Lev couldn’t believe what he was hearing at the truck stop he had stopped at to get fuel for his rig. There was talked about an incident that happened in Montana of some truckers he knew that had gotten caught up in human trafficking. According to the rumors he was hearing they were taking the women and girls to a guy named Boris Kuznetsov in Phoenix, Arizona.

Lev knew that bastard. He used to be part of his squad before he was discharged from selling weapons to the Russian Mafia. He knew he was wanted in Russia. Lev gets into his truck and picks his mic up to call Rebecca and see if she could put him in touch with Kat and Paul. He wasn’t to far from their place as is.

“Russian Bear to Mousey, Russian Bear to mousey, do you have your ears on?”

Trenner’s Garage:
August was working the office as usual when she hears Lev’s voice come over the CB they keep in there just for him and the other guy they have working for them. Normal, Lev just calls them, but she knew there were a few areas he couldn’t get a cell signal.

She picks the mic up “Squeaker to Russian Bear. Mousey is busy with the mice’s. Is there anything I can do for you Russian Bear?”

“Ya August, can you put me in touch with your Aunt Kat? I might have a big game for them to take down.”

“Let me call them and see if they have a CB. If not, will you be somewhere they can reach you by cellphone?”

“I’ll be in range of a cell tower in about thirty miles. Have them call me on the cellphone.”

“Okay, Russian Bear. Squeaker out.”

August picks up the office phone and dials Kat’s number from memory.

K&P Bounty Services:
Brittney was entering some files for her mother in the computer systems when the phone rang. Normally June would get the phone, but she had requested some time off to spend with her niece and nephew. Since Terry and she were out of school for the Summer. She was filling in for June, while her sister was working with their aunt at the law firm. Terry wanted to be a lawyer, while she wanted to follow in her mother’s and father’s footsteps.

“K&P Bounty Services, Brittney speaking. How can I help you?”

“Brittney, it’s me August.”

“What’s up August?" She hasn’t talked to her cousin since she got married to Butch.

“Is Aunt Kat or your father around?”

“Nope, dad is out back cleaning out the SUV with Crystal helping him. We had a perp throw-up this morning while transporting him to the police station. He threw-up all over Crystal lap. You should had seen her. She was so pissed and embarrass. Mom is having lunch with Aunt Kristen and Terry. Why, what’s up?”

“Lev has a bounty that they might be interested in and needs to talk with them right away.”

“I’ll go and get dad. Hold on.” Brittney puts her cousin on hold and head out back to get her father.

“Dad, August is on the phone and says that Uncle Lev needs you and mom.”

Paul looks out of the SUV at the sound of his oldest daughter’s voice. She’s grown in the past few years since they adopted her and Terry.

“I wonder what Lev wants?”

Crystal stood up from bending over and leaning into the SUV from vacuuming up the puke their perp upchucked. She had changed clothes
when they got back to the office right away.

“August said something about a bounty you and mom might be interested in.”

Brittney was wondering if her father will let her go on this one with them. She was still to young to get her bounty hunter’s license, but she
accompanies them on their bounties as an intern like Crystal use to be.

Paul walks into the office and over to Kat’s desk where Brittney had been working.

“Hey August, what’s up?”

“Lev needs to talk to you and Aunt Kat. He’s out on the road right now, but if you could give him a call on his cellphone. He can explain everything to you. I know it has something to do with a bounty. Do you need his number?”

“Nope, I have it programmed already in my phone. How’s your sister and the youngsters?”

“They are fine. She had to take them to the doctor for their exam. Carol went with them.”

Paul met Carol the last time he and the team had gone to Kansas to apprehend a bounty. Rebecca had flown them out and back to Tennessee. She's Rebecca’s oldest cousin and a nurse at the local hospital.

“Alright, well let me call Lev and find out what he got.”

“Alright Uncle Paul. If you need a flight to anywhere. Just call back and let me know. I’ll have Butch fly the Lear out to you.”

“Okay August. Bye.”

Paul presses the speed dial number he has for Lev.

Lev’s Eighteen-Wheeler:
Lev was watching the cell bars on his dash. Rebecca had gotten him a hands-free unit that linked to his cellphone so he could make a call without having to dial the number himself. He was getting a signal.

Lev hears unit beep letting him know a call was coming and notices it was Paul’s personal cellphone.

“Lev here, go ahead Paul.”

“I just got off the phone with August, she said you wanted me to call you.”

“Ya, I have a bounty for you. I know the location of a wanted Russian Mafia member. He’s wanted in Russia and I would bet he is wanted here
as well for human and sex trafficking. He’s in Phoenix, Arizona.”

“Phoenix is a way out for us Lev. It would take us to long to drive out to get him. Besides, how much is he wanted for?”

“Don’t know. Why don’t you run his name and see how much he is worth?”

Brittney moves to her mother’s computer and bring up the wanted link so they could run names and check to see how much the bounties were.

“Okay Uncle Lev, go ahead and give me his name.”

“Boris Kuznetsov and he was born in Russia on April 17, 1982.”

Brittney runs his name and after a few minutes his image pops up with a list of charges that he has committed in Russia and in the United States.

“He’s got a five-million-dollar reward being offered by the Department of State, dad.” Brittney looks over at her father. If their Uncle knew where this guy was, then that would give them a leg-up.

“You know where this person is Lev?”

“Not totally, I just know he is in Phoenix, Arizona. Give me some time and I could have where he is staying or operating from for you from a few truckers I know.”

“Alright, call me back with the information. Do you think Rebecca will mind if we use one of her cargo planes to fly us down there?”

“She won’t mind, your family. She doesn’t charge family. Besides, even if she did. She’ll give you a hefty discount because you are law enforcement. She gives law enforcement, military and medical personnel discounts.”

“That’s good to know. Let me know what you find out and I’ll call August and set up a time.”

“Alright, I’ll call you in about half-n-hour.” Lev hangs up and calls a few people he knows.

K&P Bounty Services:
“Call your….”

“Already on it dad.”
Brittney dials her mother’s cellphone.

Cecil’s Diner:
Kat was enjoying the luncheon she was having with her sister and her younger daughter. She was proud of Terry for wanting to follow in her aunt’s footsteps and become a lawyer to help people. She was proud of Brittney as well, since she wanted to follow in hers and Paul’s footsteps. Just as she gets done with dessert her cellphone starts ring. She glances at it and notice it was the office calling her.

“Hello?”

“Mom, dads got a possible bounty that’s going to pay big bucks. It’s in Phoenix, Arizona. Uncle Lev called it in to us.”

“Slow down Brittney. Tell me again what you are calling me about, please?”

“Dad’s got a possible six figure bounty that Uncle Lev just called us about in Phoenix, Arizona. The Department of State is paying the bill.”

“Do we know where this bounty is living or wanted for?”

“We know what he is wanted for mom. Uncle Lev is getting the rest of the information for us right now.”

“Alright, let me see if your aunt will babysit your sibling. Tell your dad I’m coming with you guys on this. Before you ask, yes you can come
along, but check with your father first.”

“Alright mom, thanks.”

Kat looks at her older sister.

“Bounty in Phoenix, Arizona. According to Brittney, its rather large.”

“I don’t mind watching the twins, Kat.”

“Thanks sis. How about you Terry? Do you want to come with us or stay with your aunt or uncle?”

“I’ll stay here mom and help Aunt Kristen take care of the twins.”

Terry didn’t mind helping her aunt babysit her sibling.

“You don’t have to Terry, you can go with your mom and father.” Kristen looks at her niece.

“I don’t mind. Besides, I got a lot of paperwork back at the office to keep me busy for that lawsuit you’re working on Aunt Kristen.”

“Alright, then” Kat leans over and hugs Terry.

“I’m proud of you sweetie.” Kat places a kiss on her cheek.

“I know, mom.” Terry returns Kat’s hug.

Ever since Kat and Paul adopted her and Brittney after their adventure. She’s become closer to Kat and thinks of her as her natural mother. Her birth parents disowned her and moved away. They didn’t want to have anything to do with her. She knew where they were. After all she had parents that were Bounty Hunters and learned how to track people down from them.

By the time Kat got the twins overnight bag packed for her sister and Terry got her bag packed. Arrangements had been made with Rebecca for one of her cargo planes to fly in and transport both SUV’s. Four guys she knew and trusted were going to come in and watch the office for them and handle a last-minute bounty. It had come in from a bails bondman they did work for.

Brittney was told she could go along, but she was to stay near Alexa and Luke. Crystal and Kat normally worked together because of their speeds. Crystal was as fast as Kat was when she ran.

Even when they spared, she normally spared with Kat because they were evenly matched.

Knoxville Private Airfield:
They meet the cargo plane at a private airfield. Butch comes out with another guy they met a few times that worked with Rebecca and loaded their SUV’s up into the MD-17. Paul was still amazed that his sister-in-law could get her hands on military planes. Then again, she rebuilds military aircraft and can afford to own two of these planes and lease them out for profit.

Once all the equipment was secured and the passengers secured they take off and head towards Phoenix, Arizona.

Continues in Never Anger a Cat and Two Wolves Part 4

Brittney was all doped up after the operation to remove the shrapnel from her leg. No serious damage had been done to her. She was going to have some scars from where a few pieces had imbedded themselves. The doctor had pulled out over thirty pieces of metal fragment from her leg. The hospital was keeping her overnight.

Kat and Paul were kicking themselves for bring Brittney on this bounty. Kat looks at her sweet little girl as she slept and vowed never to take Brittney on another high-profile bounty again. Her, Paul and Crystal were staying by Brittney’s side while she was in the hospital. The rest of the team members had gone back to their hotel room to start packing up their equipment. The damage SUV had been towed away from Boris’s resident and taken to the MD-17 to be flown back to Rebecca’s garage to be fixed if it could or have the equipment inside be transferred to a new SUV.

Rebecca was pretty sure she could rebuild the SUV. After all, she had restored fighter planes that had been sitting in the ocean back to operational status and ones that had been buried in the ground as well. She had some of the best mechanics and engineers around working for her. When the SUV got to the plane, Butch couldn’t believe what he saw. He had sent pictures back to Rebecca and August of its condition.
Some FBI agents had stopped by the MD-17 and wanted to come aboard and search the plane and the SUV. Butch told them to fuck off unless they had a warrant.

Rebecca had strict rules about people searching her plane and anything aboard it. Unless they worked for her or are part of the crew of any of her planes. No one was permitted to be onboard, unless they were loading the plane or refueling the plane. Even after a load had been loaded aboard the plane, the loadmaster was to check each load and scan it for any explosives or contraband.

If the plane was being searched by a foreign government, then an agent of hers was to search with them as they searched the plane. If the government or government agent didn’t allow it, then the shipment was returned to the shipper. She didn’t play stupid government games.
Rebecca ran a tight ship when it came to her planes. She had government contracts and have flown items for the DEA and the CIA. She has flown things for other governments as well. However, in every contract she writes up, she has final say what is permitted aboard her planes. If her loadmasters say it isn’t permitted, then it doesn’t get transported on her planes.

The FBI agents didn’t like how Butch told them to fuck off. Butch made it very clear to them that the security team that flies on every flight were ex-Special Forces that were hired to protect the plane. Rebecca loved hiring retired military or police officers for her company. Military because her company was started by her father and a few friends of his that were retired military. They made it a practice to always hire retired or active military because of the service they did or do for the country. After two years of service with the company, she allowed them to share in any profits the company made. That way they could reinvest the money in the company or take it as additional income for their retirement.

As for the other businesses of the company, like restoring planes and antique cars. That was a separate business of the company. That was her personal business. Those were started by her. The Garage, the trucking company and flight school fell under her and August ownership, since August helps her handle all the business aspect of those. She keeps the profit sharing plan with the employees that work in those.

Butch was walking around outside the plane checking for anything that shouldn’t be on the plane. August had sent him several pictures of her in a new skimpy bikini she had bought for their trip to the Bahamas. They had gotten married a few months ago and never did go on their honeymoon. It wasn’t because they couldn’t afford the trip, it was because Rebecca needed August to run the business, while she got used to being a new mother. The twins were keeping her up at night when they were born and Lev was out on the road handling the trucking contracts they had. Even though they had another trucker working for them, they still had plenty of work that required Lev to be gone a lot. They had been talking about hiring a third independent trucker and making the same type of deal they had with the second trucker that worked for them.

They had bought the second Lear, because companies were calling them to fly their people to meetings and places instead of going through the airport and their regulations. Companies were getting tired of how the TSA were treating some of their people when they didn’t do anything wrong.

Christmas and Thanksgiving time were their busiest time of the year. They were normally hired to help deliver packages and mail by companies. So, Rebecca and Butch wanted to take their honeymoon, before those times. That was why Rebecca was going to allow them to take the new Lear they just bought.

Butch had been informed by Kat that they were going to stay another day because of Brittney’s injuries she had gotten from the front of the SUV exploding. Butch didn’t mind, the boss lady was paying him to watch the plane. The crew had left to grab some food from a nearby restaurant. They were going to bring him and the security team back some food.

Butch notices one of Paul’s SUV driving up to the plane. He waits to see who it was. Alexa and Luke get out of the SUV.

“Hey Butch, Paul and Kat want to leave right away tomorrow morning. Can you have the plane ready for takeoff as soon as we get here?”

“Sure, we can be ready as soon as you guys arrive. What’s going on?” Butch was curious about why Paul hadn’t called him and told him this himself.

“We think FBI Agent Jones has been searching through our stuff at the hotel, so Paul and Kat told us to pack-up all our stuff and bring it to the plane.”

“That’s strange, we had a visit by some FBI agents earlier today. Does this have anything to do with the apprehension of Boris?”

“We think so. Agent Jones didn’t want us to collect the bounty on him. If it wasn’t for Police Officers Julia Bounty, US Marshal Edward Bullock
and Police Officer Tizzy Patel. We would had lost the bounty on him. Kat was going to call her friend Morgana to do a background check on Agent Jones and find out if he is clean or not.”

“Who’s Morgana?” Butch hadn’t heard that name before.

“She’s a freelance computer specialist that Kat and Paul use to gather background information about people. She does a lot of computer work for Kat.”

“Oh? Maybe she might want to do some computer work for Rebecca. She needs someone to come in and network all the building together, so August’s job is easier.”

Butch knew that all the buildings Rebecca owns at the airfield, weren’t networked together. Everyone had to come to the main office and check in or place orders with August. If they could network the buildings, then it would be easier on August for payroll and supplies.

“I’ll pass the word to Kat so she can ask Morgana if she wants the job.”

Alexa texts the request to Kat at the hospital. Afterwards they unload the SUV and make room for Brittney, Crystal, Paul and Kat.

