“Mom, have you seen my car keys?” Brittney looks around for her car keys.

“Come on sis, I’m going to be late for school.” Terry was waiting impatiently by the front door ready to go to school.

“I’m looking for my car keys, Terry.” Brittney looks over towards her younger sister.

“Did you put them in the bowl by the front door like dad and mom suggested?” Terry walks over and checks the bowl for her sister’s keys.

“I like to keep them in my bedroom, but I might have put them in the bowl.” Brittney walks over towards her sister.

Terry looks in the bowl and spots her sister's car keys “for once you did what dad suggested, sis.” Terry picks the keys up out of the bowl.

Kat comes walking into the living room with the twins in their stroller. She had stood back to listen to the girls while they talked. Terry was becoming a lot like her older sister, while Brittney was becoming more like her.

“Looks like your sister found them for you, Brit.”

Brittney turns around and looks towards her mother. The last few months there has been a few changes to the company. The company had gone from doing strictly bounty hunting to doing Private Investigation and Bounty Hunting.

Brittney glances towards her sister “I should have looked there first.”

Terry just smirks at her sister. She loved having an older sister and sure there were times the two of them fought. However, she wouldn’t trade Brittney for anyone.

“You think?”

“Alright you two, off to school and obey the speed limit.” Kat watches as her daughters head out the door.

“You tell them to watch the speed limit? I can’t believe you said that.” Paul hugs Kat from behind and kisses her on the cheek.

“I know, I know, I have a lead foot. Let’s go to the office and see how Valentina and Crystal are doing.” Kat and Paul head out to the Honda Odyssey they recently bought, instead of driving the company’s SUV’s.

They were trying to cut back on drawing attention to themselves. Plus, they needed vehicles that blended in when they did Private Investigation jobs. Their armor SUV’s and the Terradyne Gurkha RPV stuck out like a sore thumb.

K&P Services:
Valentina and Crystal were at the office waiting for Kat and Paul to show up. Carol had them scanning all the paper files they had into the computer system. She has been taking Cybersecurity classes at the local college and the company was paying for it. She got with Morgana’s company Camelot Network Solutions and they had set-up a top-notch computer network at their office.

Morgana was still their go-to person for certain files they couldn’t get, but now she was building their database with all the jobs they have done.

Valentina was still recovering from the operations she had. It was to undo some of the surgery she had to look like a porn star in order to track down her sister’s killer. Now, she looked a little bit more normal, so she could blend in when she did undercover work. She was also taking lessons from Paul and Kat to learn how to defend herself .

Crystal looks over towards Valentina “how’s the drug rehab coming?”

“It’s helping. I wish I never took the drugs when I was looking for my sister’s killer, but if I didn’t take them. The johns would think I was an undercover cop.”

“You’re lucky you didn’t catch any STD’s and such.” Crystal knew a few prostitutes that had caught herpes and HIV from a few johns they had sex with.

“I made sure any johns that wanted to have sex with me, wore rubbers. If they gave me a hassle about it. I would tell them about some of the other ladies they had sex with. That changed their minds right away.”

“Do you miss it?”

Valentina had to think about it for a second in some ways yes, but otherwise no.

“Not really. Yes, the money was easy and all I had to do was shake my ass and tits to grab someone’s attention. However, while they were fucking me and using me like I was a piece of meat. I felt degraded and lower than dirt. So, I don’t miss it at all.”

“Then why do so many of the women do it then?”

“Because, some of them are hooked on drugs and are paying their drug dealers back, others do it because they need to support their family.
Some of the transgenders that are hooking do it to afford the drugs they need. A few of them were either thrown out of where they were living or lost their jobs because they came out as being Trans.”

“I know they had it hard, but I didn’t realize that they had it that hard.” Crystal remembered when she told her parents she was a lesbian.

They didn’t want to believe it at first and gave her a hard time about it, but they slowly came around to the fact she preferred women over men.
They loved Brittney and was a little surprised when they met Kat. They hadn’t met anyone like her before. It took them time to adjust to her usual looks.

As for Brittney’s biological parents. Kat and Paul managed to gather enough evidence to put them in jail for life. Brittney renounces her relationship with them. When anyone ever asks about her parents. She tells them Kat and Paul are her true parents.

“So, how did you end up working for Kat?” Valentina hadn’t heard how Crystal came to work for Kat and Paul.

“Kat and Paul put an ad in the local newspaper looking to hire people. I had just gotten out of jail for possession of marijuana. Which was a
false charge? The person who owned the car wouldn’t confess to owning the brick of marijuana they found in the car. So, I and my friends that were in the car were charged with it. I had a lousy public defender and my parents wanted to teach me a lesson. So, I was thrown in jail for a while.

I told Kat about it and she had a friend on the Knoxville police force investigate it and they confirmed my story. So, she put me on probation and I started doing office work for her. When she got pregnant with the twins, Paul didn’t like her going into the field. So, he had me come along.”

“What did your parents think about you becoming a bounty hunter?”

“Let’s just say they weren’t to thrill about it. However, they respected my choice and hoped that maybe I would learn something. They wanted me to take a nice safe job. I don’t like safe.” Crystal enjoys her job with the Kat and Paul.

Carol just smirks. She had the only safe job. She ran the office and supported everyone when they were out in the field chasing down perps or looking for clues. That’s where she excelled at. She kept the bills paid and the employees happy.

Kat and Paul finally show-up at the office, after dropping the twins off. Normally, the twins came to the office with Kat, but there were a few things that she needed to do today.

“Greetings, we bring fresh pastries and breakfast sandwiches.” Kat had the pastries, while Paul brought in the breakfast sandwiches.

Following behind them was a guy almost as built as Paul. He looked to be some sort of salesman or businessman.

“Ladies, I would like for you to meet our newest employee’s. His name is Samuel Smith and he is a friend of Paul’s.” Kat didn’t mind people from Paul’s past working for them.

She knew Samuel just got out of prison and wanted a fresh start. He used to work for the Chicago Mafia, but when he was sent to prison. There was a change in Chicago and the family he had worked for had been killed off.

He knew Paul had gotten out of the business and was chasing down criminals now. So, when he got out. He contacted Paul and see if he could come to work for him and his wife. He doesn’t have to report to a parole officer, because he did his time.

“Welcome to the madhouse Samuel or is it okay if we call you Sam?” Crystal was curious.

“Sam is fine and thank you.”

“Your desk is over here near Alexa’s desk. She’s currently on vacation.”

“Thanks, Kat.” Samuel heads over to his new desk and adjusts things.

Just as Sam takes his seat. There is a loud explosion that shakes the building.

“What the hell was that?” Kat and the crew run outside and look around.

They spot a smoke cloud coming several blocks away from their office. Crystal runs inside and turns the scanner on. They hear several fire companies were called to downtown.

“Crystal, Valentina go with Paul and load the emergency gear in the Teradyne Gurkha RPV. Sam come with me. Carol see if you can contact my brother’s fire chief and tell him were on the way to help.”

“On it Kat.” Carol picks the phone up and tries to contact Chief Brandon.

“Paul, why are we grabbing the emergency gear?” She chases behind Paul.

“Kat and I are certified search and rescue personnel. She’s been a search and rescue person since she was a teen. I became one after I became her partner. Our company always help in a major emergency and if what we heard is what I think it is. We are going to be needed there.”

Crystal, Valentina, and Paul start grabbing the emergency gear Kat keeps at the office. They load the Terradyne Gurkha.

“Grab the riot gear as well and everyone’s body armor.”

“On it.”

Kat and crew couldn’t believe how many fire trucks and ambulances were downtown at the Federal Courthouse. Paul was driving and was looking for Kat’s brother’s Fire Chief. Any time they helped, they always reported to him.

“Over there Paul.” Kat spotted his truck over near the firetrucks trying to put the fires out from the explosion.

“Why would someone blow the Federal Courthouse up?” Crystal was looking at all the damage that had been done.

“Don’t know, but here are the rules. You do whatever the person you are assigned to tells you to do. Also, you may see body parts and such.
Wear your gloves and tag where you found the part. Take pictures of the body part. If there are people trapped where you are working, be careful in getting them out and call it in. That way we can have paramedics over helping you, letting you know if they can be moved safely.”

Officer Rayani notices K&P Services SUV heading his way. He knew Kat has always volunteered during any emergency that came along. He waves her SUV over towards him. He still couldn’t believe that she had the same type of vehicle they used in the Fast and Furious movie.

Paul pulls the Terradyne Gurkha up to Officer Rayani “where you want us to park?”

“Park over there with the rest of the rescue vehicles. Just stay near Chief Carlson’s SUV from fire station 17. No one will say anything. Once your park, get with Chief Brandon.”

“Alright, thanks.” Paul pulls the Terradyne over near Chief Carlson’s SUV.

“Take your wake-talkies with you and make sure everyone is on channel 2. Samuel, you’re with Crystal and Valentina until we can send the two of you through search and rescue training. Crystal is in charge and listens to what she tells you to do.”

Kat and Paul hand out the gear and make sure everyone has their gear on properly. Kat adjusts Samuel’s gear, so it fits better on him. It was a spare suit they kept at the office, where everyone else were custom fitted.

“Remember, be careful and do what the person in charge tells you to do.” Kat and Paul lead their crew over towards Chief Brandon.

“Hey Chief, where do you need me and my crew at?” Kat walks up to an older man with a Marine-style haircut. He stood about 5’8” and had dark tanned skin. He had several tattoos on his forearm. One of them was a bulldog.

Chief looks over towards Kat’s voice, a smile appears on his grim looking face. He was glad she was here to help his crew out.

“I need for you and Paul to go in and start looking for survivors. Send the rest of your crew over to Sergeant Harris for crowd control.”

“Will do.” Kat turns towards Crystal “you heard the Chief. Find Sergeant Harris and handle the crowd.”

“Will do boss.” Crystal leads Valentina and Samuel towards the line that had been made to keep the crowd back.

They find Sergeant Harris. He was a huge Hispanic guy in his late forties. He had a scar on the right-hand side of his face. Crystal walks over towards him.

“Hey Sergeant, where do you need us?”

“Who are you and who sent you?”

“We’re with K&P Services and Chief Brandon sent us over to help you with crowd control.” Crystal just watches the Sergeants facial expression. Crystal knew some of the older police officers didn’t like Bounty Hunters or Kat either.

“I need you here and the other two come with me.” Sergeant Harris leads Valentina and Samuel down the line placing them where he needed them. He informs them they aren’t to let anyone pass the line, no matter what and since they had radios to switch to channel 5 to communicate with everyone else. Crystal radio’s Kat and Paul that they were switching channels.

“Kat, we’re switching to channel 5.”

“Alright, Paul and I will be on the same channel as everyone else.” Kat adjusts her radio channel.

Kat and Paul go into the rubble looking for bodies and survivors. They work as a team as they clear areas, being careful of hotspots. When they find bodies or people that are still alive they work together getting them out. Kat wants to know who did this to the Federal courthouse.

Benjamin spots his sister and her husband helping in the rescue of people that had been caught or buried in the explosion. So, far they had uncovered six dead bodies and four survivors. He walks over towards Kat and Paul.

“Hey sis, where are my nieces at?” Ben takes his helmet off and wipes the sweat from his eyes.

“They should be at the office. Kristen is going to drive by and check on them.” Kat knew the girls could take care of themselves, but she still likes having her sister check on them and give Carol a break.

“Do you know who did this to the courthouse?” Kat takes a swig of her bottled water.

“I have no idea. We got the call and been down here fighting the flames.” Ben takes his sisters water bottle from her and drinks it.

“Hey, that was my water.” Kat gives her brother a dirty look.

Paul just smiles as he walks over towards the table where the water was. It had been set-up with bottled water, Gatorade, and a few snacks for the responders. He grabs two more bottle waters and heads back over to Kat and Ben.

“Here, take it before your sister kills you.” He hands a fresh bottle of water to his brother-in-law.

“Thanks.” Ben cracks it open and takes a swig from it. He had already finished the rest of his sister’s bottle.

Paul hands his wife another bottled water.

“Thanks.” Kat cracks hers open and takes a sip of it.

Crowd Barrier:
Crystal, Samuel, and Valentina were stationed up front near the barrier and told to keep people from coming pass it. So, far they have had several people attempt to get past. Valentina had to forcefully escort a fellow back pass the barrier. She could understand that they were worried about their loved ones. However, they didn’t need to be up where the federal courthouse had once been.

Samuel couldn’t believe how many angry and worried people he had to keep back.There were a few huge guys that tried to muscle their way past him, but he stood his grounds and made them back off. He could understand the concerns of the people gather in front of him, but he couldn’t let his emotions get the better of him.

Later in the evening Crystal, Valentina and Samuel are switched out by National Guardsmen and told to go and rejoin their bosses. All three of them were tired and ready to get out of their body armor. They spot Kat and Paul under a canopy along with Kat’s older brother, Ben.

“Hey, Ben.” Crystal walks up and gives Ben a hug.

Ben returns the hug. He looks at the two new members he hasn’t met yet.

Crystal looks at Valentina and Samuel “guys, this is Kat’s older brother Benjamin. As you can see, he’s a firefighter with station 10.” She turns to Ben “Ben let me introduce you to Valentina Fallon and Samuel Smith. They are the newest members to join our team.”

Ben shakes hands with both “nice to meet both of you. Also, I’m sorry that you’re working for my sister.” He had a playful look on his face.

Crystal smacks his right shoulder. She has gotten to know him since she and Brittney have been dating. She was almost family. Her and Brittney were going to wait till she finishes school before they got married.

“You behave before I tell your sister.”

“Go ahead. I’m older than her.” Ben just smirks.

Kat and Paul come walking over to the group. They had been talking with Chief Brandon.

Their jumpsuits were covered in blood, dust and other stuff.

“What are you guys up too?” Kat looked tired.

