Disclaimer: See first chapter, cause only in my dreams do I own any of these characters. They still belong to Jerry Bruckheimer, and friends.

Thanks for all the reviews, they help me so much. Here is the next chapter. It's a little bit longer than the first.

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Chapter 2: Family

24 Hours Missing/8 am

As Martin and Sam pulled into the driveway of Valerie Waters house, Sam couldn't help but notice how beautiful it was, not big, but beautiful. Sam looked at the folder in her lap, Alicia Waters was a beautiful young lady, blond hair, blue eyes, and white teeth, perfect, as a actress should be. Or at least according to the magazine covers.

As they got out of the car, and walked up the rest the driveway, Sam noticed that the grass was neatly cut and everything in the yard was in place. It looked like one of those house you would see on the front cover of one of those magazines. It looked perfect... to perfect!

"Martin, have you noticed how perfect the yard and house looks?" asked Sam.

"Yeah, looks like someone has a major case of OCD," he said with a smile.

Sam couldn't help but smile back, as she pushed the doorbell and waited. After almost 15 seconds, a woman with sandy blond hair, about the age of 45, answered the door. "Yes, can I help you?"

"Yes, we are here to speak with to Mrs Valerie Waters," said Sam, "Is that you ma'am?"

"Yes it is."

"I am Agent Sam Spade, this is Agent Martin Fitzgerald, we are with the FBI, we are investigating the disappearance of your daughter, Alicia."

"Oh, yes, come in. Have you any clues as to where she is, what happened?"asked Valerie.

"No ma'am, not yet." answered Martin. "When did you notice that she was missing?"

"When that man called from the seminar asking where she was."

"Is there anyone you can think of who would want to hurt Alicia?" asked Sam.

"No, no one! Everyone loves her. She is a sweet girl, never hurt anyone." answered Valerie Waters. "I just know something bad has happened to her, I just know it!" she exclaimed with tears welling up in her eyes.

"We will do everything we can to bring Alicia home, Mrs Waters," said Sam. Sam knew the odds of finding someone, that was missing alive was slim, but her job was to find the person, dead or alive. But she always hoped for alive.

"Mrs. Waters, what can you tell us about the seminar Alicia was going to yesterday?" asked Martin, as he and Sam sat down on the couch, across from where Valerie had just sat down.

"It's some kind of class for actors. It is supposed to teach them how to act better and portray their characters in a more believable way. I don't understand it all myself, but Alicia was excited, so it must have been important."

"Was she dating anyone?" asked Sam.

"No, she was too focused on work."

"Where are her uncles, I understand they live here also?" asked Sam.

"Yes they do, Ted is out of town right now on business, I called him, he is on his way back. James is in the kitchen, fixing the sick for the millionth time this year." answered Valerie.

"I'll go talk to him." said Martin.

After he left the room, Valarie looks over at at Sam and say, "You know I haven't even told her great-grandmother yet."

"Why not?"

"Scared it would kill her. Her and Alicia are so close. Lilia, her great-grandmother, she calls her Grand for short. She is 96 years old. She was an actress back in her day, silent screen, back in the early 1900s. Her career went south when they started making movies with sound."

"So Alicia and her great-grandmother are close cause they share a love of acting." said Sam.

"No, they are close cause they share a love of life!" answered Valerie with a smile.

"I will need to speak with the great-grandmother."

"Why?"

"Cause, when looking for someone, we need to know the person we are searching for. And Alicia might have told her things, that she didn't tell you." answered Sam.

"That makes sense," Valarie said, smiling."I'll call her and tell her, that you will stop by. This isn't going to be easy."

In the kitchen ....

"James." said Martin.

His answer was the sound of someone hitting there head and a lot of cursing. A man came out from under the sink and stood up. "What do you ... Who are you?"

"Agent Martin Fitzgerald, with the FBI, I am investigating the disappearance of your niece, Alicia."

"Have you got any clues yet?" James Thorpe asked.

"Not yet, but it's early in the investigation."

"I pray nothing has happened to that girl. I promised her daddy on his death bed that I would protect her."

"What can you tell me about Alicia?"

"Well, depends. If you want to know about her work or her life, I can tell you anything you want to know, her love life and friends, I know very little. I mean what girl tells her uncle about the guy she's seeing?" he smiled slightly.

"Where were you yesterday morning?" asked Martin.

"Was over at a friends house, his toilet overflowed, and I am the fix-it guy. That was about 7 that morning, by eight we had the problem fixed. Was on the way home when Val called me and told me Alicia never made it to the seminar. We didn't fully panic until we realized she never checked in at the Hilton though."

"From talking to Mrs. Waters, I gather Alicia wasn't seeing anyone. Any friends we might need to talk with?" asked Martin.

James walked over to the kitchen cabinet and opened the door. He pulled out a black leather bound book. "This is Alicia's address book, all her friends are in there."

"Thanks."

"Do me a favor?" asked James.

"What?"

"Bring Alicia home!"

"We will do our best."

Not as short as the first chapter,lol. But hopefully I have your attention, and can keep it for the remaining chapters, which are few, I already have them thought out, so no more than 6 more chapters.