Kat’s phone chirps when she receives the text from Alexa. She responses back to Alexa letting her know she’ll talk with Morgana about networking her sisters place. Kat was stretching her legs while Brittney slept. Crystal was inside the room asleep in a chair by Brittney’s bed and Paul had gone to get them some coffee. She had already called her sister to check-up on the twins and Terry. Kristen had informed her that the men they had asked to make the last-minute bounty for them had captured the guy. They brought in another person that had a bounty on him from a bails bond company from Murphy, North Carolina. It was a five-hundred-thousand-dollar bounty and the company was thankful for them capturing the person. That had made Kat’s day.

She looks outside from the window on the floor that Brittney’s room was on and notices something strange. There was a car parked near the hospital looking towards it. Kat was curious and pulls out her binoculars she keeps in her purse and scans the parking to see if there were more cars. She spots another car over near the emergency room entrance as well.

“I wonder who or what they are looking for?” Kat kept watching them.

Paul was heading back towards Brittney’s room with a coffee cup for Kat when he spots her looking out of the window with her binoculars.

“Watch you watching out there?”

“I think were being watched by the FBI.” She hands him her binoculars, as Paul hands her the coffee cup he had gotten for her.

“Thanks.” Kat takes a sip of the coffee.

“You’re welcome.”

Paul spotted what Kat had and the other car watching the front of the hospital.

“I wonder why they are watching the hospital?”

“Beats me, unless they work for Agent Jones.”

“We really need to talk with Morgana and have her do a background check on him.” Paul hands the binoculars back to Kat.

“I was thinking about waiting a while before I called her. She’s two hours ahead of us right now.”

“I don’t think she’ll mind you calling her.” Paul takes a sip of his coffee.

“Alright.” Kat presses the speed dial for Morgana.

Morgana’s hotel room:
Morgana was woken-up by the sounds of her cellphone going off. She had gone to bed after helping Terry and Dakota with their fight in Washington D.C. and being chewed out by Anika for not following orders. She glances at the clock and notices it was eleven At night.

She grabs her glasses and look at the caller id and notices it was Kat calling her.

“Hey Kat, what’s going on?” She covers up a yawn.

Kat heard Morgana yawn in the background “sorry for calling you so late, Morgana. I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind doing a background
check for me on a person.”

“Sure, send me their information and I’ll run the person when I get up.” Morgana wasn’t about to turn Kat down. She came through with the promise on the wheel chair the character Spark’s from the movie STEEL had for her.

“Okay, oh Morgana. This person is supposed to be an FBI agent, so be careful when you make your inquiry.”

“I will Kat. No one had caught me yet going through their database.”

“Well, just be careful please. Sleep tight.”

“Thanks. Bye!”

Morgana hangs up and goes back to sleep.

Kat was loading up her SUV when she gets a call on her office cell.

“Hello?”

“Good morning Mrs. Kathrine Sedberry, this is Julia Bounty with Boulder Police Department. We meet at the Boris bust. I’m calling you to warn you that Agent Jones isn’t a real FBI agent. He’s working with the Russian mafia.”

“Dam, how about Deputy Marshal Edward Bullock? Is he on the up and up?” Kat was looking towards Paul as he helps get everything loaded up into the plane.

“He’s on the up and up. I called the local Marshal office and described him to them. They verified his credentials. You can trust him, but watch your back. Agent Jones sent a hit team to take me and my cousin out. So, keep an eye out for the fakes.”

“Thanks for the tip, Officer Bounty.”

“You’re welcome. Have a nice day.”

Kat ends the call.

“What was that about?” Paul had caught the end of the conversation.

“We’re dealing with the Russian Mafia. Officer Bounty was calling to warn us that a hit team might be coming after us.” Kat couldn’t believe that this was happening.

“Why would the Russian Mafia be coming after us?” Paul couldn’t figure this out.

“Because of Agent Jones. He’s not a FBI agent according to Officer Bounty. She said that he sent a hit team after her and her cousin.” Kat
wasn’t liking this.

“We’ll they won’t be dumb enough to attack us here. That leaves either our place or the airfield when we land.” Paul checks the security camera at the house.

So, far everything looked to be in place.

Kat sends a text to her sister warning her about the fake FBI and to keep an eye out. She also sends another one to her daughter warning her
as well. Once she was done with sending the text to her sister and daughter. Kat heads onto the plane and takes a seat as it taxies down the runway. Once it is in the air, she relaxes and wonders if they are going to be waiting for them when they land.

“Mom, is everything okay?” Brittney could tell something was bothering her mother and father.

Luke and Alexa had noticed it as well. Crystal was staying near Brittney.

Kat looks at everyone “do you guys remember Agent Jones from the FBI?”

They all shake their heads yes.

“Well, it seems he isn’t a FBI agent, but someone that works for the Russian Mafia. He has put a hit out on officer Bounty and her cousin. She called to warn me about the possibility that he may put a hit out on us, since we were the ones that arrested Boris.”

“But we don’t have Boris. Deputy Marshal Bullock and the other Marshal that was there. His partner Deputy Marshal Arron Westen. Boris
should be on his way to the nearest Federal prison.”

“Do we know who Agent Jones is really?” Paul looks towards his wife.

“I have Morgana working on it. She’s running the picture I sent her.” Kat hadn’t heard back from Morgana yet.

“Hopefully she finds something so we can use to go after him.” Brittney wanted to capture him.

“You’re not going anywhere sweetheart. You’re staying with your Uncle until we find this guy and put him away. If he is going to send a hit team after us, I say we capture them and apply some old fashion pressure to them.”

A smile comes to Luke’s face at the mention of old fashion pressure. He knew a few ways to torture someone. Alexa just shakes her head.

“We could get Lev to help, after all he is former Spetsnaz.” Paul figures he might be good to have on their side.

“Rebecca will kill me if something happens to him.” Kat didn’t want to jeopardize her relationship with Rebecca.

“She might, but then again he could be useful. He might have contacts in the Russian government that could help us.” Paul was looking at his wife.

“True, if he still has any friends or contacts in the Russian military, that might be helpful.” Kat knew her husband was right.

Having Lev with them would be helpful when dealing with the Russian mafia. After all they had used his contacts among the mafia to capture a few fatigues. Especially people that were breaking the code that the Mafia had.

“Alright, go ahead and contact Lev and have him meet us at the airfield when we land.” Kat just hopes Rebecca doesn’t hold this against her.

“Already done. I talked to Lev about it and he wanted to help us. The third driver August and Rebecca hired is going to take over his deliveries.

He’s driving to the airfield right now. He’s bring us a new armor SUV Rebecca did some horse trading for. It’s already outfitted with everything we normally use in our SUV’s.” He looks at Kat with a smile on his face. It’s not often he can pull the wool over her eyes.

“What do you want me to do?” Brittney directs her question towards her parents.

“We want you to get better and run the office like August does for Rebecca. You can coordinate everything for us and June should be back from vacation. She can give you some help around the office. Plus, you have the other team there as well. You can keep going after bail jumpers. I know we just had a few more request come in to help. One of the other bail companies we have a relationship with has contacted us to help them with a few bail jumpers. One is in Virginia and the other is in Kentucky. Send the team to Kentucky first and then to Virginia.” Kat had checked her email and a bond company they have helped a few times needed their help.

She had sent them a response saying they were sending their second team out to help and Brittney would be handling support for them.

“You’re going to be staying with your uncle and aunt while we’re gone. Terry is staying and helping your Aunt Kristen with the twins.” Kat just looks at her daughter.

Brittney hated that she was being left behind, but she knew her mother was only looking out for her. Plus, her leg was injured and that meant she wouldn’t be very helpful to them. Her uncle just got married last year to a paramedic. She was a nice person and the hospital she worked for was just a few blocks from her uncle’s fire station.

A few hours later they land at the airfield. Lev and Kat’s brother Benjamin was waiting for them.

“What have you gone and done to my niece this time little sister?” Ben was watching as Kat helped her oldest daughter walk over to his pick-up truck.

He has accepted Brittney and Terry as his nieces. Just as he accepted Kat as his little sister when she was found by his father and mother. He met Rebecca and her family and thinks of her as family. He knew Brittney and Terry’s background because Kat told him. His new wife like his nieces and his sister.

“I took her some where I shouldn’t have. We went after a high dollar bounty and he had friends. Brittney got injured from shrapnel hitting her legs.” Kat helps Brittney into her brother’s pick-up.

“Dam sis. You need to start being careful.”

Ben looks at his little sister. He knew she loved her girls and could tell she was beating herself up for letting Brittney get hurt.

“I know Ben. I would trade places with her.” Kat brushes aside a loose lock of Brittney’s hair.

“Mom, it wasn’t your fault.” Brittney could tell her mother was sad for letting her get hurt.

Ben rest his hand on Kat’s back “I’ll watch over her sis and makes sure she behaves. Besides, this will give her a chance to bond with Charlotte.”

“Thanks Ben.” She gives him a hug.

Kat turns back around and hug Brittney.

“You behave yourself and do what your uncle and aunt tell you to do.” She held Brittney close to her.

“I will mom. You and dad just be careful please.” Brittney hugs her mother tight and wishes she was going with them and her girlfriend.

They release and Paul hugs Brittney.

“You be good while were gone and watch the shop for us.” Paul places a kiss on her forehead.

“I promise dad.” Brittney wipes the tears from her eyes.

She was going to miss her parents. Since she came to them two years ago, she has come to love them dearly.

Paul shuts Brittney’s door.

“Don’t worry Paul, I’ll make sure she doesn’t burn down the shop.” Ben climbs into his Ford F450 and drives towards his house.
Butch walks down the ramp after him and Luke get their good SUV off loaded.

“Do you guys need any more help or anything?” Butch was looking at Paul and Kat.

“Nope, we should be fine. Tell Rebecca thanks for everything.”

“I will.” He spotted Lev coming towards them with two other SUV’s behind him.

“Looks like you have company coming. I better get the plane in the air.” Butch runs back towards the plane and up the ramp. Rebecca will kill him if something happens to the plane.

Kat and Paul could hear gunfire as bullets struck the SUV Lev was driving.

Kat and Paul could hear the engines on the plane increase in speed as it starts taxing down the airstrip for takeoff.

“Alexa, Luke grab your assault rifles. Crystal get in the driver seat.” Paul and Kat were running towards their SUV to grab their assault rifles.

Lev had just pulled onto the private road that lead to the airfield that the plane had landed. When he was ambushed by two black SUVs. The
2015 Terradyne Gurkha RPV that Rebecca had managed to do some horse trading for shrugged the bullets off like they were nothing. He could see Paul and Kat’s crew grabbing their weapons as the MD17 moved onto the air strip to take off. He knew he had to buy time for Butch to get the plane into the air.

Lev slows down so one of the SUV’s could pull up alongside of him and slammed it with the Gurkha. The SUV’s fender was damaged from Lev hitting it with the Gurkha. Lev slams the other SUV that had pulled up alongside on his side of the car. He slams it hard with the Gurkha, causing it to crash. Lev could hear bullets hitting the side of the Gurkha as Paul and Kat fired their assault rifles towards the people attacking him.

Lev also saw the airport police coming towards his location as the MD17 lifted off the tarmac and into the air. The SUV that had been trying to stop them pulls away. Luke and Alexa had capture a few of the guys from the other SUV that had assaulted them. Lev stops the Gurkha next to Kat and Paul and opens the driver door.

“Beware Greeks bring gifts.” He was climbing out of the vehicle.

“Where in the hell did you get a Terradyne Gurkha RPV?” Paul was walking around the vehicle.

“Rebecca traded two antique cars she had for it. The guy that owns the company she got this vehicle from had been looking for the cars she had. So, she traded the two cars for it.” Paul stops as airfield security surround them.

“Now were in trouble.” Kat just shakes her head.

“No were not. I know the Commander of the security force.” Paul walks over to talk with one of the Captain’s and explain things to them.

Luke and Alexa brings the two people they managed to capture over to Kat and Lev.

“Look what we caught boss.” Alexa pushes the guy forward towards Kat.

Kat looks at him “well, this should be fun. I know I have seen you before.”

The guy doesn’t say anything. He just remains quiet.

“We’ll take him back to the office to torture him and his friend.” Alexa escorts him, while Luke escorts the other one to the SUV.

Crystal had gotten behind the steering wheel of the SUV. It wasn’t often that Paul or Kat let her drive. She watches as Alexa and Luke bring the two guys they had capture over.

“Are we taking them to the police?”

“Nope, back to the office for Kat to interrogate. She’s in the mood to hurt them.” Alexa was smiling and wink at her.

Crystal kept a straight face as she turned back around and waited to find out what they were doing next.

Kat and crew had returned to their office after the incident at the airfield. She received the information from Morgana about the fake FBI agent that was causing problems. She also received a phone call from Officer Julia Bounty saying that they were coming to help her with FBI Marin Jones. That they would be landing at a private airfield in Memphis, Tn. Where Marin Jones was operating out of. They didn’t have a location exactly, but they did know that was where he was operating out of.

The file Morgana sent her had a full dossier on the guy. He may work with the Russian Mafia, but he was originally trained by the CIA and had been one of their top black op’s agents. He was a former Delta operative that switched to the CIA as one of their black op’s agents. The last location the CIA had on him was on a mission in Afghanistan. According to the mission report they received, he had been killed. The body had been verified.

“Fucking CIA.” Kat couldn’t believe they were dealing with a CIA spook agent.

“What’s wrong Kat?” Paul had gone and gotten a cold bottle of water for him and Kat.

“We’re dealing with a freaking Delta Force trained CIA spook.” Kat was ready to shoot someone right now.

The guys they brought back from the airfield and interrogated had confessed. They had been sent to kill the team for capturing Boris and collecting the bounty on him. They were local muscle that had been given the contract. They had already received half the pay upfront and would had received the rest with confirmation that Kat and her people had been killed.

She shows Paul the file she received from Morgana.

“Fuck me.” Paul couldn’t believe what he was reading in the file.

He was seeing everything this guy had done, what missions he had been set on and his training.

“Where did Morgana get all this information from?” He looks towards his wife.

“Remember Officer Bounty and her cousin?” Kat glances up at her husband.

“Ya, I remember them. They convinced that fake FBI agent to give us the bounty. How do they fit into this?” Paul had sat down in a chair next to his wife’s desk.

“Well, first they are coming to help us on this case. The information I got from them is that this prick is hiding out in Memphis, Tennessee. As for the second bit, their father gave this information to Morgana.” That was all Morgana could give her on the man. She did mention that he could be trusted and the information was correct. She did warn her to be careful with this guy.

“How did he get the information and can it be trusted?” Paul normally didn’t trust second hand info.

“Oh, he can be trusted. I asked Tony to run Julia Bounty’s name to find out who she is related too. According to the information I got back from Tony. Her father is a multi-millionaire and a retired MI 6 agent. He said that his contacts in the Montana police department said that the rest of his file was classified and approach with caution.”

Paul just whistles when he hears the words MI 6. During his time working for the mob, he had met and heard about those guys. That was why he stayed out of England.

“Why is he here in the States?” That was curious to Paul.

