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Missing

Chapter four

"No! No that can't be right!" Dean cried out in disbelief and fear as his body turned ice cold as the words 'no survivors' kept echoing in his head.

"I'm sorry sir….I really am."

"My brother said he was being hijacked…There has to be some mistake." Dean's voice cracked with emotion, Sam couldn't be dead he had just talked to him a little over an hour ago.

"I'm sorry sir, but we had a report that the engine exploded causing them to lose control of the plane and it went down in the Gulf." She looked at the anguish on his face and her eyes filled with tears of sympathy. "I'm sorry but it sank almost immediately with all the passengers on board. There were no survivors."

"No…no…." Dean said softly shaking his head in disbelief and shock. He couldn't believe it, he wouldn't believe it, Sam couldn't be dead, if he was dead he'd somehow know it, he'd feel it, he'd feel it in his heart. Something didn't seem right; the girl in front of him was extremely nervous and kept glancing at the man who stood just inside the doorway as if she was scared of him. The man appeared to be listening to every thing they said as he kept his eyes on the girl as if to make sure she didn't say anything he didn't want her to.

"How do I …" Dean swallowed hard and blinked back tears as he tried to compose himself. "How do I go about bringing my brother's body home with me?" A cold chill went up his spine as he realized the finality of what he had just asked.

"I'm sorry sir…the plane went down far out in the ocean….the plane and the bodies are lost to the sea…I'm sorry, your brother's body is gone."

Dean knew something wasn't right. If the plane had crashed in the ocean there would be search parties looking for the wreckage and bodies for days after the crash. The girl seemed to want him to forget about recovering Sam's body. She wanted him to assume it was lost and would never be recovered. But what if the plane hadn't crashed, what if it had been hijacked like Sam said. Then where was it and where was Sam? He decided the only thing he could do was pretend to leave and then circle back and see if he could find anything out. He prayed his feelings were right and that he wasn't just trying to fool himself into believing Sam was still alive. He quietly thanked the girl then left and drove away. In his rear view mirror he watched as the man immediately entered the office. When Dean was out of sight of the building he circled around and returned. He parked his car behind some dumpsters at the back of a hanger and crept over close to the open office window. He could hear a man and woman's voice inside, the woman appeared to be crying.

"I feel terrible lying to him like that."

"We do what we are told." The man stated.

"But what if his brother is still alive? It is wrong to tell him he is dead."

"If Rodriguez has his brother, he will not be alive for long. It is better he thinks his brother died in a plane crash then to be in that man's hands."

"But maybe he could help his brother. Rodriguez is an evil man and needs to be stopped."

"It is over Angela." The man said sternly. "He will go home and mourn his brother's death, and then he will get on with his life. If he were to look for his brother, he would most likely die along with him. No it is better this way."

Outside the window Dean shut his eyes and took a deep breath. He had gone from despair, to hope, to relief all in a matter of minutes. He wasn't sure what to think or feel. If Sam was still alive, who had him and why? Why would they want his brother? He thought back to Sam's phone call and tried to remember what he had said. He remembered he mentioned the CD and a town….Talia or Tasio or something like that. What did the CD have to do with all this he wondered? Damn it Sammy what did you walk into? From the sound of it Sam was being held by this man Rodriguez, why, Dean had no idea. He knew he had to find him and find him fast. He thought of his options. He could go back into the office and make them tell him what they knew but then he'd take the chance that they might some how warn this Rodriguez person and he couldn't chance it. His only other option was to fly down to this town and track Rodriguez down. Right now even the thought of flying didn't terrify him, Sam was in trouble and he was his brother's only hope. There was no way he was going home without him, no way.

As far as he knew this was the only airport around that flew short commuter flights and he couldn't just walk in and book a flight to Talia or whatever the place was called without drawing attention to himself. He looked around the airport and watched as several small private planes took off and landed. He was thankful that they had brought plenty of money with them and wondered if he'd be able to pay a private pilot to fly him there. He knew he didn't have time to go back to the motel; he had to get to Sam before this Rodriguez fellow hurt him. He waited till a plane landed far enough away from the office so that he wouldn't be seen, then ran across the runway and waited for the pilot to exit the plane.

"Hi." Dean said to the man when he climbed out of the cockpit. He was glad to see the man appeared to be American.

"May I help you?"

"Yeah, I'm looking for someone to fly me to a town called Talia."

"You must mean Tasio?"

Dean nodded, the name Sam had said now coming back to him.

"Yeah, Tasio."

"I just came back from there."

"Well I need to fly there right now. I'll pay you whatever you want."

"Why are you in such a hurry? Are you in trouble with the law?"

"No, I …I have some personal problems I need to take care of."

"Well it's an hour flight….I'll do it, but it will cost you three hundred."

"That's fine, I'll pay it. Thank you."

"Okay, let me just go fuel up."

"Thanks. Can you pick me up here? I'd also appreciate it if you didn't tell anyone in the office about this."

"You sure you're not in trouble?" The man looked at him suspiciously. "I don't want to get in trouble with the local law."

"I promise you, it's nothing like that."

"Well as long as you got the money…"

"Don't worry, I got the money."

"Okay then wait here."

Dean watched as the man climbed back into the plane and took it to be refueled. He then turned and looked down the runway. Hang in there Sammy; I'm bringing you home.

TBC