He was running, the ground moved quickly beneath his feet. He looked up at the large suburban house in front of him and waved at a woman standing near the front door. The sun bounced off her white dress and made her look almost angelic. She smiled and waved back at him.

"Matthew" She called, her voice sounded far away, like it was coming from the other side of a long tunnel. "Stay away from the road"

She then disappeared through the door, her black hair cascading down her back. He wanted to follow her, find her, see her face. He stepped forward to follow her. He was happy, eager to reach the woman. Then pain. Agony. A huge blow to the head. He screamed. And it all went black.

Danny woke with a start. What the hell was that?.

He sat bolt upright and took some deep, calming breaths. The numbers on the clock on his bedside table blinked harshly in the darkness. Five forty two am. Deciding it was too late for him to bother going back to sleep he grabbed his school uniform and went to take a shower, immediately relaxing when the warm water hit his back. The dream played over and over in his head. He was Matthew, and the dark haired woman by the door was his mother.

Of course, he mused as he washed the shampoo out of his hair, he had no proof. But in his heart he felt sure. Was he remembering his kidnapping? He thought back to the article Katie had read to him a week ago. Matthew Bing had been taken from his front garden. In his dream he had been looking up at the front door of a house. Matthew Bing had been bundled into a van. He couldn't recall being thrown into a Van but he could recall being hit over the head. That had to mean something.

He couldn't stop thinking about the woman in the dream. He was convinced it was his real mother. It had to be, it made sense.

When Katie had asked if he wanted to know more about Matthew Bing he wasn't sure. But now he had never been more sure of anything. He didn't just want to know, he needed to know. He was going to find as much as he could about Matthew Bing, he decided as he buttoned up his school shirt. Whatever it took.

His friends had looked at him oddly when he had taken Katie's hand and pulled her away from them and to a bench near the playing fields.

"This better be good Dan 'cause if they run out of chocolate cake and I have to have an apple for pudding I will kill you." she warned. Danny rolled his eyes and pulled a chocolate bar out of his blazer pocket, handing it to Katie.

"Wow you're actually sharing your food? What's wrong Dan?."

Danny rolled his eyes again and ran a hand through his hair.

"I need your help" He said, suddenly nervous. Katie looked up at him expectantly and handed him half the chocolate bar, which he took gratefully.

"Well I had a dream last night…or a flashback, I'm not really sure" He looked down at his fingers and fiddled with his tie as he went on to explain the whole dream. Katie's face went from disbelief to shock as he went on with his story.

"And I don't know if I just imagined it because of the article we read…. but it felt so…real. And I'll understand if you don't believe me" he rambled "I mean you must think I'm mental but-"

"I believe you" She interjected, smiling when he looked up at her in disbelief.

"You do?" he said with an unsure look on his face.

"Yeah, I think it's just too coincidental. Matthew Bing looks exactly like you did at the same age. He went missing in September, you're adopted in December of the same year. He has scars on his knee and chin, you have scars on your knee and chin that you got before you were adopted and nobody knows how they got there. Your birthdays are two weeks apart."

Danny smiled appreciatively at his best friend.

"Well I need as much information as possible on Matthew Bing, and his parents"

"Come round to mine after school then, Dad's out so he and mum won't be screaming at each other, have you got your laptop?" At Danny's nod she continued. "Ok good, you ok to come round?"

"Yeah"

"Well then, let's find out as much as we can about the Bings."

Danny had always preferred Katie's garden to his, and on a warm May afternoon like it was, her garden was perfect. The grass was always a lush green- long and soft, perfect for lying down on. The two of them were spread out on the grass with a laptop in front of each of them and a packet of chocolate biscuits between them.

"Where do we even start Danny?" Katie was nibbling on the corner of the biscuit while she waited for the laptop to start up.

"Wikipedia?" he replied as he typed 'Matthew Bing' into the search bar. Thousands of hits immediately popped up, from links to missing children sites to newspaper articles. He clicked on the wikipedia link.

Matthew Daniel Bing (Born 25 January 2009) disappeared from outside his home in Westchester county, New York on the afternoon of 3 September 2012, sparking one of the largest missing person investigations in US history. His whereabouts remain unknown.

