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Chapter 7

Jo was sat in the passenger's seat in Ged's blue Sedan. The floor of his car was littered with fast food wrappings and it smelt like stale greasy fries but he refused to open the windows, despite the heat making all the smells in the car much worse.

Jo's wrists sat in her lap and were tied together with thick cable ties and a coat was thrown over her lap to hide the fact. Her ankles were also bound with cable ties. If she didn't wriggle too much they didn't cut into her flesh.

She turned to look at Ged when he finally came to a stop after a 45minute drive across town. Even without the windows open she could hear the sound of children's laughter. She turned to look out of the window at the school where dozens of small children played in the playground on their afternoon recess.

"Why are we here..?" she asked.

Ged seemed to be ignoring her but after a minute he spoke as he pointed over to the playground. "The little blonde on the swing set." he said.

Jo turned to look. The second she realised who she was looking at her stomach flipped, nauseatingly so. The little girl had her mother's eyes and her father's cheeky smile. Lucy Messer.

"You stay the hell away from her!" Jo warned him angrily.

"Shut up, bitch! I have to make a call." Ged spat at her.

Jo was sure she was going to throw up. She couldn't stand the thought of Lucy being dragged into this nightmare. She watched with tear filled eyes as Ged took his phone out of his pocket and began dialling.

~0~0~

Mac and the team were just finishing up their sharing of information relating to the case when mac's phone began to ring. Everyone fell silent and just looked at one and other. Mac took out his phone, seeing who it was. He answered the call, immediately flicking it onto speaker and laying it down on the table.

"Gamekeeper," he said, "We found your first clue, or should I say victims."

"Good work guys. But this call is…well, let's say an incentive."

"An incentive to what?" Mac asked.

"An incentive to work harder and faster. Am I on speaker, Mac?" he asked.

"Yes." Mac said.

"Good. I want everyone in the room to introduce themselves."

Mac looked at them all, he turned to Flack first.

Reluctantly Flack did as the Gamekeeper told him. "Detective Don…"

"Ah ah! Address me as Gamekeeper or don't talk to me at all you dumbfuck!"

Flack had to bite down to stop him from responding in an equally offensive manner. Instead he hid the sarcasm from his voice as he said, "Forgive me, Gamekeeper. I'm Detective Don Flack."

"Next!" Ged yelled as Flack had barely finished.

"Gamekeeper, I'm Lab tech Adam Ross."

"Next!"

"Gamekeeper, I am Chief medical examiner Sid Hammerback."

"Next!"

"Gamekeeper, I'm Detective Dr Sheldon Hawkes."

"Kinda a mouthful isn't it?" Ged snapped.

"You can call me Hawkes, Gamekeeper." he said.

"I'll call you whatever the hell I want to call you! Now, who else do we have?" Ged asked.

"Russ Josephson." Russ said after an approving nod from Mac.

~0~0~

In the car Jo turned to look at the phone that was on speaker. Ged had a gun pointed at her knee so she wasn't about to speak because she didn't fancy a bullet being lodged into her knee. She was shocked that Russ was helping, but thankful at the same time. She also hoped that if he knew she was alive that Tyler and Ellie did too. She didn't want them mourning over her when they didn't have to. She never wanted them to feel one ounce of pain they didn't have to.

"You're new. What the hell do you have to do with this case?" she watched Ged ask.

~0~0~

Russ leant over the table and after another nod from Mac said, "I'm Jo's ex-husband. Please don't hurt her." he begged.

"Well that is interesting! You know, you really should talk to Mac because I think he and Jo are fucking." Ged spat.

Everyone turned to look at Mac, who looked angry, not embarrassed. Russ quickly glanced at him too but turned back to face the phone. "What Jo does is up to her." he said.

"Whatever! You and I will talk again." he promised. "Where are the Messer's?" he asked.

"We're here too, Gamekeeper." Danny said.

"Ahh, Danny. Your better half there too?" he asked.

"I am, Gamekeeper." Lindsay said.

"Good, just the people I wanted to talk to." Ged said.

Lindsay and Danny both looked at each other, slightly confused, as was everyone else.

"Oh yeah, and why is that?" Danny asked.

"I wanted to speak to the parents of the little girl I'm watching."

Lindsay felt like her heart had fell out of her butt. Russ quickly grabbed hold of her as she stumbled sideways into him, her hand over her mouth out of fear she would throw up.

"You stay the hell away from our daughter!" Danny roared.

