Harm stopped and looked up at the TVs in the bullpen along with the other members of JAG.

"…Reports tonight that Navy Sea Captain Josephine Gallagher is still missing after her abduction two nights ago. Captain Gallagher was a teacher and well respected by her colleagues. The Navy is considering bringing in help from the FBI to aid in the search for Captain Gallagher. Anyone with information is being urged to come forward…" the reporter droned on into other news.

"Still missing huh." Mac said. Harm nodded.

"They'll find her." Harm said.

"I think it was Landau." She said.

"So do I." He said. "And I'm sure if we think that, the police and the Navy investigators are looking into it."

"Yeh," Mac nodded and sighed. "I'll see you Monday." She said. He nodded. That night Harm wandered along the docks beside the Jolly Rodger.

"You think you might find something the leagues of trained investigators missed?" Someone said making Harm spin around.

"Mac, what are you doing here?"

"Looking for something the leagues of trained investigators missed." She said. "I had a sudden thought." She said holding up the radio. "The police profile for these sorts of abductions say that it's likely that the victim is close by where he or she was taken from."

"You've been doing some research?" Harm asked. Mac nodded.

"I did my best to put together what must have happened." She said. "It must have been someone she knew. According to the police reports there's no sign of a struggle."

"Someone could've snuck up behind her and knocked her out."

"No one could sneak up on her. She said herself that she's got good ears. She would've heard whoever it was and made some sort of fuss over her radio. She was talking to whoever took her. She was hit with something, one hard knock out blow using a fire extinguisher or something. She was average height and build, but she could easily have been carried away. There are cameras at both the entrances where you can get a car onto these docks and there's nothing there, so she was carried. The car park is too far she couldn't've been carried that far."

"You're about the same size she is." Harm said. "I could carry you that far. But the thing is someone would see me, and there's a security camera in the car park anyway."

"So she wasn't driven out of here." Mac said making her point. "So she'd have to be in one of these warehouses on this dock. Between that entrance and the one at the other end of this dock.

"That's about fifty warehouses. And you're forgetting that it's been three days. She could easily have been moved in that time. Plus the fact that this dock extends back to the yard with all the shipping containers in it. They've canvassed this entire area and found nothing." Harm said.

"I thought you were the optimist and I was the cynic."

"I am." Harm nodded. "But I can't be optimistic against good hard police work. Every warehouse has been searched, every shipping container has been thermally scanned for body heat. She's not here, if she is, she's not alive." He said.

"Joey, can you hear me." Mac said into the radio. "Joey, are you there?" Her only response was complete silence. "Joey, if you're hearing this and can't respond, we're searching, we'll find you." She said. "We will."

"I'm sorry Mac." Harm said. They started to walk back to their cars.

"I never told you about the conversation she and I had did I." Mac said. "After Landau was discharged, I went and told her what'd happened. She took me out to lunch and we started talking. All those trust exercises and stuff she does make her a remarkably good listener and easy to talk to, she knows exactly the right thing to say at the right time. I was probably on my way home before I realised everything I'd told her."

"Like what."

"I told her about working at JAG, our time in Afghanistan, about Bud and Harriet and little AJ and Sarah, I told her about you and I in Sydney and Mic."

"You're kidding. Everything?" Harm asked. Mac smiled and nodded.

"We spoke a lot after that, I'd come down here and look at the water, and talk to her through the radio.

"What's the range on one of these things?"  Harm asked taking the radio.

"I'm not sure, a mile maybe."

"Is there anyway to track its signal?"

"I don't know, I don't think so." She said.

"And Joey always receives anything that's sent from one of these portable radios? There's no way it's just not switched to her."

"I don't know." Mac said. "Harm I don't know anything about radios. All I know is that I used to sit there beside the ship and watch the water and she'd talk to me from wherever she was."

"Landau had a bad back, he couldn't have carried her very far." Harm said suddenly. He turned around and hurried back to the Jolly Rodger. He ran on board the ship to the bridge. Mac followed him.

"Ok, so I'm Joey and you're Landau, assuming it was him." Mac said.

"There's my cynic." Harm smiled. "You're standing up there and I come in. I'm pissed off because I know it's because of you turning over that recording that I've lost everything." Harm said. Mac walked up and stood at the front of the bridge. "I walk," He stopped, "Stagger towards you, I'm drunk, I'm an alcoholic, I've gone to drown my sorrows and now I'm coming to take it all out on you." He said and lurched towards Mac.

