The Past Always Comes Back by Nehebka
Chapter 10
"What's wrong?" asked Mac.
"I don't know. He asked me to bring him a glass of water and when I came back, he wasn't there" explained Aiden.
"Was he ok when you left him?"
"I don't know Mac" sighed Aiden. "When I told him that we're a team and he should have trusted us he adopted a skeptical attitude"
"What do you mean?"
"It-it was as if he had lost faith in us as a team"
Mac nodded guilty. He had been too much demanding and hard with him. "Ok don't worry. We'll find him wherever he is"
"What if something bad has happened to him?-"
"Don't think the worse ok" interrupted her. "I'll call Flack, he'll meet you in the hospital and you two we look for him. Meanwhile ask if somebody has seen him. Stella and I'll go to Central Park to see if we find any evidence that can tell us who attacked him".
She nodded "ok, if there's any news I'll let you know" said and put down the phone. She asked nurses, doctors and patients. Nobody had seen anything strange. She went to the hospital reception. "Aiden Burns" introduced herself showing her police badge. "Are there any security cameras in the building?"
"Well, not in the rooms, of course but in the hallways" said the nurse.
"Can I see them?"
"I'll have to ask the director. Please, can you wait here?" asked the nurse.
Aiden nodded and sat on the chairs that were in front of the reception.
"Hey" said Flack who got closer to Aiden. "What's up? Mac told me that Danny has disappeared. What the hell is happening?"
"I don't know" sighed. "I asked to see the videos of the security cameras. Maybe they'll tell us what happened".
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Flack and Aiden watched the surveillance video.
"This is one big hospital. How we're supposed to find him" Aiden sighed.
"He couldn't just vanish, Aiden. A camara must have record him leaving the hospital" said Flack. "What's your theory?"
"I'm afraid that he could have been kidnapped and-"
"Take a look at this" interrupted her.
"What?" said Aiden who got up and stepped in front of the monitor. "Jeez-"
On the screen there was Danny who was laming through the hallway.
"That's him" said Flack.
"And he's alone so-"
"So the theory that he may be kidnapped falls apart. He ran off" concluded Flack.
"What the hell were you thinking Messer?" Aiden wondered aloud still looking at the screen. He wore casual clothes. Aiden knew him too well to recognize that those clothes were not his. He must have taken from another patient. If he had ran away with the hospital clothes somebody should have taken noticed of him and stopped him.
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Mac and Stella went to Central Park where Danny was found to look for any evidence that could tell them who attacked their friend. Central Park was a very crowded area. If there was any evidence such as footprints the millions of visitors must have destroyed them. However they found something quite interesting. A piece of wood. In the extreme of the wood there were some trace of what it seemed blood. Mac swabbed it and found it to be positive for blood. He put it in a bag and hoped that it'd be the clue to solve the case.