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A/N- Sorry this is taking so long. School's evil. Now that I'm on spring break, I should be able to get some more in...After that I don't know cuz they have me doing a really stupid research paper which is going to take up a lot of time. Like I said, school's evil. And thanks to everyone who reviewed, it keeps me going ;)
"You sure it was him?"
"I'm sure. El, she sounded so scared..." Olivia nervously bit her nails, a habit that only came when she was under intense stress.
"Liv, what happened?" Cragen asked. He had heard a noise in his office, and came out to see Olivia freaking out.
"That was our perp. He somehow got Liv's number and called her." Elliot said.
"We've got a week to find those girls." Olivia said, going over to retrieve her phone. She looked it over. It wasn't broken, as far as she could tell.
"Liv, give me the phone." Cragen said. She handed it over. "I'm gonna get a tracer on this thing, and maybe when he calls back, we'll get a location."
"Yeah, but don't you think he'd take some sort of measure to keep us from getting the signal?" Elliot said.
"Elliot, he just grabbed those girls. This wasn't some sort of carefully planned operation." Cragen said.
"Then how'd he get Olivia's number? Why did he call her?" The fury was evident in his eyes. He did not like it when people messed with Olivia.
"Cadence did say that the perp looked familiar..." Olivia added, remembering her words from the day before. "We should go ask her again. Maybe she'll remember more by now." She went to leave.
"Liv it's past visitng hours. We'll go in the morning."
"Both of you go home and get some rest. I'll take care of the tracer." Cragen said.
"What if he calls overnight?"
"We'll take care of it." Olivia nodded and went to get her things.
"You're coming to my place." Elliot said.
"Elliot I'll be fine."
"I'll feel better if you do. That bastard has your cell number and your name. There's no telling what else he might have." She sighed. They had never really slept over at each other's houses before. Excepting that one time when Elliot had fallen asleep on her couch. But that had happened during the daytime, so it didn't really count.
"Fine." She said with a sigh. "Just let me get some stuff from my apartment, 'kay?" He nodded.
"I'll drive you." The two of them left together.
"Any bets on how long it's gonna take before they realize that they love each other?" Munch asked, watching them leave.
"Haven't we done this already?" Fin responded.
The first thing Jenny Smith noticed the next morning, was the pounding headache she had as a result of drinking too much. Then she noticed the ringing phone. She pried herself off the couch to go get it.
"Hello?"
"Where's the other number?" Michael Smith's voice boomed through the phone.
"I told you, I only had that one...Where are you?"
"Ann street."
"Where the fuck is that?"
"It's down by Ground Zero, just get me the damn number!"
"I told you Cadence only had one! I found it in her school bag."
"Where is that little bitch?"
"I'm supposed to know? She ran out on me.Why do you need it so bad?"
"We're trying to throw them off track." There was a knock on the door on Jenny's end.
"Mike, I gotta call you back. Someone's at the door."
"Jenny you gotta get me that number. This isn't going as we planned it."
"You think I don't know that?" The knock got louder.
"Police, open up!"
"Christ, Mike it's the cops." She bit her lip nervously, looking for a way out. Unfortunately the only way was the window. "Mike, what do I do! They probably saw something on Cadence and took her to the hospital... Oh God..."
"Mr and Mrs. Smith! We know you're in there! Open up or we will break down this door!"
"Just go answer it."
"Yea." She hung up, and nervously went to the door. That little bitch better not have said a fucking word, she thought as she unlocked it. As soon as she got it open, Munch and Fin burst in, cuffing her.
"Jenny Smith, you are under arrest for endangering the welfare of a child."
"I didn't do anything!"
"Thats not what this report says." Munch said with a smirk, as he waved Cadence's medical records in her face. "It says here that you've beaten that girl pretty hard. Where's your husband?"
"He's at work." Munch and Fin exchanged a glance. "What?"
"We were just at Bellevue. He's not there." Fin said.
"Then I have no idea! What am I supposed to keep tabs on him all the time?"
"Let's go. You have the right to reamin silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law..." He continued reciting her miranda rights as he led her downstairs. Now all they had to do was find Michael.
Michael drummed his fingers against the roof of his car. "Now what?" He wondered aloud.
"Now you pay me." Jonathan said with a smirk
"I told you I'd get the money in a few weeks."
"A few weeks isn't good enough." Michael laid his head aginst the car. "However..." Jonathan began.
"However what?"
"I will take your other brat as payment. She's pretty hot." He smiled at the memory of Cadence in her short skirt.
"Fine by me. All you have to do is find her."
