Mariana cradled Micah's face between her palms. She hummed to herself as she rolled a facial roller across his cheeks. Since they were waiting for Mason to come with the FBI, she decided to pass the time by giving Micah a special facial.

"Thanks for letting me do this." Mariana smiled but it fell with her whole face lowering.

"It's alright, I can see it's keeping you happy," Micah replied with his face being smooshed like dough.

"Yeah," she chuckled. The only spring of happiness that sprang from her lips. The little water of laughter that soon dissolved back into that frown, but she tried to remain happy.

"I'm gonna make your face so nice and smooth," she said and stroked him. It did help keep her mind busy as she didn't want it traveling back to the latest video of her kids.

"Your mother and daddy aren't coming to save you."

"They don't care about you."

Mariana shuddered and tried to block them out. She scrunched her eyes and mouth as she felt the painful tears prickling through like needles. One pulled through and dropped on Micah's cheek.

"Hey, it's okay." Micah wiped her tears away with his thumb. "We're getting them back soon."

"I know, but I feel like we've failed them," she said. Micah saw her entire face slowly crack like stone and break into sobs.

"Hey, it's okay," Micah said softly. His hands reached toward her, and her tears got swept with his thumb. "We're gonna get them back soon." He tried comforting his precious, sweet little nugget.

"I know, but I feel like we've failed them by having it take this long," she admitted quietly and wiped her nose which started leaking.

"I feel like that too. But the important thing is that we are getting them back now, and it won't be long because now we will know where they are." He sat up and grasped her hands within his, wrapping them firmly like they were delicate diamonds. Mariana sniffed and pouted up at him.

"We are still looking which means we haven't failed them," he continued, "don't listen to what Electra said in the video. Our kids know we love them and we won't stop looking until we get them back."

Mariana slowly nodded with understanding. She muttered an 'okay' and loosened her hands. She sighed and went right back to work. She rubbed some cleanser into her hands and massaged his face like she was washing a baby's bum.

"You like that Amore?" her face was inches away from his, as she gently caressed his temples.

Micah nodded with his eyes closed. "You're really good at this *corazón." (sweetheart).

He let out a small chuckle as Mariana went pressed his eyes like buttons. He reached out and held her face in place. He slowly kissed her lips and sucked a little on her bottom lip like a sweet mango. Mariana's heart pounded loudly in her fluttering chest and her cheeks heated when she kissed him back before letting go.

"I gotta look after my babe that's why," she said and rubbed some cleanser between her hands. She started massaging his face like she was washing a baby's bum. "You like that?" she gently caressed his temples.

Micah nodded with his eyes closed. She smirked and grabbed a wet washcloth. She began wiping his face clean and kissed the tip of his nose to make sure he was okay. She then grabbed the packet of animal crackers and chucked some into her mouth.

"Mm, this is good. No wonder Axel likes it so much." She looked at the packet and took some more to chuck into her mouth. "When we get our babies back, I'm gonna get him a big packet of animal crackers." She nodded to herself as some crumbs fell inside her shirt.

"Yeah he loves these a lot," Micah said and placed out his hand like a plate. Mariana dropped some crackers for him, and he ate them.

"I remember my mom always came home with these for me and my siblings, and we would always fight to be the first to open it." Micah said and munching them.

"Who won?" Mariana laughed as she got a cotton pad and started wiping toner on his face.

"Makayla," Micah said, "she would get first dibs, but before we ate them, we tried guessing what animal it was and then we would bite the head off."

"Oh."

Micah took another bite as Mariana silently dusted her hands. She reached over his head and started caressing his coils.

"Do you want me to do your hair?" She asked and tilted her head towards him.

"Really? What do you wanna do with it?"

"Just a little hairstyle. I promise it won't look bad."

"Um alright..." he muttered nervously and then turned his head away.

Mariana clapped her hands and rushed to the bathroom. She grabbed everything she can and whizzed back down to him, kicked open the door and dropping everything down.

She sat behind Micah and pulled him into her by his chest. "Come here my baby boy. I'm gonna make you look so nice."

