A/N Bribery is a lovely thing isn't it?

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Vanessa and Joe were beginning to wonder where Callie had gone, she had left to sign the release papers just over twenty minutes ago and they were starting to worry. Vanessa had heard, and Joe had experienced, the mountain of paperwork hospitals liked to hand out, but this was becoming ridiculous. Vanessa had tried calling the other woman's cell phone but had received no answer. She pushed down the trepidation that was starting to build up in her, she reassured herself with the thought that Callie, as per hospital protocol, had probably shut of her cell phone. At least, Vanessa hoped so.

"Maybe you should go look for her," Joe suggested worry filling his eyes.

"Alright, but I'll get one of the others to come sit with you, okay?" Vanessa replied.

"Sure," Joe replied. "Now, go find her."

Vanessa swiftly exited the room heading for the waiting area where the others were sitting. She rather hoped that Callie was with them. "Have you guys seen Callie?" She asked.

"She's awake?" Biff asked.

"Yeah, the doctor released her, she left to go sign the forms and that was over twenty minutes ago, I had hoped she was with you." Vanessa replied.

"Here, I'll call her." Liz said reaching into her purse to pull out her phone.

"Don't bother, I already tried that, she didn't answer." Vanessa said halting the other woman's actions. "Listen, I'm going to go check the nurses' station and see if she's still there, can one of you go check the cafeteria in case she went there to get a snack or something?"

"Yeah, I'll go." Tony volunteered.

"Oh, and can one of you go sit with Joe, while I'm gone?"

"Sure, I'll go." Chet offered getting to his feet. "What's his room number?"

"Six seventy three." Vanessa replied before turning and heading in the direction of the nurses' station

"Perk up Hardy, the boss had me pick up a present for you." Gustafson ordered smiling wickedly. Frank frowned and stared blankly at the man. He really, really didn't like the sound of that. Without waiting for a reply Gustafson opened the door fully and shoved someone inside. "Have fun." With that the door was slammed shut and the sound of a dead bolt being slid in place from outside the door thundered in Frank's ears.

The newcomer had landed hard on the floor from the force of Gustafson's shove. The person, a woman based on her profile, was facing away from Frank, there was something about her that seemed awfully familiar but he couldn't figure out what it was. "Miss?" He prompted.

Callie froze at the sound of the voice behind her. She'd know it anywhere; she turned slowly to face the source of the voice. "Frank!" She launched herself across the room at him. "I thought you were dead, and then back when we found Joe I saw you, I knew I saw you, but everyone thought I was insane, but I really did see you, and you're alive, and I really missed you." With that she proceeded to squeeze the living daylights out of him; she was deliriously happy that he was alive and yet tears were rapidly sliding down her face and she wasn't sure why because Frank was right in front of her alive, and that was all she'd wanted in the past year.

"Shh, it's okay," Frank said calming her seemingly not noticing her mention of finding Joe. After a few minutes she regained her composure and Frank decided she was calm enough for him to question her about her presence. "How did you get here?"

"I was at the hospital with Joe and I went to sign my release papers because I had been sedated because…"

"Wait, Joe's alive?" Frank asked excitedly.

"Oh, yes," Callie responded realizing that he hadn't seen them trying to break into the basement to rescue Joe.

"Is he okay?" Frank asked anxiously.

"He's fine." Callie reassured him. "Just a couple of broken ribs, a mild concussion and some blood loss."

"I was so worried that he was going to die, and it would be all my fault and," Frank paused seemingly realizing why they had brought Callie here. "Oh, no." Frank exclaimed sounding horrified.

"What?" Callie asked anxiously.

"I think, they're planning to use you to get me to cooperate with them, they're planning this huge terrorist attack on New York, and I'm supposed to be helping them because I know the passwords to many of the government website and the ones I don't know I can hack into. And, faking my death would raise fewer alarms then if they tried it with a government agent, seeing as the ones that know as many passwords as I do are mostly Network operatives, and if anything happened to them the investigation would me much more thorough." Frank replied. "And, after I thought Joe was dead I stopped caring about whether I lived and they told me that if I didn't cooperate they would kill everyone I have left and they specifically mentioned you. I'm sorry I got you into this, Callie." Frank said his warm brown eyes looking haunted.

"It's not your fault." Callie said firmly. "And I'm not going to listen to you say it is." She continued. "Besides, we need to stay hopeful, before I was taken, Joe and I had convinced Vanessa that we needed to search for you and see if you really were dead. Everyone thought that we were delusional, but we ganged up on her and she agreed. They'll find us." Callie said firmly. "We found you once, didn't we? And, we even have a name, the car that kidnapped Joe led to a company called Marion and Associates, so they'll look up this Marion guy and they'll find us." She finished. They stopped talking abruptly when the sound of the deadbolt outside the door being loosened echoed in the small room. The two turned to stare apprehensively at the door, which swung open to reveal Marion who was flanked by Gustafson both sporting identical smirks.

A/N It's the 24th chapter posted on the 24th of June! Woot! And, yes, I do feel the need to say that every time I update and it matches the pattern. lol. Review, please!