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A/N: Here's the next chappie!! Thanks to all who reviewed. As always, please R&R. My muse loves the attention. :D I also do not own Taylor, Maddy or any characters from Without A Trace.

Chapter 44.

Twenty-Four Hours Missing

Cory struggled to clear the hallucinations clouding her thoughts out of her mind. The hallucinations had begun soon after she had felt the needle enter her arm. She watched as Montoya studied her, her eyes beginning to glaze over with the effects of the drug. "What did you do to me?" she slurred.

Montoya smiled evilly. "Did you know that in the 1950's, your CIA was investigating the benefits of many drugs that could be used as a truth serum?" Cory shook her head in confusion as the drug began to dull her mind. Montoya continued, "Scopolamine was the clear leader and while research was abandoned here in the United States, it was not abandoned elsewhere in the world. This is a refined version."

"Why," she gasped out as her throat dried up.

"Why are you attacking me? Why are you sticking your nose into my business?" Montoya whispered harshly, inches away from her face.

"I…" Cory trailed off as a purple bunny danced around Montoya's legs. A harsh slap to her face brought her back to reality. "I didn't. I was after the Martinez Brothers," she finally managed to choke out as the bunny was now hopping around the room.

Cory's attention began to waiver again as the hallucinations increased. She could hear the drug smuggler talking, but her ears couldn't distinguish the words. Finally, her eyes rolled back and she passed out.

Stella and Mac went over all the evidence with a fine tooth comb. "I can't figure it out, Mac. Where the hell can this bomb be?" Stella glanced down at her watch. "We have two hours until detonation to figure this out."

Mac looked at Stella, noticing the dark circles under her eyes. "Stel? Why don't you go grab some coffee?"

Stella looked up and noticed the concern shining in his eyes. She smiled softly. "I'm okay. There's just not enough time."

Mac shook his head in understanding. "I feel like we're missing something. Everything is always connected. Where is the connection here?"

"The connection is Cory," Danny said from the doorway.

Both Mac and Stella turned around, with matching looks of displeasure on their faces. "Danny? What are you doing here?" Mac said in a low voice.

Danny held up his hands. "I just came to help. Taylor and the FBI are searching the files for the records of when Cory was kidnapped as a child. I was at a loose end." Danny looked at Mac, pleading with his eyes. "Let me help find the bomb. I can't compromise that evidence."

Mac and Stella looked at each other, silently talking with their eyes. Finally Mac relented. "Okay. Why do you think that it's all connected to Cory?"

"Montoya put out a hit on Cory. With information that she has gotten from her informants, Cruz included, she discovered that Montoya wants her dead for a personal reason. What that reason is, only he knows."

"So how does this help us find the bomb?" Stella asked, intrigued by Danny's thought process.

"Do you have any possible locations?"

Mac gestured to the map of the subway spread out over the table. "About dozen possible locations. Too many for us to cover all locations, even with the FBI bomb squad helping us out."

Danny nodded his understanding while walking towards the map. He studied it carefully before pointing to one station. "It's that one. 96th Street Station"

Mac looked at him. "How do you know that?"

Danny sighed. "Since June, Cory's been having dreams about a bomb on the subway. The way her dream went was that she was walking towards the subway, on her way to work, and she encounters people fleeing from this station. That's the one that she takes to work, when she doesn't drive. She gets off at the Brooklyn Bridge Station and walks from there."

"Are you sure, Danny? We only have one shot at this," Stella stated.

Danny looked both her and Mac in the eyes. "I'm sure."

Mac nodded. "Okay. I'll call Lydia."

An hour later, the FBI had shut down the station and cleared the area. Lydia and Mac were standing at the staging area, going over the final preparations. "Okay, we got the video footage of inside the station. There were no suspicious activities. Are you sure this is the place?"

Danny, who was standing on the sidelines, nodded his head. "It's the dream, Lydia."

Lydia sighed. "Alright. Agent Grayson, Agent Chen, take the dogs and see if you can find anything. Remember, we have only an hour to find and disarm the bomb."

Both men shook their heads in understanding as they began to walk towards the station. Within minutes they were on the platform. They looked at each other and with a simultaneous nod, they went different directions; Agent Chen to the south and Agent Grayson to the north.

Agent Chen walked slowly, allowing his dog, a beagle named Grigsby, to sniff around. The dog moved methodically, slowing down in a couple of places, but never sounding an alarm. Shaking his head, thinking that this was a wild goose chase, he grabbed his radio. "Grayson, it's Chen. Have you found anything?"

"Eight used condoms and four wads of chewing gum, but that's all. You?"

"Nothing. Agent Sanchez? Are you sure this is the place? It's clean."

"I'm certain. Search harder," came her response.

Both men sighed. Chen began to direct Grigsby. "Come on girl; let's see what we can find." He began to walk towards the tracks, deciding to check the line itself to see if anything was amiss. Carefully, he jumped down and began the trek southwards again. Almost immediately, the dog began to pull at her lease, tugging him towards the tunnel. Curious, he followed her willingly to a place about one hundred feet into the tunnel, where she began to bark.

Chen looked around in surprise, looking for anything that could contain a bomb, and then he noticed the power box. Making his way carefully to the box, he opened it, to find that it was packed with C4. "Sweet Jesus," he muttered under his breath, as he heard the other dog also barking. He quickly grabbed his radio, noticing the timer on the explosive was at ten minutes. "Agent Sanchez. This is Chen. I found the bomb. It's located in the power access tunnel in the southern portion of the tunnel. I estimate that there is approximated ten to fifteen pounds of C4 in the box."

