Chapter 15:
Eruptions of horror exploded in the bullpen. They tried desperately to get hold of Tara and Sue, but to no avail. Jack and Bobby were panicked beyond all reasoning. D managed to convince them to let him drive to the apartment. D was scared though he knew that he had to be the strong one for Jack and Bobby's sake. As well as Myles tried to hide his emotions behind sarcasm, everyone could see in his eyes the fear of what had happened to his 2 friends. The SWAT team was sent to the apartment, and they all prayed as they rode across DC that they would find Tara and Sue safe. Jack knew deep down that wasn't the case. With the drug bust and everything that happened with Greg, he couldn't help but think something bad had happened. He just hoped he was wrong. The car was deadly silent as they raced to Lucy and Sue's apartment.
Myles and D had to hold Jack and Bobby back as the SWAT team entered the apartment. They followed them immediately into the apartment. It was a mess. The door had been scratched. There was a white cloth on the floor by the door along with broken glass and furniture strewn across their apartment. Myles picked up the white cloth and gave it a quick sniff.
"I think its chloroform. Have we found the girls yet?" He asked quietly. He had never had a great relationship with Sue. Things had started out rough and he blamed himself. He regretted having treated her with so little respect when she was one of the most amazing women he had ever met. He just hoped that he would be able to make it up to her. Jack and Bobby raced into the living room and saw Tara lying unconscious on the floor. She was bruised and cut, it was obvious she had struggled against the intruders. Bobby ran over and bent over her.
"She's still breathing, just knocked out. Someone get the paramedics!" Bobby tried to gently revive her, but she didn't stir. Levi was laying a few feet away, obviously knocked out cold. Jack searched all over the apartment in vain but couldn't find Sue. A SWAT member came up to him.
"Agent Hudson?" Jack nodded. D walked up beside him to hear what the officer had to say. "The apartment is secure. There's no one else here except this woman and dog." Jack couldn't speak. They had taken Sue. D answered for him.
"Thank you for your help." He then turned to a distraught Jack. "You need to be strong for her. I want you off this case. We are going to work our hardest to find out where Greg is." A thought suddenly popped into Jacks head.
"The drug bust." He said quietly. He could feel the fury boiling in his veins. D looked at him quizzically, and Myles walked over.
"Cain is deaf. Greg, well Pratner told him that he found someone to translate for them. He's going to use Sue." It all finally made sense.
"Is he stupid? She works for the FBI. When they let her go, she would have all the information about the drug bust. The fact Greg attacked her in the first place was incredibly stupid on his part. Did he really think she wouldn't tell us?" Myles commented.
"I talked to Sue this evening, as you all know," said Jack. "Apparently she thought it was strange too. She knew she would have to tell someone eventually. He threatened her with violence, but never once said not to tell anyone about what he did to her. Its almost like he wanted us to know. Then he had the audacity to show up at her work the next day after he attacked her? What was he playing at?"
"Well, what do we know for sure about this whole situation, maybe something is missing?" asked Myles. D answered back.
"Sue went out with Greg. She saw him talking on the phone, something about bakery, dough and finding someone. Right Jack?" Jack nodded silently. "We can assume that maybe it had something to do with the drug op because he got violent when Sue mentioned she saw part of the conversation. Maybe it wasn't in his plan for her to know that they were going to use her, or if they were even going to use her in the first place, but since he figured she knew something, they would somehow use that to their advantage?" Nothing seemed to make sense.
"But that still doesn't make sense as to why they would kidnap her, an FBI agent. Does he really think that after she gets released she wont spill everything?" Jack said in frustration.
"Unless," Myles said, almost in a whisper, "they don't plan on releasing her?" The other agents stared at him praying that he was wrong. Jack couldn't control his anger any longer. Why her? Why the hell did they have to take her?
"Damn them!" He shouted as he kicked the couch. He turned around and headed outside for a breath of fresh air.
We need to find out where they are meeting tomorrow, he told himself. You're going to find her and she's going to be okay. Jack tried to calm himself down, for Sue's sake so he could do everything in his power to get to her. He didn't hear someone come up quietly behind him.