CHAPTER 2

The colour quickly drained from Calleigh's face as she hung up her cell phone and put it back on her belt, she looked distraughtly at Tim. A very scared and worried look seeping onto Tim's face as he spoke to her,

"Honey, what's wrong?" Tim grapped Calleigh's arm as a tear trickled down her cheek.

"H needs us at the scene of a kidnapping" she replied trying not to burst into tears.

"Okay, but, honey why are you trying not to cry?" Tim asked, wiping a tear from his wife's face.

"Tim, baby," she cupped his face in her hands, "the scene of the kidnapping is our house."

"Let's go, come on Delko," Tim said hastily, rushing to get to the Hummer and back to his and Calleigh's house, the thought of one of his daughters hurt, or not being safe, it broke Tim's heart.

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Tim and Calleigh ran into their house, looking for their daughters, and Horatio. They walked into their living room and saw Horatio comforting their eldest daughter, Becky, who wouldn't stop crying.

"Becky, honey, what happened" Tim said as his daughter turned from Horatio and ran to her father hugging him tightly.

"Mom, dad, I'm so sorry, they knocked me out, and they took her, I… there wasn't anything I could do and they took her, they took Alyssa." Becky said through her tears, and she cried into her dad's chest. Tim rubbed her back trying to calm her down.

"Shhh, it's alright, Becky you did nothing wrong" Calleigh said hugging her daughter. Horatio walked to where Calleigh, Tim and Becky were standing. He put his hand on Tim's shoulder, trying to comfort him.

"Tim can I talk to you outside a minute?" Horatio whispered in Tim's ear.

"Yeah, sure, I'll be right back Becky, stay her with your mom" Tim turned and followed Horatio out to the front yard.

"We're gonna find her Tim, I promise, I'll find her," Horatio said, as he was about to say something else his phone started ringing, he turned around and talked on the phone for about 2 or 3 minutes, then he turned back to Tim, who was pacing, when he saw the look on Horatio's face he stopped in front of Horatio.

"H, I know that look, what's wrong, did they find a body?" Tim's face was white at the thought.

"No, worse, do you remember John Prior?" Horatio asked.

"It's kinda hard to forget a guy like that; he kidnapped, raped then killed six little girls, and the jury on his case wouldn't give him the death penalty. What about him?" Tim said.

"Uh, Tim I don't know quite how to say this, uh, he broke out of jail about three hours before Alyssa was kidnapped."

"Ha, no, you gotta be jokin', there is a child molester and killer out there and my baby is missing," Tim looked at the look Horatio's face "you think Prior took Ally?"

"Tim I really don't know, I don't think you should……" Horatio said, but Tim walked inside before he could finish the sentence,"tell Calleigh" he said to himself. Tim had rushed back into his living room to tell Calleigh, but she wasn't there, he turned to Becky.

"Becky," he pulled her into a hug, "are you gonna be okay while I go and talk to your mom? Where is she anyway?"

"Yeah I'll be fine," she looked up into her dad's chocolate eyes, "she said she was going up to Ally's room." Tim went to walk away but Becky held him even tighter,

"I love you daddy" she said quietly into chest,

"I love too baby, I gotta go talk to your mom okay," he felt her nod on his chest, and went upstairs to find his wife.

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Tim walked into Alyssa's bedroom and saw Calleigh sitting on the bed, crying. He walked to the bed and sat down next to his wife, she buried herself in his arms.

"Tim, I want her back, I want her back now," Calleigh sighed as she looked at Tim as he picked up a picture of his whole family in front of their house, with the picture still in his hand, he sat back down next to Calleigh and held her tightly again.

"Calleigh, honey, there's something I have to tell you," Tim said as Calleigh looked into his loving eyes.

"Tim, what is it?" Asked Calleigh, who now was looking more scared than when Horatio told her that one of her daughters was missing.

Tim sighed, "Uh, you remember John Prior?" Calleigh nodded, "well, uh, he broke out of prison this afternoon, about three hours before Ally was taken."

Calleigh again burst into tears as Tim rubbed her back gently in an effort to calm her down.