Betrayed: Chapter 2
by OLTLfantimes10
"Shaun Patrick McBain stop playing around come out here right now!" she was yelling now and if Shaun was hiding he knew it was time to come out. She went from room to room, "Shaun Patrick McBain get your tail out here right now, or I will call your father and have him come and find you!" Still no Shaun.
"Shaun, Shaun!" she went running back into his room and froze at the door. She saw the curtain in his room blowing around. His window was open. She walked over to it and heard glass crunch under her feet. "No! No! No! No!" She leaned out the window and yelled his name again, "Shaun!" when she leaned out the window she placed her hands on the sill and sliced them from the broken glass shards sticking out of the window pane. She looked down as the blood started running down her hands. She looked out the window desperately trying to see anything.
"Shaun Patrick McBain answer your mother right now!" When he didn't she ran to the door and hit the panic alarm that John had installed in all the rooms of the house.
The alarm triggered alarms all over the city. They knew that the Chief of Detectives was in trouble. The alarm at the fire station sounded sending the fire truck speeding down the streets of Llanview. An ambulance was dispatched as well. Two cop cars were in the McBain drive way in two minutes flat.
Evangeline was sitting on the floor of Shaun's room knees pulled to her chest rocking back and forth saying his name over and over again. She heard the pounding on the door and willed herself to get up and answer it but her whole body was numb and she couldn't move. The officers had orders to break down the door to get into the house if no one answered they did as ordered.
"Mrs. McBain!" yelled the first officer. With his gun drawn he entered the house and started walking slowly through it. The second officer followed closely behind and checked the rooms on the first floor. Nothing. They then went up stairs. "Mrs. McBain can you hear me? Asked the first officer.
They made their way through the rooms upstairs and found Evangeline sitting on the floor blood dripping from her hands, "Mrs. McBain are you okay?" asked the second officer as he bent down to her level. "You better make sure the Lieutenant gets her quick!" he said to his partner. All they heard her say was the Lieutenant's sons name over and over again.
"Where is Shaun Mrs. McBain?" asked the first officer.
She looked up at them with tears running down her face, "I don't know?" she said while trying to catch her breath.
John was sitting at his desk when his office phone rang, his pager went off and his cell phone rang all at the same time. He knew exactly what this meant. He grabbed his jacket, keys, gun and flew out the door. Other officers were doing the same thing. They had all received the panic alarm from the McBain Residence. John took the first patrol car he found and went speeding down the streets of Llanview. He reached for the radio and called the responding officer to answer him, "Yeah Lieutenant you better get here now!" said the first officer.
That is all John needed to hear. He got to his house quicker than ever before. He pulled the car up on to the lawn and jumped out without shutting the car off. He ran into the house, "Evangeline!" he yelled taking the stairs two at a time. He ran to the sound of voices. He saw four officers standing in the hallway outside of his son's room, Shaun? No, not Shaun this can't be about him. He thought.
He walked into the bedroom and froze when he saw his wife, strong independent wife sitting on the floor curled up in a ball rocking back and forth. He couldn't make out what she was saying. He walked into the room and sat on the floor in front of her. He tilted her head up to him her eyes were puffy and red; her cheeks were stained with her tears. He could make out what she was saying. "Shaun, Shaun No!"
"Where is he Evangeline?" he asked quietly. Their eyes locked and she stopped talking, she looked up at him and started crying again.
"I don't know, I don't know." She said breathlessly
He took her into his arms and kissed the top of her head, "It's okay we will find him. " he said holding her as tight as he could His heart was racing as he scanned the room for any clues.
Evangeline kept rocking and crying she had gone into shock. The EMS came running up the stairs. They saw Lt. McBain holding his wife who was sobbing uncontrollably. John pulled back from Evangeline and turned to look at the EMS who had entered the room. He finally saw Evangeline's hands were covered in blood. "What happened?" he asked looking down at them.
She looked down too, "I, I, I, don't know. John what happened?"
He moved over and let the EMS get to work checking her vitals and bandaging her hands. John stroked Evangeline's hair as he sat besides her while the EMS tended to her wounds.
After they were done, "Lt. I think we should get her to the hospital she seems to be in shock."
