A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! THANKS TO MY BETA ELENA RAIN!

Matt smiled and they both stood up and went into the house to get ready. Hopefully it would help distract Kris so she didn't do anything crazy.

They both got ready and headed outside. Junior, Jillian, and Dani, arrived on horses. Matt went over to pet them softly. To everyone's surprise Kris shied away from them.

"Why did you bring the horses?" Kris asked.

"I thought we were riding to the hot springs." Junior said.

"We are." Matt said.

"No." Kris shook her head. "I'm not getting on a horse. I'm not riding anywhere."

"Kris, it's the only way. All the other cars are in use or in the shop." Matt explained.

"Ok, I'll walk then."

"Kris, it will take your forever to get there."

"Then I'll stay here."

Matt sighed. Why was she suddenly so against riding? "What if you ride with me? We can both ride Taz?"

Kris sighed and looked to the floor. "Ok, fine, but only if I can ride with you."

Matt quickly went and tacked up Taz and met everyone back outside. He climbed up on Taz and put his hand out of Kris. She sighed but took his hand and allowed him to pull her up onto the horse. Matt couldn't help but notice how tense and nervous she was on. Because of this Taz wouldn't move. Matt rubbed her back. "Relax, shhh you're fine." Matt soothed.

Kris let out a deep breath and relaxed. Taz followed the others as they headed to the hot springs.

They all arrived quickly and tied the horses up allowing them to eat and rushed into the water…well everyone except for Kris. She sat on the side just watching everyone.

"Kris, I just thought of something." Dani said.

"Yeah, what?"

"Remember the last time we came out here? Wildfire was missing."

Kris nodded.

"You told me you weren't scared because you could feel he was ok. You had that wire with him and you knew deep down he was ok. Why is now so different?"

"That's just it, Dani. That wire I had with him, it's still there. But this time I don't feel that he's ok. I feel him being scared and alone and hurt. I feel like somebody is hurting him and the longer we take to find him the less chance we have of finding him….alive." she choked out.

"I'm sure that's just because of your dream, Kris." Matt said. "Wildfire is going to be just fine."

"You're sure you have no idea who would want to hurt Wildfire?" Jillian asked.

Kris nodded. "Yes."

"What about one of your old enemies from Camp?" Junior asked.

"They don't know where I ended up after I left. They wouldn't know about Wildfire."

"What about that one girl?" Matt asked.

"Which one?"

"The girl who came to Rain Tree and then had you cover for her when she tried to run away to protect her baby? Maybe she needs more money."

Kris shook her head. "She was my friend. She wouldn't do this to me."

Kris sighed and laid down on her back bringing her arms up to cover her eyes from the blinding sun also to hide the tears. "I just want to find him." She choked out her voice breaking.

She heard Matt come out of the water and sit next to her. He pulled her into his lap. "We will, Baby, we're going to find him. I promise you, we will find him."

She heard someone else get out of the water and come over to her. "Until then, you need to relax and have some fun again." She heard Junior say to her.

"Whatever, Junior. Until Wildfire is found I'm not going to laugh, giggle, or even smile. So having fun is not on the list of things we can do."

"I know something that is on the list."

Kris could hear the smirk in his voice. She felt someone take her wrist. She assumed it was Matt. She thought he was trying to pry them away from her face so she struggled against him. He tightened his grip but didn't try to pull them away, if anything he were holding them in place. But why would he….oh no!

She felt fingers slowly trailing up her side. She assumed that was Junior. She squeaked and started to squirm. "No, no Junior! Junior no! Junior stop it! Stop it!"

"You're smiling, Kris. I thought you said you weren't going to do that."

"Your cheating!" she squealed.

Junior and Matt laughed. "You asked for it."

"I did not!"

"Kris, when you tell your boyfriend you're not going to smile, he takes it as a challenge to try and make you laugh as hard as you can." Matt told her.

He stopped making sure she had time to breathe.

"Then why is Junior tickling me?"

"He's not, I am. He's the one holding your arms, now laugh or we're going to force you too.

"Not like this please!" she squeaked when Matt started poking her stomach.

Both guys laughed.

Matt started tickling her stomach making her start to giggle and squirm.

"And there is a giggle." Junior taunted. "Something else you said you wouldn't do."

"Stop it, Matt!" Kris begged through giggles.

"Nope, not yet. We need to make you laugh first and I know just how to do that."

"No, Matt not…" she trailed of with a scream as he went right to her underarms. She screamed in laughter as she squirmed more to get away.

"And there is the laughter." Junior laughed. "Looks like you just did all three of the things you said you wouldn't do."

She felt junior let her arms go so she quickly yanked them down and tried to push Matt away as he continued to tickle her.

"Matt stop it!" she shrieked. "Please!"

He chuckled but finally stopped. Kris panted but smiled up at Matt. "Thank you." She whispered.

"You're welcome." He kissed her forehead and rushed back into the water. Kris sat up and smiled at them all playing in the water.

"You know, Kris, the hot water is really relaxing. Why don't you come in?" Matt asked.

"Matt, you know I don't swim."

"You don't have to, just sit against a rock or something. It will feel good, I promise."

Kris shook her head. "I'm fine out here."

