What had started off as an annoying day had finally turned into an awful one for Owen Hunt. At first, he hadn't found his ID card in his locker, and neither had he found the white coat which he usually wore and where the ID had been attached to. He was sure that he hadn't left it somewhere… but it was gone, without a trace.
Then, Teddy hadn't showed up for her shift. She never was late. They had tried to call her, but she hadn't answered, neither on her mobile phone, nor at home. But in the end, he'd had no time to worry about her, since had to do the surgery which had actually been planned on her duty roster.
As he finally came out of the OR, two hours later, he found his staff gathered around the main counter, and they all looked worried somehow, one of the security guards was here, too. They had called hospital security while he had been in the OR, to ask when Teddy had clocked out, finding out that she hadn't even officially left, ever since her shift had started, more than 24 hours ago. The security guards quickly checked the video feeds from the previous night, discovering the shocking pictures, which he showed them on his laptop.

1:45 a.m. - A guy grabbed her, in the middle of the corridor, holding a gun to her head as he had dragged her into one of the offices.
3:50 a.m. - Two hours later, they came out of that office again. He went behind her, a jacket hung over his right arm, looking like it covered a gun, which he was pointing at her. They disappeared into one of the crew rooms where they stayed for a few hours.
7:40 a.m. – They left the crew room, again he was walking behind, probably hiding a gun under the jacket that hung over his right forearm. He obviously told her to go to the locker room. She opened one of the lockers and took out a white coat an ID, which she gave to him. Just for a moment, the guy put the jacket which hung over his right arm away, to put on the white coat. Now they could see the gun in his hand, pointing at Teddy. He covered it again and they went downstairs, over to the driveway for the ambulance cars. A driver and a paramedic were already waiting. Teddy greeted them and they seemed to talk for a few moments, thereafter she and the guy who was still secretly pointing a gun at her got into the back of the ambulance car. They got out of sight of the video cameras.

Owen froze as he saw these pictures. Teddy… abducted?
"Can you rewind this?", he asked the security guard, "To the part where they were in the locker room?" That was the only angle where the cameras had recorded the aggressor's face.
He had a closer look. Somehow, the guy seemed familiar, but he didn't know where to put him.

"That's our John Doe patient from two weeks ago.", one of the nurses said. They had been looking at the pictures for half an hour already, and one of them had recognized him. "The one with the two bullets in his abdomen"

Holy Christ…, he thought, aloud. Of course he recognized him now. He was surprised that this guy was even still alive.
"Can you print that out for me?", he asked the security guard, "And send it to the police, right away, I want them to find her!", he hissed, tearing his hair. Teddy… in the hands of that guy. He didn't remember when he'd been worried about her like this for the last time. But it was hard blow to see this.

"Dr. Hunt?", one of the assistants approached him, the phone in her hands, "The emergency room is calling for you", she said, offering the phone to him.

"Not now", he rebuffed her, walking a few steps up and down the corridor.

She talked to them but after a minute she came over to him again, "You should really take this call. Dr. Altman is coming in a few minutes. She just called in"

He harshly ripped the phone out of her hands and they confirmed that Teddy was coming back, with an ambulance car, and that they wanted to have him down there, too.
"You follow me. And I want five security guards at the entrance. Armed.", he hissed at the guard who was still here, and then he started to run downstairs.

He wouldn't have needed the security guards.
When they reached the back entrance, he, one assistant doctor and the five hospital security guards, the first approaching car was a Humvee, thereafter an ambulance, followed by a black limousine and another Humvee. It was a full-scale army transport.
Soldiers poured out of the Humvees, securing the area, as the back doors of the ambulance car opened up.

The two paramedics got the stretcher out, a woman on it.
Owen was relieved to see Teddy jump out of the car, too, but he still didn't get the picture.

They wheeled their female patient in, past him, followed by Teddy.
As she was passing by, she thrust the white coat with his ID into his hands. "Follow me. I'll explain later", she hissed at him, almost tearing him along.
Actually, she didn't know yet what she would explain to him. The whole story? About her, helping Jack? Or the short version, that he'd kidnapped her yesterday night, forcing her to go on this trip? She still had a few minutes left to decide. Now, they first had to look after their patient.

Owen looked back for a moment, to see who had gotten out of that black limousine, following them into the hospital. A bunch of black clothed men, probably secret service, and in the middle of them…

He almost stumbled, as he recognized the elderly man.

"That's Heller!", he hissed at Teddy. He couldn't really believe what was going on around here suddenly. Of course he recognized the Secretary of Defense.

She grabbed him by his coat to keep him from staring backwards. "That's his daughter.", she whispered into his ear while walking.

"Prepare a private room for her.", she told him, "I'll be there in a minute" She desperately needed to freshen up a little bit before she'd go there. Thank god, Owen didn't follow her, as she went over to the locker rooms just to have minute for herself.

She closed the door behind her, leaning against it, taking a deep breath.
This all was too much to come to terms with now. She realized that she should have been tired after working for 16 hours, then being up all night and being here again. But the adrenaline caused by this morning kept her wide awake and her mind racing.

She wondered where Jack was.
She wondered if he was okay… if he was still alive. Probably yes. If they would have wanted to kill him, they'd have done it long ago. But okay? No way, the chances that he was still okay were close to zero.

Audrey hadn't said a single word up to now.
Two DoD agents had brought her to the ambulance and had handed her over to her.
She'd done what she always did – given her something to relax and search her for visible injuries, but there hadn't been any. She didn't have any bleeding wounds. She had a few bruises, her ankle was swollen black, but that didn't need any urgent treatment. They could also take a closer look after arriving at the hospital.

