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"Elizabeth…" Jack breathed and quickly started untying her, starting with uncovering her eyes.

She looked at him with eyes showing pain, and Jack took her gag off.

"Are you okay? Where's Abigail?" Jack asked.

"She's upstairs." Elizabeth replied starting to cry, she was so happy that Jack came to rescue her. "And I want to be in your arms Jack, I don't at all feel well, I need a hug."

"I'll go check on Abigail." Bill said leaving the couple alone.

"Alright, let me get you untied." Jack fumbled with the knots, he couldn't believe Elizabeth got hurt like that, his Elizabeth. When he freed Elizabeth she weakly stood up and wrapped her arms around Jack, who held her close.

"Oh Jack, I was frightened…" Elizabeth cried.

"I'm sorry, this should have never happened to you." Jack looked into her eyes, filled with sorrow and pain.

"It's alright, Jack….." Elizabeth looked at her arm, she didn't know the cut was that bad.

"That's a very bad cut, Elizabeth, what did he do to you?" Jack asked, helping her to sit down and getting the first aid out of one of the drawers.

"I think he used a knife." Elizabeth winced as Jack put medicine on the cut.

"Looks like it, and this bandage will have to help stop the bleeding until we can get Doctor Stafford." Jack slowly started to wrap the cut.

"Oh Jack, I was worried, and scared, and," Elizabeth coughed.

Jack handed her some water, and she tried to hold it with her left hand, but her hand shook too much.

"Here, let me help you." Jack said in a soothing voice. He tilted the water towards her mouth, and she drank a few drinks of the water, and he slowly took the glass away. She was still quite shaky, but she was able to use her hand to feel where her hair had been cut, it wasn't a whole lot missing, but she could feel the difference.

Bill soon came down helping Abigail slowly walk.

"Oh Elizabeth." Abigail slowly said, looking at her wrapped wound.

"I'm okay." Her voice was still shaky.

"Okay, now honey, you're going to have to tell us everything you can remember." Jack then realized he had called Elizabeth 'honey', but at this point he was just happy she was safe.

"Well, I was simply sweeping, and he came out from behind the cabinet over there, and had the gun pointed at me. He told me to tell him where the money was after he tied me to a chair, and he kept the gun aimed at my heart. I told him where the change box was, I had to tell him something. I'm so sorry I told him Abigail, and then he took the sharp knives, gagged me and covered my eyes…and of course he cut me, and cut a few locks of my hair…" Elizabeth started gently crying.

"It's alright Elizabeth, I understand, I would have done the same thing if he didn't knock me out like he did." Abigail confessed.

"At least you are partially alright, Elizabeth." Bill gently rubbed her hand.

"Thank you for that information, do you know what the man looked like?"

Elizabeth shook her head, "No, he had a mask on. I know he had a black shirt and pants on, that's all I know. He was a little taller than Bill." Elizabeth said motioning to him.

"That's a help, isn't it Jack?" Bill took notes.

"It's a help. Did you see anything Abigail?" Jack asked.

"All I remember was walking into the bedroom, and getting hit on the head with a heavy book, and then getting gagged, then my eyelids fell. I just know I woke up with Bill untying me." Abigail looked at Bill and took a gentle hold of his free hand.

"Well, one of us has to go and try to search for him, in the fog surrounding Coal Valley, he couldn't have gone far."

"But Jack, that man is a bad man, I don't want you getting hurt." Elizabeth said looking down at her arm.

"I am going to go get some things at the jailhouse and then I will go out and try to look for him. And, I am getting Doctor Stafford to look at both of you."

"But Jack, I ," Elizabeth paused, "I care about you, and I don't want you getting hurt." Elizabeth put her arms on Jack's.

"Elizabeth, I don't want anyone to get hurt, but there are times in life where we have to do some things we don't want to. And one of them is going out there and trying to find him." Jack calmly responded.

"We'll leave you two alone for a minute." Abigail said getting up and making her way into the dining portion of the Café with Bill's help.

"Jack, I understand why you need to do your duties, but he has all those knives and I am scared about you." Elizabeth lowered her voice to a whisper.

"Elizabeth, I will do my best to get him, and be as safe as I possibly can, I promise I'll be back. Bill will be here to protect you, I wouldn't leave you unprotected." Jack pushed some of her hair behind her ear.

"Oh Jack, you must be the bravest most loving Mountie I know." Elizabeth put her hands on his face and started to slowly cry.

Jack was touched, she had called him a loving Mountie, 'She must have a deeper meaning of the word like for me…' Jack thought.

Jack leaned in and they shared a kiss that reassured both of them that they were there for each other. Jack didn't want to go, but he slowly got up, and looked back at Elizabeth every few steps, and soon he was outside.

"It's time to go get this man." Jack said as he went into the jailhouse and got his lantern, and his extra gun and knife. On his way out, he stopped at Doctor Stafford's and asked he would go and check on Abigail and Elizabeth's wounds. Jack got on Dreamer, and looked in the Café's window, where Elizabeth was watching him with sad eyes as he left to go search for the man that did this horrible crime.

When Doctor Stafford came over, he immediately tended to Elizabeth's wound.

"Who did this wonderful bandage wrapping?" he asked as he unraveled it.

"Jack…" Elizabeth said as tears rolled down her face.

"Is there any other parts of your body that hurt?" He asked as he put some more medicine on the wound, which made Elizabeth wince again.

"My heart is broken with me knowing Jack is out there looking for that man, he could get hurt…" Elizabeth started crying hard.

"Oh Elizabeth." Abigail said as she slowly walked over and started comforting her friend.

"Elizabeth, I know how you must feel, but Jack needs to look for this man, and haul him to jail." Bill came over and started rubbing Elizabeth's shoulder's gently.

In the deep dense fog, Jack was slowly riding down the trail, and shining his lantern as he went. Jack got off of the horse when he saw a large cloth bag at the side of the road. He slowly walked over to it to investigate, and soon felt a sharp blade against his neck.

"Hello…Constable." The man gave an evil laugh, as Jack tried to turn around to face him.

"If you turn around there Constable, this knife will happily slice through your neck." The man threatened.

In the Café, Elizabeth had managed to go to bed with Abigail, but she couldn't sleep knowing her Jack was out there. She changed into a clean dress, and put her small pair of scissors in her boot, she didn't know how those would help, but that's all she had. She went into the spare bedroom, and saw the ladder the man had used to get upstairs to hit Abigail, and she decided to climb down.

'Okay Ms. Thatcher, you can look out a window, you can climb out of a window.' Elizabeth thought as she slowly got out. As she got on the ladder, she breathed a small sigh of relief, and slowly went down.

"Oh my God." Elizabeth breathed as she lost her footing, and her foot slid off of one of the rungs. And her small purse dropped to the ground...

Author's Note: Hi! Thanks to my reviewers for chapter 1, I wanted to continue but I didn't know if I should or not, so thank you! I will update again soon!

~Angelica