Matt got out of the water again and went over to her. He sat down next to her and took her hands in his. "What if I just hold you the entire time? I won't let you drowned."

"I don't know, Matt."

"Come on, I promise it will feel really good."

Kris sighed and looked to the water. Suddenly she had a flashback of the very last time she was in water.

FLASHBACK

She was at Junior's house at his wedding to Laura. She had just told Laura that she knew her secret. Laura got real close to Kris's face. She bent back a bit getting nervous on how close she was to the pool edge.

"Now you listen and listen good, you stay away from me and Junior, if you do anything to ruin this marriage I'll personally kill you."

She gave Kris one last shove and Kris landed in the water with a splash. She could instantly feel the water strangling her lungs, her arms and legs feeling like weights as she tried to move them.

"Help!" she screamed.

"Oh please, don't be such a baby, just swim." Laura scoffed.

"I can't!" she choked out.

She continue to trash about in the water hoping to keep her head above water long enough to catch her breath, but with every mouthful of water she got less and less air.

"Help!" she screamed again.

END FLASHBACK

"No!" Kris cried out scrambling backwards. "No!"

"Hey, hey, it's ok. Kris I would never let you get hurt. Trust me, you'd be perfectly safe in the water."

Kris inhaled and exhaled a shaky breath. She loved Matt and trusted him. She knew deep down he wouldn't let her get hurt. She nodded softly. "Ok."

He gently took her into his arms and walked into the water. She flinched at first when her skin touched the water but quickly relaxed into Matt's arms. She rested her head on his shoulder. He kissed her forehead and lowered the two of them into the water.

"See this isn't so bad is it?"

She shook her head. "Just please don't let go."

He chuckled and kissed her once more. "Never."

Kris closed her eyes and relaxed in the warmth of the water. The heat relaxing her tensed muscles.

"Don't fall asleep on me." Matt teased her giving her a side a small squeeze.

She opened her eyes and smiled. "I'm not. I'm just relaxing."

"Good girl." He kissed her once more and she closed her eyes again.

Being in the water she couldn't help but remember Laura pushing her. But soon that vanished and she felt safe and comfortable. Without realizing it she fell asleep on Matt. She was at ease for once in such a long time she had so worries, no stress, and no fear. It was a good feeling. At least until she was haunted by another nightmare. Only this time, her nightmare was also a flash back. This time the shadow of the person hurting Wildfire was crystal clear.

"NO! WILDFIRE!" she shot up gasping for air.

"Shhh, shh, Kris, it's ok. It's ok, it was just a dream. You're safe." Matt soothed.

"Matt…Wildfire….Laura…" she panted hard.

"What? Kris, Baby, breathe!" Matt told her.

"Laura…has…Wildfire…Laura…has…Wildfire." She panted once more.

"OK, Baby, ok, shhh, shhh."

"Why would you suspect her?" Junior asked.

"At your wedding, Laura threatened Wildfire. She told Kris he was going to pay for her mistake. It's possible. I didn't even think about that." Matt explained.

"We have…to….save…him."

"First, Kris, you need to breathe. You won't be any good to Wildfire if you pass out."

Kris slowly started to calm down. "Good Girl." He cooed.

Once her breathing was normal again. They all jumped back onto their horses and rode back to RainTree.

Matt explained everything to Jean and Pablo and they called the police. Now all that was left to do was to wait while the Police handled the rest. Kris was shaking, and Matt knew it took everything inside of her not to go investigate this clue on her own.

He held her tightly just promising it would be ok. Everyone decided to stay the night and wait with Kris until they heard more on Wildfire. The more friends she had with her the less likely she was to do something crazy.

They all gathered in the living room again on sleeping bags. Everyone just talked for a while, Kris stayed quiet. Her mind wouldn't stop. She couldn't stop it from thinking about all the horrible things Laura could be doing to him. What if she had already killed him? What if he was already dead? What if she never saw him again? She buried her face into her pillow fighting to hold back tears. She was scared to death right now and it was getting harder and harder to hide it. Plus when she got scared she could only feel better but doing something about it, in other words if they would let her go see Laura she'd be less scared. But she couldn't and that's what scared her the most. She clung to the pillow forcing herself not to get up and leave. She felt like a recovering addict. Forcing herself not to give into temptation. She couldn't no longer hold it back and she let the tears fall.

She jumped when someone touched her back but then she relaxed. She knew it was only Matt trying to comfort her.

"It's going to be ok, Baby. I promise."

Kris just cried and cried and for the third night in a row, she cried herself to sleep. She was just so scared she didn't know how else to handle it. Before when she got scared she'd lash out, do something drastic and get in trouble. Now she couldn't do that and she didn't know what else to do so she just cried until she fell asleep.

Matt pulled her into his sleeping bag with him and stroked her hair. If she woke up from another nightmare he wanted to be close to comfort her.

Everyone else had fallen asleep. Matt couldn't. He was too worried. Today Kris acted as if she was scared of horses. She acted like she had never seen a horse before in her life. Matt was just worried that if Wildfire was dead or if they never found him, Kris would never go near another horse as long as she lived. Hopefully they were right and it was Laura, hopefully they found Wildfire alive. If this fell through and Kris was wrong, Matt wasn't sure she'd ever recover.

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