"I'm not fazed. I can see you're drunk, so I stand here." She said and lent back against the control panel. "Wait, I'm here." She said moving to the navigation table and leaning against it with her arms crossed across her chest.

"We fight." He said. "I yell about how you ruined my career, and blah, blah, blah," Harm said still coming closer to Mac. "Then what?" He asked. Mac shook her head and looked around.

"I don't think they were in here. I think we've got the right idea, just the wrong location."

"Ok, where do you think they were?"

"Captains quarters maybe." She shrugged.

"They searched it top to bottom and found no traces that anyone other than Joey had been in her quarters. It's too small,"

"The deck?" Mac asked. Harm nodded. They walked out to the flight deck of the ship. A strong wind blew across from the dock and out to sea. Mac looked around. "I'm here, watching the waves hit the side of the ship." Mac said holding onto the rail and leaning forward.

"Ok, yadda, yadda, we're fighting." He said standing behind Mac.

"I heard you coming, I know it's only you, I haven't turned around. Then you threaten me."

"I tell you I'm going to kill you, you'll pay for what you did to me and I grab your shoulder"

"So I turn around to face you." Mac said turning. "I tell you to get the hell off my ship. I'm sick of hearing what you have to say, I don't want to talk to you anymore. I push past you and go to walk away,"

"But I grab you," He said grabbing her shoulder. "I tell you you're going to pay and swing at you. But I'm drunk and I loose my balance and fall. I take you with me." He said turning and stumbling backwards, pulling Mac with him. She tripped over his feet and fell to her knees hitting her head on the railing around the deck.

"Ouch." Mac said raising a hand to the side of her head.

"Are you ok?" Harm said kneeling beside her. "I'm so sorry."

"I'm ok," Mac said standing up. "That's what happened. He fell and pulled her, she must have hit her head harder than that though and got knocked out."

"I panic, then realise this is exactly what I wanted. Get back down on the deck. You're unconscious remember." He said. Mac sat on the deck beside the railing. "I pick you up." He said and scooped Mac off the deck. She smiled and grabbed his shirt. "How did I get here? I walked from the pub, so I don't have a car."

"You have a bad back remember, you can't carry me." Mac said. Harm set her feet back down.

"So I drag you." He said. He walked towards the gangplank. "I'm dragging you." He said turning around.

"Oh, right." Mac said and followed him. "Have you read the police reports? Bud got me a copy from a friend of his."

"Yeh he got me a copy too." Harm nodded.

"It said they found one of her shoes just here." Mac said pointing to the top of the gangplank.

"It must have got caught here and pulled off." He said kicking the edge of the plank. Mac nodded. "I'm still dragging you." He said walking back down to the docks. He looked around him for somewhere Joey could've been taken. He shook his head.

"He'd take her to his car which is probably parked out side the pub he was at before he came here." Mac said.

"He couldn't drag her that far."

"But she probably wasn't out for long. I mean, it wasn't a hard blow, there's no blood, it was just enough to knock her out."

"So I start to come around. You force me to walk." Mac said.

"There's a bar not far from here, I get you there and into my car and then where do I take you?"

"Somewhere they'll never find me, somewhere secluded." Mac said.

"You think Landau owns a boat? He lives on the other side of DC, so he must have a shed somewhere over hear near the water," Harm pulled out his portable phone and dialled a number.

"Who are you calling?" Mac asked.

"Bud, it's Harm, are you busy?" He asked.

"No sir, what can I help you with?"

"I need you to find out if Martin Landau has a boat shed," Harm said.

"Sir?"

"You can reach me on my cell phone, or colonel Mackenzie." He said.

"Yes sir," Bud said. "I'll get right on it."

"Thanks Bud." Harm said and hung up.

"So what do we do now?"

"You remember the name of the detective on that report?" Harm asked.

"No, but I've got the report in my car." She said. They walked back out to the car park and stopped beside Mac's car. She opened the back door and pulled the report out reading quickly through. "You got your phone?" She asked. Harm nodded. Mac read the phone number from the card attached to the file.

"Detective Holland." Came a reply from one end of Harm's phone.

"Detective Holland, my name is Harman Rabb, I'm a US Navy Commander and I was a friend of Captain Gallagher."

