Chapter Fifteen
When Martin received the call from Katie about what had happened to his daughter, the NA meeting was over and his whole world had just turned upside-down. It was around 9:15pm when the meeting was over. It ran a little late because there were a couple of new recovering addicts in the meeting and they took a long time to do their turn. During the time when the new people took their turns, Martin only had only two things on his mind. The first one was about his daughter, Sara. Her birthday was coming up very soon and Martin had no idea what to get for her. Katie had been helping him out with that for a week now and with her help, they already had a present in mind.
Sara really wanted a 'Giselle' doll from the movie, Enchanted with the poopy white wedding dress. When Martin heard about that, he had no idea what the doll is, looked like, or the movie. Having no clue, Martin turned to Katie to asked her about it during a day of desk work. Katie googled it and a picture of the doll had came onto the computer screen. After a minute of staring at it, Martin had finally founded the reason why Sara wanted the doll. A minute later, Martin asked Katie where he could find it?
Katie smiled at Martin and said to him, "Marty. You can find it at any toy store in the state but you can't even find it before Sara's birthday." Martin got a little confused and asked her, "Why?" Katie cleared her mouth for a long speech and told Martin the story. "When the movie was going to come out last November, their dolls of the characters in the movies had also came out and every girl in America wanted one of the dolls. Before you knew it, every single toy store had no more 'Giselle' dolls."
Katie also told Martin her own experience with the doll hunting. Katie had get the doll that Sara wanted for two of her nieces. When Katie went for a search for the doll, there wasn't a single one in the many toy stores in New York State. Katie called the company who made the dolls and even used eBay to get the dolls for nine years old Marie Carter and seven years old Lizzie Carter (the two are not sisters, they are cousins) before Christmas. Luckily, Katie had founded them a few days before Christmas and her two nieces are happy about the doll.
After she was done, Katie turned to Martin and saw the face Martin sometimes makes when Danny got into his food. The moment she saw it, Katie smiled again and told Martin that she can help him out with the present for Sara. "Sure" said Martin who smiled back. After that, Martin got up from her desk and went to his to do some desk work before leaving to pick up Sara. The routine continued for the rest of the day before going home.
Eventually, Martin and Katie had founded the doll and give that to Sara as his present to his daughter on March 7, 2008. The second thing that just in case, Martin just had to clap his hands when the new people are done because most of his mind was on Sara.
When the meeting was finally over, Martin got up from his seat to put his coat and put another chip on his ring of other chips he got from being sobered for one year and nine months. After the last chip joined the others, Martin put it away and about to go out the door to meet Eddie for coffee before getting Sara. Halfway out, his cell phone was rang from inside his coat pocket. Martin grabbed the cell out and looked at the screen to see who is calling him. Recognizing Katie's home number on the screen, Martin was thinking that Katie might be asking him something but it wasn't what he had expected.
Martin flipped over the phone, put it to his face, and answered the call, "Fitzgerald." A few seconds later, a voice came out from the speakers. "Martin. You had to come back to my place. Something horrible had happened here." said Katie in a worried voice. After hearing that worried voice, Martin knew that something bad was happened at her apartment. Wanting to know immediately, Martin asked her about it. "Katie. You got to tell me what had happened." asked Martin. He heard some tears in the background when Katie answered to him, "Sara is gone."
Martin nearly dropped his cell when he heard her answer. His own daughter had been kidnapped but who did it? Martin quickly calmed Katie down over the phone and asked her when it was the last time she last seen Sara? "Sara fell asleep around 9pm but when I came back and founded her not there, it was around fifteen minutes after nine." said Katie who was wiping away her tears. Martin heard her answer and thought of something to find Sara. After thinking about, in a calm voice, Martin told Katie what his plan is?
"Kate, I wanted you to call Sam and Jack to tell them to go over to your place and tell that Sara got kidnapped and had to immediately find her." said Martin. A few seconds later, Katie's voice had came out. "What are you going to do, Marty?" asked Katie. Martin told her that he will call Eddie to tell him that he needed a rain check and then call Danny and Elena to tell them to go over to her place and tell them what had happened. After that, Katie asked Martin another question. "Martin." said Katie. "What is it, Katie?" asked Martin who had moved over to the wall to let others get out the door. "Marty. When you are coming back?" answered Katie.
After hearing Katie's question, Martin took a minute to calculated the time between then and after he called Eddie, Danny, and Elena. After thinking for a while, Martin told her when he is going back to her place. "Katie. I will be back in a half an hour. Is that okay?" answered Martin to Katie's question. "That's fine. See you soon." answered Katie and ended the call. Martin looked at the screen to see what time it is? It was 9:20 pm, five minutes after Katie had called him to tell him about Sara. Martin looked away from the screen and began dialing Eddie's number to tell him that he is not coming.
