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Chapter 12.

Kris ran into the hotel, quickly greeting the man in the reception. She banged Bosley and Julie's door as she passed it down the hall, and then ran up to her own door, opening it and poking her head in.

"Kelly! Wake up!"

"Kris?" She heard Bosley's voice down the hall.

"Bosley, get dressed, now, I know where Jill is. Hurry!"

"What?" Kelly said, yawning as she rolled out of bed.

"Get dressed, I know where Jill is. Just hurry!"

"How can you…"

"Just get dressed."

Kelly rolled her eyes confused and quickly jumped into some clothes, pulling the hair up into a ponytail. They met Bosley and Julie in the hall, both of them yawning. Kris took the lead down to the street, and then hurried along down to the Grand Canal, where two police boats where waiting, Rossi and Romano in front of them.

"Morning Miss Munroe. Wanna tell us what this is all about?"

"Jill is either here or here." Kris said, showing the map with the circles. "Davide Lavoria owns the basements in these two buildings, she should be at one of these locations."

"Okay, then let's split up." Rossi said. Everyone nodded, and Kelly and Kris jumped down into one of the boats.

"We'll take the one by Accademia." Romano said, following Kris and Kelly. The others nodded and jumped into the other boat, and both of them sped away.

"Kris?"

Kris turned around in the boat, coming face to face with Kelly. Kelly was holding Kris' note in front of her.

"I found this. `Went out, I'll be back here soon.´ What do you mean out? Where did you go? How do you know about these two places?"

"I went to Padova, a city about half an hour from here by train, and talked to this man's ex-wife. She was happy to spill all the information."

"You went to another city in a foreign country, by this hour, by yourself?" Kelly said, eyes glaring out of anger.

"Yes." Kris said, shrugging her shoulder.

"Are you trying to get yourself killed?! How can you be so stupid? What if anything happened? We wouldn't have known where you were!"

"Well, I needed to go out, I couldn't just lay there and sleep, do you seriously think I could do that Kelly!? Jill's being held somewhere and I needed to find her. Us two fighting in not going to help it, I know Charlie's going to have a fit, but I don't care. I'll do whatever it takes to get Jill back." Kris snapped, then turning her back to Kelly, beginning to walk away. Kelly firmly grabbed her upper arm, making her turn back to Kelly.

"Kris, I'm sorry. I'm just scared, okay. It kills me enough that Jill's gone; I don't want to lose you too."

Kris nodded, she couldn't bear to look Kelly in the eyes. Kelly pulled her into a hug, holding her close.

"I'm sorry, and don't you ever dare to do that again. You could have woken me up instead."

Kris was just about to answer when they heard Bosley's voice in the radio unit.

"Clear house guys. No sign of Jill."

"Okay. We're almost at our location; we'll get back to you." Romano answered.

Jill tried to keep the hope up. No sign of Jill. That meant she HAD to be here. She had to find her.

"We're here guys." They suddenly heard Romano say, and the angels looked towards an old building, which looked like it had its glorious days about two hounded years ago.

"Let's get in." Kris said, taking the lead. She pulled up her gun and easily shot open the front door, hurrying downstairs to the basement. She immediately felt cold, even though the thick sweater and jacket she had on, and she noticed Kelly reacting on it too.

"Must be because it's below water surface." Kelly said, and Kris agreed.

There were about five doors in the basement, and all of them were open except one. After making sure Jill wasn't in any of the open rooms, Kris knocked the door to the locked one.

"Jill!? Jill, are you in there!?"

When Kris didn't hear anything, she pulled up her gun again.

"Back off." Kris said, and then pulled the trigger, shooting up the door.

The same second as the door opened, she saw her sister. Jill was lying on the floor, arms and feet tied and a rag in her mouth. Kris put her gun away and ran up to her sister. She noticed the blood on Jill's shoulder, but it had stopped bleeding already. Kelly yelled to Romano to call an ambulance, before following Kris into the room, kneeling besides Jill. Kris was untying Jill's hands, in the same time as she was talking to her. Kelly helped her untie her, and as she finished untying her feet, she removed the rag from Jill's mouth, before she put two fingers at Jill's neck.

"Her pulse is really, really weak." Kelly said as she took a sharp breath.

Kris finished untying Jill's hands, and then leaned over her sister.

"Jill? Jill, please talk to me. Jill, can you hear me?" Kris tried to get some respond from Jill, but when her big sister didn't give her any, Kris turned to Kelly. "Kelly! She's so cold."

Kelly looked at Kris a second, before putting the back of her hand towards Jill's cheek. Kris was right, Jill was cold as ice. Kelly looked at Kris before she pulled off her jacket and wrapped it around Jill. Kris did the same, and then they both comforted Jill, trying to give her some of their body heat.


Seconds later, paramedics rushed into the room. Kelly and Kris moved out of the way and watch the paramedics kneel besides Jill. One of them gave her oxygen and connected and IV while the other one handed Kelly and Kris their jackets and pulled a worm blanket over Jill. They talked to each other in Italian as they moved Jill over to the gurney, put her arm in a sling and covered her with several blankets. Kris and Kelly followed the paramedics out, passing Romano on the way.

"You go with her. I've called your coworkers, they'll meet you at the hospital."

"Thank you." Kelly said, following the paramedics down to the boat.

One of the men steered the ambulance-boat as the other man sat next to Jill, checking her vitals.

"Will she be okay?" Kris asked.

The man looked up at her and gave her a reassuring smile.

"We just need to get her worm." He answered in shaky English with a very strong accent.

"Why the sling?" Kris asked, nodding towards Jill's arm, which now where covered under the blankets.

"Eh… How do you say…? Dislocated?"

Kris nodded understandingly.

"Suore? Sisters?" The man asked, and Kris gave him a smile and nodded.

"Yes."

"Americans?"

Kris nodded again.

"Don't worry. She will be okay."


Just a few minutes later, they all got out to the hospital. Jill was taken into a room, and Kris and Kelly met up Bosley and Julie in the waiting area.

"I'm gonna call Charlie." Kelly said, and the others nodded as she walked off.

"How bad is she?" Bosley asked, as they sat down in the couches in the waiting room.

"She's so cold."

"Cold?" Julie asked, confused, in the same time as she handed Kris a cup of coffee.

"Cold… We found her in the basement of the house, all tied up. And she was unconscious on the floor, lying in the water, luckily not face down…But the water was so cold, so she was so cold…"
"Oh… But don't worry Kris; I'm sure she'll be fine."

Not long after, a doctor walked up to the gang.

"Hello. You're here with Ms Munroe, right?"

Kris was on her feet within a second.

"Yes, she's my sister. How is she?"

"We're getting her temperature back up, but she's stable. Her arm was dislocated, but we've put it back in place, and we've run her through x-ray, and everything looked good. She did have an old bullet hole in her shoulder; it did look like it'd been taken care of earlier?"

"Yes, about a week ago."

"That's what we thought. Some stitches had ripped up, so we've stitched them. We've moved her to a private room where she can rest. You can sit in there if you'd like."

"Please."

The gang followed the doctor to a room down the hall. As they walked, the doctor explained more to them.

"She's still very cold, and she's still unconscious. There's no saying for how long she'll be out, but when her body has rested and healed a little, she should be waking up by herself. I want to keep her here until her vitals and temperature is back to normal at least, then we'll discuss discharging."

"Thank you." Kris smiled as the doctor held up the door to Jill's room. Kris hurried up and sat down next to Jill's side, searching for her hand below the covers. She found it and grabbed it, careful not to touch the IV.

"Jill?" Kris whispered, stroking Jill's hand with her thumb. "I need you. You're safe here, I need you to wake up."