Well this is a rather big chapter and there is a lot that goes on, so enjoy!

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"Jordan"….. a weak voice called from the corner.

"mmmmmnmnmnn" was all she could vocalize with the gag still on her face. She began to inch towards the voice. The task was very difficult seeing that she was still bound. Finally she made it to the corner where a figure was tied to a chair, it was indeed Max. He was much thinner than she remembered.

"Jordan…are you ok? Are you hurt?" He asked. Her eyes began to fill with tears as she furiously shook her head yes.

"Honey, scoot around behind me and I'll see if I can get the tape off of your mouth". She again nodded yes and made her way to his hands that were tied behind the chair.

"mmmmm….OOOOuch, that always hurts" she exclaimed. "Dad are you ok, how long have you been here, better yet why had he brought us here?"

Max began to speak weakly, "Sweetheart, slow down. I'm doing as well as expected with no food or water for.. I don't know.. two, three days, I'm still working on why we are here. All I do know is that your brother has really slipped off the deep end!"

"Well I kind of figured out the last part on my own, I thought that he was dead, he fell off that building in to the Charles that night, how can anyone survive that? Jordan said as she gnawed at the tape on her hands. "The big question.." she added, "how are we going to get out of here?"

Max wasn't sure how to tell her, he knew deep down that they would probably not get out of this situation alive, James had already threatened him with that, but how could he tell her. "Hun I just don't know…I'm too weak to try and escape, there's no chance that anyone will find out here."

"That's right! No one will find us out here!" James exclaimed as he came thru the door.

"Well, I see Miss resourceful got her gag out and almost got her hands free" James reached in his pocket and pulled out a crushed roll of duck tape and retaped Jordan's nearly freed hands, she fought him for minute but to no avail.

"Now that's better sis, now I don't think you can run off."

"Why are you doing this James, what did we do to you!" Jordan screamed in his face.

"Shut up!"James yelled as he reared his hand back and punched Jordan in the face knocking her to the floor.

"James leave her alone, this is between me and you why did you bring her here? She hasn't done anything to you!" Max exclaimed with tears beginning to fall from his eyes.

"Oh dear ol' dad, I wanted her to hear the truth…the truth from your lips about what happened to our mother before…..before I kill you like you did my mother!"

Jordan sat back up and spit the blood out of her mouth, she shook her head like she didn't really hear that, "James what are you talking about, Dad?"

"Yeah, come on dad what am I talking about?" James said sneering.

"James will you let her go if I tell her?" Max asked

"How about I don't kill her right now so you can tell her" James responded.

Max sighed and began to speak, "Do you remember when you were about 9, how sick you were? I was taking you to the doctor atleast every other week?" Jordan nodded and Max continued.

"Finally the doctor figured out what was going on, someone was poisoning you. I immediately suspected your mother but I couldn't prove anything. I searched the house but I found nothing, until one night…" Max's voice began to trail off.

"One afternoon I caught her putting something in cookies she was making for you, I asked her what it was and she said it was a vitamin, but I knew better and I confronted her about it and one thing lead to another and…..and…..I think you know what happended."

Tears were pouring down Jordan's cheeks at this point, she was in total disbelief, she couldn't speak. She just simply sat there and she began to rock back and forth a little in an attempt to comfort herself.

"You know you would have thought that you would have figured her out, you know since she tried to kill me too" James said nearly laughing. "Well now that truth is out in the open I'll leave you two for a while to say your goodbyes and I'll be back at dawn to finish this." With that James exited the room leaving a stunned Jordan and her father alone.

Jordan slowly began to speak, "why dad why did you lie to me, you've done nothing but lie to me my entire life."

"I always tried to protect you Jordan, I didn't want you to know that your own mother tried to kill you and your brother, much less that I ended up killing her to protect you. I made it look like someone had broken in, it just so happened that your brother was there the night before and left his fingerprints so it was easy to blame it on him, the story just made since so I just went with it. Sweetheart I am sorry that it had to come out this way, under these circumstances. At the very least I got to tell you the truth before….before your brother….kills us" Max spoke so softly that she could hardly hear him but she did, she heard every word and she was immediately covered up with emotions.

Jordan was so angry, she couldn't believe that her father had lied to her all these years, but a small part of her understood why…why he would have tried to protect her.

Jordan and Max didn't speak much the rest of the night. She tried to gather herself the best she could and think of a way for them to get out. Her thoughts turned to Woody, could he find her, was he even looking for her. She finally turned to the only one who she thought could help her, the man upstairs. Jordan began to pray like she had never before, she needed his help to forgive her father and for Woody to hear her heart, how she felt about him and finally that he could find her and Max in time. Her silent prayer was the last thing to cross her mind before exhaustion took her.