Chapter 3: Missing

"Mac, I have your results," Jane says, stopping him as he walks down the hall. "Lindsay is still talking to Sid."

"And?"

"Thirteen alleles in common. It's a match."

"Thanks," he walks off.

On the way, Mac runs into Lindsay, "Oh, hi. Nothing unusual about the body. Adam is running some trace evidence now."

"Seen Stella? The DNA test was a match, and I should tell her about it before she finds out on her own."

"I haven't seen her since an hour ago when she wanted to know where you were. She and Danny got started on another case, I think."

"I'll call and tell her to come see me when she gets back."

"Get anything?"

"No one was home. A neighbor said she hadn't seen him in about a week. I showed a picture of the vic, and she had seen her there a couple times, not in about a month though," Mac informs her. "Said he very well could have killed her; he apparently had a temper. Now I know where Stella gets it from."

"I'm sorry; I couldn't get Sid to stop rambling on. He noticed she looked like Stella too. I told him not to mention anything to her. Anyway, I didn't get a chance to look through her file or call and get it from the orphanage," Lindsay explains. "But I'm on my way."

"Thinking about it, maybe we should go talk to the father and sisters there. I should call Stella first," he pulls out his phone. "Stel, I need to talk with you," he tells her when she answers.

"Okay, meet me at three in my office."

"No, it isn't bad, but it's not exactly good."

"Of course you're not in trouble. See you later," Mac hangs up. "Let's look through her records here first."

"Where are the files?" Lindsay asks.

"Have to get it from the chief. Meet you in layout in ten." They split up, and he goes to the chief's office. "Sir, I need a file."

"What for?"

"Stella. We found her parents. I'd like to see if there's anything in there about why they left her."

The man gets up and pulls out a file from a cabinet. "You tell her yet?"

"We're meeting at three. I'll tell her then."

"You know to keep her away from this case I assume."

"Yes. Thanks, Sir," Mac leaves, file in hand, and heads to the layout room. "Got it."

They spend the next fifteen minutes going through her file. "It's not in here, Mac. Must not have thought it important. There's nothing that even mentions her parents."

"I'll take this back, then we'll head to St. Basil's to see what records they have. There has to be something about them leaving her there, some kind of paperwork," Mac insists.

Both get up and again head in opposite directions. When they meet five minutes later by the elevator, his phone rings. "Taylor."

"I can't find her, Mac. She just disappeared," Danny's panicked voice says hurriedly, incomprehensible.

"Slow down, Danny. Now repeat what you said before."

"She's missing. I can't find her anywhere."

"Who, Danny? Who's missing?" Mac begins to panic too.

"It's Stella. She was here a minute ago, and when I looked up, she was gone. She's not here anymore."

"Stay calm, Danny. We'll be there in ten minutes to help you look for her. Stella will be okay," he says, trying more to calm himself than Danny.

"What's wrong, Mac? Where's Stella?" Lindsay starts to worry.

"I don't know. Danny said she was there one moment and gone the next."

"I hope she's alright."

"Stella will be okay."

"It was our killer, Mac. And he wants to kill her too. Her father took her, but why would he want to kill his own daughter?"

A/N: You people aren't going to believe how rediculous I am. Okay, so I heard this song in a video at YouTube and I really wanted it. The one illegal website I use doesn't have it, or it does but you only get the first thirty seconds. I downloaded Limewire today just to get one song and then delete the whole program. It took me like ten times downloading this one song to realize that I had to change where I was downloading it to. When I go to play it, the stupid thing plays in Windows Media Player instead of iTunes. I don't know whether you can convert the files or not but anyway, I took a blank CD and used some other program we have to burn it onto the CD, then opened iTunes with the burned CD still in and saved the song on there. I went through a whole lot of trouble for one stupid song. Now I have this disk that I can't do anything with that has one Nickelback song on it. It would be easier if my mom would just let me use iTunes to download. Since we had to restart the computer, I haven't added any illegal music downloading things back onto it. Oh, and happy birthday to Melina Kanakaredes who turns 40 today. When you write out the word 40, does it have a "u" in it? I never figured that out. So I asked on my other story but does anyone who's reading this have a good idea for me to use for a story using a Rascal Flatts' song where Mac and Stella are kind of already dating but they have a big fight over something that could end their friendship? The song is "What Hurts the Most" but I can't think of a reason for them to fight. Please review. Thanks.