Morning after.
Hanna "Mmm… Caleb, Caleb" she moans against the skin of his shoulder. Electricity shooting through her body as she reaches her highest point of pleasure.
Caleb rests his forehead on the pillow, next to her head, as he makes his last movements while finally getting off as well.
He only stops and slides out of her once he doesn't hear Hanna's moans anymore, which means that she's finished too. Then he lies down on the mattress, pulling her onto him with his arms still wrapped around her.
What a great way to start her day, Hanna thinks as she relaxes in Caleb's embrace.
Hanna "Can you turn the air conditioner on, please? I'm too hot" she asks him a few seconds later, since it's another hot summer morning in Rosewood.
Caleb laughs. "Sure you are hot… hot like hell… but I don't think the air conditioner will help" he jokes while grabbing the remote of the air from the bedside table and then he turns it on.
Hanna only bites her bottom lip while smiling amused.
Caleb "What would you like for breakfast?"
Hanna "I'm not staying for breakfast, babe. I have to go"
Caleb "Why?"
Hanna "Because I need to take a shower and I didn't bring any clean clothes, I stopped by at my place before coming here and left my suitcase there… besides, I should go see my mom as well. She has a convention in London and she's leaving this evening. I want to go have lunch with her"
Caleb "Okay, but stay till noon at least. You can take a shower here and wear the same clothes as yesterday"
Hanna "I'm not wearing those again till noon" she says, staring at her panties that are on the floor in the exact spot where Caleb threw them before.
Caleb "You can borrow one of my boxers… I'm sure you would look sexy as fuck in them" he lowers one of his hands and squeezes her ass cheek.
Hanna smiles amused. "Fine. I'll stay till noon then" she raises her head from his chest and kisses him.
/
Midday.
Hanna "Okay, I'll see you later then" she tells Caleb.
Caleb nods and walks her to the front door of his house.
Once they get to the door, Hanna turns around and takes his face in her hands.
Hanna "Bye, baby" she kisses him.
Caleb "Bye, babe" he answers after the kiss and opens the door for her.
Hanna "Let's go, Chocolate" she says and the dog follows her outside.
Not ready to let her go just yet, Caleb goes out of the house as well and pulls her into a hug.
Hanna chuckles and hugs him back. "I'll see you later" she pecks his lips and Caleb finally lets go of her.
Caleb watches her get into her car and then drive away before closing the door.
/
Hanna pulls into the driveway of her house and stops the car. After getting out, she goes open the rear door for Chocolate and then they get into the house together.
Some minutes later, a black car parks near her house, across the street. There are two men inside. After stopping the car, the driver takes his phone to his ear.
Man 1 "We just got to the address you sent me" he says after a few seconds.
George "Perfect. You are gonna have to wait there until you see her. I'm having trouble to track the GPS location of her phone. Did you receive the picture too?"
Man 1"Yeah, I did! what a hottie!"
George "Hey! Just stick to the plan, okay? I need you to get me the dog and she has to see that you are stealing it, but don't-"
Man 1 cuts George off. "Yeah, I know, I know. Only the dog, she sees the stealing but I can't touch her"
George "Exactly. And if things get complicated with the dog-"
Man 1 interrupts him again. "I know, I use the sedative"
George "Yes, but only after getting him in the car, otherwise it will be too much complicated to carry him, he weighs more than 150 pounds… and please, be careful about how much sedative you use, I need the dog alive… no more than half syringe"
Man 1 "Okay, got it"
George "Don't touch the girl. If something goes wrong, I can get you two back in jail just as easily as I got you out"
Man 1 "I know, dude. We are not fucking stupid! We are just taking a dog from a girl, it's not like we are robbing a bank or shit"
George "Okay. Keep me updated. Don't fuck this up" he says and ends the call.
/
Only a couple of minutes later, Hanna gets out of the house again.
Man 2 "Look! There she is!"
Man 1 "Fuck, she's even hotter in person, what a piece of meat"
Man 2 "Is George fucking her or something?" he asks as both of them watch Hanna carefully.
Man 1 "Not him… I think he said she was with one of his friends... I don't know and I don't give a shit"
Man 2 "She must be important, George didn't stop bitching about her but still wants her to be safe"
Hanna gets in her car.
