Chapter Nine

Chapter Nine:

Revelations

Emily started to stir. Her head was killing her; she had no idea where she was to. She was resting on a cold hard floor and her hands were tied behind her back. The room was dimly lit and it took a moment for Emily's eyes to adjust, when they did she scanned the room, that's when she saw Julia, gagged and bound hanging upside down. The events of earlier came rusting back "damn it, she never got away" Emily thought to herself as she struggled to sit up. That's when she noticed that her gun and badge were missing. She heard footsteps, "you're finally awake, I was starting to worry that I had killed you." Marshall said as he walked down the stairs to see his prisoner had regained consciousness.

"Did you drug me?" Emily inquired

"Chloroform. But you have been out for five hours now. But I was able to entertain myself while I waited for you to wake up" Marshall said smiling. He looked over at Julia and winked. Emily understood what he meant by that and she got the cold shivers. "You did catch me off guard. What are you doing here?" he asked

"I came to stop you" Emily replied

"I don't think so. You have a high IQ just like me, we're one in the same" Marshall said

"I'm nothing like you" Emily replied

"I wasn't finished, don't cut me off." Marshall said "You are smart but yet you came here alone. You knew you could not take me on your own but yet you left the safety of the hospital and came after me on your own, and when you found me you did not call for back up. You are willing to sacrifice yourself for those people."

"Those people are my family!" Emily stated

"How honorable." Marshall said as he bent down and whispered in Emily's ear "however by sacrificing yourself, you are saving no one. Now, I have to go get rid of your car. Maybe I'll put it in drive and let it roll into a lake. I think I'll leave your ID and gun it in. That way when your family finds the car in a lake, they will think you had a car accident and drown. And they will stop looking for you, no one is every going to find you" Marshall threaten

"That's where you're wrong, my people especially Matt, will never stop looking for me" Emily called at Marshall as he walked back up the stairs and close the door, locking them in. Emily pulled herself up onto her knees, she still felt a little light headed but she had to try and get out of there. Once on her knees, she managed to stand up and she walked over to Julia "I'm going to get you down, it is going to be Ok" Emily reassured her. However, as long as Emily's hands were tied behind her back there wasn't much she could do. She looked around the room for anything that was sharp enough to cut through the ropes restraining her. There wasn't really anything around to help Emily get her hands free. She concluded by the concrete floor and the fact that there was only one tiny window in the entire place; they must be in the cellar of the farm house. Emily leaned her body up against the wall, she had to think and figure out what her next move was, and she had to get Julia out of there before Marshall got back.

Back at the hospital, Duff had decided to stay with Lia while everyone else had headed back to the office to try and track Emily using GPS. Duff wanted to help find Emily but he just could not bring himself to leave Lia and Cheryl wanted someone to guard her anyway so he had volunteered. They still hadn't figured out what was poisoning her. The doctors had managed to stabilize her and she hadn't had another seizure in over an hour but she was still in critical condition and was not breathing on her own. Duff took Lia's hand in his and whispered in her ear "I promise when this is all over, I'll finally take you out on a real date, we're go dancing like you wanted. Just please come back to me." He squeezed her hand then he leaned in and lightly kissed her on the forehead.

Back at the office, Matt was pacing back and forth the R-Sims room while he continually dialed Emily's cell phone. But it was still popping up voice mail. "Would you stop pacing, you are driving me crazy" Samantha said. She was sat to a computer and was pulling up the GPS from Emily's Car. Cheryl was in her office trying Emily's cell phone GPS. While Max and Frank had headed back to the conference room to look over Marshall's files again, to see if they had miss something, anything that might give them a location for Marshall.

