"Obviously you're just crazy" Hannah laughed nervously as she looked at Daniel who climbed back into his car, driving them south and then who knows where. It was the crack of dawn and so Hannah figured that Jess and her father might be awake and hopefully they would go and check on her. Little did she know, they were already awake and had alerted the police.
"I bought you a hot chocolate" he said, placing the cup to her lips and tipping it back, making her drink some of the hot liquid. She gulped it down, burning her throat as she went.
"Why are you doing this? You got off Daniel...please...why are you doing this to me?" Hannah begged to know and Daniel leaned across and his large hand brushed down her messy curly hair and onto her neck, moving over the top of her vest top.
"Oh Hannah...I was mad with you to start with...because you was an absolute cow to me...getting me into trouble...but I was only mad with you because I was hurt...I love you Hannah, I've never met a girl like you before and I can't help but love you still" he told Hannah, caressing her cheek as she shuddered away from him.
"Please Daniel" Hannah begged "My dad will be worried...if you let me go I will them it was a misunderstanding"
"But you won't Hannah" Daniel said, starting the car again and setting the hot chocolates onto the stands in the middle of his car as he drove "and if you keep being like this" his voice picked up "then I will get mad"
"I don't care" Hannah grumbled, moving her hands behind her back and looking to the side
"Oh you will Hannah. You will"
...
"Ms Cook said she has no idea where her son is. Apparently he went to bed and this is the first thing which she knows of him going missing" Don told Jess when he had phone the woman up. The police were still in his house and looking around for anything that could lead them to Hannah, even though Don thought they should be out patrolling the streets.
"Are you sure she didn't leave herself?" One officer had asked Don "I mean...she is a teenager Detective Flack...teens do things like this" and then Don had snapped. Hannah would never have done anything like that. And Don and Jess both knew it.
"So what do we do Don?" Jess panicked "does Mark know?"
"I called him after I phone Ms Cook...he's on his way over" Don rubbed his hand over his temple "How far could he have gotten with her Jess? At the moment they all seem to think she ran away...she'd never do anything like that..."
"I know she wouldn't" Jess agreed, wrapping her hand over his arm and trying to assure him "but they can't have gotten far"
"I feel like I should be out there...searching for them" Don said and Jess shook her head, another tear rolling down her cheek due to her hormones.
"You would just be chasing a ghost Don" Jess told him "it wouldn't get you anywhere...driving around and looking for her..."
"But I can't just sit here and do nothing" Don exasperated
"You're not doing nothing" Jess assured Don and he began to pace around the living room as a man walked into the room.
"We have found prints and they are some other than your daughter's" he said and Don nodded
"It's Daniel Cook" he said for sure "it has to be...he has it out for Hannah"
"We'll get a copter in the air looking for him...we found out what car he is driving and we're searching for it now...we have alerted all units...he shouldn't get far" he informed Don who nodded and ran his hand over his face again and simply looked out the window, wiping away a single tear.
"What the hell is going on?" a new voice asked and Don saw Mark enter the house "where is she?"
"We don't know Mark" Jess said resting her hand onto his shoulder and he looked into her eyes;
"Is it him?" Mark simply asked and Jess nodded;
"We think so" she said "the prints are being checked as we speak against Daniel's criminal record"
"Well it has to be him!" Mark snapped "who else can it be? I'm going to go and look"
"No Mark" Jess said, stopping him from moving any further "you won't do any good...searching around and looking clueless...she'll come back...they're going to find her"
...
"You stole a car?" Hannah snapped and Daniel winked at her
"I knew they'd go after my car when they realised you were missing...I've thought about this Hannah...grant me with some credit would you?" Daniel smirked after seven hours of driving he was beginning to tire and so he chose a motel to pull into. Once he swerved inside he went to pay for a room and helped Hannah from the car, wrapping his jacket around her so that it covered her tied up wrists and skimpy pyjamas.
"Oh my God" Hannah sobbed a little and realised that they may not be able to find it and so it was up to her to try and escape him.
"You look like you could do with a nice relaxing shower" Daniel said when they were in the motel room and he saw her looking red and warm.
"No" Hannah said quickly "I'm fine"
"If you're sure" he said and pushed her onto the bed, banging her head against the headboard.
"Daniel please let me go" Hannah begged him once again "please"
"Hannah" he said dangerously "shut up!"
"No" she whispered back "please Daniel"
"I'll be back soon Hannah" Daniel said "I'll fetch food...and give you a chance to stop your moaning"
"No Daniel!" Hannah called out, seeing him move out to the door "No!"
And then he had left her, locking the door. The curtains were shut and he was only still in the motel for food. She stood up and backed over to the door, grasping the door handle and turning it quickly. But it wouldn't move. Hannah grunted in annoyance and looked for anything to get her out the cheap crappy room.