When Martin finally reached Eddie, his sponsor was at the diner. "Eddie. I had to ask you something?" asked Martin. "Yeah, Martin. What do you want?" said Eddie who was sitting on a booth and looking through a menu. "I can't come tonight, Ed." answered Martin. There was silence when he was done and moments later, Eddie's voice had came back. "Martin. Did something had happened to Sara?" asked Eddie who was done looking through the menu and saw a waitress walking toward him. Eddie had founded out last Fall when Martin answered Eddie's 'is there something new in your life, Martin?' question by telling him that he is about to adopt a little girl. "Yeah. Something like that."said Martin. "Oh" answered Eddie.
The moment that Martin had heard the 'oh' from Eddie's mouth, Martin asked him, "So, can I meet you later for the coffee?" "Sure, Martin. I will see you soon." answered Eddie. Martin smiled to himself and was about to end the call to dial Danny's number when he heard Eddie's voice. "Martin?" said Eddie's voice. Martin put it back to his ear and answered Eddie's question, "What?" "Tell Sara that I said hi." said Eddie and hung up afterward.
The moment his sponsor had hung up on him, Martin quickly smiled at himself, thinking about his daughter, walked out the community center and walked out to the freezing winter night to call Danny to tell him to meet him at Katie's place so they can start the investigation to find Sara Elizabeth Fitzgerald.
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When Martin got to Katie's apartment around 10pm, about a half an hour after he called Katie the time he will met, Martin put his hand onto the doorknob and quickly turned it around. The moment it was fully turned around, Martin opened the door and got inside. The moment he got inside, about five people from Forensics are walking in and out of the hallway. Wanting to know where is Katie at, Martin walked toward the nearest person and asked the person that. "Can you tell me where Special Agent Carter is at?" asked Martin. The person from Forensics stared at him for a few seconds and then told him that Special Agent Carter is with Special Agent Malone and Special Agent Spade in the guest room at the end of the hall. "Thanks for your help." said Martin and walked down the hall to the guest room to see Katie, Jack, and Sam.
Once Martin got to the guest room door, Martin opened the door and once the door was opened, Martin got inside to find his colleagues. When he got inside, Martin looked around and founded a couple people from Forensics at the window and at the left side of the bed, making samples of everything they can find at the crime scene. Martin stared at the bed, imagining Sara sleeping here, all calm and sweet until a female voice called out his, "Martin."
Martin turned around and saw Sam walking toward him in her black coat which is covering her pregnant body and her long blonde hair in a ponytail. The moment they got near each other, Sam gave Martin a hug and said to him, "I felt sorry for you, Marty. You and Katie might had been sad for this to be happening." Martin hugged Sam back and looked over Sam's shoulder to watch Katie and Jack. A few feet away, Katie was sitting on a chair near the bed, talking to Jack in a white t-shirt under a dark brown sweater jacket, dark blue jeans, and Converses on her feet. On the other hand, Jack was standing in front of Katie, talking to her. When Jack turned around a little and saw Martin, his boss still looked like a penguin from this morning and from the six years that he knew him.
After seeing Jack, Martin let go of Sam and asked her what had happened earlier. "Martin. Katie put Sara to bed around nine and then left to take a shower. When Katie was in the shower, Colby was barking outside the bathroom door." During it, Martin looked over Sam's shoulder again and saw Colby lying on the floor next to Jack. A second later, Martin looked away and listened to the rest of what Sam is telling. "Katie heard the barking, turned off the shower, opened the door, and founded Colby there, and then something else." Sam had ended the conversation to think of something else to say.
Martin was getting impatient and wanted Sam to tell him more. While Sam was thinking for a while, Martin asked Sam, "What else had happened?" With a soft voice, Sam told Martin after she had founded Colby, Colby ran over to the guest room and stopped there. Katie figured out that something bad had happened here and with a gun in her hand, Katie opened the door, went inside, and founded Sara gone. After Sam was done, she looked at Martin who looked very hurt by this and now looking at the bed again, wishing that this didn't happened at all.
Wanting her ex-boyfriend to be better by this, Sam gave Martin another hug and told him that everything will be okay and they will find Sara no matter what. They continued hugging each other until Martin let go of Sam to tell her something. "Thanks, Sam." said Martin. Sam smiled at him and told him, 'no problem.' After that, Martin turned around and walked over to Katie and Jack. The moment Martin left, Sam stared at Martin walking toward Katie and Jack, thinking that what she had told him will be true.
When Martin got to Katie and Jack a minute later, he patted Colby on the head who was happy to see him. After seeing the yellow lab being happy, Martin looked up to Katie who looked a little sad and now talking to Jack. The moment Jack had done his sentence, Martin nearly saw a little teardrop coming out of her blue eyes. Wanting her to not be sad again, Martin is about to give her a hug but Jack noticed it first and gave Katie a hug, telling her that everything will be okay and they will find Sara no matter what. After Jack had said that, a small smile had appeared on Katie's face.
