Chapter 33

Jamie was sitting at her desk when Fin walked up to her. "Hey, you ready to go?" he asked, leaning against her desk.

"Actually, I'm waiting for Don to leave." Jamie said, glancing back at Cragen's office.

"Why? What are you planning on doing?"

Jamie looked up at Fin and noticed him glaring at her. She smiled, "You're cute when you're angry."

"Come on, James, what's going on?"

"I'm waiting for Cragen to leave so I can have another crack at Lange."

"Whoa, wait a minute, you can't talk to him."

"Fin, I have to try and get any info I can on Kathleen."

"Jamie, he requested a lawyer. He's not gonna talk to you."

"That's why I'm gonna tell him if he cooperates it may work in his favor."

Fin shook his head and noticed Cragen leaving his office. Cragen noticed them at Jamie's desk and walked over. "I thought you two'd be gone by now."

"Just finishing up some last minute paper work." Jamie replied.

"That can wait until tomorrow. Go home and get some rest." Cragen said and made his way out.

Jamie and Fin watched him leave. Jamie got up from her desk, walked out to hallway and watched Cragen get into the elevator. "Okay, he's gone. Let's get Lange back into an interrogation room."

"Cragen's gonna explode when he finds out about this." Fin said as they made their way to the holding cell.

"Yeah, well, if it gets us any closer to finding Kathleen, I think he can cut us some slack." Jamie replied and opened the cell door. "Come on, Lange, move your worthless ass."

"I got nothing to say to you." Lange said, sitting up on the bench.

Jamie walked over to him and pulled him to his feet. "I think you got plenty to say, so let's go have a private chat. Just the three of us."

/Chung Chung/

Nicole and Munch were in bed. Munch was asleep but Nicole wasn't that lucky. She kept tossing and turning and no matter what she did, she just couldn't get comfortable.

After about a half hour of this, she finally decided to get out of bed. She made her way out to the kitchen and got herself a glass of milk. Then she walked over to a window and looked out at the city.

"Hey?" Munch said coming up behind her and placing a hand on her shoulder.

"Shit!" she screamed and turned to face him. "Don't do that, John."

"Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you. Are you okay?"

"I can't sleep."

"You want to talk about it?" Munch asked as they made their way to the couch.

"It's everything. My family, finding out that Lee's dirty, Lange trying to kill me and now Kathleen's missing. How did everything get so out of control?"

Munch sighed and put his arm around her. "I don't know but we're gonna find Neuman and get to the bottom of everything."

"Easier said than done, John."

"Yeah, I know. Nic, come back to bed and we'll worry about all this in the morning, okay?"

Nicole shook her head. "No, I won't be able to sleep. I need to go and talk to Lange again." she said, getting up from the couch.

"Honey, you know you can't do that. Besides, he requested a lawyer, so he's not gonna talk to you anyway."

Nicole was making her way back to their bedroom to get changed while Munch was still trying to convince her not to go through with it. "Yeah, I know all that. But at least I can try, can't I?"

Munch leaned against the doorframe and watched her getting dressed. "Fine. No matter what I say, you're just gonna do what you wanna do anyway."

"Right. So why argue when I already won?" she replied and smiled at him.

/Chung Chung/

Jamie and Fin were now in the interrogation room with Lange. He was sitting at the table, while Fin and Jamie were standing in front of him. Lange looked up at both of them smugly. "You can save your breath, cause I ain't talking."

"Wrong." Jamie said. "You're gonna tell us where to find Kathleen Stabler and you're gonna tell us right now!"

"I have no idea who that is." Lange replied.

Jamie lunged across the table at Lange and knocked him onto his back on the floor. She landed on top of him and grabbed his shirt in both hands. "You lying son of a bitch! She's the daughter of a cop and you're gonna tell me where she is, right now, or I swear to God I will feed you your fucking heart!"

Fin had heard enough and moved around the table. He grabbed Jamie around the waist and pulled her off of Lange. "Let him go, Jamie!" She was still hanging onto his shirt. "Let him go!"

Jamie let go of Lange's shirt and Fin pulled her over to the otherside of the room. "Fin, what the hell are you doing?"

"He's not gonna tell you anything this way." Fin replied and noticed that Lange had moved himself into a corner and was shaking. Fin walked over to him. "You gonna talk now?"

Lange looked up at Fin and nodded. "Okay, but I'm not talking to her. She's a fucking psychopath."

Jamie went to move toward Lange again but Fin intercepted her. "You wanna find out where Kathleen is, right?" Jamie nodded. "Then let me talk to him alone."

"Alright." Jamie said, finally calming down and left the room.

/Chung Chung/

Nicole and Munch made their way down the hall and approached the holding cell. They looked inside but couldn't see Lange anywhere. Nicole looked around and saw a detective walking out of the bullpen. "Hey, Levine, did you see the prisoner we brought back from Dallas?" Nicole asked.

"Uh, yeah, Tutuola and Roenick took him in to an interrogation room. Apparently, Cragen was pissed when he heard that."

"They told Cragen what they were doing?" Munch asked.

"No way. Hansen called him and told him what was going on. He's on his way in now." Levine replied and walked off down the hall.

"Shit. What the hell are they doing?" Nicole asked as she saw Jamie going into Cragen's office.

"I'd say the same thing you were gonna do." Munch said as Nicole grabbed him and pulled him into the bullpen. "Whoa, hey, slow down."

"Come on, Jamie just went into Don's office."

As Nicole and Munch walked in one door, Cragen came barreling through his other door. "What the hell is going on here?!" he yelled.

