Someone was calling her name, telling her it was time to wake up, but she was comfortable in her warm dark cocoon and she didn't want to wake up.

The voice was more insistent now…….she groaned and tried to open her eyes but her eyelids felt too heavy and she couldn't seem to get them open.

She could feel a hand on her arm and knew that someone was bending over her, calling her name again………………she knew who it was and she tried again to open her eyes but it was too hard; she wanted to go back to sleep, back to that comfortable, warm, safe place that she had been in before he started calling to her.

There was a pleading note in his voice now and she could hear another voice too; she made a huge effort…………………..

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Martin stared past Danny at Maggie……….she had definitely moved.

'Maggie, Maggie….it's time to wake up now' he sat down next to her staring intently at her face; 'Maggie' he heard a soft sound come from her and watched as her eyelids flickered but remained closed.

He stood up and bent over her, his hand on her arm, 'Maggie'; her eyelids flickered again, for longer this time

'Maggie come on you can do this, just open your eyes, please open you eyes'

'Martin' Danny placed his hand on Martin's shoulder, 'she's trying Martin, give her some more time'

Martin glanced back at Danny then back at Maggie, the flickering of her eyelids was more pronounced now and both men watched her struggle in silence until the movement ceased again.

Martin's shoulders sagged and he sat down, his elbows on the bed next to Maggie and his head in his hands, trying not to let his frustration show; he heard a gasp from Danny and felt a hand touch his arm………………..he jerked his head up and stared at the hand resting against him; it was smaller than Danny's ………….. he slowly raised his eyes to see Maggie watching him……………

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The vibrating of his cell phone woke Jack. He sat up carefully, trying not to disturb Sam and headed into the living room before answering the call

'Malone'

'Jack, its Viv'

He caught sight of the clock; it was a little after 7am; 'What's up, what's happened?'

'I couldn't sleep so I came to the office and did some more digging and something very interesting has come up. I think you need to get here as soon as you can and you need to get Victor here as well'

Jack rubbed his eyes trying to wake himself up; 'you couldn't sleep?' he shook his head in disbelief

'Jack, listen to me, this is serious. You need to get hold of Victor and get here as soon as you can. I'm going to phone Danny and make sure that he and Martin stay with Maggie.'

'OK, I'll call Victor……' he realised the phone had gone dead and stared at it for a minute, replaying Viv's words.

'Jack, is everything OK?' Sam stood at the door to the bedroom

'I don't know. That was Viv, apparently there's been a development and she needs me to go to the office straight away and bring Victor with me. She said she's going to call Danny to make sure he and Martin stay with Maggie'

Sam looked confused; 'Make sure they stay with Maggie? Does Viv think something is going to happen to her?'

Jack shrugged his shoulders, looking hard at Sam; 'You look better';

'I feel better' she smiled awkwardly, 'I had a good nights sleep and that always helps'

They stared at each other for a moment, neither knowing what to say.

'Give me a minute and I'll get ready, you can give me a lift in'

'Are you sure, don't you want to….to rest a bit more' he held his hands up in a gesture of surrender and laughed at the look of disgust on her face, 'ok, I'll get hold of Victor and then we'll head in'

She turned to go into the bedroom and then hesitated for a moment; 'Jack' he looked up, 'thank you for staying with me last night'

They stared at each other for a long moment; he saw her mouth twitch up at the corner and knew he was smiling too. She took a step back, still staring at him then shrugged slightly the crooked smile still on her face, 'I'd better get dressed'

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Jack dropped Sam at the office before he went home to have a shower and change his clothes. Walking into the bullpen Sam could see Viv sat at the conference table working on one of the laptops; she looked up as she heard Sam approach and smiled

'Hey, good to see you, how are you feeling'

Sam laughed, 'well, like someone smashed my head into a wall really'

Viv indicated toward the stitches; 'how long before those come out?'

'Five days. He thinks there will be a small scar but nothing too noticeable' Sam settled herself in the chair next to Viv, 'have you heard anything from the hospital?'

Viv beamed, 'I spoke to Danny; Maggie's woken up'

'That's great' Sam look relieved but then a more cautious expression crossed her face, 'and, is she…er…you know…herself?'