"Hey look" Katie piped up "Under family, father: Chandler Bing, mother: Monica (née Geller) Bing, siblings: Jack Bing, Erica Bing"

"And?"
"Find out as much as you can about the family, and I'll find out everything possible about the disappearance."

Danny nodded and they got to work, slowly building a profile of Matthew Bing. Daniel learnt that the family still lived in the same house their young son disappeared from 10 years earlier, and after doing a bit more digging he found the address.

Noting down the address he took a deep breath and stretched out. His eyes scanned the garden and settled on Katie. She was staring intently at a video. The same picture of Matthew Bing that they had found on the website last week took up the right hand side of the screen. But it was the distraught looking couple on the left that caught Danny's attention. He was certain that he had never seen them before but they were so completely familiar it took his breath away. The women was looking directly at the camera, tears that she seemed determined to back welling in the back of her piercing blue eyes. She looked exhausted. Danny felt trapped in her gaze as he listened to what she was saying.

"Please" Her voice was shaky, broken, but at the same time so determined. "To the person who is with Matthew, or has been with Matthew please, please. We beg of you. Just bring him home. Don't hurt him, don't scare him. Please…he's only three…tell us where to find him, Or put him somewhere where he's safe." The tear that she had been trying so hard to hold back fell, followed by another, then another. Once one had fallen it seemed as though she couldn't stop them. The man beside her took her hand and gave it a squeeze. He looked on the brink of tears as well. Next to him the woman took a shaky breath, quickly wiping away the tears on her face. And started to speak again.

"Matthew, Matthew if you can see this then go find someone, tell them your name. Mommy and Daddy love you so much Matthew, and we will find you. We will bring you home." She sobbed and gripped her husband's hand so hard it had to have hurt. If it did the man didn't show it. A police officer started to speak and Katie paused the video, Danny vaguely notice her look at him. He was too focused on the couple's faces still on the screen to pay her any heed. They were undeniably, achingly familiar.

"Katie" he said quietly

"Yeah?"
"I need to meet them, they're my birth parents, I'm sure of it"

Katie looked up at him with an expression on her face Danny couldn't quite place. She turned slightly so that she was facing him.

"How can you know?" She asked him softly, closing the laptop.

"I don't know… I just do. I recognise them." he hesitated for a moment "Call it a gut feeling…an instinct…I can just feel it."

"Well how are we going to meet them, are you going to call them or something?"

Danny paused for a moment to think about his options, he couldn't call, this was just too big for a phone call. And plus, Danny knew he would never have the guts to make that call. What would he say? Hi there, I think I might be your missing son. Only with a different name, and birthday. Oh and from a different country. They would laugh at him.

No, he had to do it face to face, it was the only way he could possibly even begin to convince them he was telling the truth, or at least what he thought was the truth.

"No, I need to do it face to face" Danny was absentmindedly pulling out the grass, bunching it up in his hands.

"Are you suggesting we just turn up unannounced at their door? Their door in New York"

"Yes" He replied, smiling slightly at Katie's incredulous look

"And how do you suggest we get there?"

"Well normally people take the plane but if it makes you more comfortable we could take a boat"

Katie just rolled her eyes "How the hell are we gonna get tickets for that"

"I think mum's a guest lecturer at NYU this half term, I can ask her to bring us" he assured her with determination on his face.

"Is you're mum gonna allow us to come?" she asked doubtfully, she knew very well that Penelope Williams had three very key aspects to her life. Her career, her social life, and her son. These three never mixed. Ever. Something Danny had informed her bitterly so many times in the past after he was left at home while she went abroad to lecture. She couldn't see Danny's mother suddenly deciding to bring them along. It appeared that Danny had a more positive outlook however.

"Yeah why not? I'll just say I want some more mother-son time or something, and then we can go see the Bings on the day she is lecturing."

"And your mum will just let you go off and see some strangers in a house outside the city, strangers who you think are your real parents?" Katie said disbelievingly, her eyebrows raised.

"Well I'm not going to tell her that! If I just say that we want to go sightseeing or something. She'll let us go." Danny replied, rolling his eyes. "Besides what's there to lose in asking?"

