Chapter number 17. Tick, tock, tick, tock.

About half an hour had passed at the hide out since Irene has escaped and they still had no idea. "Boss is this a good place to berry him?" one of the gang members asked Steve, they were about five or six hundred meters down a bush track that as next to the hide out.

"Um, yeah I guess so, but you should probably start digging a bit more off the track then that so that it's less noticeable" Steve told him.

"Boss, who do you think did this?"

"I don't know, but who ever it was is going to pay when we find them".

Back at the police station Irene Irene was sitting in one of the interview rooms. "Here you go" Jack said placing a coffee cup in front of her.

"Thanks love".

"So how did it all happen?" Jack asked sitting on the other side of the desk.

"Well I just went to go and find a photo of Steve from Hayley's caravan to help her get her memory back and then Steve grabbed me from behind" Irene explained.

"Do you know where he took you?"

"Well I don't know what the place is called, but I know how to get there" She told him.

"Right well I'll get some of the other officers to take you there then, Holden I want you to go and have a break" Jacks boss ordered.

"Ok" Jack said leaving the office.

On the trail the gang had just finished berrying the dead body and were heading back to the hideout.

"So boss, when you first got back here, you said you needed help with something, just wondering what did you need help with?"

"Oh, I completely forgot, when I went back to the caravan Irene was there so I had to tie her up and put her in the back of my car" Steve told them. "Come on lets go and get her inside so we can decide what to do with her" He ordered as they raced over to Steve's car.

"Um, Boss are you sure you put her in the car?" One of the gang members who had got to the car first asked a bit concerned.

"Yeah of course I-" Steve paused when he saw all the ropes across the back seat of his car "Oh no, she's probably half way to the police by now. Come on we're going to have to find a new hide out" He said as they all headed into the planning board to decide what to do next. When they go there Steve notice the note that had been left there.

"What's that boss?"

"I think you should all take a look at this" Steve said turning the piece of paper around so that they could all read it. They all knew exactly what that one ment, it was another one of Sarah's creapy phrases she used to use, but this was her most common one 'tick, tock, tick, tock'. About a second later the old wooden shed they were in blew up and sent pieces of timber and steel flying everywhere. From the bushes about a hundred meter's away was the girl who had left the note, she stuck her head out to make sure that they were all dead then when she saw the mess that had been created she smiled satisfied and left.

Back at the Hospital Hayley was waiting in the waiting room for the test results, a few minutes pasted then the nurse asked her to come into her office.

"Is everything ok?" Hayley asked.

"Well Noah's ok, but there's something you should know"

"What is it?"

"Noah's DNA doesn't say that he's Steve's son" the nurse told her. Hayley sat there frustrated, this had happened way to many times before, why couldn't she just know who his farther was?

At the apartment that Martha shared with her grandfather Martha was going through some old photo albums when Jack knocked on the door.

"Hey, come in" She greeted him. They headed to the couch were Martha had been sitting before Jack came. "So how's Irene?" Martha asked.

"She's alright, some of the other officers have taken her so that she can show them the hide out".

"That's good now they can finally put an end to this" Martha said sounding relieved.

"See I told you everything was going to be alright, didn't I?"

"Yes you did" Martha said hugging him and berrying her head in his chest, little did she realize that she had left the photo album open on the coffee table.

"Who's that?" Jack asked, pointing to one of the photo's on the table.

Martha looked up to see what he was pointing to, "Um, u, Jack, um, there's something that you should know".

Next time:

Who was in the picture Jack asked about?

What's Martha hiding?

Will Steve's stalkers identity ever be reveled?

How will Scott take the news about Noah's parentage?