Man 2 "She's leaving"
Man 1 "Yeah, but the dog is not with her… we have to wait. George said that she takes the dog out on a walk at least once a day. If the bitch doesn't take it out today, we are gonna have to come back tomorrow"
/
Afternoon.
Hanna gets back home after having lunch with Ashley at the Radley. She gets out of the car, her phone on her ear.
Caleb "Han" he answers the call after a couple of rings.
Hanna "Babe… what are you up to?"
Caleb "I'm waiting for the contractor and the garden designer, we are meeting up to talk about my backyard. The project is ready, we only have to discuss a few details"
Hanna "Oh, okay. That's great!" she says as she gets into the house.
Caleb "Yeah, if everything goes well, they are starting in a couple of days… anyway, why do you ask? Do you need anything?"
Hanna "No… I just got back home, I'm taking Chocolate to the park and I just thought I could invite you to come with us, but I guess I'll see you later"
Caleb "Oh… okay… I'm sorry, I-"
Hanna chuckles. "Hey! It's fine. I'll see you later, we still have our date. Don't forget you have to cook me something delicious for dinner"
Caleb "Yeah, I already went to the store" he smiles.
Hanna "What time should I come over?"
Caleb "Why do you ask? You will be late anyway"
Hanna chuckles. "Hey!"
Caleb smiles amused. "Just come over when you are ready, it's fine"
Hanna "Okay… I'll be there early… I might help you cook"
Caleb "Sure you will" he rolls his eyes. "Just like you helped me paint my house"
Hanna laughs. "Okay, then… see you later, babe. I have to take Chocolate out"
Caleb "Okay… see you, Han"
Hanna "Bye" she says and ends the call.
Then, she looks down at Chocolate who is already standing before her, wagging his tail.
Hanna "Wanna go for a walk, buddy?" she asks him sweetly as she takes the leash.
A few minutes later, Hanna gets out of the house with Chocolate. She makes her way to the sidewalk and starts walking toward the corner to turn to the left, as she always does when she goes to the nearest park to her place.
But before she can make it to the corner, she feels a strong pulling from Chocolate's leash and when she looks at him she sees a man covering the dog's entire head with a bag.
Hanna "What are you doing?" is the first thing that comes out from her mouth, not getting what she's seeing.
A second later she reacts and pulls from the leash, trying to get Chocolate out of the man's reach. But it's too late, because the man has already his arms wrapped around the dog and is pulling from him too. So Hanna, still holding the leash in her hands, climbs on the man's back, trying to stop him somehow.
Hanna "Let go of him!" she says while pulling from the man's neck with both her arms, fighting with all the strength inside of her not to let that guy take her dog away from her. "Help, help!" she starts to yell as well.
At that point, the other man that was waiting in the car in order to take off as soon as his accomplice got the dog, gets out of the vehicle with a syringe in his hand and rushes over Hanna. He sticks the syringe into Hanna's back and pushes all the sedative substance into her body.
Only a couple of seconds later, Hanna's body loses all its strength and she collapses on the sidewalk. Her head makes a loud sound when it hits the concrete.
Man 1 "Fuck, fuck, fuck! What the fuck did you just do?!"
Man 2 "She was screaming like a bitch! I had to shut her mouth! Do you wanna get caught?"
Man 1 "Shit! Let's get the hell out of here! Now!"
Man 2 "We can't leave her here, George is gonna kill us"
Man 1 "Let's get her in the car" he says while picking Hanna up, pulling from her arms.
Chocolate has received a few hits during all the tugging and is a bit confused with the bag still covering his head, so the 'Man 2' easily gets him in the car and then helps the other man to get Hanna in as well.
/
Man 1 "Fuck! We fucked it up! You fucking used all the sedative on her! It was supposed to be for the dog, and only the half of it! That chick weights much less than the dog, it's too fucking much for her!" he says while driving away, and looks at Hanna in the rearview mirror. She is lying on the backseat, unconscious.
Man 2 "She was fucking fighting you back and yelling like a bitch! What was I supposed to do?"
Man 1 "We can't let George find out about this!"
Man 2 "And what are we doing? You think she will wake up soon?"