“Just meeting the new people and telling them I feel sorry they have you as a boss.” He had a smile on his face.

“If I wasn't so damned tired right now. I would beat the crap out of you.”

“Well, I’m heading back towards my firetruck.” Ben starts heading towards his truck.

“Come on guys, let's head home.” Kat was tired and so was Paul. Kat knew her crew was tired as well.

As they are walking back towards the Terradyne. Kat spots Marshal Edward Bullock walking towards her and her crew. He looked like he had
gone twenty rounds with a gorilla.

Marshal Edward was walking towards his pick-up truck when he spots Kat and her crew. He hadn’t seen them since that incident in Memphis when they went after Marin Jones and got caught in a trap he set for them. His partner switched departments shortly after they got out of the hospital. He requested to be transferred to Operations out in Flagstaff, Arizona instead of Fugitive Retrieval.

He had been sent to Knoxville on a protection detail. He had been heading to the Federal courthouse when it exploded. He was surprised he wasn’t dead. He had been helping to look for any survivors in the rubble of the courthouse.

“Hey Kat, it’s been awhile.” Edward notices that Kat had two new members in her group.

“Hey, Marshal Bullock. Are you alright?” Kat steps closer to him to help if need be.

“I’m alright Kat. I was here when the building exploded.”

“What caused the explosion?” Kat was curious.

Marshal Bullock looks around to see if anyone was listening, before answering. He looks back towards Kat “I can’t talk about it out here. Is your office still over off Sportsman street?”

“Yay, I’m still down there. If you feel better meeting there to talk, I normally arrive at 8:00 a.m. I can be there earlier if you want to meet.” Kat figures she could get Carol to watch the twins while she is meeting with Marshal Bullock.

“No 8:00 a.m. is fine. I’ll see you tomorrow.” He starts heading towards his pick-up truck.

“I wonder what that is about?” Paul and the crew had stayed quiet and listened to Kat and Marshal Bullock.

“You guys know that US Marshal?” Samuel was curious.

“Yea, we worked together on a case in New Mexico and in Memphis, Tennessee. I wonder what happened to his partner?” Paul knew Bullock had a partner.

They had been in the same hospital as they had been. He had heard Bullock's partner had survived the blast like they had.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if his partner quit or asked for a desk job.” Kat had run into Bullock's partner while she had walked around at the hospital.

“What are you guys talking about?” Samuel was curious now.

“The last bounty we went after. The guy nearly killed all of us at once.” Crystal shivers just from the memory.

“Who was he?”

“An asshole and murder that our brilliant fucking government created.” Crystal blames the government for creating him.

They walk to the Terradyne and gets in. Paul gets in the driver seat and heads back to the office. It was 10:00 p.m. when they arrive at the shop. It was dark, and Kat had gotten a text message from Brittney informing her that the twins were with them at home.

“Be here tomorrow morning at 7:30.” Paul drops everyone off at the office and parks the Terradyne.

Kat and Paul take the Honda Odyssey home.

Marshal Bullock pulls up to K&P Services. He spotted Crystal’s car and a few others but didn’t see Kat’s black SUV’s. He gets out and enters the office. As he walks in, he notices everyone was there.

“Hey Bullock, we have fresh coffee and pastries if you would like some.” Kat had stopped at their favorite bakery for the pastries.

“Thanks, Kat.” He walks over and fixes himself a cup of coffee and grabs a pastry.

After Marshal Bullock gets his coffee and pastry. He heads over towards the conference table where everyone was sitting. He looks towards
Kat and Paul “is this room secure?”

“Yep, we had a military expert come in and redo this room to military standards. Nothing leaves this room.” Kat figured they needed some sort of safe room where they could retreat to and hold secure meetings in.

“Alright, what I am about to tell you can’t leave this room.” Marshal Bullock takes a sip of his coffee and liked what he tasted.

“Does this have something to do with the Federal Courthouse being blown-up?” Kat had a sneaking suspicion.

“Yes, it was the reason the place was blown-up. The person responsible was hoping to catch the judge inside and free the person we are holding. What they didn’t know is, we got wind of the attack and was trying to disarm the bomb they managed to sneak into the courthouse. Unfortunately, they managed to set the explosion off before our explosive expert could disarm it. He died when it went off.” Bullock knew the guy. He was a close friend of his and he had the unpleasant job of telling his friend’s mother what happened to him.

Kat could tell Bullock was hurting from the loss of his friend. “Who is so important, that they would blow-up a Federal Courthouse?”

“Sebastião Tavares Rezende.”

“The weapon dealer? The one they nicknamed Death Dealer? The biggest weapons dealer in the United States.” Kat couldn’t believe the Marshal’s had him in custody.

“Yes. We managed to arrest him on a sting operation a few months ago. We kept where we were holding him secret till the trail. However, it seems we have a leak in the Marshal service and I can’t trust having him here any longer. The US Attorney General has authorized me to hire you guys to transport Sebastião Tavares Rezende to Colorado’s, Supermax prison.”

“Couldn’t you just use the National Guard or something?” Kat was curious.

“We could, but you guys have experience in dealing with extremely dangerous fatigues. Your group would be low key, then a bunch of soldiers.
Also, I know I can trust you with this.” Bullock knew Kat and her people were trustworthy and could protect themselves.

After all, Kat was the daughter of a former SWAT officer, Paul was a former enforcer of a Mafia family, Alexa was a former MP officer and
Crystal was their trainee. He has seen them in action and their capture rate was as high as most of the legendary bounty hunters were.

“Where do you have him stashed right now?”

“He’s locked up at the local police station right now.”

“He’s not getting out of there. The Captain that runs that place is very strict and SWAT will shoot anyone that tries to breakout him out. I know most of them.” Kat knew the Police Chief and the SWAT Commander personally.

“And they know you as well, Kat. Especially, the Police Chief. He had some rather colorful things to say about you.” Bullock got an ear full from the Police Chief when he mentioned that he was hiring Kat and her crew to transport Sebastião to Colorado.

“Yea, I blame him for my father’s death. He was late sending back-up for the SWAT team my father was part of. They came under fire by a gang that was heavily armed and nearly killed the whole team. The gang had gotten their hands on military-grade weapons and used it against the team my father was on.” Kat remembered the night a police officer showed up at their door to tell them that their father had been killed.
She had lost her mother the year before from cancer.

“Well, he did say that your crew was the best in the Tennessee area. So, he must not totally dislike you. So, do you guys accept the job offer?”

Paul looks at Kat and wonders if she was going to take the job. They could leave the twins with Kat’s brother. Terry and Brittney could stay with their aunt for their safety. Sebastião associates might try to kidnap the girls and hold them as hostage and bargain for his release.

Samuel wonders if he was ready for this action. They were going to transport a very dangerous person and they didn’t know who might come after them. He looks towards Kat and Paul to see what they were going to do.

Kat looks at her people to see what they thought. She knew Crystal would do it more than likely Valentina would as well. The only person she wasn’t sure of was Samuel. She could see he was a little spook by this job.

“Sam, what are your thoughts about this job?”

“That it sounds dangerous and we could be killed.” Samuel wasn’t sure if he was ready for this type of thing.

“It is, but that’s what we do. If you want to sit this out, you can.” Kat wonders if Sam might have been a bad idea hiring him.

“No, I can handle it.”

“Are you sure?” Kat watches his body language.

“I’m positive.” Samuel wanted to prove he can handle this.

“Alright.” Kat turns her attention back to Bullock.

“We’ll take the job. Are we flying or driving?”

“Driving. I figured it will be better if you take the backroads and avoid all the major highways and Interstates. Also, I will be the only one that will know your route.”

“Well, it will take us about a day-n-half avoiding major highways and such.” Kat knew the location because of some of the police officers she talked with that had been there.

“When do you want us to leave?” Paul looks over towards Bullock.

“Tonight would be best. Can you come down to the police station around midnight to secure him?”

“No problem. We can transport him in the Teradyne. It’s tougher than the two SUV’s.” Kat was thinking of a friend of hers that could drive the Teradyne.

Paul looks over towards his wife “Are you thinking about who I think you are thinking about?”

“Yep, I was thinking Pauline might be a good person to have on this job. Her driving skills might be good to have.” Kat knew Pauline was good at what she did.

“Who’s this Pauline?” Bullock was curious.

“She’s a childhood friend of Kat’s that drives armor cars for Brinks. She’s never been robbed or tricked. She’s been driving for them for the past ten years.”

“She’s an armor car driver?” Bullock couldn’t believe they were going to ask a plain ole armor car driver to work with them.

“Trust me, Bullock. Her father was a SWAT officer and she’s been through several defensive and offensive driving schools. Her father pulled some strings and sent her through SWAT training. She’s more than qualified and perfect for this job. She and Sam can transport the prisoner in the Teradyne. Paul and Crystal can take the first SUV. I and Valentina will take the second SUV.”

“How you arrange it, is your business. I’m leaving this up to you and if you say she can be trusted, then I trust your judgment.”

“Oh, she can be trusted. It’s not the first time I’ve hired her to work for me.” Kat used her a few times before she met Paul.

“All right. I’ll see you tonight.” Bullock gets up and is escorted out by Paul.

Kat looks at everyone else “everyone is wearing full body armor on this assignment. I want you to check all your weapons and your body armor. Samuel, I want you to go with Paul to the armory and pick out what weapons you want to take with you. Crystal, I want you to check the FN P90’s we took possession of and make sure they are all in good condition.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

Kat looked towards Valentina “You're going to the gun range with me and learn how to use the P90’s and a few other weapons.” .

“Yes, ma’am.” Valentina wonders what a P90 looks like?

“Are you going to call Pauline?” Paul looks towards his wife.

“Yep. I’ll meet up with her on the way to Garry’s gun range.”

Everyone leaves the conference room and start preparing for tonight.

Valentina sat quietly in the passenger seat as Kat drove them over to Pauline’s place. They pull up in front of a nice three-story townhouse. Kat parks her car behind a nicely restored Blue 1970 Pontiac GTO.

“Your friend lives here?” Valentina uses to have a nice place like this Townhouse.

“Yep. Her father left it to her when he died. She was the only one of his kids that gave a damn about him. so, he left his car and house for her.
Her younger brother is a truck driver and is always away from home. Her older sister is married to a rich Texan and hates coming to Knoxville.”

“Damn! What a selfish family.” Valentina follows behind Kat up to the door of Pauline’s townhouse.

Kat presses the doorbell. She notices Pauline has gotten around to planting flowers in the front of the townhouse.

“Coming.”

Pauline was in her kitchen when she heard her doorbell ring. She checked her cell phone to see who it was and notices it was her friend Kat.
She takes her coffee with her as she heads towards the door and let them in.

“Kat, what brings you my way and who is your friend?”

Kat walks in followed by Valentina “I want to hire you for a job and allow me to introduce my employee Valentina Knight. Valentina, this my dear and best friend Pauline Holloway.”

“Nice to meet you, Mrs. Knight.” Valentina had a pleasant smile.

“And it's nice to meet you as well, Valentina.”

Pauline directs everyone to the living room “please have a seat. Would you like anything to drink?”

“We’re fine Pauline.” Kat watches as Pauline sits down across from them in a matching love seat.

“So, what’s the job you want to hire me for?” Pauline looks towards her best friend.

“I have to transport a valuable and dangerous person and I was wondering if you’ll be willing to drive the vehicle that I’m transporting them in?”

“What type of vehicle is it, first off and who is the person?”

“The vehicle is a Terradyne Gurkha RPV and the person. I can’t tell you right now. Let’s just say I’m expecting some trouble and you’re going to have to wear full body armor.”

“This job is sounding extremely dangerous. Are you going to tell me before we leave your office?”

“Yes, but until then, I can’t tell you. So, will you come and work for me for a few days?

Pauline thinks about it. She was off work for the next two days. The extra money wouldn’t hurt. She could use it to fix the patio.

“Alright, I’m in. when do you want me to show up?”

“Tonight at 11:00 pm. At my office. Do you still have your gun, or do you need one?”

“No, I still have my .357 Magnum. I’ve picked up some new ammo for it. Why are we meeting at eleven tonight?”

“Because I want to get a head start on this job. It’s going to take us a day and a half, because we're avoiding all major roads and interstates. We’re taking back roads.”

“Where are we heading?” Pauline takes a sip of her coffee.

“Colorado Supermax. We’re transporting a prisoner there.”

“Alright, that answers my question.”

“Good. You can still use a P90, can’t you?”

“Yep, I can still use a P90.”

“Valentina, you’re riding with Pauline. I’m putting Sam with Paul.” Kat figures this would be better.

Pauline looks towards Valentina “how much experience do you have handling a gun?”

“I have some experience, but I haven’t used a P90 before.”

Pauline was wondering where Kat got this girl. She could tell she wasn’t street harden like herself and Kat.

“Do you think you can kill someone if they try to kill us?”

Valentina didn’t have to think about that question “Yes! I have no problem killing someone trying to kill me.”

“Alright. Where were you heading after here?”

“To the gun range to train Valentina in how to use a P90.”

“You don’t mind if I join you, do you?”

“Nope, the more the merrier.”

“Good, give me a few minutes to get ready.” Pauline gets up and heads upstairs to her bedroom to get dress.

Valentina looks over towards Kat “how long have you two known each other?"

“Since High school. Most of the kids use to love to tease me, but not Pauline. She would act as my protector when people started teasing me. I
couldn’t join any of the after-school sports because people said my strangeness gave me an advantage. So, I would watch my sister and brother as they took part in any sports. If I wasn’t with them, I would be with Pauline and the two of us would be getting into all sorts of trouble. Since our fathers were police officers, we knew how far we could push things.”

“Oh, I bet you fathers loved that.” Valentina could imagine what their fathers were like.

“Yea, they loved some of the mischief we caused. The thing is, we knew when to stop. Some of the people we use to hang with didn’t know
when to stop.”

