The three headed into one of the stores that was still open and picked up
the stuff they needed to get through the weekend since it looked like it
was going to be a nasty one at that. It took about 20 minutes to get all
the stuff everyone needed and they all headed to the front of the store to
check out and load the bags into the car. Alex dropped off Jimmy first and
before he left said to Alex, "I'll come by after I get this stuff put up."
Alex nodded her head in response and headed to take Kim home. When they pulled up outside the complex Alex asked, "You need any help with your stuff?"
"Nah I should be fine. Bobby's probably waiting on me to help get this stuff inside." She replied, not noticing she'd accidentally left her purse in Alex's car.
"Ok, I'll see you on Monday then at work." Alex said before pulling off.
"Be careful going home and see you later." Kim replied, picking up the bags and heading in out of the cold.
When she got up to the apartment she put all the bags down and fished through her pockets for her door keys. After getting it open she picked up several bags and headed into the kitchen and put them down and went back to the door for the rest of the bags sitting in the hallway.
"Bobby, I'm back." She called as she shut the front door with her foot and headed into the kitchen to put stuff up.
After not getting a response from him she stopped putting stuff up and headed down the hall towards the nursery, thinking he was there to see what he was up to.
"Bobby?" she called; "Where are you?"
Still no one answered her calls and at first she thought he was playing some kind of practical joke on her.
"This isn't funny Bobby! Where are you?" she said, starting to get irritated.
She went back to finish putting up groceries and after that was complete began looking for him once more in the apartment. His keys and wallet still sat by the door and Keira's diaper bag was still in the nursery.
"What the hell is he doing?" Kim grumbled angrily to herself; "He could've at least left a note saying he was going somewhere."
All of a sudden the phone rang, pulling her from her thoughts. She crossed the distance of the room to answer it. No one answered when she picked it up and she was about ready to hang up, but a noise caught her attention. She focused on the sound and what she heard was the sound of her daughter crying. Her body froze as she listened to see if there were any other noises she could pick up on, but didn't hear any. "Why isn't Bobby answering?" Kim asked herself silently, worried something might have happened. Then a voice interrupted her thoughts and said, "Missing something?"
The voice on the other end registered with her brain and just about caused her to have a nervous breakdown.
"What the hell do you want!" Kim spat into the phone, infuriation starting to course through her.
"I want you that's what! So unless you want something to happen to your husband or precious daughter I suggest you obey what I tell you!" Craig sneered.
"Your ass going down for the last time you sick son of a bitch! You pushed it too far when you did this to me, but when you take two of the most important things in my life and try and pull the same shit, your damn cowardly ass will pay!" she hissed angrily.
"You'd better calm down unless you want me to take it out on your husband!" Craig warned, signaling Tony to punch Bobby in the stomach to prove he wasn't joking.
She heard Bobby's painful groan when Tony's fist connected with his stomach, which tormented her to no end.
"You'd better listen carefully and do as we say or everything you do wrong will be taken out on your husband! Do you understand?" Craig asked.
"Yes," she replied weakly, trying to avoid crying at that moment.
"What was that? I couldn't hear you." Craig taunted, enjoying torturing her like this.
"Yes damn it. Now leave me alone!" she practically screamed into the phone.
Craig smiled and gave her instructions to meet at a warehouse in three hours alone and hung up the phone. She was frozen in the spot she'd stood in to answer the phone, unable to believe that the damn bastard had kidnapped her husband and daughter. The sound of the dial tone on the phone pulled her from her shocked thoughts and replaced the phone on in the charging cradle. She slumped down onto the couch trembling at the thought of what Craig could be doing to her husband and daughter. Two hours later she still sat numbly on the couch as tears made their way down her face when a sudden knock at her door scared her half to death. She slowly headed towards the door and cracked it a bit seeing Jimmy on the other side.
"What do you want Jimmy?" she said softly, unable to think of anything other than Bobby and Keira.
"You left your purse in Alex's car so she had me bring it back over to you," he replied, noticing her tear streaked face; "Kimmy what's wrong?"
She couldn't formulate the words to tell him what had happened so instead, she undid the locks and let him in and slumped back down on the couch trembling. He had no clue what had put her in this state, but took a seat beside her on the couch and asked gently, "Something's not right. What's wrong?"
Just then the phone rang causing her to jump in fright.
"Relax Kimmy it's just the phone. Let the machine take a message. What's got you so upset?" he asked, wondering what on earth had happened.
Just as she was ready to speak, a voice came over the machine as the message was recorded.
"Don't forget Kimmy. One hour at the warehouse." Craig sneered, Keira's frightened cries could still be heard in the background which brought fresh tears to Kim's eyes.
