4.00pm The hot summer days turned colder as winter drew nearer. It was now mid-October, and there was a definite chill around. Samantha was now just 3 months pregnant, with everyday that had gone past, the more protective Martin got. It was sweet, but kind of annoying. And the raging hormones didn't prevent her from snapping sometimes, unfortunately.
"Okay guys. 34 year old Jessica Lynne, went missing from her local grocery store. Her car was found with the door open and shopping bags on the ground. There seems to have been a struggle. Someone from the store called it in just an hour ago. " Began Jack. Danny I want you and Vivian to talk to her husband. Find out about her. Samantha I want you to run a check on her phones, cell and home. Martin, you and I will go to the grocery store, see if anyone saw anything suspicious." Danny and Vivian were out the door as soon as they got the address, seeing the dark look on Samantha's face.
Martin also noticed. "I'll just be down by the car." he said before also disappearing.
Somehow Jack seemed to be oblivious to the glare that Samantha was sending him as he got ready to leave. He finally looked up and saw Samantha's murderous expression.
"Err..." he stuttered. Knowing that when Samantha was mad it wasn't pretty.
"Why am I stuck up here? I'm perfectly capable of doing my job." "You're pregnant Sam. You have to take it easy." "I'm only in my third month. I can still go out, I'm not going to break." she practically snarled.
Jack smirked to himself, recognising the signs of hormones from when Maria was pregnant. "Look you just take it easy for a few hours, we'll be back soon. We do need the phone records you know." he said and was out of the room before she could protest.
Samantha slumped back in her chair defeated, plotting ways in which to either sneak out or murder Jack. Probably the former seeing as she didn't want to go to jail.

5.15pm "Hey you find anything?" asked Danny returning to the office about an hour later.
Samantha sighed. "Nope nothing out of the ordinary. You have better luck?" "Yeah, I hope. Well turns out Jessica didn't have any enemies, but her husband. David Lynne, had a few. He's a criminal lawyer, so he thinks a disgruntled client may be involved." He replied. "Viv's just filling Jack in." Gesturing to where Vivian was on the phone.
Samantha sighed. "Well let's hope we find her soon. It'll be dark soon." She glanced out the window.
"We'll find her Sam." replied Danny.
Vivian hung up the phone and walked back over to Danny and Samantha.
"Jack wants us to get a list of clients for her husband, in case it is one of them and there's a ransom demand. He wants us to make a list of any clients that lost their case or have a reason to be angry." "I"m on it." said Danny reaching for the phone. "I'll get all the case files sent up." "Okay." replied Vivian. "Jack and Martin are going to come as soon as they finish at the store." "Wow he did a lot of cases." commented Samantha when the boxes had been sent up.
"Well let's get started." said Danny.
They sat down to start to go through the cases.
Just under an hour had passed when Martin and Jack came back, they hadn't found anything useful. No one had seen her get taken and the CCTV tape for the parking lot was missing.
Around 7.30 Jack looked at the clock. "We should call it a day. There's nothing more we can do. We'll all concentrate better once we're rested." "But there has to be something." protested Samantha.
"We've checked the morgues, all her family, friends. everything. All we can do is wait for a ransom note." said Jack.
"We'll come back first thing in the morning." said Martin, wanting to get get Samantha home.
Samantha sighed. She knew better than to argue with the other four, she was sure that Vivian wanted to get back to Reggie. Plus she had the baby to consider.
"Okay. Night guys." she said gathering her stuff and allowing herself to be pulled away by Martin.
Vivian also collected her stuff, followed by Danny. Jack took slightly longer, pausing to smile sadly at the picture of Jessica Lynne before also leaving.