Viv was still beaming, 'Danny said she's very tired and only stays awake for a few minutes at a time but she knows who they are, seems to remember what happened to her and she told Martin she hated his top'

Sam laughed, 'Well I'm with her on that one; it's horrible'

They both turned as they heard footsteps and saw Jack and Victor approaching. Viv raised her eyebrows at Sam before she stood to greet the two men

'Agent Johnson, Jack tells me that you have something that you think I should hear' Victor looked as tired as he sounded

'Yes sir I do'

Jack slide into the seat next to Sam

'Have you heard the news from the hospital?' Sam spoke in a low voice, bending her head toward Jack

'Yes, Victor told me on the way up in the elevator'

He sat up as he saw Viv and Victor look at him; 'So what is it you've found out?'

'Well there were a few things that bothered me and so I did some more digging around…'

'What bothered you Agent Johnson' Victor sat forward, a slightly impatient look on his face

Viv threw an apologetic look at Jack before turning back to Victor;

'Well several things really, firstly, that it took Robert coming forward for anyone to know that Henry Saunders was heading up this organisation, I mean, I understand that it can be tough to prove but I've never heard of it taking us this long before'

Victor looked thoughtfully at Viv, 'OK, yes it is unusual' he sat back, 'is that all?'

'No, I also wondered about why people were telling us that Maggie had an abortion, I mean if they found out about the pregnancy why twist into something that it wasn't'

Sam and Jack glanced swiftly at each other and then both looked quickly at Victor. He was staring blankly at Viv

'Maggie was pregnant? When?' Viv threw Jack another apologetic look

'You know that she and Martin took a trip the summer Martin graduated from Harvard?'

Victor nodded his head impatiently, 'Yes of course, we were all hoping they would come back and announce their engagement…..' his voice trailed away as he realised he had said more than he meant to; Viv rolled her eyes at Sam and cut in before the silence became embarrassing

'Well at the end of the trip Maggie was unwell; Martin took her to the hospital and they discovered she was pregnant but that the pregnancy was ectopic. Obviously she had to have an operation. Henry Saunders twisted the facts and told Danny that Maggie had an abortion but what I couldn't understand was how he found out about the operation at all.'

Viv stopped as Victor got to his feet and began pacing, she looked at Jack and Sam both of whom looked as if they would rather be anywhere but in the bull pen at the moment. Victor stopped pacing and glared at Viv

'OK, so why is that significant?'

'Like I said, I did some digging and as part of that I spoke to the hospital that treated Maggie. The records department were very surprised when I called because they had only recently sent Maggie's records to the FBI'

Jack and Sam both stared at her in amazement; Victor sat down abruptly in his seat. No-one spoke for what felt like minutes then Jack sat forward

'The FBI had requested Maggie's records? When?'

'Two days after Robert approached the FBI' Viv turned to Victor, 'I'm right aren't I; he approached you, not Tom Holden'

Victor was staring at her blankly, 'Yes, obviously I know…..…knew Robert and he called me. We met and then I turned the information over to Tom Holden and his team'

Jack stared at Viv, 'I think you need to just lay this out because I'm confused now'

'The information about Maggie was obtained by Tom Holden. I can't prove it but I think that the reason we hadn't got close to catching Saunders was because Tom Holden is working for him and has been effectively blocking the investigation'

Silence fell again then the Sam spoke slowly; 'so Henry Saunders would have known straight away that Robert was informing on him because Tom Holden would have told him…….'

'And that's why the bastard left him where he was; he was setting Robert up to get killed and then presumably he would claim that he died before he had given us any concrete evidence against Saunders' Jack ran his fingers through his hair in frustration

'Yes; I assume that Robert became suspicious; he couldn't come to you' Viv glanced at Victor, 'because for all he knew it was you that had told Saunders so he went to the one person he knew he could trust; Maggie. I'm guessing they knew he spoke to her and were worried that he would tell her enough to blow the whole thing wide open so decided to get rid of both of them. They made it look as of Robert had ended the relationship and that Maggie was blackmailing him. I suspect that Kevin Brown was supposed to get back any information that Robert had given her then kill her and then Saunders would tell us enough to make us suspicious of Robert who would have conveniently disappeared.'

'But Saunders must have realised that we would suspect him' Sam sat back, staring at Viv

'I'm sure he does because the final piece of checking I've done is to ascertain that Mr Saunders is planning to leave the country this morning by private plane and the flight plan is to Brazil…'

'Who we don't have an extradition treaty with…' Jack jumped up but before he could do anything else he saw the smile on Viv's face

'What?'

'I've already alerted the port authorities and sent a team over to the airfield, Mr Saunders isn't going anywhere'

Jack grinned then frowned, 'What about Tom Holden?'

