Hi all and welcome by chapter III. I hope you enjoyed the last two chapters. In chapter two I used a clip-part in it like in Friends, Unfinished Business and Hind-Sight. I've putted nearly everything on a row of the MacGyver accidents with the exceptions of a few: Blind Faith, Faith Hope & Charity and Serenity. I thought of them to put them in it but eventually I didn't do it. When I counted the them I already had 15 of them in total and I didn't fell like doing it making it unnecessary longer, get it?
And now chapter III. From this chapter on the story finally gets going, all the troubles begin and now it's up to Mac to solve the situation. We find out Sally's -Sam's new girlfriend - last name. One more thing... the chapter is parted up in three parts not two as the topic description describes You'll see underneath here now the chapter starts for real.

(We fade in at the parking lot of the marina with a romantic background music)
Chapter III
Coming Home
The Wedding Night
The Morning After

MacGyver opened the door of his houseboat while carrying Maria in his arms. ‘Welcome home, Missus MacGyver,’ he said.
‘Missus Romburg-MacGyver,’ she said.
‘We are now an officially family.’
‘Aren’t you glad?’
‘Very,’ he said while they went up the stairs.
He carried her onto his bed. Clothes went off and they both dived under the sheets. After an enjoyable 30 minutes, they were both exhausted. ‘I thought I would never get married,’ he said after a long moment of silence.
‘Me neither,’ Maria said. ‘But, my opa, knew it was going to be about time for me to get married.’
‘Yeah, Otto is a very interesting man. I’m glad I got to know him and you in East-Berlin.’
‘So? What happens next in our lives together?’
‘I don’t know Maria. Getting some sleep I suppose.’
‘I know that you silly,’ Maria laughed. ‘I meant what’s gonna happen tomorrow?’
‘Oh, that. I don’t know that yet. Looking for a honeymoon.’
‘You are going to take me with you on a honeymoon?’
‘Yeah, I can’t go on my own, you know.’
‘But where to then?’
‘Go to a travel agency then. Pick something you like and we’ll go there.’
‘You will let me pick our destination?’
‘Yeah, that’s what I said.’
‘Oh, MacGyver, that’s so sweet of you.’
‘Oh, I know I am.’
‘What about after we come back? What will you do with the Phoenix Foundation?’
‘I don’t know that yet either. We’ll see. Maybe we can do our assignments together.’
‘That would be great.’
‘OK, then. We have a deal then. Now try to get some sleep then.’
They both got in each other’s arms and fell asleep together. In a very deep one.
(Suspenseful music comes in as in Ghost Ship when Mac searched the ship)
During the night, which didn’t last very long anymore it, happened. The door downstairs got open silently by one of the dark and mysterious figures. It was definitely the female one. Ms. D. who sneaked in. She looked around but there was nothing to look at because it was so quiet around and in the houseboat. Everybody was sleeping. As silent as a cat she sneaked up the stairs and went to MacGyver’s bedroom. She opened the door and looked at the two people who were sleeping there. A memory came back in her mind when they both kissed each other while sitting in front of the fireplace.
‘Oh, MacGyver,’ she whispered. ‘I’m sorry that I’ll have to do this.’
She went to Maria’s side of the bed, her hand sliding over Maria’s head. ‘Well, here’s our irritating Blondie, Mrs. MacGyver. Let’s see how long your happiness will last MacGyver.’
She took out of her pocket an injection needle and prepared it. She tapped the air out of it and took Maria’s arm and injected the liquid into her arm. Then she checked her eye pupils. ‘She’s definitely asleep.’
She looked into the roof window and saw the early lights coming out of darkness again. ‘Alright then, it’s time to go, Mrs. MacGyver.’
She took the purple night robe with her and did it on Maria, or else she would have it a bit too cold, to go outside like that, right? Right. Maria was very light in weight so it wasn’t a problem for Ms. D. to pick her up out of the bed and carry her over her shoulder although she was a bit taller than her. She carried her downstairs, through the door to the Marina. There next to the Nomad there was a black car with dark windows in it waiting for her. When she reached the door on the driver’s side the window opened a little.
‘Put her in the trunk,’ a voice said.
Ms. D. went to the trunk and putted Maria in it, and then later they drove away. During all this MacGyver didn’t a notice a thing of what was happening, he just kept sleeping until the morning.
