Calleigh sighed and stared at the computer, watching AFIS try and come up with a match to the prints she lifted off the money.
"Hey."
"How did you get here?"
"Eric. He and Valera came over to watch the kids while I came to help you."
"I want you to relax."
"I need to find Anna." Tim said, wincing as he sat down. "Where are these prints from?"
"Money whoever has Anna handed to the nurse at the hospital. How're you feeling?"
"I'm fine." Tim lied. Calleigh knew he was lying, and he knew she knew too. "Fine, it hurts like a bitch."
"Then why did you come?"
"I don't care if my guts were hanging out and I was on the verge of dying. Nothing is going to keep me from finding our daughter."
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"How can you be so stupid!" Jack yelled. "They're gonna find us! Didn't you see she's all over the news!"
"She's my daughter! I couldn't let her just walk around with that gash across her forehead! She needed medical attention! What if she had a concussion and slipped into a coma?"
"Good then!"
"How could you say that?" Michelle exclaimed. "It doesn't matter. We'll be out of Miami in a few hours and they'll never hear from any of us again."
"You're a total idiot Michelle. Your fingerprints are all over that money. Speedle's gonna find you and get Anna back."
"No he's not. It doesn't matter if he finds my fingerprints. Like I said, we'll be out of Miami in a few hours. They're not going to find us where we're going."
Anna sat on the stairs and listened. She was going to have to do something fast if she didn't want to be stuck with Michelle and Jack for the rest of her life.
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"Okay so it is Michelle." Calleigh said. "Now what?"
"Find her somehow. She has to be living somewhere. She's been out of jail for four months. She has to be paying bills. Where are they being sent?"
Calleigh typed a few things and got Michelle's records.
"They're going to a PO box." she said. "She's obviously been planning this."
"Credit cards then." Tim said. Calleigh checked.
"As of now, there has been no activity on any credit cards she has."
"Bank accounts. She has to have something somewhere."
Again, Calleigh checked.
"She has a bank account but the last time she took any money out was three weeks ago, and it was a large sum of money, $200,000. As of today, she had it closed."
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Anna groaned as she tried to open the window in the room she was sleeping in. It seemed glued shut though. Finally, it opened and Anna pushed the screen out. After sneaking out a few times, she had become a pro at climbing out of windows. Lucky for her, the window opened out to a tiny roof, most likely an alcove of some sort in the house. Right by the roof was a large tree that she could easily climb into and out of. Anna had one foot on the roof when the door opened.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Jack yelled. He quickly walked over to her, grabbing Anna's arm roughly. She yelled in pain as she hit the floor. "Tried escaping huh? That's not going to work."
"Oh Jack leave her alone." Michelle walked into the room and Anna stared up at them. She felt something trickling down the side of her face and she swiped at it. When she saw her hand she realized it was blood and glanced around to see what could've cut her face. She realized her stitches ripped open from when her head hit the floor. "If she tried climbing out the window then the pitbull would've just gotten her."
"There's no pitbull out there." Anna said. "I would've heard or saw him."
"That's what you think. Come on. We're leaving."
"I don't want to go."
"Too bad. Come on. We're gonna start over and we're going to be a real family."
"Really?" Anna cocked her head to the side. "I have a real family and they don't hit me."
"Well we're not going to hit you. Well... unless you don't do what we say."
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"We finally have something!" Calleigh exclaimed, coming into the break room. "A woman in a rough part of town said that Michelle's her neighbor."
"Let's go!" Tim exclaimed. Twenty minutes later, the couple, Horatio, and Eric were outside a shabby looking house.
"Okay. Let's just walk in." Eric said.
"Hold on." Horatio held up a hand and walked up to the front door. "We'll go in like adults, then arrest them."
He knocked on the door and waited. No one answered.
"Oh screw this. They know we're out here." Tim tried the doorknob and was surprised to find it unlocked.
"Door's open!" Eric forewarned.
"Anna!" Tim called. About a half hour out of Miami, Michelle and Jack were having a good time laughing about how stupid Miami's 'finest' were.