“He owns a horse ranch in Montana.” Kat by nature was curious and wanted to know more about Julia Bounty and her cousin.

The information she got back matched with what she already knew about the woman and her cousin. She also found out she had a younger sister that was the Vice President of an armor car/ Private Security contracting company.

“So, why are they coming to Memphis to help us with this spook?” Paul wanted to know their reason for being here.

“Well, according to what I found out from Tony. A special task force is being assembled to go after this guy. He’s wanted for the murder of federal agents here in the States and in other countries. We have been requested to be part of this task force. Police Chief Carson called me himself and you know how much he dislikes me. He said that we had been requested by Deputy Marshal Edward Bullock.” Kat couldn’t believe that the police chief had called her and requested that they work with the task force.

Her and Police Chief Carson had gone at each other’s when her father died in the line of duty. He was the Deputy Chief at the time her father died and was responsible for the back-up not showing up on time. Kat still blames him for the death of her father.

“When are we supposed to meet up with the rest of the task force?” Paul could see that Kat had a haunted look in her eyes.

“Tomorrow. We’re to meet everyone at the Memphis police station. Julia and her cousin are flying in tonight and Marshal Bullock and his partner is meeting us at the police station tomorrow. I’m thinking about leaving Crystal here to protect Brittney. Luke, Lev and Alexa will be coming with us.” Kat had a feeling that their bad guy might want to come here to the office.

“Why don’t you just let Peter and his guys guard Brittney here at the office. Crystal is as fast as you and were going to need our two fastest runners to chase this guy down.” Paul knew Kat was trying to keep Brittney safe and Crystal, but they had a job to do.

Kat just looks at Paul like he was crazy, but she had to agree that Paul was right. Her and Crystal were the two fastest runners on their team. She didn’t know what they were against or what they were going against.

“I would listen to your husband, Kat.” Lev comes walking into the office. He was putting his cellphone back in its carry case.

“Do you ever listen to Rebecca, Lev?” Kat looks towards her brother-in-law.

“Sometimes, I listen to her, other times I suffer her wrath when she is right and I am wrong.” He had a smile on his face when he says that.
Kat just shakes her head and reaches for her bottle of water from Paul. She takes a good gulp of it and recloses it. She looks towards both men as she thinks about what she wants to say to them.

“What did you find out form your Russian contacts, Lev. Did they say why he was so persistent about taking Boris back?”
Lev looks directly at Kat to answer her question.

“He screwed up royally. He cost them their pipeline for sex trafficking and the weapon shipment that had been seized.”

Kat perks up when she hears weapon shipment “what weapon shipment?”

“The FBI seized a huge weapon shipment that came up the Mississippi on a barge recently.” Lev just stares at Kat.

“That’s what he is after. He wants the weapon shipment. He knows where it is being stored, since he works for the FBI.” Kat figures why he was sticking around in the Memphis area.

“What time are we meeting the task force tomorrow?” Paul looks toward Kat.

“At eight o’clock tomorrow morning. I know it’s a five-hour drive from here. I figure we could leave here tonight and stay at Aunt Millard’s house she has up for sale while were there.” Kat knew her aunt hadn’t sold her place yet and it was currently emptied. Also, the house wasn’t to far from downtown.

“Sounds like a plan. I’m going to go and grab us some subs. You want your usual?” Paul knew Kat enjoyed a full cold cut combo on wheat bread.

“Yep, also grab me a large Pepsi while you’re there as well please.”

“Alright, come on Lev. You can help me carry everything back.” Paul heads out the back door where Alexa and Luke were preparing the new vehicle they got.

That left Kat in the office by herself. The other team was out chasing after a bounty and Crystal was at Ben’s place helping Brittney. Kat looks at an email she had gotten from a contact of hers. The person has been an informant for her since she became a bounty hunter. In return, she always looked after them. The email was warning her that a contract has been put out on her and her team. Several local hitters were coming after her and her team. They inform her that they didn’t know who put the hit out on them, but it was rather big.

Kat wonders who would be stupid enough to come after her and her team. She pulls her cellphone out and send a text message to her sister and brother. She warns them that Brittney and Terry need to be careful. She forwards a copy of the email to them as well.

She’ll have to inform Paul about this when he and Lev gets back. She checks her personal checkbook and the companies bank account and notice that the government did deposit the five million dollars they owed her team. She goes ahead and pays the bills and write paychecks for everyone.

Monday May 15 2300hrs (Kat’s Aunt Millard’s house)
Lev pulls the SUV into the driveway of the address that Kat gave him. They were still half-n-hour behind them. Kat and her crew had stopped to grab some groceries, because they were going to be in Memphis, Tn. for a few days.

“Wakey-wakey people, were here.” Luke had stayed awake during the five-hour drive to Memphis. Crystal had fallen asleep on the drive. Alexa had ridden with Kat and Paul in the new vehicle Lev brought for them from Rebecca.

Crystal opens her eyes and lookout through the windows at the yard and surrounding area.

“We’re hiding out in suburbia?” Crystal looks around and even though it was dark outside.

She could tell that the homes around them were middle class families. They were just like the ones she grew-up in and around. The house itself was a one-story ranch house with a covered driveway where the SUV’s could be parked without the sun beating down on them.

Lev gets out and walks over to the side door that had the key box. He pushed the code that Kat gave him, so he could receive the key. Lev opens the door and disarms the security system, so they don’t set it off. The place was bare of any furniture or dishes. Kat had said that her aunt was selling the place. He might talk to Rebecca about maybe buying this place. That way, when they come up here to visit Kat, they would have a place to stay.

Crystal helps the guys unload the SUV of their gear and each person takes a room. Alexa and Crystal were sharing one room, Lev and Luke were sharing a room together. Kat and Paul were taking the Master bedroom for themselves. There were towels and wash clothes in the bathroom for them to use while they were there.

Kat and Paul pull up thirty minutes later and were met by Lev as they pull the Gurkha RPV next to their armor SUV.

“So, what goodies did you bring for us?’ Lev puts his gun away and walks over to the Gurkha RPV to help unload the groceries.

“Oh, a little of this and a little of that. Did my aunt leave the refrigerator that was here originally?” Kat had her go bag and a bag of groceries in
her arms.

“Yep, but were sleeping on the floor. Eating on the floor and sitting on the floor.” Lev was looking at Kat when he said that.

“Boy, you are spoiled. Aren’t you?” Kat loved teasing Lev.

“No, I’m not spoiled, but if we are going to be staying here for a while. We might want to make it look like someone is living here. That way, we can throw some nosy neighbors off.” Lev figures it might keep the nosy neighbors at bay.

“I can get my aunt to meet me at her storage unit. We can bring some of her furniture back to fool people, should we have a guest.” Kat figure that should solve that problem.

“Well, whatever you decide is fine with me. I’m going to call Rebecca and let her know we are here.” Lev pulls his cellphone out and heads towards the backyard to call his wife and check on August. She was feeling under the weather the last time he talked to her.

Monday May 15 1700hrs (Bounty’s Safe House)
A white van with Harry’s Florist painted on the side of it, had met them at the private airport. He had been sent by their father and phases that their father made them memorized had been spoken to make sure they were who they were supposed to be. Julia gave the counter phased she had been taught. Afterwards, they were loaded into the van with the wolves. The girls were informed that he was the innkeeper and if there was anything they needed. They were to bring the request to him and he would make sure it was taken care of.

Julia did ask how they were to get in touch with him. He hands them a cellphone and informed them that it was secured. He drops them off at a house near the Mississippi River. There was a boat dock and the place had a nine-foot-tall brick wall that covered the front of the property.

“How many safe houses do you think dad and aunt Cheshire have?” Gina was impress with the safe house they had been dropped off at.

It was of an old design that Julia and Tizzy figure dated back to the Colonial days.

“The only two people that know the answer to that question is dad and aunt Cheshire.” Julia was wondering that question herself.

Tizzy looks at the piece of paper that had the directions on it that her mother wrote for her and followed them. When it comes to identify the proper picture for the final passcode she looks at the choices. All of them were items you would find in the Alice in Wonderland movie, but she was looking for the one picture that wasn’t. She spots it. It was the Cheshire cat being feed grapes by a humanoid wolf that looked like Chaos.

“What took you so long?” Gina had to go pee. She blames the Big Gulp she took with her on the Lear Jet.

Julia goes in first with Terror by her heels. Tizzy was next with Menace by her side and Gina with Cadmus. Gina looks for the downstairs bathroom and finds it.

“I think she had to go and potty.” Julia watches as her sister tries to locate the bathroom.

Cheshire and their father had given them the layout of the place before they left the house. They made sure the three of them knew where every escape tunnel, hidden safe room and weapons locker were.

Julia looks down at Terror, who resemble chaos the most “search!”

Terror takes off and searches all of downstairs.Tizzy goes upstairs and has Menace search the second floor.

Gina comes out of the bathroom feeling better. She steps outside with Cadmus and has him search the yard. The security system of the house shows the property and where everyone was located. Once the house and the property was searched. Gina checks out the boat house to see what boat their father had left for them to use. She was surprised to see a normal looking 2012 Cobia boat for them to use.

“I wonder why dad left us that one and not a speed boat?” She turns back around after relocking the boat house and head back towards the house itself.

Tizzy was cooking them some dinner from the supplies she found in the pantry. Her mother said that their safe houses were normally stocked when they needed them. That was why Uncle Jack had called the Innkeeper to stock this one with everything three grown women would need and three wolves would need. Tizzy had found everything she needed to make an Hawaiian dish for them.

While the three of them sat at the counter eating “So, what time are we supposed to be at the police station, tomorrow?”

“We’re supposed to be there at 0800hrs tomorrow morning.” Julia takes another bite of her dinner and falls in love with what Tizzy made.

“Has any one check the vehicle we’re taking tomorrow and are we showing up in full body armor or just our uniforms?” Tizzy looks at Julia for an answer.

“I checked it out. It’s a custom Ford F450 dad wants us to use. He said it has more than enough power and armor built onto it.” Julia had spoken with their father about everything they might need. They brought their own personal weapons with them, not what the department issued to them.

After dinner, all three girls check and cleaning their weapons. Tizzy take the wolves outside so they could check the perimeter and do their business as well. Tizzy missed not having one of the ligers here with her, but her uncle was right. Simba was injured and Shur-khan only listened to her mother. She walks around with the wolves and watch as they scout out the area and find a spot to do their business.

Once the wolves were done, they head back inside and Tizzy arms the outside security system. She uses her personal security code that Jack gave her before they left Montana. They had the location of two fall back safe houses if they needed it.

“Who’s taking what room?” Tizzy had her go bag in hand as she walks up the steps.

“Gina claimed the Master bedroom, which is fine with me. I took a room over on the East wing that looks out onto the front yard and the gate.”
Julia was making up her bed.

“Alright, I’ll take the one that looks out on the backyard.” Tizzy takes the other room.

Each room either had its own bathroom or shared a bathroom.

“Hey, did you guys know that this place has a built-in gym and swimming pool?” Gina was looking at the floor plan their father gave them.

“Yes, we knew, but we don’t have time tonight to enjoy it. We have to be up and out of here by 0700hrs.” Julia wanted to get there early and met who else that was part of this taskforce.

“You two are so lucky. You have a uniform you can wear.” Gina figures that she be better off wearing her suit tomorrow. She knows a few cops might give her a hard time being a private security contractor, but she’ll deal with them like she always does.

Julia lets the wolves out one more time, before all of them turn in for the night. Cadmus jumps up and lays next to Gina like he always does.
Julia and Tizzy allow Terror and Menace to sleep next to them.

Tuesday May 16 0530hrs (Kat’s Aunt Millard’s house)
Crystal walks out of the bathroom and let Alexa know the bathroom was free. The guys had taken their shower last night and were in the kitchen fixing breakfast for everyone. She opens her go bag and went to pull out a pair of panties and pulls out a pair of Hello Kitty. They were her size, but not the style she liked wearing. She searches in her bag for another pair to wear. She finds all the panties she had packed, had been replace with brand new boy shorts with Hello Kitty.

“I’m going to kill her when I get back.” Crystal puts the underwear on.

“Who are you going to kill, Crystal?” Kat had heard Crystal and stuck her head into her room to see what was going on.

“Brittney. She took all the panties I had packed and replace them with Hello Kitty.” Crystal was putting her bra on when she responded to Kat.

Kat saw the Hello Kitty panties Crystal was wearing and just smiled. She knew Brittney was just marking her territory.

“It could be worse, Crystal. You could be wearing her other favorite ones, The Power Puff girls.” Kat just smirks as she walks out of Crystals and Alexa bedroom.

Alexa comes walking in and notices Crystal still getting dressed and the Hello Kitty panties she was wearing.

“I take it, that Brittney replaced your normal thongs you like to wear with those?” Alexa nods her head towards the panties.

“Yep. Did you ever do something like this to your girlfriend?” Crystal knew Alexa had been discharged from the military for dating another woman.

“Yep, she never wore any sexy underwear under her uniform. So, I took all her practical underwear and replaces them with underwear from
Victory Secret, Fedrick’s of Hollywood, and Faire Frou Frou. I told her I like my women, feeling like they were women. Also, it’s fun to wear something pleasurable and natty under your clothes.”

‘Did she get upset you did that?” Crystal was brushing her hair out.

“Yes, but once she started wearing them daily. She fell in love with them.” A smile appeared on Alexa’s face.

“Are the two of you still seeing each other?”

“Yep, I married her. She’s the assistant to the Commander of the McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base.” Alexa checks herself out in the
mirror.

Crystal had finished dressing and applying some make-up. She checks herself one last time and follow Alexa out of the bedroom. She could smell bacon in the air.

“I know the relationship you and Brittney now has is different. The thing is, you know she is a practical joker. You’re going to be the first real relationship she has ever had. Besides, all of us knew since the first day you were hired, that Brittney was interested in you.”

They walk in and sit down to eat the breakfast the guys made. Kat and Paul had gone and gotten some furniture for everyone to sit on. The storage unit wasn’t too far away from the house.

Tuesday May 16 0530hrs (Bounty’s Safe House)
Julia had been woken-up early by her cellphone. Christmas had called to see if she was alright and to wish her a good day. Arnold had called Gina to let her know what his plans were going to be and wonder if she would be home next weekend. She told him it was to early to tell in the mission if she will, but she hopes so. Since Gina was the early raiser, she got up and let the wolves out to do their business and feed them afterwards.

Tizzy comes stumbling into the kitchen next, still dressed in her night clothes. Cheshire had gotten her, her SRS surgery a year after adopting
Tizzy. She knew a Hawaiian doctor she trusted to perform the surgery and had that same doctor make some enhancements on Tizzy. She had Tizzy looks to be more oriental and made sure she had a nice rounded out figure.

“Coffee is ready Tizzy.” Gina was sipping hers, while she enjoyed a muffin.

She had found a box of prepackaged muffins that weren’t too bad. She was eating her first one and enjoying her coffee.

