Chapter Twenty
When Martin and Jack had left McLaren's after staying for about five minutes, at the same time, Katie was fifty feet away from Teddy's Bar and Pub which is owned the Kennedy family and Katie knew them very well because she is friends with one of the owner's daughters, Holly. The moment Katie got the door and put her gloved hand on the door handle, she thought to herself, "Alanna, you better be there or I will make your life hell like you did it to me years ago." After she had said that, Katie inhaled and exhaled her lungs to calm her down and right away, Katie pulled the door handle out and got inside the bar.
Seconds later, Katie looked around the place to find Alanna so she can tell her where she is hiding Sara? After looking the bar which had contained about twenty-five wooden tables with a chair at it four sides, five booths at the other side of the bar, two pool tables, a old jukebox, and probably about like a million different types of signs on all of the four wood panel walls. Thirty seconds later, Katie finally founded Alanna who was sitting at the bar, drinking a shot of liquor. Katie looked at her for a few seconds to find the right time to interrogate her but once she had found the right time, it was too late.
Seconds later, Katie saw Alanna put her drink down the surface of the bar, got off of the bar stool she was sitting on, grabbed her clutch that was next to her empty shot glass, and then, left. Thinking that Alanna knew that she had came in, looking for her or from her footsteps, Katie had given up the search of finding her and Sara. A minute later, to rest her feet from walking from McLaren's to the bar she just got in, Katie walked over to the bar, took off her black wool coat, sat on one of the bar stools, and laid her coat in front of her so Katie can hit her head on it for being so dumb that she is doing this and the search is going nowhere and for the coat, to protect her head for not getting any bruises.
Even before Katie got to smack her head, someone in the bar is saying something to her. "Katie Carter. What the hell you are about to do?" asked the voice. From hearing the voice which Katie can tell that the voice was female, Katie looked up and founded the owner of the bar, Patricia Kennedy. With her short blonde hair, brown eyes, in her mid-fifties, and if you can hardly can tell from her face, a grin, Patricia was staring straight at Katie with a clean, empty, glass pint in her hand. To tell Patricia that she is about to hurt herself for not getting the suspect right away, Katie didn't said that and instead of that, Katie told Patricia that the thing she is about to do is nothing and for the coat on the bar, Katie just wanted to rest her head from working too much.
After saying that, Katie looked up to Patricia again and right away, Patricia gave her the face which is saying, "Is there something wrong because it looked like that you are not telling the truth?" To answer that question and to tell her the truth, Katie cleared her voice and told Patricia the truth. "Something bad had happened at my apartment a couple hours ago." said Katie. "What had happened there?" asked Patricia who had put the pint down on the table and went over to Katie so they can talk about. After moving over to her, Katie looked up at Patricia again and told her all about it.
"Sara got kidnapped a couple hours ago." answered Katie. To see if Katie is talking about that sweet little girl who is her goddaughter and that little girl that Martin Fitzgerald had adopted over a month ago, Patricia asked Katie if this is the same girl that Katie had told her about? Right away, Katie nodded her head to that question, and told Patricia more information about it and how she felt about it.
After telling Patricia about all of the things she had founded out that night including leaving the guys to find Sara on her own and the incident at McLaren's, Katie had nearly broken down when she got to the part on how she felt about this. Katie looked up to Patricia for the tenth time and said to the older woman who was standing patiently behind the bar, "From the look of it, I am starting to think that this is my entire fault that Sara got kidnapped because of me." Milliseconds later, Katie thought about it even more and right away, Katie had felt tears in her blue eyes again that night and instead of stopping the tears from coming out of her eyes, Katie had left them go.
From seeing tears coming down Katie's beautiful face and telling her that she is becoming a horrible person and how people is there for one second and then gone the next like her mother, her own daughter, Ellie who had the same first name with Katie's mother and Sara, Patricia knew that Katie needed some help on this. For a minute, Patricia didn't had a clue on what to do but right away, if she can do the same thing that she did on her own daughter, Holly who lost her husband, Gerry from a brain tumor about a year ago and was so damn miserable for weeks before having help from her own mother, her little sister, and friends. To tell Katie to stop being so sad about this and tell her to never give up, in a soft and calm voice, Patricia put her hand on Katie's shoulder, say her name a couple times, and once she got Katie's attention, Patricia told her what she was thinking about that.
"Katie, I know that you are very sad about this but nothing will change if you kept doing this to yourself. I know that you had lost your mother at such a young age and recently lost Ellie almost three years ago but Sara will not be a part of this. She is probably out there somewhere, wanting her Auntie to come find her. I will swear to God that Sara is going to be okay and you will have her back and plus, if you will find her, good things had happen to you?" said Patricia. From hearing all of that, especially the last part with the good things that can happen to you, Katie looked up to Patricia again and with her pale blue eyes staring straight at her, Katie asked Patricia, "Like what?"
