Jordan slept peacefully that night. Being held, by Cross. Ocassionally making out a little and touching each other in the most innocent of ways, yet in the mose intimate possible. Jordan couldn't remember a time, ourside of her childhood, that she'd been that comfortable with anyone.
Morning came along, and Jordan quickly dressed in jeans and a sweater, looking forward to waking her daughter. It was something she didn't get to do very often, so she looked forward to it when she was able to. She smiled at the still sleeping Cross, though she could tell, by his breathing pattern that he would be getting up soon. So she sat on the edge of the bed and leaned over him, "I'm just going to get Sammy up," she told him softly as she pressed a soft kiss to his lips, "Maybe after breakfast the three of us could go out to town and get you something more.. casual and comfortable," she added with a grin. She kissed him gently again, this time on the corner of his mouth and sat up from the bed, then left.
She went down to the end of the hallway, and stood in front of her daughter's door. She knocked on the door just before twisted the knob and pushed the door open. She looked immediately to her left, where Samantha's bed is. It was empty.
Jordan didn't panic. Not yet. At first, she was just a little confused, and started looking under the bed, and in the closet. She didn't notice the note until she was about to leave the room.
Red envelope. The same as the ones she'd found on the scenes for the case she and Cross were working on.
Immediately, the blood drained from her face and she felt cold all over. She didn't care about precautions at the moment, she grabbed the red envelope and opened it.
Her world had crashed around her ears. She knew Sammy had been taken, and it was because of Jordan's work.
Jordan pulled the letter out of the envelope carefully, FBI training kicking in at least a little bit, the writing was in a spidery scrawl, but the words were in spanish.
No deje el Señor de venir
The letter in hand, she tore out of Sammy's room, hoping against hope that maybe there was a misunderstanding. That was the mother in her. She woke her mother up and nearly hit Cross with the door when she opened her bedroom door up. Her heart was pounding quickly and she was panting as though she'd finished running twenty miles.
When she saw Cross though, she went straight to him, her hands clutching his shirt over his chest and pressed her face into him, even as she continued holding the letter and shook her head, "She can't be gone.. she has to be hiding somewhere.. she can't be gone," she said, her voice sounded too close to tears and one could tell she was trying to pull it together.