Steve stared out the window desperately searching for any clue as Bo drove carefully down yet another isolated back road that connected to Route 6. Since leaving Shane's house, Bo and Steve had driven up and down Route 6 more times than either could count.

They knew that whoever had taken Kim and Kayla would have been driving a severely damaged car and would certainly have not risked taking the vehicle back into town. And if he had taken a back road, it was possible that the bumps and holes in the roads might have jostled something loose. Something that might lead Bo and Steve in the right direction.

The initial excitement at having a possibility to pursue had quickly waned when Steve had realized just how many roads led off of Route 6 in the miles before and after the wreck site. Some were nothing more than private driveways leading to cabins or farmhouses. Others were more substantial roads that had their own smaller roads branching off. It quickly became apparent that finding a clue on these back roads was going to be like finding a needle in a haystack.

"Damn!" Steve could see the road they were currently traveling blocked by a gate directly ahead. Beyond the gate appeared to be nothing but an empty field. When Bo stopped the car, Steve stepped out and looked at the gate. It was held shut with a chain and padlock which both looked well weathered.

Steve shined his flashlight around the area but could see nothing to indicate that a vehicle had passed through the gate or turned off the road at this point. There were no tracks in the weeds and Steve knew whoever had done this would not be foolish enough to leave that kind of trail.

"Dammit!" he yelled again, kicking the gate. With each dead end, Steve felt his desperation grow. Every minute that went by without finding some kind of clue was another minute that Kayla could be taken farther away, another minute she was out there somewhere hurt, and another minute that could lead to the unthinkable.

"Take it easy, Steve." Bo's voice was quiet and calm. "Breaking your foot on that gate isn't going to help us find Kimmie and Kay."

"How am I supposed to take it easy, Bo?" Steve fought for some kind of control. "My wife is out there, hurt, and I don't have any idea how to find her." He gestured back towards the highway. "We've been driving up and down that stupid highway for hours and haven't found a damn thing."

"I know," Bo replied sounding frustrated too. "But going crazy isn't going to help us find them. Let's just get back in the car and head back to the highway. There are a lot of side roads we haven't tried yet."

Steve laughed harshly. "And side roads off of those side roads and more miles of the highway we haven't even looked at yet." He paced around and ran his hand over his patch. "And we don't even know that they went down one of these roads. They could have gone into Brookville or God knows where."

Steve felt Bo's hand on his shoulder and turned around. "I know how hard this is, Steve," Bo said quietly. "I remember how I felt when Hope disappeared on that island. I was going crazy trying to find some clue to where she had gone."

Steve nodded, remembering how he and Bo had searched that island for days looking for any sign of Hope and Ernesto. He also remembered how he had been the one who had convinced Bo that there was no use staying there anymore. Now it was Bo trying to help Steve keep it together. But would this search have a different outcome? Steve tried to push the thought away, but it lingered, chilling him more than the cold of the night.

Walking away from Bo, Steve stepped up to the gate and looked out into the darkness. As the quiet night enveloped him, he willed himself to feel something, anything, that would tell him that Kayla was okay. She was his heart and his soul, so if he was still here and breathing, she had to be okay, right?

As he felt the cold settle around him, Steve's mind drifted back to another cold night and a small smile crossed his face. "Do you remember when Kayla and I were first getting together?" he asked softly, as much to himself as to Bo. "After we all got back from Stockholm?"

"Yeah," Bo replied, walking up to the gate next to Steve. "At least I remember that I didn't like it too much."

Steve chuckled softly at Bo's understatement, then continued. "There was this one day when your sister came walking into the Cheating Heart, acting like she'd been born there and challenged me to a game of pool."

"How'd that go?" Bo asked, a smile in his voice.

"About as well as you'd expect." Steve smiled at the memory. "Kayla didn't even know how to hold the cue - or at least she acted that way - but she didn't care. She was bound and determined to prove to me that we weren't that different."

"Did it work?" Bo looked at Steve. "I know it worked eventually, but did she convince you of anything that night?"

"She convinced me that I was fighting a losing battle trying to keep her away from me." Steve sighed. "No matter what I did, she never gave up on me - no matter how much I deserved it."

"Or how much I tried to convince her otherwise," Bo teased lightly. "I guess Kayla knew better than both of us back then, didn't she?"

"She always has," Steve said feeling the fear overtake him again. "And now she's out there counting on me - on us - to find her and Kim, and I have no idea how to do that."

"We just need to have some of that faith that Kay always relied on." Bo clasped Steve's shoulder again. "You know she won't give up, so we can't give up either."

"I'll never give up, Bo." Steve's voice was firm and strong. "Nothing in this world will stop me from finding her. I just need something to help me."

Before Bo could respond, the phone in Shane's car rang. Exchanging a quick glance, both men ran for the car. Steve reached the phone slightly before Bo and answered it.

"Hello . . . Roman?"

"Yeah, it's me," Roman said. "You and Bo need to get back to the house as soon as you can."

"Why? Did you find them?" Steve braced himself for whatever Roman had to tell him.

"Not yet."

"Then why do you want Bo and me to come back?" Steve asked, frustrated by Roman's lack of information.

"Because Andrew just woke up." Roman's voice took on a hard edge. "We know who took Kim and Kayla."