"Would you quit moving? I can't tighten the ropes" He said as he tried to tighten the ropes on Amber. She tried her hardest to stop it from happening.

"Maybe that's why I'm moving!" She grunted out. The ropes were rubbing against her skin and hurting her. He got up and turned to her.

"Are you hungry? Do you want anything to eat?" He asked as he made his way upstairs.

"No. I don't want anything from you." She said, still trying to wiggle free. She finally gave up and sighed.

"Fine suit yourself." He said, shutting the door. Amber felt like crying again.

"No…no I'm not going to cry." She told herself out loud. "Crying is for people who are weak. I'm not weak. Well I am weak…ok you're talking to yourself Amber shut up. What can I use to get out of here," She looked around; there was nothing that would get her out of the ropes. Then the light went off in her head. "Joel's lighter" she thought. He had put it in her back pocket when he went to go and have a cigarette. She stretched her arms as far as she could to reach his lighter. After digging in her pocket for awhile, she found it. It had a 4-leaf clover on the front. She smiled, feeling the imprint run against her finger. "This is harder than I thought." She squirmed. She didn't know if it was lit or not. Finally, she got it to light and held it up to the rope. The ropes quickly snapped and she was free. She rubbed her wrists, noticing that they were red and painful to the touch.

She looked around, trying to find a way out. "The window" She whispered to herself. She walked up to the window, noticing as she got closer and closer, the window was getting higher and higher up.

"Ugh… I hate being short." She said putting her hands on her hips. Looking to her left she saw a stool. "Hope this is good enough." She said putting it near the window. Standing up on it, she heard someone coming down the stairs. "Uh-oh" She gasped. Pushing the window open, she managed to get half of her body out the window before she got yanked back in, falling hard on the concrete floor. She heard a big crack sound in her left leg and screamed out in pain. The man put his hand over her mouth.

"Shut-up! I don't want someone to hear." But Amber didn't stop. She cried harder reaching for her leg. He picked up his pocket knife and held up against her.

"I said Shut-up. Don't make this harder than it already is." Amber tried to remove his hand from her face. She finally hit him in the mouth, making him fly back onto the wall and flop down. She tried standing up, but fell back down, the pain in her leg hurt worse than it did before. She used her arm strength to push herself up the stairs. "I can't give up now. I'm so close." She said as she was half way up the stairs. When she was up the stairs, she heard the man down stairs call to her. She ignored him.

"Amber come back down!" He slurred. Amber opened up the door to find an older man staring down at her. He bent down and looked into her crystal blue eyes.

"Sorry, but your going to have to go back down." He said pushing her. She rolled all the way back down that stairs that she worked so hard to climb up. She rolled over on her back, feeling the blood trickle from her eyebrow down to her neck. She passed out from exhaustion.

XOXOXOXO

"What do you mean that you can't figure out where she is? Can't you use you those do-flachie thingies to trace her phone?" Rex yelled. John looked over at him. Rex was pacing the floor just like John was. John never realized it but Rex was kind of like a brother to her. Always giving her advice, fighting verbally with her, helping her when she needed it. He really cared for her.

"Those do-flachies are called trackers Rex and this is the last time I'm telling you this so you better get it through your thick head! The call was not 60 seconds long. If it was I would have been able to track her down!" Bo yelled at him. "Jesus Christ!" He cursed. Bo thought he couldn't meet anybody more stubborn than John but he finally met his match with Rex.

"Well that's pretty stupid." Rex said as he sat down on the couch. He folded his arms across his chest.

"Now the station is doing everything they can, so all of you need to calm down." Bo said looking at everyone on the room. John and Natalie sitting on one side, and Rex on the other. Bo looked over at John. Bo knew that John was going to explode when he told him what he thought.

"John I hate to say this but…I think you need to be put off this case." John looked up from where he was staring.

"What are you serious? C'mon Bo! Please." John pleaded. He wanted to find his daughter. Not have someone else do it for him.

"John hand me you gun and badge." Bo held out his hand. John sighed loudly and handed him his stuff on his desk. He walked out of Bo's office, slamming the door on the way out. Natalie followed him.

"John." She strolled up to him, putting a hand on his shoulder. He flung his shoulder out of her grasp, running a hand through his hair and turned to Natalie.

"Can you believe him? I can't believe he would do something as absurd and foolish as that." John put his hands on his hips.

"I think he did the right thing" Natalie looked up at him. She watched his eyes turn into a dark blue.

"Why?" John flew his arms up in the air.

"Because he doesn't want you doing something stupid John that's why. He cares for you." She put her hand on his upper arm. Feeling it flex to her touch. John felt someone poke his shoulder. Whipping around he saw Evangeline. She looked like she had been crying.

"Yes" he questioned.

"I was wonder if you had seen Chris. He was supposed to meet me last night for dinner and then this morning for breakfast but he never showed up." She looked John in the eye.

"No… I haven't." John said with no emotion in his voice. Evangeline nodded and walked over to Bo's office. Natalie looked at him.

"You don't think that Chris is has been kidnapped with Amber?" John gave her a funny look.

"What? No…no. Why would someone do that?" He said walking back to his office walking hand in hand with Natalie.

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I would have updated like 2 or 3 days ago, but somthing was wrong with the site and it wouldn't let me upload the chapter. Sorry for the delay. Also I'm painting a bird house for Bird fest which is to help raise money for habit for humanity. The next chapter(s) might be a little late.