Frank and Elaina come in after a while of being by themselves. Elaina was
still crying a little. "Monica take her upstairs," Frank told her.
"No! I can't go up there. I'll lay on the couch." Elaina knew if she went up there she'd fall apart again.
"Ok. Sabrina, come with me." Frank walked toward the office and as he walked passed the game room he looked in and saw Sarah's toys laying all over the room. He leaned against the door facing. "Damn it! Not now, not yet," He cursed himself as his emotions surfaced.
Sab shut the door to the room pulling him away from the room. "What do you want me to do? Tie in your computers with Cody's?" Sab asked trying to get his mind on what he wanted.
Frank composed himself enough to shake his head yes as they walked in the office. "You're getting to know how I think." Frank managed to smile at her.
"I'm not sure that's a good thing or a bad thing." Sab laughed as she walked over to turn the computers on. "Why can't we trace them with the bracelets?" Frank reached in his pocket and held up the cut bracelets. "Damn! They knew about them?"
"Yeah, I guess so. That one computer I keep locked, you'll need a password." Frank pointed to the computer.
"Well, put it in. I won't look." Sab went to move away from it.
"You can do it. Its Lady Sarah," Frank told her.
"Should have known, it would be the two women in your life." Sab smiled as she typed it in.
"Now I'll have to change it." Frank chuckled.
"Don't trust me? I'm hurt." Sab acted as if she were pouting.
"Get over it. I don't trust Elaina with my passwords at times," Frank said with a smirk.
"Ok, that's information I can use against you at some point," Sab said with a slightly evil grin.
"I thought you were my friend too?"
"You are but there are times when it doesn't hurt to have information to hold against friends to keep them in line."
"You're learning way too much from Elaina. She said that to me once," Frank told her. "I think I'll go check on her." Frank got up to leave.
"Frank, we'll get them back safe and sound. You have the best team in the state helping you," Sab told him.
"Thanks Sabrina." Frank walked out and forced himself not to open the door to the game room. He walked into the living room to see Elaina lying down and Monica was looking through a photo album.
She looked up as Frank walked into the room. "She said I could look through this. I hope you don't mind?" Monica asked as Frank sat on the edge of the couch.
"Just keep it away from me and her," Frank said.
"I'm not asleep. So far it hasn't effected me looking at pictures they're all over the house." Elaina turned over to face him. "I've broke down as a mother. Now, I'll try functioning as an agent to get through this."
"Monica, I'd like to speak to Elaina alone," Frank said.
"I'll go in with Sab." Monica put the album on the shelf as she walked out.
"My turn to be a father," Frank said as the tears came. Elaina sat up and held him. "How can you look at pictures and not break down?"
"I just try not to think about the kidnapping when I look at them. I think of when the picture was taken and how they were then." She sensed he was trying to control his emotions. "Frank, just let the tears come. You'll feel a little better afterward, I did." Elaina held him while she rubbed his back then gave him a light kiss on his face.
"I saw Sarah's toys in the game room and just about lost it then. Sabrina pulled me away and shut the door."
"I'm surprised she hasn't broke down yet. She loves them too," Elaina said as she comforted him.
"I look for all of them to have their moments. We've become too close to them," Frank said.
"You make it sound like a bad thing. I like having them as friends and co- workers. They're always willing to help us as we are them."
"Seems we have more crises for them to help us with though." Frank smiled.
"I know but Sab and Cody had their crisis. We helped a little then. And Jake, I helped his mom, sort of, in finding him."
"Now be honest, if it weren't for your cousin, Cody and Sab wouldn't have had any trouble," Frank said.
"Ok! I know that. Let's change the subject. Don't you think we should be calling our families and telling them?" Elaina asked.
"I don't want to worry them. Can't we keep this to ourselves for now?"
"I'm not sure we should. They should really know just in case.." Elaina didn't finish. "Never mind maybe you're right. It bothers me that the kidnappers knew about the tracking devices in the bracelets."
"If they know us well enough, they know we'd have a way to protect them. They could've detected them with the right equipment," Frank told her.
Jake and Alex come up the drive. Elaina saw them pull up to the house. "Jake and Alex are here. You want me to let them in?"
"I'll go." Frank wiped the tears from his face as he got up to opened the door. He saw Andy arriving too. "Looks like your temporary Boss just got here," Frank told them as they walked in.