Jamie spun around and came face to face to with a very angry Cragen. "Listen, Don, I can explain..." she started.

"Good. Now start explaining." he interrupted and then noticed Nicole and Munch. "What are you two doing here?"

"Uh, well..." Nicole stammered.

"Look, Don, I couldn't go home knowing that this asshole knows where to find Kathleen. She's top priority and we have to find her before something bad happens." Jamie stated.

Cragen sighed and rubbed his temple. "Okay, so did you make any headway?"

"Well, I sort of lost my temper and attacked Lange."

"You assaulted a suspect?" Munch asked.

"Jamie, I didn't think you were that kind of cop." Nicole added.

"Usually, I'm not but I just kept thinking about Kathleen and seeing that smug look on Lange's face and I lost it."

"Did he give up any info before that?" Cragen asked.

"No. But he said he'll talk to Fin if I left the room."

"So, what did he say to Fin?" Nicole asked.

"I don't know. I've been busy standing here talking to you guys." Jamie replied and turned her attention back to the window. Cragen, Nicole and Munch joined her.

/Chung Chung/

Fin was now sitting on the other side of the table looking at Lange. "First of all, I want to press charges on that bitch for assault." Lange spat out.

Fin did everything in his power not to jump up and pound the crap out of him. "Assault?" Fin asked calmly. "I didn't see her assault you. All I saw was you fall out of that chair."

"You dumbass fucking..."

Fin jumped up and grabbed Lange. "You might want to choose your next word very carefully." Fin warned him. Lange shut his mouth and Fin dropped him back into his chair. "Now, tell me where we can find Kathleen Stabler."

"I'm not telling you a fucking thing."

"That wasn't part of the deal, Lange. Now you tell me where she is, or maybe I should just get Detective Roenick back in here to talk to you." Fin said and started to get up from his chair.

"No! Okay, all I know is that I was supposed to finish off Green in Dallas but it didn't go according to plan. When Neuman got word that she was still alive he decided to grab the kid as collateral. He figured if he had the kid then Stabler would bring him Green to get his daughter back."

"Okay, but where is she?" Fin asked again.

"He's keeping her in an apartment in Alphabet City."

"Where in the Alphabets? That's a lot of ground to cover."

Lange sighed. "Apartment building on the corner of Avenue D and 5th street." he replied and dropped his head to the table.

/Chung Chung/

Cragen hung up his phone and turned his attention to Munch and Nicole. "Where the hell did Jamie go?" he asked.

"She took off when she heard the location." Munch replied.

"Just great. She's becoming too impulsive for her own good." Cragen stated.

"Don, she just wants to get Kathleen back unharmed. Anyway, what's the word?" Nicole asked.

"I got Benson, Jeffries and the SWAT team meeting us on D street." Cragen said grabbing his jacket.

He followed Munch and Nicole out of his office and they ran into Fin who was coming out of the interrogation room with Lange.

Fin looked at the group and then around the bullpen. "Where's Jamie?"

"She took off." Nicole answered.

"Shit! She's not going this alone is she?"

"We're not gonna give her the chance, Fin. I got SWAT meeting us." Cragen reassured him.

Fin nodded, handed Lange off to another detective and left the bullpen with Cragen, Nicole and Munch.

/Chung Chung/

Jamie came to an abrupt stop outside a two story house and jumped out of the car. As she approached the house she noticed a lamp on in the living room. She knocked on the door and waited.

A minute later the door opened and Elliot came out on the porch. "Jamie? What are you doing here?"

"Elliot, we got a location on Kathleen." Jamie replied.

"You found her?"

"Not yet. But Lange gave up a location. I just thought you'd want to be in on this with us." Elliot was about to go back into the house when Jamie stopped him. "Don't worry. I got an extra piece in the car."

Elliot nodded and followed her down the steps to the car. Before she had a chance to get into the car Elliot grabbed her and pulled her into a hug. "Thanks for not giving up, Jamie."

Jamie hugged him back. "Hey, El, that was never even an option."

/Chung Chung/

Fin, Munch, Nicole and Cragen came to a stop outside the apartment building on the corner of 5th and D when they saw the SWAT team assembled outside. They all got out of the car and met up with Olivia and Jeffries.

"Have you seen anyone?" Cragen asked.

Jeffries shook her head. "Nah, place is a ghost town."

"You didn't see Jamie?" Fin asked.

"No. There was no one here when we showed up. Unless she's already inside." Olivia replied.

Nicole shook her head. "Man, I hope she's really not that stupid."

Just as the words left her mouth another car pulled up to the scene and Jamie and Elliot jumped out of the car.

"Where's Kathleen? Have you found her yet?" Elliot asked, running up to the group.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Cragen asked.

"Don, I went and picked him up. I figured he should be here with us." Jamie replied.

Cragen shook his head. "That's not a good idea."

"Captain, please, this my daughter we're talking about." Elliot stated.

Cragen sighed. "Alright, but I want you working from out here. Understood?" Elliot nodded. He was glad to be there to help get Kathleen back safe. "Okay, do we have an apartment number on this guy?" Cragen asked.

The SWAT leader walked over to Cragen and the group and nodded. "Yeah, we gave the guy's description to the super. Said he was in apartment 4B."

Cragen looked at his detectives. "Okay, let's be smart about this. If Kathleen's in that apartment, we can't risk any mistakes that might end up with her or one of us being injured." Then Cragen turned back to the SWAT leader. "Okay, Tim, this is your show."

TBC...