Patricia shrugged her shoulders and answered back, "Like I don't know. Maybe that you might finally have a chance to put a move on Martin or something like that or whatever but most of all, you should never give up on this no matter what. Good things can happen you and to get that, you have to do some things." Katie listened to what Patricia had just told her and thought about it for a while. From thinking about it for a minute, Patricia Kennedy is probably right about it. Advice like that had happened to her since she was a little girl.
When her mom passed away, her father moved Katie, who was only seven years old at the time, and her five older brothers and sisters back home to Dallas from Philadelphia and when she got there, she met a girl named Maddie and quickly became best friends. The same thing had happened twenty one years later. Katie had given birth to her daughter, Ellie and days later, she had died. Katie got so sad about it that she went back home to have a shoulder to cry on. She did that for a few months until her father told her to stopped being so sad and go to church with him. Katie had to go with him because if she don't come, her father will not going to talk to her for the rest of her life. Katie didn't want that to happened because she and her father are very close to each other and went to church with him. After talking to somebody, Katie realized that lying around is not going to work and had to make some changes in her life.
To do that, with the help of her family and friends like Jim, she left the past behind and transferred to New York and if that never happened to her, Katie never knew what will happen to next if she didn't. Plus, she will never meet Martin and the team and for some particular reason, Katie ended up thinking about one thing. Katie still had no idea if Sara will not might be in foster care or not because Jim could be killed in Iraq no matter what or in one in a huge number, he might be not dead. Overall, Katie had no clue about that but if she didn't changed, Katie will never meet the people she knew right now.
To tell Patricia that she had agreed with what she had told her, Katie cleared her voice, looked up to Patricia with her blue eyes, and said to the woman in front of her, "Okay, Patricia. I felt much better right now but I had to ask you something." Patricia stared at Katie and asked her, "What is it, then?" After hearing that, Katie pulled her copy of the drawing of Alanna to put it in front of Patricia, and said to her, "Do you seen this woman in this bar earlier and don't even try to lie about it because I had seen this woman here a few minute ago."
Wanting to see the drawing more clearly, Patricia reached her hand to her shirt pocket to get her reading glasses, put them on, and looked closely at the drawing Katie was holding. After looking at it for a minute or two, Patricia put her glasses down while stepping back away a few inches, and answered Katie's question, "Yes, I seen her and is she the woman who had kidnapped your goddaughter?" Katie nodded yes to that answer and asked Patricia, "What this woman in the drawing was doing here?" Patricia stared at Katie for a few seconds before saying, "Well, Katie. She was drinking a few shots for about twenty minutes but when you came in, looking for her, I saw her going to the restroom down the hall."
After hearing that from Patricia, Katie was thinking of a plan to talk to Alanna and not letting her get out of her sight. About thirty seconds of thinking, Patricia saw the face Katie sometimes make when she is thinking about something and asked her, "Katie. What you are going to do about it?" Katie stared at Patricia for a minute with her blue eyes and said to her, "I am going to talk to her and will ask her where she put Sara at and if you seen one of my colleagues here and asked you if you seen me here, tell them that I am taking care of it." Patricia listened to what Katie is telling her and right away, "All right, then but Katie, don't try mess up anything because the restroom had gotten clean up a couple hours ago and I had worked too hard to get that clean for a few weeks now and I don't want that to happen again."
Katie smiled at Patricia and promised that she will not mess up the restroom after she just did for it and thanked Patricia for her help. Patricia didn't smiled this time but in her eyes, she had accepted the thank you. After seeing her eyes, Katie got off the bar stool, put her coat on a nearby chair, and walked down the hall to the restroom where Alanna might be at and talk to her there while everybody else went back to what they are doing before and Katie hope that Martin or anybody will not come in and mess it up because Katie had to do this. She had to do this to find Sara Fitzgerald before it's too late.
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When Katie got to the door of the restroom for ladies, the first thing that Katie did is that she put her hand on the doorknob, and opened the door a little so she can see if Alanna is there without having to come in and make Alanna get away from her again but when Katie opened the door and peeked though the opening, Alanna was one of the sinks, applying makeup in front of the mirror. Having Alanna right where she wanted her to be at, Katie opened the door even more and got inside so in a few minutes, she can had a chance to talk to Alanna without any problems. Any problems that Katie didn't needed right now.