"No!" Evangeline yelled at them. She was calm, so calm. In a crisis she was always calm and still accept now. But John was in cop mode. He started scanning the room he left Evangeline's side for a minuet. "I will bring her in later. Right now I need her here." He said in a demanding voice.
"Okay Lt." Said the EMS person.
He walked back over to her and led her to Shaun's bed. Her head was down and she started to cry again silently this time. He knelt in front of her pushed her hair out of her face and caressed her cheek. He placed a light kiss on her lips, "Everything is going to be okay we will find him." He said looking deep into her eyes.
"You have to find him John. You have too, I can't lose him" she said placing a hand on his cheek.
"You are not going to lose him, I will find him." He said moving his face around in the palm of her hand.
She looked at him he had sadness and pain in his eyes. She placed her other bandaged hand along his cheek and rubbed his cheeks with her thumbs. "Please John found our boy. I am not whole without both of you in my life."
"Me either, me either." He kissed her again and squeezed her tightly.
Bo came barging into the room. He had been having dinner with Paige when his pager went off with the panic code for John's place. "John what happened?"
John turned and looked at Bo, rising from the ground to sit next to Evangeline. "Shaun, he is gone. Someone took him."
"What! When! How!" Bo asked trying to pry as much information out of John and Evangeline as possible.
"I don't know I wasn't home Bo." He said placing an arm around Evangeline.
"Evangeline can you tell me what happened?" Bo asked quietly moving closer to her and John.
She looked at John and back at Bo. "I ummm, We were down stairs watching television when I sent Shaun up stairs to get ready for bed. He protested as usual but finally went up. I heard the water running as I made a plate for John and stuck it in the oven. It takes him awhile to do everything that he needs to do, so I went back to watch some television. The next thing I remember was walking up the stairs to his room and then John asking me what happened." Evangeline said looking at Bo and John.
"You don't remember anything else?" Bo asked gently trying to get information out of Evangeline.
"No, No, John where is he why? Why?" Evangeline asked and started shaking again.
"We are going to find him, look at me nothing is going to happen to him. He has his mom's strength and Dad's resilience nothing is going to happen to him." John said stroking Evangeline's hair and trying to calm her down.
"Bring him back John bring Shaun back!" Evangeline said with desperation and pain in her voice.
"I will, I will."
"Evangeline, John, Bo, what is going on?" Nora asked coming into the room. She had gotten the panic alarm page on her pager and came over as soon as she could.
"Nora it looks like someone took Shaun." Bo said walking over to her.
"What! Evangeline are you okay?"
"He's gone Nora. Someone took my Shaunny!" Evangeline said still sitting on his bed shaking her hands and rocking back and forth.
"Bo we have to find him and now! Get a CSU team up here and start looking for clues. Also get a k-9 unit here, I will get something of Shaun's for them to locate him with." John said going into cop mode once again.
"John you are too close to this, you have to back off. I'll take over!" Bo said.
"No! Damn it this is my son and I am going to find him!" John said standing in front of Bo.
"John you can't you need to be here for Evangeline she needs you to get through this." Nora said stepping beside John and placing an arm around him.
"I know, I know but I also need to find my son." John said looking back over his shoulder at Evangeline and back to Bo.
"I understand that, but you have to understand I'm taking over this investigation. I'll keep you in the loop as much as possible."
"Please Bo let me do something." John pleaded.
"The best thing you can do is stay with Evangeline and stay out of the way okay?" Bo said patting him on the shoulder.
The CSU team came up and started going thru Shaun's room. They dusted the inside and outside of the window ledge for prints. Only one set was found most likely Evangeline's. They found a few fibers stuck in the shattered window and also some blood but not much of anything else. They moved outside and found a single foot print in the mud. They took a plaster mold of it and continued to look through the backyard for any more clues. They found fresh scrapes against the side of the house where a ladder could have been placed. In the back of the yard near a tree one of the CSU guys found several cigarette butts in a pile. They bagged and tagged them for processing later, hoping they could get some DNA off of them.
Nora helped a calm but shaken Evangeline move out of the bed room and into her own bedroom where two officers stood outside the door. The two women sat in silence Nora stroking Evangeline's hair for comfort and Evangeline trying desperately to remember something anything about the events that night.
The radio of one of the officers started going off and caught both Nora and Evangeline attention. "Commissioner I think they found something."