"Bobby! Go now!" Alex screamed as the glass rained down on them.
He reluctantly obeyed and headed down the fire escape, Alex following close behind him.
After they'd both gotten down to the ground, Bobby was visually scanning the building while Alex talked to Jimmy.
"Alex, what the hell was he doing?" Jimmy asked quietly as he looked at what he was doing.
"Trying to find Kim." Alex replied softly.
"What!" Jimmy half yelled; "Is she still in there?"
"I guess, we couldn't find her anywhere on the fourth floor since that's where we found her jacket." Alex replied, seeing the look of fear in Jimmy's eyes.
Just then D.K came up to Jimmy and told him the entrance was clear and that the ladder trucks were sending people in. He also told him that the seventh floor was now a raging inferno. Jimmy had D.K to get people together to go in and try and locate Kim on the fourth floor. Alex had gotten Bobby over to his rig and got him on oxygen since he'd taken in so much smoke. A low rumbling sound was heard coming from the building when several floors came crashing down, before any of the firefighters had entered luckily. Everyone pulled back as the dust settled from where several floors had caved in.
Bobby just about lost it when he watched the floors come down; fearing Kim was somewhere inside the building. He was about ready to jump past Alex when she blocked his path and wouldn't let him up.
"Please Alex, I've got to find her." He managed to get out in a pleading voice before starting another coughing spell.
"It's not safe Bobby I can't let you do that. You've got to keep the mask on where you took in so much smoke the first time you were in there." Alex said, hating to do this to him but it was for his own good.
"I'll never forgive myself if something happens to her." He said vanquished, looking over at Alex's sorrowful expression.
"I'm sure she's fine Bobby. We would have found her if she were in there." Alex said trying to get him to think positively.
"Then where is she? She wouldn't run off for no reason, you should know that." Bobby said in a saddened tone.
Alex saw the tears in Bobby's eyes, knowing that he was probably fearing the worst at this point after watching several floors come down.
Not too far away, Kim sat tied up and gagged in the back seat of a car, forced to watch what was being played out before her. She knew that Bobby probably thought she was still inside the building and it killed her to think about how distraught he must be. Tears began to spill down her cheeks at what must be going through his head when the person who had kidnapped her turned around and said, "What the hell are you crying for?"
She tried to talk, but all that came out of her mouth were garbled sounds. Her captor laughed and snapped, "If you think I'm ungagging you forget it!"
Her abductor put a rag over her mouth and nose and let the drugs take effect before pulling away from the fire so she wouldn't know where she was being taken. Craig now had two accomplices helping him, his cousin Marc who was from California and his friend Tony, who really isn't all that bright but thinks being in on stuff like this makes him look macho. Craig got out of the car after the drugs had taken effect and Marc got behind the wheel of the car with Tony sitting in the passenger seat. When they arrived at the old run down building by the river, they waited as Craig told them to till he arrived just to make sure the coast was clear. Darkness had fallen when Craig arrived, spotting Marc's car beside the building and moved to help them get Kim situated inside since the drugs had long since wore off. While she'd been out of it they got a blindfold over her eyes so when she came too she wouldn't know where she was.
She heard the door open and felt someone grab a hold of her and pull her towards the open door and immediately fought back. It took both Craig and Marc to restrain her enough to where they could carry her into the building. Tony shut the doors on the car and followed them into the building, locking the doors behind him and following them into the boarded up building. She felt three pairs of hands firmly press her back against some type of column of sorts and heard duct tape being pulled off a roll to securely restrain her. They started with her ankles wrapping the tape tightly around the column to keep her from being able to break loose. She couldn't kick free while they were restraining her due to the hands holding her legs still. One person had a vice-like grip on her shoulders, keeping her upper body from moving. Once her legs were securely fastened, they forced her bound wrists above her head and wrapped the duct tape over the ropes and around the column like they did with her ankles.
