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Author's Note: I hope you enjoy this. Bridgette and Cari, hope you like the part when Bridge meets her parents…well some of it.

Conclusions and Suspects

Rebecca felt her own mouth drop open at that piece of news. Bridge? Bridge did this? She contemplated the idea that he could be capable of something like this and realized almost immediately that he couldn't. He worked with SPD, and except for a few exceptions they were all basically good, none of them were evil at least. And remembering all the times that Bridge had done good things…no, not Bridge.

If it wasn't Bridge, then why was Derek saying that it was? It didn't make any sense. Her mouth closed and she frowned, which involved a little pout. One that her husband loved, one that Syd had inherited.

Syd, her darling daughter, she would get them out. Though she would much rather her daughter not be involved. However her daughter didn't listen to her. She was happy when she first joined it, but then…

Rebecca knew she didn't have time to think about that right then, she needed to figure out what Derek was talking about. He had lied to her, and he looked…he looked like he actually was expecting her to believe him. If he lied about Bridge kidnapping them, then…she heard herself gasp. It was Derek!

He had taken her. She stopped that thought process, why would he take Bridge?

"Rebecca, what's the matter?"

"Just give me a minute Derek; I'm trying to process it."

"Of course, that is a hard thing to realize."

Hard thing to realize? Of course, Bridge being the culprit, which he wasn't.

Bridge was her daughter's boyfriend, and he was a ranger. He had already done so many things, why would he have kidnapped her? Even though she didn't want to admit it he was a good guy.

Now Derek…he was…well at least he had been good. He had gotten upset at her for breaking up with him. In fact Derek had gotten very upset at her, of course she had done it at just the perfect timing because there was a knock at the door and she was able to quickly answer, not that Derek would have hurt her. Would he?

Someone had kidnapped her. Kidnapped her and Bridge. They were the victims. Was Derek really kidnapped too like he said? Or was he the kidnapper?

"Rebecca dear, you're worrying me."

She brought herself back from her thoughts and looked at Derek, "I'm fine. I just…he seemed like he really had wanted to help."

"I know, but sometimes, sometimes appearances can be deceiving."

"That is true."

"So Derek, perhaps we should try to get out of this room. Why don't you try, my head still hurts."

Alright."

"I'm going to sit down for a while until it stops."

"Of course."

She smiled and waited. When he didn't move she tilted her head to the side, "Derek?"

"Oh. Right, I'll try the doors."

"Try that in there first."

"The bathroom?"

"There might be another door out over on the other side."

"Right."

Rebecca waited until Derek disappeared into the bathroom to quickly go to the window and look out. She had to be in a house, well at least there were other houses around the building she was in. Perhaps this was an old house? Maybe one that wasn't used very often. However that didn't comfort her too much considering that if it was the case the likelihood of being found easily was not so likely. Her eyes moved to the street and she saw a few cars, but not too much. Not a busy street. That wasn't good. She didn't really recognize the area, not that it would help even if she did recognize it.

"Rebecca?"

Turning quickly she saw Derek standing at the bathroom entrance, "What are you doing?"

"I'm looking out the window of course."

"I'm not so sure that's a good idea."

Raising an eyebrow she crossed her arms, "Why?"

"Because…well what if they're watching and they do something."

"Bridge?"

"Yes, he is apparently very good, so I think we should be careful."

"Right. Well then figure out a way to open that door."

"Why bother? It's probably locked."

"Fine, perhaps you're right." Rebecca moved to the door and turned the knob, which was unlocked! "It appears as though you're wrong, let's go."

She strode out of the door and was pulled up short with what she saw. Instead of the quiet abandoned hallways, there was now carpet and two people walking down the hall. Derek grabbed her and pulled her back into the room, "Do you see why we need to be careful?"

"Careful? That was not the hall we were in before."

He stroked her hair, "Rebecca darling, don't fret."

"About?"

"You know."

"Derek, did you check the bathroom?"

"Yes."

"Please check again."

"I already did."

"Please, for me?" She looked up at him and he nodded and went back into the bathroom. As soon as he was in there she quietly opened the door and slipped out.

Syd was sitting in the security room at her parents' house. They had been running through the tapes and still hadn't seen anything out of the ordinary. In fact it was getting a little boring. She knew that she shouldn't feel bored, but Sky and Z were out searching and she was just here. Sure she was searching, just a different way, but she wanted to be doing something. To get her Mom back. To get Bridge back.

Bridge and her Mother. Were they together in the same room? That would be interesting. Considering what happened when she brought Bridge over to introduce him as her boyfriend.

"Syd do you think they're really going to like me?"

"Of course, how can they not like you? Besides, since when did it matter if people liked you or not?"

"When I heard that I'm meeting your parents. I just…"

Syd stopped and put her finger up to Bridge's lips, "No, I don't want to hear doubt in yourself, that's ridiculous and you know it."

"Alright, fine." He smiled at her and she moved her finger and leaned up as he moved down and their lips met.

She then pulled away and grinned at her boyfriend, "Come on. I can't wait!"

They made their way up to the door and she rang the bell. They were quickly greeted and shown into the front room. After sitting down they only had to wait for a couple of minutes for her parents to enter the room.

Syd and Bridge stood up and Syd gave both her Mother and Father a hug. Once through she pointed to Bridge, "Mom, Dad, this is Bridge, my boyfriend."

Her Father reached over and shook Bridge's hands. After doing so he raised an eyebrow, "Gloves?"

"Oh, yeah, see because of my power I wear gloves to—"

"Your power?"

"Yes, you see it helps—"

"Would anyone care for something to drink?" Her mother asked. Syd turned and glared at her Mother wondering why her parents were behaving as such.

"Water please." Bridge said.

Syd nodded, "I'll just have water too."

Her Mother nodded and then nodded to one of the servants, "The usual for Mr. Drew and I."

Jaymes nodded and left the room. And from there nothing seemed to go right. Bridge was very nice, as usual and in fact he was even more so. But it seemed that no matter what he did her parents had decided in advance not to like Bridge. Finally it was time to leave; Syd couldn't wait to get Bridge out of there and away from her parents.

Once they were heading back to the base Syd spoke up, "Bridge are you okay?"

"Yeah, fine."

"I don't know what happened; I don't understand why they behaved like that."

He shrugged, "Don't worry about it."

"I will too worry about it. They shouldn't have done that, it was rude."

And it had been rude. Syd didn't understand, still didn't understand, why her parents had reacted as such. They weren't usually such snobs. In fact until recently they had always been very supportive of SPD. What could have caused them to…hate it?

"Wait a second."

Syd snapped back to the here and now and turned to her father, "What?" She looked back at the screen and saw a tall dark haired man, "Who's that? Do you know him? Daddy?"

"No, I don't know him, but I've never seen him before."

The two watched as the man handed Jaymes something and appeared very adamant about it. Then the man walked away and Jaymes shut the door and walked off.

"I think we should talk to Jaymes."