Ok, still writing. I've got my story kind of out of order, I'll fix it though. Oh, and I keep forgetting to say that whole thing about not owning anything and stuff. So yeah, none of the characters are mine, but I wish they were.

Ric was half-awake when he was dragged into Alcazar's compound. He blinked and tried to pull himself free of the two lackeys.

"Ric…" Alcazar said warningly, and Ric heard a gun click. "If you try that again, I will kill you." Ric looked up and saw Alcazar hovering in front of him holding a gun.

"Don't worry Alcazar, I'm sure Faith Roscoe should be showing up soon. She'll clear up this little misunderstanding." Ric spat sarcastically. Alcazar frowned, and was about to answer when a knock on the door interrupted.

"Faith Roscoe, open the door Alcazar!" Alcazar cursed under his breath and motioned his men away.

"Get Lansing out of here now. Put him in the panic room. Now." Alcazar said in a low voice looking at the door. The lackeys nodded and pushed Ric down the hall.

"Faith Roscoe with the CIA. Open up Alcazar!" Faith shouted. Alcazar opened the door with his usual smugness. "Where is he?" She pushed through the doorway. "Do I have to search the whole place or are you going to make both our lives easier and tell me?" Alcazar gestured at the room.

"Ms. Roscoe, I didn't kidnap Ric Lansing, you're just wasting time." "Ms. Roscoe," he continued, "have you even bothered questioning Sonny Corinthos. You know there isn't any love between them." Faith shook her head trying not to smile.

"Oh yes we have, and Agent Matthews searched his house. But Sonny did tell us that whatever happened to Ric, you're responsible for." Alcazar's smile wavered slightly.

"Go ahead. By all means search the entire premise. You won't find him." He said more loudly. "Search the whole place, he won't be anywhere." He added putting emphasis on the word won't.

"You bastard," she hissed. "I will kill you personally if…" Alcazar leaned closer, his smug smirk gone.

"Listen Faith. I want you to leave, unless you'd rather wake up tomorrow with the headline 'CIA agent found dead.'" Faith turned and left slamming the door behind her.

"Sir! Lansing got away!" Dillon shouted.

"What?" Alcazar growled as he stormed to the panic room. Dillon was waiting, awkwardly holding his gun.

"Ric Lansing, he somehow got Ruiz's gun and shot him. I don't know, it happened so fast." Alcazar pushed him out of the way and snatched the gun.

"You get someone up here, avoid Faith, and God damn it, stop looking so panicked." Alcazar ordered.

Ric was surprised at how easily scared the Quartermaine kid was. Just a few lines about the consequences of kidnapping a government agent, and he had been willing to kill Alcazar just to clear his own name. Even better, was that Alcazar actually bought his horrible story. Now if Dillon was doing his part, Faith Roscoe should be showing up with half of Port Charles's CIA and Alcazar's men should be following Dillon on a wild goose chase.

Ric edged closer to the wall and glanced around the corner.

"Hello Ric." Alcazar said cheerfully. Ric straightened as he felt the gun barrel on the back of his head. "Sorry to mess up your little escape." Alcazar turned serious. "Now drop the gun Lansing." Ric complied, his hand shaking with fury.

"Now what?" Ric asked bitterly. Alcazar cocked the gun as Ric waited for the shot. Alcazar took the gun away slowly.

"You haven't told me where Daddy is, I can't kill you now." "Quartermaine! Take Lansing back, and Dillon, don't let him out again." He turned back to Ric half-smiling. "We'll talk later. I've got to drop in on your brother. It seems he thinks that I killed you, and the diamond is all his."

Faith saw Alcazar come out of the building and head towards her car. "Shit." She said under her breath as she peeled out, expecting gunshots the entire time. She stopped a block away where she could still see Lorenzo Alcazar. Instead of calling his men, he simply continued on to his car. "Where are you going?" She said aloud.