MacGyver’s phone rang. He mumbled something in the phone. It sounded something like “hello”.
‘Hello?’
Nothing.
‘Hello?’
Nothing again. Now he was fully awake.
‘Hello!’
The person on the other side of the phone hung up.
‘Strange.’
He was getting the feeling something was terrible wrong. He looked at the other side of the bed.
Maria was gone!
‘Maria is gone!’ His eyes went every direction they could. He took his clothes, took a quick shower, putted his clothes on and his white Nikes, and then he took his car keys and ran to the Jeep. He started it and tried to drive away, his car nearly crashed against the yellow pick-up truck. Sam was driving it like a mad man. MacGyver was furious. ‘Damn it, Sam. That’s not how you drive a car!’
‘Dad…’
‘Next time when I see you driving a car like that, you can give those keys back, you hear me?’
‘Dad, listen to me. Sally is gone.’
‘Well, tell me something new. Maria is gone too. I’m on my to the Phoenix Foundation and you are blocking my way. Park the damn car and come with me.’
Sam did what he asked and joined his father in the other car. At a speed of 90 miles an hour they went to the Phoenix Foundation. (Here the music comes up when MacGyver drove the Gloria's House in Off the Wall searching for Lobo) They took an elevator to the eight floor and went to Pete’s office.
‘Pete!’ MacGyver said.
‘MacGyver, what are you doing here so early?’ Pete wondered.
‘Maria is gone!’
‘What?’
‘Yeah, and Sally too.’
‘I can’t believe my ears.’
‘I can’t believe this either, Pete. I just got married about almost 24 hours ago and there’s trouble already. I got a nose for these things.’
‘What do you want me to do then?’
‘I’m going to look for her.’
‘You don’t even know where to look for her.’
‘Call captain Kiley, lieutenant Rhome and lieutenant Murphy, they can look for her or something about her kidnappers.’
‘What about you, MacGyver? What are you going to do?’
‘I don’t know that yet.’
‘Yeah, Pete, tell them also to look after Sally Rally,’ Sam said.
‘Sally Rally?’
‘Yeah, my new girlfriend.’
‘Your new girlfriend already? You just broke up with the other one.’
‘I dumped her for this one, her friend.’
‘Interesting.’
‘All right, Pete, call the police now, will you? Sam let’s go.’
‘So touchy today, Mac?’
‘Yes, Pete, maybe I am! I just got married and not even 24 hours later she’s kidnapped! Nothing goes right, when I really like someone! Call them, right now! Not even a year ago, I lost one of my best friends in England and now I’m about to lose the woman I love. And please for God sakes Pete call me with my full name, which is MacGyver. I don’t want that anybody from now on are using the first three letters of my name anymore. My name is MacGyver!’
A long silence went through Pete’s office.
Sam’s eyes were complete wide open with astonishment of his father’s eruption. Pete’s mouth was open with astonishment. He was feeling hurt by his clever friend.
‘Sam, could you please leave the office for a minute?’ MacGyver asked.
‘Sure.’
Sam left.
MacGyver went to his friend behind the desk, taking him by the shoulders.
‘Hey, look Pete, I’m sorry, okay. I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.’
‘MacGyver, I…’ Pete couldn’t finish.
‘No, look Pete, hear me out. I’m sorry that I went out of line. A marriage can change things. My whole life just changed. I don’t want anything bad happens to Maria or Sam or you.’
‘MacGyver, that’s not gonna happen but why do you think she’s kidnapped?’
‘Pete, look at the time.’
It took a few moments for MacGyver to realize he couldn’t.
‘I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said that. That’s right you can’t with your blindness. It’s hardly 8:30, there are no stores open yet. I just want everything to be perfect, you know? Just call the police and check on her, will you, please?’
‘It would be a pleasure, Mac,’ Pete said.
‘Mac? It still has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?’ MacGyver said with a smile on his face.
‘Yeah, I’ll call as soon as I know something.’
‘Thanks Pete.’
MacGyver went outside the office were Sam was waiting.
‘Everything, alright, dad?’ he asked.
‘Yeah! Look, Sam, I’m sorry, I yelled at you before.’
‘That’s OK, dad. I understand. I’m sorry too. I shouldn’t have drove the car so fast and so wild.’
‘That’s okay, too.’
‘Now what?’
