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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. Much thanks to both Aphina and Axellia for keeping me on track (and making the story better!). 5 review rule. (:p)

Chapter 45.

Forty-eight Hours Missing

Angell was sitting beside Cruz's bedside, half asleep when she heard a gasp. Her eyes shot open as she automatically reached for her gun, drawing it in one smooth motion. She looked around the room to find that no one else was there, so she looked at Cruz. "Iggy?" she said softly.

Cruz opened his eyes and noticed the dark haired detective that had been haunting his dreams looking at him. "Ovidio. My name is really Ovidio," he whispered. "Where am I?"

Angell looked at him. "Trinity Hospital. Do you remember what happened?" she asked as she held a cup with water in it to him.

"Cover blown. I tried to warn Cory. It gets fuzzy after that part," he admitted.

Angell sighed, sensing that he didn't know much about Cory's abduction. "Somehow you made it to Central Park Zoo. Cory called in an officer down, but when the paramedics got there, they only found you."

Cruz tried to sit up, cursing, but dropped back down to the bed when pain lanced his shoulder. "Is she okay?"

Angell looked over his head. "I don't know," she said softly.

Another thought entered his head. "The bomb! I have to warn you! There's a bomb somewhere on the subway."

Angell smiled. "We found it and disabled it. Right now, the crime lab is trying to trace the C4 to find out where it came from and try to track down Cory. We think Montoya is the one who took her. Where would they hide her?"

Cruz shook his head in frustration. "I don't know. The only place where I met the gang was down on the docks."

"Damn," Angell whispered. "Okay. I'm going to get the doctor, to tell him that you're awake. I'll be right back," she said as she rose from her chair and walked towards the door.

Taylor sneezed for the fifth time in a row as another cloud of dust enveloped her. She had dirt smudges on her cheek and dark circles under her eyes. "How many more boxes?" she asked.

Danny Taylor and Sam looked at her in sympathy. They had been looking at the records for close to twenty-four hours, and the lack of sleep was becoming evident. Sam sighed, pushing her blonde hair out of her face. "I don't know. I thought that this was logically organized, but the bureaucracy proves me wrong again!"

Taylor felt her eyes crossing as she glanced at a case file again, her tired brain barely registering the words on the page. She was just about to drop the file into the read pile when the words penetrated the fog in her mind. "I think I found something," she called out, feeling some sort of hope rising in her chest.

Knowing that she was too tired to try to make sense of the document, she handing it over to Martin, who quickly skimmed it.

"Martin? What does it say?" Sam asked.

Martin looked up, a frown line appearing between his eyebrows. "It references the case, but it says that all documents pertaining to is were destroyed. On purpose."

Sam shook her head in confusion. "Why?"

Martin looked down at the paper again. "All records pertaining to the kidnapping of Corrine Reid are to be destroyed by ordered by the Director of the FBI."

Both Taylor and Sam looked at him in shock. "The Director of the FBI ordered for the files to be destroyed? Why?" Taylor asked.

Martin just shook his head. "I have no clue. Are her parents still living?"

Taylor looked at him. "Her mom is. Her dad was killed by an assassin hired by Montoya."

Sam knew where Martin was going with this. "We need to talk to her mom," she said standing up.

Taylor nodded and joined the two agents who were beginning to walk to the elevator.

When Mac, Stella and Danny arrived back at the crime lab, they found Alexis waiting for them. She walked over to them, avoided the glare Danny sent her, and asked, "Have you found my daughter?"

Danny ground his teeth together, remembering their last conversation. "Mrs. Reid," he said in an icy tone. "Are you ready to actually tell us the truth now?"

Mac and Stella looked at him in surprise. "Danny? Can I talk to you a second?" Mac asked in a low tone after he shot Stella a look.

Stella nodded and drew Alexis to the break room.

Danny turned to Mac. "Okay."

"Why are you acting so cold to Alexis?" Mac queried.

