Chapter
Eight:Chapter
Eight:
Face to Face
Duff hit redial on his cell phone for the millionth time. He had been desperately trying to reach Emily since she left, but she was not picking up. "Oh crap" Duff said as he saw the gang walk into the hospital.
"Hey Duff" Frank said as he and the others walked up to Duff.
"Did you figure out what's poisoning Lia yet?" Duff asked
"Not yet" Cheryl replied "the lab is running a tox test on the coffee now, they have been instructed to call me the moment they know something"
"We just couldn't sit and wait around the office any longer" Matt said "how is Lia doing?"
"The same" Duff replied. Matt looked around and for the first time notice that Emily was nowhere in sight. "Where is Em? With Lia?" Matt asked
Duff told a deep breathe and back away from Matt "She left" he said
"Left, what do you mean she left?" Cheryl asked
"She went after Marshall" Duff replied
"And you didn't stop her?" Matt asked "I told you not to let her out of your sight."
"I tried to stop her" Duff said
"Emily is 100 pounds soaking wet, you could have stopped her" Matt said
"What was I suppose to do, take her hostage. Emily has a mind of her own, once it is set on something there is no stopping her, you of all people should know that" Duff replied
Matt moved forward but Cheryl stepped in between Duff and Matt "alright, you two coming to blows is not going to help and figure out where Emily went" she said
"I've been trying her cell since she left but she's not answering" Duff replied "I'm hoping it is because she sees my number on the caller ID and is choosing to ignore it."
Matt took out his cell phone and hit speed dial. He let the rings go through until he got her voice mail. "She’s not picking up for me either" Matt said
"Where would she even go to look for him? We have no leads." Frank said
"Un-oh" Samantha said. That got everyone's attention pretty quickly. "About four months ago, Lia, Em, and I were just hanging out and Lia showed us this technique where you can hack into someone's GPS on their cell, if they were to call you from their cell to your cell phone. If Marshall called Em from a cell with a GPS locator on it, than Emily knows exactly where Marshall is to" Samantha said
"I'll have a serious talk with Lia when she wakes up about that but you just gave me an idea" Cheryl said "We can track Emily by the GPS in her car and cell."
Miles away and just outside the city Emily pulled into an abandon farm. She had followed the GPS signal that she was getting from her phone to here. She knew Marshall was inside; she had done a quick search the farm once belong to Marshall's great aunt. He was a fugitive; he would think that he was safe here. Her phone rang again, she looked at the caller ID figuring it would be Duff again but this time it was Matt. She ignored it and took a deep breathe. She pulled her gun out and headed into the farm.
Emily entered the farm, it was completely dark. She pulled out her flashlight and kept her gun out in front of her. She looked around; there was nothing to suggest anyone had been there for years. Emily heard something, she followed the sound, but she didn't expect to see what she saw. A young woman hung upside down, bound and gagged, meeting Marshall's MO. Emily quickly ran over to her, and got her down, she pulled out the gagged "My name is Emily, I'm with the FBI. What's your name?" Emily said to the visibly shaken woman.
"Julia" she said
"Ok Julia, you are going to be alright. Do you know where he went?"
"No he just left" she replied.
"OK, let me get you out of here" Emily said helping Julia up, they were slowly making their way to the exit when Marshall came up from behind and pulled the girls down. Emily started to fight back but Marshall had the upper hand "run Julia run" Emily called out before Marshall pushed a clothed over her mouth causing Emily to lose consciousness becoming Marshall’s latest prey.