Chapter 12 - The Hunt Part 1

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Jessica's POV:
I had left Claire alone for a bit to work on her schoolwork when I heard knocking on the door. I started to go towards it and I heard the door burst open. I saw someone go past with a gun in their hands and I quickly went over to Claire room.

Once I was there, I shook her awake and told her to hide before hiding myself. I ran into the nearest room, which was the bathroom, and crouched down in the shower.

I heard some footsteps in the hallway then a door opening. I listened closely and heard some talking. I couldn't quite make out what they were saying, but I could hear two people in there. Oh no, have they got Claire? I thought.

I heard a door opening and in the distance I could hear what I thought was the front door closing.

I listened for a few minutes just to make sure the person was gone. Once I was sure, I came out and ran to Claire's room. When I couldn't find her anywhere in there, I went to go look around the apartment. I looked for about half an hour and still saw no sign of her.

I called the cops and explained what happened. Soon enough they arrived and asked some questions.
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After what seemed like forever, we finally went out looking. I hadn't told the cast yet so I went to the group chat and told them what had happened.

I heard a knock on the door and I opened it to see Elle and Ryan. "Come in" I said shakily, moving out of the way to let them pass.

"Are you ok?" Elle said, stopping next to me. I nodded my head in response and we went over to the living room. Ryan sat on one end of the couch, with me in the middle and Elle on the other end with her head on my shoulder.

"So any news yet?" Ryan asked.

"N-No. Not yet." I replied.

"Oh ok" he said, putting his hands around my waist. I leaned into him and he pulled me in, attempting to comfort me.

After a while, I felt someone shaking me. I opened my eyes to see Elle staring at me. "What?" I grumbled.

"Well 1, the detective person called. And 2, I thought I'd wake you up." She replied.

"Oh." I said, then realizing what she said, I said, "Wait!? The detective? What detective?"

"Oh umm, they put a detective in the case  because it was kidnap and yeah." Ryan explained.

"Well what did they say!?"

"They had a clue on who might have taken her. I can't remember the name though."

"It was Jack Lennox." Elle cut in. I felt like I had heard that name before although I couldn't quite figure out how.

I called the police station back and they told us to meet them at noon. After I hung up, I checked the time. "Wait, did you seriously let me sleep through the whole night!?" I half yelled.

"You needed the sleep." Ryan said in his defense.

"Fine. Well anyways, we have about an hour and a half till we have to be there so what should we do?"

"I don't know, just something to take our minds off this." Elle said.

"Why don't we play a few games of uno?" Ryan suggested, pulling the game from his jacket pocket. Honestly, how come he always ends up having uno with him. We decided to play a few rounds.

Before we knew it, it was 1:45 so we got in Ryan's car and drove to the police station.

Once we got there, we waited for about five minutes till someone called us back. I followed them to a room in the back while Ryan and Elle stayed behind in the waiting room.

Once we got into the room the person invited me to sit down. There was someone else already there. I recognized him as her agent who I had talked to earlier. "I'm Eddie Smith. I've been working on figuring out the case last night and we've figured out one suspect. He goes by Jack Lennox." I heard Mark, the agent, gasp.

"What is it?" I asked.

"Well, that man, he was her adoptive father." He said.

"Oh well, do you have any information on him?" Eddie asked.

"From what she's told me later on, he was abusive to her and I would see her walk into my office all the time with bruises all scattered. She would always try and make up excuses for them but I still decided to keep an eye on her. A little bit later, Ms Keenan-Wynn came into my office and told me what had happened and now she's the foster parent of Claire."

"Ok." Eddie said pausing to think about what he said. "So if what you say is true, we have to go as soon as possible. Do you know where he lives?"

"Yes, unless he's moved in the last few months."

"Ok, meet me at 4:00 pm later today, once I'm done for the day."

"Sounds great!" I said. "Thank for all of your help."

"No problem! Have a nice day!"

With that, we both walked out of the room, discussing what had just happened.

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