The Pain.

Bryce sat in the chair staring blankly at the paper drawing his daughter had done for him the day before Halloween. It wasn't the best, losing the one you held close to you since birth. No, it was far from it. The guilt and the pain tore at him like a bear tearing into its kill as if it hadn't ate for years.

"No! Smitty, you don't understand!" He could hear his husband nearly shout on the phone. "Smitty please. You have to talk to him and tell him it's her..it has to be. She's loose...yes...yes I know she's presumed dead but Smitty I seen the damn note!" Bryce began to tremble as he looked down at his coffee mug that had his and Ryan's name on it before sighing a shaky sigh.

He wondered how someone could do such a thing as to take someone away–not just anyone though. Your own daughter. The one you couldn't live without. Yet no answer other than revenge would come to mind.

He found himself sitting listening to his husbands conversation with his partner. It wasn't going the way they had hoped because his partner was doing his job, telling the truth. Smitty was telling his friend exactly how everything would go down but he didn't listen because he had hope..

Bryce shook his head as he looked up at the clock to see it was nearly midnight now. They had been on the phone for hours now.

"Thank you..okay, bye." Bryce looked over to his husband who was leaning against the doorframe with a small frown plastered on his lips. He wanted to speak but he couldn't find the words nor the will to do so. The last thing he wanted to do was speak. "Bryce Smitty is trying to check in with my boss and see if we can continue the closed case.."

"We can't..they don't believe us.." Bryce sighed, finally speaking. "They never will until it's too late Ryan."

His husband just sniffed as he made his way to the blonde. Once he was close enough, he pulled him into an embrace, causing him to break down into tears. "Bryce I swear to you we'll get Lily back. If it's the last thing we do." The way Ryan said it made him believe there may be hope for them. But even so, they had no idea where Lily was.

If they somehow got a clue it would either be too late or it would be at the wrong time. He knew this and so did Ryan but they would never admit to it. They were too afraid to accept the truth.

"Ryan," Bryce said, voice shaking. "We have to get her back. We have too.."

The male only nodded as he ran a hand through the blondes golden locks, fingers brushing against his head. He sighed deeply as he nuzzled into his husbands chest, blue eyes beginning to water again. All he wanted was to find his daughter, no matter what.