Bobby sat in one of the exam rooms of the ER, waiting for the results of the blood work that were done to see if there were any poisonous byproducts from the smoke in his lungs as well as checking the oxygen saturation. His blood pressure and respiration rates were being monitored while he took in humidified 100% oxygen till the blood work came back. The x-rays of his lungs showed no pulmonary edema (fluid in the lungs) so all he could do was sit and wait for the lab work to come back and wonder what had happened to Kim. He lay on the gurney and briefly closed his eyes, trying to relax while he took in the oxygen but every time he closed his eyes he saw Kim going limp as someone pulled her away from the window at the fire. He sat up and hung his head sadly, looking at the wedding band on his finger and sighed deeply, fearing the worst for Kim after he'd watched several floors collapse. He heard the door to the room open and saw Alex come in.
"Hey, you feeling any better?" she asked softly as she headed towards where he was.
She saw the look of sadness and despair in his eyes as he looked up at her and weakly replied back to her, "It's easier for me to breathe but I won't feel any better till I know that Kim is ok."
Alex stood next to him and said; "If she was still on the fourth floor we would have found her. She had to have gotten out one way or another."
"But what if she didn't Alex?" Bobby asked, his voice cracking at the thought; "How am I supposed to break that news to her mother and Joey?"
"Don't think like that. She's too strong a person not to have gotten out of there before the floors gave way. She has you, Joey and Keira to live for, she would fight till the end to be there for all of you." Alex said, trying to give him a sliver of hope to hold onto that Kim was fine.
Several hours later the blood work had come back, the doctor reviewed the results before coming in. Alex picked up both his jacket and Kim's and moved it to another chair so she could sit down. When she moved Kim's jacket though she felt something in one of the pockets. She removed a piece of paper and slipped it into her pocket and sat down and tried to ease Bobby's fears about what had happened to Kim, but she knew the only way to do that would be if she was found. Five minutes later the doctor knocked on the door of the room with the results of the lab work. Alex got up and left and stood outside the room and slipped her hand into her pocket, removing the paper that had been folded in the pocket of Kim's jacket.
She unfolded the paper and her breath caught in her throat as her eyes scanned over the type written letter.
How does it feel to be alone, feel like you're going under yet? You
will. We'll definitely have some fun with her that's for sure. And
just think, there's nothing you can do to stop us.
Jimmy looked up from the waiting room and saw Alex step out of the room and open a piece of paper. A horrified expression crossed her face as she looked in at Bobby and then back to the letter. Jimmy moved over to where she was standing and said softly, "Alex, what's wrong?"
Alex couldn't speak after reading the contents of the paper and passed it to Jimmy, feeling her legs going weak. He quickly wrapped an arm around her waist and helped her back to the waiting room and sat her down, he took a seat next to her and unfolded the paper she'd put into his hands. As his eyes scanned the contents he couldn't believe what he was reading and had to read it once more to make sure he was seeing what he thought he saw typed. He silently cursed under his breath as he felt rage building at the contents of the letter.
Alex looked at his expression and said softly, "One of us should call her mother or go over and tell her in person."
"Yeah, and one of us still has to tell Bobby." Jimmy replied, looking over at Alex.
"Do you want to break it to her mother since Joey is over there? Although I imagine he'd probably be in bed at this hour." Alex asked.
"That's fine, it might be best if it was me that broke it to her since we don't know if they are going to release Bobby or let him go home." Jimmy replied, standing up to head to his ex-mother in law's home.
Alex sat in the waiting room, dreading having to tell Bobby that Kim had been kidnapped. Granted it was a relief to know she wasn't dead but still, not knowing who had her or if she's ok really isn't all that comforting. Fifteen minutes after Jimmy had left the doctor cleared Bobby to go home, but told him he should take it easy the next couple of days at work and to avoid contact with smoke for a while to make sure his lungs healed properly. Alex looked up when she heard footsteps and saw Bobby headed towards her carrying both his and Kim's paramedic jackets.
As Bobby left the room, he saw Alex sitting in one of the waiting room chairs with her eyes on the floor, tears glistening in the corners of her eyes as she held a piece of white paper in her hand. As he neared where she sat he asked softly, "Alex, what's wrong?"
Dread built up in her stomach when she heard Bobby's voice.