"Yes sir, what can I help you with?"

"Are you investigating Martin Landau as a suspect?" Harm asked.

"As of about twenty minutes ago we are yes sir. Captain Gallagher's husband remembered that she'd filled a complaint against Landau a few weeks ago. Why? Do you know something?"

"I'm one of the JAG lawyers that investigated Ex-Admiral Landau." Harm said. "I'm having one of my men run a check to see if Landau has a boat shed."

"Where are you commander?"

"On the docks by the Jolly Rodger." Harm said. Mac's cell phone started ringing. She pulled it out and answered it.

"Yes Bud." She said.

"Can you hold on a second detective?" Harm asked.

"Yeh," Holland said. Harm covered the mouthpiece with his hand. Mac listened to Bud and clicked her fingers and started righting in the air, indicating she needed a pen and paper. Harm handed her a pen and found a piece of scrap paper.

"Thanks Bud." Mac said and put her cell phone away.

"Detective?" Harm said.

"Yeh, I'm still here."

"We've got an address for a boat shed registered to Martin Landau." Harm said. "It might be nothing."

"It's the best lead we have so far. Her ex-husband was our prime suspect, he's alibi is rock solid and we're confident that he wouldn't want to hurt her in anyway, they're still quite close as friends."

"That's about ten miles from here." Mac said. Harm gave the detective the address. Then headed over there with Mac. The pulled up to a stop sign about two miles from the shed and static filled the car. Mac jumped and fumbled for the radio that was sitting on the back seat. "Joey," She said. "Joey can you hear me?"

"Help me," Someone whispered.

"We are, we're coming to get you Joey, we're coming to get you."

There was loud yelling. "No," Joey yelled, "No," Joey screamed, there was a thud and Joey's scream was cut off.

"Joey," Mac said. "Joey, can you hear me? Joey? Shit." She slapped the dashboard of the car. When Harm and Mac arrived at the boat shed there were already police everywhere. Mac approached an older man with a notepad. "Are you Detective Holland?" She asked.

"Yes," He nodded.

"I'm Colonel Mackenzie and this is Commander Rabb, we spoke on the phone a few minutes ago."

"Yes," Holland nodded. "I'm glad you did, I was on my way here when I got the call that my boys had found this address. Sadly, even those moments were too long."

"For what?"

"He drove off just as me and my men pulled up. I've sent cars after him. I don't know as yet if they've caught up with him. Local fisherman says he saw Landau, it's a positive ID. This fisherman said he saw Landau load Captain Gallagher into his car. He couldn't say whether she was still alive or not."

"Detective." One of the uniformed cops called. "We found some blood." He said. Holland walked over to him followed closely by Mac and Harm.

"Oh God." Mac said. Lying on the ground in a small pool of blood were the smashed remains of Joey's radio.

"I'd say she's been tied up here for the last three days." Holland said looking around. "From the looks of the dried blood on the wall over there, well, she's definitely injured."

"Why would he leave the radio on her until now." Mac asked.

"Maybe he just tied her up and dumped her here." Harm said.

"I'd say that's right. She was probably just smacked across the face once or twice. I don't think she was beaten severely." Holland said.

"Sir," Someone called. "The chase just ended near the 54 exit. Landau ran his car up a guardrail and into a ditch."

"Is he alive."

"Yes sir, he and the Captain are being transported to DC Memorial."

"Thank you." Holland said. "I'll notify Gallagher's family." He said. Mac and Harm were already in their car and driving. They arrived at DC Memorial and went straight to the emergency room.

"Josephine Gallagher." Mac said to a nurse at the triage desk. "She was brought in from a police chase."

"Are you family?" The nurse asked. Mac shook her head. "I can't let you in. You'll have to wait out here until the doctors are finished with her." The nurse said. Mac and Harm walked away and sat down in the waiting room. Mac fell asleep leaning against Harm's shoulder. He lent back against the wall and fell asleep himself.

"Sir," Someone said bringing Harm awake. "Sir, do you know my wife?"

"I'm sorry." Harm said rubbing his eyes. He focused on a man in his mid thirties with dark brown hair standing in front of him.

"Joey Gallagher, do you know here? Is that why you're here?"

"Yes," Harm said. "Yes I know her, have you heard anything? Is she all right?"

"She's going to be ok. My name's Josh." He said holding out his hand.