Danny sighed. "When I called to tell her that Cory had been kidnapped, she said something like "This can't be happening again". I questioned her about it and she told me it was none of my business," he stated simply.

Mac nodded, understanding both Danny's side as well as Alexis' side of the conversation. He was about to tell Danny that he would take care of it, when his cell phone rang. "Taylor."

"Mac, it's Taylor. Listen; do you know how to get in touch with Cory's mother? We did discover that she was kidnapped as a child, but the FBI destroyed the files. She might be the only person who knows what happened."

"Actually, Taylor, she is sitting in our break room."

Taylor looked at her phone in shock at the timing. "I'll get the FBI over there right now then," she said as she hung up.

Mac looked at Danny. "You might get your answers now. That was Taylor. She's bringing the FBI to us, to find out about Cory's kidnapping as a child."

Danny nodded; feeling like this would bring them closer to finding Cory.

Alexis looked around at the gathering of NYPD and FBI. She sighed, knowing that she was going to have to reveal her greatest sin. As everyone settled in, she waited for the hard questions to come.

Jack Malone is the one who began the questioning. "Why does the FBI have no records of Cory being kidnapped," he asked in a calm voice.

Alexis sighed before responding. "To get to that, I need to go back to the beginning." She saw the nods as she drew another steadying breath. "Cory's father, Harold, and I had an arranged marriage. We were friends, but I was not pleased by being forced to marry him. So, I rebelled. A few months after we married, I met a man. Alejandro. After about a month, I gave into my desires, and almost brought the downfall to my family. I began an affair with him."

Danny felt himself being drawn into the story, against his better judgment, so when Alexis stopped, he prompted her to continue. "Please continue," he said softly.

Alexis nodded, encouraged that Danny wasn't yelling at her. "I was with him for a year; we had planned to run away to Paris together. The day before I was going to leave Harold, I found out that I was pregnant with Cory. I had only had unprotected sex with Harold, so I was pretty sure that he was the father. I couldn't do that. I couldn't keep his child away from him, so I went to the hotel in which Alejandro was staying and broke it off."

Mac and Jack both nodded. "Alexis? How does this pertain to Cory's kidnapping?" Mac asked.

Alexis got up and began to pace around the room. "I'm getting to that. After I broke it off with Alejandro, I came clean with Harold. He forgave me and we began to actually fall in love. A couple of years later, we had Elizabeth."

She looked at Jack. "The reason that the files about her abduction were destroyed was because we requested it. Harold's family was good friends with the Director and he decided to honor our wishes."

Danny Taylor looked at her. "So tell us about the kidnapping."

"When the weather was nice, I always took the girls to the park. On October 14, 1978, Alejandro kidnapped Cory. I was terrified when I looked up and saw that she was gone. The first thing I did was call the police. They didn't find any evidence. We blanketed the city with her picture, our pleas for her safe return, but nothing. Weeks passed and with each hour she was gone, the hope that we would find her alive diminished. Then on Thanksgiving Day, I got a call. It was Alejandro. He told me that if I wanted Cory back safe, then I had to come to New York, alone, and then we would fly off to Paris like planned. I told Harold, who contacted the FBI." Alexis shuddered at the memories enveloping her.

Stella got up and put her arms around the shaking woman. "It'll be okay. Please, I know that this is hard, but I think it's important that you go on."

Alexis nodded, visibly trying to pull herself back together. "When I got to New York, I made contact with him as promised. He told me to meet him at Central Park Zoo at eight p.m." She stopped as a collective gasp echoed in the room. "What?"

Danny felt his heart drop and with a shaking voice he answered her question. "That's where she was kidnapped from."

Alexis closed her eyes, feeling grief wash over her. "Dear Lord. It's him. It's Alejandro. He's the one who's taken her."

Martin looked at her. "That's not what the evidence is telling us. The evidence is pointing to a drug cartel that she was investigating."

"It's got to be him. I promised to meet him, at the zoo, but I didn't. I had him tell me where Cory was and the FBI got her out, so I never showed. The FBI was there, but he evaded their arrest and left the country. We could only guess that he went back to Colombia, where he was from."