"She's my girlfriend" Matt replied as he tried Emily's cell phone again

"Yeah, I get it you love her but you are not the only person in this office that cares about Emily. And this isn't easy for me either. One of my best friends is lying in a hospital bed being poison and the other is MIA with a psycho killer after her. I'm just as worried as you are. But we're both forgetting Emily is trained for this type of situation. If Marshall has her, she’ll fight." Samantha replied

Matt sat down next to her "I know" he said

"I got something. The GPS is putting Emily's car just off Airport Boulevard. It is in a stationary position" Samantha said

"The red dot is suppose to be Em's car, isn't that Lake Charles?" Matt question

"Alright, do you two have anything because I have nothing" Cheryl said walking into the R-Sims room

"You couldn't get a line on Emily's cell?" Matt question

"Nope nothing, either her battery is dead or she is somewhere where there is no signal. I can't track her GPS" Cheryl replied

"She must be somewhere where there is no signal than because Emily is too responsibility to let her battery die" Samantha said "we think we might have something, the GPS in her car is putting her vehicle right there"

"That's Lake Charles" Cheryl said "Samantha, go get Frank and get back up, head out there and check it out, keep me in the loop."

"Yes Mam." Samantha said as she got up and headed to get Frank.

Cheryl could tell Matt was becoming impatient waiting for his orders "You are emotional involved here and before I send you out in the field, I need to know that you are going to be able to follow commends, I can't have you putting anyone at risk." Cheryl said. She didn't want to have to keep Matt from going out to look for Emily but she would if she had to.

"Cheryl and I say this with all due respect, I'm going to find Emily, now I can do that as a FBI agent with a gun and badge or I can do it as a civilian, your choice." Matt replied

"Go but don't do anything stupid" Cheryl told him.

Back at the farm house, it had been at least an half an hour since Marshall had left, maybe longer Emily couldn’t really till. She was sat on the floor trying to untie herself, she had managed to loosen the knots in the ropes but she couldn't get it completely untied, so now she was attempting to wiggle out them, she knew that Marshall could be back at any moment and she had a fighting chance if she wasn't bounded. And she really wanted to get Julia down. She continued to rub her hands together, trying to wiggle lose. Her hands were stinging due to the friction from rubbing her hands together trying to get free. But there was no way in hell she was about to give up, she could feel the ropes starting to loosen. Just a few more minutes and she would be free; she just prayed Marshall wouldn't show up before than. A few minutes later, Emily had one of her hands free; she put her hands in front of her, and quickly untied the other hand. They were rubbed raw but she didn't care, she walked over to Julia and lowered the ropes that were keeping her up. She untied Julia, and pulled the gag out of her month. "Come on" Emily said helping Julia to her feet and heading up the stairs, Emily didn't think Marshall was stupid enough to leave with the door unlock but it was worth a shot, once they got to the top of the stairs, Emily tried the knob, just as she expect it was locked. "Now what?" Julia asked. "There is no other way out; neither of us can fit though the window it is too small"

Emily didn't know how to answer Julia, she had no idea how they were going to get out of there. They walked back down the stairs and Emily sat back on the floor. She really mess this up, she didn't tell anyone where she was going, she should have called for back up when she figured out about the farm house. By not doing so, she not only put her life in jeopardy, she put Julia's. "I have no idea how to get out of here" she admitted to Julia.

Julia sat down next to her "we need a plan" she said

That's when Emily had a revelation, she put her hand up her shirt and pulled out her cell phone "I hid it in my bra before I came in, I forgot I had it there" she said "but the antenna is broken." she realized once she had a looked at it "no way we're going to get signal down here without one, if we can figure out a way to fix it than I can turn it on and my team will be able to track the GPS, and if I get it done before Marshall gets back I might even be able to make a call to them and tell them exactly where we are."

Both Emily and Julia fell silent as they wracked their brains for a way to fix the cell phone. "My bobby pin" Julia said pulling one out of her hair and handing it to Emily

"It just might work if I had something to attach it with." Emily said looking around the room; she had another revelation when she saw the gag. It was only a piece of silk, she jumped up, pick it up and ribbed of a tiny piece, just enough to tie the bobby pin around the tip of her cell phone where the antenna used to be. She looked over at Julia and said “let’s hope this works” Emily took a deep breathe and pressed the power button.