A/N This is now the second story to be updated on my new pink laptop. :D

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At six forty-five a.m. Frank Hardy was woken up by loud knocking on the door. He awoke with a start, and stared at the door in shock, he had to say that of all the times he had been kidnapped, he had never once had his kidnapper knock on the door.

He stumbled out of bed and opened the door to find the man who had introduced himself as Mr. Jones the night before standing outside. "Get dressed, breakfast in fifteen minutes. When you're ready wait outside your door, I will be back to escort you at seven a.m. precisely. Do not be late." He ordered curtly before shutting Frank's door and leaving the eldest Hardy brother staring at it in shock.

This was certainly the strangest kidnapping he had ever experienced. He hurriedly got ready and headed into the hallway, his cousin was already outside looking rather disheveled. Charlie sent him a puzzled look clearly wondering what was going on.

They were about to find out, as Mr. Jones returned and led the cousins and the other assorted geniuses down two flights of stairs and three hallways to pause outside the second door on the right hand side. "You have one hour." He informed them opening the door to a cafeteria like room and gesturing for them all to enter. They filed inside and the door was shut and locked behind them.

A buffet was set up with various breakfast foods, and those captives who had been their longer immediately headed over to it. Frank and Charlie shrugged at each other but followed the others. Once they had their food Frank and Charlie sat down next to each other and the long table provided for everyone.

Janet Malone slid onto the end of the bench across from Frank, while Kathryn Weston sat next to her. Benjamin sat on Charlie's other side, and Jeremy seated himself across from the strategist, Emily seated herself next to Jeremy, while Andrew took the available seat on Benjamin's other side.

"Hi, I'm Janet; I know he introduced everyone last night, but…" The artist trailed off apparently unable to word exactly what specifically made being introduced by one's kidnapper unsatisfactory.

"I know what you mean." Frank agreed. "I'm Frank, this is my cousin Charlie."

"Will he be joining us?" Charlie asked.

"No," Kathryn joined in. "We eat breakfast as a group, lunch is delivered to our rooms while we 'work,' and then dinner is a formal affair with Satori." She explained.

"We need to get out of here." Benjamin announced grimly.

"Don't we know it?" Jeremy replied. "But there is no easy escape from here, we're locked up almost all the time, and when we're not there are guards everywhere. "

"Well I refuse to help break on to a military base and steal government secrets, so we're going to need to make it happen." Benjamin replied.

"Let's table this for now," Andrew Harrington, the linguistics professor suggested. "You three," He nodded at Frank, Charlie, and Benjamin. "Are new here, therefore you can tell us whether or not the police have figured out anything. I'm sure you watch the news, have they figured out that all these disappearances are linked?"

"We can do you one better." Charlie replied. "My cousin and I were both consulting with the FBI on the case."

"Charlie's brother is a FBI agent at the Los Angeles office, and Charlie often consults on cases for him." Frank explained.

"And Frank is a private investigator together with his father and brother, their agency was hired to consult for the New Hampshire office on your disappearance," Charlie said with a nod at Jeremy.

"Does that mean they've figured out that the crimes are linked?" Emily asked.

"They were fairly certain of it before we were taken," Frank responded.

"Now that we've gone missing, I'm sure that they will be certain of it." Charlie added.

"They have no leads do they?" Kathryn asked.

"Beyond a few details about black vans and SUVs not really," Frank admitted. "But, my brother witnessed Charlie and I getting taken."

"And they let him live?" Benjamin asked incredulously.

"They actually injected him with a drug to make him forget everything that happened." Charlie confessed.

"So, basically it's hopeless," Andrew surmised.

"They will find us," Charlie said fiercely. "Don is a great agent, and I know that he won't rest until we're found."

"And, in the meantime we can't just sit back on our heels and wait to be rescued." Frank added. "We need to at the very least find a way to get a message out."

"If he catches us he will take it out on our family." Janet pointed out.

"Then we better not get caught." Frank replied. "It's not like we really have many options." He added logically.

"Easier said than done." Emily murmured.

"As are most things worth doing." Kathryn countered.

-Story Break-

Don found himself sitting in a conference room at the L.A. FBI office surrounded by files on a suspected money laundering case. It was hard to concentrate on the white collar case when down the hall he knew that the other agents were attempting to locate his missing brother and cousin.

Fortunately, he had his uncle and team who had agreed to report to him on how the case was progressing off the record, otherwise he would be going absolutely insane with worry. As it was he had slept barely four hours last night and was awake only through willpower and caffeine.

His uncle had made his cousin stay with Alan and rest for at least the day, as he had just been released from the hospital and no one considered him well enough to be working on the case. Joe had protested vehemently but been cowed into submission by his mother and sister-in-law.

Don resisted the urge to groan aloud as he surveyed the stacks of paperwork. It was shaping up to be a long and worry filled day.

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