Man 1 "Are you fucking kidding me? She could die! You practically injected her all the fucking sedative"
Man 2 "Fuck, fuck, fuck! I've never killed anyone before! I'm a fucking thief, not a murderer!... Maybe she wakes up… she's still breathing"
Man 1 "If she is lucky enough to wake up, she could even not know who the shit she is after the blow to her head that she had when she fell on the sidewalk. George will have us by the balls if he finds out"
Man 2 "What are we doing? We should take her to the hospital, we don't have to go inside, we can just leave her there and-"
Man 1 "Did you fucking lose your mind? Don't be such a pussy. We are getting rid of her and then we are taking that stupid dog to George as if nothing had happened"
They drive their way to the exit of Rosewood, and only a few miles away, they pull off the road and being careful enough not to be seen by anyone, they get Hanna out of the car and take her some feet into the woods where they just throw her on the ground and then leave.
/
Some hours later. Evening.
Already showered, wearing his best cologne and dressed up with a black shirt and black jeans, Caleb is making dinner.
After putting the food into the oven, he decides to text Hanna. He thought she would arrive earlier because even though he told her to come over whenever she was ready, she promised to be there early and maybe help him cook. But given that she hasn't gotten there yet and that the food will be ready in around half an hour, he decides to rush her a little.
Caleb "Babe, are you coming? Dinner will be ready soon" he sends the text and goes to the living room.
He gets comfortable on the couch and turns the TV on.
Twenty minutes later he checks his phone for the fifth time more or less, but there is no answer from Hanna yet. Recalling the conversation that they had that morning, he remembers that Hanna told him that her mom would flight to London in the evening.
Caleb "Oh, I just remembered that your mom was leaving today. Take your time, babe" he sends her another text.
Then he stands up from the couch and goes turn off the oven. He can finish cooking dinner once Hanna gets there.
But an hour and a half later, Hanna hasn't showed up yet and she hasn't texted back either. So Caleb decides to give her a call this time and when he gets no answer from her, his concern grows. He tries calling again and once more he gets to the voicemail.
Not knowing what else to do, he decides to reach out to one of her friends and check if they have heard from her in the last hours. Spencer is his first option, but he dismisses it, since he doesn't want to worry a pregnant woman for no reason, Hanna could just be doing her make-up in her bedroom and have left her phone downstairs or something. So he calls Emily.
Emily "Caleb?"
Caleb "Hey, Em… how are you?"
Emily "I'm very well… what about you? Do you need something?" she asks right away.
Caleb "Yeah, I'm trying to contact Hanna, but she's not answering her phone. Have you heard from her?"
Emily "Not since this afternoon. I didn't see her, but we were chatting with the guys on our group chat. She said that she had had lunch with Ashley and she also mentioned that you two had a date later, but then she didn't text anymore, I thought she was with you"
Caleb "She was supposed to come over a while ago, but she hasn't showed up yet and I am getting worried because she's not answering her phone"
Emily "Okay, let me call her on her home phone. Maybe she lost her phone or something. I'll call you right back"
Caleb "Okay, thank you, Em"
He ends the call and waits for Emily to call him back. Only a few minutes pass by until she does, but they seem like hours to Caleb.
Emily "Hey, I called her like three times, but she's not answering her home phone either…"
Caleb "Fuck" he only says.
Emily "You think we should worry? She's very unpunctual and it could be possible that she doesn't answer her phone because she is kind of scatterbrained, but it's weird that she is not answering her home phone and she was really excited about your date, she should be there already"
Caleb "I don't know. I'll go to her place. I have to go check"
Emily "Okay, I'm going too. I'll meet you there"
Caleb "Okay, thanks" he ends the call and grabs his car keys.
/
Hanna wakes up. Or well, that is just a way of saying it, because although she regains consciousness, she's still very confused. The back of her head hurts a lot and she feels really cold, like freezing, even though it's a warm summer night. And when she attempts to open her eyes, she can't, her eyelids don't move. But she's so confused that she doesn't know if she did open her eyes and can't see anything because it's too dark or if indeed, her eyes remain closed. Then, she tries to raise one of her arms, but once again, she can't move. She tries again, but none of her limbs seem to respond. Anyone in her place, would freak out right away, but her headache is too strong and her tiredness too, plus her state of confusion doesn't even allow her to think clear enough to worry about the fact that she has no control of her own body. She passes out again in only a few seconds.
