Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 14:42:07 +1000 (EST) From: Christina Fraser Subject: Submit:part 3 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII As Al was looking for sam he suddenly called out stop. He had found Sam, at least the year that he was in. Without the details provided by the guest, it would take a little longer to accurately pinpoint him. At least now they had a starting point. With the year set, Al went about drawing a picture of the girl in the Waiting Room. Once it was done as best he could, he ran it through Ziggy, to see if she could come up with a match for that time. Still feeling nauseated from the search, Al went into his office and laid down, leaving standing orders that if any information came to hand, he was to be called. With so little information to go on, it took Ziggy three hours before she had made a positive ID on the girl. Ziggy called Al to inform him of the new information. " Admiral,.......Admiral, wake up. " Ziggy continued to page Al for the next five minutes, until there was a response. " Okay, Okay, I'm awake. What have you got Ziggy? " " I have finished the search and have identfied the woman in the Waiting Room to be Miss MIchele Dana Thomas of Endeavor Road Chicago. She was born 30th September 1977. " Then Ziggy's voice stopped. " That's great Ziggy, what else have you got? " " That is all at the present time. Loking at the original history, Miss Thomas disappeared on the 1st of September in the year 1996, she has not been seen since. History shows that the police were unable to determine if Miss Thomas was kidnapped, went to start a new life, or if she was killed. The current time zone that Dr. Beckett is in would mean that Miss Thomas has been missing for three days. " " Three days, and Sam has been there for one. We know that Michelle did not go by choice, that is apparent from her condition. Now why can't you get a lock with all the information that we have? " " We are trying, but there is interferance, and also, if we don't know the exact location of Dr. Beckett's leap, then it takes a while longer to find him." " Ziggy, I want Sam found, the longer he is out there in the dark, the more danger he is in. " With that Al left his office and went in search of Dr. Beeks. The news was not good. Michelle had not regain consciouness, and was on full life support. Even with all the advance technology at their disposal, there was nothing they really could do except wait, and pray. After checking in with Ziggy and Gooshie, Al went to his quarters and went to bed. His exhausted body not up to anything else. ########################### Sam must have dozed off, he awoke to find his body shivering, and his mind groggy with pain. He knew that going to sleep was not the best thing to do in his present condition, but something, even Sam could not fight. The night passed without any more vsits from his cerberus. Sam tried to figure out why Al was not here yet. By now, he would have all the information, and be preparting to fix the problem that the leap involved. Instead, Al had not even shown up. Sam tried to remember if he had offended al in his last leap, but either his Swiss Cheese memory, or the blow to the head earlier, had blocked out the memory. After an hour of thinking and trying to plan without Al, Sam realised that he had no hope alone. Without Al, and the help of Ziggy, he had no chance of completing the leap, or even getting out alive. Lying on the cold floor, Sam gave into depression and exhaustion and soon fell asleep. The next two days were a semi-blur to Sam. The man came back four times, and each time, he asked Sam if he had changed his mind. When he was given the negative answer, he would take out his frustration on Sam and beat him. After a particularly bad beating, Sam was left fighting to breath. WIth his medical knowledge, Sam feared he had punched a lung, caused when his ribs were broken. The next beating left Sam blind. With no food or water, Sam started to give up. Al had still not appeared, and at this stage, Sam wished he didn't. Alone, cold, blind and bearely able to breath, Sam gave into the little voice in his head, and fell into the black void of a coma. #############################