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Two hours later Will still won't go back to sleep. He'll quite down as long as we hold him but the minute we try to set him down he start crying again.

"Sam! TJ! This isn't funny come out!" I hear a frantic Connor call out. "Samantha!"

James, who's currently holding Will, looks at me concerned before walking quickly out of the nursery. I follow behind him.

"Connor what's wrong?" James asks the wild eyed man standing in Sam's bedroom.

"I can't find the kids." He says just as Brad walks in the room.

"Here." James says handing him Will. James walks around the room, looking in the closet and under the bed. Then he flips the pillow and pulls out a piece of paper.

"We warned you Evans. Now you will pay. We have your children. Do as we say and they won't get hurt." James reads off the paper putting me into shock.

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I look up at Tristan who's starch white. He walks out of the room in one quick step. I look at Brad then Connor, who's still shaking. Then I look at little Will who's terrified.

"Connor." I say softly. He looks at me. "You need to calm down. We will find them."

"I need my little girl." He cries out with a wail.

"I know and we will find her but you need to stay calm for your other two." He looks at me blankly. "For Will and for the baby. You know what stress does for the baby." He nods slowly looking down at his son and his still flat stomach. He sits on the toy bench and starts talking softly to the little ones. I look over at Brad.

"You okay?" I ask him.

"I have to be." He tells me. "For them," He nods at Connor and Will. "and for Sam."

"I know." I tell him before walking out the door.

I find Tristan in the kitchen talking on his phone.

"I have a son." He's saying. "That bastard took my son. He took my niece too. I will do anything you want me to if you can get the kids safely back to their parents." He listens for a minute. "Thank you. I know this is a bad time but thank you." He hangs up the phone and turns around, spying me in the door.

"James." He says but doesn't say anything else, he doesn't need to. It's all written in his face. I turn around and head back upstairs.

"James!" He calls after me. I don't care. Stepping back into Sam's room I find Brad is now sitting on the chest too, arms wrapped around his husband in comfort. Connor's crying softly leaning into Brad and holding Will tight. I sit down on the other side of them pushing some of Will's soft dishwasher blonde curls out of his watchful brown eyes. I feel a few of my own tears start to fall.

"James." A voice says softly. I look up to see Tris in the door way.

"Let me explain." He says softly. Brad and Connor look up at him too. None of us says a word. "I let the money, the life, get in my head. I got into some bad stuff. I screwed up but I didn't think anything of it then. Then everything went bad. I don't know why but all of a sudden The Boss didn't like me any more. He started gunning for me and I got caught by a young agent. He felt bad for me or something I guess because he said he could help me. He wanted me to go undercover with a wire but I was afraid so I said no." He pauses for a moment to take a deep breathe. "Then The Boss aimed where he knew he could hurt me the most. He threatened you, James. I thought if I left that it would protect you and I was right. He left you alone. I thought it was long enough, that he had forgotten. That's why I came back. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." He says. My hand starts hurting and I realise I just slapped him across the face. I didn't even realise I had gotten up.

"Get out." I don't even recognise my own voice. "That child is my everything and now he's gone because of you." He doesn't say another word but I can see he's hurt by the look on his face. Good now he knows a portion of what I feel. He turns and walks out the door with out looking back.

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The reason Tris left. What do you think? Would you have reacted the same way James did?

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