"Harm." He said. "This is Sarah Mackenzie, my partner."

"We've met." Josh said sitting next to Harm. "I saw her but wasn't sure if she was here for Joey or not."

"We were there when the police were told about the crash." Harm said.

"This is my son Ben." Josh said. They young boy looked to be about a year old. "Those two are mine as well." He said indicating the two children at the vending machine. The boy looked about five and the girl looked about nine. "Ryan and Hailey."

Mac stirred and woke when Ryan and Hailey sat down beside her. "Harm?" She said wiping her eyes and looking around. "Josh, have you heard anything?"

"She's ok, the doctors are just patching her up. Then they're going to let us in to see her." He said. Mac nodded.

"Hey guys," She said looking across at Hailey and Ryan. They smiled at her. Ryan held out his packet of chips. Mac took one and smiled. "Hey Benjie." Mac said.

"Mister Gallagher," The nurse said. Josh stood up.

"You two stay here for a minute ok. Don't move."

"Ok," Hailey nodded.

"I'll watch them." Mac said. "You want me to take him?" She asked reaching for Ben.

"Oh,"

"I don't mind." Mac smiled.

"Ok," Josh nodded.

"Hey there little guy." Mac said taking the baby. "You're a sleepy boy aren't you, yeh," She cuddled Ben close. He snuggled into her chest. Harm smiled. Josh walked away with the nurse. Mac yawned. "This is pretty good news isn't it. You're Mom's back." Mac said. Hailey and Ryan nodded. "How's school been?"

"Good, I learnt how to write all my name." Ryan said.

"Wow,"

"And I scored a goal at soccer." Hailey said.

"Good on you, did your team win?" Mac asked. The girl nodded. "Way to go, what else is news? What else have you been doing?"

"Grandma and Grandpa came to see us,"

"And Daddy," Hailey said.

"I bet that was good,"

"Mhm," Hailey nodded.

"I have to go to the bathroom." Ryan said.

"I'll take you." Mac said.

"It's ok," Hailey said. "I'll take him."

"You sure?"

"Yes," The little girl said.

"Ok," Mac nodded. The two children walked away. Mac smiled.

"Hailey looks just like Joey, the two boys are all their father though." Harm said.

"Hailey's Joey's daughter from her first marriage." Mac said. "That's what she meant when she said she saw her Daddy,"

"Oh, I see." Harm nodded. "How much time do you spend with these people Mac?" Harm asked.

"A lot more than you know."

"Well obviously."

"We've had lunch a couple of times." Mac said. "And they've invited me to their place for dinner once or twice. But mostly I just talk to Joey and she tells me about them."

"Ok," Harm nodded. Josh returned and looked around. "Where are the other two?"

"Bathroom." Mac said.

"Oh, ok, we can see her now, she's asking to see you two as well." Josh said. "You can go through if you like, I'll wait for them."

"Ok," Mac said. She stood up. Ben had fallen asleep in her arms so she carried him through the ER to where Joey was lying on a bed. "Oh Joey." Mac said. Joey looked at them with bruised eyes and a split lip. Her nose showed signs of having been broken and her left hand was covered in bandages and swabs of cotton.

"Mac," Joey said groggily. She looked across at Mac and smiled weakly.

"How are you feeling?" Mac asked walking to the bed.

"Mm, drugged up." Joey said. "Can you?" She asked motioning towards the cup and jug of water in front of her. Harm lifted the cup to Joey's lips and let her sip water through the straw. "Thanks."

"We were so worried." Mac said.

"I'm ok," Joey said her face suddenly crumbled.

"Hey, hey, it's all right, it's ok." Mac said. Harm took the sleeping child so Mac could put her arms around Joey.

"He broke my fingers Mac,"

"They'll heal, you'll be flicking switches before you know it."

"I was so scared." She said trying to contain her tears.

"I know, you're safe now, you're safe."

"What if it'd been one of my kids, there just babies. I never thought something like this would happen. It always happens to someone else."

"Shh, it's all right." Mac said. Josh and the other two kids walked into the room.

"Hey guys." Joey said. "Hi, I missed you guys, I missed you so much." She said. Hailey and Ryan climbed carefully onto the bed and hugged their mother.

"We'll come back later." Mac said. Harm handed Ben to Josh. "Get some rest ok."

"Ok," Joey nodded. Harm led Mac out of the room with a hand on the small of her back.

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