Jimmy finally had figured out what had upset her after listening to the message come through the machine and put two and two together.
"Calm down, we'll get them back unharmed," he said softly, trying to make her feel better; "Go get ready and get some stuff for Keira, I'm taking you to wherever this freak told you to meet."
She got up in a daze and got the diaper bag together and even packed a first aid kit incase it was needed and got herself ready.
While she was gone, Jimmy called Alex to let her know what had happened. She heard the phone ringing and was relieved when she heard Jimmy's voice on the other end.
"Where are you?" she asked worriedly.
"I'm still at Kim's. Craig took Bobby and Keira this evening, that's why I'm still here. She's a total wreck right now." He said softly.
"He what!" Alex exclaimed; "How are we going to get them back?"
"He gave Kim instructions on where to meet so I'm going to take her since she isn't in any condition to be driving right now." He replied.
"Whatever you do, just be careful. We all know how unpredictable and unstable he is." Alex said, concern hinting in her voice.
"Don't worry. I'll be careful. If I need any help I'll call you back." He replied, seeing Kim coming back down the hall.
"Ok," Alex replied worriedly, she couldn't imagine the mind frame Kim must be in at the moment. With that freak having both Bobby and her daughter she's probably on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
The two headed outside and took the Explorer since it had Keira's car seat all ready fastened in. Jimmy saw the anger hatred and fury building in Kim as they neared the location Craig had told her to meet at.
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" he asked.
"Probably not, but at this point that's the least of my worries right now." She replied getting out of the car.
Jimmy grabbed her arm and said, "What ever you do, be careful in there."
"I will." She replied softly, closing the door after he'd released her arm.
The door to the warehouse was wide open, but no lights were on. She slowly and cautiously made her way towards the building. Ever so slowly she slipped into the darkness of the warehouse and slowly moved forwards. Once she was a good distance away from the door, Craig went a forcefully slammed the door causing her to jump. She could hear her heart pounding in her ears and had to force herself to calm her breathing down. There was no noise at all in the building until an evil laugh filled the air, resonating off the walls. Lights suddenly came on behind her and she slowly turned around seeing Craig standing about seven feet away from her.
Jimmy had been waiting outside in the car and decided to take a look around the building. He looked through a window and saw Kim staring down Craig, a look of pure hatred visible on her features. He looked around at the containers near the window and saw barrels of gasoline, a lot of boxes of explosives and unmarked barrels probably full of some kind of additional accelerant.
"Shit, if this place goes up, its gonna look like the fourth of July!" he said silently as he ran back to the Explorer to call Alex.
Alex was sitting nervously on the couch with the phone beside her incase he called back. She'd just gotten up to go get something to drink when the phone rang. When she answered she heard Jimmy on the other line, nervousness showing in his voice as he spoke.
"Alex, go down to the station and see if any of the guys are still there." He said urgently.
"Why? What's wrong?" she replied wondering what was going on.
"Craig's got the building surrounded by barrels of gasoline, boxes of explosives and some unmarked barrels of some unknown liquid. I was going to wait out here but I'm going to try and find a way in the back and see if I can't get the baby out of there." He said in response.
"Just be careful. We don't know what else he could have done to the building." Alex replied worriedly.
"I will. You wouldn't happen to have your pager handy would you?" he asked.
"Yeah I do. I just put new batteries in it like 10 minutes ago." She replied.
"Keep it on you. If things take a turn for the worse I'll page you." Jimmy said, glancing towards the building. "If you get the page get all the guys from the station as well as some of the cops down here as fast as you can."
She wrote down the address to where he was at and knew he was probably terrified after seeing all the stuff Craig had in the building. She quickly turned off the lights in her house and grabbed her car keys and headed back to the firehouse. Jimmy turned his cell phone off and put it back in his pocket and shut the driver's side door to the Explorer and headed around to the back of the warehouse to see if there was a back entrance. Alex arrived at the station and parked her car and much to her relief found D.K, Walsh and Lombardo still there talking.
"Alex, what on earth are you doing here?" D.K asked.
"Jimmy told me to come back down here because we might be needed later. Craig's got Bobby and Keira and Jimmy took Kim to where the ass hole told her to meet him and just called me and told me the place is packed with barrels of gasoline and explosives." Alex said, sitting down with the other 3 fire fighters.
"Shit, this will probably push Kim over the edge and when she gets her hands on Craig will probably be ready to kill him." Lombardo replied.
"Oh no doubt. He's put her through hell and back and now this, I would have killed him a long time ago." Alex said, putting her pager on the table.