Samantha and Martin lay in bed later that night, just drifting off to sleep.
"Night Sam." said Martin kissing Samantha softly.
"Night." replied Sam smiling, no matter what even just being with Martin made her feel better.
Martin paused. "You know we will find her." he lied, not sure himself.
Samantha sighed. "We may not though." "We have to believe that we can find her, and that she will be fine." Martin said positively. "Even if we find her, and she's unharmed, she'll still have to live with the memories." replied Samantha sadly.
It was Martin's turn to sigh. He could tell that Samantha still occasionally struggled with what had happened, not very often mind, but the thought was still there at the back of her mind.
He couldn't think of what to say or do to make Samantha forget. "I love you." he said, grasping her hand in his, resting protectively over the growing bump in her stomach. "Love you too." she said.

"Sam. Sam!" said Martin urgently. She had been screaming and thrashing around in her sleep, he was surprised she hadn't woken herself up. He shook her gently.
Her eyes shot open, and she gasped in deep breaths of air.
"Was it one of those nightmares?" he asked when she had calmed down and her eyes focused on her surroundings. Until recently her nightmares had been a nightly occurrence. But this was her first one in over 2 months.
Samantha nodded, her eyes moist with tears, she couldn't help the shivers that came over her.
"You haven't had one in ages, I thought they were going." "Me too." answered Samantha shuddering. "Oh God, it was horrible." Martin held Samantha close as she cried into his shoulder. How long would Samantha have to go through this he wondered.

9.20am "We got a ransom demand!" called Jack, as he hung up the phone. He had just recieved a call from David, he said he found a note stuck under his door. We'll need to check for fingerprints, I'll go over there with Viv." They hurried out the office, glad to finally get a lead.
About an hour later Jack and Vivian came back to the office, where Danny Sam and Martin where still working with the cases.
"Find anything?" asked Martin.
Vivian smiled. "Yes actually. The person who left the note, hadn't been as careful as they thought. They left a few fingerprints on the paper, we're running them now.
"Hopefully once we find out who they are that will lead us to Jessica." added Jack.
"What did the note say?" asked Danny.
"It said, ÔWe've got Jessica, and if you want her back, we want $896,000.' It didn't give a drop location or anything though." "$896,000?" repeated Sam.
"That's got to have some significance." said Danny.
Jack shrugged. "Nothing the husband could think of. Being a lawyer pays good, but it may still have been a bit tight raising that much." "Wonder what that number means." said Martin thoughtfuuly.
"That number sounds familiar." said Sam as she started rifling through the papers on the desk.
"Hey Jack." called another agent who had just entered the room.
Jack turned round. "Hi Pete. Got something for us?" "Yeah we ran the prints as you asked and they belong to a Kevin Smith. Here's his file. Got quite a lot in it." "Thanks Pete." replied Jack.
"Aha!" said Samantha. "A man robbed a department store, and took money from the cash registers and the safe. He almost made it out with $896,000 but a scuffle broke out and he ended up being charged with attempted murder as he shot the guy. His name is Kevin smith. David Lynne represented him, but lost the case." she finished triumphantly reading from the file.
"Well looks like we got him." said Danny.
"Okay Martin, you and I will bring him in for questionning. Danny, you and Viv get together a team and search his premises for Jessica. And Sam..." She sighed. "I know. I'll stay here." "Okay. lets move out." said Jack.
They left the office. Danny throwing Samantha a sympathetic smile, and Martin kissed her quickly on the cheek.
"We'll be back soon." said Vivian.

"Anything?" asked Sam as Danny and Vivian came back in.
Danny smiled. "Yeah, we found Jessica tied up in the basement. She'll be fine but she had to go to hospital for a check up." "Thats great. What about Smith?" Sam inquired.
"Martin and Jack are questionning him. They don't think he was working alone, so we'll have to see if he confesses anything." said Vivian.
Samantha nodded. "Well I guess we just wait." About 20 minutes later Jack came back in, looking very tired.
They all looked up expectantly.
"He wouldn't say much without his lawyer. Unsurprisingly he's got a different one now. We had to send him away eventually. We told him to come back with his lawyer tomorrow." "Where's Martin?" asked Samantha.
"Down by the car. He had to get something." said Jack.
"Okay." said Samantha. "I'm just going to the car too." She got up and smiled to the others. Danny and Vivian chuckling after her and Jack smirking.

