Love, Friendship and Pain

Disclaimer: I own only Terri, Shirley and Tom. Everyone else is owned by the WWE.I would love to own Shane Helms, but as of yet, he won't let me!! LOL

Chapter 18 - A Ray of Hope

Matt, Amy, Jeff, Shirley and Rob were sitting in the living room going over their results when they heard Shane yell, "I've got something!" He came tearing down the stairs with one of Terri's journals in his hand. The group could see he had been crying again, but they could also see the look of excitement on his face.

"Terri wrote a description of one of their trips to the cabin, including some highway numbers and road names. It should at least narrow our search!" he told them

This small glimmer of hope sent the group of friends into a frenzy, searching the maps for the roads that Terri had listed. Finally after fifteen minutes they had narrowed their search to a twenty square mile radius.

"Now that I have an area let me run a search on land deeds and property ownership for Tom's name." Rob said running to the computer.

"Wait!" Shirley said, "Tom seems too smart for that. Print off a list of all property owners from that area - he may have used his parents name or something like that."

"Great idea! Give me a minute!" Rob said

Within minutes the group was collectively going over lists of names searching for any clue.

"No!" Jeff said softly, "He couldn't be that stupid!"

"What are you talking about?" Matt asked

"I found a cabin that looks like it is pretty isolated, but the name on the property isn't Tom's." he replied, "It's Terri's!"

Part 2

A short time later the group was just about to land in an airfield ten miles from the location of the cabin. They had contacted the local police, and were told that officers would meet them at the entry road to the cabin.

"It has to be it." Shane said hopefully, "Please God let her be o.k.!"

"We will get there in time Shane!" Matt said reassuringly but thought, 'we had better get there in time or it will kill him!'