By C.
Disclaimer:ABC owns all the characters.
Summary: Alex has been kidnapped…but just where is she and just how does she get out? Keep reading!
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An excited Maddie burst into the study of her father, her stocking feet
sliding this way and that. "Daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, look!"
Daddy didn't look, merely waving his hand to her to pipe down, "What's that? That's right President Putin, you *are* a hard man to get a hold of, I'm so glad you've taken my call, that's right, Tempo has been waiting not so patiently to get a few minutes of your time..." Brooke, who was on the edge of the desk, hanging on to every word, picked Maddie up and sat her on the desk, next to her father.
"Daddy! DADDEEEEEEEEEEEE!" An exasperated Maddie called out, waving a piece of paper, "S'from Alex! S'from Alex!" Maddie chanted, waving her paper about proudly. "President Putin, you'll have to excuse me for a moment as I pass you to my colleague, Brooke English." Edmund thrust the phone to her and grabbed Maddie and led her to the couch, away from Brooke and the President of Russia. Yes, President, it seems..."
"S'from Alex Daddy, see." Maddie held out her paper again, proudly, but unable to read it. "Read me Daddy, read me!"
"Alright. It...it is from Alex." And so Edmund began to read the hastily scribbled note, written in Alex's sleek and swooping hand.
A Prayer for Angels
I prayed for Angels to guard you night and day
I prayed they'd hear and keep harm away
If you should hear the swoosh of wings or feel a gentle touch
I know my prayer was heard today and you are loved very much
"Pretty, like me!" Maddie whispered then ran off, it was tea party time with her dollys.
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Gathered around the study desk, Edmund, Brooke, and Dimitri sat, many hours later, pondering the meaning of Alex's mysterious letter.
"I don't get it, why wouldn't she write 'Help! Am trapped!' or something more specific?" Brooke asked, sipping her cold coffee.
"I don't know. Maybe they were monitoring this?" Edmund tried to answer.
"'They'? Who's 'they'? And since when did Alex become religious all of a sudden?" Dimitri pondered.
"I don't know...she's never really..." Edmund's voice died off as his eyes landed on something in the bookshelf across the room. "I have it! I know what she meant and where she is!"