“Thanks.” Tizzy grabs one of the coffee cups and unwrap it out its wrapper and pour herself a cup.

She was like her mother and had to had cream and sugar in her coffee. She opens the refrigerator and finds the cream and Gina pointed out where the sugar bowl was. She adds the sugar and cream to her coffee.

“Mmmm! Nectar of the gods.” As Tizzy takes a sip of her coffee.

Julia comes in and waves to everyone as she fixes her coffee. She had put on a pair of shorts and a cropped t-shirt before coming downstairs.

“Looks like everyone is getting their morning caffeine fix this morning.” Julia looks towards Gina and Tizzy.

“Blame dad and aunt Cheshire. They got us hooked on coffee.” Gina had a smile on her face. She remembered the first cup her father had let
her have. It was straight black and strong. She almost threw up after drinking his coffee. Selena had let her taste hers and she was hooked immediately.

“So, what’s the plan for today?” Tizzy looks at her cousins.

“We have the strike force meeting at 0800hrs this morning and more than likely were going to go after that fake FBI agent. If he is as good as
dad or aunt Cheshire, were going to need to be on our toes. I know Marshal Bullock is going to be there, along with his partner.” Julia takes a sip of her coffee.

“If that jackass is as good as dad or aunt Cheshire, he wouldn’t had been found by us or the Marshal. Remember sis, if dad or aunt Cheshire doesn’t want to be found, they won’t.” Gina takes a sip of her coffee.

“I know.” Julia takes another sip of her coffee.

Tizzy remembers going into the jungle as part of her training with her mother. They were playing a game of cat and mouse. During the whole
entire time they played, she only found her mother once. Her mother had let her find her. Cheshire kept training her in tracking and concealing and disappearing into the shadows till she was as much as an expert as she was.

Tizzy knew Gina and Julia had the same training as she did from their father. Then Cheshire trained all the girls in seduction and teaching them how to blend in. She taught them how to hob knob with the riches to hob knobbing with the ordinary man and blend in like they belonged there.

After the girls finish their coffee and light breakfast. They head back upstairs and get dressed and leave the house. Gina was driving the SUV towards the police station.

Tuesday May 16 0745hrs (Memphis Police Station)
Gina pulls up and parks the SUV. All three girls get out of the SUV and open the side door to let all three wolves out. They don’t bother putting them on leashes. The girls make sure they have their badges hanging around their necks before walking in.

As they approached the front door. People stopped and stared at them. Everyone around them backed away as the girls walk into the station. Several officers stopped and moved their hands to their guns.

“If I was you officers, I would move your hand away from your weapon, unless you don’t want to live.”

All three ladies had stopped and was looking at every police officer that had stopped to look at them. One of the officers take his hand off his gun.

“Who are you and why do you three, have three wolves with you?”

“I’m Julia Bounty with Montana Police Department K-9 division and this is my cousin Tizzy Patel with Honolulu Police Department. The other young lady with us is my sister Gina Bounty with Cerberus Private Security Contractors. She’s the VP of the company and these are our wolves.”

“Okay, mind telling me why the three of you are here?” Sgt. Smoke was curious why three women that look like they could be super models were standing before him with wolves.

“They’re here, because I invited them, Sgt.” Deputy Marshal Edward Bullock had walked in and noticed Julia and her family facing off against a few police officers.

“And who are you?” Sgt. Smoke looks towards the man that had just spoken to him.

He was a big man, at least six’ two feet tall, and was dress in a cowboy shirt, dress pants. He notices that he had his badge and gun on his belt.

“He’s US Deputy Marshal Edward Bullock and he’s here as we are for a meeting with the strike force. So, if you so kindly get out of our way and tell whoever is in charge that we are here. “

Sgt. Smoke at the weird looking cat lady that had just spoken and remembered seeing her on television. He knew she was some sort of Bounty hunter. There were two more women and three men behind her.

“I got this Sergeant.” US Deputy Marshal Alice Young had heard what was going on and decided to come up front and handle the problem.

“If you’ll all follow me, please.” Alice takes everyone to a conference room.

There were already several people sitting at the long wooden table waiting on them.

“Please, take a seat.” Alice motions to the empty seats available.

Gina sits down between Julia and Tizzy. Kat and her crew sits near the Bounty’s. Kat was surprised to see Julia and her cousin again. She did notice that Julia didn’t have her normal wolf with her.

Marshal Bullock took a seat up near the Marshals from the Memphis office. He was looking at the gather people and couldn’t believe that such a group had been called together to go after one guy and a few others.

“Good morning ladies and gentlemen. You all have been gathered to assist in collecting some wanted people. We have a special one that we are going after, that is supposed to exist. I know a lot of you are wondering who our new people are that have joined us. We have Miss. Bounty from the K-9 division of the Montana Police department. Sitting to her right is her cousin is special agent Tizzy Patel with Honolulu Police Department. She is experienced in handling large cats and is familiar with the wolves that Ms. Bounty’s has brought with them. Sitting to the left of Ms. Bounty, is her sister and the VP of Cerberus Private Security Contractors. The wolf sitting next to her is, her own wolf.”

“Why do we need wolves for this strike force?” One of the Memphis police officers was curious.

“Because, these wolves are better trained then our own drug dogs. Most criminals Ms. Bounty has capture, has been because of how well her wolf is. She and her partner have one of the highest arrest records in the K-9 division in any police department.” The Captain looks at his man. He knew Andy was just curious why they called in wolves, instead of using their own drug dogs.

Andy Fredrick looks over towards the three ladies. They looked like freaking supermodels, not police officers or a Private Contractor.

“Sitting next to the Bounty’s is our own Bounty Hunting squad that I know all of you have heard rumors about and seen on television. They mostly operate in Knoxville, but I have asked them to assist us in tracking down these fatigues today.”

Captain Heath starts putting up the wanted pictures of everyone they were going after today. He couldn’t believe they had some many people they had arrest warrants for. He was hoping they could capture all of them with the people he had assembled here. The last person worried him the most. He had read the report done about him.

Kat and Gina were sitting next to each other watching the Captain of the Memphis office putting pictures up of who they were going after. Both ladies couldn’t believe that there were at least a dozen people that were wanted on one charge or another that was connected to their main quarry.

“Looks like it is going to be a busy day, today.” Kat had lean over to speak to Gina.

“I give us till this afternoon. If we split up into teams, I know we’ll have all those wanted people arrested and done with.”

“You sure about that, Gina?” Kat didn’t think so.

“I’m positive. I know what my wolf can do and once word spread that the cops are using wolves to track them down. They will surrender right away.” Gina saw it happened in Montana.

“I hope you right.” Kat wonders how Gina was related to Julia. They didn’t have any features that they shared.

They pay attention to the Captain when he starts talking again.

Team 1: (Gina, Crystal, Kat and Cadmus) Tuesday 1300hrs Serving warrant
Gina and Kat chases after the perpetrator their team had been sent to capture. Crystal was a little ahead of them, chasing after Cadmus.
Cadmus was chasing after their perpetrator.

“You would think they would stop running with a big ass wolf chasing them.” Kat kept pace with Gina, as they ran behind Crystal.

“You would think, but when they passed out brains, that guy got a spoonful.” They watch as Cadmus locks his jaw around the guys legs and down he went.

The guy struggles with Cadmus, but ends up getting hurt more. Crystal walks up to the two and stands back, when she hears Cadmus growl.

She looks back behind her and spot Kat and Gina coming towards them.

“How do you call him off, Gina?” Crystal every police dog had a command to make them stop.

“Scaoileadh!” Gina says it loud enough for Cadmus to back off.

Cadmus hears his mistress order and releases his prey, but stays nearby to attack him.

“What language was that?” She had never heard it before.

“Gaelic, everyone in my family speaks it.”

Gina steps up to Cadmus “good boy, Cadmus. You brought that mean ole drug lord down.” She slips him a treat.

Kat handcuffs their perpetrator “that will teach your dumb ass to run away from a wolf.”

Crystal helps Kat lift their perpetrator off the ground.

“That’s five down. How do you think the other teams are doing?” Kat looks towards Gina.

“Knowing terror and my sister, I bet they have all their wanted.” Gina had gotten a text from her sister saying they were done.
Kat and Crystal walk their wanted person back to the Terradyne Gurkha RPV.

“Hold him please, we have to treat his bites.” Kat gets Crystal to hold their person while she brings out the medical kit she keeps in all their
vehicles.

“I can do that for you Kat.” Gina was about to walk over to help Kat with the bites.

“No need. I need for you to keep any eye on our prisoner. If he decides to be stupid and attacks us. You are the only one capable of calling your wolf off.” Kat smiles at Gina, to see if she got her meaning.

“Garda!”

Cadmus starts growling. He was watching the person they had. Kat just smirks and bandages up their person.

Team 2 (Tizzy, Paul, Alexa, Menace, and Lev) Tuesday 1230 (serving warrant)
“Come out with your hands up, NOW!” Tizzy had her assault rifle aimed at the door of the drug house they had come too.

Menace was standing next to Tizzy growling and ready to attack. Paul and Lev had the back of the place covered with their assault rifles. Alex had the side covered. The other side they could see easily. Tizzy spots someone crawling out from underneath and start running.

“Faigh!”

Menace takes off after the person like a bullet towards their suspect. He was hot on the heels of the person. He grabbed hold of his leg and took him down. He shook the person, while growling at him.

Tizzy looks over at the person Menace took down. She kind of felt sorry for them. Menace was one of the younger wolves and tend to be a little bit rougher then the older wolves.

One of the police officers that had come with them runs over to get the person, but is stopped when Menace looked at him and growled.

“Call your wolf off.”

Jerson was amazed at the wolf. He had never seen anything like it. It took off and caught the person in no second’s flat.

“Scaoileadh!”

Menace release the person and runs back over to Tizzy.

“Maith buachaill.” Tizzy reaches down and pets Menace.

“Come out with your hands up, or I’m sending my wolf in.” Tizzy was ready to send Menace in.

“Fuck you, bitch!”

“Fine, your funeral.” Tizzy fires a grenade at the door and blow it open.

“Ionsaí!” Tizzy gives the order for Menace to attack.

Like his sire, Menace jumps in and attacks. All any one hears is people screaming in pain and growls. Tizzy runs in and watches as Menace
goes to work on one person. He was attacking just like Chaos would. Any one that tried to shoot him or get him off them. He tears open their arms open or their throats. There was white powered everywhere.

“SÚil!”

Menace stops, but doesn’t let go of the leg he had in his jaws. Alexa, Paul and Lev had crashed the back door and had come in. They see blood and injured people everywhere.

“Dam, that’s one mean wolf.” Alexa couldn’t believe it.

“He takes after his sire. Chaos was known to do this as well. Menace is still young and might grow out of it.” Tizzy walks over and locates their
person.

He was laying on the floor on his back cradling his arm trying to keep his blood from squirting out.

“I told you to surrender, but you wouldn’t listen. I also told you I was sending in a wolf.” Tizzy had a smile on her face.

Mateo was cradling his arm as he laid on his back covered in cocaine. He looks up at the young woman looking down at him. They had been surprised by the grenade to the door and wasn’t expecting a dam fucking wolf to come in and tear into them. He had watched as that dam wolf tore the throat out of his brother and jumped to his friend and attack him.

“Dam, Tizzy. Are all your wolves like this?” Paul couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

“Actually, no. My Liger is like this. He will eat your face off.” Tizzy keys her mic to have paramedics sent out to the resident.

“You have a liger?” Alexa looks over towards Tizzy.

“Yep. His is named Simba, after the lion from Lion King. He was injured, so I couldn’t bring him.” Tizzy wonders how Simba was. She loved her big paddy tat.

“Remind me to never make you mad.” Lev had heard rumors of a lady that was a cat expert when he was in Russia that had a big cat for a pet.

“Tizzy, are you related to a woman name Cheshire?” Lev also knew she was a CIA agent as well. One of their best.

“She’s my mother.” Tizzy had a smile on her face when she says that to Lev. She knew he was from Russia by his accent.

“Dam! I can’t believe she has a daughter.” Lev just shakes his head.

“What’s so special about this woman, Lev?” Paul had never heard the name before.

Lev looks at his brother-in-law “she’s someone you never want to come after you. She has killed more agents and heads of state, then any
KGB agent or assassin. She’s the boggy man among the intelligence community and ranks in the top three.”

Lev looks at Tizzy and wonders if her mother trained her to be as lethal as her.

“Who’s the other two in the rank?” Paul knew there were a few Italian families that specialized as assassin’s. One was rumored to be here in America and feared by the other families.

“Jack Bounty is one and someone else that is as mysterious as her mother.” Lev walks over to Manteo and does what he can for the wound.
He wasn’t a medic, but could stop the bleeding till the paramedics got to them.

“I wonder how Julia’s team is doing?” Alexa had gotten a text along with everyone else in her party about the person Kat and Gina went after.

Team 3 (US Deputy Marshal Young, US Deputy Marshal Bullock, Julia Bounty and Terror) Tuesday 1200hrs
Julia watches as they drive pass another closed store. So, far every place they pass got her wondering why they were out doing this, instead of going after Agent Jones.

“Tell me again why we are doing warrants, instead of going after Agent Jones?” Julia was scratching Terrors head between his ears.

“Because, all the warrants we sent out this morning have connections to your guy. We weaken him by eliminating his connections and make it hard for him to escape.” Deputy Marshal Young glances back at Julia.

“If you say so. I think it’s giving him time to prepare for us or escape. It’s going to be a blood bath, if he is as good as the rumors say he is.” Julia wonders if her father would wait to do this.

Then she smiles. No, her father would have the bastard by now and be torturing him.

Deputy Marshal Bullock pulls the SUV into an old abandon warehouse parking lot. Bullock was looking around as they stopped.

“Alright ladies, let’s go and see if were expected.” Bullock opens his door and gets out.

He walks around to the back where the gear was stored and open it. He starts suiting up. Julia and Marshal Young exit the SUV and join him.
They grab their gear as well. Julia decided to just take her vest she had brought with her, instead her full set of body armor. She did bring her favorite assault rifle with six spare magazines. She straps on her gun holsters, which had her favorite handguns and six magazines for them.
She pulls Terrors combat vest out and put it on him. He hated to wear it, but tolerated it. Her tact radio was on their channels.

When she went to do a mic check “we have a problem. There’s a jammer here.”

She didn’t hear her check from Bullock’s or Young’s radio’s.

Bullock and Young both check theirs and was getting nothing as well. Julia pulls her cellphone out to see if she had a signal. She had no service.

“They know were here.” Julia looks around and spots the camera up in a small dark corner.

She pulls her handgun out and fires at it. Her aim was true as the bullet causes the camera to explode. She looks around for another one and
spots several more.

Terror starts growling as his ears go back and teeth start showing. Something caught his attention and it was coming from directly in front of them. He was ready to attack.

