A.N.: This chapter is dedicated to Keylie for being the first to update to the last chapter. I would like to give special thanks to Mrs. Nikki Slater for reviewing to every chapter. And again, I'm sorry for the long wait. Also, the next chapter is going to be the last. And wow, I got a flame this time. Imagine that?

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Someday

Hunting The Fallen

We made good time on the way to the hospital. Considering that everyone was sleeping in, I mean. In this part of Indiana, the whole town is closed down the day of and after the celebration. Actually, any celebration in general.

Nina didn't really understand why I needed to see Rob in order to find Kat. I would have told her everything right then, but I couldn't. I couldn't tell her about the gunshot and the person who tried to shoot my daughter. I couldn't tell by best friend that I recognized the person who shot Rob. I couldn't…and for that, I'm a wimp. A pathetic, useless, wimp.

The nurses at the front desk wouldn't let us up the elevator. They said that only family of the patients could go up. I tried, okay? I tried to explain that I was related, but they didn't believe me, so I resorted to drastic measures. I pulled out my badge. Don't you just love the government?

Anyway, they had no choice but to let us up then. I was actually nice and knocked on the door before I went in. Normally, I'll just go straight into a room without thinking about the consequences, I should have learned my lesson way back then.

The first thing I heard when I opened the door was a lady saying, "You? Get out of here! We don't want you here."

"Hi, Rob. And his wife." I walked into the room and stood in a spot where I could keep both of them in my eyesight.

"Jess, I wasn't expecting to see you here." Rob looked me over. Even though he has a wife. Yeah, the same one who was right next to him.

Rolled my eyes and said, "I need your help, Kat's missing."

Rob frowned, "She did ran off last night, did you ever think that she didn't want to be found?"

I slapped him. And his wife didn't seem to like that. At all. I clicked off the safety on my gun and pointed at the wife, "Listen to me, I don't like you. I wouldn't care right now if you and your bastard husband died. All I want is my daughter. To get her I need your husband's help, so, if you don't want a bullet lodged in your brain, I suggest you let him help me."

I was so caught up in what I was saying I hadn't even noticed Rob try to stand up, or Nina actually help him and held her arm around his waist to hold him as he struggled to walk over to us. Now, don't ask me how he hurt his legs. The last I knew, he had hurt his shoulder, not his legs. He put his hand on my wrist and lowered it to the point where it wasn't in the way of making his wife look like a pincushion. "Jess, leave my wife alone. I'll help you find her. She's my daughter, too."

I looked intently at the red handprint on his cheek before I looked into his eyes and said venomously, "If you ever say that again, I swear you'll be wishing I castrate you."

Nina decided to intercept before it got too out of hand. "Jay, I think we should get a list of suspects. Don't you think?"

"Nina, I already know who took her. I just don't know where they took her."

Rob looked at me like I had two heads, "So, you know who took Kat, you even know why, but you need my help to find them?"

"That's about right." Hell, maybe I was crazy coming back to Indiana for Kat anyway. Maybe I should have said no or something. It would have made this a hell of a lot easier.

Nina looked upset that I hadn't told her, "Who took her?"

"Maggie."

I could tell that she was trying to think of who Maggie was. But it wasn't coming to her. I couldn't blame her, it took me a while to get it too. "Do you remember that case we were assigned to the last time we were in Indiana? The one with the psychic who could control people's minds?"

"Now that you mention it…yeah I do. So your saying she kidnapped Kat? But why?"

"As I said, it took me a while to get it, but do you remember when you shot her?"

She contemplated for a second before she said, "Yeah, I shot her in the leg. Her right thigh if I remember correctly."

"Well, there was someone who tried to shot Kat at the fireworks last night. A person far away, but was limping on their right leg when they were running away."

"So, what you're telling me is that this Maggie lady kidnapped Kat to get back at you for bringing down her stealing business?" She looked at me apprehensively. It was kind of hard to believe.

