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It took almost 15 hours for Oversight to go through all of his notes of his tracking Jonah Walsh, finding the places he had figured where his former partner had hidden in or he had used before, and to assembly TAC teams to search them. By the time they got to the last house on the list, it was late evening. As the team, which James MacGyver and Jack Dalton were apart of, burst into the building, they found it empty and dark as every leader of the teams shouted the word 'clear'.

"There's nobody here. Doesn't look like there has been for a while." The head of the TAC team came over to inform James, who stood by the door.

"Any more dead ends you want to check?" Jack questioned his boss with a sarcastic tone, furious that they had now wasted an entire day on nothing but dead ends.

"No, this was the last one." James murmured, completely ignoring Jack because not only had he also realized that in the last several hours since they found out Mac had been kidnapped they had found nothing besides evidence of the person who took him, they now had no more leads to follow.

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One hour later, back at the Phoenix Foundation Headquarters in the war room, Jack and Riley were alone, waiting for any news from the TAC team if Jonah Walsh had been there at all, if it was recent or not, if Mac had been there, or there was any clue as to where he could have gone next. Riley was in one of the chairs on her laptop, waiting for the report to come up while Jack, still wearing his bulletproof vest and gun holsters paced in the front of the room. He had come right up to the room once he, the TAC team, and Oversight got back, but had only found Riley.

Apparently, Matty went to go get some coffee while Bozer and Leanna went to get a bunch of snacks for the team, having realized that nobody had actually eaten at all that day. They had all been too focused on finding Mac, and too worried about him to even think of it, which left Jack alone with Riley as Oversight hadn't made a reappearance yet. As Jack made his millionth turn to pace the length of the room again, he heard the ding on Riley's computer, telling him that the report had just popped up.

"So, they did find trace amounts of DNA, loose hair, that kind of thing. Walsh was definitely there at some point, but most likely not recently." Riley informed the sniper as the report of what had been found.

"Great, so, nothing at all important to what we need right now." Jack snapped in a furious tone. Only one second later though, he immediately turned to look at their, now former, hacker with a guilt-ridden face, "Sorry Riles, I'm sorry."

"It's okay Jack." Riley told him. Though his tone had caught her a little off guard, she wasn't overall surprised, nor was she upset at all. She could tell practically the minute she started working for Phoenix how close Jack was to Mac, how protective he was over the blonde, and with every mission she went on with them, she saw it more and more. And with Mac now missing, she could see how close he was to losing his mind, especially when he stopped pacing and sat down on one of the chairs, putting his head in his hands.

"Hey." Riley muttered, just loud enough for Jack to hear her as she got off her chair and walked over to him. As she crouched down in front of him, she said, "We're going to find him."

Jack looked up at her, but before he could respond, the door burst open and Oversight, Matty, Bozer and Leanna strolled into the room, with James MacGyver asking, "Did they find anything Riley?"

"Evidence that Walsh had been there before, but nothing that shows it was recently, nor was there any sign that Mac had been there." Riley answered as she stood straight up and started to make her way back to her laptop. James immediately went over to the large board in the front of the room and pulled up the report to see for himself. When he saw that Riley was right, he sighed in frustration and annoyance.

"Maybe we need to take a different approach." A female, Australian voice broke the silence, causing everyone to look over at the door. To the surprise of everyone, besides Matty, Samantha Cage stood by the doorway, looking over them all.

"Cage? What are you doing here?" Bozer asked, "I thought you were healing up in Australia with your sister."

"I was, but I'm all healed up and ready to get back to work. And when I talked to Matty and found out what was going on, I jumped on the first and fastest jet I could find." Cage answered, giving Matty, Bozer, Riley, and Jack a smile, though her eyes lingered on Jack for a moment longer than the others. She knew how close he and Mac were, and knew how worried he had to be.

"What do you mean, take a different approach?" James questioned, drawing the blonde's attention away from the team and over at him.

"Simple. When you're looking for someone, you need to see if you can figure out what they are planning to do and what they need in order to achieve it. You then put all the information together and that should help you narrow down the area where they might be. For example, if he was planning on creating a bomb, you would want to check places where they could get C-4 or other explosives and where they could create the bomb without being interrupted." Cage explained with her matter-of-fact tone.

"We need to try and figure out what Walsh is up to and why he took Mac." Leanna quickly realized what Cage was saying.

"Exactly." The Australian confirmed, looking over her shoulder at Leanna.

"Revenge?" Bozer suggested before looking over at his best friend's father, "He hates you for whatever reason you haven't told us, and you and Mac did destroy his lab."

"If he wanted revenge on both of us, he would've grabbed me too. Would've made me watch." James added the last part quietly. If Walsh truly wanted to hurt him, wanted to break him, that would be the best and probably only way to do it. Being forced to watch his son being hurt and killed and being unable to do anything.

"Maybe he couldn't find you, so he took Mac to draw you out." Riley chimed in. After all, Mac and Jack traveled pretty much around the entire world searching for his Dad and couldn't find him even though they worked in the same building. If he could do that, he could have stayed hidden from Walsh.

"Then he would've contacted us by now." James told her, then added "No, there's something else we're missing."

"Maybe he wants Mac for something else." Jack finally spoke up, "He is genius after all, could do a lot of things that a guy like Walsh would want."

"Doubt it. Walsh isn't that clever." James quickly dismissed the idea. While Walsh had his moments of being clever, he doubted the man had that much foresight.

