Janet owns them. I've stolen them…just for a few minutes and then will return them mostly unscathed. I'll make nothing from it and neither will she.

I gently extracted myself from my exhausted husband and tiptoed out of the bedroom. There were things about this whole case that just didn't sit well with me. There was a dead girl from Trenton. Don't get me wrong, a lot of people die in Trenton. It is in the suck zone. But this was way outside the suck zone and I've known this kid since she was born. I mean we didn't hang out or anything, she was way too young to be my friend growing up. But I remember baby-sitting for her a few times since Lucille and my mom were so close. I felt somehow responsible. Not for her death, I'm not insane. But I felt like it was my responsibility to find her killer and make sure justice was served. I just didn't feel like I was getting very far with it.

I sank down on the cushiony deck chair and sighed. "Number one tingle," I muttered, "the body." I'd never gotten a tingle from a body before, not from an actual death. I'd only had tingles connected to when bad things were going to happen or who was going to be doing those bad things. This was a first. I wondered if I was because I was too far away from my power source…in my case the Pine Barrens or if I was actually getting more powerful. It was an interesting thought. It was something I really needed to ponder and talk to Diesel about the next time I saw him. He was my go-to guy for all things unmentionable.

Tingle number two, really nothing more than a slight twinge was with Joanna when I first talked to her. Another one of those when I talked to Amanda the first time and there was a bigger tingle with each of them the second time although they felt different. I didn't know how to categorize those tingles though. Amanda's tingle felt familiar, but the one with Joanna definitely felt different. It felt something like the one did when I'd found the body. And that worried me a lot.

I dug my phone out of my robe pocket and texted Tank. I asked that when they got out of La Nouba someone please go to Joanna's house and just guard it. He texted back seconds later saying he'd get on it.

I never got a tingle from Jake or about Jake. It wasn't the only reason he was in the clear, the evidence pointed that way too. But it was true that I allowed my tingles to color my judgment and I wondered why I was doing that. I didn't believe them a hundred percent with the Barnhardt was trying to kill me, why did I trust them now. I didn't know.

The slider opened and Ric stuck his head out and sighed. He came outside and picked me up and sat back down with me in his lap. "I woke up alone…without my wife. I didn't like it."

I smiled and melted into his warmth. "Sorry. I couldn't sleep."

"Why not," he frowned.

"Just…I have some hinky feeling that something is going to happen to Joanna."

"I'll get someone on her then," he said seriously.

"I did that already," I sighed. "There's just…I mean it almost feels like the tingle I got when… You know I'm being ridiculous. I just know that one of those girls knows something."

"And you know that you're usually right."

"I know," I nodded.

"Come back to bed with me. I'll make sure you're too exhausted to worry about it anymore tonight and you can work your magic in the morning."

"How are you going to do that," I asked.

He whispered in my ear.

I felt my face begin to burn. "Okay then…let's go." It worked too. I didn't think about it anymore.

Ranger conferred with Tank for a few minutes before he began the meeting. "How was La Nouba?"

There was a lot of talking over each other as everyone rushed to talk about how amazing it was. I felt a momentary twinge of guilt for keeping Ric from it, then he smiled at me and I knew it was more than fine that we skipped it.

"I'm glad everyone enjoyed it. So…Cal is watching Joanna's place right now. Gabe had the first leg and the house was quiet. Cal says it's still quiet."

"A lot happened yesterday, so I'm going to let Connie get the ball rolling. Early this morning her database got its first hit."

Connie got to her feet, "as you're aware I built an algorithm to kind of take all the complaints especially those violent or sexual in nature and compare them to the profile and see who was connected to whom. This morning, while we were sleeping I got the first hit." She walked up to the board and put a picture on the supposition side. "This is Brady Long. He's 29 and he's from a wealthy family from Idaho. He's had a couple of complaints filed against him at the World, and several more in the world outside. Nothing stuck. Everything seemed to just go away. This guys an oil slick."

"What kind of things," Ranger asked.

"Stalking, assault, domestic violence," she shrugged, "the kid's a walking time bomb. He came to Disney and applied several years ago and they wisely did a background check and didn't hire him. He works for one of the nearby hotels as an assistant manager. He's moved up the ladder several times since joining their team and appears to be pretty successful."

"Who's he connected to," I asked and held my breath. "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit… I know."

She raised a brow.

"The first time I met her, Joanna said that when the girls were all living together she'd started dating this guy named Brady who worked at one of the hotels."

"Bingo," she said and put her forefinger on her nose.

"Kate," Ranger turned to the doctor. "Did you meet Joanna?"

