The phone rang when Kyle was pacing waiting for it again. He knew it had to be me and this time he was determined to keep me on for as long as possible for a trance so they could at least have a starting place for them to start looking for us.
"Hi." Was all I said then I gasped, "Oh my goodness. Is he crazy? What does he think he's doing?"
"Danni are you okay? What's going on over there?"
"He just suddenly left me out here at the pay phone all alone. He isn't even really watching me either. He doesn't think I'll do anything to get away because he thinks I won't try and run away without Jessie and Mandy."
"What are you talking about Danni? Don't do anything suicidal! Do you hear me? Don't do anything to get yourself killed!"
"Kyle trust me on this, I'm going to run away of course even though I don't have Jessie or Mandy with me at the moment. It might be the only chance I've got and I've got to take it now or it will pass and probably never arise again."
"Wait a minute before you do anything. Let's think this through. Where are you Danni? That way you don' have to run and we'll come and get you instead."
"I'm at the Wal-Mart, but don't come. I'll go to the school and head to the FBI headquarters. Meet me there in our alley and hurry."
"Danni, I all ready at the FBI headquarters as we speak. I've been trying to help the agents find you."
"Then just wait for me there okay Kyle. Don't you dare leave there. It's not safe because he wants you too. I'll be okay. Trust me. I know what I'm doing. Don't worry about me. Just wait for me."
The line went dead suddenly.
I really had to get off the phone as quickly as possible if I was going to get a good head start like I needed. I ran away from the door and started taking the back roads as fast as I safely could without being seen by anyone. I had to make it if not I think the kidnapper wouldn't let me live to see the sunrise because I ran.
I moved quickly and quietly with the grace of a wolf. I had done something like this in a game we had played in a church activity one time. It was a game called Fugitive. You try to get from one place to another without getting caught by the others that are driving around looking for you.
My team was the only team that won. Not to mention I had been with only HSR's and I had been a spy for a while at the time. I had to use the skills I had used in that for this. Though it was only a game that time I felt like I might be able to do it again this time. One small difference that complicated things, this time I had to do it just as well if not better because this was much more than a simple game but a life or death situation. I suddenly wished it was a game instead.
"Jessie, did hear him lock the door this time when he left?" Mandy asked suddenly sitting up realizing she hadn't heard the lock click back into place at all.
"No, I've gotten so used to the sound that I didn't hear it anymore. Why?" Jessie asked still lying down bored.
"Well he did forget to drug us again so is it possible he might have forgotten to lock the door." Mandy pointed out.
Jessie was off the single bed in less than a minute heading for the door. She turned the door knob and the door swung open revealing their only way out.
"You're a genius Mandy!" Jessie said jumping up and down excited to get out.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Mandy said heading out the door.
"Wait what about Danni?" Jessie said suddenly stopping her by thinking about me. "We can't just leave her here all alone. Think about what that monster might do to our oldest littlest sister when he finds us gone when he brings her back. We can't just leave her here all alone. What if he takes her someplace else or worse kills her? I don't feel quite right about this."
"We can go get help then come back for her," Mandy suggested. "Come on. We've got to leave now Jessie or we might never get another chance at this."
"I don't like the idea of leaving her here all alone with that creature that everyone thinks is a man." Jessie said uncertain.
"This might be the only chance we'll get Jessie," Mandy said. "If we don't leave now we might never get away ever again. He's so confident he's gotten a little careless. We have got to use that to our advantage. Please if we don't leave now we'll never get away or he'll catch us and then we lose our only way out. "
"Okay Mandy I know you're right but I'm so worried about what he'll do to Danni when he finds out we escaped. You're also right that if we don't go now then we'll never get another chance. All right I'll come with you but we are going directly to the FBI for help immediately after we get out of here," Jessie said and Mandy agreed.
They both left the small warehouse they had been imprisoned in hoping they wouldn't come back to find nothing more than my body left behind.
Kyle was actually more frantic then he had ever been before and that meant he was near panic mode now that he heard I was running. He wouldn't stop pacing up and down the hall to stay calm but it wasn't working too well. He hadn't seen or heard from me at all sense I hung up the phone. He wanted to do something to help me but all he could do now was try to wait as patiently as possible for me to come. His mind was racing with all the possible what ifs thoughts he didn't want to think at the moment. He blocked them out to the best of his ability but he couldn't just shut off his thoughts.
"Now I know what Danni meant." He said to himself.
"What?" JJ came out of her office. They were all worried I might not make it without getting caught but didn't tell Kyle that in case he went off the deep end and panicked again and they didn't need that.
"Danni's in the drama department at school. We all are but she does the acting with a few others. She always said her worse favorite part of it all is waiting for a show to start every night."
"And you're waiting for her to get here is like waiting for a show to start."
"Yeah and I know it feels like to anticipating something like this. She has scenes, what ifs, and thoughts she doesn't want going through her mind and now I know what she means. It's not fun at all. Technical crews like me and most the others don't have to worry much we don't have costumes, lines, and props to worry about just scenery, fly systems, and other stuff. She and a few of the others are the main actors in our group of friends."
The phone in Hotch's office rang and Kyle nearly flew into his office to hear him say, "Send them up."
"Danni?" He asked him as he hung up.
"No, its Jessie and Mandy, they must have escaped also." Hotch said reassuringly.
"Where is she?" Kyle groaned.
I ducked down into a bunch of bushes as I saw a car coming in my direction. I stayed put as the car passed me hiding in the bushes.
Suddenly I felt a hard object hit me in the back of the head. Stars flew before my eyes but I remained conscious.
"That was a quite nice try, Danielle," Our captor seethed grabbing a hold on my hair. "You gave me quite a scare when I found you gone. That's the last time I trust you not to leave your friends behind. You made a very stupid mistake when you tried to escape. Only a coward would leave others behind."
