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Meaning Of Love.

By the Untalented JOxER

Chapter 9.

Christina Cuilty (AN- She was referred to Christy a few chapters back.) sat around the hotel's bed as she watched
the 10 o'clock news. She had her bags packed since it was that last day she was staying at the hotel. She picked put
her bus ticket and cried as she stared at it. She kicked herself for being so stupid. She had fallen for Richard Doran
and even helped that asshole escaped from jail. After the incident with the house and the fire, Doran had told her to
leave and not return. She just couldn't do that. She thought she really did love him so she kept going to the hideout
of the motel and asked Doran to forgive her. She had done nothing wrong but there was nothing else she could
have said. Still Doran told her to leave and not come back and the last time she went back to the motel, everybody
had been checked out. She couldn't believe it. After all she did for that bastard and not even a thank you she got.
She cried herself dry until she was now full of anger. How could she had been so stupid to even fallen for that
asshole. She had stayed at the hotel near by the motel where the escaped inmates were staying, just in case that
Doran was going to come back and take her in his arms and be hers forever. She had waited a couple of weeks
when she decided it was time to give up the fairy tale ending and move on. She was about the change the channel
where there was a breaking news. It got her attention when the new anchor on the television had a strong voice and
it was soothing.

The new anchor talked about a 100 thousand dollar reward and that got her more interested. The new anchor
flashed a picture of two teenagers and announce that they were missing. She looked very closely at the pictures,
incase she recognized them but she didn't. 'There goes my new car!' She thought when she reached for the remote.
Then there was another picture following the two teens and she gasped. It was a picture of Lawrence Wolenczak.
The new anchor said that he might be responsible for the disappearance of the two teenagers since the boy was
related to Lawrence.

"Oh shit, that's his son!" Christina said out load when she put all the pieces together. She waited for the new
anchor to flash the phone number to call in and the name of the detective that was in charge. She quickly reached
for the cell phone near her bed and dialed the number. She let the phone ring once when she hang up. 'What the
hell are you doing?' She questioned herself. If she called in, she could be put in jail for helping them escape. But
she thought of all the other movies she had seen that the caller can ask in return that she will not get prosecuted.
Then again, it was Hollywood and movies are not true. She didn't know what to do. She looked at the phone then
to a small frame picture sitting on her night stand. It was a picture of Doran. She got hold of the picture and closed
her eyes. 'This is not about you anymore.... this is about me.' She thought as she threw the picture to the other side
of the room. She picked up the cell phone again and hit the re-dial key.

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Doran and Lawrence walked towards the room where Dayna's screams continued to echo the warehouse. They
were just a couple a feet away from the door when the screams were followed by another deeper scream and then
nothing. It was suddenly dead quiet. Lawrence looked at Doran and began to open the door slowly. As he opened
the door, he couldn't help but laugh at what was inside. Dayna was on the floor, unconscious by what Lawrence
could tell. She was not gagged of course and there was a trail of blood running down her mouth. Her left eye was
taking a light red color and her jeans were unzipped. But that wasn't the reason that Lawrence, and now Doran,
were laughing. In the far corner of the room was Razor. He was half bent down and rubbing his inner thigh with
both his hands as he cussed softly to himself.

"what the hell happened?" Lawrence questioned.

"That stupid bitch..." Razor said as he stood up straight and pointed to Dayna. "I was going to give her a good
time...I'm going to kill her now..." Razor said as he slowly walked towards Dayna. Lawrence made his way
towards Razor, trying to stop him.

"NO. We need her. You can have your fun later." Lawrence said as he dent down to gag Dayna again. "That
wasn't the only reason she screamed huh?" Lawrence said to razor.

"No, they didn't help either..." Razor said as he pointed to the other side of the room. Lawrence laughed again as he
saw the two bodies lying next to each other.

"Whatever Razor, go get me something to blind fold her." Lawrence said. Razor went towards one of the two dead
bodies that were in the room and took a gag out of one of the bodies and handed it to Lawrence. Lawrence gave
him a weird look. "She aint going to need it anymore." Razor said as he kept rubbing his thigh.

"You better get them out of here soon, they are starting to smell."

"It would all have been nice if it was only one body here, but no, you had to kill Mark.." Razor said.

"And you had to pick up that chick ya had to fuck didn't you?" Lawrence said back. They both looked at each other
and laughed. "Come on, we got to wait for my son to wake up... then we play.." Lawrence said as motioned for the
two other people to exit the room.

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It was 4:00 am and Nathan had been sitting by the vidphone since he saw the 10 o'clock news. Officer Kennedy
had called about two hours after the news had aired about a lead he had gotten but he promised to called back. That
was nearly 4 hours ago. Nathan had been so sure that he wasn't going to need any help on finding Lucas, that the
locator he had on was going to work. But when he had gotten home, he turned on the small device to see that the
signal was no where to be found. He couldn't believe his luck, the stupid thing was not working. He had talked to
Ben about the locator and the only explanation was that where ever Lucas was, there must have been a high power
radio antenna and that the signal was being mixed with the other stronger ones.. either that or Lucas' locator was
found on him... Nathan shook his thoughts away and continued to watch the screen, hoping that it will ring soon.
Kristen had popped her head in the room and asked Nathan if he wanted another cup of coffee. Nathan just nodded
his head but his eyes never left the phone. Kristen was about to enter the kitchen when the phone beeped. Nathan
quickly turned on the screen.

"Yes Officer Kennedy." Nathan said a quick greeting.

"I don't know how much this helps but it is the closest information I have...."

"Please go on." Nathan said as Kristen had entered the room and stood behind Nathan.