Lydia's head rose at that statement. "Alejandro was from Colombia? Do you know his last name?"

Alexis thought for a moment. "Guerrero. Alejandro Guerrero."

Lydia withdrew a folder from her briefcase. "That sounds familiar. I don't know where I've heard that name before," she muttered while poring over the papers. "Ah-ha! Montoya's full name is Javier Alejandro Guerrero Montoya. So we are looking for the same person."

Hawkes nodded, an idea coming to his head. "If I may?" he asked. "I think it safe to assume that the man is deranged. What's to say he won't revisit the same path? He is ultimately trying to get Alexis back. Harold was the one that was murdered, not Alexis and now Cory is kidnapped when she could have been easily killed? I don't believe that Montoya will actually kill Cory until he has Alexis with him. I think that he will go the same route; he'll contact Alexis again and trying to get her to run away with him."

Lindsay nodded. "That makes sense. Everything he has done as been to get Alexis back to him." She sighed. "That means we have more time. We can try to find out where she is being held and once he contacts Alexis, we can try to save her."

Danny looked around the room; feeling in his heart that time was short. He began to pace, like a restless lion in a cage. "Mac, we have to find her. We have to."

Mac stood and put his hand on Danny's arm, stopping his pacing. "We'll find her, Dan. We'll find her."

Danny looked at Mac, wanting to believe him, but just as Alexis described, he was losing a little bit of that hope as every minute passed.

AN: Duh, duh, dunnnnn! Wow, guys. I'm stunned, shocked. 7 reviews. Y'all are the best! I would have updated this earlier, but FF wouldn't let me get on. But, better a little late than never!

CSI junkie - Axellia and I have been discussing the Taylor Taylor thing and somehow, one of us will get it into the story! I love the purple bunny part. I laughed so hard when I was writing it. I akin the purple bunny to my plot bunnies which are out of control right now! Montoya is definitely evil. He is more evil than I thought, too, and I have even more evil plans for him. I will tell you, that they will find Cory somewhere around 72 hours, but what chapter that it, I'll keep a secret!

Maddy Bellows - Nope. Skinny NY girls would not make it in the land of the drawl! I love to cook and eat so I instilled the same thing in Cory. I'm glad you finished it before you fell asleep! I assume your getting ready for the big Artic front that about to blast us? The weathermen uttered the dirty S word (snow!), which means two things. One, we won't get it and two, if we do, it'll only be ice. (:s). Thanks! I try really hard to make crossover's work, I don't do them much and WaT was really hard to do it with since I haven't watched in regularly in a couple of years. Was this soon enough?

Soccer-Bitch - Thanks! I don't have a weak stomach, but I don't like violence for the sack of blood and guts. If it has a point, I'm okay with it, but just to show blood, it annoys me. I do think that the first National Treasure was better, too, but I expected the second one to suck more than it did. (lol)

Aphina - I would be nothing without Wikipedia! Truthfully, I got a lot of the facts from there, I just embellished a little. For what's coming up with that drug, those are actual side effects. Of course he knows her that well! Plus, I looked a a map of NY subways in regards to where I saw Cory living and that was the only station close. I know. I'm OCD. (lol)

Axellia - You know your going to cry when you right the final chapter of WTECS! I'm going to cry when I read it! But all good stories come to an end, so I really want this to go out on the top. I 2nd your comment about some of the fics out there! Hopefully, it will get better. I pray that it must get better. I didn't mean to give you flashes to the London bombings...But I figured we've already had a major attack using airplanes that it would be better to use the subway. Plus, it fit in perfectly with the idea that started this story!

Forest Angel - Yeah! A new reviewer! You made my day. Yes, I had to have the bombs found before they could find Cory. How fast they find Cory depends on your defination of fast is. I can tell you that I have written that chapter (and have had it written for about 3 weeks), so no worries since my muse has been taking a mini vacation.

Again...All of you lurkers rock!