Maria didn't even blink before she pushed Rath away and made a run for it. Rath just smiled, he loved a chase. He ran after her while turning back to himself. Maria had a good lead on him but he was catching up on her. Maria tried to run faster but she couldn't get away from Rath. He was to fast, he grabbed her from behind and covered her mouth. "Shhhhh, don't yell Ria'." He told her. "It will only make me want to play more." He whispered in her ear. ------ It's been 35 minutes and still Maria wasn't at the Crashdown. And Michael had this feeling in his stomach that he couldn't shake off. He flipped some burgers and looked up at the clock. Now it was 36 minutes, Michael sighed but then he heard the phone ring. "Hello?" Michael said into the phone hoping it was Maria. "Hello bro." Rath said from the other end. Anger ran through Michael's vain. Why was he calling him? "What the hell do you want?" Michael asked trying not to cause a scene. "Ya know Mickey, the question isn't what I want. Its who I want." Rath said with a snicker. "You stay the hell away from Maria." Michael demanded. "Mickey, how can I stay away from her if she right here with me?" Michael's lost his breath. "But it's okay, Mickey. I'll take real good care of her for you." Rath snickered. "I'll play nice." He whispered and then hung up the phone. Michael slammed the phone down and pulled Liz in the backroom. "Michael, what is wrong with you?" Liz asked wondering why Michael was pulling her into the backroom. "Rath has Maria!" Michael told her. "Oh my god! Are you sure?" Liz asked, all of the sudden a shelf fell off the wall. "YES! He called me." Michael told her between his teeth. "Michael just calm down until we can get a hold of Max." Liz told him trying to hide the fact that she was almost as scared as Michael. "I'M NOT GOING TO CALM DOWN!" Michael yelled. "And I'm not gunna wait for Max. I'm going to find Maria, now." Michael said while walking out the door. Liz followed him. "Michael, wait! I know your afraid to loose Maria. I am too, but we can't just go off and look for her." Liz told him. "Why the hell not?" Michael asked. "Cuz we don't even know where she is. If we get Max and Isabel maybe Isabel can get a hold of Maria and we could get to her faster." Michael stopped and turned around. "Okay, but we need to hurry up." Michael told her Liz nodded her head and went to go call Max and Isabel. ------ Maria was handcuff to a mental pipe in what seemed like an apartment. A really bad and dirty apartment. Rath was just sitting down on a chair across from Maria. He kept smiling at her, as if he was making a plan all in his mind. "Ya know, Ria. I've never met a human like you before." Rath told her. "I'm not surprised. The only time you've actually talked to a human was when you were probably killing him." Maria snapped. Rath laughed, he loved her spunkiness. "I like that, Ria." He told her. "What are you talking about?" Maria asked, trying hide all the fear that was going on in her head. "How ya all spunky, even though you know I can kill you in less than a second. I really like it. Makes me wanna play." Maria got even more scared. She would rather die than do whatever Rath had in mind. But still Maria didn't want to show any fear to Rath, because that would mean he was winning. ---- "You left her alone?" Max asked again. Michael really didn't need to hear this from Max. "Yes, but I didn't..." Max cut Michael off. "Why did you leave her alone, Michael? You knew she was in danger and yet you still..." Michael was about to give Max a piece of his mind but Liz beat him to it. "Max, there's no need to point fingers at anybody. And Michael doesn't need you to blame him even more than he's blaming himself." Liz told Max in a stern voice, Max sighed. "I'm sorry, Michael." Michael didn't say anything he just nodded his head. "Okay, we need to find some way of finding Maria." Max said. "Isabel you think you could dreamwalk her?" Isabel nodded her head. "Ya, I could try. Give me a picture of her." Isabel told Michael. Michael nodded his head and handed Isabel a picture of Maria. Isabel held the picture in her hands and closed her eye's. ------ "Maria? Maria, are you here?" Isabel yelled through the darkness. "Isabel?" Maria's frightened voice called. Isabel turned her head and saw Maria laying down on the floor. "Maria, oh my gosh. Are you okay?" She asked her. Maria nodded her head. "This is just a dream, huh? It isn't real. You haven't found me." Maria said. Isabel nodded her head, she wanted to tell me that they had found her and were taking her home. But she couldn't, they didn't even know where she was. "Maria, I need you to tell me where you are. Do you know where you are?" Isabel asked. "I'm not sure. I think I'm at apartment building, an old one. When Rath took me here..." Maria paused she didn't remember much cuz Rath knocked her out, but she woke up 10 minutes before they got to where they were. "Well?" Isabel asked. "I know I'm still in Roswell. Ummm, 20 maybe 30 minutes away from my house. Umm, I remember being on route 64. The apartment buildings they are blue and white." Maria tried to explain. "Do you get to see what they were called?" Isabel asked her. Maria shook her head no. "Wait! I think it says something like, Sunshine or Roswell Sunshine. I don't know something with sunshine." Maria told her. "Are you sure?" Isabel asked. Maria shook her head no. At this point she wasn't sure of anything. All of the sudden Maria yelled out in pain. "What? What's wrong?" Isabel asked worried. "I think...... Rath .... is trying to wake me up." Maria let out. She screamed in pain again. "I don't think he's doing it in a peaceful way either." Maria moaned. --- Isabel shot up from the couch she was laying down on and gasped for air. Everyone rushed to her side asking questions about Maria. Isabel couldn't understand any of them. "Everyone shut up!" Isabel yelled. They all got quiet. "Thank you. I got through to Maria." This got Michael's attention. "What did she say?" Michael asked her. "She didn't say much. She says that she was okay, for now. And she gave me some information about where she was. But we need to get there fast." Everyone nodded their hands as they ened to Max's car. ------ "WAKE UP!" Rath yelled at Maria. Maria's eye's flew open. "Well, it's about f*cking time. I've been trying to wake you up for 10 minutes now." He told her with a smirk on his face. "I'm tired. I haven't gotten' much sleep lately." Maria told him coldly, while noticing that her hands weren't handcuffed anymore. Rath smirked again. "I know, and you won't get any for a while." He told her. Maria didn't say anything. She just sighed and kept repeating to herself that her friends would be there soon to save her. "What cha' thinkin' bout' Ria? Are you thinkin' your friends are gunna save you?" Maria didn't answer him. "You are, how sweet. To bad that isn't gunna happen. They will never save you, not until after I'm done playing." Rath told her and then through her against the wall. TBC

Part 13