‘We’ll drive to the police station.’
‘But you just told Pete to call them.’
‘I know. I just wanna go there myself to make sure everything happens, as it should be. Come on let’s go.’
MacGyver and Sam took the elevator back to the garage. The elevator opened.
‘After you,’ MacGyver said.
‘Thanks, dad.’
MacGyver and Sam went to the parking space where they left the jeep. They both got in and MacGyver started the engine, then he realized something was under his window scraper.
‘Now, what the hell is that?’ he wondered.
‘You won’t know it, if you don’t take it or read it.’
It was a pink piece of paper when he read it.
(Suspenseful music turns on again and fades away after the flashback)
“Dear, MacGyver,
Am I not a sight for sore eyes or what?
You should take a guess of what I got.
You’ll notice along the way more things will happen the next few days. Be prepared!
You’re going to face one of your biggest challenges yet.
Bigger, deadlier and darker then a coma or temporary blindness.”
Deborah.
A flashback came back in his mind of the time when he was hunted down by Deborah and she said the words: ‘How about it MacGyver? Am I not a sight for sore eyes or what?’
‘Are you okay, dad?’
‘What? Yeah! Read this.’
Sam reads the note.
‘Deborah? But I thought you said she was dead.’
‘Yeah, I thought that too. She fell of Whistler’s Cliff after Jack made her trip over his feet. She died when I tried to pull her back.’
(Flashback scene of the episode Unfinished Business)
Deborah was hanging on the cliff, but the rock under her feet was big and strong enough to hold her.
‘MacGyver? MacGyver? Are you up there? I don’t wanna die.’
MacGyver took his cap off and reached out for her hand.
‘Deborah, give me your hand.’
‘You got me?’
‘Yeah I got you,’ although he wasn’t sure he could hold her or not.
‘Don’t let me fall! Pull!’
She took a knife from behind her back and tried to cut into his wrist. MacGyver pulled his wrist back. Deborah slipped over the rock and she fell of the cliff.
MacGyver looked down to Deborah who was on her back laying there.
‘Now I got a real reason to go to the police station.’
‘Let’s go dad.’
MacGyver drove to the police station and met Lt. Rhome and Murphy and Capt. Kiley. MacGyver introduced Sam to the three police officers and it looked like they tag along with Sam just like MacGyver on various occasions in his life.
‘Yeah, MacGyver, Pete called us just now, something about missing persons?’ Capt. Kiley said.
‘Yeah, Maria and Sally are missing since this morning,’ he explained.
‘What do you want us to do then?’ Lt. Rhome asked.
‘Are you guys the police or not? Go look for her.’
‘Ease up, MacGyver.’ Lt. Murphy said. ‘Take a seat and let’s talk about it.’
‘Splendid,’ MacGyver said.
‘Alright, we know about the wedding of last night,’ Murphy said.
‘Yeah, it was great wedding,’ MacGyver replied, ‘you should give my thanks to your twin brother, Kiley.’
‘I will,’ Kiley said. ‘So what happened actually?’
‘Well, actually nothing happened. We didn’t argue or anything. We just came happily home, had sex and talked a little of our future life. We went to sleep and the morning after, she was gone,’ MacGyver explained.
‘The same thing happened with me too,’ Sam said.
‘What do you mean, Mr. Malloy?’ Lt. Rhome asked.
‘Call me Sam, please. Me and Sally came home at her place. I stayed there during the night and the next morning she was gone too.’
‘Alright, we’ll see, what we can do, to find them. Only because it’s you, MacGyver. We’ve worked together before with the Phoenix Foundation, but remember: a person is only missing, when he’s missing for 24 hours.’ Capt. Kiley said
‘I know. Then there is something else.’
‘What then?’ Lt. Murphy asked.
‘When I was leaving the Phoenix Foundation with Sam, we founded a pink letter behind my window scraper.’
He gave the piece of paper to Lt. Rhome.
‘What is this all about?’
‘A death threat from some sort. It could come from one of the kidnappers. But it’s the name that worries me most.’
‘Deborah?’ Lt. Murphy asked.
‘Yeah. I knew one, but she died. At least I thought she died.’
‘Well, maybe she’s alive.’
‘Oh, no. I saw her die. She was as dead as she could be.’
‘How did she die, then?’ Kiley asked.
