Day Two:

The Hospital:

Emily, Marty and Mr. and Mrs. Davis were getting ready to leave the hospital. The doctors had kept Emily over night just to be on the safe side and had now released her into her parent's arms. There was no school for Emily or Marty today, but the rest of the kids had to go to school, which meant a whole lot of questions for them. Emily knew that Derek, Sam, Max, Lizzy and Edwin were going to be bombarded with questions the whole day, but she knew that they had to find Casey as well. Something in the back of her mind told her that this wasn't a random kidnapping and she needed to get on the computer as quick as possible.

Venturri-McDonald Household:

Although their daughter had just gotten out of the hospital, the Davis' had decided to drop Emily off at the Venturri-McDonald household with Marty so that they could go to work. They let Emily grab her Laptop and then Nora promised to call them if anything happened with finding Casey. Marty went straight to her room and tried not to cry but that didn't help much. She decided it was best to stay with her family and Emily and not out of the site of her family or Emily, Max and Sam. For only being six years old, she was a very smart little girl. She was very mature for her age.

Emily was typing on her Laptop when Sam, Derek, Max, Lizzy and Edwin got back from school. She waved to them as they walked through the door and they waved back. They all looked like they had been through hell, which meant that they had been asked a lot of questions at school today.

"How are you feeling Emily?" Lizzy asked.

"I've been better. How was school?"

"We've had better." They all said together.

"That bad huh?"

"Oh yeah, people couldn't stop asking questions. Paul even came up and asked if he could do anything to help look for her. The police are still searching and they think that this wasn't a random act of violence." Max said.

"What do you meant by that?" Marty asked.

"Marty, go up to your room while we talk to Emily, please. I'll come up and give you some ice cream in a few minutes." Derek told his younger sister.

"No, I won't I'm not a little girl anymore. Casey's my sister too and I want to help look for her. Please, let me stay."

"You can stay Marty, but us big kids need to talk about school for awhile so why don't you go play with Lizzy and Edwin in your room and they promise to do whatever you tell them to do, okay?" Emily told her, giving Lizzy & Edwin the look that said they would tell them what was going on later if they would keep Marty occupied while they spoke about the case. They got the point almost immediately.

"Come on Marty, let's head upstairs and play tea party with your friends." Lizzy said grabbing Marty by the hand. Edwin looked back at Derek and his friends then followed Lizzy and Marty up the stairs and into Marty's room, shutting the door behind them.

"Now that they are gone, what did you mean Max?"

"You guys remember hearing about that California girl that went missing a few months ago?" Max asked.

"Yeah, it was all over the news. What about it?" Derek said.

"They think Casey was taken by the same people that took the girl. They haven't been able to find where they took the other girl but they know that it is somewhere in Canada. If we find Casey in the allotted time it takes to find a missing person before it's considered just a search, then we may be able to bring the other girl to safety as well. We may be able to bring that family some peace knowing that their daughter is safe and sound."

"I get what your saying, but our parents aren't going to let us wander around by ourselves, not after what happened to Casey." Sam said. They were whispering just in case the younger ones were listening.

"We won't have to. I know someone that would be willing to help us look in the wilderness for her. In fact, she's my older sister and she knows how much Casey means to me."

"I didn't know you had an older sister Max." Emily said.

"She doesn't live in Toronto. She lives out in Antarctica six months out of the year. She's a guide for the Canadian Research Base stationed in Antarctica. She and her team are on their way back to Canada as we speak because the summer season is over and the winter teams are heading down for the long winter ahead. She should be here within a matter of hours. We can use her dog sled team to search places we can't."

"And how do we know she'll even help us? If she's just getting back from six months in Antarctica, why would she help us?" Emily asked.

"Because she adores Casey and she still can't believe that I don't have as well as grades as Casey does. She'll be able to tell us if there was any way a shelter could be erected on the Canadian Tundra during this time of year. And she won't be alone. We can all use the dog sleds she's accumulated over the years. She's also accumulated over fifty sled dogs so that means ten dogs per sled. There are four of us here and my sister makes five. We can use the rest of the dogs to track whoever is out there that's not supposed to be out there. I'm sure the police will love to have my sister helping out."

"That's a great idea, but I think our parents are going to have to meet your sister first and we'll have to learn how to dog sled." Sam said.

"Well I have her picture with me, so I could show your parents Emily when they get here and when Nora and George are both here. Then I can get ahold of her and let her know what's going on. she'll want to help, like I said, she loves Casey even though she's only talked to her a few times over the phone."

"We'll wait for our parents to talk more about it. Maybe we should go rescue Lizzy & Edwin from Marty." Emily said.

"That would probably be a good idea."