The next thing the three of them hear is bullets hitting the front and side of the SUV they were behind. It was getting shot at by at least four people. Bullets struck the grill and windshield shattering it.

Julia peeks around quickly and fires her handgun at one guy. Her bullets struck him center mass. She ducks back around for cover behind the SUV.

“Three guys with the latest AK rifles.” Julia looks down at Terror.

“How did they know?” Young and Bullock were stumped.

“There’s a traitor among us at the police station.”

More bullets strike the SUV.

Bullock peeks around on the right with Young covering him and fires at the other two guys. Julia charges from the left with Terror on her heels.

“Ionsaí!” Julia yells to Terror as four more guys come out of the doorway.

Terror jumps and knocks the first person backward, causing the others to fall over him and Terror. Terror crushes his throat with one bite from his jaw and sinks his teeth into the crotch of the next guy that had gotten knocked down. He crushes the man’s testicles in his jaw.

Julia watches as Terror crushes a man’s testicles in his jaws. She spots a guy trying to shoot Terror. She puts a bullet right between his eyes.

Bullock and Young follow her up the steps and inside the building. Terror right on her heels as all three ends up inside and into another gun fight. Terror uses his small slender size to his advantage and takes a gunman down, while the humans behind him take the others.

They were fighting for every inch they were gaining. Julia had been hit a few times, but her vest absorbed the bullets without a problem. Her shoulder felt numb, but she could still shoot. They must have shoot at least twenty people by the time they got to the person they were looking for.

Terror had him pinned with his jaws wrapped around his throat.

Diego gotten a phone call from his informant in the police station two Marshal’s and a Montana police officer were heading his way. By the time they pulled into the parking lot, he armed all his men and waited for them to approach the building. He wasn’t counting on a dam dog to be among them. He had heard the gun fire going on and when he went to open his office door to join his people, something big and black had jumped towards him and knocked him backwards on his ass. He saw the face of a big black dog in front of him and when he went to shoot the thing, it wrapped its jaw around his throat and was slowly crushing it. He saw that blood was dripping from its muzzle. When he went to move, the pressure on his throat got tighter and a loud growl could be heard.

Marshal Young was the first one in the office and saw Terror with his jaw wrapped around Diego’s throat.

“Looks like you caught your man, Terror.” Young was smiling down at Diego.

Bullock and Julia were next to arrive and just smirk at the sight.

“Call your dog off. He’s crushing my throat.” Diego could barely talk.

“Who, informed you we were coming?” Julia kneeled to look at him.

“I’m not telling you anything, Bitch!” He spits at her.

Terror tightens his grip and growls even louder.

The spit had missed Julia.

“If you want to keep breathing, Diego. I would tell the lady what she wants to know. That’s her wolf and it won’t respond to us.” Bullock was enjoying this.

Diego looks at Julia and then the wolf “Call him off first.” He manages to squeeze out, before Terror tighten his jaw even more.

“Scaoilte!”

Terror loosens his grip, but doesn’t let go.

“Sergeant Flores. He works for me.”

“How many more and what are their names?” Julia had her voice recorder out.

“Ten more and their names are…” Diego starts giving out the names.

Once he was done, he looks at Julia “now call your wolf off please.”

“Scaoileadh!”

Terror lets go and sits by Julia, but keeping his eyes on Diego.

Julia’s cellphone chirps and notices it was a message form her sister asking how they did. She responds by informing her they had their person. The police and paramedics were already there wrapping things up.

They handcuff Diego and walk out with him between them. Terror was licking his jaws to clean the blood off. When they get to the ruined SUV.
Julia gets his bowl and a bottle water and pour it over his muzzled to clean the blood and put fresh water in his bowl.

“Now we go after Jones?” Julia looks at Bullock and Young.

“Yes, now we go after Jones.” Bullocks and Young takes swig of their water.

“You guys are so fuck. He knows your coming. You better have a tank with you.” Diego starts laughing as he is taken away towards a police car.

Julia, Tizzy and Gina didn’t like the idea of the wolves going first, but they needed to know if the doors were bobby trapped. Kat and her crew were acting as back-up for Julia and her family. They had split the team up to enter from two separate entrances. Julia sends Terror first to check the door for explosives and when he gives the all clear.

They move with Julia and Lev taking the lead. Kat, Crystal and Gina were next. The three of them were the fastest runners. Tizzy, Paul, Luke and Alexa were last. The four of them were providing cover for everyone else.

Julia looks at the electronic key entry lock. She takes a small spray can out and spray the keys to see what numbers were pressed. It was a six-number combination.

“Dam! I hate electronic locks.” Julia was inputting the numbers on her wrist comp.

“Here, let me see if I can find the right numbers for you.” Kat steps forward and gets close.

The residue wasn’t helping her nose as she sniffs the keyboard and presses the numbers. After a few minutes of sniffing and pressing the different keys, the door clicks open.

“That was a neat trick.” Julia walks in first followed by everyone else.

“How’s the other team doing?” Paul was curious about them.

“Don’t know. We lost contact with them as soon as we walked into the building.” Gina didn’t like the sound of that.

They move down the hallway with the wolves taking point. Kat was behind them, because of her hearing and nose.

Kat was keeping an eye on the wolves because they would hear things and smell things before her. They move deeper and deeper into the warehouse and come to a set of double doors. The wolves approach the door and stop.

Menace starts growling, followed by the other two wolves. Their ears were laid back and growling. Something was on the other side and they didn’t like it.

“Here Kat, toss this.” Julia hands Kat two flash grenades.

Kat steps to one side of the door, after the wolves moved back some. She opens the door slightly and tosses the flash grenades, just as gunfire erupted. The grenades go off, Julia and Kat go through first and lay down cover fire as the wolves charge in. Terror launches onto the nearest target and rips his throat out. Menace takes the next nearest, and rips into his unprotected arm. Cadmus takes a third down by the throat.

Kat had leaped over the wolves and was fighting one guy. She had managed to punch him in his face and busted his nose. Julia and Tizzy took aim at a few that had dropped back and shot them in their heads as they tried to retreat. Paul and Lev dropped two more with Alexa shooting one guy in his groin, because he was wearing a vest.

There were screaming from the two men that Menace used his arm as a chew toy. The one Cadmus had attacked was choking on his own blood, thanks to Cadmus. Gina shoots the one Menace was using as a chew toy in the head.

“I wonder what else is waiting for us.” Alexa was looking at the one she shot in the groin.

“Let’s hope, we don’t run into a lot of guys with guns.” Gina walks over the body of the guy she shot.

The wolves take point again as Kat kept some distance behind them as they walked into a huge area. Which was the main storage area. They could hear gunfire and screams. The double doors on the other side of the warehouse explode inward, as the two Marshal’s and one of the police officers from their team come running in. Just as they enter the room, there’s a loud buzzing sound coming from directly overhead and a swam of small items start dropping down onto them. The sprinkler system overhead cuts on and starts spraying down on everyone.

“GAS!” Kat had smelled it when the sprinklers started spraying down on them.

The little black flying drones drop down towards them and start exploding. The explosion sets off the gas which sends everyone flying. They were blown into wooden storage crates, pallets of boxes and several nearby forklifts. Terror is slammed into Julia against a forklift. Kat gets slammed from Cadmus into a stack of boxes that topples and buries them. Menace is slammed into Paul and sent flying against the wall. As he hits the wall, something sharp enters his back on the right-hand side of his body, just below his shoulder.

Gina is sent flying and hits her back and her head against a support column. Alexa and Lev are sent flying into the Marshals and all four of them are blown into a corner, along with other debris that was burning. Luke and Tizzy are sent flying across the warehouse and into the loading dock doors. Crystal was blown into an empty wooden storage crate and her hair had gotten singed.Fire is everywhere and the whole team was knocked unconscious.

Outside the Warehouse:
Chris was on her way home from a movie that her and a few friends were making for their art project. She was still dressed as the Baroness from the G.I. Joe movie, when she heard an explosion and saw fire and smoke. She heads over towards the building on her motorcycle. As she got closer, she could see flames engulfing the building. She whips her cellphone out and dials 911 and reports the fire.

Chris runs over to a window and looks inside and spots people lying on the floor inside the building. She needed to get inside to find out if those people were dead or not. She breaks the glass and climbs in. She runs over to the nearest person and check their pulse. She could smell gasoline everywhere. The person she was checking barely had a pulse. She saw that the person had a handgun on them and took it. Her own handguns were loaded with blanks for the movie she helped make. She runs over to the other loading dock door that was locked and shoots the locks.

She was used to handling handguns. She starts pulling the people near the loading door out first and then starts looking for others. She finds three big ass wolves and pull them out. By the time she pulled the last person out, she was tired, sweaty in her skin tight catsuit and coughing from the smoke she inhaled. She had the smell of smoke cling to her.

The fire department had showed up and was busy putting the fire out. The paramedics were tending to the wounded and she was giving her report to what happened to the police that had showed up.

Julia and Tizzy’s Hospital room:
Julia started waking up, and slowly moves her head as she tries to figure out where she was. She felt the needle in her arm and saw the machines next to her. She was in a hospital gown and had a air hose in her nose. Her left arm was in a cast and her chest was wrapped up. It finally dawns on her that she was in a hospital room.

Lying in the bed next to her, was her cousin Tizzy. She had a neck brace going around her neck. Her right arm was in a cast and her head was bandaged. She was still out of it. She didn’t know what the condition was of the wolves, her sister or the rest of their team.

Julia tries to get out of bed, but she was to weak to move. Twenty minutes later, a nurse comes in to check on her and Tizzy.

“Ma’am, where is my sister and how did I get here?” Julia was looking at the nurse.

“Your sister is in the next room Ms. Bounty and the paramedics brought you and your group in.” Nurse Steward had been informed that a person dressed like the Baroness from G.I. Joe had rescued them.

“Do you know if the wolves that were with us, are okay?” Julia was worried about Terror, Menace and Cadmus. Especially Cadmus, because
Gina was attached to him. It would kill her if he had died.

“The wolves that were with you, are at the vet right now. Your father was informed, and he came in two days ago to care for them.” Steward checks Julia’s pulse and blood pressure.

She sticks the thermometer in her mouth, before she can ask any more questions. She pulls it out after waiting 3 minutes and notices that she
still was running a slight fever. She writes the temperature on the pad the hospital was using now.

“Have I been out for two days?” Julia was glad the thermometer was out of her mouth. The plastic tasted nasty.

Steward looks down at Julia “you and your group came in and all of you were in critical condition. The doctors had to use the paddles on your strange looking friend. Your sister is still unconscious and may have a broken back. You have a broken arm and fractured ribs. If you hadn’t been wearing your vest, your wolf would had broken your ribs and puncture your lungs.”

Jack and Cheshire walks into the room. Nurse Steward turns around and notices them.

“Mr. Bounty, Ms. Patel it’s nice seeing you again. Julia just woke-up, but I’m afraid Tizzy still hasn’t woken-up yet.”

“She will.” Cheshire lays Tizzy’s teddy bear next to her. The bear had Simba’s scent on it. She sits down in the chair next to her bed and holds Tizzy’s uninjured hand.

“If you need anything, let me know.” Nurse Steward leaves the room, to give Mr. Bounty and Ms. Patel sometime with Julia. She goes to check on her other patients.

“I messed up daddy.” Tears start leaking from her eyes.

“How did you mess up, baby?” Jack sits down in the chair next to Julia’s bed.

“I should had done more recon on the place and I knew he was waiting for us.” Julia felt terrible that people had gotten injured.

“Why don’t you tell me what happened, and I'll tell you if you messed up.” He wipes the tears away from Julia eyes.

He hated seeing his baby in the hospital bed. He was already concerned about Gina. The doctor told him that she had hit her back and head hard against a solid object.

Julia tells him how they had entered and encounter several people. Afterwards, they made their way into a large warehouse area. The two Marshal’s and one police officer had been forced in there with them. She informs him of the sprinkler systems going off and spraying them with gasoline. Then the tiny bots that had dropped from a bigger drone that had been hovering high up against the roof. She informs him that they exploded when they dropped below the sprinkler systems.

“Sounds like you walked into a trap, baby. You didn’t do anything wrong. There wouldn’t had been a way for the wolves or even your friend Kat to know there was gasoline in the sprinkler system. The guy you were trying to capture, is an experience operative. The way he planned this, sounds like something I might have done. Except, I like to make things personal.” Jack reaches forward and brushes some of Julia’s hair out of her face.

“How are the wolves?” Julia grabs her father’s hand with her good one.

“Terror and Menace will live. They just need time to recover. As for Cadmus, I’m going to have to retire him from active duty. A bunch of rims fell on top of him and broke his ribs and front right shoulder.”

Kat’s Hospital room:
Kat’s older brother, Britney, and Terry were in Kat’s room. Next to her was Paul. Kat was still unconscious and wrapped up. She had hoses going into her nose and machines hooked up to her. Her head was bandage, her chest was wrapped, and both her arms were in a cast. She had an IV connected to her.

Paul’s right shoulder was bandaged up and was unconscious. His head was wrapped, as well. Terry was holding her father’s hand and Brittney was holding Kat’s hand.

“Uncle Ben, is mom going to be okay?” Brittney looks over at her Uncle.

“Your mother will be fine. She’s too stubborn to give up. Come on sis, get your lazy self-up and take care of your children.” Ben was concerned about his sister. The doctors told him, that they had to jump start her heart several times.

Kat’s eyes flutter as she gives her brother the middle finger. She slowly opens her eyes and look at her family standing next to her. She saw her children and her big brother.

Brittney notices her mother open her eyes.

“MOM!” Brittney lets go of Kat’s hand and hugs her. Tears were streaming down her cheeks. She was concerned for Crystal as well, but Kat was her mother.

“See I told you. Your mother is one tough lady.” He glances down at his little sister. He has only seen her like this, one other time. It was when she got jumped by a bounty and his brother’s. She was beaten so badly, that he wanted to go after the son-of-bitches himself and teach them a lesson.

Lev and Luke’s Hospital room:
Rebecca was sitting next to Lev’s bed holding his hand. Her sister was injured, and her husband was injured as well. His chest was completely wrapped up and he was asleep right now. He had woken-up earlier and the two of them had talked. He had an Iv going into his arm and his wrist was wrapped. He was wearing a neck brace and his right arm was in a cast. Luke is in the same condition as Tizzy. Both had hit the metal door hard from the explosion.

Crystal and Alexa Hospital room:
Alexa was out and bandaged up. She was in the same condition as Lev. She was currently asleep. Crystal had been awake when Brittney poked her head in to check on her and give her a kiss. Crystal had told her to go and see how her mother was. She was suffering from inhaling smoke and was on oxygen.

Marin Jones had watched from an office building nearby as the Memphis police, US Marshal’s and the Bounty Hunting team from Knoxville had shown-up and entered the building. He was impress by the three girls with the wolves. His intel about them was spot on. Two of them were the daughters of the Devil’s Bounty Hunter and the other one was the daughter of the Cheshire herself. He knew when he tried to kill them he was inviting two of the worse killers around after him.

