Just to let you know, this will be my last chapter for at least a couple weeks. I'm going up north to see my nieces and I won't have Internet access for my laptop. I am bringing old fashioned pen and paper with me so I will be doing a whole bunch of writing, in between watching Play School and Shawn the Sheep and playing with Play-Doh.

All mistakes are my own, and if you find anything that doesn't make sense, don't hesitate to tell me and I will happily fix it.

Chapter 4: Kidnapped

When Kate awoke she found herself bound but not gagged on the floor inside the back of a moving van. A suited man sat on a bench opposite her.

"Where are you taking me?" she questioned and looked at the man, "and who are you?"

The man looked at her blankly, "Where we are going and who we are is of no concern to you." Kate struggled against the ropes that bound her hands and feet. "I wouldn't do that if I were you?"

"And why the hell not?"

The man moved the Zat from his left hand to his right, "Because I will have to shoot you again, and the second shot from this is fatal. Ingenious really."

Kate eyed the snake-like weapon, "What kind of gun is that anyway?"

"All in good time, Detective. Now why don't you be a good girl and be quiet, hm?"

Kate slumped back against the wall of the van, hoping that someone would come looking for her.

When Kate didn't return from inside after about ten minutes, Rick started to get worried so he excused himself from the group to go and look for her.

"Kate! Are you in here?" he looked in their bedroom and when he couldn't find her his anxiety level shot through the roof. Rick ran outside to where everyone was still sitting around the bon fire. "Kate's missing."

Jim and Jack's eyes both shot up, "What do you mean she's misssing?" Jim questioned.

Rick took a deep breath, "I mean, she's gone. I looked for her everywhere."

"Did you try her cell phone?" Sam asked.

Rick shook his head, "No." He pulled out his own phone and pressed speed dial one and waited. And waited. It eventually rung out. He tried it again; same thing. "She's not picking up."

Jack moved over to Rick, "Is there anyone you can think of that wanted to hurt her?"

He nodded, "Yeah, we're looking into her mom's murder. There was a hit put out on her about six months ago. She almost died. Her old Captain sent me information before he died. We were being careful. Not making any big waves so that we could stay undetected."

"Looks like you made bigger waves than you anticipated." It was Daniel who spoke up. "But why would they come after her here?" Vala asked.

"I don't know, but I have to find her." Rick stared back inside to gather what he could so that he could try and find Kate.

"Rick, we can help," Sam told him, "You won't be able to find her on your own. Now why don't we all go inside and you can tell us the whole story."

The drive to wherever they were going took forever and Kate was tired, but she didn't want to go to sleep. She needed to gather all the information she could about her kidnappers. They had already switched vans twice since she had awoken from being stunned; she had tried to get any inkling as to their location each time, but there were no stand out landmarks that she could see.

"Do you think I could have some water?" she asked the man who was watching over her.

"Soon. We are nearly at our destination."

Kate didn't know what the men had in store for her and she tried to keep positive, but with the lack of communication between the men and the uncertainty of what was to happen to her, she was scared. She was scared for her life and for those who would come looking for her.

Everyone had crowded into the living room and Rick sat facing the group, readying himself to tell the story of what he and Kate had gotten into. He knew that Jack had been told what had happened to Kate and some of the reasons why so he wasn't going to bother with the start of the original story. He figured that if people needed clarification, they could just ask. He took a deep breath and started.

"After Kate got shot we knew we were getting close to who was responsible for organising the kidnappings of the mobsters and in turn, Johanna's murder. We knew Lockwood was just a gun-for-hire, but was high up in the chain. Captain Montgomery was part of the cover-up, but, the day he died, he sent me a package containing all he knew about those orchestrating the cover-up. When Kate was well enough, I showed her the information. We decided to keep it quiet and not involve anyone except for our other partners, Ryan and Esposito. We didn't want anyone seeing that we were still working on the case.

"Only a few weeks ago, we found that it went a lot higher than the legal and political system in New York. A Agent Barrett from the NID was mentioned in the files as someone who knew things. We were able to get a hold of him and he said that there was a rogue faction at play and that we needed to stop looking any further before anything worse happened.

"We couldn't stop looking, and I think it's this rogue group that might have kidnapped Kate." Rick looked up at the group in front of him, "I have no idea what they're going to do to her but I need to find her."

Jack spoke up, "We'll find her." He then stood and looked at Sam, "Carter, get on the phone to Barrett, that smarmy bastard has some explaining to do." Sam nodded and left the room; her departure was followed by a blinding white flash from the back of the house not five minutes later.

"What do you want us to do, sir?" asked Mitchell.

Jack looked at him, "Until we know more, nothing. Go home and rest up. We'll contact you when Carter gets back."

"Yes, sir." Mitchell and Carolyn along with Daniel, Vala and baby Liam gathered their things and prepared to leave. "We'll be at the base if you need us, sir."

After they had gone, Jack, Jim and Rick sat down in the living room in a somber silence until Rick spoke again, "I'm sorry, Jim. I broke my promise. I couldn't keep her safe." He buried his face in his hands and Jim moved over to him and patted his shoulder in a fatherly way.

"It's not your fault, son. If it weren't for you, she'd already be dead."

The two men strapped Kate to an uncomfortable chair in the middle of an abandoned warehouse. The chair was partially reclined, and it reminded her of the beds that were in the gynocologists office. She sat there staring at the tank full of water and a strange eel-like creature that was swimming around inside of it.

"What is that?" she asked. She was frightened but tried not to let her voice betray her feelings.

The first man answered her, "That is our version of the truth syrum."

Her eyes widened, "What are you going to do with it?"

The man motioned to his partner, the one with the Zat, to walk over to the tank. "Show her." He opened the lid of the tank and put his hand in it and grabbed a hold of the creature and walked over to Kate.

"Turn her around." The first man unstrapped Kate and turned her over so that she was lying on her stomach and moved her away from the back of her neck. He then placed the creature on top of her back; the creature's eyes glowed as it reared it's head and burrowed into the back of Kate's neck. She let out a blood curtling scream before succumbing to unconsciousness.

"Put her into a cell until the Director is ready to question her," the first man ordered as he walked into the darkeness of the warehouse.

*ducks for cover* I didn't mean to leave this chapter here but it seemed like the best place. And now I'm going to make you wait two weeks for the next one. Yeah, I'm evil. But thank you to those following this story.

Sam