'Well I didn't want to tell Danny and Martin until I'd spoken to you but I did tell them that they shouldn't let anyone near Maggie, not even other FBI teams and that one of us would get there as soon as possible and explain what's going on. Other than that I've got a watch on all of his credit cards and phones; hopefully something will pop.'

Victor stood up, 'Agent Johnson I want to commend you for an outstanding piece of work'; he looked at Jack, 'in fact Malone I want to commend your entire team. Now please excuse me, I need to make some phone calls and then I need to find out how long it will be until Maggie's parents arrive' he nodded and headed towards Jack's office.

Jack stood up and looked at Viv; 'I think we need to go to the airfield and make sure Saunders is apprehended and after all your efforts I really think you should be the one who put's the cuffs on the bastard' he turned to Sam

'Are you OK to go to the hospital and let Danny and Martin know what's going on' he glanced over to where they could see Victor on the phone, 'and I think you had better warn Martin that Victor knows about the miscarriage'

Sam nodded, 'I'll go now' she grinned at Viv, 'give Saunders one from me will you?'

'It will be a pleasure'

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Sam stepped into the elevator; a man in scrubs and a white coat was standing next to the buttons and raised an eyebrow in question

'6 please' Sam lent against the back of the elevator as a couple of nurses and a harassed looking administrator got in as well.

The elevator stopped at the 4th floor and the nurses and the doctor got out. Sam straightened up as the doors closed and the elevator began to rise again. It passed the 5th floor and then stopped at the 6th; the doors opened and Sam stepped out and headed down the corridor toward Maggie's room.

She reached the door to Maggie's room and flashed her badge at the agent on the door who stood back…………..'excuse me, miss, excuse me'

She turned to see the administrator from the elevator hurrying towards her, an apologetic look on his face holding something in his hand

He smiled nervously at the agent and then at Sam, 'I think you dropped this in the elevator' he held out his hand and Sam stepped towards him trying to see what he was holding…………and found herself staring at a gun.

She looked up at him; his face had changed from that of a nervous administrator to a cold, hard faced killer.

'Step back into the room Agent Spade' a movement caught her eye and she realised that the Agent who had been guarding the room was going for his gun

She flinched as the gun in the killers hand sounded and the Agent slumped to the floor; she felt him grab her and bundle her through the door

Danny's gun was in his hand and it was pointing at them as Sam was forced into the room; she could see the shock and uncertainty on his face. She could see Martin's gun was out as well and that he was standing so that he was between the door and Maggie……

She could feel an arm around her throat and the gun pushed against her ribs. She heard the door slam and felt herself dragged along the side of the room so that they were at the back of the room with Danny between them and the door.

'Put your gun away Agent Taylor; you can try and shoot me but I promise that if you do your friend here', he tightened his grip around Sam's neck, 'will be dead'

Danny kept his gun pointed at the gunman; 'You're not going to get out of here; by now the NYPD and the FBI will know about the shooting and the place will be crawling with cops and feds, so why don't you put your gun away and we'll all walk away from this'

'Of course we will' Sam flinched at the sound of his laugh and he tightened the hold around her neck again as he hissed in her ear 'stay still Samantha, it will be a lot less painful I promise you'

Danny and Sam's eyes met and then Sam's eyes flicked to Martin; she knew they were all wondering how this guy knew their names.

'What is it you want?' Martin kept his gun pointing at Sam's captor and Sam noticed how he stayed between the gunman and Maggie.

The gunman sighed, 'Oh come on Martin, don't be dense, I want the documents, computer files whatever Robert Kenilworth gave your girlfriend'

Martin gave him a scathing look, 'Oh and I suppose she found time to pick them up and put them in her handbag as she was being rushed to the hospital with major head injuries did she?'

The gunman sighed again; 'Now come on Martin, she knows where they are and I need to know…'

'What good is it going to do you….even if she does know where they are you can't get out of here to destroy them' Danny kept his voice calm but kept his gun raised

The gunman laughed, 'Oh I have my ways'

'If you're expecting Tom Holden to sort this mess out you need to think again; we know he works for Henry Saunders'

Sam felt the shock run through the gunman and saw the mirroring emotion on both Martin and Danny's faces; she hoped that they weren't too shocked as she drove her elbow back into her captors stomach and threw herself to one side; she heard gunfire and the unmistakable sound of a bullet hitting flesh and then someone was screaming…………