Ged just laughed, a menacing laugh that made Jo feel sick. "Relax, I like em young but not that young."

"Please, leave her out of this." Lindsay begged as tears flooded down her cheeks.

"I will. If you all stay working as hard as you are. Like I said, this was just an incentive call."

Mac sensed he was about to hang up. "Gamekeeper, is Jo with you?"

A half a minute of silence passed, Mac was sure he had hung up until he heard Jo's voice. "I'm here, Mac. We're outside Lucy's school." She managed to say before Ged hit her in the face with the butt of the gun.

They all heard the sound and heard her yelp in pain. Then the line finally went dead.

Lindsay practically fell into Danny's arm. He held her close as she cried. "Mac, we have to get Lucy somewhere safe." Danny said.

"I'll arrange for a car to go pick her up. She'll be put in a safe house. If you two want to join her, I understand." Mac said.

They both thought about it but Lindsay said, "No. I trust you to keep her safe Mac. I'll ask my mother to come down and stay with her."

Mac nodded and turned to Russ. "She's alive." he said to the FBI agent, seeing the look on his face. Russ just nodded.

They all seemed to fall silent for a moment, all of them were thankful Jo was still alive, of course they were. They just wished she was here with them and not with Ged.

"If he was outside Lucy's school with Jo he had to get her there in a car, he wouldn't risk walking there with her from wherever they've been." Mac suddenly thought out loud. "Adam, pull up all the nearby traffic cameras. I want to see if any of them picked up his car, maybe we can use an image to get a plate and then run it through the DMV, see what it gives us."

Adam nodded and ran off to do as instructed. Mac hoped finally they might have a way to get Jo back by playing against Ged, the Gamekeeper.

~0~0~0~0~

Jo glared angrily out of the window at the street as it passed by. She turned to look at Ged and asked, "You do realise that the team will find you, especially now you've threatened Lucy."

"Let them come, Alabama. We won't be there when they find the house."

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"We'll be miles and miles away before they even work out where the house is." he said.

"Where are we going?" she asked.

"You don't need to know." he said before he wiped his arm out and hit her hard on the side of the head with his gun. She was unconscious in seconds, leaning against the window like she was simply sleeping.

~0~0~0~0~

A couple of hours had passed since the phone call. Mac was walking along the corridor with Russ. Both men were silent, had been with each other since the call. Mac wanted to say something to Russ but he just knew Russ was thinking about that Ged had said on the phone. They walked into Mac's office still in total silence. Mac moved to behind his desk. He had made a call for Lucy to be put somewhere safe but he wanted to check that it was already being carried out.

"Mac…" Russ began.

"Jo and I haven't slept together." Mac quickly said, knowing it was want Russ wanted to hear.

Russ looked at him and Mac could see the relieved look on his face. "When Jo told me she was moving here I was gutted. I think that deep down I thought Jo and I may get back together. I call what we have a separation and she calls it a divorce, I guess that right there should have told me something. Truth is I wanted to keep fighting for her. Jo has this amazing ability to make you fall completely and madly in love with her without her even doing anything." Russ said before he collapsed into the chairs, thinking about Jo. "I knew, the moment I saw her that I wanted to be with her. It took me a while to persuade her and then finally she said yes."

Mac just smiled, he could understand why Russ would want her in his life. Truth was he was happier since she had come to work at the lab, since she had come into his life. "I think the thing that I like most about her is the fact that she can be wildly sexy and yet totally adorable all at the same time. She has a smile that makes you want to fall down on your knees and worship her. She has the kindest, purest heart out of anyone I've ever met." Mac said.

Russ just looked at him. "I've seen the way she looks at you, Mac…" Russ said, "I knew I had a reason to be jealous of you." he said with a smile.

Mac just laughed but then turned serious again and said, "I'd do anything to trade places with her right now."

Russ nodded and agreed, "Me too."

The room fell silent as both men thought about Jo, the woman who the both of them loved and no matter how hard they tried they couldn't deny that love.

The room suddenly got loud as Adam ran in with a tablet in his hands. "MAC! Mac, I managed to find the car they were in." he said as he showed both men the imagine on his tablet.

It was a picture of a blue sedan, in the passenger's seat sat a very beaten up looking Jo and driving was Ged, a smug look plastered on his face.

"I got the plate and I've already ran it through the system. We got a name, the car doesn't belong to Cullen it belongs to a MR Jack Vaughn." Adam said, out of breath because he had ran so fast from his lab to Mac's office.