“You mean like Joey Andrew?” Pauline comes walking back into the living room fully dressed in a tight pair of faded blue jeans and a black KISS t-shirt.

“Yep.”

“What happened to him?” Valentina was curious.

“He lost a leg, doing something we told him not to do.” Pauline felt sorry for him.

“What does he do now?”

“He’s an accountant. He could have been a famous football player, but because he had his accident. He lost his leg and ruined his chance.” Kat remembered how good he was.

“Well, enough of the past. Let’s go down to the gun range and shoot some targets.” Pauline pulls her .357 magnum out and checks it. She grabs two spare speed loaders to take with her.

The three of them drive out to the gun range. Kat brings the two P90’s in and takes them down to the last stall. All of them had their shooting glasses and earplugs on.

Kat shows Valentina how to hold the P90 and how to select the different firing modes. She shows her how to hold it properly when she goes to fire it. She has her fire a three round burst at a target all the way down range. They were using the medium size targets.

Kat does buy smaller targets and has Valentina practice them. Pauline was in the next stall to theirs and was firing her .357 at targets down range. When she fires it the first few times, Valentina jumps. She has never heard or felt a .357 before.

“Ignore the cannon next door. Concentrate on what you are doing.” Kat keeps correcting Valentina.

They spend a few hours down at the gun range and by the time they leave. Valentina is competent enough to use the P90.

“I need something to drink.” Valentina stops at the soda machine and buys a soda.

“Do you guys want anything?” As she opens her soda.

“Water, please.”

“Same here.” Kat wanted water as well.

Valentina purchases two bottles of water for Pauline and Kat. She hands them to them.

“Thank you.” As Pauline accepts hers.

“You’re welcome.”

“Thanks.” As Kat accepts hers.

“You’re welcome.”

“Let’s get back to the office.”

11:00 pm.:
Pauline shows up at Kat’s office and could see two black SUV’s and the Terradyne. Pauline walks over to the Terradyne, after Valentina helps her put the full body armor on.

“Sam, you’re riding with Paul. Valentina is riding with Pauline and Crystal you’re riding with me.” Kat looks at each person.

Paul didn’t ask his wife why she changed the line-up. He looks towards Sam and points towards the lead SUV. The Terradyne takes up the middle position and Kat brings up the rear as they head towards the police station.

As the three SUV’s pull up to the loading and unloading area. Pauline backs the Terradyne, so she is facing outward and was protected by the other two SUV’s. Pauline never wore full body armor before.

“Alright, people. I want everyone to be on alert. Pauline and Valentina, Tony and his partner are going to be escorting the prisoner out to you guys. Make sure he is secure inside the Terradyne.”

“Gotcha Kat.” Pauline and Valentina get out of the Terradyne and stand ready at the door for loading and unloading of prisoners.

Kat and Crystal were watching for anyone coming directly towards them. Just like Paul and Sam were standing guard.

“Alright Tony, you can escort the prisoner out.”

“Roger Kat.”

Tony motions towards the SWAT officers to escort Sebastião Tavares Rezende out the back door and towards the Terradyne. Tony has never
seen Kat in full tactical armor before. He has seen her in a bulletproof vest and such, but never in full tactical armor.

“You have upgraded.” Tony was watching everything around him and Kat’s crew.

“We had too. We’ve been dealing with scum like your prisoner.” Kat glances over towards Sebastião.

“Well, you better be extra careful. Sebastião has offered a reward for his freedom.” Tony looks at his prisoner.

“Oh, I and my crew will be careful.” Kat looks directly towards Sebastião “if he tries anything. He’ll get a bullet between his eyes.”

Pauline takes Sebastião by the straight cuffs and secures him in the Terradyne. She doubles checks everything. She secures his legs in a set of cuffs as well.

“Alright, people lets move out.” Kat and Crystal get back in their SUV.

Sam and Paul get in theirs and takes lead. Pauline takes the second position in their convoy, while Kat closes the rear.

“Good luck, Kat.” Tony watches as they drive off.

“I will Tony.” Kat got the message from her friend clearly.

“You ready for this Kat?” Paul wonders if his wife was ready to go through this matter again.

They didn’t do so well last time, trying to capture the pretend agent. He didn’t want to see anything happening to Kat or the rest of the crew.

“What are you thinking about, partner?” Sam had noticed that Paul was quiet.

“Nothing important.” Paul watches the GPS screen as they get off the interstate.

“You guys know you're going to die.” Sebastião is hoping someone was going to take him up on the offer of rescuing him.

“If we die, you die.” Crystal points her handgun at him.

He just smiles at her. He hopes the backup plan he has in place will work. He just closes his eyes and leans back against the seat.

Crystal switches to the com unit inside the helmets “do you think he has something up his sleeve, Pauline?”

“I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t.” Pauline was scanning ahead to make sure there wasn’t a trap or anything.

Crystal kept glancing back at Sebastião as he sat with his eyes closed. She wonders what he has up his sleeve. So, far things were quiet.

Most of the day was quiet as they drove the back roads. As they were going down a two-lane route, Crystal spots four people on motorcycles approaching fast from the rear. They looked to be wearing tactical gear.

“Kat, we got four incomings.” Crystal turns the rear camera on and zooms the images in.

All four motorcycles were approaching closer. One of them speeds up and approaches closer. Crystal opens the sunroof and stands up. She fires at the person coming towards them. The motorcycle rider drops back. Another one tries to come up on the other side, but Crystal fires at them.

“Grab the grenade launcher, Crystal.” Kat kept watching on the motorcyclist coming towards them.

“On it.” She ducks down, just in time as a spray of bullets hit the SUV.

Crystal switches out her P90 and grabs the grenade launcher. She could hear the bullets hitting the SUV. Kat was swiveling the SUV, using it to hit anyone that came along the side.

Crystal pops back up and fires the M576 buckshot grenades. They would do more damage to the riders and the motorcycles. She didn’t want to waste the high explosives they had.

Kat watches as the motorcyclist crash and burn. She wonders how they found them so fast.

“Guys, we just had some visitors. Stay alert for another attack.” Crystals close the sunroof and sit back down in her seat.

She takes her helmet off to inhale some of the air from the a/c. She closes her eyes and tries to get her nerves to settle.

“How did they find us, so fast?” Crystal looks over towards Kat.

“I don’t know. Only I and Marshal Bullock knew what route we were taking. So, I know it’s not him.” Kat takes her helmet off with crystal
keeping the SUV straight.

“Then how did they find us?” Crystal looked puzzled.

“Don’t know, but I will find out.” Kat was going to finds some answers to that question.

“Are you guys alright back there, Kat?” Paul had seen what had happened.

“We’re fine Paul. Crystal handled our troublemakers with the buckshot grenades.” Kat transmitted back to Paul on their scrambled channel.

“Well, at least she was smart using those grenades. We’re there anything special about them?”

“Not that I could see in the camera. I have them recorded.” The backup cameras on the SUV’s recorded everything they captured.

“How are we doing on time and fuel?” Kat only wanted to stop to refuel and switch drivers as little as possible.

“We’ll have to stop later tonight to refuel and change drivers.” Paul knew what Kat wanted to do.

“I’m not changing driver. I don’t think your rookie can drive this Terradyne.”

“Hey, I can drive the Terradyne. I am old enough to drive.” Valentina looks towards Pauline. She still had her helmet on, so their visitor couldn’t hear them talk.

Pauline smiles beneath her helmet. She was concentrating following behind Paul and Sam.

Kat shakes her head because she forgot that others could listen in on their conversion unless she made it a private line.

“Where are we stopping to refuel and switch drivers?” Pauline was curious.

“There are a few moms and pop gas stations on this route. We’re stopping in Park city to refuel and changeup.”

“Alright, lead on.” Pauline had the cruise control set. She stretches as much as the full body armor would allow her to.

“Hey, Kat, where did you get these full body armors?” Pauline was curious.

“From a company called Chaos Armor Suppliers. They are in Billings, Montana.”

“How much did these armors set you back?”

“You don’t want to know Pauline. If you come and work for me, permanently. I’ll buy you one.”

“Well, see Kat.”

The convoy pulls into Park city, just around seven at night. They stop to get fuel, food and bathroom break for everyone.
Paul and Sam escort Sebastião to the bathroom. When he comes back out, there was a chicken meal waiting for him.

“Is this the best you can do?” As he looks towards Kat. His attention had been drawn to her, because of her unusual looks.

“I could have gotten a can of dog food for you. Just eat the food and stop complaining.” Kat turns around to walk away.

“So, does that mean you eat cat food and chase mice for your dinner?” Sebastião had an evil smile on his face.

Kat stops and turns back around to look at Sebastião “actually, I like chasing after dumb asses like you. Chasing and capturing people who are wanted criminals really excite me. As for what I like to eat. Well, let’s just say, you’ll never find out.”

As she walks away from Sebastião.

After Kat had gotten a little way away. Paul walks over and picks Sebastião up off the ground by his shirt and slam his back against the
Terradyne.

“You’re lucky the Feds want you alive. Because if you talk like that to my wife again…” as an evil smirk appears on his face. “I might forget how
much you are worth.”

He lets go of Sebastião and walks away.

“You know, I would take what he said to you to heart, Mr. Sebastião. Paul isn’t the type to make a light threat.” Crystal had been standing
nearby when Paul made his threat.

“Really? I’m not afraid of him or what he can do to me.”

“You should be Mr. Sebastião. Don’t let that cool exterior fool you. He will put you six feet under.”

“Alright, enough talking. Let’s move out.” Kat had searched all three SUV’s to make sure there weren’t any tracking devices on them.

Kat puts her helmet on as she climbs into the SUV “I didn’t find any tracking device on any of the vehicles.”

“Alright, let's move out then.” Kat starts thinking outside of the box about how she would plant a tracker on someone.

“Kat, we got company and I mean big company.” Paul and Sam were facing off against an eighteen-wheeler coming directly at them and there was nowhere for them to dodge.

Kat looks in her rearview mirror and there was a trash truck approaching at high speeds towards her. The damn thing came out of nowhere and they were on a two-lane highway with ditches on either side that the road that the SUV’s and the Terradyne would get stuck in.

“Pauline, can you jump the Terradyne over the width of the ditches?” Kat wonders if Pauline could jump the Terradyne.

Pauline looks at the width of the drainage ditches on either side of the road. She figures if she can get enough room and speed she might be able to jump it and go through the cornfield.

“Give me some room, so I can build some speed up.”

“I’ll do what I can for you.” Kat lets off the gas and swings the SUV around to face the garbage truck going towards them.

Pauline glances towards Valentina and their passenger “you better buckle up.” She backs the Terradyne up to give herself some room to jump the ditch.

“Crystal, grab the grenade launcher and lob a few grenades at the truck.” Kat watches as the Terradyne backs up to her to get a running start.

Paul looks towards Sam “grab the grenade launcher and start shooting at the truck. Aim for their windshield.”

Sam pulls a grenade out and pulls the pin “can’t do it, Paul. Now, why don’t you surrender now before I drop this grenade.”

“Go ahead, drop the damn grenade.” Paul stumps on the gas and speeds directly towards the eighteen-wheeler.

Sam notices the SUV speeding up and heading towards the eighteen-wheeler. He knew it would be useless to shoot Paul. The full body armor he had on protected him. Sam jumps out of the truck, dropping the grenade in the truck.

“Shit!” Paul aims the SUV directly towards the eighteen-wheeler and drop a few of his grenades and pull the ejection seat.

Kat and he had the SUV’s equipped with ejection seats. They took them to a person they knew that specialized in customizing vehicles for
movies and such. Kat got the idea from watching the Fast and Furious. He also arms the explosive charge built into the wheel wells of the SUV.

He ejects from the SUV, just as it slams into the eighteen-wheeler and explodes. He rolls out of the way as debris falls all around him from the explosion. He looks over towards Sam on the other side of the road in the cornfield.

“Sorry, Sam.” Paul activates the fail safe in the body armor Sam was wearing.

Sam gets up and was starting to run away from the explosion when something sharp pokes him. The next thing he knows, he is seeing blackness.

“Thank god he was wearing the spare suit.” Paul stands up off the ground.

Pauline saw Paul’s SUV blowup, taking out the eighteen-wheeler in front of them. Kat gave her enough room to build up speed and jump the ditch. She holds the brake and floor the accelerator. The Terradyne bucks as Pauline builds up speed and once she had the speed she needs.
She releases the brakes and let the Terradyne speed towards where she was planning to jump. She manages to jump the Terradyne into the cornfield.

Valentina was scared as Pauline was building up speed. Then, when she accelerated and jumped the ditch.

“I think I just peed myself.” She felt some wetness in her panties.

Pauline just grins beneath her helmet. She spots Paul and pulls up to let him get in.

“What happened to Sam?” As she watches as Paul climbs into the Terradyne.

“He’s a traitor and is knocked out on the other side of the road.” Paul sits next to their prisoner.

Crystal opens the sunroof and fires the grenade launcher towards the garbage truck. She aims for the window, as one of the high explosives goes through the glass and explodes inside the truck.

“He’s taken care of.” Crystal sits back down inside the SUV.

Just as Crystal closes the sunroof. Something hits the side of the SUV, flipping it over onto its roof. They felt the vehicle rock from the explosion that flipped it. Kat spots four people on motorcycles heading towards her and Crystals way.

“Crystal are you alright?” Kat was unbuckling herself as the figures on the motorcycle get closer to them.

“I’m alright Kat. Thank god you bought this body armor.” Crystal grabs her P90 and gets out on the passenger side. That way they can use the SUV for protection.

Kat manages to get out. As she is crawling out of the SUV, she is hit by bullets from an Uzi. They impact against her body armor and are absorbed by the armor.

