Just whipped this up for y'all tonight.

Judd's hands trembled as he dialed the number for his friend. He didn't know what to do. Rather, he did, he just didn't know how. But he knew that there were people that he loved and trusted that would be more than willing to help him. His heart pounded with each ring of the telephone and got louder and louder with each chirp. He thought he was going to explode by the time he heard a voice answer.

"Hello?"

"Lionel." He blurted out, words blending into each other, his voice shaky, "I need help, I don't know what to do, she's gone, she was here and we had a fight and she stormed out and then they took her and I don't know what to do."

"Dude," Lionel said, "Slow down and breathe. What are you talking about?"

Judd inhaled an enormous breath, "Lionel. Vicki is gone. The GC took her."

There was only silence for a moment on the other end of the line, "Are you sure?"

"Yes! I'm sure!" Judd shouted, "Lionel, I need help. Can you and some of the others get down here, I just..." his voice trailed off, "Lionel, I need to find her. Before she was taken we had this fight and she left angry at me and I need to see her again."

Judd was holding back tears that were threatening spill over at any moment.

Lionel sighed into the phone, "Alright, I'll be there as soon as I can. I'll bring some of the others.

It wasn't long before Lionel arrived that Judd's place with Mark, Conrad, Shelly and Darrion in tow. Shelly was distraught at the news and was crying, Conrad was consoling her. Darrion was upset, but was remaining strong for Judd's sake. Mark was just fired up and ready to go in guns blazing. Judd was pacing a hole in the floor when they arrived.

"Judd sit down." Lionel ordered, trying to help his friend keep it together. Judd didn't listen. He couldn't keep still.

"I can't," he said, "I have to do something."

"Judd," Lionel exclaimed, "We are here to help you do something. But you need to sit yourself down and tell us everything you know!"

Judd stopped in his tracks and slumped onto the sofa. Lionel stared pointedly at him waiting for him to say something.

"We got an email," he started, "From some believers in Wisconsin who claimed to need help. Vicki wanted to go off and help them."

"Did it say where in Wisconsin?" Mark asked.

Judd rubbed his eyes, "Appleton? I think?"

Mark groaned, "Carl put out a warning, red flagging Appleton, Wisconsin as a GC hotbed."

Judd rolled his eyes, "So I was right."

"Hey, that's not the attitude we need right now!" Lionel scolded, "What else happened?"

"Well," Judd said, "She wanted to go, and I said no, it looked like a trap and she got all mad saying what if it isn't, their might be believers that need our help. I said I wasn't going. She got even madder and finally said that she wouldn't go, but then she stormed out of the house. I stayed inside to cool off, and she was outside for about twenty minutes before I went to see her and she wasn't any where to be found. That's when I saw her necklace on the ground. I heard screaming from down the far back, so I went to see what was going on. And then I saw her being shoved into a GC van by a couple of goons."

Lionel furrowed his brow, "Do you think they grabbed her? Or lured her out?"

"I have no idea," Judd said, "I mean, her necklace was out the back so at first I thought maybe they'd grabbed her from there, but then why wouldn't they grab me too?"

"That's a good point," Mark said, "If they saw her out here, wouldn't they have searched the rest of the house to see if there were any others to grab?"

"That depends." Conrad said, "Fulcire likes to make people suffer. Maybe they grabbed her and only her for a reason."

"Yeah," said Darrion, "And maybe that reason was to lure all of us in. Use Vicki as bait. Then instead of just catching her and you, they catch all of us."

"You think they thought about it that hard?" Mark asked.

"I wouldn't put it past Fulcire."

"So what do we do?" Shelly said, "We go after her, we play right into their hands."

"Well we can't sit here and do nothing!" Mark exclaimed.

"We've taken on the GC before and won, we can do it again!" Darrion pointed out.

Judd was silently processing all the information, "She wouldn't want us to go."

Everyone stopped and looked at him.

"What are you saying?" Lionel said, surprised.

"What I'm saying is I've never been more terrified in my life. I've finally found someone that I care about more than myself for the first time in my life and she's been ripped away from me. What I'm saying, she wouldn't want all of us going in there and falling right into their trap. You know what she's like. She'd die before any of us got caught. What I'm saying is, I don't care. If I have to go it alone I will, but I'm not going to ask you all to put your lives in danger because I know she wouldn't want that. She wouldn't want me to either, but that's a different story. She's my wife, and there is no way I'm letting her go without a fight. And if I have to die, so be it, but there's no way I'm not going to try and get her back."

The others just stared at him. They knew he was right. They knew she wouldn't ask them to risk their lives for her. But how many times had she risked her life for them? Far too many to count.

"Judd," Mark said, "We're a team. One in, all in."

"I'm with Mark." Conrad said.

"Count me in." Darrion piped up.

Shelly nodded in agreement.

"I think that settles it brother." Lionel said, putting a hand on his friends shoulder, "We're all in this with you. Live or die."

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