He dragged me from the bushes and to his car which wasn't very far away. He held my hair so tight it felt like it was causing me a headache adding that to the bruise his gun had caused when he slammed into the back of my head much harder than necessary.
He threw me into the trunk of his car. When he slammed the lid and left me alone in total darkness. I started to whisper how stupid this whole situation was that my sisters and I were in. Now what was I going to do? I had lost my only chance to get away and it was probably my last one too.
The elevator opened and Mandy and Jessie stepped out a little apprehensive about this whole scenario. They looked around uncertain wondering if they were really expected. No one was looking at them or cared that they were standing there either. They looked at each other worried feeling kind of stupid.
"Do they even know we are here or are we on the wrong floor?" Mandy whispered to Jessie uncertain why they were sent up when they weren't agents and didn't have badges or permission when they arrived there either.
Jessie shrugged unsure what to do and they didn't move from in front of the elevator because they didn't know what to say to anyone.
"JESSIE! MANDY!" Kyle came running over as fast as he could. He threw his arms around both of them hugging both girls tightly at the same time clearly glad to see them both safe and sound not to mention they weren't hurt at all. Not even any bruises as far as he could tell. Most of the other agents had gotten so used to Kyle yelling by now hardly anyone looked up at him to see what he was yelling about this time.
After a moment of hugging him back they finally felt total relief and their fear melted replaced with security.
"Hi, my big younger brother, you can let go of us now, Kyle. You're introducing my spine to my other organs and it's not comfortable." Jessie said pulling away from him, "So what's the news or trouble that you must have gotten into sense we last saw you? Tell us everything that's happened sense we were taken sense we've been out of touch with everyone!"
"Not much trouble really. I can't think of anything new." he said jumping up and down. He's energy was back now that Jessie and Mandy was with him. The only one missing from the reunion was me.
"Not much trouble Kyle is a total lie." Gideon said coming toward the girls. "Your friends and you attacked an innocent guy at school remember? Jedi hasn't forgotten about when you attacked him and we haven't either."
"Which that reminds me," Kyle turned to the girls. "Do you know at all who took you? Because he is going to prison for kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, and that's all I can think of at the moment. I hope they don't post bail. If they do then the HSR's will just have to take matters into our own hands again. We'll take care of the jerk by ourselves if we must, which wouldn't be very pleasant for him. I'll make sure of it myself that he learns his lesson of what happens when you mess with the HSR's."
They shook their heads indicated that they didn't know who it was that took them.
"We never really saw his face," Jessie told him. "He always wore a mask when we saw him and he had a gun that was obviously not registered because it didn't have a number on it and we didn't know anyone with a real gun. The closest thing to a real gun is the drama's gun props in the prop closet and the ones we are using in the upcoming show."
"Well, let's hear your story while we wait for Danni to arrive here as well," Gideon said.
"She escaped too," Mandy said relieved I was also going to be safe and with them also soon.
"Yeah but we haven't seen or heard from her yet," Kyle said, "But remember when we played Fugitive last summer with the church?"
"If we can win that she can get here not mention she had many of us with her that time," Jessie said. "She was the leader too and knew exactly what she was doing that's why we won."
They said how they both woke up to someone pulling their screen out of their windows and coming in and then they said they fought but were kidnapped anyway.
After they finished Reid asked Jessie. "Jessie, did you know your wild cat attacks people he doesn't know?"
"What?" She asked confused.
"Your cat attacks me and JJ while we were investigating your disappearance," he explained. "Did you know he did that?"
"Chewy attacked them because he didn't know them," Kyle said. "They survived with a few scratches and bites. It's not like they got eaten. You know how protective he is of us sense we saved his life. We were the only ones who stopped and looked at him. We didn't rush by into the building like everyone else."
"We saved Chewy that's true. Yes I know he attacks people he doesn't know if he thinks I'm in any danger. He wasn't much help the night I was taken though." She sighed "I know he tried but there was too much chaos."
"What about Danni? Where was she when she escaped?" Mandy asked. "She should be here soon."
"She said was at Wal-Mart when she called." Kyle said.
"Yeah but still she should have been here by now." Mandy said.
Suddenly Kyle's cell phone rang on the desk startling them all.
Hotch hit the button.
"Hello." Kyle said fear was on his face. Mandy and Jessie were both paling.
"Kyle." I said quietly.
"Danni, where are you? Are you okay?" He said knowing I wasn't otherwise I wouldn't be calling him on the phone.
"I just called to say good-bye and that I love you as a brother. I want you to tell all the other HSR's I love them they're the best friends I've ever had and the little brothers and sisters I always wanted but would never have. Even though I'm one of the oldest I always seem to be the younger sister." The line went dead.
"He's going to kill her isn't he?" Gideon said.
Jessie nodded, "I think so or he is never going to let her call Kyle again. Let's all hope it's the latter. I don't want to lose her at all. She is like our sister of course."
Mandy nodded "I don't think any of us want to lose Danni yet. She's the only one who can really empathize really well with us all. Even if she's never been in the situations we have when we go to her she's so sensitive to our emotions it helps for us through it too even if we just need to have someone who will listen. She's the one who will. She the one we all go to when we need help or advice."
"And you aren't going to lose her at all not yet. You know where you were being held so let's go rescue your friend right now, or should I say let's go save your sister." Gideon said as they all headed out the door as fast as possible.
"By the way," Hotch said "Have you considered training after you finish High School?"
"I don't think we'll need the training." Mandy said. "We do just as good if not better then you."
"Oh by the way he can't escape in his car I memorized the license plate when I last saw it and scratched it into the wall behind the bed so I wouldn't forget it." Jessie grinned. "He hasn't had time to change it yet I bet."