Crystal aims and hits one guy in the head with the P90. His dead body falls off the dirt bike he was on. Crystal hears an explosion as Kat tosses a grenade at another rider, knocking him off his dirt bike.

“Kat are you okay?” Paul’s voice comes over her helmet radio.

“I’m fine. Keep going, we’ll catch up to you.” Kat pulls her sidearm and fires at the other dirt bike, hitting the gas tank and causing it to explodes.

Crystal fires at the last dirt bike rider, after he fired at her. He hits her squarely on her chest plate. She felt the impact, but the armor absorbed most of it.

“Remind me to send a special thank you to Chaos armor.” She pulls the bullets from the armor.

“That’s why I went with them. Come on, let’s see if we can’t get these dirt bikes going.” Kat looks inside the damaged SUV and pulls what weapons they still had inside.

“Here, carry these till we meet up with Pauline.” Kat hands some of the weapons to Crystal to carry.

Crystal reloads the grenade launchers with the spare grenades.

“So, how did they find us again?” Crystal gets on the dirt bike.

She manages to get it started and follows Kat as she leads them towards the Terradyne. Crystal follows Kat as she jumps the ditch with the dirt bike she was on.

“How is everyone else right now, Kat?” Crystal sends over their private radio channel.

“Sam betrayed us and is currently knocked out and secure in the Terradyne. However, I don’t think its just him that is giving our location away.”
Kat figures that Sebastião must have a tracker inside his body somewhere and that is how they are tracking their movement.

After an hour, Kat and Crystal meet up with the Terradyne. The Terradyne had pulled over at an abandon gas station. It didn’t look like anyone had used it for ages.

Kat parks the dirt bike she was on near the Terradyne. She notices Sam has been stripped of the body armor they lent him. Pauline was inspecting the Terradyne for damage and Valentina was walking funny.

“Why are you walking funny?” Crystal transmits over the helmet radio’s

“I peed myself when Pauline jumped the Terradyne.” Valentina felt embarrassed admitting she had an accident.

“Go and change your underwear.” Kat had listened in on the conversion between Crystal and Valentina.

Valentina grabs her backpack out of the Terradyne and bust open the lady’s bathroom door. She heads inside to clean herself and change her
underwear.

“Sebastião has a tracker somewhere in his body.” Kat had pulled a device off the rider she took down and scans Sebastião’s body.

She finds the tracker in his left armpit. She pulls her knife out “Paul, holds his arm please.”

“With pleasure.” Paul grabs Sebastião’s left arm and holds it.

“You can’t do this.” Sebastião tries to move his arm, but it wasn’t going anywhere.

“Oh, I can do whatever I want too. You are endangering our lives.” Kat cuts into his armpit where the tracker is and pulls the grain of rice shape object out from his body.

Kat uses some superglue to close the wound up, after cleaning the cut. As for the tracker. She stomps on it and grinds it into pieces. After Kat takes care of that matters, she makes a phone call to US Marshal Bullock.

Bullock was heading towards what remained of the courthouse when his cell phone rings. He checks the ID on it and notices it was K&P Services. He answers the call.

“Hey Kat, how are things going?”

“Terrible. I’ve lost both my SUV’s and found out we had a traitor among us. On top of that, Sebastião had a tracking chip inside his left armpit.”
Kat was fuming beneath her helmet.

“Are any members of your team hurt?” Bullock thought they sweep Sebastião for bugs.

“No. Our body armor took most of the damage that has been done to us.” Kat watches the road to make sure no one was coming for them.

“Can you complete your objective and get Sebastião to Colorado?” Bullock didn’t have another option, except to fly him there.

“I’ll get him there, he might not be in the best of health, but I’ll get him there. Could you call the local police and tell them about the damage vehicles we left behind on 41, please?” Kat knew her insurance rates were going to go up after this job.

“I’ll handle the local police and replace your SUV’s from the ones we seized from drug dealers.” That was the good thing about being a US Marshal. They had a bunch of seized assets they could sell or use for jobs.

“Thanks.”

“No problem, Kat. Just get Sebastião to Colorado and stay safe.” Bullock was concerned for Kat but hope she and her team don’t get hurt like before.

“Bye Bullock.” Kat ends the call.

She walks over towards Paul and looks at the unconscious form of Sam. She knew her husband was kicking himself for trusting Sam. She was surprised he could lie to her. She had a talent for sniffing out lies.

Paul walks over and stands next to her. Kat looks at him through the helmet optics “what do you want to do with him?”

“If I had my choice, I would shoot him right now, but I can’t. So, he can keep Sebastião company.” Paul secures him next to Sebastião.

“Let’s load up and move out.” Kat goes to check on Valentina, who happened to be stepping out of the bathroom.

“Is everything okay?” Kat couldn’t see Valentina’s face, because of the helmet.

“Everything is fine. I just got scared is all.” Valentina felt better now that she had dry panties on.

“Good, because we are moving out.”

“Okay.” Valentina follows Kat to the Terradyne.

Kat takes the passenger seat, while everyone else loads in the back of the Terradyne.

“Pauline, forget about the back roads. It seems they already know what route we are traveling. Get us to the interstate.” Kat wanted to drop Sebastião off as quickly as possible.

The job was turning into a major headache. The company has already lost two SUV’s and a mole had been planted among them. She just hopes they don’t try to take the girls as a hostage, whoever they are.

“You do know that will draw attention to us?” Paul looks at his wife.

“Yes, I know. The thing is, maybe it will keep these pricks from attacking us out in the public. I thought taking the back roads would offer us some sort of protection, but it didn’t.” Kat looks over towards Sebastião and wanted to kill him herself.

“Well, I hope whatever you have in mind works, Kat. Because it won’t take us long to get to the prison taking the Interstate.” Pauline knew the Interstate was the fastest route to take.

Kat was watching the road and vehicles around them as they head down the interstate. She was on high alert as they traveled. She was keeping her eyes out for anything suspicious.

Paul kept glancing over towards Sam and their prisoner. He felt the same way Kat did. They needed to get both men to the SuperMax prison.

Crystal and Valentina were wondering if the people who have been trying to stop them, are going to try again. So, far they have tried twice to get their prisoner and each time they have failed in their efforts.

As they get closer to the Super Max. Explosions start going off around them.

“What the hell?” Pauline was avoiding the explosions as they accorded near the outside of the Terradyne.

“What the hell is attacking us.” Kat was holding onto the suicide handle as Pauline avoided the explosions.

“Um, Kat. Why is an Apache attack helicopter firing at us?” Crystal had spotted it out the back window of the Terradyne.

Paul turns and looks out the back window of the Terradyne and spots the Apache coming towards them “Pauline, gets us the hell out of here.”

Pauline steps on the gas just as the 30mm automatic cannon starts firing at the Terradyne. She avoids getting hit as she weaves in and out of traffic. A nearby eighteen-wheeler gets hit by the rounds from the Apache.

“Damn! They really mean business this time. Where in the hell did they get an Apache helicopter?” Crystal was curious.

“It doesn’t have our military markings on it, so it’s not one of ours.” Paul didn’t see any markings on it that said it was one of theirs.

That meant it had to have come off the black market or from another country that they sold them too. Paul braces himself as Pauline zigged around another eighteen-wheeler that had Walmart on the side of it. The eighteen-wheeler explodes next to them.

“Pauline, we need to find some cover from that Apache and its weapons.” Kat couldn’t believe they were using a damn Apache against them.

“Why don’t you call the Airforce or 911, Kat?” Pauline was doing everything she could to keep them from getting hit.

Kat calls 911 and reports that an Apache attack helicopter was chasing them down the Interstate. At first, the 911 operator didn’t believe her till they started receiving other calls. Kat felt an explosion as something hit next to the Terradyne. The side of the Terradyne lifted off the ground.

Pauline couldn't avoid the explosions as it lifted the side of the Terradyne up on two wheels. She manages to keep the Terradyne up on two wheels and bring it back down on all four wheels safely. She couldn’t believe she did what she did. Sure, she has had some stunt driving
training, but she didn’t think the Terradyne could do what it did.

“Paul, do we have any weapons that will be affected against the Apache?” Kat turns and looks towards her husband.

“We just have the 40mm grenade launcher, but we would have to open the roof hatch to fire at it.” Whoever fired at the Apache would be exposed.

“Whatever you are going to do, you better do it now. We’re running low on fuel.” Pauline has been watching the fuel gauge.

The last time they stopped for fuel, she filled up. However, they had to backtrack to get to the interstate. She hopes they have enough to make it to a gas station.

“Kat, there are some fighter jets intercepting the Apache.” Valentina saw a fighter jet fly by the Apache.

“Thank god.” Pauline was happy she didn’t have to drive like a mad woman anymore.

There were some close calls that they could have been hit. She spots a gas station and pulls off the interstate. She pulls the Terradyne into the gas station and cut it off.

“Paul, Crystal, stay and watch our prisoners. Valentina with me.” Kat waits for Valentina to join her.

Valentina jumps out of the Terradyne and joins Kat. They start heading inside to pre-pay for the gas and grab a few items for the team.

“Are you alright Valentina?” Kat knew last time she lost her bladder.

“I’m fine, Kat.” Valentina grabs a few bottles of water and soda for everyone.

Valentina grabs a few bags of healthy snacks. She just stops as it finally hits her what they went through. She glances over towards Kat and wonders how she can remain so calm and at ease. She knew Kat was tough and survived being nearly killed in Memphis.

Kat takes a deep breath and was totally alert to everything around her. She was keeping a close eye on Pauline and the Terradyne as she pumped the fuel into it. She doesn’t know how many more high-risk jobs she can take. Who in their right minds sends a freaking Apache after people and how did they get one?

Kat spots Valentina just standing at the potato chip and snack aisle. She wonders what she was thinking as she just stood there. Kat walks over towards her.

“Penny for your thoughts?”

Valentina turns towards Kat when she hears her voice “sorry, Kat. I was just thinking about what we went through.”

“I know, and I don’t blame you. Things have gotten more complicated since Paul and I started the Bounty Hunting business.” Kat wonders sometimes, why she kept doing this.

“How do you deal with this madness and remain sane?” Valentina would love to know how Kat managed to remain sane.

“Easy, I have four children and a husband to drive me insane. What we went through is child’s play when your use to dealing with teenage girls, a husband and two-year old’s.” Kat was glad she had Paul and the girls to help her through some of her nightmares.

They make their purchases and head back out to the Terradyne. Kat looks towards Crystal and her husband “if you need to take a break stop. Now, is the time.”

“I’m fine honey.” Paul had taken his helmet off to speak to his wife.

“I’m fine too, boss.” Crystal takes her helmet off. She had just finished talking to Brittney and seeing if she was alright.

“Kat, we might have a problem. Those explosions that occurred near us, might have damaged something under our chassis.” Pauline found a few pieces of shrapnel embedded in the armor of the Terradyne.

“Did you see anything leaking?” This was the last thing Kat needed, was for the Terradyne to be damage.

“No, but there was plenty of shrapnel on the side and under the Terradyne.” Pauline shows Kat the pieces she managed to pull out with her fingers.

Kat looks at the pieces “I can’t wait till we get Sebastião at the Maximum-security prison.”

Marshal Bullock was watching the news footage in his office of an Apache helicopter firing at Kat’s Terradyne. Whoever was driving it, was doing a good job of avoiding the attacks from the helicopter. He wanted to know who the hell they were and where they got such hardware.
He picks up his cell phone and calls Kat. This simple prisoner transfer was turning into a mess.

Gas Station:
Kat and Valentina were checking out when her cell phone rings. She pulls it out of her web belt pouch and looks at the number being display. It was US Marshal Bullock’s number.

“Hey Bullock, what can I do for you?” Kat pays for their purchases as they walk out to the Terradyne.

“I’m calling to see if everyone is okay. Your little firefight on the interstate is on national News.” Bullock was still watching it.

“Damn! That means if they have someone watching us, they might have someone watching my family. Can you send someone to protect them?” Kat was sending a warning text message to her girls, her big sister and her brother.

“I can send someone to protect your sister and brother. Who are your girls staying with?” Bullock didn’t think he could get away with sending a third team out.

“They are staying with my brother Ben and his wife.” Whenever Kat left the girls along. They were either watched by her brother or her older sister.

“Let me see if I can get you guys some help. Give me twenty minutes and I’ll call you back.” Bullock figures since Kat and her crew have worked with the Bounty’s. They would be a good choice to send and help them.

“Alright, call me back.” Kat ends the call.

Marshal Office, Knoxville, Tenn.:
Bullock dials the Bounty residence. He figures Julia and Gina might be home or their father might know where they are.

Bounty residence:
Haylee had come home from summer camp and was running towards the kitchen when the phone started to ring in the kitchen. She stops and picks it up.

“Hello, Bounty residence. Haylee speaking, how can I help you?” Haylee has been working on her phone manners.

“Hi Haylee, this is US Marshal Bullock. Can I speak with Jack Bounty, please?” Bullock figures he’ll talk to Jack first.

“Sure, GRANDPA, TELEPHONE!” Haylee calls for her grandfather.

A smile appears on Bullock’s face. His own niece did the same thing when he called to talk to his sister. He also didn’t know Jack had grandchildren. He knew he had daughters, but not grandchildren.

Jack was in his office when he heard Haylee yell for him. He was going to have to talk to her later about yelling in the house. He picks the handset up in his office “Haylee, I have the phone.”

“Okay, grandpa.”

Jack hears Haylee hang the phone up. Jack just shakes his head “Jack here, what can I do for you?”

“Mr. Bounty, this is Marshal Bullock. I don’t know if you remember me, but I need to speak to your daughters Julia and Gina.”

“I remember you, Mr. Bullock. You and your partner were at the hospital where my girls and niece were, and where the bounty hunting team
were. Unfortunately, neither of my two girls are available right now. Julia is in California working with the Los Angeles Police Department and
Gina is on vacation with her little girl. If you don’t mind me asking, why do you need them?” Jack was curious why a US Marshal would want Julia and Gina’s help.

