You Found Me

Saving Elle pt. 1

Emmett Forrest was happier than he had been in a month. At the same time he was angrier than he had ever been in his life. Every time he thought about Callahan, and his suspicions about his role in Elle's disappearance he wanted to kill someone. It also made him want to throw up. For the only reason Emmett could think of for Callahan kidnapping Elle was too disgusting to behold. And it had happened right under his nose. Emmett Forrest was angry, yes. But most of his anger wasn't at his twisted employer it was at himself. Over and over again he mentally berated himself for letting Elle get hurt this way, for just taking Callahan's word for it. He had wallowed in a pool of self-pity, and never really considered that Callahan could be lying. The more he thought about it the more he thought he could have saved Elle sooner. Yes, this mess was most definitely his fault. Elle would probably never talk to him again, even if he did manage to save her. He wouldn't blame her. He was too smart for this. As a lawyer especially, he should have thought more of this extremely un-Elleish behavior, and questioned something. He shook his head to clear his thoughts. Right now, the focus needed to be on getting Elle away from Callahan, and then getting Callahan locked away.

Emmett finished cleaning up the mess Elle's little dog, Bruiser, had made of her dorm room. He had given Bruiser a bath and fed him. (A/N-There you go FelineMimiDavis!)

Now the dog sat curled up, content, on Elle's pink comforter.

"Okay," he said to himself. "Next order of business, call the Delta Nu girls." He had found Elle's address book while he had been cleaning, and now sat next to Bruiser and pulled out his cell phone. He flipped through it now; looking for one of the girls Elle had mentioned in her many stories of her sorority days. He paused suddenly when he saw his name. Elle had written his name, number and address, in pink sparkly gel pen. Next to his name he saw little hearts all over the page in numerous different colors, as if Elle had doodled on this page many different times. He shook his head. Girls could be so weird sometimes. Finally he found a name he recognized: Margot. He dialed the number and waited, listening to Margot's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" ring back.

"Hello?"

"Hi, Margot?"

"Yeah, who are you?"

"I'm Emmett Forrest. I'm Elle's friend from Harvard."

"Omigod!" Margot squealed. "Emmett!! I know ALLLL about you! Elle talks about you ALL the time!"

"Really?" Emmett blushed; thankful Bruiser was the only one in the room with him. She told her friends all about him? She talked about him? All the time? Could this mean…maybe she felt the way he did? Omigod!

"Yeah, we all think she's like totally in love with you, but she won't admit it."

Then Margot's tone changed abruptly.

"So, do you know where Elle is? She hasn't returned any of our calls for like a month. We're like totally worried, but we don't know what to do. What's up with her?" She sounded like she was about to cry.

Emmett sighed.

"That's actually why I called. I think Elle's been kidnapped by her boss/teacher, Professor Callahan. I have a rescue plan, but I need some help. I was kind of hoping you might be able to come up here and help me save her." His tone was pleading but he didn't really need it to be.

"What?? Kidnapped? Omigod!! We'll be on the next flight over there!"

"Who's we?" asked Emmett cautiously.

Margot caught on quickly.

"I guess just me Serena, Pilar, and Kate."

"Ok. That sounds great!" Emmett was relieved that he wasn't going to have the whole sorority on his hands. "Thank you so much! I'll explain the plan when you get here."

"Kay! Thanks, Emmett, we'll be there soon." Margot promised.

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Early the next morning, Emmett's cell phone rang.

"Hello?" he yawned.

"Emmett, its Margot. We're at the airport. Where do you wanna meet us?"

"Ummm…come to my apartment."

He gave her the address, and hung up. He yawned, stretched, and got dressed. Then he called Paulette, and asked her to come to his apartment ASAP. Fifteen minutes later, Emmett, Paulette, and the girls of Delta Nu were all gathered in Emmett's messy apartment.

"All right." Emmett cleared his throat. "As you all know our own Elle Woods has been kidnapped by Professor Callahan. God only knows what he's done to her this past month, and we need to get her the hell out of there ASAP. Callahan is hosting a dinner party this Thursday for everyone in his law firm. I'm absolutely sure she's at his house, cause she's definitely not at the firm. One of you girls," he pointed to the Delta Nu girls, "is going to come with me, as my girlfriend, and help me find Elle. One of you is going to be outside in our 'getaway car'. The rest of you are going to be here getting ready for us to bring Elle back. I think we'll need some clothes, food she likes, and stuff like that. I really doubt she's gonna be ok right then, so let's prepare for the worst." Emmett stopped, and realized he had been pacing. Paulette, Margot, Serena, Pilar, and Kate all nodded.

"So," said Paulette. "What about this Callahan person? He sounds like a pretty disgusting guy. Once he figures out she's gone, won't he come looking for her?"

"We're going to call the police, when we get Elle back here." Said Emmett. "I'm afraid if Callahan gets wind the police are after him he might do something…worse to get Elle out of the way." He shuddered, refusing to actually voice the thought aloud.

"Ok, so what else do we need to do to get ready? You're all girls, what's she gonna need when she gets outta there?" Emmett looked questioningly at all of them.

The girls all smiled.

"We know what to do," they said in unison.

"I'll bring stuff over from my salon!" said Paulette.

"YOU OWN A SALON??" The Delta Nu girls looked at Paulette with adoration.

"I'll get magazines!" cried Margot.

"I'll get clothes!" yelled Serena.

"I'll do accessories!" Pilar jumped up.

"I'll do food!" Kate said.

"I'll do the driving!" said Paulette.

Everyone laughed.

A/N: Ok, you guys are probably ready to kill me cause they haven't gotten to the saving part yet…I double Delta Nu sister swear that it'll be in the next chapter!

In the meantime, Happy 2008! Let's ring in the New Year with reviews, shall we? Thanks!

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