Title: Feeling Needed.

Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine.

"Okay everyone Sarah White has been missing for 18 hours now and she was last seen with her father Robert White." Jack announces to everyone.

"What about her mother where is she in the picture?" Vivian questions.

"Well that we don't know yet. Everyone we have to approach this case lightly, all our asses are on the line." Jack replies.

Samantha sits to Jack's right side still taking in the fact that there is going to be a lot of leg work on this case. She shakes her head of the now approaching headache; this is going to be a long night she thought.

Danny rushes in the room with some information on the mother and from the look on his face it's more or less a dead end.

"Okay Maggie White was diagnosis with lung cancer and died over three years ago. Sarah was only 13 years old when her mother died." Danny says with a saddening face.

Martin suddenly rushes into the room and promptly takes his seat next to Vivian. "Sorry I'm late"

Jack looks at Martin and sends him a look that says 'Don't let it happen again.'

"Alright everyone Danny I want you to go to her School Whit Men High, check out her teachers and talk to her friends, anyone she associates with."

"Vivian I want you and Martin.... Um no Martin you to go with Danny and Danny fill him in on what we have so far."

"Vivian I want your to do background checks on the whole family. But keep it low key, we can't for get we are dealing with the mayor's granddaughter."

"Sam you come with me, we are going to speak to the father."

Sam's POV

We head out to the car and I notice that Jack does look rather worn out as if he hadn't slept in ages. But I guess I would look like hell to if I slept at the office the entire night.

Flash Back: Mourning 6:00A.M.

I walk through the hall in a quick stride, more than ready for a fresh brew of coffee. I walk in and I'm actually the first to arrive, usually Jack beats me to the punch, must be earlier than I think.

I go to the coffee pot and pour myself a cup; I turn around to look into Jack office to see if he was there, as I was nursing my fresh cup of coffee.

At first I don't see anything until I look more closely to see Jack all sprawled out over his desk. I hate to wake him but I know that the others will be in soon and that they shouldn't see him this way.

I walk over and pull the door open slightly just enough to fit through; I take a few steps forward and smile inwardly when I hear him snoring lightly.

"Jack..... Jack...." I say. He still isn't responding, he must be pretty tired, because he is out of it.

I finally place a hand on his shoulder and give it a good nudge, still nothing, I run my fingers through his soft and silky hair and finally he stirs awake.

"Hey look who's sleeping on the job now." I say with a brief smile.

He smiles firmly at her and thanks her for waking him, "Thanks and I'm not the only one sleeping on the job remember." Jack says with a smile.

I start to remember how he found me sprawled all over my desk and I start to blush as I remember how silly I must have looked, after all I had post-it notes all over my face.

"Well I'm going to go I have to finish up yesterday's report." I say turning to walk out the door.

Back to present

We are silent on the drive to the father's house, we finally reach his house and we look around at the suburban and I start to wonder how anything can go wrong in a beautiful neighborhood like this.

I make three thuds on the door and announce ourselves as the man opens the door.

"Hi, I'm Samantha Spade and this is Jack Malone, we're with the FBI we are here to help find your daughter."

"Okay come in." Mr. White said nervously.

"We need to ask you a few questions about your daughter." Jack starts to question mister white.

I walk around the room and I look through the photos noticing that they seem fairly happy, but then again these pictures were taking over 6 or 7 years ago.

I end up in the next room over and I open the door to the girl's room and I'm taking in by the peaceful room, I start to think of how her room reminds me of my old room.

I look around the room it seems to look pretty normal to me; I walk over to her desk and look through the papers, then I notice the notebook on the end.

I start flipping through the pages and I see what she has been planning along, she wants to run away. It says here that she wants to be with her boyfriend, Tomas Burk.

Only this doesn't make since why she would leave this or everything that she has here, her money clothes and everything else. I have a feeling that something else is going on here.

"Hey, you find anything?" Jack asks as he joins me in the room.

"Just this" I say as I hand the note book to him.

I start to think about how much I really am like this girl and how I ran away to, but my plan didn't fall through. They finally found me the next town over waiting on the bus station.

"Sam... Sam..." Jack says with worry in his voice.

I finally pull myself back into reality and look up to see Jack worrisome eyes on me.

"Yeah'' I say

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm fine"

"Okay we need to go back to the office and fill everyone in on what's happening."

We arrive back at the office and everyone is already sitting down waiting to share the information.

I walk in to take the sit nearest to Jack and I look towards Martin and he casts a bright smile my way, trying to cheer me up. I smile back and I give him a bright smile as well letting him know that I will be okay.

Vivian gets the ball rolling as she explain that there was only one thing that seemed to be off is the number of visits to the hospital for stress. The girl had been there on stress related bases but who can blame her right, after all her mother did die.

Martin then shares that the girl had few friends but the ones they spoke to says that she seemed okay. They said she was as normal as always, hanging out with her boyfriend, only thing that they give us was that her father was a pain.

Jack finally tells the team what we found and we all decide that we aren't getting anywhere and that we should call it a night.

"Alright everyone it's getting late why don't we all go home and come back tomorrow with more open minds."

I go to my desk not ready to give up just yet, I feel a warm hand on my shoulder and I turn around to see Martin standing there with caring eyes.

"Hey want to get out of here and go grab a bite to eat, looks like you could use a break." Martin prompts.

"Sure, where do you want to go?"

"How about that place on 25th Street, the hamburger joint just on the corner."

"Okay" I say happy for the company.

As I throw on my jacket I glance over and see the light still shining in that corner office, through the glass door I see Jack sitting there looking down as ever.

I walk out with Martin and I try not to think of how depressed Jack looked in his office all alone.

We go in a place our orders and finally the meal has come and gone, I thank Martin for the dinner and turn to catch a cab back to the office.

"Thanks for the meal Martin it was great I'll see you tomorrow." I say as I plant a kiss on his cheek.

I hop in the cab and I finally arrive back at the doors to the Federal Building. I walk in and I go back to my desk gather the rest of my belongings that I had left here.

I glance over to see if Jack was still there and I still see him sitting at his desk, but instead of the sad look on his face it's more of a blank zoning out kind of look.

I decide that I can't take much more I have to find out what is wrong, I know the case puts a lot of pressure on him but it has to be something else.

After all shouldn't he be home with his wife and his two little girls instead of this dark and lonely office.

I walk over to his office and I open the doors ready to have a conversation with him.

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