"Let's go outside and I'll tell you." she replied softly as she stood up.
He reluctantly obeyed and headed down the fire escape, Alex following close behind him.
After they'd both gotten down to the ground, Bobby was visually scanning the building while Alex talked to Jimmy.
"Alex, what the hell was he doing?" Jimmy asked quietly as he looked at what he was doing.
"Trying to find Kim." Alex replied softly.
"What!" Jimmy half yelled; "Is she still in there?"
"I guess, we couldn't find her anywhere on the fourth floor since that's where we found her jacket." Alex replied, seeing the look of fear in Jimmy's eyes.
Just then D.K came up to Jimmy and told him the entrance was clear and that the ladder trucks were sending people in. He also told him that the seventh floor was now a raging inferno. Jimmy had D.K to get people together to go in and try and locate Kim on the fourth floor. Alex had gotten Bobby over to his rig and got him on oxygen since he'd taken in so much smoke. A low rumbling sound was heard coming from the building when several floors came crashing down, before any of the firefighters had entered luckily. Everyone pulled back as the dust settled from where several floors had caved in.
Bobby just about lost it when he watched the floors come down; fearing Kim was somewhere inside the building. He was about ready to jump past Alex when she blocked his path and wouldn't let him up.
"Please Alex, I've got to find her." He managed to get out in a pleading voice before starting another coughing spell.
"It's not safe Bobby I can't let you do that. You've got to keep the mask on where you took in so much smoke the first time you were in there." Alex said, hating to do this to him but it was for his own good.
"I'll never forgive myself if something happens to her." He said vanquished, looking over at Alex's sorrowful expression.
"I'm sure she's fine Bobby. We would have found her if she were in there." Alex said trying to get him to think positively.
"Then where is she? She wouldn't run off for no reason, you should know that." Bobby said in a saddened tone.
Alex saw the tears in Bobby's eyes, knowing that he was probably fearing the worst at this point after watching several floors come down.
Not too far away, Kim sat tied up and gagged in the back seat of a car, forced to watch what was being played out before her. She knew that Bobby probably thought she was still inside the building and it killed her to think about how distraught he must be. Tears began to spill down her cheeks at what must be going through his head when the person who had kidnapped her turned around and said, "What the hell are you crying for?"
She tried to talk, but all that came out of her mouth were garbled sounds. Her captor laughed and snapped, "If you think I'm ungagging you forget it!"
Her abductor put a rag over her mouth and nose and let the drugs take effect before pulling away from the fire so she wouldn't know where she was being taken. Craig now had two accomplices helping him, his cousin Marc who was from California and his friend Tony, who really isn't all that bright but thinks being in on stuff like this makes him look macho. Craig got out of the car after the drugs had taken effect and Marc got behind the wheel of the car with Tony sitting in the passenger seat. When they arrived at the old run down building by the river, they waited as Craig told them to till he arrived just to make sure the coast was clear. Darkness had fallen when Craig arrived, spotting Marc's car beside the building and moved to help them get Kim situated inside since the drugs had long since wore off. While she'd been out of it they got a blindfold over her eyes so when she came too she wouldn't know where she was.
She heard the door open and felt someone grab a hold of her and pull her towards the open door and immediately fought back. It took both Craig and Marc to restrain her enough to where they could carry her into the building. Tony shut the doors on the car and followed them into the building, locking the doors behind him and following them into the boarded up building. She felt three pairs of hands firmly press her back against some type of column of sorts and heard duct tape being pulled off a roll to securely restrain her. They started with her ankles wrapping the tape tightly around the column to keep her from being able to break loose. She couldn't kick free while they were restraining her due to the hands holding her legs still. One person had a vice-like grip on her shoulders, keeping her upper body from moving. Once her legs were securely fastened, they forced her bound wrists above her head and wrapped the duct tape over the ropes and around the column like they did with her ankles.
