AN: Hey, guys! Sorry for the long wait, but here's the chapter! Hope you enjoy! Oh, and just to give you people a hint to where I live (I just feel like it), I wanted to tell you a new law that was just passed. Apparently, it is now illegal in my state (US) to where your pants so low that your underwear shows. If you're caught doing it, you're fined 50 bucks. Apparently, it's been on the national news, which is the first time my state has been on the national news since, well, forever. I don't live in a very interesting place. Well, um... that's it. Just read the damn fic!

LILLYNILLY - Wait... did I say there were three chappies left? No, I think I did not! I just said that was it for the kidnapping chtick. That doesn't mean that the story isn't gonna continue! I mean, this story is called 'eight easy steps'. How many steps have you seen so far? I have 8 steps lined up for this!
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Chapter six...

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Hours.

Hours and hours and hours.

That's how long Piper was tied up on the cold dark floor on the room she was kept in, all alone.

After the long time completely alone, Piper barely noticed it when the door opened, and two sets of footsteps entered the room. What she did notice, though, was when a large hand gripped her right upper-arm tightly. The man pulled her to her feet, and held her when she swayed on her bound ankles. She also noticed when she was again pushed down onto her knees, and her back pushed so that it was parallel to the ground. She then felt the cold, metal tip of a gun pressed against the back of her head, right near her neck. "Goodbye, Ms. Bennett." she heard a voice say.

Everything suddenly seemed to be moving in slow motion. The tell-tale click of a gun's safety being shut off resounded through the room, and Piper squeezed her eyes tightly shut behind her blindfold. 'This is it.' she though. She kept repeating it in her mind as she saw moments of her life flash before her eyes. Just as she thought that her life was definitely ending, she felt the gun be removed from its place against her skin.

"What are you doing, Fredrick?" Piper heard Fred exclaim. "I'm stopping you from doing something rash and idiotic, Robert." Bob replied. Despite the fact that her life was in danger, Piper couldn't help thinking, 'Oh, I got the names mixd up. Mean one's Bob, nice one's Fred. Interesting.'

"What's stupid 'bout offing her? She's the only that could identify us , and it would cause her dear old daddy to pay more." Robert said. "Well, I think that it's enough just to put her through all of this. After all, terror is worse than death." Frederick said. "What are we supposed to do with her, then?" Robert asked, pulling on Piper's hair, causing her to be upright. "I have a solution to that problem."

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Victor Bennett waited nervously on the corner of Avon and Lady roads, wanting the people that took his daughter to come as soon as possible so that he could get her back. He had a box about the size of a refrigerator right next to him. It was filled with 15 billion dollars, his daughter's ransom money. There were only hundreds in the box, and it was filled to the top. But, it was all worth it for his 'only' daughter.

Just then, a black car spun around the corner a block down, and quickly pulled up right in front of where Victor was standing. The man immediately stiffened, tensing at the very thought of this person having his daughter in its clutches. The door to the car opened, and a man dressed fulling in black stepped out. He was even wearing a ski mask, which made Victor immediately conclude that this was the man who had kidnapped his daughter.

"Where is she?" he immediately asked, seeing no one get out of the car with him. "All in good time." the man said, chuckling. It took all of Victor's strength to keep himself from lunging at the man. "Do you have the cash?" the man asked. Victor nodded at the box. "Good" the man said, and then looked at his car. "I think it'll fit in the back seat. You gonna help me with it?" Victor sneered in disgust, but still helped the man get the large box into the back seat of the man's car. He didn't want to jeopardize his daughter's life anymore than he already had.

After the box was secured in the back seat, the masked man and Victor faced each other again. "Okay, now you have what you want. Where's my daughter?" Victor asked impatiently. "Ah ah ah." the man said, shaking his finger at Victor as if the man were only a child. "I tell you that, and I have no leverage. You and your police buddies would just whisk me away without a second thought if I told you that vital information. No, I'd prefer to wait a little bit for my getaway." Victor began shaking with fury, and with grief. He wanted to know where his daughter was NOW.

"But..." the man said, and Victor began paying attention to him again. "I could tell you the information. Of course, that would take the fun out of all of this, but it would keep you off my trail." He paused, it seemed, for dramatic effect. "She's in the building right behind you." Victor turned to face the building, and scratched the back of his head. It was the signal to the camouflaged police that it was time to come out and grab the bad guy. But, the man seemed to make that deduction as the police came out of their hiding places, and he pulled out a small stick with two tiny buttons on the end.

"Na ah ah!" he yelled, and held the stick high. "You wouldn't want the building to blow, now would you?" he asked menacingly. The police and Victor froze in their tracks. "Now, you don't want to do anything stupid..." The police tried to futilely to get him to give them the trigger to the bomb. Finally, the man seemed to have had enough of their coaxing. He pressed one of the buttons.

"Okay, you now have five minutes to find the girl and disarm the bomb. You try to follow me, and I can set off the bomb before the time limit is up. Good day." The man chuckled as he jumped into his car and began speeding away. The police and Victor did not see when he picked up his partner from a block down, as they were already opening the door to the building, trying to save Piper's life.

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Piper's heart skipped a beat. The bomb attached to her chest was beeping. She had five minutes to live.

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AN: Sorry for the long wait, I just have had HUGE writer's block for this fic, as well as all the other fics that I have been working on. Please, please review, and I'll try to update as soon as I can!