What he hadn’t counted on was someone dressed in a costume from the G.I. Joe movies and comic books rescuing them. If the fire had burned their bodies and made it difficult to id them, it would had given him some time. However, now he didn't have the time. Two of his people at the hospital informed him that the Devil’s Bounty Hunter and The Cheshire had arrived and visited their daughters and friends. Not only had they visited their daughters, but visited the person that saved them. Which meant that person was under their protection and any action taken would warrant a visit from them.

He pulls his cellphone out and presses a button “kill the good samaritan.”

He hangs up and waits to hear if the contract has been done. He figures that the two would be coming after him. So, why not kill the samaritan.

Christine:
Christine couldn’t believe the work she still had to get done on the movie they were making. Most of the editing was done, but they still had to add in a few more scenes and special effects. When she goes down to the parking lot, where her motorcycle was. Something didn’t feel right to her. She looks around, but couldn’t spot anything out of the ordinary. She checks her motorcycle and spotted something that wasn’t right.

Someone had messed with her motorcycle. She traces the extra wires someone had added to her motorcycle that lead to her tanks and spotted the small explosive device someone had added. So, when she throttles the engine, it would explode.

She disconnects the device and rechecks her motorcycle just in case someone had added anything else to it, but doesn’t find anything amiss.
She mounts her motorcycle after putting the explosive device in her backpack. She’ll look at it later after work.

She speeds down the road heading towards her full-time job at the Rainbow Lounge. She knew tonight was going to be busy, because all the drinks were half off their normal price till closing after six pm.

Rainbow Lounge:
Billy Ellis had followed the target he had been sent after. He couldn’t believe a college student knew how to search and remove an explosive device. What was this girl? He follows her to a known gay and lesbian bar & restaurant. He watches where she parks her motorcycle. She parks her motorcycle some where he couldn’t get too without being seen. He’ll have to wait for his target to come out. As he sits there waiting for his target. He doesn’t notice the shadowy figure sneaking up on the passenger side of the car. The last thing he hears is a quiet shot, as he is pushed out of the way and another driver takes his place.

Two Hours Later:
Billy starts waking up and notices he is tied to a chair. He looks around and notices he is in a metal trucking container all by himself. After a few minutes, a person walks inside. He couldn’t make out who it was, till they got closer to him. He notices she had short brown hair and nice eyes.
She was dressed in a black skintight body suit. There was a handgun on her right hip.

“Who the fuck, are you?” Billy was pissed.

“I’m a nobody. That’s who I am.” She smiles at him.

“Then who the fuck, are you and why am I here?” Billy wanted an answer.

“I told you who I am. As for why you are here? Did you honestly believe that the person you were sent after wouldn’t be protected? Now, since your boss knows you failed your assignment. Where is he operating from?”

“Sorry, am not going to tell you that.”

“I figured you wouldn’t. So, I have something just for you.” The woman walks over and slaps a dog collar around the Billy’s neck.

“Now, this is an electrified dog collar. I’m going to ask you a question and if you don’t answer it. I’m going to shock you.”

“Go ahead, I’m not going to…..”

He doesn’t even finish the sentence as he starts shaking. He stops after a few seconds.

“You were saying?” The woman had a smile on her face.

Billy looks at her and he wanted to kill her.

“Now are you going to answer my question?” A smile appears on her face.

“Fuck you, BBBIITTCCHH!!!” as he is dancing again from the electricity coursing through his body.

The woman stops “five, four, three, two, one.” She presses the remote again.

Billy starts dancing again. There is a pause and he feel the electricity again. It stops.

“Where oh Where is he hiding. Where oh Where is my Mr. Jones?” She presses the remote again.

Billy shakes violently from the increase in electricity. It stops after a while.

“Stop! Stop! I’ll tell you.” Billy looks at the woman.

“He’s up your, Ass. Bitch!” A smile appears on his face.

The woman turns the voltage up extremely high and presses the button. The lights dim as Billy shakes so bad, that a bone breaks. She stops when she hears the snap.

“Last chance. I really don’t care if you tell me. I have other ways to find him. This is just funnier.” An evil smile appears on her face.

Billy felt the bone in his arm break from thrusting so hard again his bonds.

“3, 2, “

“I’ll tell you. He’s operating from a vacant building only a few blocks from the warehouse that he tried to kill the people in.”
The woman just looks at him, seeing if she believes his horse manure. She hears Cheshire’s voice in her ear wick.

“Where would he go if he isn’t there?” The woman watches him.

“I don’t know. That’s where I met him for this assignment. I swear.” Billy didn’t know where he went.

The woman listens to what Cheshire tells her. She walks over and takes the collars off and pulls a small gun out of a pouch on her waist and shots him in the neck.

“Ow!” Billy wonders what it was.

“That is a tracker. It will let me know where you are always. If you try to remove it. It will release a slight poison into your system and slowly
kill you.” She walks over and cuts his bonds.

“Now get before I decide to kill you.”

Billy rubs his wrist and walks out of the container with her following behind him. He sees the car he drove. As he heads towards it, it explodes.

“You don’t get the car. That’s my property. Now go, before I disobey my orders.” Billy starts running away. He finds he was in a junkyard.

Midnight watches as Billy Ellis leaves. She checks her wrist comp for the security feeds and watches as he leaves the area. She had done what Cheshire told her to do. That is one assassin that won’t try anything soon. She was asked by Cheshire to watch after Catherine. Both her and Jack knew Mr. Jones would try something. It was good thing she frequency’s the Rainbow Lounge. Her girlfriend worked as a waitress up there.

Julia’s Hospital Room:
Julia looks down at her cousin before leaving her room. Tizzy still hasn’t woken-up from her coma. It’s been four days since they have been brought to the hospital. Her Aunt and father have been here several times to check on them. She could tell Cheshire was worried that Tizzy hasn’t woken-up yet. She’s been allowed to walk around and goes down to check on her sister. She hasn’t woken-up yet as well. Her and her father were worried that Gina had hit her head harder then everyone thought.

Gina’s hospital room:
She sits down in a chair next to Gina’s bed and clasp her hand. She wanted her little sister to wake-up. The two of them have grown close to each other since Jack saved them and raised them as his own. She knew Arnold was going to arrive at the hospital later this afternoon. The guards that have been posted on their wing was informed by her father to let him see Gina.

“Hey little sister, you need to wake-up and put your face on. Arnold’s coming later this afternoon. Do you want him to see you in your night gown?” Julia looks for any signs that her sister was going to come around. Cheshire had gone and gotten their nightgowns from the safehouse. She also brought their back-up guns as well.

“Hey, I don’t know if dad told you, but Cadmus is doing better. He tried to bite the vet tending to him. Dad said, if he hadn’t gone to check up on him. He would had taken the vet’s hand off.” Julia rubs her sisters knuckles and wishes she would wake-up. Tears start to leak from her eyes and slide down her cheeks. She wanted her little sister back.

“Hey, someone took off your necklace of Cadmus.” Julia spots the necklace their father gave them a long time ago, sitting in a little tray near the bed. She picks it up and put it around her sister’s neck. She always wore that necklace and would never let anyone take it off her. The wolf head on the necklace looked just Cadmus in his younger days.

Julia stays by her sister’s side, till the nurse tells her to go back to her room. When she walks in, she spots a young muscular Polynesian man sitting by Tizzy’s bed. He was holding her hand. She notices that he looks up when she had entered.

Ikaika looks up when he hears the door to Tizzy’s and her cousin’s room opened. He notices that the person was Julia. He had seen her in a few pictures Tizzy had around her bedroom.

“Your Aunt flew me out here to see if I could wake Tizzy up.” He had her hand in his and was gently holding it.

Julia walks over towards her bed and sits down on the mattress.

“I doubt you’ll be able to. We need Simba here. Tizzy raised Simba since he was a cub. The two of them are connected.” Julia just looks at her cousin.

“I don’t have Simba with me, but I do have his roar.” Ikaika pulls his cellphone out of his back pocket and plays the recording he had of Simba roaring.

Nothing happens the first time around, so he plays it again and put his cellphone next to Tizzy’s ear. They watch as Tizzy’s eyes start to flutter, and her grip tightens on Ikaika’s hand. She slowly opens her eyes.

“Alright Simba, I’m coming.” Tizzy tries to get up, put couldn’t. She looks around and notices she is in a hospital room and her boyfriend was there with her. She notices Julia sitting on a bed next to the one she was laying on.

Tears start leaking from her eyes as she recalls what happened. She recalls the explosion and hitting the metal door and passing out afterwards. She shivers just from the memory.

“Ssshhh, sweetheart. You’re safe now.” Ikaika sits on the side of the bed and just holds her.

Kat’s and Paul’s hospital room:
Kat held Brittney next to her. The girls had stayed to be with them. Her big sister and sister-in-law had come by with the twins to see how they were. The girls had gone with her brother to their aunt’s house to get Kat’s nightgown and a pair of boxers and t-shirt for Paul. She knew Rebecca was still here. She had popped in to see how she was doing.

Crystal was sitting in a chair next to Paul’s bed. Kat’s sister Kristen and her sister-in-law Charlotte were sitting with the twins near her. Kristen and Charlotte weren’t going to leave Kat for a while. The twins needed their mother and Kat couldn’t do anything for herself, because of her broken arms.

Crystal was cleared to check out of the hospital. She had only sustained minor bumps and bruises from the explosion. She was watching after Brittney, because Brittney’s Uncle Benjamin had asked her to. He had to go back to work. He had only managed to get a few days off to look after his sister. His wife and older sister were staying down in Memphis, till the crew was discharged from the hospital.

“I need to pee.” Kat hated the fact she could go to the bathroom by herself.

“Here, let me get Brittney off you Kat.” Crystal walks over and scoop Brittney up in her arms and carry her back over to her chair. She sits down with Brittney sleeping against her shoulder.

“I’ll help you Kat.” Charlotte gives Kristen the twin she had been holding.

“Thanks Charlotte.” Kat lets her sister-in-law help her to the bathroom.

“Your welcome, Kat.” Charlotte was a nurse, so was used to helping people like Kat.

“How’s the rest of the crew?” Kat ask Crystal as she returns from the bathroom.

“Everyone is too wounded to go after anyone, Kat.” Crystal looks over towards Paul when she said that. Paul was still asleep, and Terry was curled up next to him. Terry was a daddy’s girl.

Kat walks around the room some. Her chest still hurt her, but it was getting better. She needed to get out of bed for a while.

“I’m going for a walk.” Kat walks over to the twins and kiss their foreheads.

“You’re not going anywhere without me, little sister.” Kristen walks with her sister out into the hallway and saw that guards had been placed on their wing.

Kat walks out of the hospital room and notices there were guards out on the floor of their wing.

Kristen notices her sisters surprised look. “They are here to protect you guys and the Bounty’s.” Kristen had been stopped when she came up with Charlotte and the babies earlier today.

They wouldn’t let her past, until her identification could be verified. Jack had given orders not let any one that wasn’t family or the normal nurses on their floor or near the rooms. Even, the person who delivered the food to their room had to be cleared. No one was going to get close to his daughters or their friends.

Kat walks slowly with her sister as they walked the length of the hallway and down another hallway. The floor they were on was shaped like the letter H. Kat was quiet as she just held her sister’s hand as they walked. Rebecca and she might have come from the same egg donor, but Kristen was her sister.

“How have the twins been?” Kat was concerned about her little girls.

“They were fine. They miss their mother, but otherwise they were fine.” Kristen and Kat had made arrangements that if something should happen to her and Paul, that the girls were to go and live with her.

“You know, little sister. They had to bring you back three times.” Kristen glances at her sister.

“I know. I’m surprised that all of us survived the explosion. I think I’m going to have nightmares from this experience.” Kat trembles some.

“Look, I know you’re never going to give up being a bounty hunter. You’re too much like our father. Just for now on be more careful, please.
You had Brittney, Terry, me, Charlotte and Ben worried about you. That’s not counting Aunt Elizabeth or Uncle Henry when they found out.
They are flying up from Florida to help you around the house till you get better.” Kristen had to tell their Aunt and Uncle. They pretty much raised them after their father and mother died.

“I’ll try to be more careful, sis.” Kat leans against her sister as they walk back to Kat’s hospital room.

Marin Jones couldn’t believe he had been found so fast. His left shoulder was on fire from the bullet that was in it. He speeds down the highway trying to get away from the Black Mustang chasing after him. The man and woman in that car were the ones responsible for shooting him.

“Keep the car straight, Jack.” Cheshire climbs out of the passenger window and takes aim at the rear tire. She pulls the trigger on her ASP 9mm hitting the rear passenger tire.

Marin Jones loses control and flips the car several times as it lands in a field. Marin had blood dripping in his eyes and his shoulder was hurting. He was upside down in the car he had stolen.

Jack had pulled the mustang he was driving over and parked. Cheshire had already gotten out fo the car and was walking towards the upside-down car.

“Cheshire, remember we aren’t killing him yet. We want him to suffer for what he did to the girls.” Jack wanted to kill him as much as Cheshire, but he wasn’t going to kill him outright.

“Don’t worry Jack. I’m going to only hurt him a little bit.” Cheshire planned on shooting him in his leg for what he did to Tizzy.

If Tizzy hadn’t woken-up yesterday. He would be dead right now. When she gets close to the car, she sees Marin Jones hanging upside down.
She grabs her custom Damascus steel dagger from her thigh sheath. Her dagger had been designed and made for her from a friend in India. She cuts the seat belt holding Marin Jones and threaten him.

“You even think about shooting me and my partner will nail you.” Cheshire knew Jack had his .50 caliber Magnum out and pointed at him.

Marin saw the large man that had shot him in the shoulder standing nearby with a gun leveled at him. The look on his face told him everything. He feels himself pulled out of the upside-down car and his hand zipped cuff behind his back. He is escorted back to the black mustang and put in the passenger seat, while Cheshire sits behind him. The tow company Jack called was already on their way to get Marin’s Jones car.

Jack drives them out of the city and to a place he has along the Mississippi river. The private road had been put in years ago. Jack drives the Mustang up at the house and parks.

Marin didn’t know what to make of what they were going to do to him. All he knew was these two people were people you didn’t want after you. He is yanked out of the car by Jack. Cheshire gets out behind him and forced him to walk to the garage that the Mustang had been parked in front of, instead of the house. Cheshire has him stopped in the middle of the garage.

Jack brings over a heavy hand made metal chair. He puts it right in the middle of the garage.

“Strip!” Cheshire cuts his cuffs.

Marin starts undressing till he gets down to his underwear. He looks towards Cheshire.

“I said strip! That’s means even your underwear.” Cheshire waved her gun at him.

Marin looks towards Jack as he stood off to the side. All he could see in the man’s face was controlled furry.

