Sorry it's been a few weeks since I've updated this one guys.

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Chapter 5

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The clock was ticking on the wall across from the wall, rain falling heavily outside as Abigail sat in the middle of her bed, cross legged as she looked through the old wooden keepsake box that had been left to her when she was put in to care. She picked up the only two photos she had of her parents, tears threatening to fall as she looked at her favourite one, a women in her forties, sitting on the beach smiling, glasses and shoulder length brunette hair tucked behind her ears. She looked so happy, not a care in the world while she sat next too a woman perhaps a little younger, with blonde hair, an arm around the older woman. Abigail picked up the other photo, the same brunette, sitting in a restaurant with who she now knew as her father. She always looked at her mothers face in this one, there were no smiles, tiredness around her eyes…her face full of pain. She put the photos away and picked up the little stuffed white bear that had remained with her since the day her parents had given her up. It was nearing midnight when Abigail decided it was time to get some sleep, putting everything back in the wooden box and placing it back under her bed before getting under the covers and going to sleep.

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Kate tossed and turned as she heard the rain battering over the roof, her headache had died down a little thanks to the pills Abigail had given her but there was still a slight throbbing pain, her back didn't feel much better as she tried to adjust her position. In the end she gave up and sat up slowly, deciding to sit on the edge of the bed instead. She took hold of the bottle of water Abigail had left behind and took a few sips before putting on her glasses that were on the cabinet beside the bed. She sat thinking about Red and Dembe, wondering if Elizabeth was helping them to try and find her. Her mind drifted to Molly, the poor girl had only just been employed and now because of the work she and Red did, she was dead. Kate held back tears but with the pain and desperation she was feeling, it was becoming impossible. The truth was she was terrified of what Abigail might have planned for her, she seemed like a harmless young woman but nobody was perfect, what Kate couldn't figure out, was what Abigail wanted with her.

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Ressler had just finished packing up the evidence they had secured from Kate's apartment, Elizabeth making her way down the steps to join him.

"Are you heading back?"

"Yeah, I think we have all we can get here."

"I'll come with you?" Elizabeth told him.

"You okay?"

"Sure, why wouldn't I be."

"Well, I mean we don't know her that well but you seem close to her..Mr Kaplan."

"She's not like Reddington, I'm not saying she hasn't done things I'm not happy about but she did what did on his orders. It seems she's been doing it for far too long."

"What's going on."

Elizabeth looked behind her to see Red and Dembe coming out of Kate's, Elizabeth turning back to Ressler.

"I'll tell you later, let's just get out of here. We need to find Mr Kaplan, as soon as possible…for her sake."

Ressler slammed the back before walking around and getting in the drivers side, Red calling out to Elizabeth.

"Lizzie wait, please."

Elizabeth stopped as she made a move to get in the car, turning around to face Red.

"What."

"Look, I'm sorry I got angry at you before, it's just…I made sure that Kate never found out the whereabouts of the baby, it was for her own good. The same went for the child, I made sure she'd never be able to track us down."

"It's always about you isn't it, it's always what you want…doesn't matter what Mr Kaplan might have wanted, you didn't give her a choice. I may not know her as well as you do but I can guarantee that the baby…she would have wanted to keep her but you wore her down until she just couldn't argue with you any more…because that's who you are, it's what you do…you make sure you get your own way every time."

"That's unfair."

"Is it…I don't think so…anyway, it doesn't matter now I guess. All that matters now is finding Mr Kaplan, preferably alive."

Elizabeth turned and got in to the car with Ressler, Red watching as they drove off. Dembe came up behind him, placing a hand on Red's shoulder.

"She's just angry, she doesn't mean the things she said."

"Yes she does, and maybe she has a point. I never gave Kate a choice back then, her hormones were everywhere at the time and I used that to get what I wanted."

"You didn't want the baby, or you didn't want one with Kate?"

"Dembe, Kate and I…it shouldn't have happened. I do love her, I always will, if it happened now I might react differently but back then…there was too much danger…I was thinking of them both, I just wanted to keep them safe, and if that meant separating them then…it's what I had to do."

Dembe didn't have anything to say, or at the very least couldn't think of what to say at that point.

"I think we should leave, we've done all we can here. I'm sure Elizabeth will call of she finds out anything."

"Back to your apartment?"

"I think so, come on."

Dembe held open the door for Red, as the older man got inside, taking off his hat. Dembe closed the door and got in to the drivers side, looking in to the rear view mirror as Red sat quietly looking out the window.

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To Be Continued…