Save Me: A Chenford Love Story

6: Fade to Black

6: Taken

"SHIT!!!" Tim yelled as he hung up the phone.

With no hesitation, Tim was up out of the bed and putting on clothes. Ashley shot up. Tim had startled her. She asked "Tim, where are you going? It's like four in the morning."

"Work."

"Why do you need to go to work at four in the morning?"

"Something came up and I need to be at work." Tim replied hastly.

"What emergency? Is everyone okay?"

Tim was starting to get irritated. He believed that she was asking too many questions. For goodness sake, he was a cop. Emergencies don't have a time. His mind was on one thing and one thing only. He was starting to become frantic because the more time he was spending at his house was the less time he was focusing on finding Lucy. Tim was everywhere trying to make sure he had everything. Ashley said "Tim slow down. Tell me what's going on; maybe I can help."

"Dammit Ashley! I'm not in the mood." Tim stormed out the room and slammed the door.

Running to his car, he dialed Angela's number. "Tim, why are you calling me at this ungodly hour? You do remember that I have a baby right?"

"Angela, I know and I'm sorry for calling you in the middle of the morning, but I need you to meet me at the station."

Angela noticed his tone of voice and immediately became concerned. "Tim what's wrong?"

"It's Lucy." He said with a crack in his voice.

"Say no more. I'm on my way. Contact the others. See you in 10." She hung up the phone.

Tim texted everyone an SOS and for them to meet him at the station. Within about fifteen minutes, everyone was at the station. The first one to speak was Nyla "Tim, what's the SOS in the middle of the night?"

"Okay, so it's Lucy-"

"What do you mean it's Lucy?" Nyla interrupted.

"She had called me because she said she was about to go stir crazy if she didn't have a reminder of home. So we had been talking on the phone and then she said she heard some noises in the living room area so she got her gun, but they over powered her and all I heard was her scream and then that was it." Tim said with his head hung low.

The room became silent. Everyone remember what happened the last time that Lucy got taken. She almost didn't make it and she was scarred forever afterwards. No one wanted it to get this far again, so they were all thinking of way on how to make sure they saved her, quickly.

As for Lucy, when she came to, she was in a dark basement. Hands and feet tied to a chair. All she could do was remember how scared she was when this happened when Caleb did this. She knew she was in danger and the only thing she could think about was Tim. Not how she was going to escape, but Tim. Her vision was blurry from whatever type of shot that they had given her to knock her out. Scanning the room to see if there was any indication of where she was, but she could hardly see. Anger, frustration, sadness, and fear all seem to have taken over her at the same time. Lucy began to whimper and said to herself softly, "I hope I make it back home."

A few moments later, the lights around her came on and she looked up and saw men that she that she recognized. These men were some of Tomas Midgrial's best guys. So they meant business. One of them spoke up and said "We heard you can cook."

Lucy looked at them puzzled for a second and then she got her head in the game. "What's it to you? Yeah I can cook, but so can every other adult in this country." She said sarcastically.

The man pointed a gun at Lucy's head and asked "Does it look like I'm trying to be funny?"

"Depends are you going to fix your face because your face reads hilarious."

Now his hand was on the trigger and still aimed at Lucy. She looked at the gun and swallowed. She didn't want them to see that they were getting to her. So she said, "Okay, yes I can cook, but why do you need to know that?"

"That's what I thought." The man said with a hint of triumph in his voice. "We need a cook because ours was unalived a few days ago and products are going fast. We need to keep supply up so boss isn't mad." He continued.

"And you couldn't have just asked me that? You had to drug me and kidnap me? For what?"

"We like theatrics. Now can you do it?"

"How much?"

"How much what?"

"How much will I be getting paid for this because your theatrics are going to cost you double."

"I don't think they will." The man said.

Boom. Boom. It was loud. And then Lucy felt herself wince and then she felt a warm sensation coming from her abdominal area. She had been shot. And she was thinking "This bastard really shot me? Am I going to make it out of this? God please make sure I make hit home."

And then it all faded to black. And once again, Lucy was gone.

Back at the station, everyone is wrecking their brains trying to ensure that they find Lucy alive and well. Angela and Nyla were at Angela's computer looking through all the cases they had that might help them find who in the world would want to take Lucy. Nyla also gave June a call and told her to make sure if she heard anything that she would call immediately.

While everyone was moving and communicating with one another, Tim was off in the corner. Memories wrecked his brain of how scared he was the first time she was taken and how long it took to find her. What if this time they didn't make it and Lucy was gone? What if they couldn't find her? So many ideas swirling around in his head. A tear ran down his cheek. He had never been this afraid on the job before whether it be in the military or being on the streets of LA, but in these moments he was terrified.

"Tim?" Someone called.

He looked in their direction and it was Ashley. She came with lunch and said "Hey my love, I brought you lunch."

"Thank you, but I'm not hungry" He replied with a half smile.

"Tim, you need to eat. Not eating won't help find her."

"And neither is us having this conversation, but here we are."

Ashley looked down. You could tell that stung. She didn't know why Tim was being so mean and grouchy. And Tim was just starting to figure it out himself. He lost the one person he cared about more than anything in the world for the second time and he didn't know how to handle it.

All of sudden, everyone became busy and was running towards Nyla and Angela. "TIM?!" Angela screamed.

He ran over to her and was frantic. "What happened did you find her?"

"Coco just called, and they know where she is, but she's been shot and it has been said to not be looking to good for her right now." Angela informed him while rubbing his shoulder.

All of the color drained from Tim's face. "She was shot?" He whimpered.