“I wouldn’t worry about him. He’s not the one you have to worry about, I am.” Cheshire stabs Marin in his leg with her dagger. He screams as he feels the knife strike bone. He keeps on screaming as Cheshire stabs him repeatedly in non-vital areas.

This man hurt her daughter and her nieces. She knew if Jack had his way, he would be skinning the man right now. Cheshire takes his fingers and start breaking them. Cheshire lets her anger out on him for hurting the people she cares for. For the next hour Cheshire has her way with Marin. She made sure she didn’t kill him. She wanted to keep him around to pay for what he did to the other agents he had killed.

Gina’s hospital room:
Arnold had arrived yesterday and tried to wake Gina up, but she didn’t come out of her coma. Arnold just holds her hand and rub her knuckles.
He tucks the toy wolf he had picked up at animal world next to her.

“I’m sorry its not Cadmus, Gina. However, it does look like him.” He leans in and kisses her on the lips.

Gina returns the kiss when she felt someone pressing up again her lips. She opens her eyes and see’s Arnold kissing her. She returns the kiss and has tears leaking from her eyes. She was so happy Arnold was here with her.

Arnold sits up and looks at her “good evening beautiful.”

Gina looks at Arnold and then she notices Julia walking into the room.

Julia notices her sister was awake and runs over to her and hug her tightly.

“I thought I lost you little sister.” Julia hugs her tight.

“You almost did.” Gina grabs Arnolds hand and holds it.

Julia just holds her sister. She knew Christmas was supposed to arrive today. Her mother had called her and informed her that her father was flying her out to her. When they are discharged from the hospital, they were to go back to the safe house to recover.

Gina’s back was one big bruised and she would have to wear a back brace till her back healed properly. She does inquire about Cadmus and was concern about his injuries. Tears come to her eyes when she hears he must be retired from active service because of his injuries. Gina didn’t know what she was going to do. Cadmus was her best friend and protector.

Arnold just holds her as she laid in her hospital bed. He knew how much Cadmus meant to her. He loved that old wolf himself and knew how Gina felt.

Arnold reaches down into his pants pocket for the ring he had down in there. He pulls it out and looks at Gina.

“I was going to wait for a romantic setting before asking you this, Gina.” He brings the ring up he had gotten for her. “I know we talked that we wouldn’t get married till I came back from school, but I love you and with what has happened recently to you. I don’t want to wait any longer and risk losing you. Will you marry me Gina Bounty?”

Gina looks into Arnolds eyes and could tell he meant it.

“Yes, I’ll marry you.”

Arnold stands up and lean forwards, so he could kiss her. He places her engagement ring on her finger.

Gina looks at the ring and notices that it had small wolves on either side of the diamond in the middle of it.

“I had that ring specially made for you. There’s not another ring like it anywhere. So, when we have children, you can pass it down to them.” Arnold had helped from her father on having it made.

He had found the diamond at one of the gem sites you could go dig yourself for the gems. It was one of the third largest diamond that had been found at the place. It had been 10cts when he found it. The silver of the ring he bought himself and had it melted and custom forged for her. Selena had given him her ring size, without her knowing it.

He design the ring on paper and commission a jeweler to make it. Even the tiny wolves were based off of Cadmus and Chaos.

Kat and her crew were on their way home from Memphis. They had spent a week in the hospital and then another week at her aunt’s house. Her Aunt and Uncle had taken care of her and her crew, while they recovered. Paul was well enough that he could drive them home, but she still needed help to take care of herself because of her two broken arms. Lev had flown back to Kansas with Rebecca.

Kat currently had Terry with her, since Brittney’s was still healing. She had been informed that the fake FBI that her and the crew went after had been caught and was in custody. She got curious and called her friend on the Knoxville police force and had him run the guys name, to where he had been sent. There wasn’t anything listed for him or where he was. She did get a visit from the Bounty’s father suggesting that she let it go. That the person she was after, had been handle for what he did to them. That was all he said, as he escorted his daughters and niece away from the hospital.

There had been an oriental woman that had been with him that had helped Tizzy. She figures that the woman was Tizzy’s mother, but she could tell from the woman’s body language. That she wasn’t a person to mess with, just like Mr. Bounty. She met Tizzy’s boyfriend. He was there helping her and keeping her company.

“Mom, are you alright?” Terry had notice her mother staring off into space.

“I’m fine baby. I was just thinking about the Christmas decorations we need to get down. We need to go out and get a Christmas tree as well.”
Kat loved decorating for Christmas.

She also loved cooking for everyone. However, with both her arms broken, she won’t be doing much cooking. She smiles as a thought enters her brain to let the girls do the cooking this year. She looks up when they pull into the driveway of their home.

“Home, Sweet, Home.” Kat gets out of the Gurkha with Terry’s help.

Paul had the armored SUV. He was wearing a back brace just like Gina Bounty was. He had hit the steel door hard. Gina Bounty had been blown up against a column and smacked her back and head hard. Crystal had come home with her, to help her out.

Her sister was going to bring the twins back to her tomorrow. She unlocks the front door and walk inside. She disarms the security systems and turn a few lights on. The house was in one piece and just needed some light dusting. She heads towards the bathroom and does her business.

Tomorrow, when she heads towards the office. She’ll stop at a Christmas lot to look at the trees.

Paul helps undress Kat, while being careful of his shoulder where he had been stabbed.

“What’s on your mind, sweetheart?” Paul noticed that Kat has been thinking about something intensely since they left Memphis.

“I’m mad that we almost got killed and that the bounty we were after was caught by someone else.” Kat slips on her favorite night shirt and crawls into bed.

“You mean the bastard that blew us up, has been caught?” Paul wanted to know who caught him.

“Yep, he has been caught already. Gina’s father told me to let the matter drop.” Kat snuggles close to Paul.

“Let me guess? He caught the son of bitch?” Paul looks at his wife as she laid next to him.

“He didn’t say, who caught him. He just said let it go. If I had to guess, I would say him, and Tizzy’s mother caught the bastard. I saw her helping Tizzy and she’s someone you don’t want to piss off. She, just had that look about her.” Kat had seen that look before with some of the criminals her father would capture and bring in.

“Hhhmm, I’m not surprised Tizzy’s mother isn’t like that. Tizzy doesn’t act like a typical cop and neither does her two cousins.” Paul wraps his good arm around Kat and holds her tight.

Kat snuggles close and slowly drift off to sleep. She was happy to be sleeping next to her husband.

8hrs later:

Kat stretches as she wakes up. She enjoyed sleeping and not having the twins wake her up. Her nose picked up the nice aroma of freshly made coffee drifting in the air. She gets up and heads into the kitchen. She spots Paul, Crystal, Terry, and Brittney sitting at the kitchen table enjoying their coffee and freshly made muffins.

“I hope you left some coffee for me.” As Kat walks over to the coffee pot.

“We did mom. We know how grouchy you get without your coffee.” Brittney had a teasing look on her face.

Kat just ignores her daughter and fixes her coffee. She sits down and grabs a muffin from the basket on the table.

“We’re going Christmas tree shopping after we stop by the office and see how things have been while we have been gone.” Kat takes a bite out of her muffin.

“Everything is fine at the office, mom. Carol has been making sure all the bills and money we are owed have been collected and deposited.” Terry had gone by the office with her aunt while her mother was still in Memphis.

While she has been staying with her aunt. She met the guy her aunt is dating. He was a college Professor at The University of Tennessee. He was a nice person and Terry liked him. They met when she went up to the college as a guest speaker. They ran into each other by accident and one thing just lead to another.

An hour later, Kat and family head out to do some shopping. They stop at a Christmas tree lot and pick up a tree. They go by the store to pick-up groceries for the house and for Christmas Eve dinner. Kat was cooking dinner for everyone. Later, they swing by her older sister’s place to pick-up the twins.

When they get home, the girls fix dinner. Paul and Ben setup the Christmas tree. Kat gets the Christmas decorations and start decorating the house. She sets up the outside decorations with the guys help. She already knew what she was getting the girls and her husband. Her brother was easy to shop for. If it was tools or car related, he loved it.

Her sister on the other hand was a little different. She always found it hard to buy gifts for her sister, because if her sister wanted something. She would just go and buy it.

After the house was decorated, Kat sits down and goes over the books. Carol had done a great job while they were gone taking care of the place. She made the deposits and pay outs. Kat had gotten an email from the two Marshals that they were doing okay and would like to get with them after the holidays about another case.

She does wonder how the Bounty’s were doing. She knew the youngest one had hurt her back from the explosion. She had cleaned and changed Paul’s bandages this morning, before they left the house.

She gets up and head into the nursery to look at her twins. She so missed her babies and after what she went through with the team almost being killed. She wonders if her father ever had days like this?

She just stands there and look down at her little ones. She was going to need to be more careful.

“Mom, dinner is ready.” Brittney had looked in the living room for her mother, but she wasn’t there.

Kat heard her daughters voice and heads towards the dining room.

Valentina takes out a bottle of mouthwash and swig some of it. She swishes it around inside her mouth. She watches as the john she just performed oral sex on drives away. She spits the mouthwash out and watch as he drove away. She was slowly finding out who it was that was selling the bad crack that killed her older sister. She had over two hundred dollars and over six crack rocks she took as payment.

She walks back to the warehouse she has been using as a base of operations. It used to belong to her uncle, before he died from cancer. As she sat down at the desk where her laptop was. She input the names of the dealers she was given names of and how to get in touch with them. She reaches over towards the can of planters peanuts she keeps on the desk and grab a handful. She needed something else in her stomach, other than semen she was forced to swallow from her johns this morning.

She knew she was going to have to go out again later this evening, so she decides to lay down for a while. She slips out of the clothes she has own and takes a quick shower. She was still getting used to having breast and a vagina. She used her college fund to fly to Thailand and had her body completely changed from her head to her toes. She had the doctors make her look like a porn star. That way, they wouldn’t be able to trace her identity back to her family or friends. She had to cut all ties with them, so she could find the asshole responsible for poisoning her sister.

Once she is done with the shower. She slips on a pair of boxers and an oversized t-shirt and lay down on her bed. She checks the security system on her phone and cuts the lights off as she closes her eyes and try to fall asleep.

K&P Bounty Services:
Kat, Paul, Crystal, Alexa and Luke met up at the office. Kat had received a message from the bank that a huge deposit had been sent to the company account. When Kat checked it, it had been the reward for capturing Martin. It had come from the State Department just like the other reward had.

“The reason I have called all of you to the office today. Is I have deposited twenty percent of the reward for capturing agent Martin to each of your bank accounts. I have also deposited the same amount to your account for the capture of Boris Kuznetsov. Now that came to a total of 1.5 million dollars apiece. All your medical bills have been taken care of as well by me and Paul. I know some of us.” As she looks towards Alexa and Luke.

“Are going to need to take time off. That is going to include me too. Until my arms heal, I can’t chase down any one. You’re still welcome to help out here in the office and help chase down leads.” She knew Luke was in the same condition that Tizzy and Gina were in.

It was going to be a long recovery for them, because they had suffered back injuries, where Alexa had broken ribs like Kat does.

“No offense Kat, Paul its going to take time for me to heal. The doctor said I was going to need time to recover and must see a chiropractor.
So, I’ll stick around to help in the office, but only part time. That way you can spend some time with your children Kat.” Luke enjoyed working with Kat and Paul.

“Thank you, Luke. Just know we will cover your medical bills.” Kat knew it was the least they could do.

“Don’t worry about it. My VA benefits will handle it.”

Kat looks at Alexa to see what she would like to do.

Alexa just smiles “I’m sticking around, Kat. My rib cage is the only thing that is injured, besides a bunch of bump and bruises.”

Kat returns the smile “I was right when I hired you. Alright, but till you are cleared by a doctor to do field work. Looks like you will be joining me and Luke in the office.”

“That’s fine. Now, as far as I know we currently don’t have any people to chase down. The other team has been doing well while we have been gone. So, let me do some calling around to see if anyone will need our services.” Kat picks up the phone and starts calling around to a few Bonds men she knows.

She also checks the police department to see if they had anyone they were looking for. She might not be able to collect a bounty on them, but she could earn some brownie points with them.

Valentina’s Warehouse:
Valentina’s alarm goes off waking her. She rubs the sleep from her eyes as she gets out of bed and heads into the makeshift kitchen and grabs a bottle water from the refrigerator. She looks at the clock on the wall and figures she needs to start getting ready to go back out tonight.
Tonight, she was going to steal from one of the drug dealers she found out about.

Valentina walks over and checks the black outfit she was going to wear tonight. The black cargo pants and black sweater she was planning on wearing tonight. She checks her Glock 43 and hopes she won’t need to use it. She leaves the warehouse and head towards the area where he was supposed to be tonight. She takes a cab over to the area and pays the cab drive a little extra to keep his tongue about her.

Valentina goes and finds a spot to ambush the guy. She knew he’ll be here soon. She doubles checks her gun one more time, before tucking it in her back holster.

Valentina glances at her wrist watch as she waits. Finally, she notices a tan color Toyota Camry pull up. She watches and waits for the right moment. She pulls her gun and keeps it by her side as she approaches the Camry. This guy was just one of the guys that sold the bad cocaine and crack.

“What you want darling?” The young man looks up at this dazzling brunette wearing all black standing in front of him.

He notices she had a nice set of tits on her. He was undressing her with his eyes wouldn’t mind seeing if what he imaged, fit what she looked like naked. He could do a lot for her.

Valentina gives him a sweet innocent smile as she leans forward “I want you to give me all your money and drugs you have on hand.”
She brings her Glock up and point it at him. She kept the smile on her face as she watched him.

“Now, why would I do that, Bitch?” Ronnie couldn’t believe this woman as he tried reaching for his Glock.

“Because, if you don’t give me what I want. I’m going to put two rounds into you. Now, hand over the drugs and money, NOW!” She points her gun at his temple.

Ronnie grabs the money and drugs and hand them to her.

“You’re not going to last long on the streets, bitch.” He was pissed and wanted to kill her.

“Maybe.” Valentina backs up and holster her gun as she runs off with the money and drugs.

She already planned her escape route and runs the route she has planned. She could hear the car engine as he started chasing after her. She keeps running through the parking lot of a shopping center with the Camry catching up with her.

Crystal and Brittney:
Crystal and Britney were walking out of the restaurant they had gone to dinner at towards Crystals new car. When they heard the squealing of tires coming towards their directions. The thing they hear is gun fire.

Valentina was running through the parking lot, trying to make it difficult for the driver to run her over. She hears gun fire and then pain as a bullet hits her in her right leg. She stumbles and lands between two parked cars.

Crystal and Brittney spot a tan color Camry chasing after someone and then they heard gunfire. The person must have been shot, because they saw them stumble and drop between two parked cars. Crystal pulls her Glock 19 out and fires at the driver of the Camry. She manages to get two shots off and hits the driver side door.