/
Caleb gets to Hanna's house before Emily, since he lives closer to her than she does.
As soon as he gets out of his car and takes a look around, he sees that the lights of her house are off, which worries him much more. But at least, Hanna's car is there, so he goes ring the doorbell.
Just as he assumed, he gets no answer.
Emily finally arrives and joins him.
Emily "So?"
Caleb "She's not here… there's no one in the house" he tells her, really worried.
Emily "What about Chocolate? I can always hear him barking from the inside when I ring the doorbell" she approaches the door and knocks on it, but there's no barking.
Caleb "Fuck! You are right! Chocolate isn't there either!" he runs his hands through his hair, despairing. "What time did you receive her last text?"
Emily "Let me check" she goes through her phone and a few seconds later she looks up at Caleb who is checking his phone as well. "2:03 pm" she tells him.
Caleb looks up at her. "She called me today, 2:17 pm and she was taking Chocolate for a walk, to the park… if Chocolate isn't here but her car is, it means that she never came back" his voice gets cracking.
Emily "Oh my god!" she says, very worried as well.
Caleb "We should go to the police"
Emily nods.
Caleb starts walking back to his car.
Emily "Can I ride with you? I'm too nervous to drive"
Caleb "Sure"
/
Caleb and Emily get to the police station.
They are expecting to be heard by the officers, they are expecting for them to make a report of a missing person and start looking for Hanna right away, but as soon as they step into the place, they see that the whole police station seems agitated, people going here and there, making calls, like if they were preparing for something, and they only get the woman at the entrance to pay attention to them. But she doesn't even give them a satisfactory answer, after taking down Hanna's personal information, she dismisses them by saying that they can't do anything when it comes to an adult woman that has only been missing for a few hours and that as far as she knows, she could have left voluntarily.
Caleb "Un-freaking-believable! I'm telling you that there's a missing person and you are not doing anything about it?" He raises his voice, feeling really frustrated.
Another male police officer approaches them. "Hey, if your girlfriend stood you up, it's not our problem. We are in the middle of something here, so get the fuck out of here if you don't want to spend the night in a cell"
Caleb is about to answer back, but Emily pulls from his arm.
Emily "Let's go, Caleb… we need to find Han, and we don't want to make things worse. Maybe Toby can help us. I'm calling him"
Caleb nods. He knows he won't get anything by yelling at that stupid police officer, and Toby, being a police officer himself, could get a better answer from them.
/
Once they are back in Caleb's car, Emily calls Toby and lets him know about everything that is going on. After a few minutes, she ends the call and looks at Caleb.
Emily "He's gonna make some calls and see if he can get some help from the police station himself"
Caleb nods and sighs.
Emily "We will find her" she tries to comfort him somehow.
Caleb "Not if we stay here… let's go take a look to the park"
Emily nods. "Yeah, it's pretty late, but maybe someone saw something"
/
An hour and a bit later, Emily and Caleb are back at his house after having looked for Hanna at the park, and then again at her house, where they also looked carefully for any clue that could help them know what happened to her. But they got nothing and Caleb is growing even more impatient and worried as the time passes by and he doesn't learn anything about Hanna.
Emily "What should we do next?" she asks with glassy eyes as she sits down on Caleb's couch.
Caleb "I'll try tracking her phone" he says while taking his laptop.
Emily "Why didn't you do that in the first place?"
Caleb sighs. "Because Hanna turned off her GPS location some days ago, so this could take me a few hours… I was hoping to find her before I had to do this…"
Emily "Why would she do that?"
Caleb "Jordan tracked her phone once… it was only to send her some gifts, but still… it wasn't right and she didn't feel comfortable with it"
Emily "Oh…" she purses her lips. "Can I help you somehow?" she asks next.
Caleb shakes his head no. "Just talk to Alison and Aria, maybe they know something that we don't"
Emily "Okay"
/
Emily gets back in the living room a few minutes later.
Emily "Ali and Aria know nothing, but they are coming over to help" she tells Caleb while placing a cup of coffee for him next to his laptop on the coffee table. "And so is Toby, he just called me"
Caleb "Did he get some help from the police?"
