Seven Days and Counting 6
Disclaimer:- Don't own them just borrowing!
Episode:- Lots of little things from early series no major spoilers
Pairing:- Sandra / Gerry
Rating:- M
Achieve:- . /group/new_tricksff/
Summary:- Sandra's missing can the boys work out who's taken her and get her back before it's too late.
Author's Note:- Ok let me think, not really sure how to authors note this other than to say it's not the usual thing I write. It's angsty and tense and involves serious character danger and so if you are opening this expecting my usual sort of fluffy sexy smut for the sake of smut STOP NOW. If you don't like to see our fav characters in distress or danger STOP NOW. To be honest I can't think of any other way to warn you so here goes and please review if that's what you're into since this will be as hard for me to write as for you to read lol
Day 3
The more I look around the room the more I'm sure I'm right. I know who this is and now I'm analysing everything that's happened in the past few months. I'm sure there must be something that happened, something I should have noticed or more importantly Gerry might have noticed so he can give the boys some clue to find me. If I can't think of anything then I don't see how they will be able to work it out and find me.
Part of me is still doubting my memory, I've tried again and again to convince myself that I'm wrong that if it was him I would have noticed but I'm sure, really sure that I'm right. I wish I knew what time of the day or night it is and for the first time since I woke up here two days ago I wish he would come back, I need to confirm that I'm right so I can decide what to do next. The light has gone out again and I'm plunged back into darkness and I know he's coming as I try to steady my breathing determined to sound more confident than I feel when he opens the door. He's there, I can see the shadowy figure with the light blazing from behind him.
"You can leave the light on I know who you are." I've surprised myself with the determination in my voice as he ignores me walking across the room and sitting in the armchair in the corner of the room and I know this is the moment. I can push him and get answers but maybe risk making him angry or I can sit here and count the hours waiting for a knock on the door and I know which I'm choosing. For better or worse I need to be doing something to help myself whatever the consequences.
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"Morning boys." Esther said quietly coming through the office door balancing a cool box in one hand and shopping bag in the other. "How's it going?"
"Slowly, too slowly." Gerry sighed as he took one of the bags out of her hand and Brian took the other.
"We have some evidence at least so we're getting somewhere," Jack replied motioning for her to sit down as he filled her in on things they had found and explained how they were going back over everything they knew.
"I don't understand the museum thing, what can you possibly learn about where Sandra is from looking at a load of old men standing around waist deep in snow?" She sighed as Brian agreed and filled her in on the receipt showing her the picture of the handbag contents.
"Sandra doesn't even have a pet." Gerry added sinking into the corner of the sofa and biting into a banana that she had brought.
"Well maybe he's telling you to think animals." Esther replied putting her glasses on and examining the photo more closely as they looked at her sceptically. "We know Sandra doesn't have a pet so if he's pointing you to a pet shop there has to be a reason. Maybe he's trying to tell you something."
"Like what?" Jack asked as all three men gave her their full attention.
"I don't know but Brian says you think Sandra might have met this guy in the course of a case well you have worked cases involving animals have you dealt with anyone with a pet that might have taken a fancy to her? I don't know this is your job not mine. Mine is to get to her place and get to work." Esther continued lifting her handbag and heading for the door "I'm going straight there now if those photos are anything to go by it's going to take a while."
"Esther!" Gerry called as she made it out into the corridor and paused looking back at him as he handed her a wad of notes. "Whatever you need to get her place back to normal get it, if that's not enough just let Brian know and I'll give you whatever you need."
"Oh Gerry I don't want this," Esther smiled handing him back the money and smiling tolerantly "Whatever I need while I'm there me and Brian will buy it. I'll fix everything I promise she'll never have to see any of it."
"I…..I don't want….well I don't know what to say." Gerry replied feeling the previous two days catch up with him as Esther pulled him into a tight hug.
"Don't say anything. You may be in love with her Gerry but we all love her and none of us wants her to have to come home to that." She smiled "Keep your money because according to Brian the drinks are on you when you do get her back as punishment for not telling us all you were a couple sooner. I know you're going to find her and if this fella seriously thinks otherwise then he has no idea what he's dealing with. Now go concentrate on finding her and leave the rest to me ok?"