"Hey, just because he's not as smart and scientific as you, doesn't mean he's an idiot. He did manage to get that lab set up and hack into Phoenix." Jack objected, feeling that since Oversight had said that Walsh was his Jack Dalton, he was insulting him as well. The fact that he was still angry at his boss for what he put Mac through didn't help either.

"Wait, what's this lab you keep mentioning?" Cage inquired, hoping to get everyone's focus back to the task at hand.

"Walsh took the recipe of a drug that I had tried to create years ago. One that completely failed. He was trying to recreate it and make it work for a drug lord." James answered, turning his gaze away from Dalton and turning it towards Cage.

"Did Walsh know that Mac was working for you, working with you?" The blonde then questioned.

"Yeah, Mac was with me when we destroyed his lab. I tricked him into letting Mac help me work and," James immediately stopped as an expression like a deer-caught-in-the-headlights and horror came upon his face, "Oh no."

"What?" Jack asked, feeling extremely worried and scared when he saw the look on Oversight's face.

"It's not just about revenge. I practically told him Mac was as smart as me, that Mac could help with the drug. And he knew that Mac worked for Phoenix. He could do both at the same time. Get the drug made and perfected without any flaws, and get revenge on both of us." James revealed what he just realized.

"Okay, so we need to find a place where Walsh could keep someone captive without being interrupted, and where he could get everything he needs to recreate this drug. You still have a list of the ingredients and what he'd need, right?" Matty asked, joining the conversation, and James immediately nodded.

"Good, so we need to check all the stores and websites that sell them, see we can find Walsh buying any of it." Matty ordered, causing everyone to get right to work, despite the late hour. There was no way they were wasting another second. They had to get their missing agent back, before Walsh either got what he wanted, or killed Mac.

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Mac could barely keep his eyes open, and it was not just because of exhaustion. Though he was really tired, Walsh had punched him several times in the face, with both hands so the bruises were on both sides of his face. And with those bruises, came two black eyes and cuts on his cheeks, forehead, and a bloody nose that was probably broken. He didn't know for sure. His nose was bloody though, he knew that for sure. Actually, he was pretty sure his entire face was bloody.

And that was just his head. Walsh had also punched him several times in his ribs and stomach. Mac could only imagine the array of colours that were now on his skin under his T-shirt. The blonde was fairly certain at least one of his ribs were broken, having heard it crack loud enough to overpower the ringing in his ears that was caused by the blows to his head.

Walsh didn't do much worse than that though, besides the usual asking if he had changed his mind and threating to do worse if he continued to refuse. After a while though, Walsh just up and left the room, leaving Mac alone, bloodied and tied to the chair. For a few minutes, the blonde tried to stay awake so he could try and get free, but the ropes were too tight, and knotted too well for him to try and untie them, especially when his head wouldn't stop throbbing. It also didn't help that he was pretty sure he kept passing out. However, he was still somewhat awake when the door opened and Walsh came back into the room.

"Wakey wakey baby MacGyver." Mac heard Walsh say with a singsong voice that caused a shiver to run down Mac's spine. Since he was so tired and out of it though, he doubted it was noticeable. Or at least, he hoped it wasn't.

"If you're about to ask me if I changed my mind, if I've 'come to my senses' in the last few hours, forget it. I haven't, and I won't be. Ever." Mac instinctively told him as Walsh crouched down in front of him.

"That's fine with me." His Dad's former partner replied, "While I do need that drug, I had been making progress before you and your Daddy blew up my lab. I can do it again."

"Then why are you asking me to help if you don't need it?" Mac wondered, feeling a little curious as to why Walsh was trying to get him to help make his father's drug if he didn't actually need his help.

"Because, you baby genius, would be able to do it faster. Plus, if you did decide to help me, it would be a great way to get revenge on your Daddy. The knowledge that the little kid he abandoned with the lame excuse of protection, turned around and helped his enemy would be devastating to him. After all, he tried to make you out to be just like him, didn't he?" The older man responded with a curious look, as though he actually wanted an answer. When Mac didn't give him one though, he sighed and stood up straight.

"But, since you aren't willing to help, that means, I get to do this." Before Mac could even wonder what Walsh meant by 'this', the man punched him the face again, causing the cut on his cheek which had already scabbed over, to reopen and bleed again.

"And this." Walsh said before he slapped him across the face with his other hand hard enough to whip Mac's head to the side.

"And a whole lot more. Like," Walsh paused just long enough for Mac to turn his head back straight before he drove his fist into the blonde's stomach and whispered in his ear, "this."

"Had enough yet?" Walsh questioned as he pulled away and stood up to his full height. Though Mac was positive he was just barely conscious and knew he didn't have much strength left before he did pass out, he managed to lift up his head and glare at his captor, who only smiled when he saw that the young man wasn't backing down.

"Good, because honestly, I really don't want to stop." Walsh said with a sadistic grin as he pulled something out of his pocket, something that Mac instantly recognized even though he couldn't see that well anymore. It was his red swiss army knife, the one Jack gave him to replace the one his Grandfather had given him before a monkey stole it. When Walsh flicked the blade out, Mac looked up at the older man's face, just in time to see his grin widen with sadistic joy and excitement.

AN – I know that a lot of people don't like Cage, I'm not sure how I feel about her myself, but I just didn't like the way the writers had her just go to recover from a gunshot wound and never bring her up again. So, I brought her back to give her character a better exit from the show, or team, especially since it doesn't look like that Cage will be back in season 3. At least, I haven't heard anything about it, so I'm just assuming. Hope you guys liked this chapter. Next one will be up within a week.