Piper sat on the lounge suite anxiously waiting for news on Lorna when Nicky burst through the door followed closely by Sharon.

Piper embraced her and Nicky was already blubbering into her shoulder. "I can't lose her, Pipes. I just got her back! I can't lose her again!

"I know, I know. Alex and I are going to get her back, Nick. I promise. I'm so sorry."

"Nicky started pacing back and forth when Alex entered the room. Nicky looked at her seriously.

"Alex. I literally just got her back! How is this happening!"

A tear fell down Alex's cheek and she pulled her into a tight hug. "I'm so sorry. I'm going to bring her back to you. This is all my fault. I'm going to fix it."

"Sharon coughed and all three women looked at her expectedly.

"I just got a call from my boss. He said one of the witnesses saw Lorna being dragged into a black van. Managed to grab the plates, we did a background check and it does belong to someone suspected of being in the cartel. We have a search out on it now. In the meantime, Alex, do you know where Kubra could have taken her?"

Alex moved her glasses to the top of her head and pinched her nose. "There was a place he used to go when he used to interrogate people. It's a warehouse just south of Port Mary. I can show you where its located on google maps."

Sharon took down the details and then headed back out. Alex calmly sat down on the sofa beside Nicky and Piper. "There's another place he could have taken her. It's one of his mansions on the other side of town. It's where he would take his more high profile cartel members when they needed to lay low."

Piper and Nicky looked at Alex in astonishment. "Why didn't you tell Sharon?" Piper said in a high pitched tone.

"It's dangerous. They have the place rigged. I know my way around it though, I know it well. If I could just go myself…"

Nicky jumped up from her seat on the sofa and put her hands in her hair. "Are ya fuckin serious, Vause? You think you're going to go into a fucking cartel mansion and rescue Lorna without getting yourself killed in the process? I don't fuckin think so."

Alex ran her hand through her hair. "What else do you want to do, Nicky? I know the place well. When the cartel was having some issues with someone feeding the police information, he sent me there to live for like 6 months. I know the place. I know where she could be. Why send a bunch of cops in there to risk their lives when I could potentially get her out of there without anyone else getting hurt."

Piper made a little squeaking noise. "Anyone else? Anyone else? Jesus fucking Christ, Al. You think I mentally tortured myself for the past almost 3 years for you to come back into my life and then get killed by the cartel because you were trying to protect the cops?"

"It's my fault Lorna is in there! It's my fault everyone is in this huge fucking mess, Piper. So yes, If anyone is going to take one for the team, it needs to be me."

Lorna and Piper were looking at each other in bewilderment. Piper moved closer to Alex and narrowed her eyes. "You need to tell Sharon where she could be. Make a fucking map of their place, I don't know, I just know you aren't leaving me again, Al. Not a chance."

Alex looked forlorn. She sat on the sofa with her head in her hands. "I'll let Sharon know. But if they want to come out of that building unscathed they're going to have to come up with a fucking good plan."

Sharon came back in with her phone in her hand. "Jeff has tracked the van down to a man downtown, they're bringing him in for questioning as we speak. - Are you sure there's no more leads you could give us Alex?"

"Well actually, there's a mansion Kubra used to take his high profile cartel members to when they needed to lay low. I didn't think he would take a hostage there but I wouldn't put it past him to try and lure me there. They have the place rigged with cartel members and alarms so if you want to go there you're going to need a plan."

Sharon looked at Alex like she had grown another head. "And you're only telling us this now?"

"Look, Sharon. I mean it, It's dangerous."

Sharon looked at Alex with an impatient expression, huffed, pulled out her phone and began to call someone as she walked out of the door.

Within the hour she was back. "We need you to draw us a plan if you can remember the layout, Alex. Then we are going to deploy the specialist units and hope they can work miracles."

Sharon sighed. "I spoke to Jeff, he asked if i could talk to you and see if you would be willing to sit outside in an unmarked van and watch the body cam footage. We will give our team leader an earpiece and you can assist them in where you think they need to go. I need to stress to you Alex, while it would be helpful, it can also be damaging to your mental health if the plan doesn't work and anyone is hurt while you are watching the body cam."

"Alex's eyes widened. "I'll do it. Absolutely. I need to do this."

"Nicky stood up. "If Stretch is going, I want to go. I need to be there for Lorna. I have to be there when they bring her out."

Sharon looked at her like she had grown two heads. "We can't have you there, Nicole. It might interfere with the raid. Alex needs to be there to aid the team in safely getting Lorna out as she knows the layout of the place. You have a personal attachment to the case. These guys are dangerous. We can't have you running in to save her and getting hurt yourself. Please trust us."

Piper looked at Nicky. "She's right Nic, We should wait here. They'll bring her straight back here, right guys?"

"Depending on her condition. If she's well enough we will bring her straight to you. If she is injured we will need to take her to the hospital but either way we will call you as soon as we know anything."

"We will just get ourselves ready, prep the team and then we need to go. I don't want to waste anymore time while Lorna is there. We need to move swiftly. If they somehow find out that we are moving in on them, they will move and we will have no more leads."

Authors note: Guys, I'm so sorry it has taken this long! I don't abandon fics so i'll be finishing this one up. I also have another story in mind i'd like to write, I have two kids now so its been so, so hard to post updates but I get a tiny bit more free time now so hopefully I can post again. Also, I seem to have forgotten how to format fanfic! Why does it have to be so bloody difficult to post on here! :') Sorry about the first attempt it uploaded with a bunch of random code! Hopefully this time it works. Thanks guys xx