"That's great, we'll go check out his address, see if it gives us another lead…" Mac said as he and Russ began to leave his office.

"No, Mac, Wait! There's more. Our vic's name is Farrah Vaughn. She's Jack's daughter. We found her through missing persons."

Mac looked at Russ, they both suddenly felt like something had just taken a turn here, and not a good one.

"I thought that seemed a little bit too easy." Mac said. "Ged knew we'd check the camera's, that's the only reason he told us he was at Lucy's school."

"Why? And why would Cullen be driving the fathers, of the woman he murdered, car?" Russ asked.

"I guess we're about to find out." Mac replied.

~0~0~0~0~

Mac and Russ had travelled in one car, Danny and Flack in another. They pulled up outside a huge townhouse. They all piled out of the cars as another car pulled up behind them. Two officers climbed out. They would be responsible for keeping the street outside clear whilst Mac and the others went inside.

Mac and the others walked up the steps to the front door. Mac knocked on the door only to have it swing open. They all pulled out their guns, including Mac. They all gave each other the same curious glance. Mac then signalled to them to move in quietly and they all stepped silently inside.

The house was a mess, a dusty mess. Dust that clung to their lungs making them all want to cough it back up but they stayed silent. Mac turned and signalled to Danny and Flack to search downstairs while he and Russ went to check upstairs.

The stairs creaked beneath them but they continued up them. They spilt up and checked the floor before they both came back together, nothing. Mac pointed to the next flight of stairs and they both made their way up them. They spilt up once more. Mac checked off rooms until he came into a large bedroom, he glanced around it and saw that the bed looked like it had been recently used. He turned and saw a large metal door. He walked over to it and pushed against it in an attempt to open it. It didn't budge. He then noticed a button and pressed it.

He jumped back and readied his gun as the large door slid loudly open. His heart was pounding in his chest. He quickly hit another button and the room flickered to light. He immediately saw the mattress. With his gun ready he ducked into the room. Empty, no one was in there. He looked around and saw clothes scattered on the floor, blood stained clothes as well as blood stained rags and the mattress. There was blood on that too.

He swung his gun back up when he heard a noise behind him. He spun round fast, holding the gun out in front of him.

"Whoa, Mac! It's just us." Danny said.

Mac looked at him, Flack and Russ and lowered his weapon. "I think this is where he was keeping Jo. We'll have to test the blood to be sure it's hers."

Danny saw the clothes and said, "That's what Jo was wearing the night of the explosion."

Mac felt his heart sink. "There's a lot of blood on the clothes." he thought out loud.

"She must have been badly hurt in the explosion…or since." Flack said.

Russ couldn't look at it anymore. He turned and walked away from the room. They all jumped at the sound of a clatter. They turned to see the bedside table, that Russ had kicked over, lying tipped over in the middle of the room.

"We need a team here. We have to analyse this scene." Mac said.

Danny and Flack looked at each other and turned to face Mac at the same time.

"What is it?" Mac asked them, knowing something was going on.

"We need to analyse the basement too." Danny said.

"Why, what did you find down there?" he asked.

"Mr and Mrs Vaughn." Flack told him.

~0~0~0~0~

Jo had woken up to find herself surrounded by trees. The car moved so fast and her head spun so much that she was unable to try to work out where she could possibly be. Her best guess was simply somewhere in the Catskills.

"Wakey, wakey, sleeping beauty." Ged said to her, grabbing her inner thigh.

She knocked his hand away, unable to not show how repulsed his touch made her feel. She continued looking out the window as the car turned, moving deeper and deeper into the forest. After a few more minutes they turned up a track. There was a sign stating it was a private road but Ged carried on anyway.

She wanted to know where she was but she refused to ask him. She tried to stare out into the dark; night time seemed to have fallen quickly over them. How long had she been out? She was sure she could just about make out a log cabin and after a bend in the track she was faced with just that. The cabin had the potential to be a stunning little vacation home but as a shiver shot down Jo's spine she guessed it was far from that.

She heard Ged get out of the car. She didn't bother to watch him, but she suddenly wished she had so she could have been more prepared when he pulled her door open and reached in and ripped her from the car by her hair. A yelp of pain escaped her lips too quick for her to try to control.

Ged slammed her back against the car, his hand still tangled painfully in her hair. "Scream as loud as you want, no one's gonna hear you out here, Alabama."

Jo just glared at him, fan-fucking-tastic she thought to herself.

He pulled her away from the car and pushed her towards the cabin that stood in darkness in the middle of God only knew where.

TBC

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