Ronnie doesn’t know where the bullets were coming from and heard two rounds hit his door. He pulls away from chasing the girl down. He heard police sirens as he spots them in his rearview mirror.

Crystal and Brittney run over towards where they saw the woman fall between the cars. Crystal saw where the bullet had entered her right leg. Crystal kneels by the woman, while Brittney calls the ambulances.

Valentina had fallen on her side and tossed the drugs she had behind the tire of the car nearest to her. That way it would be crushed when the car rolled over them. She stuffs the money down into the spare pockets on her cargo pants.

Brittney kneels next to the woman “ma’am, don’t move.”

Crystal puts her weapon away and checks the wound. The bullet had gone completely through Valentina’s leg. She takes the belt she was wearing and put it around Valentina’s leg to slow the bleeding till the paramedics arrive.

After ten minutes, the paramedics arrive and take over. The police also showed up and when one of the Officers heard Brittney’s name. He knew that trouble, just follows that family around. He couldn’t believe that Crystal worked for Kat.

Valentina is taken to the hospital in the ambulance. Crystal and Brittney leave after they gave their statement to the police.

“You really know how to treat a girl.” Brittney kisses Crystals cheek.

“Wait till your mother finds out. Also, why was the driver of that Camry trying to shoot that woman?” Something didn’t seem right to Crystal.

Crystal turns the car around and head towards the nearest hospital she would had been taken too.

Crystal and Brittney were giving Valentina a ride back to her place. They had gone back to the hospital and waited till she could be discharged. The bullet hadn’t hit any bones or anything and gone straight through her thigh. Once Valentina was ready to go. Crystal and Brittney had approached her and introduce themselves as bounty hunters with K&P Bounty Services.

At first Valentina was a little skeptical, till Crystal showed her credentials. She was informed that Brittney was a Bounty Hunter in training. They were interested in what happened.

Valentina directs them to her place. While Crystal drove them. Valentina explained everything to them about why she did what she had did.
Once they arrive at the warehouse. Valentina shows them the information she had collected on the different drug dealers.

She shows them the one responsible for selling her sister some bad cocaine and getting her hooked on it. All the information she had was gathered after she started digging into her sister’s death. She found out that her sister was a high-class escort and worked for an agency that catered to the upper-class individuals.

Crystal was going through what Valentina had collected so far. She knew they had files on half these people. They had captured a few of their members for jumping bail.

“Valentina, why don’t you come by our office tomorrow. I believe we can help you with getting justice for your sister.” Crystal looks at Valentina and couldn’t believe how much she looked like the porn star Harlow Harrison.

She didn’t have the tattoo’s or anything and she seemed to look younger to her. Crystal studies her face and her body. At one-time Crystal’s boyfriend had a porn problem. So, she was familiar with a few porn stars. Harlow Harrison was one her ex-boyfriend’s favorites.

“Where is your office?” Valentina was wondering what they could do to help her.

Crystal pulls one of the company’s business cards out and hands it to her.

“We’re normally opened around eight in the morning. So, will you show up tomorrow?” Crystal hopes so.

“I’ll be there. Here, let me give you my cellphone number.” Valentina writes her cell number down and hands it to Crystal.

“Thanks. We’ll be seeing you tomorrow at eight.” Crystal and Brittney head out to the car.

Brittney glances at her wrist watch and notices it is pass her curfew.

“Mom is going to kill me. I’m an hour pass my curfew.” Brittney climbs into the car.

“Once she hears what we were doing, she’ll forgive you.” Crystal drives Brittney home.

Once they arrive at Brittney’s place. Crystal helps her out of the car and walk her up to the door. They could tell the living room light was on.

“Time to face the music.” Brittney walks in first and saw Paul and Kat sitting on the sofa.

“Kat, Paul. It wasn’t her fault or even my fault. Here is what happened.” Crystal was about to tell them what happened.

“We already know. Officer Harrison called and told me you two were involved in a drive by shooting. What I want to know is why you didn’t come straight home afterwards?” Kat was looking at both.

“Because we went back and talked with the lady that had been taken to the hospital. She’s looking for the drug pusher responsible for killing her sister. I figure we could help her.” Brittney looks at her mother and father.

“Britney, we’re bounty hunters. We’re not license to do private investigation work. Also, unless the guy this lady is looking for has a bounty on him. We can’t get involve. All he has to do is sic his lawyers after us.” Kat knew she has broken the law a few times, especially when she saved Brittney and Terry.

“Mom, couldn’t we apply for a private investigation business license and one of us get our PI license?” Terry comes walking into the living
room.

Terry was still up working on some files for her aunt. She had heard everything and was wondering why they couldn’t do both. It might do the company good to be able to do both. Especially, if their aunt needed them to do some work for her.

“It would bring more business in Kat.” Paul looks towards his wife.

“I’ll look into it tomorrow. As for helping this Valentina person. Let’s see what she currently has, and we’ll go from there.” Kat figures it
couldn’t hurt to see what she had.

“Thanks mom.” Brittney kisses her cheek.

“Thanks dad.” Brittney hugs Paul and kisses his cheek.

“Off to bed with you.” Kat watches as Brittney and Terry head towards their bedroom.

Kat and Paul look towards Crystal “what time will she be at the office?”

“8:00 am. I told her that was what time we opened up.” Crystal knew Carol was normally there.

“Alright. Now off with you.” Kat just shakes her head as she watches Crystal leave.

Once Crystal has left. Kat gets off the sofa and locks the door. She arms the security system. Her and Paul head into their bedroom, after
checking on the twins. Kat snuggles against Paul as they lay in bed.

Valentina:
Valentina couldn’t believe she got shot in the leg. She was lucky that the bullet had passed completely through her leg without hitting any major veins or the bones. She takes some clear plastic wrap and wrap her bandages, so it doesn’t get wet while she showers. Once she was done showering. She slips her nightshirt on and pops one of the pain pills they gave her.

As she lays down. She thinks about her sister and how she ended up. They had been close and would had done any thing for her. She was her best friend and knew she liked to dress-up as a girl. Tears leak from her eyes as she cries. What she will do once she finds her killer, she doesn’t know. She knows she can never go back to what she used to do. Not after whoring herself and all the plastic surgery she had to make her look like a porn star.

She slowly cries herself to sleep.

Valentina woke-up with her leg hurting her. It was 6:00 am and raining outside. She gets up and limps towards the bathroom to do her business. Afterwards, she heads towards the kitchen and fixes herself a cup of coffee and toast. Crystal had told her that their office didn’t open till eight.

She sits down at her laptop and brings up all the information she had on the person responsible for her sister’s death. His name was Pablo Rubin and was a member of the local chapter of Piru street gang here in Knoxville, Tn. They weren’t very big, but they did help traffic drugs through the state. He was the one that was responsible for selling her sister the bad cocaine.

The person responsible for getting her sister hooked was a businessman by the name of Roger Van Jones. He owns a talent agency that acts as an escort service that her sister had worked and model at. He hooked the women that worked for him up with lonely businessmen looking for female companionship.

It took her awhile to gather this much information. She takes a sip of her coffee as she leans back in her chair. It was left over from when her uncle ran this warehouse. It was still in good condition and was comfortable to sit in. She glances towards the clock sitting on the desk and it was only 6:45 am.

She finishes her coffee and gets the money she took from the drug dealer last night and counted it. The amount she took from him was $5,000.00. Altogether, she had $5,200.00 dollars in cash and several rocks of cocaine. She takes a hundred dollars out of the folded bills and locks the rest up in the old style safe her uncle left here at the warehouse. It still worked, and she knew the combination for it.

Once she put the money away. She goes ahead and gets dress. She slips on a pair of stretch pants and an oversized shirt to hide her large breast. Once she is dress and made-up. She tucks her handgun in her purse and pulls her bus pass out. She had googled the location of K&P Bounty Services and knew what bus she needed to catch.

The bus was just pulling up as she made it to the bus stop. She puts her bus pass in the coin machine and takes a seat on the left-hand side of the bus. She had a car she kept in the warehouse. It was a 1968 Plymouth HEMI Road Runner she had rebuilt from the ground up. She had found the car in a junkyard and rebuilt it back to factory specs. She just sits quietly and watches as the bus headed towards the location she wanted to go.

K&P Bounty Services:
Crystal had gotten up early and stopped at Krispy Kreme doughnuts. She knew how much the gang liked hot glazed doughnuts. She had picked up two dozen for the office. She uses her key to unlock the door and put the doughnuts down on a nearby desk. She rushes over towards the security panel and disarms the alarm system. It was 7:30 am and she knew Carol and Kat’s family won’t be arriving until 8 am.

She putters around the office eating a doughnut. She walks over and fixes herself a cup of coffee and head towards her desk to wait for everyone to show up. She looks through a law enforcement supply magazine sitting at her desk. She needed to pick-up some more pepper spray.

Carol pulls into an empty parking spot and notices that the lights were already on inside the office. She looks around and spots Crystals gray 2008 Buick LaCrosse CXL.

“I wonder why she is her so early.” Carol checks the door and it was unlocked.

She walks inside and notices Crystal at her desk eating a doughnut and drinking coffee. She spots the doughnuts boxes sitting on the counter near the coffee machine.

“What brings you to this early?” Carol walks over to her own desk and set her stuff down.

“I woke up early and decided to treat everyone to some freshly made doughnuts.” Crystal licks her fingers to get the icing off them.

Carol walks over and takes two doughnuts for herself and makes a coffee as well. As she is fixing her coffee. She hears the front door of the office ring as it is opened.

Valentina
The bus Valentina was on stops a couple of shops down from the address of K&P Bounty services. Valentina notices that the building looked like it at one time. Use to be a Rent-A-Center or something. She has seen a few of them go out of business. She notices that Crystal's car was there, and another car was parked next to hers. She walks up to the front door of the place and goes inside. She hears a ringing noise when the door opens.

Valentina looks around the place as she walks inside. There were potted plants and pictures. There were black leather chairs and sofa in a reception area. The door that leads to the back was opened and she saw Crystal walking towards her.

Crystal had heard the front door ring, so she headed towards the front and sees Valentina walk in.

“Hey Valentina, the boss isn’t here yet, but if you want to come in the back with me. We have fresh doughnuts and coffee.”

“Sure, thank you.” Valentina follows Crystal towards the back.

Crystal takes Valentina over towards the small kitchen and lets her grab a few doughnuts.

“What type of coffee do you like? We have all sorts.” Crystal shows her the selection they had.

Valentina looks over the selection they had. She selects the Hawaiian style coffee. She had it once and fell in love with it.

Crystal shows Valentina how to use the coffee machine and once the coffee is done. She escorts Valentina over to her desk.

Carol was busy filing away paperwork on the bounties they have already completed. She had checked the company email account. No one had sent any emails asking for them to go and collect on any outstanding warrants.

Kat and Family:
Kat had been woken by the twins crying. She had gotten up and taken care of them. She was just happy that the cast on her arms was off. She was still building up strength in them. She gets the girls up and dresses and off to school. She puts the twins in the stroller as she gets Paul out of bed.

“Come on lazy. We have an office to run.” Kat pulls Paul out of bed.

Paul gets up and heads towards the bathroom to do his morning business and get dress. Kat makes coffee for both to take with them. Once that was done. She heads out to the armored SUV, instead of the new one they got and start it up. She gets the twins secure in their car seats.

Paul finally comes out after arming the security system on the house. He gets in and notices his travel mug and hers was already in the SUV.
Kat drives them to the office without hitting anyone. A few people had tried to cut her off and she had blocked them with the SUV. She didn’t care, the thing was armored. When Kat pulls into the parking lot. She notices Crystals car was already at the office. She parks the SUV next to Crystal's car and head inside with the twins.

Valentina was talking with Crystal when she notices a woman with kitty cat ears and tail come walking into the office through the back door.
She has never seen anyone like her before, except on an anime cartoon. She was pushing a baby stroller in front of her. Following behind her was a tall muscular man with short black hair.

Valentina leans towards Crystal “is that your boss?”

“Yep, that’s my bosses and Brittney’s parents.”

“I can also hear you two whispering as well.” Kat couldn’t help it. Her hearing was enhanced.

Kat walks over towards Crystals desk. The woman before her looked like a porn star, but which one she couldn’t remember. She remembered catching one of their bounties watching a porn video when she captured him.

“You must be Valentina. I’m Kat Sedberry- Romano and the big lug behind me is my husband and partner, Paul Romano. Crystal and my daughter Brittney told me last night you are looking for the man responsible for killing your sister with some bad drugs. Normally, this isn’t something we do, but my daughter begged me to help you. Before I help you. I want to know why you rob that drug pusher last night?” Kat was watching Valentina see if she was going to lie to her.

“I robbed him and took what drugs he had because he has been selling poisoned drugs to people. I know it won’t stop him from getting more drugs, but at least I saved some people’s lives last night.” Valentina didn’t think she could lie to this woman.

Carol comes over and takes the twins and put them in their playpen. She puts their milk in the refrigerator. Once the milk was put away. She puts the diaper bag over at Kat’s and Paul’s desk.

“I’ll be honest with you Valentina. Normally, I just do bail jumpers. However, I’m willing to help you find out who killed your sister and bring the person to justice. The only way I can do this legally is if we get a Private Investigator’s license for the business. “

“I can help you with some of the research. I already know the men responsible for the murder of my sister.” Valentina pulls out the thumb drive she saved the information on.

She hands the thumb drive to Kat “all the information you need is on that thumb drive.”

Kat looks at the thumb drive. She hands it to Paul to bring it up on their desktop. She turns her attention back to Valentina.

Valentina looks at Kat “all I ask in return is to be involve and be there when you arrest those men.”

“How about this. Since this is your case. I will sponsor and help you get your PI license. While you are getting your license, we will see about arresting these men.” Kat had done some research while taking care of the babies this morning.

She would need to get a PI business license for the office before anyone could get their PI license. She and Paul could be grandfathered in for as long as they have been Bounty Hunters. All they had to do was go down to the testing center and take the test. They didn’t have to take any courses to get their license.

Valentina thinks about the offer. She looks at Kat “how much am I going to be paid working for you?”

“$25.00 dollars an hour, plus expenses. We’re going to charge clients $45.00 per hour, plus expenses. That will be our going rate for any PI work we do.”

“How much do you normally charge clients for bounty hunting?” Valentina was curious.

“That is a case by case situation. The going rate is ten percent of the bail. So, if the bail is $2,500.00. The person get $250.00 dollars for the captured bounty. However, I charge twenty percent of the bail.”

“Will I need to get a Bounty Hunter’s license as well?” Valentina wonders how much that will be.

“Only if you want to. You can just do PI work, or you can do both. That goes for everyone else as well.” Kat looks around the office at whoever was there.

“Alright, I’ll come to work for you, if you help me put the men responsible for my sister in jail.” Valentina wanted those men.

“Welcome to K&P Services Valentina.” Kat sticks her hand out to shake.

Valentina shakes Kat’s hand.