Just a quick note, this chapter isn't edited and I'm just posting it now to let you know that I won't update for a while. My mother passed away and I'm just... I don't know I just need time until I can think again...

I wake up and turn to see what time it is and groan. Five in the morning... but I know even if I would try to go back to sleep now it wouldn't work. So, instead I get up, take a long shower and get ready for the day. Since, it is Saturday, I know Kate and Elliot won't be up for at least three or four more hours. On my phone I see a text from my Dad that he has landed safely in New York and was now waiting for his connecting flight to SEA-TAC, so he must be already on the plane and half way to Seattle by now.

In the kitchen I have a coffee and some granola, clean everything up and then just stare at the necklace in my hand, Christian's necklace. At this point I have no idea how it got here or why... why?! Suddenly, my heart starts to race as I remember something. In his early teens, Christian got grounded a lot because he had always said things as he saw it which drove his parents insane and when he was grounded and wasn't allowed to call me or hang out with the rest of us he would sneak out in the middle of the night and hang the necklace on a branch of a tree where I would see it in the morning. Whenever he did that it meant there was a letter for me in treehouse at his parents backyard.

Without thinking about it twice I shove the necklace in my pants pocket, get up and leave the house. Since it is still so early in the morning I don't think anyone is going to notice me. And so I manage to get into the tree house without any troubles look around and there it is a folded up sheet of paper in the corner under one of the boxes that are stacked there. I'm just about to read it when I see the light coming from Mr. Grey's study and decide to get the hell off of his property.

When I reach my driveway I blow out the breath I was holding only to realize that in my hurry to see if I was right I forgot my keys inside. Well... Elliot and Kate have to see this too. So, I walk up to the front door but before I can even reach it I feel a terrible pain in the back of my head and everything turns black...

"Time to wake up!" I hear Mr. Grey's angry voice as I drift back into consciousness... oww...my head is pounding. And it isn't until I'm trying to move that I find myself tied to a chair in what looks like a basement.

It's not the basement of the Grey's home though, because back as a kid we used to play hide and seek down there.

"You just couldn't let this go, could you?"

"No, I couldn't... Christian deserves better than that..."

"I wish the little bastard would have died in the womb..."

"How dare you, he was your son!" I get out and he laughs.

"He was not, I just gave in to get him because my wife wanted the little bastard... I thought with the mother's being sister he would pass as ours... instead he stuck out like a sore thumb... with Elliot and Mia no one ever noticed that they weren't ours but with Christian I always had to explain that my own wife couldn't give me children... I should have left the fucking cunt..." He hisses and I start to feel sick because deep down I know wherever I am, I'm not going to leave. He wouldn't tell me all of this and then let me go.

"So, you decided to have your son killed?" I ask... if this is it for me I might as well find out everything.

"Of course not, it became necassary when my reputation was jeopardized by my stupid wife."

"Because she had touched Christian?" I ask.

"A few days before your camping trip he came to me and told me that she had gotten into shower while he was in there... he told me that he would contact CPS and go to the cops if I wouldn't do something about her trying to fuck him. I thought he had lost his fucking mind... psycho just like his mother... but Elena didn't even deny it, started to laugh and told me that she wanted him only because she had hoped all this time he would take after his father... I couldn't divorce her, Elena is well respected, the perfect wife on the outside and I didn't want to have people speculate why we were separated... so, if I need the wife and I can't let the boy drag my family'S name into a scandal like that... the boy has to go, simple. It was easy to find someone to do the dirty work for me... play the grieving father and supportive husband... not even Elena has suspected anything... she still believes he ran because of her and chooses to assume him dead because that makes it easier for her to deal with it..."

"So, you hired a hitman to kill Christian?"

"Yes, he is dead... you'll never find his body and all it got you is your own untimely death. I'm actually sorry about killing you... you turned into a pretty little thing... what do you think since you already had the son... how about you take the father too." He smirks and I glare at him.

"You have to untie me to rape me and the moment you do, I will kill you with my bare hands." I hiss at him and he laughs.

"So, be it..." He says and pulls out a gun... oh god... I have to keep him talking, Kate and Elliot must know by now that I'm missing... maybe they are looking for me... my Dad should be home now too...

