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By now, the entire County hospital knew that something was seriously wrong. When the first police car showed up, it was no big deal, cops were always at the ER. But when the media began showing, everyone became suspicious. Susan and Kerry had tried to keep Abby's disappearance quite, but it was no use when the police and media were interviewing anyone wearing scrubs.

Jake, Susan and Kerry had taken to staying hidden in the lounge, trying to avoid the never ending questions, but wondering the same ones themselves. What had happened to Abby? Where was she? Was she even still alive? They all wanted the answers, but only the answers that had happy endings attached to them, especially the last one.

"Excuse me," the lounge door suddenly opened and two men appeared. "Is Dr. Lewis available?" one of them asked. He was a tall man, dressed in all black, he looked like a man who had power.

"I'm Dr. Lewis," all three doctors stood up to greet the man.

"Agent Mike Fisher,"

"Agent?" Jake's heart skipped a beat, "agent" was not a title that belonged to anyone working in the police force, agent was reserved for people with the FBI, CIA, big crime investigators. The police had to know something, or else the agent would not have been called in.

"Yes, I'm with the FBI," he pulled his badge out and flashed it around. "I'm here to investigate Dr. Lockhart's disappearance,"

"Of course that's why he's here," Jake thought to himself.

"Has anything like this ever happened? I mean has she ever just disappeared?"

"We know what you meant," Jake's patience was wearing thin, the more time they wasted talking in the lounge, the longer it would take to get Abby back. He knew what had happened to his girl friend, and he knew that that's what the FBI was most likely thinking. So if they already knew who had abducted Abby, why were they wasting time talking to him?

"Jake," Susan's voice warned, telling him to keep his temper. She refocused her attention back to Fisher "She was kidnapped from our ambulance bay in January, but the gang returned her a few hours later,"

Fisher nodded as he jotted down some notes in his note pad "did they arrest the people responsible for that?" he watched as all three shook their heads.

By now Jake had lost it, "Do you think that standing here making small talk with me is such a good idea," Jake's patience was wearing thin with the man from the FBI. "I mean she's in danger and you are acting like it's not big deal." He tapped his foot against the ground. "Really shouldn't you be out there actually trying to find Dr. Lockhart?"

"Jake," Kerry started to say something but was immediately cut off.

"No! Abby is gone, don't you understand that Susan? She is a female doctor who just happens to live in Chicago right now and she has vanished, there is no trace of her anywhere. Does that match anyone's profile there Agent Fisher, someone that you might just have interest in, she's in trouble, danger, in over her head and right now you need to get your ass out of this ER and find her." Jake was livid, worried and frustrated right now and his voice showed all the emotion that he was feeling, "you cannot just stand here and wait for her to turn up." Jake turned around looking straight at the FBI agent, "if you won't do something to find her, I swear to God I will do it myself."

Fisher felt this man's anger, after all his girlfriend was more then likely in the hands of a psycho. Who wouldn't be angry? If Jake hadn't been worried or acting like this, Fisher might have become suspicious. "Alright, do you have recent photo of Dr. Lockhart?"

Susan reached into her locker, "I have this one, it was taken around thanksgiving of the past year, she still looks the same now as she did when it was taken." She reluctantly handed over the photo, wondering how she was going to get Jake to calm down. This was definitely once again very stressful on the entire staff, now not only was there a murder loose in Chicago but he had stuck right here at the very ER, within the walls where they had all considered themselves safe.

"Thank you. I just want to let everyone know, we are going to do everything we can for Dr. Lockhart, the media is going to have a field day with this, I just want to warn you. I would advice you not to say anything to them, not until we know what has happened to Dr. Lockhart."

Nobody had noticed that Carter and snuck in and was standing in the corner just absorbing all the information this man from the FBI. Abby was missing, again. And it scared the hell out of him. He waited until the agent had finished talking before making his presence known.

"He has her doesn't he?" everyone turned to look at him, he had asked the question nobody wanted to.

"Who?"

"The Michigan Avenue Strangler," Carter pushed off the wall and went to join the circle.

"I don't know,"

"If you didn't think so, you wouldn't be here Agent Fisher, so why don't you just tell us what we should expect,"

There was a moment of silence as Fisher gathered his thoughts about how exactly to address this. "Excuse me Dr.."

"Carter, John Carter."

"Dr. Carter, I cannot release any information right now, but obviously you already know what the FBI is thinking. If Dr. Lockhart is the victim of our suspect, I'm sure you already know what to expect."

"How long does she have before he.." Susan left the question open ended, she couldn't form the words.

"We don't know,"

"Then what the hell do you know?" Jake yelled, this agent was treating Abby's case as if it was nothing unusual, that it didn't matter if she was in the hands of a killer. Jake watched Fisher's expression, "you don't have anything on him do you? He has been terrifying this city for what a month now? And you still know next to nothing about him? Abby doesn't stand a chance does she?"

Fisher by now, could no longer deal with these doctors criticizing him about his every move. He was a professional and knew exactly what he was doing. The next thing he would say would put them in their place, let them know that the FBI was not just lying down on the job. But it was also a horrible way of gaining the upper hand in situations like this, but it had to be done.

"We know that if Dr. Lockhart is not found alive within two weeks, we will find her body shortly after that," and then he left the room, going back to his task force, hoping to have found something that could lead him to an idea of what exactly had happened to Abby Lockhart.

There was no an eerie silence in the room as what the agent said sunk in even more, no one wanted to say anything let alone think that they didn't have much time for Abby to still be alive. That she could very well be this sick man's next victim. It hit even harder home for Carter, who had fallen victim to a psycho himself. They all just looked at the floor lost in there own thoughts waiting for the man to leave, to do his job, to find their Abby and to find her alive. For none of them was willing to give up hope that she was still alive. She had to be still alive, the other alternative just wasn't acceptable. They had to have faith that Abby would fight for her life, they knew she would. Abby wouldn't just give up. But that didn't mean that her kidnapper wouldn't give up either, that he would let her live. If she was with the Michigan Strangler, the only chance she had was the FBI, and so far they had nothing. Abby was on her own.