Gone

Part 5

Chapter 5

Alex' POV

All of her drawers were, and are still, open and empty. The clothes she was wearing yesterday were lying on her bed, there were a couple of clothes on the carpet too and the rest is gone. Detective Morgan told us not touch anything in her room, but there is actually little we could touch in there. Jo and I went to our bedroom and noticed that Camilla's passport is missing, also her travel bags and so are some of Jo's clothes, which only made it worse for Jo. They just kept giving her the looks as if she was guilty of all of that. I even heard them saying she took her somewhere so she can run away with her and that they don't understand why she "pretended" the kidnap and didn't just left instead. I was going to kick them out but Jo told they were just doing their job and that we needed them to find her, but I swear I've had enough of him, I need another detective. We couldn't get any sleep or food in our system, we were just waiting for the phone to ring and be told that she was found safe and sound. We have already reported her abduction to the medias and came back home after that. Detective Morgan hasn't called us yet since we met him early this morning. Jo left for around ten this morning, she said she couldn't be here anymore and went out for a walk. I'm starting to get worried about her because she has left for almost three hours now. I've tried to call her but she isn't answering her cellphone. I called Stephanie to know if Jo was with her but she didn't answer her phone either. Meredith called me about fifteen minutes ago and told me she is coming here

"Yesterday, March 20th, a little after 4 o'clock at the afternoon, a three year old little girl went missing from Grey Sloan Memorial Daycare According to the police, someone posing as her mother took three-year-old Camilla Karev from her daycare. There are evidences that the little girl was taken to her house, where she lives with her parents Alexander and Josephine Karev both surgeons from Grey Sloan Memorial hospital, after the abduction from the daycare and-"

I hear to doorbell ring and shut the TV off. I get up from the couch and head to the door to open it to Meredith.

"Oh Alex..." I hear her saying as I walk back to the couch "How are you?" I just shrug my shoulders and sit down. She walks into the living room and sits with me in the couch.

"I'm barely hanging on. I hate to be sitting here and doing nothing while my daughter is somewhere out there with someone she doesn't know." I tell her and she puts her hand my right shoulder and squeezes it.

"Everything is going to turn out okay. You have to stay optimistic about it." She says and I lift my eyes up from the floor I was staring at and look in her eyes.

"I'm going to lose it Mer, I can't take this anymore. Not knowing where she is... How... how did this happen? Why my kid?" She puts her hand on my face and wipes the tears that are falling from my eyes from my cheek "I don't even understand... I mean... Why? Why would they take her? How did the daycare just let anyone take her? It makes no sense!"

"I can't imagine how you're feeling. Whoever it is that took Camilla will answer your questions, but you have to believe, Camilla will be here soon." Will they, though? I know it's too soon but every single minute that goes by I lose a tiny shred of hope. I know it is too soon for it but it has been almost twenty-four FREAKING hours and there's no sign of her. There is no tracks of where they might have gone to with her. There is NOTHING that leads us to her but the fact that 'Jo did it' according to them. And it is breaking me. Piece by piece. "Have they said anything else? The police?"

"No." I sniff and shake my head "There's nothing new. They just said that they are searching the surroundings for her and that they asked the security tapes from the daycare but haven't been able to get them yet." I still have her little bunny on my hand. I couldn't let it go, and I refuse to. It's the only material thing we have that she loves. She must be so scared... "You what" I look back at her and she nods so that I can continue what I was going to say "She... My baby... She didn't want to go there yesterday..."

"Alex! Stop right there." She puts her hands on both of my cheeks and forces me to look at her "This is NOT your fault, you hear me? You could not have known that this would have happen."

"She just wanted to be with us... she didn't want to go there, but none of us was could take her to the hospital. We were too freaking busy to be able to stay with her. We were supposed to go shopping with her, you know... for her birthday. We promised her and... and now... we uh... we won't be able to keep our promise" I'm just crying because I can't take these images from my head. Her crying. The last time I saw her she was crying for me and I... I just walked away because I had to freaking work. My child was crying for me and I went to work. Her crying is the last thing I saw and heard from her. I want to hear her giggles and out loud laughs again. I want to see her filling this house with her bubbly contagious joy. I do even want to her crying again, at least that would mean she was here, here with me and I could make it go away.

"Alex you guys couldn't predict it." She hugs me and lets me cry in her shoulder "Yesterday you didn't tell me if the police had any suspects..." she says as she pulls away to look me in the eyes again "Do they have any?" I nod at her question "Who?"

"They think Jo did it..." I say it in a whisper.

"What?!" she looks at me shocked with what I just said "That's ridiculous!"

"Yeah tell me about it. Mrs. Taylor swears with her life that Jo went there, picked Camilla up, sign the paper and then left, and with that, the police thinks that she came here with her and then took her somewhere else. Beyond stupid right?"

"Yeah that is just... it's absurd!" she shakes her head and looks perplexed

"Yeah... I'm starting to think he did it. The detective, with the help of that Taylor lady. I mean he doesn't seem to care about the case that much... I wonder why this had never crossed my mind, but right now it is what I'm thinking that happened. I know Jo didn't sign that paper for sure. She was in the hospital at that time."

"Actually..." Meredith starts to talk but then stops to ponder about what she is going to say "Nevermind, it's irrelevant" I nod at her, I wonder what she was going to say but if she says it is irrelevant then it won't hurt not knowing "Jo, how is she? Is she sleeping?" I shake my head at her "I want to talk to her" she says getting up from the couch "Where is she?"

"I don't know. She left three hours ago."