Alex went over to Elaina. "Hey, are you doing ok?" Alex took hold of her hand.
"Yeah, I'm doing ok now. Earlier would've been a different answer."
"That's understandable. We didn't find out much. No prints; not even Derek's so they must have wiped it down," Alex said.
"That means there had to be more than two people involved," Elaina stated.
"How do you figure that?" Alex asked as Andy walked in with Frank and Jake.
"They only had 10 minutes maybe less according to Becky. They had to immobilize Derek, probably knocking him out. There had to be one person to get him in the vehicle, one to get Sarah and the car seat out. Then another person to wipe the prints out," Elaina reasoned.
"All this happened in a short time and in a busy parking lot in broad daylight," Frank added.
"Frank, they may have made it look like Derek had called for help. Have Cody check for any tow trucks in the parking lot when he gets any videotape. And any vans that may have circled the lot," Elaina said, still thinking.
"I'll go have Sab tell him," Jake said walking to the office.
"You seem to be pretty good at this profiling thing Elaina," Alex commented.
"I've done my share of kidnapping cases, those are the only times I think like the perp."
"Could be because you're good at kidnapping people yourself," Andy said.
"That's true we've both done that in the past," Frank admitted.
"We all have our specialties." Elaina grinned.
"Cody's on his way over now that, they have the computers linked." Jake came out to tell them as Monica came out too.
"I need to be doing something other than sitting here worrying." Elaina started to get up.
"Elaina can I talk to you about Maria for a few minutes," Jake asked.
"Sure what do you want to know?"
"How is she? She hasn't called me, since she started therapy for her tumor." Jake was concerned.
"She hasn't been feeling well. The medication is making her very weak and her hair has been falling out."
"That sounds like she's having chemo is the tumor cancerous?" Alex asked.
"No, the medication is just having that same reaction. She's very sensitive to medications. They have to give her smaller doses than they wanted, so it's taken so long for them to work. The good news is that the tumor has shrunk enough that they're going to operate soon."
"That's great. Can I be there when she has it?" Jake asked.
"No. She doesn't even want me there. Your Mom is making all the decisions for Maria medically. Maria doesn't want me or herself to have to make them," Elaina informed him.
"Why hasn't Mom told me any of this?" Jake wondered.
"That's what Maria wants. I know that you're concerned for her. But right now you'll just have to be satisfied with what I can tell you about her."
"Will she be back as an agent when she is better?" Monica asked.
"She isn't sure what she wants to do yet or how the surgery will turn out."
"Can you tell me about her family? I asked her once but she didn't want to talk about it," Jake asked trying to keep Elaina's mind of the kids.
"Maria's mother, Jennifer, was a fashion photographer, she traveled around the world. She'd take Maria with her when she could. They had a great relationship. When Jennifer passed it was the start of a very difficult time for her," Elaina explained.
"How did she die?" Alex asked.
"She was in the Philippines when they had a devastating earthquake. The hotel were she was staying was destroyed and they never found her body. Maria was only 8 when it happened. She never really talked to anyone about it then or now."
"Is that why she panicked when the two of you had your accident?" Jake asked.
"Yes. You'd think I would've known better than to even have her come to California after what happened. But she wanted to visit and I couldn't say no to her. I guess I should've drove that day but I thought she needed the practice on a busy highway."
"You didn't know there was going to be an earthquake that day," Frank said to her.
"Duh. Earthquake capitol of the U.S., I think that should've been enough," Elaina argued.
"Why didn't her father take care of her? Why did she live with your parents?" Jake questioned.
"Her father, Paul, was distraught and didn't believe that Jenny was gone. He left Maria at the ranch one-day saying he was going to look for her. To this day we have no idea where he is, either," Elaina explained.
"I can see how Maria could be a little messed up psychologically having been dumped like that by her own father," Monica said, not knowing Sab was standing listening to the conversation.
Sab left the room. "I'm sorry I didn't know she was there," Monica apologized knowing Sab's father didn't want her.
"Excuse me, I have something I just thought of I want to talk to Sabrina about." Elaina left the room to go check on Sab.
"You ok?" Elaina asked, walking in and leaning against the desk.
"What she said isn't true. I was going to be left behind if I hadn't ran away. I don't have any psychological problems," Sab said.