"Ok, you're right…" Gerry smiled releasing himself from her arms and feeling much more capable of facing what was to come. "We will find her and he doesn't know what he's dealing with because when we do if I get my hands on him he'll wish he'd never been born."
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"So you think you know who I am?" There's an edge of menace to his voice that I know is my final warning but I'm choosing to ignore it.
"I don't think I know I do know now why are you doing this? Is it really because you want me or is it just that you think I humiliated you in some way?" Now he's laughing and every cell in my body is telling me it's not a good thing.
"Of course I want you, you knew that from the beginning, but I was prepared to wait, then I found out about him. I should have known really that there was something going on when we first met but I was caught in some sort of spell by you. How did you work it out? How did you know it was me?" He really needs to ask? It's my job to work things out and if he has spent as long watching me as he claims then he should know that.
"I recognise this room, it might have taken me a couple of days but I knew I recognised it and earlier it came to me. Why now after all his time? You never even contacted me again, you never tried to find out if I'd be interested in you and if not why not. Why do this? Why so extreme?"
I can hear him sigh and I know he's thinking about the wisdom of telling me more but then I still believe that he doesn't think I'll leave this house alive so what has he got to lose?
"I followed you for weeks, just watching you, wanting to know more about you so when I did approach you I could make you see that we were right for each other. You didn't even know I was there and nor did your three puppets not even the one who's been fucking you. See that was when it changed, I used to think he was just clingier than the other two but then I saw you and him coming out of your place, I saw how you looked at him, the way you reacted to him, just the way I wished you'd react to me and I knew you'd never willingly be mine. Now you are or you will be you can't say I'm, not being fair, I've given them a week to find you before I claim you completely as mine. I'm a patient man Sandra I can watch you from a distance for a few more days but when they fail, especially him, I'll take great pleasure in having my fun with you then giving your lifeless body back to him."
My blood is running old in my veins and I'm trying to think of a reply that doesn't betray my fear but he doesn't give me a chance to respond. He leaves the room again and I stare at the closed door realising I have never been more terrified in my life.
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"Right are we going to the museum it should be open by now." Gerry said loudly looking at the clock for the tenth time in as many minutes.
"One of us should go to the pet shop." Jack added as Brian grabbed his coat and cycle helmet.
"I'll do that." He replied "It's close and I know the owner."
"Ok meet back here in a couple of hours then." Gerry agreed as they all left the office.
"You know we're going to find her don't you?" Jack said quietly once he and Gerry were in the car driving toward the centre of the city.
"Yeah I know I'm just frightened about how I'll ever cope if we don't" Gerry replied refusing to meet his friend's eye.
"Well stop being frightened we have to find her because the alternative is too intolerable to even consider."
"I know but we've only seen a snippet of what this guy is capable of Jack." Gerry continued feeling bile rise in his throat as he spoke. "What if he gets tired waiting for seven days to be up, we already know what he did in her bedroom what if the temptation of having her so close is too much and he just does what he wants with her anyway."
"Gerry you're got to stop thinking like that." Jack snapped "Do you think I like the idea that she's at the mercy of that sick fuck? Of course I don't Sandra is like a daughter to me and I want to nail this guy's balls to the wall just as much as you do for even thinking about her like that, but we need to stop ourselves focusing on what we can't control and concentrate on what we can. None of us wants to think of this bastard hurting her or forcing himself on her but the only way we can make sure that doesn't happen is to work our balls off and find her."
"I know." Gerry sighed as they got out of the car at the museum and made their way to gallery 3 spending the next twenty minutes looking at exhibit after exhibit.
"This is pointless." Jack said eventually as they met in the middle of the room again. "I mean what the hell are we supposed to be seeing?"
"I don't know." Gerry replied flicking through the guide book in his hand, but there's something here and we just aren't looking hard enough. I can feel it just standing here; we're close so we need to look harder."