From seeing that, Martin almost got mad again but quickly stopped it because he had remembered the day that Katie got introduced to the team almost two and a half years ago. On her first day, Katie ended up working with both Jack and Danny that day and none with Martin. Martin ended up getting mad at this and was jealous of them. Martin quickly calmed down by the end of the day when he told Danny about this after founding Gary Long at the football stadium storage room. After telling him that, Danny told him that someday, Martin will have the chance to talk to Katie and something about being in her pants. Most importantly, Martin got happy and had bet Danny twenty dollars that he had talked to Katie the next day. Danny had agreed with that. Luckily, Martin did had the chance to talk to Katie the next day and won twenty bucks.
Back to the present, Katie saw Martin and said, "Martin. You're here." Martin smiled at her and Katie got up and gave an 'I'm sorry for what I did' hug. "That's okay" said Martin when he hugged back. After hugging for a while, Martin let go of Katie and turned to Jack to ask him what to do next? "Well. We had to wait for Danny and Elena to come here and then, we had to figured out what to do." said Jack who petting on Colby's head which is unusually because Colby like to bite any body parts of Jack that are available to chew up.
A few seconds later, they heard the door being opened and suddenly Danny and Elena's voices filled up the living room. After hearing the voices, Jack told the three of his agents something and seconds later, all of them got out of the guest room and go into the living room to be with Danny and Elena so they can figured out what to do to find Sara.
When they got to the living room a minute later, Danny and Elena was sitting on the couch. Danny saw them and got up to talk to Martin. The moment he got to Martin, he put his hand on Fitzie's shoulder and told him that he's sorry what had happened to Sara and will help him to find her no matter what. Martin smiled at his best friend and said to him, "thanks for your help." "No problem, Fitzie. I'm here to help." said Danny who was standing behind the couch which contains of Katie, Sam, and Elena with Martin.
A minute later, after thinking for a while, Jack who was standing in front of the TV, turned to the team and tell them to what to do to find Sara Elizabeth Fitzgerald. "Danny and Sam, I wanted you two to talk to Keri Moyers and asked her about Alanna Hennessey." said Jack. After Jack was done, Danny asked him a question. "Wait a minute, Jack. Who's the hell is Alanna Hennessey?" asked Danny who looked a little confused. To tell him the answer, Martin leaned over and whispered into Danny's ear the answer. A minute later after Martin was done explaining, Danny said to himself, "oh."
The moment that Danny had said, "oh", Jack asked Danny if he understands it now. "Yeah, Jack. I understood it now." answered Danny who then seconds later, told himself something in Spanish under his breath. From the look of it, it seem like Danny is also pissed off of what had happened. After Danny was done talking to himself, Jack turned to Elena and asked her to talk to DeAnna Pinto to asked her about if there was anything unusual during the last couple weeks like a stranger who got near Sara, or a couple other weird things.
"I will do that, Jack." said Elena. Jack heard Elena's answer and tells her to ask Martin for her number afterward so she can talk to DeAnna. Elena and Martin both understood it now by saying to their boss, "Yes, Jack." After hearing that, Jack turned to Katie to give her an assignment. "Katie, I want you to go to a sketch artist so he can draw a description of what she looked like since they don't even had a photo of her right now." First, Katie stared at Jack for a few seconds but later told Jack that she is fine with it. Jack grinned at her and told everybody that they better get moving and seconds later, everybody got up, walked out the door, and go back to the building so they can find Sara but they forgot something. What was Martin's assignment?
Martin realized that Jack didn't gave him anything to do to help find her daughter after he gave Elena DeAnna's number. After Elena told him 'thanks' for the number and left, Martin walked over to Jack who was talking to a person from Forensics about something and asked Jack, "Jack. Can I ask you a question?" Jack turned around and answered his question, "Yes, Martin. What's it?" Martin cleared his voice and asked him, "Jack. Since everybody got something to do to find Sara, why didn't I got anything?"
Jack stared at Martin for a few seconds and told him the truth why Martin didn't get anything? Jack told him that he can't get involved in this one because he is worry about him but Martin can do some things like if he got anything that is unusual about Sara during the last couple weeks, he should tell him about it and if they got anything from the security cameras on the ATM machine across the apartment building, he and Katie should go over to Lucy to see who broke into Katie's apartment and might kidnapped Sara. In other words, Martin was not actively involved in this case. All that he got to do is sit down and wait.
After hearing the answer, Martin thought about it for a while but told Jack a minute later that he is fine by that. Jack smiled at him and told Martin that he will meet him later if Martin got anything. Moments later, Jack walked away from Martin to go back to the building to do anything that will help find Sara Fitzgerald.
The moment Jack had left the building, Martin got angry by hearing what Jack had said to him. "This is just like last time." said Martin to himself, remembering the day when Katie came. Martin didn't get anything that day. He stayed at the office, getting some records to find Gary Long, looking at a security video that had shown the missing person at the time, and other crap he had to do. Okay, he did get to interview a suspect with Jack and went to the stadium to find the MP but still.
Right now, Martin Fitzgerald wanted to help find his daughter no matter what, even through Jack told him to not do anything. To do that, Martin went through Katie's door, got out of the building, into a cab, told the driver to drive over to the FBI building, and get inside to do everything he could to find his sweet, little girl of his.