"Yes, I met both of the girls at the coroner's office. They officially came down to identify the body."

"But…Jake identified the body," I frowned.

"I guess they felt him unqualified to do so although I'd say he probably knew her body better than they did," she smirked.

Brian's eyes got bigger.

"Sorry," she bit her lip to fight the smile, "doctor humor."

I grinned, "Okay…well, it's true."

"And her parents are thrilled," Ranger nodded. "Did you get a good look at her?"

"Of course," she nodded.

"Could her hands have made the marks around Sandy's neck," he asked.

She nodded, "yes, absolutely. But in truth, either of them could have as well as several of the women in this room…myself included. I mean we're all about the same size. I would have to exclude Natalie and Jenna, but everyone else is in the pot."

"Why am I excluded," Natalie frowned.

"Honey, that's a good thing," I reminded her.

"Oh yeah," she grinned.

"But she's the one with the relationship with Brady." Ranger turned to Tank, "you, Mitch and Woody go get Brady. You have an address for me Connie?"

"I do," she handed him a piece of paper."

"Gabe…you and Manuel go over to Joanna's and with Cal bring her in. We've got a couple of storage rooms set up as interrogation rooms. You know where they are."

"Yea," Tank agreed.

"Put Brady in the one 2A and Joanna in 2B," he said. The keys are on the peg board to the room. Brian, when they get back with them, lock them in there and keep a grip on the keys."

"You got it," he nodded.

"There's still something nagging me. It was the apartments," I sighed.

"You'll figure it out," Ranger kissed my head. "I'm going to go call the office and then let Jack know what's going on. Why don't you take a nap?"

"Good idea," I agreed. I had only gotten a couple of hours of sleep. Between our rambunctious behavior and my nagging thoughts, I'd been up most of the night. I'd just gotten into the bedroom when my cell phone rang. I was surprised to see my sister's smiling face when I opened the phone and sat on the bed.

"Val, is everything okay," I said trying not to panic.

"Oh honey yes," she reassured me. "Ricardo called me and asked me to send stuff over to the office about the school. He went straight to voice mail so I decided I better call you. You do know the school's almost full? And you do know it's way too early to get the bean on the waiting list?"

I laughed, "Yea…it's not the bean Val. We're getting custody of Julie."

"Oh, that's great, right? I mean I know you adore her and everything. But you two did just get married. I have to tell you having kids when you're trying to figure out your own relationship isn't easy. Albert is a saint I assure you. He tolerated so much from the girls when we first married."

"Oh I'm sure it wasn't that bad, besides Julie and I already have a great relationship and she'd be hard pressed to win if she went up against Ric."

"She would at that," Val chuckled. "Let's see, she's Angie's age right?"

"Yes," I agreed.

"There is an opening in that class. Tell you what, I'll put her name down and you make sure to pay the tuition bill I'm going to have them send you."

I laughed, "Trust me Val, the check you get from Ric will be worth way more than just tuition."

Val smiled, "I'm sure you're right. The Archbishop will be delighted. No…baby no. We don't touch mama's pictures. I gotta go Steph." She disconnected.

I flopped back on the bed with a smile and then sat back up with a look of shock on my face. I grabbed my key card and phone and high-tailed it down to the conference room. I grabbed Connie's hand, "where is everyone? Are they bringing them in?"

"Don't think so," Natalie said from the doorway. "Brady's place is empty and Cal's not getting an answer at Joanna's. The local police are meeting the guys there and Ranger and Jack are headed that way."

"Ranger went to Brady's," I frowned.

"No," Lula said as she entered the room. "That was the weird part. I thought Batman would go after the big guy threat, but instead he headed for Joanna's place."

"Well, Tank was at Brady's," I said thoughtfully.

"Yea, there is that," Lula nodded, "and he said his wife didn't have no tingle about Brady. Her tingle was all about Joanna."

I grinned in satisfaction. It was good to be trusted.

Hours later the men returned with Jack Margolis with them.

I hugged Ric, "anything?"

He sighed. "Yea, we got something but nothing good."

"How bad is nothing good," I asked.

"Have a seat I just want to say this once," he said.

I nodded and went to my seat beside Natalie.

He looked over at Tank and raised a brow.

Tank nodded and headed for the front of the room. "We're going to make this quick since we have DNA to process, but the long and the short of it is that Brady wasn't at the residence and it seemed to me that he hadn't been there in quite some time. He did however leave a used razor, toothbrush and hairbrush there as well as several…er deposits so we feel confident we collected a viable DNA sample there. Again, I have to say it didn't appear that he'd been there for a week or more, certainly not since Sandy's death." He nodded at Ranger and moved to lean against the wall.

