What about the tapes?"

"We have a few possibilities Cody and Sab are making enhancements to bring to her for ID. Is she doing ok, knowing what we think?"

"She's fine, doing better all the time," Frank said, not wanting her to realize what Dee was asking him.

"I'll let you go, they should have the pictures in a couple of hours."

"We'll be waiting." Frank hung up.

"Ballistics matched and Dee wants to know how I'm taking their suspicions," Elaina said as he held her again.

"How do you do that?"

"I heard her talking; if you didn't want me to hear, you should have moved. I think I could use another nap since therapy is over. You don't mind do you?"

"Not at all. As a matter of fact I'll join you. You would, enjoy that?"

"Damn straight. I love having you beside me." She moved over in the bed as he got in beside her holding her close to him.

*****

A couple of hours later Sab and Cody showed up with the photos they had enhanced. "These are the ones we have so far that match the description you gave us," Cody told her as he laid them out.

Elaina took her time looking them over. "He's not here, sorry."

"We have more tapes to go through, maybe he'll be on them," Sab hoped.

"Frank, I know I've seen Dr. Martin somewhere before I just can't place him." Elaina looked at the pictures again this time she did recognize someone. "Look, Frank, isn't that Moran, Stanhope's associate?"

Frank took the picture from her and studied it. "Looks like him, only his hair is darker and he has glasses."

"If it is, we now have a connection to me and the Stanhope killing," Elaina said. "Now if we can just figure out the connection to Burrell and the person who took the pictures that were sent to me, we'd solve this thing."

"We aren't solving anything. We are off the case remember?" Frank reminded her.

"I remember but I can still make suggestions and find clues. Most of which are in my brain and not wanting to come to the surface."

"They will in time, hopefully," Cody said, picking up the pictures.

"Cody, didn't you run these faces through the data base?" Frank asked.

"Sure, I did but nothing came up," Cody answered.

"That's strange, you should have gotten a hit on Moran. I know he's in it, I put the information in myself."

"The computer glitch Cody had. You think someone did something then?" Elaina asked.

"I still haven't figured it out yet, even Sab has looked and can't find anything wrong."

"Check with the other tech ops, ask them if they had problems the day you did," Frank told him.

"Ok, if they did then someone has played with the whole network," Sab figured.

"That would be my thinking yes," Elaina agreed.

"Cody, why don't you go on out. I need to talk to Frank and Elaina about something in private," Sab asked him quietly.

"Alrighty. Don't take long I want to get back to the tapes."

"I won't be long." She watched him go out. "Unless the two of you kill me."

"Why would we want to kill you?" Frank asked, wondering what she had to say.

"I kind of know who sent the pictures to Elaina." She braced herself for the barrage of questions.

"Tell us, how you know." Elaina stared at her.

"It was me. But I had good reason at the time to do it," She added quickly.

"Explain and fast," Frank ordered her.

"I overheard you talking to Maria, it sounded like you and she were making a date. I thought Maria was up to her old tricks. I wanted Elaina to know before Maria totally destroyed your marriage."

"I'd never do that to Elaina. I was making a date but it was for a case we were working," Frank explained.

"I didn't know. I just knew that I didn't want Elaina to go through what I went through," Sab said looking at the floor.

"Too late Sabrina, been there done that." Elaina got a furious look from Frank, saying what she did.

"What do you mean?" Sab asked.

"Nothing, forget I said anything," Elaina told her. "I for one, am actually glad you did it. It means that it wasn't some unknown person following them that could hurt the case or them."

"So you aren't mad at me, or want me to leave and never come back?" Sab asked somewhat relieved.

"You're forgiven but next time, get your facts straight first," Frank warned her.

"I promise, I learned my lesson. I better go, we have a lot of work to do yet."

"Take care of your self," Elaina said as she was leaving.

"Well, that's one less thing to occupy my mind," Frank said.

"Good, more room for me in there." Elaina smiled and kissed him.

"You're always in my mind." He kissed her not letting go of her until she broke the kiss.

"You keep that up we're going to be in a lot of trouble."

"I thrive on trouble, didn't you know that," He smirked at her.

"I think you need to go for a long walk, before we get into a compromising situation and a nurse or someone comes in."

"Ok but a walk isn't going to be half as much fun." Frank walked out of the room. He didn't want to get too far away. He wanted to be able to see the room. The hallway was practically deserted visiting hours were over. He walked down the hall glancing back to Elaina's door making sure no one entered.

Suddenly he was hit in the head dazing him but not knocking him out completely. He felt himself being dragged in to the stairway and being tied up. His head was hurting as he tried to focus his eyes but he couldn't. He was then hit again; everything went black.

