Chapter
Fourteen:Chapter
Fourteen:
Getting Closer
Hours had passed or maybe it was minutes or seconds, Emily couldn't really tell anymore. All she knew was she was once again hanging upside down in the main room of the cellar. Marshall had just re-entered the cellar, he gave Emily an evil grin, when she did not response to him. He walked over to her and waited, she knew that he would not leave until she opened her eyes, her hazel eyes became locked with his bright blue eyes, "You were well worth the wait" and with that he walked up the stairs leaving Emily alone with her thoughts and tears
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Ryan, the CSU guy, had entered the room, Matt quickly sat down next to Frank, he truly didn't think he could handle any more bad news standing up. Ryan dove right into what was found into the car "We found Agent Lehman's laptop underneath the backseat in her car , it was badly water damaged but we were able to recover certain files from it"
"So?" Frank interrupted "Its just old case files on it, that doesn't help us to find her now"
"True, except I was able to pull up the last search she did before she disappeared. She had been searching for information about this farmhouse" he said passing the article to Frank and Matt "and she had pulled up the global positioning to find the exact location to that farmhouse, I think it's significant" Ryan replied. Matt just nodded his head towards Ryan in gratitude, he believed that this was the lead that they were so desperately looking for.
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Lia felt like there was a fight going on inside of her, her mind was trying to get her to open her eyes while her body fought to keep them closed, it needed more time to heal. But she was sick of being unconscious, she could feel the presence of her parents, Duff and Cheryl, she could also sense the panic and worry that was surrounding her. She heard her mother ask the doctor ,for what she thought might be the sixth time "when well she wake up? You said it would take a couple hours, it's been almost five"
Lia heard the doctor reply though it was rather faint" Different patients react differently it may take her longer to respond to the medication."
Lia had enough she needed to wake up, she needed to let the people she loved and who loved her know that she was okay, and then her mind won the battle and Lia opened her eyes for the first time in four days. Due to the fact she still had a tube down her throat she was unable to communicate to anyone and first no one seemed to notice that Lia had finally done what everyone had been praying for, she had woken up. It wasn't until Duff had gotten up from the chair he was sitting on, he came face to face with her brown eyes. "Lia, she's awake." Duff said dumbfounded.
The doctor rushed over, he did the standard check up, looked into her pupils, she responded and started to point to the tube, it was extremely uncomfortable. Not even an half an hour later, Lia was sat up in bed, no longer hooked up to anything besides the IV. She had made her parents go down to the cafeteria for something to eat.
"So, I've been out for four days, give me details of the case. Have you caught Marshall yet, I would really like to kick him where the sun don't shine." She asked in a scratchy voice and taking an ice chip and putting it in her mouth, her throat was still sore from the tube.
"No, haven't got him yet" Duff said. Lia noticed that Duff and Cheryl still looked worried, and that's when it hit her "where's Emily?" That was the question Cheryl had hoped Lia wouldn't ask, she didn't want to worry her, she had just been through one hell of an ordeal herself. Lia didn't really need either of them to answer, their expressions told her all she needed to know. "Is she still alive?" Lia asked in a voice just above a whisper this time it had nothing to do with her throat being sore but because a lump of fear had just developed there,
"I don't know" Cheryl said it was weird, she rarely said that, she always seem to know the answers.
Lia pushed the covers back from her and was about to attempt to stand up. "What are you doing?" Duff asked alarmed at Lia's actions
"Going to save my friend" She said "don't give me those looks I'm fine" She said with such stubbornness and determination. Cheryl and Duff just looked at her to stunned to talk, Lia was always the sensible one Cheryl was about to stop her but Duff cut her off "I'll get your laptop and you can work from here but you are not getting out of this bed" He said with the exact tone of stubbornness and determination that Lia had just moments before. Lia nodded her head in agreement and got back under the covers while Duff left to get her the laptop.
Cheryl had determined that she would wait for Duff to get back before she left to go back to the office, now that Lia was okay, all of her energy needed to focus on finding Emily. Cheryl's cell phone rang, she looked down and saw Matt's name flash across the front of it, "Carrera" she answered.
Matt's voice came through, he wasn't speaking in full sentences, Cheryl could barely understand what he was saying "lead, Farmhouse, Marshall's great aunt" But she certainly got the last part "I think we found Emily"