Hey again! First of all, thanks for the reviews and shout out to Jess for catching my mistake - Mary is Catherine's niece, not daughter :) But anyway, I promised I wouldn't make you guys wait too long, so here's Chapter 2. Keep in mind that it starts from Lindy's POV so time-wise it overlaps a bit with what happens at the end of Chapter 1 (as far as Tommy calling her). Hope you guys like it!
Meanwhile, Lindy and Jake had split up on Hart Island, agreeing that they could cover more ground that way. It had been Lindy's idea, and while Jake was extremely hesitant at first (Lindy couldn't understand or figure out why), he eventually relented.
Tommy had tried calling her multiple times since they left, and she was sick of it. She had told him that she didn't trust him, what more could she say? Did he not realize that she had bigger priorities right now?
As she was scouring the grounds with no Jake in sight, he called again. Then again. Exasperated, she finally picked up on the third time.
"What?" She hissed through gritted teeth.
"Lindy, where are you?" Tommy asked, in his typical take-no-bullshit tone.
"I thought we already discussed this – you're not my keeper. You never have been, but you certainly aren't now. It's not really your business where I go anymore," She shot back.
"Well you're the one who said it was up to me to find this killer, so I think your whereabouts just became exactly my business," Tommy's patience was wearing thin – when would this girl just let him help her?
"What do you mean?" Lindy's tone calmed dramatically.
"Where are you?" Tommy simply asked again.
"With Jake. Looking for my sister, which is more than I can ever say Cyber Crimes did," She was back to going for the jugular, but Tommy had no time for it.
"You need to get out of there. Listen, Lindy, I know you don't trust me and you probably don't want to believe me right now," Tommy sighed, but his voice stayed steady. "But Jake is the Flirtual killer."
Lindy laughed a big, dry laugh into the phone. "Ha! Good one. You know, Tommy, this really takes the cake. I'm sure you're chock full of evidence, too."
She was being sarcastic, but he was cutting right through it.
"Lindy, he's bullshitting you. He's playing you," Tommy said quickly, he didn't know where she was or how close Jake was – he could've even been tapped into the conversation the entire time. "He led you there knowing he could get you alone."
"Right," Lindy replied, still not buying it. "And where's your proof?"
"Sara's standing right next to me at Cyber Crimes right now," Tommy deadpanned.
"What? Huh? No- she can't be," Lindy was spluttering.
While not entirely convinced, she was definitely caught off guard. If Tommy was lying, this was certainly a new low.
"Lindy, it's me – it's Sara," A new voice was on the other end now. It was familiar in a nostalgic way. "Mary found me. She said she talked to you and it motivated her to reach out to me. Please, please come back. I'll tell you everything, I promise, just like when we used to sit on the swings at home."
Lindy gasped, and wanted to talk to her, but the phone had already been passed back to Tommy.
"Sara- " was all Lindy could manage to whisper.
"Lindy, you gotta help me help you. You gotta get out of there. Whatever you have to do until we can find you. Come on, I can't let anything happen to you," there was a hint of desperation in his voice.
"Tommy," Lindy's voice remained at a whisper, but this time more urgent. "I have to go. Jake's back."
And with that, the call was ended by Lindy. Tommy slammed his palm on the table, cursing to himself.
"Wait!" Sara called out. "Can't we trace her phone now that we were able to talk to her?"
Upon that suggestion, Tommy ran back to the computer, immediately getting to work. Their tracking systems were notably slower than usual, and he was sure it wasn't an accident or coincidence.
"I know!" Sophia spoke up for the first time in a while, and all eyes abruptly turned towards her. "We need George!"
They called up George and within 20 minutes Yeager had gone out in the patrol car and picked him up, and they were rapidly cluing him in.
"Whoa, system overload, guys," He said, but not in his usual, jovial tone. He was clearly distressed as well.
Luckily, after extensive (and very illegal) work, George was able to track Lindy's location. Though he admitted that "something big and bad" was at work on her phone already.
"Hart Island?" Yeager questioned.
"Home of the unclaimed dead," Sara chimed in, surprising everyone. "AKA me."
"Shit," Sophia cursed under her breath.
Tommy was already halfway out the door when the rest of their crew caught on to start following.
"Sara, do you want to stay here? I mean, who knows what you'll see out there. Who knows what this guy might do," Tommy said.
"If you don't think I'm going, you're out of your damn mind," She asserted, huffing past him.
"Just like her sister," Tommy muttered in exasperation to Yeager, who simply nodded.
Mary decided to stay back and head to the hospital, deciding it would be helpful in case they needed any information from Catherine, who still couldn't speak on her own just yet.
I'll be posting again later! Lucky for you all, I write a lot, so the only way to get this all up before the finale on Monday means I'll have to post more than once a day for a couple days. As always, reviews are welcome and extremely appreciated!