Another chapter for you all :)

Jo looked back knowing she should go back and make sure Mac was okay but she also knew Mac would want Lucy to be taken to safety first. Climbing up the rest of the steps, once she got to the top she told the ESU's that they needed to get down there and find Mac, Flack and Danny.

"Daddy?" Lucy asked as she clung to Jo.

"Yeah, your Daddy is down there Lucy, We'll find him and bring him back to you, okay?"

"My Daddy, my nice Daddy?" Lucy asked, slightly confused.

Jo nodded "The same Daddy that tucks you in every night, Luce, the one who reads you your favourite stories in the best voices, snuggles up on the couch and watches the TV with you and knows all your favourite foods. That Daddy, your only Daddy"

Lucy smiled and snuggled her head against Jo's shoulder.

"Shall we find go and find your Mummy now?"

Lucy nodded. "I miss Mummy"

"She's been missing you too, but she's right out here waiting for you" Jo smiled as she opened the front door and carried Lucy out.

Lucy squinted due to the bright sun light that she hadn't seen for the past few days "Mummy?" she called trying to spot her Mother's familiar face.

"I think she's in here" Jo carried Lucy over to the blue surveillance van and opened the back door. "I have someone..."

"Mummy!" Lucy said excitedly as she saw Lindsay sat at the back of the van looking at something on her phone.

Lindsay head shot up when she heard the familiar little voice "Lucy?" she exclaimed as she shoved the phone into the pocket of Danny's hoodie and quickly made her way to the doors of the van. "Oh Lucy-girl, I've missed you" she told her, with tears falling down her cheeks, as she took the little girl from Jo's arms and held her tightly against her, breathing in her scent. "Are you okay? You're not hurt are you?"

Lucy shook her head and clung to her Mother.

"I think physically she's fine but mentally... well that might be a different story" Jo added.

Lindsay nodded and kissed the top of Lucy's head. "I can't believe she's here, Jo. Thank you, thank you so much for bringing her back to me"

"Don't mention it" Jo smiled "I need to go back inside, but I'll be back out soon, okay?"

Lindsay nodded and watched Jo walk off "Wait!" Lindsay called after her.

"Yeah?" Jo asked turning around.

"Danny... did you find him?"

"Lindsay?" said a weak voice.

Lindsay looked up to see Flack helping Danny out of the building.

"Oh, Danny!" Lindsay said rushing over to him.

"Lindsay" Danny held her cheeks in both of his hands "It's you? It's really you?"

Lindsay nodded, feeling more tears fall down her cheeks "It's me, Danny"

"You're not dead?"

"No, I'm alive and so are you and Lucy. We're back together again, Danny"

"Lucy" Danny said noticing the little girl in Lindsay's arms who was now drifting in and out of sleep. "My Lucy?"

"Yeah, your Lucy, Danny." Lindsay told him.

"You promise? You promise she's mine?"

"Danny, I promise you that Lucy is your daughter" Lindsay said wiping the tears from her cheeks. "Come on, let's get you to the ambulance and checked out"

"Okay" Danny replied. With the help of Flack, Danny walked over to the waiting ambulance not taking his eyes off of his girls as he did so, scared they'd both disappear again if he did.

A bunch of paramedics rushed past the five of them with a stretcher and headed into the house. "What's that about?" Lindsay asked as Flack helped Danny climb into the ambulance.

"I'm not sure, but while I was getting Danny out we heard a gunshot"

"Mac?" Lindsay asked

"I don't know, Linds" Flack sighed.

"Excuse me" the paramedic interrupted "We need to take Mr Messer to hospital, will one of you be coming with us?"

"Me" Lindsay said as she climbed into the ambulance with Lucy asleep in her arms.

"We can't take..."

Flack interrupted the paramedic "Look, I know you can't normally have two people escort the patient to hospital, but they've been through a lot, can you not allow it this once? And to be honest, I think that little girl might need looking over anyway"

The paramedic nodded and climbed into the back of the ambulance. Flack held his hand up to his ear, letting Lindsay know to call him when she got any news. Lindsay gave him a small nod just before the doors were closed and the ambulance drove away.

"How was he?" Hawkes asked as him and Adam approached Flack.

"He's very confused" Flack admitted "Owen told him a lot of nasty, vindictive lies and I think it's going to take him a while before he can work out for him self what's true and what's not"

"And how's Lucy?" Adam asked.

"I didn't see her down in the basement, I went straight to Danny and she was asleep right then when I was with her and Lindsay, so honestly, I don't know"

All three men turned to face the building when they heard the paramedics shouting for people to clear the way. They exited the building, pushing along a stretcher with Owen laid upon it, with a white gauze wrapped around his left bicep and his right wrist handcuffed to the railings of the bed. Coming out of the house just behind them with Jo, was Mac.

"Boss, did you play hero, again?" Adam asked as Mac and Jo approached the three of them.

"I just did what I had to" Mac replied honestly "he was going to shoot me, so I took him down before he could"

Hawkes gave Mac a friendly pat on the back "I think you deserve a drink after all that"

Mac smiled "Has Danny gone to the hospital?"

"Yeah, I was just gonna head down to get a statement from him and Lucy" Flack replied.

"No, I'll go down with Jo" Mac told him.

"Mac, it's cool, I don't mind"

"Don, You've done your bit, Lindsay's okay and Danny and Lucy are safe. You now need to go home and get some proper sleep"

"I'm okay"

"I'm not asking, I'm telling you, Don, that you're going home for a sleep"

Flack nodded "Okay, but will you let me know how he is?"

"As soon as we find out anything we'll give you a ring" Jo smiled "Now off you go"

Flack gave them a smile and said his goodbyes before heading back to his car.

"Right, you two" Mac said turning his attention to Adam and Hawkes "I need you two to process this scene while me and Jo go to the hospital to speak to Danny and Lucy"

"Okay, I'll grab our kits from the van" Hawkes replied before heading off towards the blue surveillance van.

"Right, now come on, Mac Taylor" Jo smiled linking her arm through his "Let's head to the hospital"

"Okay" Mac replied as he and Jo walked over to a waiting cop car and made their way to the hospital.

There is only a handful of chapters left in this story now, so I'm going to start posting them daily :)