Once Katie got inside the restroom, she had forgotten one thing. "What the heck that am I going to do to get her attention? I shouldn't thought of something before I even came in here." thought Katie when she had realized that she had brought well nothing to the restroom. To pass the time and to think of something to get Alanna's attention, Katie went inside one of the bathroom stalls, closed and locked the door, and sat down on the toilet seat without falling down and making a big noise which might get Alanna's attention the wrong way.
While Katie was sitting on the toilet seat and thinking of ideas to get Alanna to talk to her, something had just came to her mind. "That's it!" said Katie to herself who had thought of a great plan. To do that, Katie got her butt off the toilet seat, flushed down the toilet to make Alanna think that Katie was doing her business there instead of knowing that Katie was thinking of a plan, unlocked the door, got out, and walked toward to one of the sinks where Alanna is at to start her plan.
The moment Katie had got out of the toilet stall, she walked over to one of the sinks to wash her hands and while doing that, tired to give Alanna a compliment on one of the cosmetics she is using on that the moment. When Katie turned the knob which poured out the cold water and then do the same thing with the knob which poured the hot water to make the water warm enough to wash her hands, Katie got some soap from the dispenser on the wall above the the sink and right away, she began to wash her hands. Seconds after she did that, Katie was done and walked over to the dispenser which holds paper towels and quickly grabbed one. Once Katie was done with it and threw into the wastebasket, she went to the sink next to Alanna to start off her plan.
To do that, Katie noticed that Alanna was putting a pretty pink lip gloss on her lips. After seeing that, seconds later, Katie turned over to Alanna and asked her with a smile, "That's a pretty color on your lips. Can I try it?" Without turning around to see the woman who was asking her that question and gave her that compliment, Alanna closed the cap of the lip gloss container and handed it to Katie. Once Katie received it, Katie twisted the cap around, held it close to her lips, and put some onto her own lips. After putting some, Katie put the cap back on, handed it back to Alanna, and said to her, "Here you go!" "Thanks, Katie." said Alanna who saw the lip gloss Katie just gave back and right away, from saying her name and seeing the ring that belonged to Katie's mother on the finger that is attached to her hand, Alanna figured out that the woman standing next to her is Katie Carter. "Oh crap!" said Alanna when she saw Katie's reflection in the mirror in front of her.
To see if it is true, Alanna turned around and saw Katie there, standing in front of her, crossing her arms, and staring at her with her pale blue eyes and warm smile. While seeing her, Alanna asked her one question. "Katie Carter. How you find me here?" asked Alanna who was a little confused from all of this. Katie chuckled at herself and answered Alanna's question, "Well. From knowing you for awhile, the security camera on the ATM machine across from my apartment, and talking to a few bartenders, I had figured out where you are." After hearing that, Alanna was confused about one thing that Katie had said to her a few second before. "What do you say about the security camera on that ATM machine because I didn't see it?" asked Alanna. Katie chuckled at herself again and answered her question, "Well. Me and Sara's father, you know Martin Fitzgerald, founded you kidnapped her from my guest room window, put her into a car, and drove off while the security camera was on across the building."
Alanna heard the things Katie was telling her and asked Katie if Sara is missing, why she didn't look for her instead of the woman in front of her? Katie smiled at Alanna and told her that while her team was looking for her, she got away from them to search for the kidnapper to get some answers. Plus, Katie asked Alanna after saying that, "So, tell them. While my colleagues are out searching for Sara, I am here, asking you why do you kidnapped her?" Wanting to get an answer from the woman she hated for a long time, Katie stared at her for a long time until Alanna had opened her mouth to answer her question. Once Alanna had opened her mouth, Katie got closer to the woman's face and asked her again, "So, Alanna. What are you going to tell me the reason?"
After hearing that, Alanna turned to Katie and answered, "Well, Katherine. I kidnapped Sara because I don't want her to raised by a woman who had people who was there for a minute and then left her the next just like your mother and your daughter and I think that they left you because right away, they knew that the person in front of them is an evil bitch and got away as fast as they can because you is a horrible person and when I heard that you was going to get Sara after Jim died, I am so mad that right away, I called his lawyer and told that to not let Katie Carter had Sara because you was sick as hell and will do horrible things to her. Right away, the lawyer agreed with me and didn't put you as her guardian and I am glad that had happened."
Katie got mad about this and asked Alanna if Jim knew about this? Alanna told that Jim didn't know a thing about this and again, Katie asked her another question. "What's it, Katie?" asked Alanna who is smiling at her. Katie saw that smile and asked her, "Do you know that the FBI was looking for you and going to arrest you for your crime?" Alanna nodded yes to that particular question and right away, Katie stepped back a few steps and after she was done stepping back, from about twenty inches away, Katie said to her, "But you are pretty sure that you didn't know that I am about to do this?" Seconds later, Katie made a fist with her hand with the hand and punched Alanna in the face.