"You know that killing me is not the solution for you issues... are you going to kill everyone else too?"

"Everyone else?"

"I mean all the people that know too that you have hired Jack Hyde to murder your son."

"How do you know that name?" He sneers.

"I know that you paid him 1.5 million to murder your son... before I came here I asked the father of a friend to investigate... he found out everything from the way you manipulated everyone to adopt Christian to the fact that you paid Jack Hyde to murder your son... my friends from Boston know... Elliot and Kate know... and my father knows too... he should be back in Bellevue by now... so, are you going to kill all of them too? It's over, Mr. Grey... there is nothing you can do... if I disappear people will start to ask questions... they know I would never leave or bring any kind of harm to myself because I have too much to live for." I get out in a rush and he screams in frustration.

"I knew it, I knew all along that you little bitch would make trouble. Couldn't you find another idiot to fuck you?"

"I love your, son... I could never move on without knowing what happened to him."

"He is dead and I made sure of it!" He screams and suddenly there is a loud bang, five guys run into the room followed by my Dad and a tall guy dressed in black with the hood of his sweater pulled deep into his face.

"Annie? Are you alright?" My Dad asks while the tall guy starts to untie me.

"How did you find me?" I ask while I watch Carrick getting handcuffed, but before I can even ask any more questions I'm untied and my Dad simply picks me up and carries me out of the room where more men are standing.

"Thank you, John." My Dad says to one of them men.

"Whenever you need me... after all you saved my life twice." The men says and looks at me.

„You are a very tenacious young woman, Miss Steele, have you ever thought about joining the FBI?" He asks.

"I um..."

"No, she won't. I prefer her sticking her nose into books... it's less dangerous." My Dad barks at the guy who laughs.

"Well, anyway, take your girl home, Ray. I'll be with you in the afternoon to question your daughter about todays events." He says and suddenly we all hear Carrick scream from the room, cussing and yelling at someone but before I can make out the words my Dad has carried me outside and I realize that we are at the mansion that belonged to his parents.

"How did you find me, Dad?"

"Later Annie, let's get you home and have a doctor look at your head first."

"My head... how do you know that he hit me over the head?"

"Annie, enough with the questions, you know, I should spank you... your luck I'm to releaved to have found you alive to do that."

"Fine... I was just trying to find Christian." I mutter with a pout.

"I know... Christ, Annie, when I came home and Elliot and Kate told me they couldn't find you I nearly lost my mind..."

"Is it over, Dad?" I ask.

"Yes, Carrick won't be able to buy his way out of this one..."

"What about Elena?"

"She will be questioned... John will look into it to see what kind of other dirt he can find on her... the whole adoption thing will bring her some years behind bars."

"Can you call aunt Rebecca?" I ask when we are in his car and he drives us home.

"Sure thing, Annie."

At home Kate and Elliot both seem really shaken, just by looking at them I can tell that they both have been crying, which surprises me because Elliot isn't the type for crying... but then again he basically just lost both of his parents.

My Dad insists for me to lie down and after a doctor has checked my head and has given me some pain killers I drift into an exhausted sleep.

In the late afternoon his friend, who turns out to be an FBI agent and former army buddy of my Dad stops by to question me and also to assure me that there is enough proof to insure that Carrick will never leave jail again. After almost an hour he gets up to leave, but there is something I have to ask.

"Agent Doherty?"

"Yes, Miss Steele?"

"I went to see Jack Hyde a couple of days ago... he said that he didn't murder Christian... that someone knocked him out and by the time he woke up Christian was gone from the trunk of his car... do you think this could be true?" I ask.

"John... I take it from here." My Dad says suddenly.

"Dad! Christian could be alive!" I chime in but the men ignore me and before I can even do anything Agent Doherty has left.

"Dad... what if Hyde is right... what if he didn't lie..."

"Oh, I know he didn't lie, Anastasia." My father says and I stare at him. How could he possibly know if Hyde was lying or not.

"Dad, what do you mean, how do you know he didn't lie?" I ask.

"I know that he didn't lie because it was me who nearly drove the bastard off the road and punched his lights out." My Dad says and I gape at him... how on earth is that even possible...