Emily "No… he said that they are in the middle of some important police intervention and that his coworkers couldn't help us even if they wanted, because of their superiors… police stuff"
Caleb "Shitty police stuff" he corrects her and grabs his cup to take a sip of coffee. "Hanna better come back home safe and sound or I'll burn that police station down"
Emily "We will bring her home safe and sound ourselves. We have to"
/
Later.
All the guys are at Caleb's. Except for Spencer who knows nothing because she was asleep when Emily called Toby and he sneaked out of the house, avoiding telling her about Hanna being missing not to worry her.
It's already past 1 am, Caleb has been all the time in front of his laptop trying to track Hanna's phone. The cup of coffee that Emily has poured for him got cold next to him since his frustration and nervousness have closed up his throat not letting him have one more sip of it.
Caleb "Fuck, fuck, fuck! I can't do this!" he shouts and stands up from the couch while running his hands through his hair in frustration.
Emily approaches him. "Hey! It's okay, just breathe and calm down… you said this could take a few hours, keep trying" she says, trying to reassure him and places her hand on his shoulder. "We have no other way to look for her right now, please"
Caleb nods and sits back down on the couch. "It's just that… it seems like her phone has a very poor signal, I lose it for moments… I run all these programs but they don't reach a good connection with her device. Besides, she could be anywhere, and maybe she doesn't even have her phone with her… I feel like I am wasting time sitting here"
Ezra "Yeah, you are right, but you keep trying there. That's still the best option we have right now. I'm going for a drive through the town, maybe I see something"
Aria "I'm coming with you… let's drive around the way between her house and the park"
Toby "Guys, if you see people in the streets, ask them If they saw something, show them pictures of Hanna and the dog"
Aria "Okay" she says before following Ezra outside and closes the door.
Toby turns his gaze toward Emily now. "You Em, give Jordan a call, maybe he knows something"
Emily looks at Caleb right away.
Caleb "It's okay, call him" he says softly, still focused on his laptop.
Emily "I don't think Hanna talked to him. They broke up yesterday"
Toby "Still, we have nothing to lose, call him. We need to exhaust all possible options"
Alison "Don't you think it's pretty weird that right the day after breaking up with him, she goes missing?"
Emily "The guy can be a shitty boyfriend, but I am sure he's not a kidnaper" she says while taking her phone to her ear and goes to the kitchen.
Alison goes with her.
Toby "You said her phone has low signal, but it still has some… you think you could find the telephone antenna that her phone is getting that signal from? That's what the guys do at the police station when they need to delimit someone's position in a certain period of time, like to check alibis and stuff, but they usually have to ask the cell phone carrier for the phone records and it takes some time and-"
Caleb cuts him off. "Yeah, I think I could try that… we wouldn't know the exact location, but we still could determine an area where to look for her and it would be definitely way better than nothing" he says while typing on the laptop.
Emily and Alison come back.
Emily "Jordan didn't answer his phone. But I left him a message, I told him that Hanna went missing and we think that something happened to her when she took Chocolate to the park. I asked him to call me back if he knows something, or if he talked to her after around 2:15 this afternoon"
Toby "Perfect"
Alison "Can I help somehow? I feel useless"
Toby "You can go drive around like Ezra and Aria… show people Hanna's picture"
Emily "Yeah, let's go do that… I'm going crazy in here"
/
Another half hour passes by.
Caleb "I've got it! I just got to the freaking antenna!" he says with a very slight smile on his face, but that little smile fades away in seconds.
Toby "What's wrong?" he asks him at seeing the worry on his face.
Caleb "This is not in the town… this is over the road, leaving Rosewood. This can't be good"
Toby "Hey, we can't jump to conclusions just yet! Hold yourself together, Hanna needs us. And now we know where to look for her at least"
Caleb nods. "Let's go" he says while standing up from the couch, carrying his laptop in his hands. "We are going in your car, I can keep trying to find a more exact location while you drive"
Toby "Don't you need a Wi-Fi connection or something?"
Caleb "I've got my own hotspot"
Toby "Okay. I'll call the guys, we need as much help as we can"
Caleb "Tell them to go 4.5 miles away from Rosewood exit. There's where we should start searching"
They leave Caleb's house in Toby's car, speeding up to get to that place as soon as possible. Caleb doing his best not to break down and forcing himself to focus on finding Hanna.