AN: This is a totally random fic that just popped into my head while I was lisntening to All These Lives by Daughtry. It's the perfect song for this fic. It's written in Joan's point of view, and I might, enfisis on might, rewrite it in Auggie's point of view. Hope you like it! ~The Orb

This was supposed to be easy. No one was supposed to get hurt. It was so simple! Annie's FBI partner was checked out! We made sure that he never made contact with any enemy organization! Now she was kidnapped.

I looked down from my office and watched my people hurrying around trying to get information. I turned to the tech department, and looked at Auggie. He was standing up, shouting out orders to his team and pacing wildly. He sat back down at his desk, sweat pouring from his brow, and redid the research, trying to find any flaw. I had never seen him this worried for an agent. Heck, I'd never seen him this worried, and I was there when he found out he was blind.

"Joan!" Jai yelled from bellow my office. "Joan, I found something!"

I soon realized I wasn't the only one sprinting down to Jai's desk. I few seconds before I got there, I saws Auggie standing there, without his 'cane,' and he always has it.

"What did you find Jai?" He asked with extreme concern. He looked as though he was about to drop dead from worry.

"I think that's my question to ask Auggie." I said. I walked up to his computer to see what he found.

"The FBI agent just demanded $5,000,000 for Annie's safe return. This time, I don't think that her ex-boyfriends going to be able to save her either." He said calmly.

"Why not?" I asked. I didn't want to lose this agent. She was the best we've had in a long time.

"His body was found in a subway 5 minutes ago." He said. So we'd endangered this girl's life for nothing. We'd called her in to draw him out. Now he was dead.

"Where are we getting the five million?" I asked.

"You actually intend on giving that? $5,000,000 is a lot of money." Jai said. I understood why he was so calm. He saw Annie as a dispensable object, like an agent that no one really needed. Superficial bastard.

"What do you mean? Of course we're getting her back! Are you so vain that you can think of no one else you son of a bitch?" Auggie asked, looking angrily at a spot over Jai's shoulder. I'd never heard Auggie curse before. He must really care about Annie.

"Are you telling me you actually believe that she's worth 5 million?" He asked Auggie with a look of disbelief.

"Are you telling me you don't?" He said with deep hatred.

"You two, break it up!" I said, even though I agreed with Auggie.

"Yes I'm saying that she isn't worth $5,000,000! I'm saying she isn't worth $5!" He said, completely ignoring me. Auggie moved forward and grabbed his shirt. He pulled him close, whispered something I couldn't hear, and punched in the nose. Jai started bleeding all over his desk. "You'll regret that, Auggie!"

"Auggie! Joan! Get over here!" Stew yelled. Auggie yet again sprinted over to Stew's desk. I was right behind him. "I need you two to read this."

He handed us each a piece of paper, mine with words, Auggie's in Brail. It read: 'You took too long to respond to my ransom. Now you'll never get the girl back."

Auggie finished before me. He groped for a chair, and when he found one, he collapsed into it. He looked disbelieving.

"She's gone. We were too late. She's gone." He muttered to himself. Jai came up beside me, a look of triumph on his face.

"Well, now that that's out of the way, what are we going to do on this surveillance issue?" He asked. I wanted to slap him! Annie was gone, and he was worried about the case. I stared at him with my jaw hanging open, as was Stew. "What?"

"YOU BASTARD!" Auggie yelled. He jumped from his seat and launched himself at Jai. He grabbed one of the paper weights on Stew's desk and rammed it over and over into Jai's face. It took almost the entire tech department to get him off Jai. They, unfortunately, had to knock him out in the process. They dat him in his chair and let him sit. I walked up to my office.

~ 6 Hours Later ~

I walked across the nearly deserted floor to the one desk still in use. Auggie was sitting there, empty cup of coffee on his left side, still working. His eyes were blank and unseeing, but there was a sort of determination in them.

"Auggie, you need to get some sleep." I said kindly. "You won't help her any by exhausting yourself."

"I can't go home." He said blankly. I knew what he meant. I wouldn't be going home tonight either.

"Well then, there's a closet in Arthurs office, with a cot in it." I told him. He would have to sleep sometime.

"Thanks for the offer." He said. I decided to leave him alone and walked over to Annie's desk. I looked at the picture frames she had around it. There was one of a woman that was obviously her mother, and a stony looking man that could be her father. One of her sister and her family that she's always talking about. There was one of her cat, and another, newer one right in the center of the desk. It was of her and Auggie outside the Capital Building. They must be great friends.

I looked over, and Auggie was slumped over his keyboard, out cold. I wouldn't even try to move him. I walked over to his desk, just to check if he was okay. I noticed some pictures as well, which confused me, as he could not see them. One was of a woman with light green eyes and dark brown hair. I remembered that he had a sister named Alice, so this was probably her. There was one of a German Sheppard, and a couple that was obviously his family. I was about to walk away when I saw a bright light coming from one of his open drawers. I opened it and saw something that surprised me. It was the exact same picture of himself and Annie that Annie had. Everything was identical. Now I fully understood why he hated the SOB who kidnapped her, even if he didn't. He was in love.