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Chapter 3 "Using Cassie to get to Piper"

A/N: Thanks so much to all of my reviewers! CharmingTess, wAnNaBpIpEr, Charmed Fanatic, line, Caryn, and Alex Lipman to name a few.

wAnNaBpIpEr: I guess you deserve a spot on this story too, for getting my lazy butt motivated to keep updating so soon, if it wasn't for you I'd still be on chapter 1.

CharmingTess: So you're already afraid to talk in chat rooms and walk home alone. Let's see, what else can I scare you out of doing? Hmm… just kidding! Thanks for all the reviews you give to all my stories.

A/N: Everyone needs to read Caving In by CharmingTess, My Little Secret by wAnNaBpIpEr and In The End by Witch. Because those stories rock! Okay on with the story:

            The second Piper got home that day she raced upstairs to check her e-mail and see if Tommygirl27 had sent her anything, but was disappointed to see that she hadn't gotten any new mail. Oh well, Piper thought, maybe Cassie and Tomygirl27 are on online. Piper logged onto the AOL teen chat site that the girls always talked on and was surprised to see that neither one was on there either. Where are they? Piper wondered as she turned off her computer and decided to start her homework.

            A few hours later the phone rang. "It's for you, Piper" Prue called up the stairs and Piper picked up the extension from her room, wondering if that was Cassie calling. "Hello?" Piper asked. "Piper? This is Mrs. Johnson, Cassie's mom. Is Cassie over at your house?" Mrs. Johnson asked. "No, why?" Piper asked sensing the tension in Cassie's mother's voice. "Do you have any idea where she might be? Cassie never came home from school" Mrs. Johnson told her, Piper's eyes widened in surprise. "No, the last I saw her, she was walking home" Pier admitted, "But that was about 3 hours ago" "It's not like Cassie to not come home or call, I'm calling the police" Mrs. Johnson decided.

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            "We're home" Dominic said to Cassie as he pulled into his driveway and dragged the still unconscious Cassie from the back seat and into his basement, where he pulled the tape off her mouth and locked her in a small room barely bigger than a closet with an old mattress on the floor and a window too high to see out of that provided only a dim light. "I'm going to go make us some dinner" Dominic decided and he walked out of the room and locked it from the outside; whistling to himself as he walked up stairs.

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            Piper sat in the police station a few hours later, wiping tears out of her eyes as she told a detective when the last time she saw Cassie was. "Do you think she was kidnapped?" Mrs. Johnson asked, fear for her daughter present on her face. Detective Wilson sighed. Usually these cases were runaways but what Cassie's friends and family had told him about her, she didn't seem likely to just run. "I can't say officially, but all the signs do point to a kidnapping" the Detective admitted solemnly. After being asked a few more questions, Piper was allowed to go home.

            She went straight up to her room and lay on her bed, crying. How could anyone take her best friend? She had just talked to Cassie a few hours ago. Suddenly Piper's computer jingled signaling an instant message. Piper looked over at it half heartedly and saw that Tommygirl27 had instant messaged her.

            Piper wiped the last tears out of her eyes and walked over to her computer. "Hey, Tommygirl27, I don't feel like talking today" she typed. "Why? What's wrong?" came Tommygirl27's instant reply. Piper sighed, thinking about Cassie again, "Cassie's missing. The police think she was kidnapped" Piper replied. "That's terrible!" Tommygirl27 said "do the police know who did it?"

            Piper started at her computer screen in mild shock. That was a strange question to ask right after finding out Cassie was kidnapped. Shouldn't Tommygirl27 be more concerned about Cassie's safety then if the cops know who took her? Oh well, Piper thought, shaking her head, some people just react differently to some things than others. "No, they have no idea" Piper replied.

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            Dominic breathed a sigh of relief when Piper told him that the cops didn't know who did it. Now that he already had Cassie at his home they had even less of a chance of finding her. Well, finding her alive anyway, Dominic thought with a grin. Sure they'd find her. Bits and pieces here and there, it the woods behind his house mostly. It was much easier to dispose of a body when it's cut up.

            Dominic started to laugh when he heard a scream from downstairs. Cassie's up, he though, grabbing a bowl of soup he was heating up for her and slipping some codeine into it to keep her sedated. "Coming Cassie" he said walking down the stairs to his basement and opening the door to the small room she was locked in. "Who are you?" Cassie hissed, tears flowing down her face in fear and anger. "Why Cassie, don't you recognize me?" Dominic asked with a sneer, "I'm your friend, Tommygirl27" A look of horror and realization dawned on Cassie's face as she realized  that Tommygril27 was never the 14-year-old girl she thought it was, that the whole time she was really talking to this man. "I made you dinner" Dominic said, setting down the bowl next to her and taking a switch blade knife out of his pocket, flicking it open.

            Cassie cowered against the wall in fear, "It's just to cut the tape of your wrists so you can eat" Dominic explained, enjoying her fear. He grabbed her roughly and with one swift flick of the blade, Cassie's hands fell to her sides, no longer bound by the duct tape. "Now eat, and then I have a few questions to ask you" Dominic ordered, shoving her to the ground. Cassie ate the soup obediently, hoping that if she just did what he said ,then maybe, just maybe, he'd let her go.

            Once Cassie was done eating the codeine started to take its affect and she felt unable to concentrate on anything. She knew that she needed to escape, that she needed to tell someone where she was but suddenly she just felt so tired.

            "Okay Cassie, where does Piper live?" Dominic asked once she was done eating. "I don't know" Cassie whimpered. "Yes you do. TELL ME" Dominic yelled, punching her in the stomach. Cassie doubled over and started to cry harder "Okay…okay s-she lives at 1329 Prescott Street" Cassie sobbed. "See? Was that so hard?" Dominic asked. Grabbing Cassie by the back of the neck and kissing her roughly, before shoving her back down and walking away, locking the door behind him and pulling out a map. Piper would be his sooner then he thought.

A/N: Please R&R!