Abduction

Worries

"You can go now," Peggy told Daniel.

He had insisted that he wouldn't leave until the 3 month old, Elizabeth, was sleeping.

"She's sleeping?" Daniel asked as he stood up.

"Yes, Daniel." She have him a quick peck on the lips before she practically shoved him out the door. "I'll see you later."

Once the door was shut -- and Daniel was on the other side of it -- she walked into the kitchen to get a bite to eat. Finding nothing in the fridge, she turned to the cupboard. She stopped short when she saw a small plate of cookies on the counter. She sighed in awe of her husband. What she did to deserve to him, she has no idea.

Peggy has been sitting on the couch for a good 30 minutes when she heard Baby Elizabeth stir. She walked down the hall and entered the nursery. On the way to the crib, she grabbed a burb clothe and bottle. "Okay, Elizabeth," She cooed as she walked to the crib.

One thing that can give a mother a heart attack is her missing baby. And even more so when you're a new parent. Peggy searched around the crib frantically but no sign of a baby. She started searching through the room but no baby. Before exiting the room she grabbed an empty bottle and threw it at the wall.

She searched everywhere upstairs before running downstairs.

She froze in her tracks. Gosh. The sight in front of her was truly her worst nightmare. "Dorothy. Underwood." She spat through gritted teeth.

Dottie looked up from the baby and smiled deviously at Peggy. "Peggy." said she. "Or should we call you, mummy?"

Peggy's fists were clenched at her sides as she stared at the Russian with cold eyes.

Peggy took a step closer to the two. "Ah ah ah," Dottie said taking a step backwards.

"Give. me. the baby."

"She's adorable," Dottie stroked the baby's cheek and Peggy took a sharp breath. "What's her name?"

"Dottie," Peggy said trying to keep her -- all of them -- emotions under control. "Hand me the baby."

Dottie shrugged -- she already knew her name -- and tore her eyes from the baby. The one piece of Peggy she had. For now. "At any moment now, the power in this whole neighborhood will go out. And I'm going to run -- with the baby -- and you of course are to be dumb enough to follow me. Because that's what you always do."

Trying to stall Dottie -- for some reason she couldn't explain -- Peggy inquired, "And why would that be 'dumb'?"

"Because, Peggy, as I have said before, your idealism... blinds you." Peggy wanted to roll her eyes at the familiar sentiment.

Peggy opened her mouth to say something but Dottie beat her to it, "Red Oak Ranch, Peggy." Then the power went out and Peggy felt herself launch at the last place she saw Dottie.

But when the power blinked back on, she was no longer in the house. Red Oak Ranch? She grabbed her pocketbook and jumped into her car, racing everyone to the Auerbach Theatrical Agency.

Totally and rudely ignoring Rose's polite welcome, she ran to Daniel's office.

Daniel, surprised by her sudden appearance, looked up and was immediately worried. Peggy didn't make eye contact with her husband as she reached for the maps and splayed them across the desk. "Peggy?"

Peggy was too focused on the map looking for the said ranch. "Peggy!"

That time it caught her attention. She looked up at the Chief with glossy eyes. "What are you doing here?"