“I was hoping I could ask them to protect Kat and her family while they are in Colorado doing a job for the US Marshal service.” Bullock didn’t mind telling Mr. Bounty why he needed his daughters.

“Let me recommend someone who lives in the area. They are a sister and brother team that has done some work for me. They can be
trusted.” Jack flips through his Rolodex to get their number.

“Who are they?” Bullock figures it wouldn’t hurt to have someone not related to the Marshal service look after Kat’s family.

He spots their names “Mickey and Lisa Harvey. They own Black Jack Bond Service. Their number is 731-594-8349. You can trust them to watch Kat’s family.”

“Thanks, Mr. Bounty.” Bullock hasn’t heard of them before.

“No problem. If you need any more help, feel free to call me.” As an evil smile appears on his face.

Bullock ends the call and calls Black Jack Bond Service.

Black Jack Bond Service:
Debbie was typing up an invoice when the office phone starts ringing. She looks at the caller ID and wonders why the US Marshal service was calling them as she picks the phone up.

“Black Jack Bond Service, Debbie speaking. How can I help you?” Debbie finishes the invoice and prints it.

“Hello, I’m US Deputy Marshal Edward Bullock and I would like to talk to Mickey and Lisa Harvey if they are available.” Bullock wonders how Jack knows these two.

“Mr. Harvey is available, but Mrs. Harvey isn’t available right now.” Debbie knew she was visiting a friend of hers in the hospital that had been in a car accident.

“Mr. Harvey will be fine.” Bullock figure Mickey could answer for them.

“Please hold, while I transfer your call.” Debbie puts Bullock on hold while she transferred the call to Mickey, who was in the garage tuning up his modified Dodge Ram pick-up truck.

Mickey was bent over the front of his Dodge Ram when the telephone in the garage rings. He stops what he is doing and grabs a rag to clean his hands. He had one more spark plug to replace.

He picks the telephone up “Black Jack Bond company, Micky speaking. How can I help you?”

“Mr. Harvey, my name is Us Deputy Marshal Edward Bullock. I would like to hire you for a protection job.”

“We don’t do protection jobs, Mr. Bullock. We do skip tracing and bounty hunting jobs.” Micky keeps cleaning his hands.

“A person I know by the name of Jack Bounty says you and your sister are very good. He suggested you and your sister to me for a protection job in Knoxville.” Bullock wonders if he made a mistake.

“Mr. Bounty suggested you call us?” Mickey knew he still owed Jack and his partner Cheshire for saving them and for bringing in the people responsible for killing their parents.

“Yes, he did. I need you and your sister to protect the family members of Kat Sedberry- Romano. She is handling a dangerous job for us. I
believe that the person her and her crew are transporting might try something against her family. I need for you and your sister to protect them.” Bullock should have seen this happening.

“Since Mr. Bounty suggested you call us, we’ll take the job. Send us the information and pictures of who we are protecting.” Mickey will have to call his sister.

“What is your email?” Bullock grabs a pencil to write it down.

“Before you send it. I’m sending you our encryption key right now.” Mickey sends their encryption code to Mr. Bullock.

Bullocks hear his phone beep. He sends the file to his computer. It had the return email address.

“You’ll have the file in a few minutes.” Bullock walks over and sends the file he had on Kat’s family to Mickey.

Debbie hears a beep on her computer letting her know she received an email. She saw it was from the Marshal service. She hears the door behind her open.

“I guess this email is for you Micky.” As she spots Micky with his cell phone next to his ear.

“Yep.” Mickey opens it. He saw that it had everything he needed.

“I got it, Mr. Bullock. I and my sister will get on it, right away.” Mickey has seen Kat and her partner on television.

“Thanks. Keep me updated on any problems you encounter.” Marshal Bullock ends the call

Mickey looks towards Debbie “send a text to Lisa and tell her we have a job.”

“Okey-doke, boss.” As a playful smile appears on Debbie’s face.

Two mysterious guys in a black car watch as Benjamin and his wife kiss before Benjamin left the house. They hear their cellphone beep, letting them know the plan wasn’t going as planned. They start the car up and start driving over to the house.

Just as they parked and was getting out of the car. A black suped up 4x4 pulls up and slams right into their car. A man jump out and start firing at them.

Mickey decided to come over and check on Kat’s brother’s house after contacting their business. After he explained to Carol why he had called. She informed him that Kat left her little ones with her brother. Carol also informed him that Brittney and Terry were in school.

Mickey had sent Lisa to the school Brittney and Terry went to, while he came to check on Kat’s and Paul’s twin girls. Mickey knew Kat’s brother Ben was a fireman and her older sister was a lawyer. He pulls his gun as he jumps out of his 4x4 and fires at one guy.

The two men turn around after the 4x4 hit their car with their guns drawn. One guy gets hit in his chest and shoulder. The other guy looks at a guy that looks like he was a surfer and fires his gun at him. He watches as the guy ducks behind his truck door.

Mickey ducks behind his truck door, as the other guy fires at him. The bullets hit the truck door. He returns fire and shoots the other guys knee’s out. As he starts moving towards the two men, he hears the roar of a powerful engine as another car pulls up.

Ben had gotten a call from his wife about two guys and another one firing guns out on the front yard. He told her to grab the shotgun out of the gun safe and keep it with her and the girls in their bedroom. As he was pulling up, he notices a guy that looks like a surfer in a gunfight with two guys on his front lawn.

He jumps out of his car with his Glock pulled and points it at the surfer dude. “Hands up or I’m going to drop you where you stand.”

Mickey puts his hand up, after laying his gun on the ground “I was sent by Marshal Bullock to protect Kat’s family. These two men on the ground came here to kidnap or kill your nieces and wife.”

Mickey looks at Kat’s brother and saw he had a Glock pointed at him. He could see that Kat’s brother was someone you didn’t want to mess with.

“Why would Marshal Bullock send you to protect my family?” Benjamin knew Marshal Bullock. He was one of the Marshal’s that had been nearly killed in the same explosion. The same explosion that nearly killed Kat and the Bounty’s. He and his partner were working with his sister and her crew.

“I don’t know why, but whatever your sister and her crew are doing warrant extra protection. My sister went to get your niece’s.” Mickey slowly lowers his hands.

Ben puts his gun away as the sound of sirens could be heard approaching his home. He walks over towards the guy Mickey didn’t kill “do you know who they work for?”

“No, but whoever it is. They are out to stop your sister from completing her job.”

“Good luck with that. My sister is the last person you want to piss off.” Ben kneels and takes a picture of each man.

“Can you send those pictures to my cell?” Mickey knew a few people he could talk too.

“Sure, give me your number.” Ben taps the number in and sends it to Mickey’s phone which was still in the truck.

The police show up and Mickey and Ben explain everything to them.

Terry and Brittney:
Terry gets a message from Carol telling her a person was coming to escort her and Brittney to the office. She doesn’t go into detail, but she wonders why. A few minutes later, while she was doing her school work. A student comes in and over to her teacher.

“Terry, you’re wanted at the office. Please take everything with you.” Mrs. Lewis looks over towards Terry.

Terry grabs her backpack and purse. She follows the student that had come from the office. When they approached the office, she notices her sister Brittney was there along with a busty woman with curly brown hair that stood a few inches taller then Brittney. She had a badge hanging from her neck on a chain.

Brittney had been in class when she was brought down to the office. She had gotten a text message from Carol telling her someone was coming for her and Terry. Carol informed her that the person’s name was Lisa Harvey.

When she arrived at the office, she saw a busty woman with brown curly hair standing at the counter in the office. When she went to stand next to her, she noticed that she was taller than her and her mother.

Lisa had gotten the message from Debbie informing her they had a job. Her brother called her and told her what the job was. She was supposed to go and get the girls and take them to their house.

She knew who Kat and Paul were. They had run into each other occasionally on jobs that they had taken. She was surprised when Brittney arrived. While they were waiting on Brittney’s younger sister Terry to arrive to the office she introduced herself.

Once Terry shows up. Lisa looks at both girls “ I and my brother have been hired to protect you girls. Did you drive here or take the bus?”

“I drove here. Who hired you to protect us and why?” Brittney was curious.

“US Marshal Bullock hired me and my brother to protect your family. It seems the job your mother took is more complex then everyone knew.”
Lisa had seen the Apache helicopter on television firing at her.

“So, you think that whoever is backing the person our mother is transporting, might come after us?” Brittney could see someone doing that.

“Well, I’ll follow you girls. What type of car are you driving?” Lisa would follow the girls in her 4x4 pick-up truck.

“I drive a black 1995 Ford Mustang.” Brittney got the car as a sweet sixteen birthday gift from her Uncle Benjamin. Her mom and dad got her a pure silver necklace, earrings, and bracelets.

“Alright, I’ll follow you as you head towards your house.” Lisa and the girls head outside.

Lisa watches as Brittney and Terry head towards Brittney’s mustang. Lisa hears the swelling of tires as a car comes charging towards Brittney.
“DUCK!” Lisa pulls her gun and fires at the car as it continues charging towards Brittney and Terry.

Brittney and Terry use the cars in the student parking lot as cover as they make their way over towards Brittney’s Mustang. Once they make it to Brittney’s car. Brittney opens the car door and reaches under the driver seat and pulls the concealed Glock she keeps in the hidden
compartment under the driver seat. Terry reaches under the dash and pulls her gun. Kat and Paul made sure the girls knew how to use their guns properly. When they are in school, the girls kept their guns hidden in the Mustang.

They could hear Lisa as she fires her gun at the car charging towards them. The bullets were hitting the car, but she wasn’t stopping the driver.

“I think we need something bigger sis. Did dad put a shotgun in your car?” Terry knew her mother or dad would make sure they were protected.

“Yea, under the back seat. Dad put a Benelli M4 in the secret compartment.” Brittney knew her father and a friend of the family made secret places in her car to store her gun and another weapon.

Terry presses the secret release for the back seat and pulls the shotgun out. She could tell her father loaded it with solid slugs. She pulls it out and fires at the car.

The driver of the car going towards the girls swirls to avoid the shotgun but gets hit from Lisa’s gun. The driver hits a parked car and the passenger goes through the front windshield. Lisa moves walk over towards the car with her gun trained on the driver.

Brittney and Terry could hear police sirens coming towards the school. Brittney looks towards her sister “put the shotgun back.”

Terry puts the shotgun back in the secret compartment. She also hides her handgun as well. Brittney could get away with having her gun because she was registered as a licensed Bounty Hunter and Investigator.

Lisa looks at the girls “put your weapon away Brittney. Let me handle this.”

“Yes, ma’am.” Brittney hides her gun like before. She picks up her brass.

The police interview them and get their account of what happened. They leave out that Brittney and Terry fired at the people who had been sent to kidnapped them. After they were given the okay to leave. Lisa follows Brittney to Kat’s and Paul’s place. Brittney notices that her Uncles car and another car was there waiting on them.

Brittney parks her mustang in her normal spot, with Lisa parking behind her. Brittney and Terry grab their backpacks and wait for Lisa to walk with them. As they walk up to the house, they notice the door open and Brittney sees her uncle standing at the door.

“Uncle Ben is mom and dad alright?” Brittney was worried about Crystal as well.

“She’s alright. I sent a text to her and she says that they should be home tomorrow, hopefully.” The text worried him because he heard what
had happened.

“I have to head to the station girls. Your aunt is going to stay here with you. Also, this is Mickey and his sister Lisa. They have been hired to protect you while your mother and the crew are gone.” Ben looks at his niece as he informs them about the Harveys.

Ben turns to leave, after giving his wife a kiss. Charlotte watches as her husband leaves. The twins were in their crib asleep. She looks over towards her nieces and the bounty hunters that had been hired to protect them.

Lisa pulls her brother aside to speak with him. She hasn’t had a chance to talk to him since she was told they were playing bodyguards for their competition.

“How did Marshal Bullock get our number and why did he call us?” As Lisa watch her brother’s eyes.

“Our friend Jack Bounty recommended us to the Marshal.” Mickey knew if Jack recommended them, then that meant he trusted them to
protect this family.

Lisa stands there and thinks about it. Jack saved them from a nasty situation and have been watching after them. They helped track down a nasty assassin and several drug dealers that had set-up shop in their town and were setting up a supply chain to get their dope from the docks in Memphis to their dealers.

“Do we know who is after them?” Lisa trusted Jack.

“I’m working on it right now. I called Carlos and he said the two, me and Kat’s brother took out weren’t from around here. They were out of
town hired guns.” Mickey trusted Carlos and knew if anyone would know about the people sent against Kat’s family, he would.

“Well, two guys showed up at Brittney’s and Terry’s school. They tried to kill them in the parking lot.” Lisa showed Mickey the pictures she took of the men.

“Send them to me and I’ll forward them to Carlos.” Mickey pulls his cell out.

He hears the beep informing him that he just received a text. He forwards the pictures to his friend Carlos with a message. Mickey puts his cell in his back pocket.

Charlotte passes them, as she walks into the kitchen to start on dinner. She helped rebuild Kat’s kitchen after the last time it got destroyed from some mercenaries. They kidnapped them and Rebecca’s families.

Brittney and Terry were working on their homework in their bedrooms. Brittney tries several times to contact Crystal, but she wasn’t getting through to her. She some research online and came across a video someone had uploaded to YouTube that showed an Apache Helicopter firing at the Terradyne. She didn’t see the other two SUV’s that belonged to her parents.

“Terry, you need to come and see this,” Brittney yells towards her sister’s bedroom.

Terry comes out of her bedroom and walks across the hallway. She walks over to her sister’s desk and noticed the video frozen on the screen.

“I think mom and dad are knees deep in crap.” Brittney plays the video for her.

