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Jackie was getting tired. The three of them had been walking around in circles for some time now.
"Are we there yet?"
"Jackie, honey, I'm not even sure where there is." Lynn told her fellow stewardess. "Ray, where are we going?"
"Uh, I guess we'll know when we get there."
There was a few minutes of silence then, "Are we there now?" Jackie asked again. Lynn sighed.
"Jackie, we've only been walking for ten minutes! No offense but your sounding kinda like a child here. I'm trying to think so will ya just stop complaining?"
"I'm sorry, Ray"
"That's ok. I'm sorry too. I shouldn't have yelled at ya." He didn't want to mean. He just wanted to get the two girls out of here safely. It was up to him now.
Ray stopped in front of Lynn. "What?" She asked.
"Did you hear that?" He turned around and looked behind her.
"Uh, apparently not. What was it?"
"Hm. I don't know. Nothing I guess, just sounded like someone was following us." He looked back a few more times and started walking again.
"Ray, I think I heard it?" Lynn asked him. He spun around fast.
"Where?"
"Over there I..." She stopped and looked at Ray, "Ray, where's Jackie?"
"Jackie? Jackie?" They split up and searched around for a bit.
"Lynn?" Ray shouted looking in all directions.
"Yeah what is it?" She jumped out from behind a bush.
"Uh, nothing. I thought I lost you too. Stay with me ok?"
"Alright. I will, Ray. Did you find her?"
"No. You?"
"Would I be askin' if I had?" She put her hands on her hips and faced him.
"Good point. Lets go, maybe she'll turn up."
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Elaine sat at her desk chewing on a pencil. Welch walked over and leaned on her desk.
"Anything?" He asked. She looked up.
"Nope. I'm waiting for Fraser to call. He said He was going to call from the airport. Do you think Ray's... ya know?"
"I'm sure he's fine, Elaine. He's a smart cop."
"I know." She looked back down again and Welch left. Frannie walked over to her Elaine's desk.
"Elaine? I got something." Elaine sprang up.
"What?"
"A picture from a security camera at the airport." Frannie handed Elaine the picture.
"Is this the terrorist?"
"Yeah. I gave the picture to Frase before he left. Maybe he can ask around."
"Great. It looks like a girl wearing a turban?" Elaine squinted at the picture.
"That's what I was thinking."
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Fraser walked into the airport and held the door open for several people before continuing to the information desk.
"Excuse me, Ma'am?" A older woman turned around and starred at Fraser.
"Ma'am?" He asked again.
"Are you a Mountie?" She finally spoke.
"Yes, I first came to Chicago on the" She interrupted him.
"Look, there's a line behind that stretches all the way to Mexico! So, would you mind hurrying it up a bit?"
"Of course Ma'am. I was wondering if you had seen anyone here that looked something like this?"
"No, sorry. Looks kinda like a girl wearing a turban?"
"Hm. I suppose it does."
"Wait a minute." She stopped Fraser from leaving.
"Yes?"
"There's a girl that walks around here with a turban and a veil. She's been here almost everyday this week."
"Is she here now?"
"Uh, no she boarded flight 409,"
"That's Rays flight. Thank you kindly, Miss."
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It was growing dark now and Ray was starting to worry about where him and Lynn would spend the night.
"Ray, I'm tired. Where are we going to sleep at tonight?" Lynn yawned.
"I don't know, Lynn. I'm getting tired too." Ray stopped in front of Lynn again.
"Hear something again?"
"Yeah, I think that bush just moved." Suddenly two men jumped out and attacked them. Ray tried to fight them off but he was too tired.
"Hey your the pilots." Lynn said as the two men pulled out some rope to tie them up.
"Smart lady aren't ya?" One of the men said.
"What do you want with us anyway?" Ray blurted out wanting to be back home again.
"Hey, we don't have anything against you personally. We're just doin' our jobs."
"What jobs?" Obviously no one was going to answer that. One of the men bent over to start a fire and Lynn saw her chance to grab the knife out of his pocket.
"Ray?" She whispered. Ray looked at her and she kicked a knife over to him.
"Nice work." He whispered back to her and picked up the knife. First he untied himself then walked over to Lynn.
"Hey!" One of the men said. The man wrestled Ray to the ground. Lynn tried to grab the knife but the other man grabbed it. Ray finally slammed the man against a tree.
"Alright, You to tell me who your working for, why you crashed the plane, and what you want with us before I break you neck, ok?" Ray was gasping for breath still and when the man spoke.
"Alright alright! We were told to crash this plane because of some guy."
"What guy? Gimme a name."
"Christopher Wendell"
"Christopher Wendell? As in Christopher Wendell Executives?" Ray continued grilling him.
"Yeah. He made a deal with the boss to borrow a few million bucks."
"Whose the boss?"
"Name's Black-Jack. No ones ever met him. He lends money but charges interest. Christopher borrowed a million dollars from him. And in return Black-Jack charged him three million since he was a week late on payment.
"What do we have to do with this?"
"Black-Jack said to bring him anyone that was on the plane."
"Why?"
"Ray look out!" Lynn shouted as the other man hit Ray over the head with an oversized log.
"Well, I guess you'll find out now won't you?" The other man said.
Lynn raced down to Ray and tried to make him comfortable.
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