Rob, who had been silent as I was talking to Nina, said, "She tried to kill Kat, but because I took the bullet for her, Maggie couldn't kill Kat. So when Kat ran off, she decided to kidnap her, probably deciding it was better than killing Kat off the bat because it would make Jess suffer more."

"Correct."

Nina's phone went off the next second when the silence had settled between the four of us. She looked at the caller-ID and answered the phone with a smile on her face, "De Silva. Hey baby, what's up? Okay, put them on. Hey sweeties, be good for your Papa and I'll be home in a few days, okay? I miss you guys too. Love you babies. Goodnight. I love you too Jesse." She hung up the phone and said to us, "Sorry, my kids wanted to say goodnight before they went to sleep."

"You mean they wanted another reason to stay awake?" We both laughed knowing it was true. Those three can be menaces, I swear.

Rob's nameless wife said impatiently, "What do you need Robbie for?"

Wow, Robbie, not even his own mother called him that. I even saw the slight tweak of his jaw as he said it. I can't even believe that he married her!

"The thing is that Robbie here knows where Maggie is hiding, don't you?"

"Don't call me that Jess, and you know I don't." He'll get mad at me for saying it, me, the love of his life, but he won't get mad at his wife. That's so unfair. Of course, the love of his life part is probably an over exageration. Rob obviously doesn't love me all that much anymore.

Nina smiled slightly and said, "But you know her alias, right Jay?"

I nodded and said, "She goes by Sammie-Rae here in town."

His eyes widened and he stuttered out, "S-She lives over on the other side of town. Are you saying that Sammie-Rae kidnapped my daughter?"

I glared at him. Kat was only his daughter biologically, besides that, there was no connection between the two. I didn't even bother answering, "We have to go. I hope you feel better Robbie. Bye wifey-poo." I was laughing all the way out of the hospital.

We drove over to the house that Robbie told us to go to. All the lights were out and it almost looked like there was nobody in the house, the car in the driveway was a dead give away though. Stupid people trying to kidnap kids and hide them in their house, with their car in the freaking driveway!

Both Nina and I drew our guns and switched off the safety before kicking the door in. In movies, only the guys bust down the doors. It's almost like the girls are too weak to do it. I mean, I can bench press 100 pounds, I'm not weak. I can kick in a door as good as any guy on the force. Movies seriously degrade women, I swear.

We went through all the rooms on the first floor and saw that there was no one there. We couldn't hear anything at all. You would think they would make some kind of noise, right? Anyway, we headed upstairs as quietly as we could. The only noise we heard was those damn creaking floorboards. And man, I hate those things.

We opened the door to the first room silently. I peeked in first and saw Kat tied to the bedposts. She didn't look bad for being kidnapped, believe me, I've seen much worse. But seeing my daughter tied up like that triggered an explosive chain if fury wanting to be released on one single person. We saw that person the second the door opened fully. Yeah, she was hiding behind the door of the room. Talk about being stupid.

"Hello, Maggie. I believe you have something that's mine."

"Hello, Lightning Girl, I believe you took away something that was mine a while back."

I rolled my eyes. Out of the corner of my peripheral vision, I saw Maggie draw a gun. Before I had really known what happened, Nina shot her, again. This time, it was through the head. I ran over to Kat and untied the cords binding her.

"Mom! I'm so sorry; I promise I'll never run off again. I love you so much…"

She was about to go on, but I shushed her and put a finger on her lips. "It's all right, sweetie. As long as you're all right?"

She nodded and tried to look over my shoulder at Nina and the lady who had kidnapped her, but I stepped in front of her view. "Mom, can we go back home now?"

"My thoughts exactly." We rose and left Indiana behind.

A.N.: Okay, only the epilogue left. I hope you all liked that. If you wanted it to be longer, I'm sorry, but it is not so. I would have, honest, but it's almost one a.m. now, and I'm really tired. Now can you guys all do me a favor and review for me, please? I'll give you chocolate.