"I feel like I'm your replacement kid right now," Micah mumbled as she slapped on a slop of cream and started massaging his hair.

"No no, you're not. I just love you so much." She giggled while she was combing through his hair.

"Do you remember to how to canerow? I swear you've only done it once." He turned back with his face etched in worry.

"Yeah, don't worry," she said but quickly brought her phone and went on YouTube just to remind herself of some things before starting.

It took a bit of awkward fiddling and unravelling before she knew what she was doing. The first braid came out loose and chunky but she moved on and guided his head on her lap, while affectionally rubbing him.

She became relaxed enough that a song flew out of her lips, "dimmi come vivere, vivere senza di te," (Tell me how do I live, live without you).

"Senza di te," she said and leaned closer to his ear, kissing it because she couldn't imagine living without him.

She sighed and her head lifted to the clouds. She watched them silently glide outside the window. She thought if her kids were seeing the same clouds, wherever they were...

A tear wiggled It's away through but she wiped it away. She sang and held onto a wisful thought that her kids could hear her. "Dormi, dormi, non riesco a dormire," (Sleep, sleep I can't sleep).

"Non riesco a smettere di pensare a te," (I can't stop thinking about you).

She shook her head and tried thinking positive. Soon enough Mason will come back with the FBI with Mona's location.

When she was finished, she let Micah come off her lap and see the four rough cornrows she attempted.

"Thanks Mariana," Micah said as he looked at his reflection by his phone.

"Your welcome!"

Suddenly, a knock at the door grabbed their attention.

"Must be Mason, I'll go get it," Micah said and hurried out the living room.

He came back and said next to Mariana, tightly squeezing her hand, as Mason was opposite them with two FBI agents. They had some documents down and everything that they gathered from the investigation.

"So what we got here is that Mrs.Rossi-Lupu went to a different airport in Orlando, and traveled to Budapest in Hungary on the day your kids went missing," one of the agents explained.

"Hungary? Really?" Mariana half-exclaimed.

"Yeah," Mason said.

"Wow, I totally wasn't expecting that," Mariana said as she settled back in her seat. She crossed her arms as she stared at the documents.

"So the name of the bank we found is here," Mason said and drew a circle on a map that was laid in of them. "So she's definitely in the city, and I'm guessing somewhere here if that's where the money is," he started drawing a circle between the bank and the airport.

"Ooh okay." Mariana peered over it like it was a box of gold. She suddenly became extremely interested now that they had a targeted location.

"So how are you going to find where she's staying?" Micah asked.

"We made a list of every hotel that was near here, and near the image you sent us." Mason drew another circle that made the radar a bit smaller and drew some stars at certain spots. He tapped on a list on the side.

"The list is not that long so we should be able to get through them quickly." Mason smiled proudly of their findings.

"That's good!" Mariana said, "so when can we go to Budapest?"

"Well the earliest flight we could get is on Saturday morning at 8:15, which is in two days. So you have enough time to make any arrangements you need to, and we'll take care of the rest," one of the agents said.

"Okay, thanks for all help to find our kids," Micah said.

"I'm just glad we could help. and now we are this close to getting them back safely," Mason's sighed of relief as he got up. He checked the time as the agents started putting the documents back in their bag.

"Anyway, I need to go now, but I'll message you with all the details on the flight," Mason said.

"Okay, see you soon." Micah said and escorted them to the front door.

When they were gone, he went back to the living room and sat on the floor with Mariana, who was smiling like a happy sun.

"Well Mariana, it looks like we are finally gonna get our kids back," he said.'

"I know! I'm so excited!" Mariana said and clapped her hands.

"I just hope we'll be able to find Mona before anything else happens," Micah said and slumped down on the couch.

"Yeah me too." She smiled and crawled onto him, snuggling comfortably in his arms.

A/N: Hey I hope you enjoyed the chapter! Thank you for 1K! ❤️❤️❤️I'm actually really proud of this chap cuz I remember at the beginning unsure of how this investigation was gonna go 😅.

Now we know Mona is in Hungary so we can start hunting her arse down! 😃😃😃