A/N Hello, my lovely readers, I didn't think I was going to get this done because I'm having a sleepover tonight for my birthday it starts in twenty minutes so I finished just in time. lol.

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Dedication: To whitetigers who was the only one who figured out who person number eight is.

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"Okay, we have four locations and there are seven of us." Joe stated. "How are we going to split this up?"

"We can't send anyone alone, it's too dangerous." Vanessa responded.

"But, we do need to cover all of these locations, and we are working on a very limited time span. What we really need is an eight person." Phil pointed out.

"Yeah, but where are we going to get an eighth person?"

Their conversation was interrupted by the sound of Joe's doorbell ringing. "I should get that." Joe said after a moment.

"I'll go answer it, you just got out of the hospital and if we're going to be traipsing all over New York in a little while you might as well rest as much as you can." Vanessa replied getting up and exiting the apartment before Joe had a chance to protest.

The person she found outside the security door to Joe's apartment building made her stop and stare for several moments before letting him in. He seemed to be just as surprised to find her at Joe's apartment as she was to see him. "Mr. Hardy?" Vanessa asked confusedly.

"Vanessa? I was under the impression that Joe didn't talk to anyone anymore." Fen ton replied sounding puzzled.

"He doesn't or didn't but then Callie found him, anyway, it's a really long story, I'll let Joe tell you about it." Vanessa replied. "Follow me; his apartment is on the third floor." Vanessa said leading the way up the apartment's staircase. When they reached the hallway outside Joe's door Vanessa drew to a halt causing Fenton to stop as well. "I should probably tell him you're here first."

"I'll wait." Fenton replied. Vanessa nodded and slipped into the apartment shutting the door behind her.

"Who was at the door?" Joe asked when she walked in.

"Joe, your dad is here." Vanessa replied. "He's outside the door, I told him to wait a minute while I told you."

Joe looked indecisive for a minute before nodding and answering. "Let him in."

-I am a line-

"Are you enjoying your present, Mr. Hardy?" Marion inquired his tone deceptively pleasant. Frank scowled but didn't otherwise respond. "Now, now, is that anyway to treat the man who so kindly brought your lovely girlfriend to you?" He continued his tone remaining light despite the cold look in his dark eyes. "We've been discussing your current state of mind regarding your position here." Marion said speaking as though Frank actually worked for him and hadn't been kidnapped and forced to work for him.

"And?" Frank asked sounding bored even as he watched his captors worriedly.

"We've decided that you need to learn a lesson, you see we'll be leaving the country after we finish our big project in two days and then you'll be involved in many other international matters and we can't have you messing this up." Marion replied. "Let's just say you're going to get a front row seat to the execution of our project." He continued. "I'll leave you to think about that." Marion finished before turning on his heel and leaving the room Gustafson railing after him.

-I am a line-

"Come in." Vanessa said opening the door and gesturing for Fenton to enter the small apartment.

"Thank you." Fenton said before turning his attention to Joe who looked to be quite the worse for wear. "Can I talk to you in private?" He asked this time addressing Joe.

"We can talk in my room." Joe responded without meeting his father's eyes. Joe led the way into his bedroom and gestured for Fenton to shut the door behind him. "How did you find me?" Joe asked.

"I did some standard detective work that I should have done months ago." Fenton answered. "But that's not important," He paused before continuing. "What is important is that I was wrong to blame Frank's death on you, I never should've hit you or said that it was your fault that Frank died. I'm sorry I didn't stop you from leaving, and I'm sorry I didn't try harder to reinforce how dangerous it would be for the two of you to go on those cliffs. The truth is that it was my fault not yours, I failed you as a father, Joe and I'm really sorry, I hope you can forgive me." Fenton finished anguish filling his brown eyes which looked so much like Frank's.

Joe paused before answering seemingly struggling with whether or not to forgive his father. "It's okay," Joe replied. "I've had some time to think it over, and I know that you were upset about Frank, it still upset me, but I'm ready to get past it. But, we can talk about that later, there are more important things to discuss." Joe finished.

"Like what happened to you?" Fenton asked gesturing to the bruises covering Joe's face.

"Well, that's part of it." Joe responded. "It's kind of a long story, so I'm going to start with when I saw Callie. I went back to Bayport about two weeks ago, because I wanted to see if I made the right choice by leaving, and I ran into Callie while I was there, I tried to pretend that I didn't know her but she recognized me and insisted on coming to visit me, she was supposed to come last Thursday, I realized I didn't have anything edible in my fridge for us to eat while we caught up so I went to the grocery store when I was leaving I bumped into three people and one of them, this is going to sound ridiculous but one of them was Frank, and I recognized him, so the two guys he was with kidnapped me and shoved me in their SUV."

"Frank's alive?" Fenton asked hoarsely.

"Yes." Joe replied. "And, when we were kidnapped together he told me that some guy dragged him off the cliff right before the bomb exploded, Frank's murder was staged by a group of terrorists because as you know he knows the passwords to several government websites, and faking Frank's death would result in less investigation then killing an actual government official." Joe continued. "And, they're planning some huge attack in the city in the next few days."

"Disregarding the attack for now how did you get loose?"

"They decided that I was too much of a distraction for Frank so they left me at their previous location when they switched. I was supposed to die there, but obviously that didn't work out for them because Callie, Phil, Vanessa and the others managed to track me down and they called an ambulance." Joe replied.

"Speaking of Callie where is she? I didn't see her when I came in."

"They took her." Joe answered quietly. "She was taken from the hospital yesterday."

"Did you call the police yet?"

"No," Joe answered. "But we have four likely locations that we think they might be keeping Callie and Frank at. We needed an eight person but now that you're here will you help us search? We were going to check and see if Frank was at any of them and then meet back up before deciding how to proceed." Joe explained.

"Of course I'll help."

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