So in the end, Teddy had just sat there, silently, monitoring her patient. She had wanted to ask her something, tell her something, but in the end she hadn't found any words to say to that woman who was a complete stranger to her but who she knew so much about, after listening to Jack talk about her.
She just watched her, figuring, that if her hair wasn't that unkempt and clothes were different, the tears and the dirt washed off her face… that woman would really look a lot like her, somehow.

Teddy took a deep breath and went over to her locker, putting on fresh clothes to wear. She had to go back to Audrey. A female doctor should look at her, and for sure not Owen, who could be really rude sometimes.

As she reached the room, she found Heller and his secret service men waiting in front of the door.
God, that guy gave her a chill. She remembered hearing him talk to Jack, wishing him in hell, his men beating him without any justified reason. She hadn't seen them do it, but she had heard it. Probably it was one of the guys standing over there.
She had to face them.
Straighten yourself, put on a smile, she told herself as she went over to Heller.

"Sir, my name is Theodora Altman, I'll be having a look at your daughter.", she said to him, shaking hands.

"James Heller.", he answered, "So, I see that my men already put you in the picture. Good."

She froze, innerly. No, nobody had put her in the picture, damnit! Nobody had officially told her that the woman in there was his daughter! She had to be more careful, with these agents, or her little secret of helping Jack would leak out, eventually.
"Yes, they have.", she hurriedly answered, trying to play her role in the most credible way she could.

"When do you think can I see her?"

It was the question of a worried father.

"Sir, I'll have a look at her, check her out for injuries, I guess it won't take longer than half an hour or 45 minutes. I already saw on the way over here, that she is…" well, how should she call it? Not in Jack's shape? No. "… in a quite good condition."

"Thank god", he breathed, sending a silent prayer towards heaven to thank for that.

"I'll call you in as soon as I'm finished.", she answered and left him back there, entering Audrey's room.
That were the words of a loving father. Spoken with a soft voice, full of worries. But yet, she couldn't forget the other words that he'd said to Jack today.
Pushing him out of her mind for the moment, she went over to Audrey, who now probably lay in the most comfortable bed that she'd seen in months. Two nurses had stripped the messy clothes of her and had given her some hospital gowns.

As Teddy looked at her, she couldn't really focus. She just heard Jack's voice in the back of her head, telling her about the ways in which they had tortured him.
"Audrey?", she silently asked, standing next to the bed.

She stirred. It was the first time in weeks that somebody called her by her first name.

Careful, Teddy thought. Nobody had ever told her officially what her name was. Not Heller, not the DoD agents. Damnit, she really had to be more careful.
"How are you feeling?", she asked, cautiously stepping closer. She had been kidnapped, probably she didn't trust anyone any more, not even the people wearing scrubs and white coats.

Audrey still didn't talk to her.

They looked into each other's eyes.

"Will you let me see that?", Teddy softly spoke, pointing at Audrey's left hand. The ankle looked bruised and swollen.

Hesitatingly, Audrey lifted her hand, to let her take it.

Teddy tried to be as careful as possible as she examined it. Maybe it wouldn't be that hard after all, to build up some trust.

The door to the room opened and Owen came in, asking "Teddy?"

Audrey pulled her hand back at once.

Damnit, Teddy thought, I had just gotten her to let me touch her and then he comes in…

"What?", she spat, turning around to him.

"Will you now please explain to me what happened last night?", he rudely asked.

Oh god, I still owe him an answer, Teddy realized. She had postponed it but she couldn't postpone it forever.

He wordlessly handed her the picture that the security guard had printed out for him. The one of the CCTV camera in the locker room, showing Jack, pointing a gun at her. "Who is this?"

"That's our John Doe patient from two weeks ago", Teddy slowly began, taking the picture out of her hands. Jack. "He's somehow connected to these DoD guys", she lied, trying to play the innocent. She couldn't fulfill her promise and be there for Audrey if they found out that she had been helping Jack, who was obviously Heller's enemy. "He came here last night and took your ID to get past some security parameters, hiding in the ambulance car.", she murmured.

"Are you alright?", Owen worriedly asked her.

At first she didn't even realize why he was that worried. "Of course. Why wouldn't I be?", she answered.

"That guy pointed a gun at you" Owen was worried that she was so calm. Was it her own shock, hadn't she realized it in what grave danger she had been? "Are you fit to work?", he asked.

Now Teddy realized why he was so worried. "I'm okay.", she ensured him. She could hardly tell him that the gun on the picture wasn't even loaded. "Can I finish here now? We can talk later."

"Of course.", he sighed, taking the surveillance picture out of her hands again. "What do you want me to tell the police?"

Teddy shrugged. "I don't know. It looks like this some intelligence matter. Probably you should give that to the DoD agents."

"Okay."

Right as she wanted to turn back to Audrey, he grabbed her shoulder, forcing her to turn back and look into his eyes. "Are you really, fully, alright, Teddy?", he asked again.

She had never seen him worry so much about her.
"Yes.", she silently answered, hoping that he'd finally leave. He did.

Drowned in thoughts, she turned back to Audrey, took her hand into hers again and continued to examine her.

"He would have never hurt you.", Audrey silently said. She had seen the picture for a short moment, as Teddy had held it in her hands.

Teddy looked up into her eyes.
Her first words.

"Never.", Audrey added.

Teddy felt her heart sink. They were finally talking, but about a subject that she had never believed possible.
"I know.", she breathlessly said, damning herself already for having said that. It didn't fit the lies that she'd just told Owen.
But if she wanted to keep talking to Audrey, she knew, she had to tell her the truth.

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Well, it feels a little strange to have a Kim Raver character (Teddy) talk to another Kim Raver character (Audrey) - but I'd like to solve that little problem by saying that they look very much alike, but not the same...
I'd really like them to get along...