AN: By the end of this chapter you will probably know what's going to happen in the end.

Klutz101: On the contrary, I love writing long fics, it's just that I was trying to write a short fic for a while and I didn't know how to end most of the stories, so I made them long. With this story I expect that the chapters will be mostly different sizes- I will try to make most of them long- and I also expect many chapters.


-"Night little birdie, no more protecting the mommy bird." A familiar voice said to him before he lost his vision completely.-

Love and Death in Las Vegas

By Cat

Chapter one

Danny woke up to a blinding light. It was a moment before he remembered what had happened.

"Welcome to the land of the living Danny." A familiar voice said beside him.

"Is Mary ok?" Danny had looked around the room a second before and had not spotted his fiancée.

"She... she..." Ed stuttered quietly and looked at his feet. "She was kidnapped..." Ed finally blurted out.

"What?!" Danny was speechless for a moment.

"During the break in of your house, you got shot and Mary was seen being dragged away by some of your neighbours." Ed's explanation was not much help.

Danny looked away for a second. "What are the police doing?" He said angrily after a moment.

"Luis and his team are doing all they can..." Ed said gently. "Now get some rest kid."

"But I need to find her!" Danny shouted as he tried to get out of bed. He suddenly fell down to the floor in pain. Blood seeped out of the wound in his chest.

Ed called for a nurse and then lifted Danny back into the hospital bed.

"Your were shot in the chest Danny, nothing vital but you'll be in the hospital for a few days at least. Please try to rest!" Ed explained to his young protégé.

Danny's breathing became raspy and the pain was pure agony. His head was pulsing and his vision was blurred. He nodded slightly and lay back. He knew he couldn't rescue Mary in the state he was in. He sat up slightly as a nurse entered to stop the bleeding.

Luis entered the room before Danny could say anything and a colleague of Luis' positioned himself outside the door. Danny took the pain killers the nurse gave him before he looked around the room. Anything to keep him occupied with was a slight dent in the sadness charts. Danny glared as Ed and the nurse both left.

"I'm sorry Danny..." Luis said quietly. "The forensic team and I are working round the clock. We need to ask you some questions and you need to give a statement. Could you explain what happened?"

Danny nodded with a sigh. He knew the procedure. "I was with Mary in the bedroom when we heard a crash of glass."

"At what time was this?" Luis interrupted as he jotted notes down onto his note pad.

"I don't know! Maybe it was around ten or eleven o' clock... Anyway... I told Mary to stay there and out of site then I grabbed a baseball bat and left the room." Danny continued before stopping to think for a moment. After about a moment he continued. "I was entering the living room when I heard a shot. I fell to the ground and then he, the intruder that is, lifted my head and said 'Night little birdie, no more protecting the mommy bird.' I couldn't see him very well. But the strange thing is that I recognised his voice from somewhere. I don't know where from though."

Danny looked out the window of the room and sighed. It had been bugging him ever since he had woken up. The voice he was sure he had heard millions of times before. It sounds like an old school friend... Danny thought. He had once been afraid of his voice. He was afraid that Mary wouldn't be alive when Luis found her.

Luis looked up from his notes and he too sighed. "Look Danny, I'm sorry this has happened. But I promise you that I will find whoever did this!" Luis told Danny.

Danny turned back to Luis, his long time friend and competitor for the love of Mary Connell. "Yes, but will she still be alive?" Danny asked quietly. The fear was evident in his voice. "I know that you can't promise me that."

Luis lowered his head and drew back, He had known Danny for a while but he had never heard the fear, his voice now held, before. Danny sounded truly afraid and that wasn't good.

.::The Enemy's lair::.

A cold, leathery hand lifted Mary's chin quietly. Mary drew her head away. Her head felt heavy. She had a very big headache and she felt like she was going to be sick. She hoped Danny would be okay. Her kidnapper had taken her past Danny's body while retrieving her from the house. He had looked bad, his blood had covered the room and she was afraid for his life. She was also afraid for the life of her baby.

"You have run away from me once, twice and many more times. I have let that by me but I shall not let you this time. I will not let you..." The voice said.

"Yeah but you would never kill me." Mary too recognised the voice.

"I can and I will. I will not let you run away from me again."

To be continued...


AN: I know that this was quite short compared to other most of my other stories but my chapters ay grow in size in the future.