“Where did the bad guys get an Apache helicopter and where are the other two SUV’s?” The video didn’t show the people inside the Terradyne.

“I don’t know, but if the bad guys can bring an Apache helicopter, what else do they have access too?” Terry looks towards Brittney for an answer.

“I don’t know, and I can’t get in touch with Crystal.” She hopes her girlfriend is okay.

Kat, Paul and the rest of the crew stood near the Teradyne as a Lt. from the state police and a Captain from the nearest army base converse away from them. Kat could hear what they were talking about, because of her enhanced hearing.

They had shown up after they had pulled into the gas station to refuel. After the air force forced the Apache to land in a Walmart parking lot.
The State Police, local police and Army showed up to apprehend the pilots.

A Lt. from the state police, along with a Captain from the army unit came over to speak to Kat and her crew. Kat told them that she and her crew were transporting Sebastião Tavares Rezende to the Super Max. They had been hired by their local United States Marshal Service for the job. She informs them that the agent who hired them, had worked with them on another job. She also informed them that Samuel Smith had been working with their prisoner.

While Kat and Paul spoke with the Lt. and Captain. Pauline climbs under the Teradyne to check and see if there were any leaks. There was shrapnel embedded in the armor plating, but no fluids were leaking. She crawls out from under the Teradyne and stands up. She saw Crystal looking at her cell phone.

“What’s wrong Crystal?” Pauline walks over towards her.

“I just got a message from Brittney. She said she tried to call me but couldn’t get through. She also mentions that she and Terry had been attacked at school by some gunmen. A person by the name of Lisa Harvey was sent to protect her and Terry. She saved their lives.” Crystal looks over towards Paul and Kat and notices they were still talking to the Lt. and Captain.

They had soldiers, police and State Police protecting them right now. Their prisoners were still in the Teradyne sound asleep. Kat wasn’t going to turn either of them over to the police or the army. Since they were working for the US Marshal service, she didn’t have to turn them over.

After a few more hours, Kat and her crew are escorted to the Super Max. The pilot’s that had been piloting the Apache were taken into custody by the police. The army took possession of the Apache and flew it back to the base. So, they could find out where it came from.

The police took possession of Samuel Smith. Federal charges were brought against him. Kat and Paul are informed by Crystal, that Terry and Brittney had been attacked. That they were safe and under the protection of Mickey and Lisa Harvey.

Paul and Kat knew the brother and sister team. They knew that they had hunted some of the worst people like her and Paul had. They knew they could trust them to protect her family.

They were on their way back home after dropping Sebastião off at the Super Max. All of them were happy to get rid of him.

“That’s one weapon dealer that won’t be seeing daylight for a while.” Crystal was glad he was in jail.

“He may be in jail, but I have a funny feeling that this matter isn’t over with.” Kat had a funny feeling that things were going to get worse.

Brittney and Terry:

“That was a nice meal, Mrs. Sedberry.” Mickey loved the meal he just got finish eating.

“I have to agree with my brother, Mrs. Sedberry. That was a fantastic meal.” A smile appears on Lisa’s face.

Charlotte had made dinner for everyone, while Terry and Brittney took care of their siblings. She was still amazed that the twins had been born normal, considering Kat’s DNA had been changed. She had nothing against her sister-in-law, she just figured some of Kat’s unusual features would be pass onto her children.

“Thank you, Mickey and Lisa.” Charlotte knew her nieces loved her cooking.

Terry and Brittney help their aunt clean the dirty dishes and clean the kitchen up. Afterward, Brittney takes her shower and after she finished her shower, Terry takes hers. Charlotte, Lisa, and Mickey were in the living room watching television when Mickey’s cell phone rings. Mickey looks at the number and notices it was Carlos.

“Excuse me, ladies.” Mickey gets up and heads towards the kitchen

Lisa watches her brother as he heads toward the kitchen. She wonders why he wanted privacy. Hopefully, he'll tell her what he finds out from Carlos.

“Hey Carlos, what did you find out?”

“You’re not going to like this, Mickey. The people you are protecting, including you and your sister, now have a two million dollar hit placed on you. Someone wants you and the Romano family and their employee’s dead. That includes their brother and sister as well. Whoever you guys pissed off, want you dead.” Carlos couldn’t believe what he had found out from his contract.

“Do you know who put the contract out on us?” Mickey wonders who would put such a high bounty out on them.

“No idea, bro. However, whoever it is wants you guys dead. Also, the pictures you sent me of the men you killed. They were hired hit men out of Mexico. Two of those men work for the cartel’s and the others were freelance. No affiliation to anyone.” Carlos contact in the cartel identified the two men.

“So, we have cartel and freelance hitters. Do you know who the freelance shooters got the contract from?” Mickey knew there were a few handlers that hired people to do jobs.

“As far as I know, the others didn’t work for anyone, but I’ll look around for you Mickey. I do have a question for you. Why is everyone trying to kill you and the Sedberry family?” Carlos was curious.

Mickey knew he could trust Carlos. The two of them grew up together and saved each other’s lives.

“What I’m about to tell you, can’t be repeated to anyone Carlos. Kat and her people were hired to transport the arms dealer Sebastião Tavares Rezende to the Super Max in Colorado by the US Marshal service.”

“Dam! No wonder people are trying to kill you and them. Rezende is well connected and has contacts all over the world and in several governments.” Carlos had heard rumors about the guy. He knew for a fact that he supplied some of the cartels and other extremist groups.

“Yea tell me about it. Do you know if there is anyone else coming after us?” Mickey wanted to be prepared.

“Nope, not that I know. However, if I hear anything. I’ll text you, bro. Just watch your back and your sister’s back.” Carlos had a thing for Lisa.

“I will man and thanks.” Mickey ends the call and heads back into the living room.

“Charlotte, I need to get in touch with your husband and Kat’s older sister. We have a problem on our hands.” Mickey didn’t like this because of it, complicated things even more.

“Ben should be at the firehouse and I’ll call Kristen and tell her to watch herself.” Charlotte pulls out her cell phone to call her sister-in-law.

Kristen’s place:
Kristen and her boyfriend were heading back to her place. They had gone out for dinner after she had gotten off work. As they were heading towards her place, a car pulls up next to them at the stoplight. The passenger in the other car rolls down his window and fires at Kristen’s boyfriend. The bullets hit her boyfriend, shattering the glass. A few hit her, in her left arm and on the side of her chest. She watches as the car pulls off.

Just as the car is pulling off, her cell phone starts ringing. She was in pain and shock, but she manages to answer it.

“Charlotte, call the police and paramedics and tell them I’m at Bridge and 12th street. I’ve just been shot.”

Charlotte was about to speak when her call was answered. However, she stopped to listen to her sister-in-law.

“Okay. I’m going to stay on the phone with you.” Charlotte looks towards Lisa and has her dial 911.

Lisa dials 911and informed them what happened. She is asked several questions as she relates the questions to Charlotte. Charlotte could hear police sirens approaching her sister-in-law location. She hears the call end.

“Mickey or Lisa, can you drive me to the hospital Kristen will be taken to?” Charlotte gets up and grabs her purse.

“I’ll take you.” Mickey grabs his truck keys.

“Thanks. Lisa, can you inform and watch Brittney and Terry for me please?” Charlotte was sending a text to her husband informing him that his sister had been wounded.

“I can do that. I tell them after you leave.” Lisa watches as her brother leaves with Charlotte.

Lisa waits till they leave the house, before heading to tell Brittney and Terry that their aunt has been hurt. She knocks on both girl’s bedroom door. She hopes they didn't have their music turned up loud.

Brittney was finishing up her homework when she heard someone knock on her bedroom door. She opens it and notices Lisa standing between her bedroom door and Terry’s bedroom door.

“Girl’s your aunt Kristen has been shot and is heading towards the hospital right now. Your aunt Charlotte is heading there now.” Lisa couldn’t believe someone was trying to kill Kat’s older sister.

“Does my mom know, yet?” Brittney knew Kat would want to know about her sister being in the hospital.

“No, we haven’t contacted your mother yet. Why don’t we leave that to your uncle?” Lisa figured Kat might take the news better coming from her brother.

“I want to know who is trying to kill our family?” Terry looked upset.

She liked her aunt Kristen and wanted to be like her. So, far today someone tried to kill her, Brittney and their uncle Ben.

“It has to be the prisoner mom and dad are transporting.” Brittney figures he must be behind all this.

US Marshal Office:
Marshal Bullock was leaving the office and heading home. It had been a long day and he needed a drink. Kat and her crew managed to get Sebastião Tavares Rezende to the supermax with a police and army escort. He nearly fell out of his chair when she called him to tell him that.

As he stopped at a stop light. A black motorcycle pulled up alongside his SUV. The rider of the motorcycle glances at him. He couldn’t see the face of the rider, because the visor of the helmet was tinted dark. The rider waves at him and then speeds off.

The next thing Marshal Bullocks knows, is the back of his SUV exploding, as he jumps from his SUV. He hits the street hard as debris falls around him. He could feel the heat from the flames and smell the acidic smell of burning chemicals. He looks where the motorcycle rider had headed off too but couldn’t spot them.

Police, paramedics, and fire trucks show up. He is checked out by the paramedics. Afterward he is required to give a statement.

Kat holds her big sisters’ hand as she slept. She looks down at her sister “you’re not supposed to be here. This is normally my gig.”

As Kat brushes some of her sister’s hair out of her closed eyes. Normally, she was the one in the hospital and it was her older sister that looked after her. She wipes the tears away as they slide down her cheeks.

“She going to be alright Kat.” Paul places his hand on her shoulder.

“It should be me there, Paul. Not my big sister.” Kat was crying because her sister was important to her.

“No one should be here, Kat. We will find who tried to kill your sister, brother, our daughter’s and make them pay.” Paul knew how important
Kat’s family was to her.

Ben knocks and enters his sister hospital room. He sees Kat and Paul sitting and standing by the bed. He notices that Kat has been crying. He knew what to look for on her face. She may look like a catgirl, but he knew what to look for with her emotions.

“Hey, what’s with the waterworks?” Ben walks over and hugs Kat.

Kat returns the hug and holds onto her big brother. He has always been there for her. Even, when the kids at school picked on her, because of her looks. He would always protect her.

Ben just holds his little sister. He needed to tell her what happened to Marshal Bullock. His station was one of the three that responded to the 911 call.

“Kat, whoever sent assassins/killers after us, also went after Marshal Bullock. Someone tried to kill him late yesterday.” Ben release his little sister.

Kat looks up at her brother “is he alright?”

“He’s fine. He only suffered a few cuts and bruises. Do you know, who is trying to kill us, sis?” Ben figures it had something to do with Kat’s work.

Kat looks at her brother “it has to be because of Sebastião. He has been sending people after us since we left to take him to the Super Max.
This needs to end and we need to send a message to whoever these assassins are working for, that we will bring the fight to them.”

“Any ideas, where to start?” Ben looked towards Paul.

“I have a few ideas on where we can start. Are the girls okay?” Paul wonders who is looking after the girls.

“They are fine. I stopped by the house before coming over here. Mickey, Charlotte, and Lisa are watching after them. Brittney was still
in bed with Crystal. Terry was fixing breakfast for everyone.” Ben stopped to check on the twins and his wife. She stayed all night last night watching over Kristen.

Mickey stayed with her and didn’t let her out of his sights. Once Kat and Paul arrived at the hospital, Mickey escorted Charlotte back to her house. His sister was staying with the girls. Crystal, Pauline, and Valentina were at Kat’s and Paul’s place as well.

Mickey orders a cup of coffee at the coffee shop he said he would meet Carlos at. He finds a nice back corner and waits for Carlos to show-up.
He wants to know who is handling the money for the hit and the hiring of the hitmen.

Mickey spots Carlos walking in and up to the counter. He watches as Carlos orders a coffee and then walks over towards him.

Carlos spots Mickey over in a back corner and walks over towards him. He knows Mickey isn’t going to like what he found out about who is putting the money up for the hit or who is handling the hiring of the hit men.

“It’s been a long time, Mickey.” As Carlos sits down at the table.

“That it has, Carlos.” He notices Carlos was taking the seat next to him, so his back was to the wall.

“So, what have you found out, Carlos?” Mickey takes a sip of his coffee.

“Nothing good, amigo. First off, the person handling the contract is a fellow known as John Tamer. He’s a notorious mafia crime boss in Detroit. He’s handling the contract on behalf of Sebastião. It seems Sebastião and Tamer are connected somehow. How they are connected I have no idea.” Carlos found this bit of news out just a few hours ago.

“I need to know how they are connected and why they won’t stop.” Mickey was curious about that.

“I’ll see what I can do on that part. You have more things to worry about. Since all the local talent and cartel hitters he hired hasn’t been able to accomplish their job. He’s bringing in some heavy hitters from Europe. Tamer has given the contract for you guys death over to a guy known as the Grim Reaper and his people. According to what I can dig up on the guy, He’s responsible for over two hundred kills and no one has been able to capture him. He’s also been known to work with several other nasty people. People like Marin Jones, a person that goes by the street name Que Ball and a woman that goes by the name of Roulette.” Carlos heard stories of most of these people. Roulette was an Asian female assassin that either poison her victims or kidnapped them and force them to fight for their lives.

Que ball, on the other hand, liked to use explosives to kill his victim. He killed some loan sharks moving in on his territory by disguising an ordinary pool cue ball with explosives. He knew Que Balls bomb building expertise is highly sought out.

“Did you just say, Marin Jones?” Mickey almost choked on his coffee when Carlos mention that name.

“Yeah, I just did. No one knows what happened to him.” Carlos heard rumors what might have happened to him, but no one knew for sure.
Except for two people and they weren’t going to say anything.

Mickey just smiles, because he sorts of knew what happened to him. Still, how did he fit into this mess with Sebastião?