Bobby sat in one of the exam rooms of the ER, waiting for the results of the blood work that were done to see if there were any poisonous byproducts from the smoke in his lungs as well as checking the oxygen saturation. His blood pressure and respiration rates were being monitored while he took in humidified 100% oxygen till the blood work came back. The x-rays of his lungs showed no pulmonary edema (fluid in the lungs) so all he could do was sit and wait for the lab work to come back and wonder what had happened to Kim. He lay on the gurney and briefly closed his eyes, trying to relax while he took in the oxygen but every time he closed his eyes he saw Kim going limp as someone pulled her away from the window at the fire. He sat up and hung his head sadly, looking at the wedding band on his finger and sighed deeply, fearing the worst for Kim after he'd watched several floors collapse. He heard the door to the room open and saw Alex come in.
"Hey, you feeling any better?" she asked softly as she headed towards where he was.
She saw the look of sadness and despair in his eyes as he looked up at her and weakly replied back to her, "It's easier for me to breathe but I won't feel any better till I know that Kim is ok."
Alex stood next to him and said; "If she was still on the fourth floor we would have found her. She had to have gotten out one way or another."
"But what if she didn't Alex?" Bobby asked, his voice cracking at the thought; "How am I supposed to break that news to her mother and Joey?"
"Don't think like that. She's too strong a person not to have gotten out of there before the floors gave way. She has you, Joey and Keira to live for, she would fight till the end to be there for all of you." Alex said, trying to give him a sliver of hope to hold onto that Kim was fine.
Several hours later the blood work had come back, the doctor reviewed the results before coming in. Alex picked up both his jacket and Kim's and moved it to another chair so she could sit down. When she moved Kim's jacket though she felt something in one of the pockets. She removed a piece of paper and slipped it into her pocket and sat down and tried to ease Bobby's fears about what had happened to Kim, but she knew the only way to do that would be if she was found. Five minutes later the doctor knocked on the door of the room with the results of the lab work. Alex got up and left and stood outside the room and slipped her hand into her pocket, removing the paper that had been folded in the pocket of Kim's jacket.
She unfolded the paper and her breath caught in her throat as her eyes scanned over the type written letter.
How does it feel to be alone, feel like you're going under yet? You
will. We'll definitely have some fun with her that's for sure. And
just think, there's nothing you can do to stop us.
Jimmy looked up from the waiting room and saw Alex step out of the room and open a piece of paper. A horrified expression crossed her face as she looked in at Bobby and then back to the letter. Jimmy moved over to where she was standing and said softly, "Alex, what's wrong?"
Alex couldn't speak after reading the contents of the paper and passed it to Jimmy, feeling her legs going weak. He quickly wrapped an arm around her waist and helped her back to the waiting room and sat her down, he took a seat next to her and unfolded the paper she'd put into his hands. As his eyes scanned the contents he couldn't believe what he was reading and had to read it once more to make sure he was seeing what he thought he saw typed. He silently cursed under his breath as he felt rage building at the contents of the letter.
Alex looked at his expression and said softly, "One of us should call her mother or go over and tell her in person."
"Yeah, and one of us still has to tell Bobby." Jimmy replied, looking over at Alex.
"Do you want to break it to her mother since Joey is over there? Although I imagine he'd probably be in bed at this hour." Alex asked.
"That's fine, it might be best if it was me that broke it to her since we don't know if they are going to release Bobby or let him go home." Jimmy replied, standing up to head to his ex-mother in law's home.
Alex sat in the waiting room, dreading having to tell Bobby that Kim had been kidnapped. Granted it was a relief to know she wasn't dead but still, not knowing who had her or if she's ok really isn't all that comforting. Fifteen minutes after Jimmy had left the doctor cleared Bobby to go home, but told him he should take it easy the next couple of days at work and to avoid contact with smoke for a while to make sure his lungs healed properly. Alex looked up when she heard footsteps and saw Bobby headed towards her carrying both his and Kim's paramedic jackets.
As Bobby left the room, he saw Alex sitting in one of the waiting room chairs with her eyes on the floor, tears glistening in the corners of her eyes as she held a piece of white paper in her hand. As he neared where she sat he asked softly, "Alex, what's wrong?"
Dread built up in her stomach when she heard Bobby's voice.
"Let's go outside and I'll tell you." she replied softly as she stood up.