Delaney forced the window open surprisingly easily, he paused to listen, grinned again and jumped lightly into the house.  Delaney's eyes went to the stairs, he could hear running water,

"A bath," he muttered too himself, "how nice."  Delaney headed towards the stairs, but froze half way up when one of the stairs gave a loud creak,

"Damn," he hissed.

Mickey felt bad about having to stay at work whilst Jess was alone at home, he had one of those sinking feelings in his stomach, but the supervisor had insisted.  Mickey looked at the pile of forms and swore under his breath.

Delaney blew his dark fringe out of his face in relief as he heard no movement from the bathroom, he hurried up the rest of the stairs, fishinf the small knife out of his pocket, he tried the door handle and was surprised to find it unlocked, a smirk settled on his face as he opened the door,

"Hello pet," he growled.

Mickey dropped his pen,

"I shouldn't have let her go alone damn!"  Mickey gathered the children up and managed to somehow keep calm, "Okay girls, you are going to get looked after somewhere safe and I am going to get Mummy back okay don't worry."  Mickey grabbed his gun, if Deigo had done anything he just wanted to put a hole through his head.

Delaney let a half laugh escape him, she should have at least been panicking at the sight of him,

"How's your side? I don't think I hit you hard enough," he snarled, "and now no one is coming to rescue you."Delaney's eyesflicked too the bath, it was beginning to get to the overflow, he wondered if she would turn her back on him to turn it off or not.

Delaney took a step twards her, he made sure she could see the knife,

"Well pet, I might have to make sure you don't get off so lightly this time," he said lowering his voice to a menacing whisper, he didn't know why he didn't just get on with it, but he had to admire her spirit in the face of danger

Mickey pulled up to the kerb as he saw Jess crumpled on the pavement, firstly glad he had managed to find her and secondly angry at the state of her.  He jumped out of the car and scooped her up of the pavement,

"Jess what happened and where is that peice of slime?" he asked concerned.

"He went to see what Delaney is doing to Kirsty." Jess managed to get out and she was forming at the mouth due to all the cermicals that he fed her.

 Deigo jumped through the window and asked Delaney "Need any help?"

Delaney choked as he got an unexpected mouthful of water, he lost the knife in the bath for a few seconds before he managed to grab it and scramble out of the bath all at once.  His clothes stuck too him like glue.  Delaney swore at the vanishing red head, flung his sopping coat off and ran after her.  He stopped dead as he saw clippings on the wall, they all featured him in some way or another,

"What the..." he growled, then a smirk crossed his face, looked like he asn't the only obsessive one here.  Delaney stopped just inside the bedroom door, the smirk still playing around his lips,

"What are you going to do pet? Shooot me?" he asked dryly.

Mickey put Jess in the car,

"I'll get you to A&E, you need to be checked out, then I am going after him and his half wit brother," he said, his tone deadly calm.

(bye ER)

Delaney fell next to his brother, 

"Okay looks like we outstayed our welcome," he yelled.