Chapter 5

Mark lay there, his sparkling blue eyes hidden by his wrinkled eyelids. Every now and then they would flicker, a sign of him dreaming. Amanda entered the room of her friend, her eyes still red from crying profusely in the privacy of her path lab.

" Hi Mark, its me, Amanda, I just thought I'd come and see if you were awake, but obviously you're not. I'll come back later."

" Just because my eyes are closed it doesn't mean I'm asleep Amanda."

" Oh Mark, you made me jump. I thought you were."

" Asleep, I know, I was just thinking. Have any clues been found yet?"

" No." A hint of disappointment could be detected in her voice.

Just then Jesse came running in, red in the face and panting, " Steve got it, he got the ID of the car!"

Amanda faced Jesse and asked, " So, he knows where CJ and Dion are then."

" As good as." Jess confirmed, still short of breath.

Mark started to get up and get dressed to go with Amanda and Jess but was soon stopped, " Where do you think you are going? You've got concussion remember!"

Mark looked at Amanda, a surprised look on his face, before he replied with an argument," Amanda I can't just sit here. Steve knows where CJ and Dion are, I've got to come."

Jesse interrupted before Amanda argued back, " Look, there is no time to argue, Mark, get dressed, you can come but you have GOT to stay in the car."

" Okay Jess, I agree with that." But, Mark had no intentions of staying in the car, and Jesse knew that. They all just wanted to get CJ and Dion back before it was too late, and that seemed the easiest way to sort things out.

Steve paced up and down as he waited for the Amanda and Jesse, normally he patience lasted longer than this, but this time it was personal, two people he loves dearly had been taken from him and he was determined to get them back.

" Hold it little guy, you can't just stroll into a crime scene now can you."

" But Steve called me, we were told to come here."

" Yeah, and I've been invited to the white house for dinner tonight." The guard sarcastically replied.

Jesse's temper was already fraying and this guy was about to push him over the edge, " Look jerk, Lt. Steve Sloan called me and my colleagues, one of them being his dad, and told us to come down here. So if you don't move I'll.."

" You'll do what shorty." That was it. Jesse finally blew his top. He had gone too far.

" I swear to god, I ram something so far up your.."

Steve intervened," Jesse! You will do nothing of the sort."

" Steve, please tell this idiot that I was called by you, and that you know me, Amanda and that man in the car is your dad, before I really do ram something up his.."

" JESSE TRAVIS!! Watch your language." Amanda had now joined the uproar knowing full well as small as Jesse is he could easily carry out his threat.

" But he is such a moron!" Jesse snapped.

"Jesse, I know how uptight everyone is but we need to just ignore him" Steve pointed to the guard in question, " And find CJ and Dion."

" Very well said son."

Jesse, Amanda and Steve turned to see Mark standing next to them, " Mark I told you to stay in the car, it's for your own good."

" I know but I thought you might need some help."

" I did not need any help, but that guy does!"

" Okay, that's enough, come on Jesse, we don't want to loop back to that argument again. I just want to find my boys." Once again Amanda restored the peace, even though she fully agreed with Jesse.

" I agree Amanda, come on, I'll show you what I found." Steve led the way to the tyre track that had been identified and told them the news.

" The track was identified as a tyre from a saloon, matching the make and model that we seen. The car was also seen speeding away from the park on a hidden camera. We got the film and took a couple of stills. From that we could get the registration of the car."

" So, who does it belong to?"

"Well dad, it turns out that the car was a hire car."

Amanda's face fell, " So you don't know who it belongs to then. I don't suppose the kidnappers were stupid enough to use their real names."

Steve grinned, " Well actually." Jesse cut him short.

" They were weren't they, they use their real names and you know where they live right?"

" Got it in one Jess."

Mark thought for a minute before he spoke, " This is not a normal case then is it."

" Huh?" Steve was confused.

" The kidnappers probably know Amanda and are out for revenge. Why else leave so many clues. They want us to find them."

" But why Mark?"

"That part I don't know yet Amanda, but I've got a feeling we'll all know soon.