Chapter 41

Ardi looked at the latest report she had gotten, Clarice AND Hannibal Lecter had been seen at a motel in Italy, it just couldn't be.

Ardi was furious, it was one thing for Clarice to kill, but kill for HIM. Ardi hit the table so hard that several things on it jumped and fell off the table. She couldn't believe it. No Lecter would have forced her to, or brain washed her.

Ardi looked at the report again. So Clarice had been living in Paris, and then she moved, up until now Ardi hadn't know where but Italy was a good guess. Lecter had been living there, so for Clarice to go there seem logical in some strange way.

But Ardi knew that if she were with Lecter they would be on the move. They would settle down somewhere, but not until HE was sure that no one knew of there were abouts. All she needed to do was figure out which direction they where headed. She had to wait till the next sighting came in, or at least some clue as to what way they where heading.

The Italian police was alerted to the fact that they should keep a lookout for someone that resembled or looked like Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling. It would be hard to describe Lecter, since no one had seen him for long, but Clarice that would be easy, since it hadn't been that long since Ardi had seen her.

Ardi hated the waiting, sitting with no answers, the world could fell apart in mere seconds and here Ardi was waiting hour after hour for some trace of Clarice.

Like an answer from God, the phone rang in Ardi's office.

"Agent Mapp speaking." A short silence in the other end. "Ardi we have them, they are moving north, and we have a tail on them." Ardi couldn't believe their luck. "Where are they now?" "They are about 100 miles from the Italian border." "Have you informed Interpol?" "Yeah they are on it to."

Ardi felt un useful sitting half around the world unable to do anything. She wanted to be there, following them. They couldn't do anything as long as they where in a car moving it would be too dangerous, they had to wait. Ardi wanted Clarice to come out of this alive.

"Do you have the backup tails ready?" "It's all in place." "Good, keep me posted over my cell phone I am on my way over." There was silence in the other end for some time. Roger Jensen who had been in charge of things in France and Italy was seemingly surprise that agent Mapp was coming over. She knew he didn't like it, but this was her best friend and she wanted to be there, she couldn't let anyone else get her.

Ardi had booked her ticket and was on the plane within an hour.

A/N dear reader, so here are the new chapters, I hope you will enjoy them. Now as some have notice there is a version two of this story. So I try to divide my time between them, so I hope it will be that I post chapters to version one every other day and to version two as well. So that new chapters are up every day but to different stories. Did that make any sense? Well I just wanted to reassure all you readers that the story won't be coming to an end, as I said before I still have a few aces up my sleeve and you can see I have pulled one now..

And not for my case of insecurity but for my judgment on whether to continue or not please review my chapters.