A/N- I forgot to say, I own nothing. I do have a first season DVD set, but technically nothing belongs to me (altho if anyone touches that set, they are in BIG trouble!). Also, let's just say this is Sam's first or second case after Fallout.

Thanks for reading!

Missing- 13 hours

Jack Malone hung a school photo of Julie Sharp on the bulletin board. He turned to his team, who were seated around the round table they always sat out for briefings. "This is Julie Megan Sharp, age eleven. She's been missing for thirteen hours. The last people to have seen her are her grandparents, whom she was traveling with and we've had no contact with them either, and her father," he told themas he took his place at the table.

"Names? I'll run them through the databases, see if anything comes up." Vivian Johnson asked.

"The grandparents are Bernard and Elinor Sharp. He's about sixty five and she's fifty nine. The father is Michael Sharp, age thirty seven." he explained.

"What about her mother?" Martin Fitzgerald spoke up.

"I haven't gotten any information about her yet. It's almost although Julie never had a mother."

"Maybe I should go talk to the neighborhood kids, see if they think anything is out of sorts with Julie." Danny Taylor suggested.

"Jack nodded. "Good idea. Martin, I want you and Samantha to go see Michael Sharp. I'm going to see if I can get a warrant to search the grandparents' home, see if we can find anything that says this disapperance was planned."

They all began to leave to the table to complete their assignments except Samantha Spade, who'd remained unusually silent during the briefing.

"Sam, you coming?" Martin asked her.

"Yeah, sure, I'll be there in a minute." she replied, distractly.

"All right. I'll meet you up front, say, in ten minutes?"

"Sounds good." she agreed.

Martin left the office, feeling slightly confused by Sam's behavior. She just hadn't been herself, not since the shooting had happened nearly two months ago.

"Jack?" Samantha began tentatively.

"Sam, I gave your assignement."

"Yes, yes, I know that. But I'm not sure if, if," she faltered and stopped talking.

Jack came over to her and said, "You'll be fine, it's just like any other case. We'll get the bad guys, they'll go to jail, Julie will be, well, I don't know yet. That's why you have to go talk to Michael Sharp."

Samantha started to say something but stopped. Instead she just nodded her head. Jack grinned at her and patted her back. "Go out there and do your job. You'll be great, you always are."

Somehow this seemed longer in my notebook then it does here. But seriously, what do y'all think? Sarah Kathryn