As they are sitting and enjoying their coffee. An emergency news broadcast appears reporting on a jailbreak at the Colorado Maximum

Security jail that Kat and her people dropped Sebastião at. It showed an explosion and a few minutes later an armored helicopter hovering and picking up three people.

“I can’t believe he did that.” Carlos and Mickey were stunned at the boldness of Sebastião’s escape.

US Marshal’s Office:
Bullock reported for work the next day. He was going to find out who tried to kill him. As he is looking through the footage he managed to get from the street and surveillance cameras around the area.

Marshal Claire Miller sticks her head into Bullock’s office “Bullock, you have to see this.”

Bullock looks up and at her “what do I need to see, Claire?”

“Sebastião, just escape from prison, during broad daylight.” Agent Miller couldn’t believe the balls on this felon.

Bullock stands up from his desk and follows Miller to a conference room. He watches the news report on the television screen in there. He
notices Sebastião and two other men dressed in prison guard uniforms climbing up a rope ladder as the helicopter hovers.

Gunmen from inside the helicopter were providing cover for him and the other men. Once the men were loaded in, they took off. The death count was up to twenty people so far. Both prison guards and prisoners.

“Where is he getting this type of support?” Bullock couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

He wasn’t even there for a day and he managed to escape. Bullock looks towards Miller.

“Get in touch with the Marshal office in Colorado and see if they can explain this mess.” Bullock just couldn’t believe he pulled this off in only a day.

“I’m on Bullock.” Miller heads over to her desk to talk with the Marshal Office in Colorado.

Bullock pulls out his cell phone and dials Kat’s number. He better warns her that Sebastião escaped.

Kristen’s Hospital room:
Kat, Ben, and Paul were still in Kristen’s hospital room when Kat’s cell phone goes off. Kat pulls it out and looks at the number. She presses the accept button.

“What’s up, Bullock?”

“Hey, Kat, I have some bad news for you.”

“Why can’t you ever call me with good news. What is the news?” Kat was curious what the bad news was.

“Sebastião escaped from the Supermax.”

“No way. We busted our asses putting him in there. How did he do it?” Kat stands up and switches her cell phone to the speaker.

“There was an explosion and an armored helicopter flew in to pick him and two guards up.” Bullock still couldn’t believe Sebastião pulled this off.

“I want him, Bullock. I want him for what he did to my family and for the crap he put me and my team through.” Kat was going to take the
gloves off.

She was pissed for what he tried to do to her family. If she has too, she’ll send everyone to Rebecca for protection.

“Look, Kat, I know he tried to kill you, but you need to keep your head. There’s more in play here. I’m going to give your team the opportunity to go after him. Just hang loose and look after your sister.” Bullock heard about Kat’s older sister being hurt.

Kat wants Sebastião and she was going to go after him, even if Bullock doesn’t want her too. Bounty Hunting is what they do best.

“Alright, let me know when you want us to go after the prick.”

“Bye, Kat.” Bullock ends the call.

“What was that about?” Paul looks at Kat. He heard her voice raise some.

“Sebastião managed to escape from the Super Max.” Kat looks at her brother and husband.

“How?” Paul couldn’t believe it.

“According to Bullock, there was an explosion and Sebastião along with two guards were airlifted out of there.” Kat still couldn’t believe it.

“When did it happen?” Ben hadn’t heard anything.

“This morning while we have been here.” Kat looks at her sister.

“Are we going after the son-of-bitch?” Paul wanted his ass as well.

“Bullock told us to stand down for now. He’ll call us to let us know if we are going after the prick.”

“He’ll be a fool if he didn’t send you, sis.” Kristen heard the conversation.

“Sis, you’re awake!” Kat hugs her big sister.

Brittney looks into Crystals eyes as they laid in bed together. She was happy that Crystal was home safe and sound. She was also happy that her aunt Kristen was doing better. She knew her mother was upset that her big sister had gotten hurt.

“What are you thinking about?” Crystal plays with Brittney’s nipple.

“Us, my aunt and my mother.” Brittney shivers as Crystal plays with her nipple.

“What has you thinking about us?” Crystal starts massaging the breast she had been playing with.

“I was wondering if maybe we should get married sooner, instead of waiting until I graduate from school.” Brittney loved Crystal very much and didn’t want to lose her on jobs her mother took.

“Your mom, my boss would kill me if we went behind her back and got married.” Crystal didn’t want Kat to fire her or be mad at her for marrying her daughter without her consent.

It took some persuasion to Kat and Paul to let Crystal sleep with Brittney in their house. The last thing she wanted to do was antagonize Kat.

“I’m going to go and pee.” Brittney kisses Crystal before she gets up and rushes to the bathroom.

Crystal gets up and slips a nightshirt and panties on. She walks out of Brittney’s bedroom and heads towards the kitchen. She spots Terry, Valentina, Lisa, and Mickey in there, drinking coffee.

“Good morning.” As she walks over and pours herself a cup of coffee.

“Good morning.” Terry was fixing herself some Texas toast.

“Is Kat up?” Crystal knows for a fact that Kat was an early riser because of the twins.

“Mom is still in bed. So, is dad as well.” Terry looks over towards Crystal.

“Who’s taking care of the twins?” Brittney comes walking into the kitchen.

She had slipped on a pair of shorts and a t-shirt that had “Today I’m Serving Shady Realness.” She walks over towards the coffee pot to pour herself some coffee.

“Aunt Charlotte and Uncle Ben are watching our sisters. Mom thought it best that the twins stay with them until Aunt Rebecca and Uncle Lev arrive. Uncle Ben and the twins are going back with them to Kansas.” Terry overheard her mom and dad talking

“So, who is going to protect Aunt Kristen?” Brittney loved her older aunt.

“Some Private Security guards from Cerberus Private Security Contractors.” Mickey had been informed by Mr. Bounty first thing in the morning.

He also received the location of the Mafia guy. The information he received had the layout of the property John Tamer owned and his routine. Mickey confirmed the information with a friend of his that did bounty hunting in Detroit.

“When did that happen?” Terry and Brittney look over towards Mickey.

“Last night, they showed up with a message from Mr. Bounty.” Kat and Paul come walking into the kitchen.

“Mr. Bounty sent them?” Brittney looks towards her mother.

“Yep, he said good luck and that he has our back if we need help. As for Sebastião, he said don’t worry about him. The Marshal service is going to handle him.” Kat wanted to go after Sebastião and rip his heart out.

Brittney walks over and sits on Crystals lap. She looks towards her mother and father.

“So, does this mean me and Terry get to go with you on this bounty?” As she takes a sip of her coffee.

“No, you and Terry are going to go back to school. Valentina, Crystal, you two are staying behind to protect Brittney and Terry. Luke and Alexa are going to join you. Alexa is cutting her vacation short and Luke is coming out of retirement to help out.” Kat spoke too Alexa and Luke yesterday.

She knew Luke was still recovering after the last hunt they went on, but he said he would protect Brittney and Terry. Alexa and her wife didn’t mind cutting their vacation short to help her out. She promised to make it up to Alexa.

As for Pauline, she said she would be willing to come with them. She had gone by her place and someone had tried to enter it. She had a security system and captured them on camera.

As for Mickey and Lisa. They joined Kat and Paul in the living room. Kat knew she wasn’t bringing this prick back from Detroit. He put her family at risk and tried to kill her.

"Mickey, Lisa normally I wouldn’t ask this, but what is your feeling about what is going on?” Kat didn’t want to involve Lisa and Mickey what she had planned.

“What do you mean, Kat?” Lisa was curious.

“Meaning she doesn’t want to bring this Mafia guy back alive.” Mickey looks at Lisa when he says that.

“Kat, you just can’t go and kill someone.” Lisa looks towards her.

“Lisa, he tried to kill my family and put my sister in the hospital. Hell, he hired a hitman that has never been caught to come and kill us. That includes you and your brother.” Kat didn’t want to give this man a chance to weasel out of being punished.

“Kat, I feel the same way. We need to do this right. Your father wouldn’t want his little girl to kill someone in cold blood.” Paul wraps his arms around his wife and holds her against his body.

“Kat, we will get this mafia person and make him pay. Between us, we have always captured the most dangerous preps.” Mickey and his sister had a reputation like Kat and her crew did.

Kat just growls as her husband holds her. She knew he was right, and she knew her father wouldn’t approve of her killing someone in cold blood. He would be disappointed at her if she crosses that line.

Around 1:00 p.m. Rebecca and Lev arrive at Kat’s house in a cab. Rebecca goes up and knocks on the door. Lev was watching her back, after what Kat told her was going on.

Kat hears the doorbell ring. She checks who was at the door on her phone and spot Rebecca and Lev. She heads towards the door and opens it.

“Thanks for coming, sis.” Kat hugs Rebecca.

Rebecca returns the hug “any time.”

Kat releases Rebecca and steps aside to let her and Lev come in. Once they have entered, she shuts the door behind them.

Brittney and Terry had heard Rebecca’s and Lev’s voice. They came running into the living room.

“Aunt Rebecca, Uncle Lev.” The girls hug Lev and Rebecca.

Rebecca and Lev return the hugs. Rebecca was happy to see her nieces again.

“Are you girls coming back with me and your uncle?” Rebecca knew August would be happy to see her cousins again.

“No, they are staying here, Rebecca.” Kat looks at her sister.

“Who’s going to protect them?” Rebecca was worried for their safety.

“Well, my girlfriend Crystal, Valentina, Alexa, and Luke.” Brittney was looking for Crystal.

“You have a girlfriend, Brittney?” Rebecca looks at her niece.

“Yes, ma’am.”

Rebecca looks at Terry “do you have one?”

“No, ma’am. Most of the boys at our school think I’m weird.” Terry hadn’t found anyone at her school she liked.

“You’ll find your special person, dear.” Rebecca knew how special Terry was. She was the opposite of Brittney and August.

Rebecca, Lev, Paul, and Kat head towards the living room. They all take a seat and start discussing what they planned on doing.

US Marshal Office:
Deputy Marshal Joseph Running Bear pulls into the parking garage of the Knoxville Marshal office. He had been pulled from his post in Alaska to come to Knoxville, to be the partner of Marshal Edward Bullock. He had already read the personnel file on Edward Bullock.

He also heard about the escape of Sebastião Tavares Rezende from the Super Max prison in Colorado. According to the information that had been collected so far. Warden Nokes had been forced to help in the escape.

Associates of Sebastião Rezende had kidnapped Warden Nokes family and were holding them hostage. The other guards that had helped in the escape, had assumed the identities of some of the guards. The Warden was killed when Sebastião left. When officials went to the
Warden’s house, they found his whole entire family murdered.

His orders had been to partner up with Deputy Marshal Bullock and track down Sebastião Rezende. A killed order had been issued for Sebastião Rezende. He heads upstairs to the Marshal office in the Federal building.

Edward was engrossed in all the information he had been given about the helicopter Sebastião Rezende used. It had been found at an abandoned airfield in pieces. According to the tracks they found there. There had been at least three SUV’s waiting for them.

Edward looks up when he hears someone knocking at his door. He looks up and notices that agent Deputy Perry was standing at his door.

“Enter.”

Deputy Perry opens the door “hey Bullock, there’s a Deputy Marshal Joseph Running Bear here to see you.”

“Send him in.” Bullock wonders who Joseph Running Bear was and why he was here.

Bullock watches as a tall, muscular Native American man comes walking in. Bullock had to guess that he stood at least 6’ or 6’2” feet tall. He had a wither face and deep eyes, like a man who has lived and worked in nature.

As Joseph enters the office, he sees a tall muscular man with short black hair and tanned skin. He figures the man spent time outside. He didn’t look like the type of person that liked being in the office.

Bullock holds his hand out to shake Joseph’s “I’m Edward Bullock, it's nice to meet you, Mr. Running Bear.”

Joseph shakes Edward’s hand. He noticed that Edward had a firm grip as he shakes his hand.

“Joseph Running Bear. I was transferred from our Alaska office to be your partner.” Joseph received his orders from the Deputy Director
Marshal Washington.

Joseph hands his orders to Edward Bullock.

Bullock looks at the orders and notices they had been issued by the Deputy Director himself. Bullock looks up at Running Bear and wonders what connection he had with the deputy director. It was unusual for the deputy director to issue and sign orders.

“He thought you could use extra help in capturing Sebastião Rezende.” Running Bear knew it was going to be difficult, but he already had a few leads from a friend of his.

“Well, the more the merrier. Please, have a seat.” as he motions to a chair in front of his desk.

Kat and Paul watch as Rebecca, Lev, Kat’s big brother Benjamin and his wife with the twins’ board the plane Rebecca had flown down in. They were flying back to Rebecca’s place where they would be safe. The airfield that Rebecca lived and worked at was home to retired military personnel.

Plus, if any mercenaries or assassins decided to go after Rebecca. They will find tanks and military vehicles pointed in their directions. She restored & collected old military equipment, vehicles, planes and such.

Once they were in the air and safely gone. Kat turns towards Mickey and Lisa as they walk back to the Teradyne.

“You guys ready to go hunting?” Kat was ready to bring the mob boss.

“Only if you promise not to kill him, Kat.” Lisa looks towards Kat.

“You have my word.” As they climbed into the Teradyne.

Pauline watches as Kat, Paul, Mickey and Lisa climb into the Teradyne. She was driving them to Detroit and helping if they needed her.

“Does anyone need to use the bathroom?” Pauline looks in her review mirror towards the people in the back.

“Funny, Pauline.” Paul looks towards Pauline.

She just smiles as she starts driving. Kat was sitting in the passenger seat and was peeling an orange. She hopes they find the bastard that hired the hit team.

As for the hit team, that was hired to come after them. They were in for a rude awakening. A trap had been set for them.

Crystal, Brittney, Terry, Alexa, Valentina, and Luke:
Crystal and Alexa were taking Brittney and Terry to school in the new Sentry MPV’s that Kat purchased before she left to replace the armor SUV’s she lost. There was a Security company in the next town over from Knoxville that had four of them for sale. She bought two of them to replace the armor SUV’s they lost transporting.

