18 Hours Missing
Clarksdale Hospital
Sam looked up as Martin ran up to her and she shot him a smile. "Easy, Martin," she whispered to him, as the passing nurses gave him a questioning look. "It's okay."
"How is she?" he asked, as he looked around as Danny came up to them. "What happened?"
"She got shot, Martin," Danny said, as he shot Sam a smile. "Hi, Sam. How is she doing?"
"The doctor said that if she got hit an inch on either side, she wouldn't be alive," Sam began, as she shot a glance up at Martin. "But since she did get shot where she did, he said that she would make a quick recovery."
"Agent Spade," a nurse said to her, as she came up to her side. "Your sister's awake."
"Thank you," Sam said to the nurse, as she left. "Well that's good news. Shep's awake."
"Your sister?" Danny teased, as they headed for the room where Jesse was. "Funny to hear that you have a sister, Sam."
"It was the only way that Sam could stay with me," Jesse called out to them, as they came up to her side. "They have rules about people not being allowed in if they are not family."
"You're looking better," Danny said, as he handed over a stuffed dragon. "Thought you could use a friend."
"Did you find Zee yet?" Jesse asked, as she took the dragon from Danny."
"Not yet." Danny then took out a pad of paper and a pen from his coat. "What can you tell us about the day she went missing?"
"Nothing out of the ordinary happened." Jesse ran a hand through her hair. "Zee was jumpy but I only thought that it was because she and Dominic were going on their first real date tonight. She kept asking me girly questions on how this looks and that."
"Okay, what about the license number you gave Sam to give to Martin to run?"
"The van had been following her for a couple of days, and I didn't think that it was normal. I asked Zee a couple of times if she realized that she was being followed and she laughed it off, saying that it was probably her father's people keeping an eye on her. I really don't think those people are her father's people. They shot at us."
"We're looking into them, as we speak."
"So when can I go home?"
"In a few days," the doctor said, as he came into the room with them. "Hello, you all must be friends of Jesse's."
"Yeah, we are," Martin said, as he shook his hand. "How long really before she can be released. We need to put her into protective custody. Somebody tried to kill her earlier."
"Give her at least one more day, then she's yours."
"Sounds great." Martin then followed the doctor outside to talk.
"That can't be a good thing," Jesse said to the others, as they turned to look at her. "Marty's talking to the doctor. I'm not ever gonna be allowed to watch tv now."
Location unknown
Elizabeth Kane watched the men who had taken her from her SUV paced the room. "What do you mean, we got the wrong girl?" one asked the other, as they turned to look at her. "She looks like the other one. How are we supposed to know that we got the wrong girl?"
"We were supposed to snag the Shepherd girl, not her," the other one said, as they turned their backs to Elizabeth. "The boss man isn't going to be all that happy with us because of this."
"You think!"
Elizabeth sat in shock when she heard that she wasn't the one who was supposed to be kidnaped but her co-worker and close friend Jesse was. "Why would they want her?" she asked herself, as she watched the men start to panic again. "It doesn't make any sense. Jesse's just a volunteer worker. She's got no big money hidden anywhere. She's an orphan."
"Okay, why were we supposed to kidnap the other girl then?"
"Because she's the daughter of Victor, Idiot. If we get her, we can trade her for Victor's release."
"Right, sounds good."
Elizabeth's head was spinning with unanswered questions. 'Who was Victor?' 'What kind of life did Jesse really have?' 'Was she ever going to see her family again?'
FBI: Missing Person's Head Quarters
Vivian and Jack shot Danny and Sam a smile, as they came up to them. "How is she doing?" Vivian asked, as they took off their coats. "I take it that Martin stayed behind."
"Yeah," Danny said, as he sat down. "From what we got from Jesse, Elizabeth didn't have a single clue about the people who have been following her for the last couple of days."
"Any chance that she ran out of town?" Jack asked.
"And miss her big 'official first date'," Sam said, as she looked over at them. "I don't think that this is the type of girl who would run. She had a good life here, why leave it."
"I think I may know what really happened?" Vivian called out, as she set a piece of paper in front of them. On it was a ransom note. "They got the wrong girl."
To Whom this may concern:
We have kidnaped the infamous Jesse Shepherd, daughter of Patrick Shepherd. We are holding her ransom for the released of Victor. You don't released him and you got a dead girl on your hands.
Thank You,
The Kidnapers
"They're polite," Danny said, as he read the letter again. "I wonder how soon it will be before they realize that they got the wrong girl."
"Not much longer," Jack said as he shot a glance up at the clock. "I give her 24 hours tops."
"We have to figure out who took her."
"Call Martin, and fill him in. Danny, you and Sam go back to the shelter and talk to her co-workers. I want to know everything that they know."
"Yes, sir." They grabbed onto their coats and headed for the elevator. "Oh, this is interesting."
"Very," Sam said, as they headed back to the shelter.
19 Hours Missing
TBC
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