Twenty five minutes later the *short* interview that Ray’s police contact had promised him was still going and showed no signs of slowing down.

“Where you in love with Sloan Parker,Dr.Tate?”Det. Krieg asked not looking up from her notebook.

Ed placed his right hand against his forehead as he closed his eyes. His thoughts had scattered during the barrage of questions. He had to bring himself back under control if he was going to be any help to Sloan at all.

“Why aren’t you out there looking for her?!”Ed demanded ignoring the question.

That finally got the woman’s attention away from her notes,”I believe I’m the one asking the questions,Dr. Tate. Do I need to repeat my question?”

Ed glared at the detective,”No,you don’t have to repeat it because I refuse to answer such a ridculous question! My friend is out there somewhere, hurt! If you people aren’t going to look for her I’ll have to do it myself!”

Before Ray or Katherine Krieg could reply Ed Tate spun on his heel and stormed out of the apartment building.

Ed had made it half a block before he stopped remembering he had drove. His sneakers slipping on the rain soaked sidewalk Ed made a sharp turn heading back to Sloan’s. The light rain that had been falling when he had stormed out of Sloan’s apartment building was now a full fledged downpour.

Peterson caught up with him,offering the rain soaked doctor an umbrella,”Ed.......”

Tate glared at his friend,”Don’t try to talk me out of this,Ray! I don’t know how much of my family life Sloan’s told you about,but it isn’t pretty. Sloan is all I have and I’ll be damned if I loose her like this.”

Ray smiled grimly as he held up Ed’s set of car keys,”I was just going to offer to drive.”

Ed clasped the older man on the shoulder as they scurried to his car.

“Where to?”Peterson asked as he started the engine,throwing the car into drive.

Ed’s gaze was fixed on the rotating red and blue police lights as they danced across Sloan’s apartment building.

“Its a long shot but I want to get a copy of Daniels’s credit card bills.”Ed replied softly,”If he’s dumb enough to show up at Sloan’s he might have left a paper trail.”

“This is getting us absoultely *nowhere*!”Ed shouted in pure frusteration three hours later as he tossed the xeorxed copies of Daniels’ credit card bills on the dashboard in front of him.

Ray nodded in agreement as he looked out the rain spotted window to the shoe store across the street. The shoe store was the second to the last purchase listed and they still hadn’t found any sign of Tom.

“We’re not even sure if Tom made the purchases,”Peterson replied softly,”On top of that we’re not even sure this is even related to the new species. It could be just what it looked like,Sloan walked in on a robbery and the assailant paniaced and took her.”

Ed shook his head,”If that’s all it was we would have recieved a ransom by now.”

“Ed you wouldn’t believe how many kidnapping cases I’ve investigated that the victim’s families never recieved a ransom demand.”