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Warning: TW for violence and hostage situation etc.
This update has been so long-awaited, I know! Working 65 hours AND being back at school is kicking my ass. But I had some glorious downtime over Christmas, so here it is (FINALLY). THANK YOU, if you’re still sticking with me on this. Just a few more chapters to go after this one! So much suspense.
Thanks to Irene and Tori, for soundboarding with me and feeding my muse, as per usual!
Your Case or Mine - Chapter 20
It was just after 8pm when the trio of computers in the station lit up like Christmas trees and began beeping insistently. Belle and her assistant technician looked at one another and held their breaths as they watched the computers begin to triangulate a location.
“Emma’s phone was switched on!”
Belle yelled, alerting Killian and co. to the unfolding development. Within seconds, they were all crowded around the computers in tense silence, waiting for the signals to coordinate and spit out Emma’s whereabouts.
It had been over 24 hours since she’d gone missing, and the urgency to find her had only grown every hour. Killian was essentially in a permanent state of pacing by that point, and the others had long since stopped trying to convince him to sit down as they diligently continued to work every angle of the case and follow every lead they could.
A pair of officers had been sent to talk to Gold again, but had been unable to pin down his whereabouts thus far. Another pair had been tasked with digging into every angle of Neal Cassidy’s life, in an effort to track any locations where he could potentially be holding Emma, and a third pair were following the leads they generated and searching all of those locations. It was a round-the-clock job, but not one person gave a second thought to clocking off and going home.
Emma was family, and she was out there somewhere, in god-only-knew what kind of state, in the hands of a serial killer. She needed every single one of them to do their very best to find her. She’d do the same for them, and not a single one of them doubted that for a second.
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