ArodLoverus2001, anmodo, and paminae - Thanks for your kind reviews! I am so glad you are enjoying this fic! Stacie is a personal character creation of mine and I have really fallen in love with her. I am a huge Danny fan and I think he needs a really strong willed woman as a love match...a woman who will go a few rounds with him, but also brings out his sensitive side!

anmodo - I began reading some of your fics and they are great! I'm planning on reading more when I get some time!

Here's some more. Just a little technical stuff to get the story moving along a little bit...

Chapter Six - Breaking it Wide Open

FBI offices - Twenty Three Hours Missing

"Bobby Harris has an older sister named Claudia Reynolds. She has a rap sheet full of misdemeanors a mile long - drunk and disorderly, solicitation, DWI, breaking and entering. She's a real winner." Jack Malone briefed his team on all the information they had compiled in the last two hours. "Natalie identified her DMV photo as 'Mother'. According to Natalie, he recruits the girls and she delivers them to the customers."

Sam began filling in the details she got from her interview with Natalie. "We think Bobby is slipping the girls some rufies, the date rape drug, to get them to the basement. He's a good looking kid so he uses that to his advantage. He talks them up with the term paper scam, takes them out for lunch, and then spikes their drink. When the girls come out of it, they have no idea how they ended up in the basement. From there, it is terror and intimidation to keep them from running away when they meet their clients."

"Does Natalie know where this basement is?" Martin asked, leaning forward in his chair.

"No clue." Danny answered. "There are no windows. When they go out, Mother makes them ride in the back of a cargo van."

"Sex slaves." Martin shook his head. "Forced to do God knows what against their will. These are the days when I hate my job."

The rest of the team shook their head in agreement, as Jack asked Martin, "What about Natalie's parents?"

Martin checked his notes. "We're trying to find them in Mexico. The cops in the Bronx think the parents went south for work.. We're checking with the authorities in Juarez. "

"Natalie says they sold her for $500.00." Sam added.

Jack looked at Sam, as Martin continued, "We're going to have Natalie look at photos of other missing girls from the tri-state area ranging in age fromtwelve through eighteen. Hopefully we can get some identifications madeand then begin contacting other parents of missing girls. See if there are any commonalities."

"Any common links between Natalie and Maggie?" Jack wanted to know.

Danny shook his head. "Only the fact that they are both fifteen year old females. Natalie grew up on the Bronx, Maggie is from TriBeCa. Different races, different schools, no common friends, or hang outs. The only link they have is Bobby Harris."

"Jack! We've got something here."

Jack and the team headed over to where Vivian was working with Ty Marshall, the lead technical consultant and computer specialist. "The ulcers in Natalie's mouth are caused by cryptosporidiosis,more commonly calledcrypto." Vivian explained. "It's a gastro-intestinal disease transmitted by microscopic parasites found in water."

"About a year ago, the Department of Public Works found crypto in the parts of the city's sewage system." Ty continued, pulling up a map of the five boroughs on the computer screen. He highlighted certain areas of the city, mainly located in Brooklyn and Queens. "These are the eighteen areas that still need to get their pipes cleaned."

"Eighteen?" Danny snapped. "It might as well be eighteen hundred." They didn't have the time to go knocking on doors in eighteen areas looking for 'Mother' and the girls.

"Hold on, Sport, we're not done." Vivian came back at him, knowing this case was beginning to get to him. His concern for Maggie, and her sister, was written all over his face. Turning back to the computer, she continued, "We also identified the pine needle found in Natalie's hair. It was a Pinus Bucksiana...Jack Pine."

Ty began punching up a few more screens on his computer. "It's not indigenous to New York, but is often planted in community parks by city beautification groups." He pulled up a final screenas he continued talking. "Plug in the areas where Jack Pines are plantedand what we know about the neighborhoods that may have crypto, it brings us down to 7 neighborhoods."

Jack shook his head before Danny could say anything else. "It's good work, but still not good enough guys. Chances are those girls are being raped again as we speak. We need that number down to one neighborhood."

Vivian nodded in agreement. "We have some more test resultscoming up from the lab which may give us some more to go on."

"OK," Jack said, turning back to the team, "now we find Bobby Harris."