The next day..

Mom's letter doesn't explain much about what happened that night. If I ever intent on finding Bryan than I need to know more. I felt bad about missing Matilda's tryouts but I need all the time I can get. Instead of lying I just told her the truth, that there's someone important that I need to find. Lucky for me she's an understanding kid.

Peter stepped into the police station and the officer at the front desk greeted him.

"Peter! It's been a while, how are you doing? How's May?"

"She's fine Rob, and so am I. Is Derek around? I really need to talk to him."

"Of course, he's in his office, go on in I'll let him know you're here." Rob replied and opened the door. It buzzed and Peter walked in receiving quite a few hellos from everyone inside.

Uncle Ben was one of New York's best police officers so everyone at the station knew him and they know Peter and May. The whole station was there for them when Ben was killed. Peter scanned the room until his eyes locked onto the man he was looking for. Officer Derek Sheen smiled and opened the door to his office waving to Peter as the teen made his way over.

"Peter it sure has been a while, you don't usually come to the station. What do you need?" Derek ruffled Peter's hair as he led the boy into his office. He sat in his chair and looked at him with amused curiosity.

"Derek...can you tell me about what happened at the hospital." Peter asked and as soon as he did Derek's smile vanished as a smaller one appeared.

"I had a feeling you'd find out about it on your own. You wanna know what happened to Bryan." Derek said and Peter nodded

"Mom's letter doesn't really explain much."

Derek turned in his chair and began rummaging through files in the cabinet behind him. He pulled out one and turned back to Peter pushing the folder in front of him. Peter took it opened the flap and began reading through as Derek explained...

"Unfortunately there's not much more that I can add...When Ben called and said that there was a kidnapping at the hospital I got a team and headed over there immediately. When we got there half the nursery was missing a total of 10 infants were gone, 4 girls and 6 boys. We went through that nursery up and down over a dozen times, but there were no signs of forced entry. We've questioned every member of every family and we couldn't find a single clue on why someone would want to take them. We eventually came to the conclusion that child trafficking may be involved. And since there were no forced entry it meant that someone working at the hospital may have been involved. So we questioned and did background checks on every employee in that hospital. But all of them checked out. The case went on for months and we couldn't find a single clue on who had taken them and with no ransom demands...After a year the case went cold...and all the missing infants were assumed dead."

Tears fell from Peter's eyes and Derek moved around the desk to hug him.

"I'm sorry Peter, but there's not much else to say, I really wish I knew more-" he turned Peter's head to look him in the eyes "-but we've done everything we can and I'm afraid you just have to accept the fact that Bryan's gone."

Peter pushed him away and glared at him.

"No! He's not! I know he isn't!-" he sniffled and wiped away his tears "I-I know he's still out there...somewhere and I'm going to find him no matter what."

Derek stared at him for a moment then sighed "Ok."

"Huh?" Peter looked up as Derek made his way back over the cabinet and pulled out more files.

"I know I'm going to get in trouble for doing this, but...here." he handed Peter the stack of files. He took them and looked at Derek confused.

"This is everything we have on the case including the names of the other missing infants." Derek explained. "Just don't tell anyone I'm one who gave them to you."

Peter jumped out of his chair and hugged him. "Thank you." Derek returned the hugged "You're welcome and good luck. Who knows you might just have better luck at finding Bryan than us." They pulled apart and Derek looked Peter in the eyes once again

"I can tell that you're determined and I know you'll succeed. You're just like your uncle. Ben would be proud of you."

Peter waved goodbye to his friends as he left the police station and headed straight for home...

As soon as Peter got to his door he was grabbed from behind by a pair of tiny arms.

"PETER!" came the voice of Matilda as Peter turned and picked up the little girl hugging her.

"Hey Matilda! How were the tryouts?"

"Miss Abby said I was the best dancer she'd ever seen!" Matilda cheered

"That's great! I knew you'd be amazing-" he whispered in her ear "Were the other girls jealous?" Matilda giggled in reply

"I think so."

"I'm really sorry I couldn't make it. But I have something very important I need to do right now." Peter apologized.

"It's okay. Just promise you'll come to my first show." Matilda said and Peter held up his hand

"Peter Parker Promise." he stated and Matilda touched his palm

"And no take backs this time!" she retorted

"Heh and no take backs." Peter added then set the little girl back down next to her mother, who had been standing quietly watching.

"Matilda sweetie, go wait in the car I need to talk to Peter for a moment." Suzanne said and Matilda headed for the car with a peppy "OK!" Suzanne waited for the door to close before turning back to Peter.

"So, how did it go with Officer Sheen? Did you find out anything about your twin?" Suzanne asked, but Peter shook his head.

"No. I'm going to do some research see if I can find anything on what happened that night. Maybe go to the hospital and talk to some people see if they can give me anything. I'm also going to try and get in contact with the other families see what they know. I'm not giving up I don't care how long it takes I will find him, and the others if I can." he wiped away a tear that threaten to fall. Suzanne hugged Peter and gave him a warm smile.

"If there's anything you need don't hesitate to ask." she gave him a soft kissed on the cheek and left. Peter thanked her, waved goodbye as they drove off then stepped inside the house.