Note: sorry this is so late! FORGIVE ME!

Disclaimer: I own...my soul? At least for this week.

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"Where is he?" Two uniformed guards walked forward in the doorway and held out there arms to stop the wide-eyed Alyssa. She hit there arms with her torso and tried to get passed them. "Where is my son?"
"I'm sorry, Ms. Cragen, but maybe you should calm down before you see him." One uniform stated calmly in a deep southern accent.
"That is Detective Cragen to you!" She hit the men hard in there shoulders and walked passed them.
"You really shouldn't get in her way..." The uniforms turned to see John Munch walking passed them. "She's a cop, and a mom...and she has a gun..." Walking past the uniforms he didn't see them exchange worried glances. "You called Captain Cragen right?"
"No, sir..."
John turned around, fire blazed in his eyes. "Then get your asses in gear and call the man! I'll have your badges!" John spun on his heel and followed the ever glowing aura of Alyssa.
He found her hugging a very confused, but happy little boy. Eric looked up at John and smiled wildly. "MONCH!"
"Hey little man, glad to see you in one piece." John smiled and looked over at a medium built and height Mexican woman. He walked over to her and held out his hand. "Detective..."
"John Monch." She finished for him'
"Actually, it's Munch..." John laughed a little. "You must be..."
"Ana." She shook his hand firmly and smiled. Alyssa stood up slowly while holding her son's hand. "Why don't we all just sit down?" John nodded and followed Ana to a couch. "I'll get us some water."
"Eric, why don't you go check on Edmundo for me?" Alyssa asked with a smile on her face.
"He's sleeping." Eric stated flatly.
"Why don't you go check on him anyways?" John asked. Eric smiled and nodded. In his child-like way he let go of his mother's hand and ran down the hallway. Alyssa took a seat next to John as Ana came walking back into the room holding a tray with three glasses of water, and two aspirin tablets. Alyssa raised her eyebrow in question when Ana handed her the tablets.
"You might want them." Ana smiled and took a seat in an over-stuffed rocking chair. "So, which one of you wants to explain the uniforms?"
"I will." Alyssa said as she took a drink of her water. "I received a call an hour ago from Eric Darice." Ana, who had been drinking her water, choked instantly at the mention of that name. "He threatened that if I went after him again, he would kill Eric."
Ana put her glass down on the table. "So, you had to send some uniforms over?"
"Actually that was Captain Cragen's idea." John inserted. "We take these types of threats seriously."
"I don't doubt that you would not take these threats seriously." Ana stated.
Alyssa laughed slightly. "You always were the strong headed one..."
"Actually, I'm scared out of my mind right now." Ana took in a deep breath. "But I know you, and you've never kept a level head when it came to family. So now what?"
"Well, everything right now is just making sure that nothing happens to Eric." John stated.
Ana stood up instant with anger. "You can't be still thinking of going after him?!"
"Excuse me?!" Alyssa stood up. "You're the one that keeps asking me for updates on the case."
"I don't want you on it if it's going to put this family in danger!"
Alyssa sighed and plopped down onto the couch. "I can't quit. I won't quit."
"Your son..."
"I won't let him hurt my son." Alyssa looked up at Ana and smiled. "I love that boy more then anything. But I'm only human. I want justice for him, and for this family."
"Alyssa, maybe we should get Eric and head back to your apartment?" John interrupted. His eyes looking around the corner to the little boy sitting in the hall way pretending as if he wasn't listening.
"Sounds like a good idea. We'll, set up uniforms to make runs by the apartment every hour."
"Yours as well." John said a matter of factly. "No arguing. Hey Enrique, wanna go home?"
They all heard Eric stand up franticly and run down the hallway. "Yeah Monch!"
"You hungry?" Eric nodded and connected himself to John's pant leg. "Good, I know of a good pizza place, we'll stop there on the way back to your apartment."

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"Here, give me the keys." John took the keys from Alyssa's hand while balancing the two boxes of pizza. He opened the door, letting Alyssa and Eric in first. "Nice place." John walked in and found the kitchen where he placed the pizza boxes. He looked up and saw a bright eyed little boy waiting patiently for his pizza. "Cheese pizza for the little boy." John opened the box and set it in front of Eric.
"You're spoiling him, John."
"Someone has too." John smiled and took the other pizza box. "And one veggie for the adults."
Alyssa smiled and walked over to John. She picked up a piece of pizza and started to eat. "Don't eat so fast sweetie, you'll get a stomach ache." Alyssa warned giving into the motherly tone of hers.
"I'm not!" Eric cried with cheese hanging out of his mouth. John and Alyssa shared a glance and laughed at the little boy. "Why did those police men come to the apartment today?"
Alyssa dropped her pizza back into the box and wiped her hands together. "Something happened at mommy's work. Don't worry your handsome head over it."
"Who's Eric Darice?"
"No one important." Alyssa smiled even though she felt as if she was going to cry. Just before she could make the decision to cry or not her cell phone rang. She looked around confused for a moment before she grabbed the phone out of her pocket and answered it. "Hello? Donald, Hi. Yeah everything went fine, we're back at my apartment. Can we talk about this later? Tonight? Sure."
"Who's that?" Eric asked. "It's grandpa isn't it! I wanna talk!!" Alyssa pulled the phone away from her ear and handed it to her son. He took the phone and took off down the hallway to his room.
"You sure that was a smart idea?" John mused taking another slice of pizza.
"Well, it gets Donald off my back so...yeah."

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annnnnd, another chapter is done. Leave reviews. Sorry this one took so long, college SUCKS! Btw, this is all part of the plot...stupid plot development!! I actually have an idea of how I am gonna end this story! But that won't be for awhile!

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