"No problem. How many Cadence Smiths are there in New York?"
The next morning, Cadence woke up to someone pulling her tubes out. And it wasn't someone from the hospital staff.
"What the hell are you-"
"Shut up, or you'll get it." Jonathan Baker turned around, aiming a gun at her head. "Because daddy dearest doesn't seem to have the money to pay me, I'm accepting you in place of cash. You're mine now." He said, finishing up. He placed a band-aid over where her I.V. had been.
"You're not going to get away with this. If you shoot me, they'll hear and-"
"And I have a silencer on this thing." He said tapping it with his finger. "One more word out of you, and you're history. Now get dressed." She silently obeyed, praying that Olivia or someone would come in and help her. No such luck. "Now follow me." Somehow he got her out of the hospital, and onto the street. "Get in the car." He said, opening his car door. It was a different one from two days ago. He threw a blanket over her, to make sure that she wouldn't see where they were going. Then, making sure that no one saw him, he got in and drove off.
An hour later, Elliot and Olivia made their way into the ER, to ask Cadence a few more questions about the man who had taken her sister.
"Detectives!" Dr.Petersen ran towards them. "We tried calling, but they said you had just left...I'm so sorry."
"What?" Olivia said, fearing the worst.
"Cadence is gone."
"Gone as in dead, or gone as in someone took her?"
"Either took her or she ran away. When we went in this morning, no one was there."
"Dammit!" Elliot yelled, punching the nearest wall.
"Elliot..." Olivia said in a warning tone.
"Whoever picked up the phone when we tried calling you said that they would send a Crime Scene Unit down to look for evidence." Dr.Petersen said, looking strangely at Elliot.
"Thanks for telling us." Olivia said, reaching for her cell phone. Then she remembered that Cragen still had it. "El, gimme your cell phone." He nodded and handed it to her. She dialed Fin's number.
"Tutuola."
"Fin, it's Olivia. Cadence is gone."
"I know. We would have called sooner but, we had to go arrest her mother."
"Is she there?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, me and Elliot will be there soon. Bye." she hung up, and handed the phone to Elliot. "We've got Mrs.Smith."
"Good. Maybe she'll know something." He started towards his car.
"I hope so."
The door opened up, and the man threw someone into the room. He left as quickly as he came, slamming the door. The person slowly got up.
"Cadence!" Tonya screamed, running to her older sister.
"Tonya!" She embraced the little girl tightly. "Oh my God, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, are you?"
"Yeah. Is Michelle here?" Tonya shook her head, tears falling out of her eyes. "It's going to be okay, sweetie. We're going to get out of here."
"I wanna go home!"
"We will, sweetie, we will. I promise."
"How do you know?" Cadence stroked Tonya's head lightly.
"Because I met the detectives looking for us. They will get us out of here, Olivia promised."
"Is she one of the detectives?"
"Yeah." Tonya sniffled, and Cadence hugged her tighter. "It's all going to be okay."
"I don't know anything."
"Cut the crap!" Olivia slammed her hands on the table. "First you beat the shit out of this poor girl, and then she's kidnapped? There has to be a connection somewhere."
"Like you said before, maybe it was one of Michael's patients." Jenny's eyes were cold, unlike the last time she had met with Olivia. Last time she was full of crocodile tears for her daughters. Now it was pure hatred. "I don't know anything."
"Well, do you know where Michael is?" Elliot said.
"No. I want a lawyer." Olivia glared at her, holding back all of her rage. She and Elliot left the room.
"Well, looks like we're not getting anything out of her for a while" Cragen said.
"Bitch." Olivia mumured.
"Here's your cell." He handed it to her. She took it and slipped it into her pocket.
"CSU's found a couple of partial fingerprints." Munch said, coming up to them. "They belong to a Jonathan Baker. Convicted sex offender, assaulted three women in the past six years."
"He was on the missing list, wasn't he?" Olivia said, referring to the list of missing offenders from the Bellevue psychiatric center.
"Yup."
"Do we have a picture?" Munch opened the file he was holding, and pulled out a picture. Olivia took it from him and looked it over.
"He had kind of greasy black hair, pale skin...I think his eyes were grey or blue...they were light..um he was wearing brown shoes, a blue shirt and khaki pants..." Olivia remembered Cadence's description of him.
"He looks like the guy Cadence described." Elliot took the picture fom her.
"You're right. We've got his address, right?"
"Yeah." Munch said. "But chances are, he's not gonna be there."
"It's still worth a try." Elliot said. "I'm gonna call for a S.W.A.T. team. We'll get this bastard before he kills those girls."
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