"I wouldn't go too far on that, you have your problems or why else Monica saying that upset you?"
"I wasn't upset. I had just heard the story before and decided to come back in here," Sab said, going over to sit on the couch.
"I wasn't aware that Maria had told anyone that story," Elaina said.
"When she was staying with me, she told me about it. I never told her that what happened to me though. Besides, at least she had a family to take her in. I didn't have anyone until I met Dom and that turned out to be a big mistake."
"Not totally. My mom and Dad believe everything happens for a reason. I think what happened to you was because you were to meet all of us. Which wouldn't have happened if you hadn't been with Dom. You have a terrific family now, that cares about you," Elaina told her, sitting down next to her.
"I know but it's more like a bunch of sisters and brothers, not a Mom and Dad type of family."
"Have you tried to find your real mother?"
"What good will it do? I'm an adult now. I don't need a mother. I have you and Allison to talk to."
"I feel honored that you feel that way. But I think maybe you should ask Jake how it feels to have a Mother after all this time."
The doorbell rang. "That's probably Cody," Elaina told her.
"I better get back to work, if we're going to find out what exactly happened," Sab said, going back to the computers.
"Hi, Elaina. How are you holding up?" Cody asked as he saw her sitting in the office.
"I'm holding on to my belief that we'll have them home by morning."
"I believe that too. I have video from the parking area and a couple of ATM's that were in the area." Cody said sitting down to the computers with Sab.
Sab gave him a kiss on the cheek. "I guess I'm in trouble now, seeing how we're working."
"Why would you be in trouble? I didn't see anything, did you do something I should know about?" Elaina asked, smiling at them.
"Nope. I was just talking to myself just ignore me." Sab giggled. "I miss Sarah's giggles." Sab looked up after she said it worried she had upset Elaina. "Sorry. Please ignore me, my mouth is out of control."
"I'm not going to fall apart every time someone mentions their names. If you want to talk about them go ahead. I'll be fine. I just want you both to know, if you want to break down, go ahead, have a moment and do it. I don't expect any of you to seal off your emotions from this. Frank and I thought we could but it doesn't work when it's someone you love," Elaina told them. "I'll leave you two to your work."
"No! I can't go up there. I'll lay on the couch." Elaina knew if she went up there she'd fall apart again.
"Ok. Sabrina, come with me." Frank walked toward the office and as he walked passed the game room he looked in and saw Sarah's toys laying all over the room. He leaned against the door facing. "Damn it! Not now, not yet," He cursed himself as his emotions surfaced.
Sab shut the door to the room pulling him away from the room. "What do you want me to do? Tie in your computers with Cody's?" Sab asked trying to get his mind on what he wanted.
Frank composed himself enough to shake his head yes as they walked in the office. "You're getting to know how I think." Frank managed to smile at her.
"I'm not sure that's a good thing or a bad thing." Sab laughed as she walked over to turn the computers on. "Why can't we trace them with the bracelets?" Frank reached in his pocket and held up the cut bracelets. "Damn! They knew about them?"
"Yeah, I guess so. That one computer I keep locked, you'll need a password." Frank pointed to the computer.
"Well, put it in. I won't look." Sab went to move away from it.
"You can do it. Its Lady Sarah," Frank told her.
"Should have known, it would be the two women in your life." Sab smiled as she typed it in.
"Now I'll have to change it." Frank chuckled.
"Don't trust me? I'm hurt." Sab acted as if she were pouting.
"Get over it. I don't trust Elaina with my passwords at times," Frank said with a smirk.
"Ok, that's information I can use against you at some point," Sab said with a slightly evil grin.
"I thought you were my friend too?"
"You are but there are times when it doesn't hurt to have information to hold against friends to keep them in line."
"You're learning way too much from Elaina. She said that to me once," Frank told her. "I think I'll go check on her." Frank got up to leave.
"Frank, we'll get them back safe and sound. You have the best team in the state helping you," Sab told him.
"Thanks Sabrina." Frank walked out and forced himself not to open the door to the game room. He walked into the living room to see Elaina lying down and Monica was looking through a photo album.
She looked up as Frank walked into the room. "She said I could look through this. I hope you don't mind?" Monica asked as Frank sat on the edge of the couch.