Katie didn't have an answer to that. She fiddled absentmindedly with a loose thread on her school skirt. Coiling and uncoiling round her finger. She could feel Danny's eyes on her and after a moment, lifted her head up so that their eyes would meet.

"Are you sure they're you parents Dan?" She asked him softly, her voice barely above a whisper "Are you really really one hundred precent sure? Because what if they aren't? Can you imagine how devastated you'd be? How devastated they'd be? Her eyes went straight back to the grass. She didn't want to see his reaction.

"I dunno Kate, but I can't not find out. I'd rather be wrong than stay here and never know at all. But Katie, that video, they are just so familiar. And I know I could just feel that way because I want them to be but it…It's not."

Katie smiled sympathetically at her best friend, who was now fiddling with a blade of grass. He looked up at her and smiled back. "I've just got a gut feeling about this…. It just makes sense. And I can't explain it but it just feels right."

Katie offered another smile to her best friend and grinned. "Well I guess we're going to New York then"

"And if my mum doesn't want to take us with her?" Danny asked with a raised an eyebrow.

"Well then we'll save up for a ticket and just go ourselves. If you're so sure that they are your birth parents Danny then they probably are. We could save up, it would just take us a bit longer to get there."

Danny grinned and ruffled Katie's hair affectionately, ignoring her squeal of protest.

"This is gonna be an adventure then isn't it?"

"You bet it is!" Katie exclaimed, shuffling closer to Danny's side. "Katie Thompson and Danny Williams conquer New York! Visit Times Square, Statue of Liberty and the Empire State, and get a hot dog from a hot dog cart!" She now had her arms flung out in front of her, her face lit up in excitement. "Oh yeah, and find your birth parents" She added as an afterthought.

"Get a hot dog?" Danny had to ask "There's a million things to do in New York and you wanna get a hot dog?"

Katie just rolled her eyes, still grinning.

"In every film I've ever watched set in New York somebody brings up the hot dogs, you can't tell me you're not just a little bit curious to what they taste like?" Danny chuckled and wrapped an arm round Katie, pulling her to his side.

"When we get to New York I promise I'll buy you a hotdog then" Danny laughed. He smiled as Katie thanked him and started jabbering on excitedly about hot dogs and bagels. He was relieved that Katie was so quick to accept all this, most people would have been trying to convince him that flying across the Atlantic was a ludicrous idea. And they would have a point. He had no real proof that he was related to the Bings. Yet Katie knew him well enough to know that trying to stop him would just make him more determined to go. He didn't know how the Bings would react to his sudden appearance at their front door. He didn't know if they would accept him or just send him packing, he didn't even know if his mother would be willing to bring them to New York to begin with. But one thing he knew for certain was that Katie would be by his side every step of the way.

"What are you thinking about?" she asked him curiously, noting his far away look. Danny just looked at her with a lopsided grin on his face.

"You're the best friend in the world Kate, thank you for doing this"

A slight blush touched Katie's cheeks as she ginned back at him.

"Best friend in the world huh? Remember that next time I ask for your maths homework" Danny just rolled his eyes and punched her playfully on the arm in response. She grinned and got up, gathering her laptop and jotter.

"Mum left money for pizza, wanna stay here from dinner?"

Danny also got up, wiping grass off his hands and picking up his things.

"Yeah sure" he agreed as they walked back inside.

"Can I have a slice of yours then?" She asked cheekily

"What no!"

"But Danny I'm your best friend in the world"

"Eat a slice of my pizza and you won't be."

The two of them argued playfully back and forth until the pizza was delivered and eaten. Danny batting Katie's hand away from his pizza slices every couple of minutes.

"Dan?" Katie said when they had slipped into a comfortable silence

"Yeah?"

"You're my best friend in the world too"

See I promised I'd update in a week :)

Once again (and I'll keep saying this because I'm still amazed by it) thank you for the response and the reviews to this story. It honestly makes my day when I get a little notification that says somebody's reviewed or followed or favourited this, and plus it makes me want to write more.

I'll try get the next chapter up soon but I've got that annoying thing where I know what' going to happen and how things will play out but I can't get it down on paper without it sounding like a jumbled mess. It'll (hopefully) be up in the next week or so.

ChocoholiclikeLupin x