"Copy that. I'm sending the bomb squad down right now," Lydia replied in a calm tone.

"You might want to tell them to hurry. We've got nine minutes left until detonation." He was pocketing the radio when he heard Grayson.

"This is Grayson. I also found a bomb in the north tunnel. Same type. In the power box."

Lydia looked at Mac in shock. "Two bombs? One on each side of the tunnel. With that amount of C4, it will collapse the tunnel if they go off." Quickly she turned and looked at the assembled members of the bomb squad. "Alright. I need you to split into two teams. One take the north tunnel, one take the south tunnel. We've got two bombs, made from about ten to fifteen pounds of C4 that are set to go off in a little over eight minutes. If they detonate, then the tunnel and platform will more than likely collapse."

The bomb squad members looked at her in shock. Then the shock wore off and two people stepped forward. One a tall dark-haired member of the NYPD bomb squad and one small blonde woman from the FBI.

The man spoke first. "I'm Detective Matt Sullivan, NYPD. I have an extensive background in defusing C4 bombs. I'm willing to go in, alone if necessary."

Lydia nodded as she turned to the woman. "Cassie? You sure you want to do this?"

Cassandra Hill smiled. "Lydia, you know that I'm the best at this. Why don't you have Detective Sullivan take the south tunnel and I'll take the north."

Matt looked at the small, delicate looking woman with respect in his eyes. "Sounds like a plan. Let's go." Quickly, the two grabbed their gear and with two minutes they were parting ways to enter the tunnels.

Matt nodded to Agent Chen, when he got to the location. He carefully studied the box, looking at the different color wires that made up the bomb. "Cassie? What do you see," he asked over the radio.

"The C4 is packed into all the crevices of the power box. The detonator looks to be at the base. Does that match what you have?"

"Yeah. This is sure one hell of a complicated bomb, and we only have three minutes to disarm them. Do you think that there are any traps?" he asked, while checking for wires that could possible alter the detonation timer.

"I'm not sure. Does yours have two yellow wires?"

"Yeah. That's odd. Let me look at this further." He reached up and began to separate the mass of wires, trying to locate where each one went. He muttered under his breath as he realized that the bomb had multiple triggers. "It has multiple triggers. I see both a timer trigger and a remote access trigger."

"Shit. I just saw that. Okay. The bomber is expecting it to blow in two minutes. That gives us that amount of time to deactivate both the triggers. Personally, I think I'll deactivate the remote trigger first. That way the bomber can't trigger it remotely when it doesn't go off."

Matt nodded to himself as he traced the wires. "Got it. I think I see how we need to do this. Cut the wires in this order. Blue, red, the yellow one at the base of the bomb and then the green one. I think that should disable all the triggers so then we can remove the detonator."

"Roger that."

Matt quickly began to cut the sequence of wires, feeling the pressure as the time clicked down to thirty seconds. As he cut the green wire, the timer stopped, with five seconds to spare. Sighing in relief at the lack of explosion to the north of him, he realized that Cassie must have had the same success. With speed, he removed the detonator and then began the process of removing the power box, so the bomb could be analyzed.

Above ground, Lydia breathed a sigh of relief when both members of the bomb squad confirmed that the bombs had been disabled. "The threat is over. Detective Sullivan and Agent Hill have disarmed the bombs," she said with a smile.

There was a quick cheer before Lydia held her hand up. "Okay guys. Business first." She turned to Mac. "How quickly can your team analyze the evidence so we can find Cory?"

Mac looked her in the eyes. "We'll get on it right now. If you want, you can also send the bomb components to us and we'll work on that as well."

Lydia nodded, knowing that the NYPD lab was one of the best. "I'll do that." As Mac turned away she put a hand on his arm. "Call me the minute you know anything about Cory, please."

Mac nodded. "Of course," he said before walking towards the SUV with Stella and Danny.

AN: Thanks for reading!! You guys rock!!

Soccer-bitch - I'm glad you liked it. At least the bomb part of this story arc is over, now we can move on to finding Cory! Nice on the costome and was Sweeney Todd any good? I went and saw National Treasure 2 (it was better than I expected), but since I'm sick, I don't have the energy to go to the movies. :D

CSI Junkie - I've got so much time (unfortunately, Axellia's plot bunnies have run to me), so I actually don't see an end in sight right now. I could spin something off into a sequel, but I don't think I'm going to do that. I had so much fun writing the multiple Dannys and Taylors. It was so much fun. Now I just want to have Taylor marry Danny Taylor and her name would be Taylor Taylor! LOL.

Axellia - But the rabbits are so cute and I don't like rabbit pie (:P)!! If you need to see a shrink then I am first in line in that queue. I'm insane for thinking I can post 4 stories at the same time! (cue movie voice: It's a madhouse! A madhouse!!). Okay. Better now. I'm glad you love the details. That's important for me! But we've had the conversations about the ummm...quality of fanfiction writing. (:p)

Aphina - I try so hard to portray the characters realistically, so it's true. People are counterproductive when they are panicking. Thanks! You should really give WaT a spin (at least the early seasons). It's a really good show. I got your chapters and will get them back to you tonight. :D

Maddy Bellows - First of all, thanks for reviewing and did you read the entire two stories in a day?? If you did, wow. These series of chapters are very emotional. Especially when it comes to setting up my next story arc. There will be some fluff soon!

To all the lurkers...I still love y'all!!