"Just keep it away from me and her," Frank said.
"I'm not asleep. So far it hasn't effected me looking at pictures they're all over the house." Elaina turned over to face him. "I've broke down as a mother. Now, I'll try functioning as an agent to get through this."
"Monica, I'd like to speak to Elaina alone," Frank said.
"I'll go in with Sab." Monica put the album on the shelf as she walked out.
"My turn to be a father," Frank said as the tears came. Elaina sat up and held him. "How can you look at pictures and not break down?"
"I just try not to think about the kidnapping when I look at them. I think of when the picture was taken and how they were then." She sensed he was trying to control his emotions. "Frank, just let the tears come. You'll feel a little better afterward, I did." Elaina held him while she rubbed his back then gave him a light kiss on his face.
"I saw Sarah's toys in the game room and just about lost it then. Sabrina pulled me away and shut the door."
"I'm surprised she hasn't broke down yet. She loves them too," Elaina said as she comforted him.
"I look for all of them to have their moments. We've become too close to them," Frank said.
"You make it sound like a bad thing. I like having them as friends and co- workers. They're always willing to help us as we are them."
"Seems we have more crises for them to help us with though." Frank smiled.
"I know but Sab and Cody had their crisis. We helped a little then. And Jake, I helped his mom, sort of, in finding him."
"Now be honest, if it weren't for your cousin, Cody and Sab wouldn't have had any trouble," Frank said.
"Ok! I know that. Let's change the subject. Don't you think we should be calling our families and telling them?" Elaina asked.
"I don't want to worry them. Can't we keep this to ourselves for now?"
"I'm not sure we should. They should really know just in case.." Elaina didn't finish. "Never mind maybe you're right. It bothers me that the kidnappers knew about the tracking devices in the bracelets."
"If they know us well enough, they know we'd have a way to protect them. They could've detected them with the right equipment," Frank told her.
Jake and Alex come up the drive. Elaina saw them pull up to the house. "Jake and Alex are here. You want me to let them in?"
"I'll go." Frank wiped the tears from his face as he got up to opened the door. He saw Andy arriving too. "Looks like your temporary Boss just got here," Frank told them as they walked in.
Alex went over to Elaina. "Hey, are you doing ok?" Alex took hold of her hand.
"Yeah, I'm doing ok now. Earlier would've been a different answer."
"That's understandable. We didn't find out much. No prints; not even Derek's so they must have wiped it down," Alex said.
"That means there had to be more than two people involved," Elaina stated.
"How do you figure that?" Alex asked as Andy walked in with Frank and Jake.
"They only had 10 minutes maybe less according to Becky. They had to immobilize Derek, probably knocking him out. There had to be one person to get him in the vehicle, one to get Sarah and the car seat out. Then another person to wipe the prints out," Elaina reasoned.
"All this happened in a short time and in a busy parking lot in broad daylight," Frank added.
"Frank, they may have made it look like Derek had called for help. Have Cody check for any tow trucks in the parking lot when he gets any videotape. And any vans that may have circled the lot," Elaina said, still thinking.
"I'll go have Sab tell him," Jake said walking to the office.
"You seem to be pretty good at this profiling thing Elaina," Alex commented.
"I've done my share of kidnapping cases, those are the only times I think like the perp."
"Could be because you're good at kidnapping people yourself," Andy said.
"That's true we've both done that in the past," Frank admitted.
"We all have our specialties." Elaina grinned.
"Cody's on his way over now that, they have the computers linked." Jake came out to tell them as Monica came out too.
"I need to be doing something other than sitting here worrying." Elaina started to get up.
"Elaina can I talk to you about Maria for a few minutes," Jake asked.
"Sure what do you want to know?"
"How is she? She hasn't called me, since she started therapy for her tumor." Jake was concerned.
"She hasn't been feeling well. The medication is making her very weak and her hair has been falling out."
"That sounds like she's having chemo is the tumor cancerous?" Alex asked.
"No, the medication is just having that same reaction. She's very sensitive to medications. They have to give her smaller doses than they wanted, so it's taken so long for them to work. The good news is that the tumor has shrunk enough that they're going to operate soon."
"That's great. Can I be there when she has it?" Jake asked.
"No. She doesn't even want me there. Your Mom is making all the decisions for Maria medically. Maria doesn't want me or herself to have to make them," Elaina informed him.