"What's with the pager?" Walsh asked.
"If things take a turn for the worse Jimmy's going to page me and it will be up to us to get to the address Jimmy gave me." Alex replied.
Alex nodded her head in response and headed to take Kim home. When they pulled up outside the complex Alex asked, "You need any help with your stuff?"
"Nah I should be fine. Bobby's probably waiting on me to help get this stuff inside." She replied, not noticing she'd accidentally left her purse in Alex's car.
"Ok, I'll see you on Monday then at work." Alex said before pulling off.
"Be careful going home and see you later." Kim replied, picking up the bags and heading in out of the cold.
When she got up to the apartment she put all the bags down and fished through her pockets for her door keys. After getting it open she picked up several bags and headed into the kitchen and put them down and went back to the door for the rest of the bags sitting in the hallway.
"Bobby, I'm back." She called as she shut the front door with her foot and headed into the kitchen to put stuff up.
After not getting a response from him she stopped putting stuff up and headed down the hall towards the nursery, thinking he was there to see what he was up to.
"Bobby?" she called; "Where are you?"
Still no one answered her calls and at first she thought he was playing some kind of practical joke on her.
"This isn't funny Bobby! Where are you?" she said, starting to get irritated.
She went back to finish putting up groceries and after that was complete began looking for him once more in the apartment. His keys and wallet still sat by the door and Keira's diaper bag was still in the nursery.
"What the hell is he doing?" Kim grumbled angrily to herself; "He could've at least left a note saying he was going somewhere."
All of a sudden the phone rang, pulling her from her thoughts. She crossed the distance of the room to answer it. No one answered when she picked it up and she was about ready to hang up, but a noise caught her attention. She focused on the sound and what she heard was the sound of her daughter crying. Her body froze as she listened to see if there were any other noises she could pick up on, but didn't hear any. "Why isn't Bobby answering?" Kim asked herself silently, worried something might have happened. Then a voice interrupted her thoughts and said, "Missing something?"
The voice on the other end registered with her brain and just about caused her to have a nervous breakdown.
"What the hell do you want!" Kim spat into the phone, infuriation starting to course through her.
"I want you that's what! So unless you want something to happen to your husband or precious daughter I suggest you obey what I tell you!" Craig sneered.
"Your ass going down for the last time you sick son of a bitch! You pushed it too far when you did this to me, but when you take two of the most important things in my life and try and pull the same shit, your damn cowardly ass will pay!" she hissed angrily.
"You'd better calm down unless you want me to take it out on your husband!" Craig warned, signaling Tony to punch Bobby in the stomach to prove he wasn't joking.
She heard Bobby's painful groan when Tony's fist connected with his stomach, which tormented her to no end.
"You'd better listen carefully and do as we say or everything you do wrong will be taken out on your husband! Do you understand?" Craig asked.
"Yes," she replied weakly, trying to avoid crying at that moment.
"What was that? I couldn't hear you." Craig taunted, enjoying torturing her like this.
"Yes damn it. Now leave me alone!" she practically screamed into the phone.
Craig smiled and gave her instructions to meet at a warehouse in three hours alone and hung up the phone. She was frozen in the spot she'd stood in to answer the phone, unable to believe that the damn bastard had kidnapped her husband and daughter. The sound of the dial tone on the phone pulled her from her shocked thoughts and replaced the phone on in the charging cradle. She slumped down onto the couch trembling at the thought of what Craig could be doing to her husband and daughter. Two hours later she still sat numbly on the couch as tears made their way down her face when a sudden knock at her door scared her half to death. She slowly headed towards the door and cracked it a bit seeing Jimmy on the other side.
"What do you want Jimmy?" she said softly, unable to think of anything other than Bobby and Keira.
"You left your purse in Alex's car so she had me bring it back over to you," he replied, noticing her tear streaked face; "Kimmy what's wrong?"
She couldn't formulate the words to tell him what had happened so instead, she undid the locks and let him in and slumped back down on the couch trembling. He had no clue what had put her in this state, but took a seat beside her on the couch and asked gently, "Something's not right. What's wrong?"
Just then the phone rang causing her to jump in fright.
"Relax Kimmy it's just the phone. Let the machine take a message. What's got you so upset?" he asked, wondering what on earth had happened.
Just as she was ready to speak, a voice came over the machine as the message was recorded.
"Don't forget Kimmy. One hour at the warehouse." Craig sneered, Keira's frightened cries could still be heard in the background which brought fresh tears to Kim's eyes.
Jimmy finally had figured out what had upset her after listening to the message come through the machine and put two and two together.