Ranger sighed, "So no good news there and no good news at Joanna's place either. At Joanna's place there appeared to have been a struggle. There was blood evidence."

I gasped and my head dropped.

Ric's hand gently settled on my down bent head. "There was a lot of blood. Kate, I would like you to head back over to the scene and take a look. Go with Cal, he'll make sure they let you in. I just want to know whether you think it's probable that whoever lost that blood survived."

She nodded grimly.

"It is my opinion and it's an educated opinion that we have a second victim…a second body. Because he won't have access to the backstage area without her, it's unlikely that the body will be dumped on Disney property…well, at least in the parks proper. The Seminole County Sherriff's department is heading up the investigation into the disappearance of both suspects. They are treating both as fugitive disappearances until DNA tells them otherwise. The locals have informed us that they expect us to be able to determine the profile first based on our high tech equipment," he smiled at Manuel. I've promised to keep them in the loop."

"We need to get Amanda," I said softly.

"What," he blinked at me.

"We need to bring in Amanda," I said seriously. "I realize what was alike about the apartments."

"What," he frowned.

"They were depersonalized. There were no family photos, no collages of friends, no cute little corkboards with ribbons and bows with random pictures stuck under the ribbons. There were tables, lamps, chairs, sofas…beds, dishes but absolutely no personal items anywhere in any of the girls' homes. Now, we know or we believed a cleaner had gone through Sandy's place, but what if that wasn't the case. What if Brady forced that on them."

"Jake has pictures," Ranger said thoughtfully. "He had pictures of him and Sandy all over the place."

"And his family," Brian said.

"So he wasn't part of it for sure," Ranger said with a nod. "And I'm willing to bet at least a couple of those pictures were made at Sandy's condo."

"Get me copies," I said chewing on my lip.

"What's up," he frowned.

"Gut feeling," I sighed.

"Your gut feelings are golden," he said seriously. "What is your gut telling you?"

"Brady raped Sandy. Sandy felt betrayed and cleaned her apartment of all her personal stuff. He didn't make her. She just didn't want any reminders of him and that meant no reminders of those he was attached to. I understand why she wanted Joanna out of her life based on that, but why was she kicking out Amanda. Wouldn't she want to keep that one friend she trusted close? Padma, what's your take on this?"

"Yes…she would, I would…if I trusted her."

"And therein lies the problem. The only reason I can fathom that she would have gotten rid of all of it was if she didn't trust anyone. Now…we know that she continued her relationship with Jake, but it was covert. I mean outwardly she expressed…or we're told that she expressed to her friends that he was a problem and she didn't trust him. But we know from her MySpace account that the opposite was true. Did she lie to both of them, or did they lie to us?"

"Good question," Ranger frowned.

"The only person who she didn't lie to was Jake," I said seriously.

"Not exactly," Ranger reminded me. "She lied to him about going green."

"But he knew better and as close as they were she knew that he knew better," I said seriously. I turned to Natalie. "When you tell Cal that nothing is wrong when something is really wrong…"

"The boy is like a dog with a bone," Natalie shook her head with a smile.

"And I know Jake was too. So she never told him what happened, but she knew that he knew something was up and she knew that he had her back. She was safe with him. She slept in his bed and not her own because it was safe. She didn't want him there where he was in jeopardy," I groaned. "Oh snap! She was protecting him."

"Oh snap," Ranger blinked at me with a smirk.

"My fault," Ali sighed. "I say it all the time."

"So…if she trusted nobody but Jake," Brian said, "then that means that both of our sweet little princesses were, in her mind, in some way responsible for what Brady did to her."

"Well," Lula said, "the buzz underground is that Brady kicked Joanna to the curb for fresh meat about six months ago. The buzz is that it was someone Joanna knew, someone in the cast."

"Do you think that's when his obsession with Sandy started," Ranger asked me.

"The timeline is wrong," I frowned. "Sandy was hot and heavy with Jake even then. Their relationship was progressing normally from everything Jake has told us."

"Then…"

"He probly just jumped princesses to Ariel," Lula said in a slightly bored voice. "I mean that boy has a mean streak a mile wide and face it…Ariel is a ho."

I blinked at her with my mouth hanging open. "Lula…you're brilliant!"

"I am," she blinked in surprise. "Well, hell yea of course I am. And don't you forget it!"

"Not a chance," I grinned. I turned to Ranger, "find Amanda. She's got some 'splainin to do."