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The next tape

"Hey, Dr."

"Hello, Rick"

"What happened after the rape?"

"Torture kept on happening, for a while, I'm not sure how long, until, I escaped."

"Tell me about that"

The guys leaned in closer once again in odd fascination, wanting to know what happened next.

"Well, he…"

He came in with a hammer. Rick wondered what he was going to do with it. He came closer, Rick wanted to flinch but didn't, he put down the hammer and undid the restraints, he heard a noise, he turned around, Rick grabbed the hammer and started to bash it into his skull. He was going on pure adrenaline.

"How many times did you hit him?"

"I have no clue, but if I had to guess, at the very least thirty."

When Rick finally stopped, he looked at the blood on himself and looked at the blood oozing out of his attacker's head. He tried to get up, but his legs fell from under him, he searched the body for a cell phone, no such luck. He then tried to crawl out the door and out from the underground cave, when he reached the outdoors, it was night and the cold air seemed to smack him in the face. He crawled thinking that there had to be a hiking/walking etc., trail nearby. He was afraid to yell for help because he was afraid that the other two attackers where nearby and would catch him.

"How long did it take you to find help?"

"Two days."

Rick leaned himself on a tree trunk, he then heard people laughing, he thought he was hallucinating but he tried it anyway, as he got closer he heard people talking, he then saw a couple on what looked like a picnic from a far, he started to yell for help.

"I was very close to being dead when I finally found help."

"How did you find the strength to go on?"

"Pure adrenaline." He answered

"You said you thought that your former colleagues would never come was right, explain that."

"I was never rescued, I saved myself."

Billy then remembered when they were looking for Rick.

The ODS were in there office, just staring at their evidence, they got a tip that he was in Germany, they were going to go there when Casey brought up a good point

"What if this is just another false lead, he's been sending us on a wild goose hunt for the last three fucking months."

"If it is a real lead then we'll find, Martinez." Michael said not taking his eyes off the board with the evidence.

"I'm going and I don't give a shit whether I go alone or not." Billy said as he started to leave

"Wait," Michael said and looked at Casey "We're in too." As they were leaving they were called into Higgins's office. He said

"You can stop the search."
"Why?" Asked Casey

"Did you find him?" asked Michael

"No, because this was turned from a search and rescue to a search and recover."

"What?" Asked Billy very upset

Before anyone else could get a word in Higgins said "Because he was abducted by an assissan and it has been three months. It would be foolish to carry this on any longer. I'm very sorry."

Then Michael said "Carson Simms."

"What?" asked Higgins confused

"You thought he was dead too. It's his story all over again." Michael said and they left before he could respond. They went to Germany, as Casey predicted the lead was false. Michael saw the hurt and sorrow in Billy's eyes. He went over to him, put his hands on his shoulders and said "We'll find him, dead or alive, we will find him." And Billy walked away, but he heard Billy mutter "Hold on Rick, we're coming, just hold on a little bit longer." And that brought tears to Michael's eyes but he contained them. They never found him.

X

One night Casey went to clone the next tape when he was in the drawer looking around for the tape but he couldn't find it.

"Looking for this?" Casey recognized the familiar voice and saw Rick sitting in a chair not far from the desk where he was looking and twirling the tape through his fingers.

"How did you find out?"

"Haven't you learned to always put things right back where you found them?" Rick asked and Casey remembered he heard someone coming last time he cloned a tape and just threw it back in the drawer and forgot to lock it.

"I'm sorry" he tried

"Well you got what you wanted, now you know everything, and in graphic detail too!" he said snarkily

For once Casey didn't know how to respond and Rick got out his phone and dialed a number

"Who are you calling?" Casey asked

"The Feds" he responded

"What for?" he asked confused

"Accessory to kidnapping" Rick responded

"You wouldn't do that!" Casey said thinking he called his bluff

"You really think I wouldn't. You know everything, but what you don't know is how much I would love to see you behind bars."

"They wouldn't persue this case."

"Really, you're not a operative anymore, even if you were, this was something you did on your own time, therefore making it able to be tried in court.

"You won't have a case."

"Really, I think that my testimony, these tapes, and Higgins's testimony would land you all in jail for a very, long time." Rick said and pressed send. Casey muttered

"You're bluffing"

"Hi, Agent Burke, I have a case to report." Casey still didn't think that he'd go through with it "Yes, accessory to kidnapping. Actually I know my assailants, their names are Casey Ma-" Casey lunged forward grabbed his phone and threw it at the wall and some of it shattered.

"See, I would do it." Rick said

X

The next morning at Michael's place, Casey came in with an, ah fuck, look on his face

"What's wrong?" Asked Michael

"We're screwed." Casey said

"What do you mean?" Asked Billy

"When I went to clone the next tape, Martinez was there." Billy and Michael got a deer in headlights look on their faces; Casey continued "He called the Feds on accessory to kidnapping charges. I stopped him before he could say our names."

"Great, so now he's blackmailing us." Michael said

"Well isn't that just fucking dandy." Billy said