City
Hospital: Danny and Martin
22
hours missing
The ER was bustling with uniformed cops, FBI agents and a SWAT team. In the middle of all the chaos stood Danny and Martin. Reinforcements had arrived about three-quarters of an hour ago, they'd restored the power and searched the whole building. Not only could they not find Tony Preston, Jack and Sam had also gone missing. Danny had tried to get on them the radio and Martin had tried both their cell phones. Nothing.
"Agent Taylor, Agent Fitzgerald." A man in plainclothes walked towards them, his face unreadable. "I'm Captain Green, LAPD. Have you managed to contact your colleague yet?"
"No. They aren't answering their radio and their cell phones are reporting no signal," Martin told him, "Now what steps have you taken to try and find them?" Martin snapped back, he was worried about Sam and he was letting it get to him.
"Take it easy ok," Captain Green suggested, looking quizzically at Danny, who shrugged in reply to the unanswered question. "We've got men on every floor, this hospital in in lock down while we comb it again. They can't have left the building."
"Then where are they Captain huh? We've already searched the whole hospital," Martin asked him, clearly agitated. Captain Green didn't have an answer for that, a moment of uncomfortable silence fell.
"Excuse me Captain." The uniform from the ER tapped him on the shoulder. "Search teams found this." he handed him an evidence bag with a gun in it. "It was my partners gun."
"Where did you find it?" Danny asked, cutting off Captain Green before he could ask the same question.
"Maintenance closet, this floor," the Officer told him.
"Take us there," Danny ordered, giving Martin a look that said calm down.
City
Hospital: Jack and Sam
22
hours missing
Meanwhile in the operating room all was quiet. Jack, Sam and Sean were still sitting on the floor. Tony had sat back down on the operating table, putting Emily back down next to him, keeping his gun trained on her at all times. Nobody had spoken for several minutes, ever since Sean had begged Tony to release Emily.
"Sean I'm sorry," Tony apologised sincerely, suddenly breaking the silence.
Jack and Sam shared a glance, unsure of what was happening, Tony had invested a lot in this, far too much to suddenly see reason now. Sean breathed a sigh of relief and started to stand up.
"I don't believe a word you just said," Tony added.
Sean looked at him from his crouched position. Suddenly Tony swung his gun round and fired twice at Sean who collapsed instantly. Tony stood up and seemingly oblivious of Jack and Sam aimed it at Emily Mason. Before he could pull the trigger Sam swung her leg out and knocked his feet out from under him. He fell forward accidentally squeezing off a round, Jack from his sitting position lunged forward, landing on top of him. Tony struggled and tried to club Jack with the butt of his gun. Before he could Sam grabbed his arm, she brought it crashing down on the floor, forcing him to lose the grip on the gun. She then pulled her handcuffs out and with Jack pinning Tony down she clicked them on.
"You're under arrest," Jack told him as he rolled back on to the floor.
"Yeah." Sam smiled faintly, offering Jack a hand up. "You have the right to remain silent but anything you do say can and will be used against you in a court of law." Jack winced as he put weight on his bad knee, ignoring the pain he limped over to the sink where he picked up his gun and Sam's.
"You have the right to an attorney during all questioning," Jack continued limping back, he handed Sam her gun she immediately reloaded it. "Do you understand these rights?" Jack asked, slamming a new magazine into his own gun. Tony Preston mumbled something inaudible. "I'll take that as a yes then," Jack stated. "Sam see to Dr Mason will you. It doesn't look like he's losing that much blood." Jack then limped over to the operating table where gently he removed Emily Mason's gag. "How you doing, sweetheart? I'm Jack Malone FBI, we've been looking for you," Jack told her smiling reassuringly. Over with Sean Mason Sam tensed.
Flashback Fall out Part 2
Jack moved over to Samantha and knelt down next to her. Sam looked at him, her breathing shallow and laboured, eyes begging him to help her. Jack reached down and lightly brushed her hair at her forehead with his knuckles.
"How you doing, sweetheart?" Jack asked, his eyes full of worry.
End Flashback Fall out Part 2
Shaking her head Sam thrust the memory to the back of her mind as she concentrated on the task at hand. She needed something to use as a pressure pad, while Sean Mason appeared to have 'borrowed' a bulletproof vest to go along with his windbreaker, he hadn't fastened it properly. Consequently fragments of the two bullets had penetrated the vest giving him some very nasty gashes, one of which Sam was sure had hit an artery.
"Daddy," Emily wailed, Jack's breath caught in his throat. He looked back, his eyes meeting with Sam's. He could tell from her expression that it was worse than he had thought it to be.
"Come on sweetheart." Jack removed the last of her bindings, he then reached down and picked her up as if she were a baby. Ignoring his knee he carried her to the door. "Your daddy will be fine I promise. Now let's get out of this miserable place hey."