******

It was morning when Frank awoke to a familiar voice talking to him. He was in a room now. He finally focused his eyes to see Derek standing next to him.

"Dad, I'm so glad you finally woke up, we didn't think you ever would."

"What happened to me? How long was I out?" Frank asked.

"You were hit over the head and tied up in the stairway. You've been out for a few hours," Jake told him.

"Where's Elaina?" He tried to get up realizing, he was in her bed but his head wouldn't allow it.

"Someone got her after they knocked you out. We've looked everywhere but can't find any sign of her."

"What about the security cameras?" Frank asked.

"Cody checked, they were went down when the time it happened," Jake told him.

"That's becoming a regular occurrence lately," Frank said irritated from the answers he was getting and his head. "I wish I'd given her the bracelet back. Damn it! Why did I leave her? I should've never gone for that walk."

"Don't beat yourself up about Dad, if you had been here, they could've killed you or Mom in a struggle," Derek told him.

"He's right Frank they wanted her for some reason and they would have done anything to get her," Jake stated, as Frank tried to get out of bed again.

"We need to find her and fast before something happens to her," Frank said, as he sat on the edge of the bed.

"Jake, we got a lead," Alex said running into the room. "Nice to see you awake," she said to Frank.

"What kind of lead do you have?" Frank asked.

"The clinic across the road had security camera's going. Cody checked, it caught two men putting Elaina in a car."

"What kind of car, a Taurus?" Frank wondered.

"Yeah, how did you know?" Alex asked.

"It followed us the other day. Lets go find that car." Frank got up to walk and Derek steadied him. He knew better than to try to stop him.

When they got to the car Derek made him get in the passenger side. "I believe, Jake can drive. I'll follow in my car." Derek gave Jake the keys.

Alex pulled out ahead of Jake and Frank then Derek followed them. They went to HQ to meet with the rest of the team. Cody and Sab were at the operations board with Monica. Dee was on the phone when they came in.

The phone rang. "It's your office phone," Cody said transferring it to the line there.

"Donovan."

"Mr. Donovan, I was wondering if you would like to keep the meeting you had with Mr. Stanhope?" The man on the other end was Moran, Stanhope's associate.

"I was under the impression that Stanhope couldn't make it."

"Well he can't, but I'm carrying on in his place. Our group would still like to have you and your wife join us. I'm still willing to meet your price."

"When and where do you want to meet?" Frank asked.

"How about tonight, 8:00. We can meet at your hotel room."

"I was moved two doors down the hall. We had a break in," Frank told him.

"It's a pity what the world is coming to. Oh and please bring your beautiful wife with you."

"I'll see if she can make it." Frank hung up the phone. "Moran wants to meet me tonight. Told me to bring my wife."

"Maybe he doesn't have her. Or he knows Maria was taking her place, wants you to bring her too," Dee said.

"If he has Elaina, what are his plans? To take the three of us out?" Frank wondered.

"Where are you to meet?" Alex asked.

"At the hotel room at the Four Seasons," Frank answered.

"I guess we better go set it up, so you're not flying blind," Cody said getting up.

"They may be watching the room. They had the first one bugged without me knowing it." Frank stopped to think a moment. "Why would they ransack a room when they had it bugged and knew our every move?"

"What are you talking about?" Cody asked.

"Elaina and I went to the hotel the other day. When we got there she noticed it had been broken into.before she was completely in the door."

"Are you saying she knew it before she walked in?" Monica asked.

"I never realized, until now but yes she knew. She had to be the one that did it."

"Why would she tear up a hotel room?" Derek wondered.

"I think I know. If she was fighting the drug she may've done it to warn you, someway," Monica said.

"But she didn't know I was working a case, until that morning she came here to confront me."

"She may have but the drugs blocked it," Monica said.

"When was the last time you were in the room, prior to you going there with her?" Dee asked.

"The night before," Frank said, starting to pace the floor.

"She could've tore the room up that night or early the next morning. You did say she left early," Jake stated.

"She worked late that night too," Derek added.

"I'll be right back, I just remembered something." Frank went to his office and came back down with the bug he found in the room. "Cody trace this and see where it came from."

"No need to trace it. I know where it came from. This is the type C.I.A. use, not as clear as mine but they do, to listen in with."

"That proves she was there," Frank said. "It also proves, if she was told to do it, Moran knows that it wasn't her, the night we met."

"Monica, call Maria get her over here," Dee ordered. "She maybe in danger, too."

"She may not be, yet. But if she goes with me tonight we both will be, along with Elaina where ever she is."