"Calm down, we'll get them back unharmed," he said softly, trying to make her feel better; "Go get ready and get some stuff for Keira, I'm taking you to wherever this freak told you to meet."
She got up in a daze and got the diaper bag together and even packed a first aid kit incase it was needed and got herself ready.
While she was gone, Jimmy called Alex to let her know what had happened. She heard the phone ringing and was relieved when she heard Jimmy's voice on the other end.
"Where are you?" she asked worriedly.
"I'm still at Kim's. Craig took Bobby and Keira this evening, that's why I'm still here. She's a total wreck right now." He said softly.
"He what!" Alex exclaimed; "How are we going to get them back?"
"He gave Kim instructions on where to meet so I'm going to take her since she isn't in any condition to be driving right now." He replied.
"Whatever you do, just be careful. We all know how unpredictable and unstable he is." Alex said, concern hinting in her voice.
"Don't worry. I'll be careful. If I need any help I'll call you back." He replied, seeing Kim coming back down the hall.
"Ok," Alex replied worriedly, she couldn't imagine the mind frame Kim must be in at the moment. With that freak having both Bobby and her daughter she's probably on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
The two headed outside and took the Explorer since it had Keira's car seat all ready fastened in. Jimmy saw the anger hatred and fury building in Kim as they neared the location Craig had told her to meet at.
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" he asked.
"Probably not, but at this point that's the least of my worries right now." She replied getting out of the car.
Jimmy grabbed her arm and said, "What ever you do, be careful in there."
"I will." She replied softly, closing the door after he'd released her arm.
The door to the warehouse was wide open, but no lights were on. She slowly and cautiously made her way towards the building. Ever so slowly she slipped into the darkness of the warehouse and slowly moved forwards. Once she was a good distance away from the door, Craig went a forcefully slammed the door causing her to jump. She could hear her heart pounding in her ears and had to force herself to calm her breathing down. There was no noise at all in the building until an evil laugh filled the air, resonating off the walls. Lights suddenly came on behind her and she slowly turned around seeing Craig standing about seven feet away from her.
Jimmy had been waiting outside in the car and decided to take a look around the building. He looked through a window and saw Kim staring down Craig, a look of pure hatred visible on her features. He looked around at the containers near the window and saw barrels of gasoline, a lot of boxes of explosives and unmarked barrels probably full of some kind of additional accelerant.
"Shit, if this place goes up, its gonna look like the fourth of July!" he said silently as he ran back to the Explorer to call Alex.
Alex was sitting nervously on the couch with the phone beside her incase he called back. She'd just gotten up to go get something to drink when the phone rang. When she answered she heard Jimmy on the other line, nervousness showing in his voice as he spoke.
"Alex, go down to the station and see if any of the guys are still there." He said urgently.
"Why? What's wrong?" she replied wondering what was going on.
"Craig's got the building surrounded by barrels of gasoline, boxes of explosives and some unmarked barrels of some unknown liquid. I was going to wait out here but I'm going to try and find a way in the back and see if I can't get the baby out of there." He said in response.
"Just be careful. We don't know what else he could have done to the building." Alex replied worriedly.
"I will. You wouldn't happen to have your pager handy would you?" he asked.
"Yeah I do. I just put new batteries in it like 10 minutes ago." She replied.
"Keep it on you. If things take a turn for the worse I'll page you." Jimmy said, glancing towards the building. "If you get the page get all the guys from the station as well as some of the cops down here as fast as you can."
She wrote down the address to where he was at and knew he was probably terrified after seeing all the stuff Craig had in the building. She quickly turned off the lights in her house and grabbed her car keys and headed back to the firehouse. Jimmy turned his cell phone off and put it back in his pocket and shut the driver's side door to the Explorer and headed around to the back of the warehouse to see if there was a back entrance. Alex arrived at the station and parked her car and much to her relief found D.K, Walsh and Lombardo still there talking.
"Alex, what on earth are you doing here?" D.K asked.
"Jimmy told me to come back down here because we might be needed later. Craig's got Bobby and Keira and Jimmy took Kim to where the ass hole told her to meet him and just called me and told me the place is packed with barrels of gasoline and explosives." Alex said, sitting down with the other 3 fire fighters.
"Shit, this will probably push Kim over the edge and when she gets her hands on Craig will probably be ready to kill him." Lombardo replied.
"Oh no doubt. He's put her through hell and back and now this, I would have killed him a long time ago." Alex said, putting her pager on the table.
"What's with the pager?" Walsh asked.
"If things take a turn for the worse Jimmy's going to page me and it will be up to us to get to the address Jimmy gave me." Alex replied.