I've been having some writer's block. I suppose that happens when you're writing more than one story at a time. At any rate, here is the next chapter. Enjoy!

Gone

Sonny held Emily for a while, then he remembered that she had beaten him back to the room and he had wanted to put some bugs in her room and set up a nice candelight dinner for her.

"I have a surprise for you, but I need you to get out of here for a while. I'm going to go get Elizabeth, and I'll be right back."

Emily watched him go with a smile on her face. She was so happy to have him in her life. She decided then and there that if she never remembered her past, she was going to simply go forward with a new life making new memories with her friends, family, and with Sonny.

When the door opened, Emily looked up to see the man who had introduced himself as Nikolas. She smiled at him and asked him to sit down for a minute. Manny made his way to the chair next to her bed.

"I just wanted to apologize if I seemed rather stiff with you earlier. For some reason being around you really creeped me out. I didn't remember that your cousin, who was a dead ringer for you, raped me a few months ago. I hope you can understand my unease."

Manny smiled and pulled a handkerchief out of his pocket. "Oh, but that isn't really the reason you should be uneasy around me. You see, I want revenge on Sonny, and I'm going to use you to get it." Having said that, Manny grabbed Emily and forced the handkerchief over her mouth and nose. As she got weaker and started to lose consciousness, Emily heard him say, "I'm not Nikolas, my name is Manny, and Sonny is going to pay."

Manny picks up Emily and carries her out of her room and into the nearest stairwell. Downstairs in the parking garage, he loads her into a waiting car and then he hops in. "Take me to the cabin." Manny rolls down the window and tosses the handkerchief out. He wants Sonny to know it was him who took her.

Sonny and Elizabeth return to Emily's room and she's not there. "Do you think she's in the bathroom?" Sonny shakes his head no. He can tell by the look of the sheets on the bed that she was taken forcibly from the room. "Elizabeth I need you to alert the hospital security that Emily's been taken. Hurry!"

Elizabeth leaves to do that, and Sonny calls Jason who was elsewhere in the hospital. "Manny made his move while I least expected it. I went to get Elizabeth to get her out of the room while I set up some bugs, and Manny came in and took her. I think he must have drugged her. The sheets indicate a struggle, but she must not have made any noise otherwise somebody would have noticed. Start in the part of the parking garage nearest to southwest stairwell number 4."

Sonny hung up the phone and made his way to the stairwell. He slowly and quietly opened the door. Insteading of heading down towards the garage, he decided to start towards the roof. He climbed very slowly, trying to pick up any trace that Manny had taken her this way. He found nothing, and stood on the roof beating himself up for leaving her alone.

"I should have posted a guard outside her room. I should have known that Manny wasn't going to wait forever to make his move. Dammit! Hang on Emily! I'm coming to get you. I'll find you if it's the last thing I do!"

The phone rings and it's Jason. "We found a handkerchief down here. It smells like chloroform. I think he put it here on purpose so that we'd know for sure it was him. Do you want me to call Mac Scorpio?"

"No, I'll do it. Keep looking and see if you can find any witnesses."

Sonny called Mac. "Mac, this is Sonny. I know you're not a fan of mine, but Emily's been taken. We believe it's Manny Ruiz. We found out yesterday that his family had found a man who looked very much like Manny, but we didn't know what he was going to be doing. We think the man in Manny's room right now is that imposter."

"Sonny, if that's true, than the whole 'changed man' routine he put on was fake. I'll send some people over to take a look at the guy in Manny's room and see if we can verify if it's him or not. Do you have anything else to tell me?"

"Jason found a cloth with chloroform on it. We think Manny left it there on purpose. Jason put it in a plastic bag. He's also trying to see if he can find any witnesses. We're willing to work with the PCPD in order to get Emily back as quickly as possible."

"Okay Sonny, I'll have my men get on this right now. Thanks for the call."

"Hang on Emily! I'm coming to get you. I'm not going to lose you. Not now, not ever!"

Somewhere in the darkness she could hear his voice. He was coming to get her. He was going to save her no matter what.

"Hurry Sonny, I need you."