‘By falling of a cliff, while I tried to save her. She pulled her knife, tried to cut me but I pulled my hand backwards and she fell. You could almost say that I killed her.’
‘No, I don’t think so,’ Murphy said. ‘MacGyver I’ve known you for years, now. You couldn’t have killed her. She fell. It looks to me like she was trying to kill you.’
‘She tried it before. But no such luck.’
‘All right, MacGyver, we’ll see what we can do to find Maria. Meanwhile I suggest you go home and try to stay calm,’ Kiley said.
‘I can’t go home. I need to go back to the Phoenix Foundation.’
‘Yeah, whatever.’
A knock on the door dragged all’s attention. It was a police officer.
‘Capt. Kiley. Bad news. Dr. Zito has escaped the asylum.’
MacGyver and Murphy were shocked by the news.
‘Who is Dr. Zito?’ Sam asked.
‘How did he escaped the asylum?’ MacGyver asked.
‘Does the word “alkaloses” mean anything to you?’ the cop asked.
‘How long ago?’ Rhome demanded.
‘About 48 hours ago.’
‘What? Why the hell am I not notified about all these things?’ Kiley demanded furiously.
MacGyver started to get this creepy feeling in his body.
‘Kiley, I have to go back to the Phoenix Foundation. I have to tell Pete about all this.’
‘Sounds like an excellent great idea! We’ll come with you in jiffy. And next time Blake if you don’t tell me these things, you can think about looking for another job.’
‘Give the guy some slack here, Kiley, he’s just new here since the last 48 hours,’ Murphy said.
‘That’s not true. Only for the last two days.’ Blake said.
‘Isn’t that exactly what she means?’ MacGyver wondered.
‘Look, captain I only know it since 15 minutes ago.’
‘Alright, because you are new on the job I’ll let this one slip by, but next time it happens, you won’t take of that easy.’
‘Can I come with you guys? I want to learn and experience,’ the young cop said.
‘You’re on your own pal.’ Kiley said.
‘Come on, don’t listen to him,’ Murphy said. ‘I’ll take care of you during our field operations.'
‘All right, lieutenant, but he’s your responsibility then. Be careful that nothing happens to him or you.’
‘I always carry the bullet proof vest and from now on, he’ll carry one too.’
‘Can I have my own gun, too?’ he hoped desperately.
‘No, not yet. I’ll always have one extra in case of emergency.’ Murphy explained blinking an eye.
‘All right, guys. I like to chitchat too but I’m going to the Foundation now! See you all later.’ MacGyver said with a smile and a bit arrogance in his voice.
‘Wait for me, dad and explain who the hell Dr. Zito is.’
While driving to the foundation and being followed by a police car MacGyver explained who Dr. Zito is.
‘So are you going to tell me about him?’ Sam asked.
‘About who?’
‘You know, about this Dr. Zito fellow. What’s wrong with you today, dad?’
‘Nothing is wrong with me. I just expected that my first new husband day went a little different instead of driving from the Phoenix Foundation to the police station.’
‘Tell me about him, dad.’
‘Alright, then. He was just a psycho, who succeeded in letting Eric Cross escape. He used him to get his target, Lt. Murphy. By controlling him psychologically, he made him do the exact things he wanted to and it almost worked. About 2 years later, now 3 or 4 years ago he tried to teach me a lesson in evil, because he couldn’t bear it that he lost the last time. Evil never plays fair. That’s why it never wins.’
‘But how, than? How did he taught you that lesson?’
‘By giving me sums that stood for letters in the alphabet. That’s how we find out, he tried to kill the only person in the world who tried to help him.’
‘Who, then? Certainly not you.’
‘Nope, it was Dr. Skinner. He tried to kill her after he tried to kill Lt. Murphy by putting explosives on my stairs. She landed quite badly between the couch and the table. She made it but her leg didn’t. She broke it like glass. And apparently he escape just now.’
‘Well, duh! But why are we driving to the Phoenix Foundation, then?’
‘Because I’ve got this feeling. The note of Deborah, Dr. Zito’s escape… and it wouldn’t surprise me if Murdoc is in on it too.’
‘Murdoc?’
‘Yeah, Murdoc. Always skidding in and out of dark. You’ll see. That’s why I’m so tense today.’
(suspenseful music comes up again and fades out here)

Original date of post: Feb 17 2004 10:46 AM