"Be Home Soon" - Part 5
by Carkle Nesting
Alright, we should have the trace on Hope's phone any minute.
You at the Kingswood house?
Just got here. It's just how we left it.
I'm going to look for something to go on, you just figure out where the hell Hope went.
Chief said that no one saw her leave, she had to have gone out the back. Left in her own car.
APB on the car?
Of course. Boys are out searching now. If we pin her phone we have her though.
hey check your email
New text transcripts from Hope's phone and an unlisted number.
These aren't even an hour old.
Hold on, reading
Same
wait, so this is Ethan??
She seems convinced. He answered her question with no hesitation.
Can we trace that line?
No, unlisted.
Damn. But wait, he's being held somewhere? When did our guy get him out of the house?
We triple checked that footage. Ethan goes in and the perp comes out to the truck. Alone...
He never brought Ethan out with him?
Moff, you don't think...
Read that text thread again. He told her to go to the airport and to tell NO ONE.
He said she couldn't trust us.
And look at this, he talks about seeing Mike being murdered. He says "and Jessie..."
What, so he's saying she was killed too? Her body isn't there. Her blood isn't there.
But Hope doesn't know that.
So, wait, if Jessie was being held hostage with him, wouldn't he say so?
Wait a minute...
I have a feeling Ethan isn't trapped in a basement somewhere with a broken leg.
I'm having the same feeling.
hold on, making a call.
Station says no one has showed up with any "Big surprise" like the texts say.
It's bogus then, No one was coming for her at the station.
They wouldn't even make it through the front door.
That's why he told her to leave...
We have to get to Hope. Now, before it's too late.
I'm in the car. Switching to audio messages.
Where are you going?
"The airport"
"I'm moving too. Just put in the call"
"Detective Fields, this is HQ. We have the trace on Hope's phone. Sending you navigation coordinates now"
"Thanks Helen, I've got it"
"I'm ten minutes out, you follow her, I'm headed straight to the airport"
"Copy on that, I'm approaching her location now"
"Hold up. Moff, she's not in motion"
"What?"
"Her position isn't changing at all"
"Damn it, he was waiting for her. Ambush"
"I can see the car up ahead, it's pulled over on the side of the road"
"Door is wide open, keys are still in the ignition"
"He knew she'd have to take that road. Any sign of Hope?"
"No one here. Her phone is in the seat"
"One new message from an unlisted number. I'm going to check it"
"It has to be him"
"Hold on Moff, switching phones"
*picks up Hope's phone
1 new message: "So, you mu..."
*taps new message
So, you must be Detective Fields.
Yes, this is Fields.
And you must be Ethan.
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