"Why hasn't Mom told me any of this?" Jake wondered.
"That's what Maria wants. I know that you're concerned for her. But right now you'll just have to be satisfied with what I can tell you about her."
"Will she be back as an agent when she is better?" Monica asked.
"She isn't sure what she wants to do yet or how the surgery will turn out."
"Can you tell me about her family? I asked her once but she didn't want to talk about it," Jake asked trying to keep Elaina's mind of the kids.
"Maria's mother, Jennifer, was a fashion photographer, she traveled around the world. She'd take Maria with her when she could. They had a great relationship. When Jennifer passed it was the start of a very difficult time for her," Elaina explained.
"How did she die?" Alex asked.
"She was in the Philippines when they had a devastating earthquake. The hotel were she was staying was destroyed and they never found her body. Maria was only 8 when it happened. She never really talked to anyone about it then or now."
"Is that why she panicked when the two of you had your accident?" Jake asked.
"Yes. You'd think I would've known better than to even have her come to California after what happened. But she wanted to visit and I couldn't say no to her. I guess I should've drove that day but I thought she needed the practice on a busy highway."
"You didn't know there was going to be an earthquake that day," Frank said to her.
"Duh. Earthquake capitol of the U.S., I think that should've been enough," Elaina argued.
"Why didn't her father take care of her? Why did she live with your parents?" Jake questioned.
"Her father, Paul, was distraught and didn't believe that Jenny was gone. He left Maria at the ranch one-day saying he was going to look for her. To this day we have no idea where he is, either," Elaina explained.
"I can see how Maria could be a little messed up psychologically having been dumped like that by her own father," Monica said, not knowing Sab was standing listening to the conversation.
Sab left the room. "I'm sorry I didn't know she was there," Monica apologized knowing Sab's father didn't want her.
"Excuse me, I have something I just thought of I want to talk to Sabrina about." Elaina left the room to go check on Sab.
"You ok?" Elaina asked, walking in and leaning against the desk.
"What she said isn't true. I was going to be left behind if I hadn't ran away. I don't have any psychological problems," Sab said.
"I wouldn't go too far on that, you have your problems or why else Monica saying that upset you?"
"I wasn't upset. I had just heard the story before and decided to come back in here," Sab said, going over to sit on the couch.
"I wasn't aware that Maria had told anyone that story," Elaina said.
"When she was staying with me, she told me about it. I never told her that what happened to me though. Besides, at least she had a family to take her in. I didn't have anyone until I met Dom and that turned out to be a big mistake."
"Not totally. My mom and Dad believe everything happens for a reason. I think what happened to you was because you were to meet all of us. Which wouldn't have happened if you hadn't been with Dom. You have a terrific family now, that cares about you," Elaina told her, sitting down next to her.
"I know but it's more like a bunch of sisters and brothers, not a Mom and Dad type of family."
"Have you tried to find your real mother?"
"What good will it do? I'm an adult now. I don't need a mother. I have you and Allison to talk to."
"I feel honored that you feel that way. But I think maybe you should ask Jake how it feels to have a Mother after all this time."
The doorbell rang. "That's probably Cody," Elaina told her.
"I better get back to work, if we're going to find out what exactly happened," Sab said, going back to the computers.
"Hi, Elaina. How are you holding up?" Cody asked as he saw her sitting in the office.
"I'm holding on to my belief that we'll have them home by morning."
"I believe that too. I have video from the parking area and a couple of ATM's that were in the area." Cody said sitting down to the computers with Sab.
Sab gave him a kiss on the cheek. "I guess I'm in trouble now, seeing how we're working."
"Why would you be in trouble? I didn't see anything, did you do something I should know about?" Elaina asked, smiling at them.
"Nope. I was just talking to myself just ignore me." Sab giggled. "I miss Sarah's giggles." Sab looked up after she said it worried she had upset Elaina. "Sorry. Please ignore me, my mouth is out of control."
"I'm not going to fall apart every time someone mentions their names. If you want to talk about them go ahead. I'll be fine. I just want you both to know, if you want to break down, go ahead, have a moment and do it. I don't expect any of you to seal off your emotions from this. Frank and I thought we could but it doesn't work when it's someone you love," Elaina told them. "I'll leave you two to your work."