Once they arrived at the building, the band entered the hall only to find that the stage wasn't ready yet and they couldn't start their sound check. Jane on the other hand, already started her tour through the building to find every exit, but only after making sure Sharon was alright.

The detective hadn't suspected the round the be any different than the others, but she hadn't counted on the envelope that was under one of the doors.

She took the envelope, reached for the paper inside and was shocked by the sentence that was written on it.

Tonight is the night

The Dark Passenger

Tonight was the night. Tonight was the night The Dark Passenger was trying to get to Sharon, and she had to make sure that it didn't happen. She went back to the hall from where the first guitar tunes sounded.

The band was already on the stage, every member busy with their own instrument, except for Sharon. The singer sat on the edge of the stage, the microphone loosely in her hands, her eyes closed. Jane walked up to her and Sharon slightly jumped when Jane put her hand on the singers knee.

'Are you okay?'

'yeah… What about you? Everything okay on your round?'

'Not really.' Jane sighed. 'I found this, you're not leaving my sight today.' She said while she showed Sharon the envelope she found. 'I won't let anything happen you, I promise. How's the sound check going?'

'We haven't started yet.'

'It will be okay.' Jane said before looking around to make sure nobody was watching her and giving Sharon a quick kiss.

The sound check didn't went really smooth, but it wasn't the worst they'd had either. The band, except for Robert, sat together in the relaxing room when Jane went for a second round. Now she knew what was going to happen tonight, she had to be sure that Sharon was as safe as possible.
When she crossed the hall, she found Robert backstage, busy with some papers .

'Hey, what are you doing?'

'I'm taping the set lists on the stage. We made some last minute changes so I have to change them.' Jane took a brief look at the papers, until she recognized the handwriting.

'Who wrote this?' She ask, suddenly in full detective-mode.

'Uhm, Ruud did that.'

'No, I checked the handwriting of the band members, this isn't Ruud's.'

'It is, he wrote this with his left hand. He's two-handed , and he usually uses his right but,… Hey, where are you going?'

'That's The Dark Passenger's handwriting! It's Ruud! Ruud's Sharon stalker!' Jane yelled while running back to where the band sat.

Suddenly, everything fell in place. Ruud had been at every single of the band's concerts, because he was part of it. He was always around Sharon, knew everything about her, knew where she lived. He was always flirting with Sharon, who never thought twice about it since he was her second-best friend. And Ruud didn't find that last envelope, he was busted while putting it there.

When she finally reached the relaxing room, she found Mike, Martijn and Jeroen, but there was no sight of Sharon or Ruud.

'Where's Sharon?!' She immediately asked.

'Ruud took her to the hallway, he wanted to sort things out, he said.'

'Shit!' Jane ran out of the room without further explanation and bumped into Robert. 'He has her! You have to help me find her!'

They parted ways, Jane with her gun in her hand, looking in every room they passed. Jane even smashed the doors that were locked, but there was no trace of either Sharon or Ruud. When she reached the end of the hallway, she turned around the corner and was faced by another 25 doors to check. She almost lost her faith, but her promise to Sharon kept her going. She wouldn't let anything happen to her.

She was halfway the second hallway, but still hadn't found them nor did she get a sign that Robert had found them. She tried to block her thought, tried not to think about what Ruud could be doing with Sharon right now.

She turned around when she heard footsteps behind her, only to be greeted by an exhausted Robert.

'They're not that way!'

'Check the other side, I'll do this one.'

Jane heard him opening the door behind her while she ran to the next door. Again it was a locked one, but this time when she smashed the door, she finally found what she wasn't hoping to find.
Sharon, crying, a bandana in her mouth, her hands tied to a pipe at the wall and Ruud's hands all over her body.

'Found them! Get away from her Ruud! It's over!'

'It's not over! She belongs with me!' Ruud said when he turned, it was only now that Jane noticed the pocketknife in his hand.

'You don't want to do this, Ruud. Get away from her.' But instead of listening, he took a step in Jane's direction. She shot, but missed since she was afraid to hit Sharon.

Ruud approached her with his knife and Jane's instinct was to throw away her gun so she could use both hands to defend herself. Ruud took hold of Jane's shoulder while she grasped the wrist in which he hold his knife. She tried to push his hand away, but the guitarist was much stronger than her. Just when the blade of the knife was about to touch her face, Ruud was pulled back and Jane could see a glimpse of Robert's bald head. Immediately Jane reached for her gun again and shot Ruud in his foot. He let out an animal-like cry before collapsing and reaching for his foot.

Jane took half a second to breath before getting up and running to Sharon who was still crying. She first took the bandana out of the singers mouth and Sharon immediately started sobbing.

'It's okay, Sharon. It's over, I'm here.' Jane said while untying her hands.

Once she was totally freed, Sharon collapsed and fell into Jane's arms. The detective sank to her knees, taking her girlfriend with her who was hiding her face in Jane's neck.

'It's over, everything will be okay, Sharon. It's over, it's over.'

Ruud's groans slowly disappeared in the distance while Robert took him away from them.

'Wow, and, what then? I mean, now?' Maura's face on the laptop asked.

'They cancelled the show, obviously. The band doesn't have to perform for the next two days so they all have some time to recover. There's another guitarist flying over to take Ruud's place and the next show will just go on.' Jane answered quietly since Sharon was sleeping behind her.

'And what about you? You have a contract for eight months, you haven't even been there for one.'

'I'm staying here, with Sharon, for the remaining seven months. Maybe Ruud has set some trend and there will be another stalker. I have to keep her safe.'

'And, you're already sure about that?'

'I discussed it with their manager, he agreed immediately.'

'And after those months?'

'I don't know. If Sharon and I are still together, then maybe I stay with her. Or if my ma is okay with it, we'll come to the States. If we broke up, I'll just come home, I guess.'

Suddenly, Sharon started moving behind her and when Jane looked over her shoulder, she saw that she was having a nightmare. She immediately stood and woke Sharon, who after barely being awake, fell back asleep. Jane turned back to her laptop without leaving her seat next to Sharon, but saw that Maura had already closed the conversation.
With a small smile on her lips, Jane got under the covers while wrapping her arms around her girlfriend. She saw the clock change to 03:32am in the last second before she closed her eyes.

So, yeah, this is the end.

I really enjoyed writing this fanfic, and although I didn't get many reviews, a lot of people kept reading it so I assume you also liked it. ;)
Again, I really would like to know what you guys think of this, so reviews are really appreciated!

Also, I'm thinking about writing a sequel, do you guys want one?

Anyway, thanks for reading this, I love you all!

Grtz, Anke