"I got a call right after the news told the story. I had tons really but this call stood out. She, a Miss Christina Cuilty,
said that she had a lead. Like the others, she said that if the rewards was for real and i told her yes and so she went
on with the lead. She gave us the names of other people that were helping Lawrence Wolenczak."

"How do you know that she isn't lying just for the money?" Kristen questioned.

"because she gave us the names of the people and we didn't disclose that information to the public. She was the
person that helped the inmates escape. She said that she provided them with a Blue van, which she says that
Lawrence wanted to change the color of it, and with some weapons and some small amounts of cash. Out of the 6
inmates that escaped, only three stayed with Lawrence."

"why did they stayed?"

"Lawrence had promised them more money if they will helped him..."

"Do what?"

"Chirsty said that Lawrence has three big plans. The first was already carried out- he killed his x-wife, Cynthia
Wolenczak... the second plan.. um.." Officer Kennedy took in a deep breath and relaxed. "He plans to get some
information from your son before he tortures your son to death... That was all I could get from her, she didn't know
any else about plan two. But plan three, according to what she heard, was to arrange for both your deaths." Officer
Kennedy said, referring to Kristen and Nathan. Kristen griped Nathan's shoulders in fear and Nathan grabbed a
hold of one of her hands.

"Does she know where they are at?"

"No... they left the hideout a few weeks after the murder of Cynthia Wolenczak."

"What about Dayna?" Kristen said.

"Chirsty didn't know anyone by the name Dayna or what was her role in Lawrence plans.. I guess she was at the
wrong place and the wrong time... I did tell you if anything came up, I was going to call.. I'm sorry that the
information I do have doesn't help..."

"Its all right. I thank you for telling me." Nathan said as he reached to turn off the connection.

"Wait.!" Kristen said to Nathan. Nathan stopped and let her say what she wanted to say.

"I think that Nathan also has something to tell you." Kristen said as Nathan gave her a hurt look. Kristen crossed
her arms waiting for the stubborn captain to speak up. "If you wont tell him, I will."

"Well.." Nathan began. "Lucas doesn't know but I placed a tracker on his watch.. and"

"You know where your son is?!" Officer Kennedy yelled. He was mad, all the time he devoted to his case and the
Captain knew where was his son all the time.

"No, the signal is being jammed.."

"But you still didn't tell me Mr. Bridger. What were you thinking?" Officer Kennedy said as his parent instincts
also kicked in. "You wanted to save him yourself didn't you?"

"I didn't want my son life to be put in anymore danger."

"I see your concern but we are here to help. Now is there anything else I should know before I leave?"

"No. That is all..."

"Good then, I promise you that we will find your son and Dayna, don't you worry..." Officer Kennedy said as he
shut the connection. Nathan placed his hands on his face and took in a big breath. He knew that the police are just
do their job but Lucas was right all along. Lawrence was responsible for Cynthia's death. Lucas knew that his
father was coming after him and was going to kill him and it was all Nathan's fault. If he only had taken Lucas
himself or had followed the teen or just locked the teen up in a room all day.. none of this would have happened.
Nathan knew that Lucas was also right about Lawrence being too smart... Lawrence managed to escape a high
protective jail, had enough time to kill off his wife and had time to plan out Lucas and Dayna's abduction. 'That's
it.' Nathan thought to himself as he got up from his seat and walked out of the room.

"Nathan?" Kristen asked Nathan as she saw him exit the room without looking at her. Nathan went towards the
dinning room table where the small device was. Nathan turned it on again and was disappointed that the signal was
still not found. Nathan set the small device down and headed towards the closet near the front door. Kristen had
seen the captain go but still had no idea what he was up to. She gasped as Nathan opened the door and pulled out
his riding jacket and his motorcycle helmet.

"Oh no you don't!" Kristen said as Nathan zipped up his jacket and walked towards the dinning room table again.
He picked up the device and walked towards the inside entrance of the garage. Kristen saw his movement and ran
towards the room so she was blocking the door. Nathan stopped and waited for Kristen to move.

"Please Nathan... please think what you are doing."

"I am thinking. I don't know what i was thinking before, I should have done what Dan Paterson did when he found
out about his daughter. Please let me go... I need to find him."

"Nathan, the police..."

"Lawrence is too smart for them, look what he has done right under their noses! Please... i will find him..." Nathan
plead to Kristen. Kristen didn't want to let the captain leave, not in his mental state but there was nothing she could
have done. The stubborn captain is a tough one to break and when it came down to Lucas, not even God himself
could stop him. Kristen stepped to one side and nodded her head in agreement. Nathan went towards her and gave
her one huge hug, almost if it was his last one he was going to give her. He whispered in her ear that he loved her
and Kristen whisper the same back to him. Nathan checked his back pocket for his cell phone and was glad that he
was carrying it. Nathan was about to tell Kristen to call him if anything came up but she just nodded her head as the
captain checked his phone. Nathan pushed the button for the garage door to open and he sat himself on the black
bike. Before putting his helmet on, he checked one last time on the locator but wasn't surprise that the signal was
still lost. Nathan put the small locator inside his jacket and began to start up the bike. He gave Kristen one last look
as he placed his helmet on.

"I will find him" Nathan said as he shut the wind guard of his helmet and took off. Nathan didn't know where he
was going but he knew that he had to look for Lucas himself. He couldn't just sit around and wait for someone else
to do the job, what kind of father that would make him? No, Nathan knew what he was doing was right and even if
he had to drive around the whole united states, he would never give up until the small locator reads- signal found.

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OK SO ITS KINDA SHORT... IM SORRY.... BUT I DO PROMISE THIS... AND TO TERESA... YOUR PAIN IS
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