Martin opened the drivers door to reach in and get his notebook he'd forgotten when he felt a presence behind him.
Whirling around, he found himself faced with an irate looking Kevin Smith, and a fist headed straight for his face.
To shocked to move, the fist caught his left cheek. He winced, that would leave a bruise.
"Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing?" he yelled angrily.
Kevin Smith scowled. "I'm not going back to prison!" "Well assaulting a federal agent isn't going to reduce your sentence." "Oh but it makes me feel so much better." he grinned, and aimed another punch towards Martin, who this time was ready and blocked it. Kevin drew back and aimed another punch, when Samantha's cry of Martin startled him.
Sam had some down to see Martin, and had found him being basically attacked by Kevin Smith.
"Sam, get back upstairs. Call someone!" said Martin, glancing at her. With Martin distracted, Kevin punched him right in the jaw causing Martin to fall onto the ground.
Samantha rushed over to Martin, her eyes furious. She knelt down next to him, concerned as he lay pretty still.
Enraged Kevin kicked Samantha out of the way, causing her to cry out in pain as the full force of his boot landed in her stomach. His foot came at her stomach again, causing her to curl up in pain. He dragged her up, holding her wrists. Ignoring the tears of pain coursing down her face and her whimpered pleas of "Not my baby." He raised his hand, when the sound of a car pulling up stopped him. Snarling he threw Samantha roughly down, and she landed hard in her front. He then kicked Martin's head before running out.
The last thing Martin saw before he blacked out was Samantha laying with her hands covering her stomach, crying in pain.

Upstairs, the others were waiting for Sam and Martin to come back up so they could review the case.
Luke another agent came rushing over to them, out of breath.
There's been an accident." he huffed. "Martin and Samantha are being taken to hospital." Danny, Viv and Jack exchanged anxious glances, before rushing out and into the car to go to the local hospital.

"We're looking for Martin Fitzgerald and Samantha Spade." said Danny to the nurse in the reception.
The nurse glanced down at the paper, "Well Mr. Fitzgerald is in recovery room 7 and Miss. Spade is still in surgery." Danny and Vivian looked at each other worriedly. "Where's room 7?" asked Jack.
"It's down the hall to your left." replied the nurse.
Jack smiled. "Thanks." The three went into Martin's room. The doctor was standing by Martin's bed, checking his vitals.
"God. What happened?" asked Vivian in shock.
The doctor looked up, and sighed. "Well we're not exactly sure. Martin woke up in the ambulance but we were unable to find out anything. He blacked out due to several blows to the head. He will be fine though, he's just sleeping now." "What about Samantha? We were told she's in surgery." "I'm sorry I'm not her doctor so I don't know. I'll see if I can find the doctor for you though." "Thank you." said Jack.
"I'll go see if I can find out anything about Samantha." said Danny.
"Ok. Jack and I will wait here for Martin to wake up. Come as soon as you find anything." replied Vivian.
Danny was back by the reception area when Martin's doctor came up to him.
"I found Miss Spade is in recovery 15, just down the hall from Mr. Fitzgerald. Her doctors with her now." he said.
Danny smiled his thanks, and walked back down the hall to Samantha's room.
Samantha was lying in the bed, a tall brunette woman dressed in a white coat next to her.
"Hello." said Danny cautiously.
The doctor turned and smiled. "I'm Dr. Hall, Samantha's doctor." Danny nodded. "I remember, didn't you see her last time she was in?" The doctor nodded.
"How is she?" Danny asked looking worriedly at Sam who was lying asleep in the bed.
Dr. Hall's shoulders slumped and she sighed. "Well unfortunately the baby didn't survive. It appears that she recieved several kicks to her stomach. There are also a few severely bruised ribs." "Shit." Danny swore. Poor Samantha. "I'd better tell the others." he said walking dejectedly out of the room.