“Oh, come on Crystal. You guys don’t need to escort me and Terry to school.” Brittney knew her girlfriend and Alexa wasn’t going to disobey her mother on this issue.

“You’ll have to be off your rocker, if you think I’m going to disobey your mother, Brittney.” Crystal had been pulled aside by Paul and Kat and told that she better not allow anything to happen to Terry or Brittney.

Kat and Paul knew how much Crystal cared for Brittney. They weren’t comfortable with Brittney and Crystal sleeping together, but they knew that no matter what. It was going to happen sooner or later. They gave the okay for both to sleep together under their roof.

They gave very strict orders for Crystal to protect her girlfriend. Alexa was going to watch after Terry. Valentina and Luke were going to be trading places with Crystal and Alexa while the girls were in school.

The principal of the school was cooperating with Kat and Paul about their daughter’s safety. However, he was also concerned about the safety of the rest of the students as well. So, Kat’s people were working with the school’s security team.

Crystal pulls directly up in front of the school and lets Terry and Brittney out. Just as Brittney was getting out of the Sentry. A bullet ricochets off the armor skin of the door Brittney was getting out of. Terry stays where she is inside the Sentry.

Brittney moves back into the Sentry and shut the door “okay, where the fuck did that bullet come from?” Brittney was looking towards Alexa as she scanned the direction the bullet came from.

She had her binoculars out and caught a reflection from the scope. “Over there.” As she points towards the area.

There was a hill to their right that the sniper had set-up on and shot at them. There is another bullet that just ricochets off the Sentry thick glass.

“What makes them think another bullet, shot at the Sentry’s window is going to penetrate?” Alexa couldn’t figure that out.

“Maybe, they are acting as a distraction?” Brittney was looking forward towards the woods that broader the perimeter of the school property.

“Maybe.” Alexa was keeping an eye out.

Crystal moves the Sentry away from the front entrance of the school and takes Brittney and Terry back home. As they are heading down one
of the side streets from the interstate towards Kat’s house. Several cars come from nowhere and block the road.

Crystal doesn’t slow down. She increases speed as she continues towards them. The Sentry they were in, had a ram plow mounted to it and she was going to put it to good use. The people standing by the cars start firing at them. They just ricochet off the bulletproof windows and skin of the Sentry.

Crystal rams through the blockade with the Sentry, sending cars to the side. The men that had been firing at Crystal and them kept firing. Alexa gets out of the passenger seat “Crystal, turn us around.”

Brittney and Terry move out of the way, so Alexa could get to the roof hatch. “Brittney, hand me the grenade launcher.” Alexa had placed a few weapons in the Sentry when Kat bought the vehicles.

Brittney saw the grenade launcher and hands it to Alexa. She hopes Alexa will be careful with it.

“Be careful, Alexa.” Brittney and Terry hope no innocents will be harmed.

Crystal turns the Sentry around to face the remaining attackers. Alexa fires the grenade launcher at the group of guys. She fires twice as knockout gas fill the area.

Brittney and Terry grab some zip cuffs and follow Alexa out of the Sentry, while Crystal provides coverage. They go about zipping cuffing the uninjured people. Alexa searches them to find out who they were.

Sirens could be heard coming towards them. Alexa looks up the street and saw two police cars coming towards them.

“Alright, you two. Back in the Sentry right now.” Alexa hopes the police don’t give her a hard time.

Some Where over Arkansas:
Marshal Edward Bullock and Marshal Joseph Running Bear couldn’t believe they were flying towards New Mexico. Joseph Running Bear had received intel from a source working for the Marshal service. Him and his partner were informed a black and silver Lear Jet was waiting for them at the airport, to take them to New Mexico.

When they arrived at the airport, they saw the Lear Jet and the pilots waiting for them. All the pilots could tell them, that they were instructed to fly to Tennessee and pick them up. They were at the Marshals personal use.

Once Bullock and Running Bear were aboard the Lear. They took off and headed towards New Mexico.

“I can’t believe that we have this Lear at our disposal.” Bullock wonders who this Lear belonged too.

“Well, the intel I received about Sebastião Tavares Rezende says he is at a forgotten airfield in New Mexico. The Marshal service in New
Mexico and State troopers are going to meet us when we land.” Running Bear share the information given to him.

Bullock goes over the information as they continue to travel towards New Mexico.

Kat, Paul, Mickey, Lisa, and Paulina pull into a motel the following morning. Pauline had driven the whole way to Detroit. The hotel was one that Mickey knew about from a fellow Bounty Hunter that worked the area they were going. They said that it was a safe place that they could operate out of.

Kat, Paul, and Pauline take one room. Mickey and Lisa take the other adjoining room. Kat takes all the information they were given and looks over it. She pulls out her cell phone and dials Morgana’s number.

Camelot Network Solutions:
Morgana was enjoying a nice bowl of frosted flakes in her apartment. She had woken up early and checked the status of the new system.
Everything was within normal operating ranges. As she takes a spoonful of flakes and eats them.

She hears her cell phone ringing. Morgana picks it up and look at the number and notices it was Kat’s business number. She taps her
Bluetooth “good morning Kat. What can I do for you?”

“Morning Morgana, I hope I’m not interrupting anything.” Kat knew Morgana had something new going on, but what she didn’t know.

“Nope, I’m just eating breakfast. What can I do for you?” As Morgana shovels another spoonful of cereal into her mouth.

“I need for you to track a person by the name of John Tamer for me. He lives in Detroit, Michigan. Can you search all the databases you have access to and let me know where he lives?” That was one thing missing from the file she had on John Tamer.

“Give me a second, Kat.” Morgana picks her pad up and starts doing a search of John Tamer.

Her pad was linked into all of Camelot’s computer systems. She types the information in and sends it off. While a few of her programs were searching the Detroit criminal database. She checks the Department of Motor Vehicles database, along with her IRS and a few other agencies computers, including the power company and cable company.

Kat looks through the information that Mickey had gotten from his Bounty Hunter friend here in Detroit. A red flag goes off on Morgana’s pad as the searcher program encounters a problem. Someone at the FBI was trying to backtrace her hack.

“Not today, jerk.” Morgana taps in a few commands and sends them on their way.

“Kat, I’m going to log onto your laptop and give you the information.” Morgana taps in the IP address of Kat’s laptop.

Kat watches as her laptop background screen flashes as Morgana takes control of her laptop. She just watches as Morgana places a folder on the desktop for Kat.

“That’s everything I’ve found so far, Kat. If I come across anything else, I’ll text you and let you know.” Morgana logs out and gives control back to Kat.

“Thanks, Morgana.”

“Anytime, Kat. Good hunting.” Morgana ends the call.

Autumn Breeze Hotel, Detroit, Michigan:
Pauline was laying on the bed and had fallen asleep. Mickey was on his cell phone talking to his friend. Lisa had gone to the bathroom and Paul was sitting next to Kat as they looked through the information they had so far.

Kat brings the location of John Tamer’s place up and looks at the layout. She spots several places they would be able to ambush him. She also searches for any outstanding traffic tickets, judgments or anything else she can justify for stopping and arresting him.

Kat doesn’t care if he is part of the mafia up here in Detroit. He is going to pay for what he has done to her family. She looks towards her husband “do you know any of the players up here in Detroit?”

“Unfortunately, no. I never got a chance to come out this way, while I was still with Greco Sicilian family.” Paul never left New York with any of the family.

“Hey Mickey, do any of the bounty hunters here in Detroit have contacts within the mafia up here?” Kat was wondering if Mickey might know someone.

“There’s one bounty hunter up here that is the nephew of a mobster. He tries to stay away from anything that is related to the family. He might
be willing to help you.” Mickey didn’t know if Charlie would help or not.

“Get in touch with him, please. I have a plan in place to capture this Tamer person.” Kat figures he’s going to have an armed escort with him.
She wants to be prepared for any possibility.

Knoxville, Tennessee:
Sgt. Tony Butler sat in the living room of Kat’s family house. He couldn’t remember how many times he has been here, either because of Kat or because he had to bring them some bad news. He was busy writing down all the statements from Brittney, Terry, Crystal, Alexa. His partner was talking with the other members of Kat’s crew. Sgt. Butler and his partner wanted to know what happened up at the school and just up the block from Kat’s residence.

Tony looks at Brittney “Brittney, where is your mom and father?”

“They are chasing after a bounty. Mom said they were going to be gone for a few days. However, she did say to give you this.” As Brittney hands Tony a large yellowish envelope.

“Thank you.” Tony accepts the envelope.

“Mom said that is only for you and some officers you trust.” Brittney knew her mother trusted her life to Tony.

Tony looks at a hand-written letter Kat had left him. It was asking him to help her set a trap for a hitman that had been sent to kill her family.
She gave him all the information she had gathered about this person and warned him to make sure he only used people he trusted on trying to catch this person. She’ll send more information to him as she goes after the guy who was handling the contract on her.

Tony looks up at Brittney and Terry, who happened to be sitting next to her. He wonders if he should use the girls in this trap?

“Brittney, Terry. Do you want to help me with a mission your mom is asking I do for her?” Tony knew he’ll have to ask them.

“Are you kidding? We want to help.” Terry wanted to teach whoever this person is a lesson for hurting her aunt.

Luke, Valentina, and the rest walk over towards Tony after they spoke with his partner. They overheard Terry saying yes to whatever Tony
asked her.

“Whatever you got planned Mr. Butler, we will help as well.” Luke wanted to get this hitman as well.

“Okay, I will let you know what we are doing.” Tony wanted to go over the material Kat left for him.

Tony and his partner leave Kat’s place. Crystal looks outside to see if anyone was watching the house. She spots several undercover cars watching the place.

“I think we’re protected for now.” Crystal closes the door and heads back inside the house.

“I hate being a prisoner in my own home.” Brittney heads towards the kitchen to grab a Pepsi.

“Don’t worry, Brittney. We’ll get the assassin sent after you.” Alexa sits down on the sofa and changes the input to see what else was around the house.

When Paul and Kat rebuilt the house after the last assault, they installed hidden cameras around the property. They had a few cameras inside the house as well. Alexa checks the cameras around the property and everything looked okay for the moment.

Knoxville, Tennessee, Kat’s House:
Two blackout figures moved quietly towards the two unmarked police cars guarding Kat’s family house. They sneak-up close enough to the police cars and killed the police officers guarding the place quickly and silently. After killing the police officers watching the house, they move towards the house and try to find a way in.

All the locks on the doors were the key button style lock and all the windows were locked. When they went to test the glass in the windows, they discovered it was bulletproof. They moved around the house trying to find some entry into it.

Alexa and Luke had stayed up guarding the place. They had the hidden camera’s watching the unmarked police cars and the property. The two of them spotted the heat signature of two individuals going towards the police cars.

They watch as the bullets hit the dummies in the car. The real cops were in the backseat protected. Then they watched as the two figures move towards the house. The hidden sensors and camera Kat had planted in the birdhouses and other small statues around the property kept track of them.

“Time to have some fun.” Luke pulls a dark ski-mask over his head.

“Lets.” Alexa pulls her ski-mask over her head as well.

Alexa and Luke slip out a secret exit Kat added to the house during the remodeling. They sneak up on the two assassins and hit them with tasers. They watch as the two assassins do the fifty-thousand-volt dance.

Alexa taps her earpiece “we got them, Tony.”

Tony and several other police officers come out of the house. They walk over to where Alexa and Luke were shocking the assassins.

“That’s enough. Let’s take them in for questioning.” Tony and his partner walk over to cuff the two assassins.

“Why don’t you take them to the shed and interrogate them? If you take them to the police station, they and you might die before you get there.” Luke knew how assassination teams worked. He dealt with them while in the military.

Tony looks at Luke and Alexa and knew they were right, but he was a police officer and he took an oath to uphold the law. He wasn’t a vigilante that took matters into his own hands.

“We’ll do it for you, Tony.” Luke and Alexa take the two men to the shed.

Tony and the other officers head into the house. They knew they should do something, but after what they saw and what those assassins did the dummies in the cars. They were willing to let Alexa and Luke handle the problem.

“Would you guys like any coffee or anything hot to drink?” Brittney was in the kitchen fixing herself something to drink.

“Brittney, does your mom or dad have any whiskey in the house?” Tony needed something to drink.

“In the pantry. Dad keeps his whiskey in there.” Brittney knew her parents sometimes needed a drink as well.

Her mother acted weird when she got drunk. It was fun to watch because more of her mother’s cat side emerges when she is drunk. She takes a few shot glasses down from the cabinet for Tony to share the bottle.

Twenty minutes later Luke and Alexa come walking into the house wiping their hands-on rags they found out in the shed. Luke walks over to the refrigerator and grab a bag of frozen peas and carrots and place it on his hands.

Alexa looks towards Tony and grab the bottle of whiskey and walk over to the sink and pour some of it over her knuckles. She takes a swig of it and swallows it.

“Tony, call SWAT and go to this address.” Alexa walks over and writes down the address.

“This is where they are working out of. Be careful, because these people are hired mercenaries.” Alexa swallows another shot of whiskey.

Brittney looks over towards Alexa “do you think we should call for reinforcements?”

“Sweetie, who are we going to call? The Bounty’s aren’t available, and it would take your aunt to long to fly back here. No, we’ll be okay with
the Knoxville police and the upgrades your parents made to the house.” Alexa knew that they were on their own.

Crystal just holds Brittney against her body. She knew Brittney was scared for the first time in her life. Nothing they have been involved in has scared Brittney like she was scared now.

“Everything will be okay sweetie.” Crystal places a kiss on Brittney’s cheek.

New Mexico:
The Lear that Marshal Edward Bullock and Marshal Joseph Running Bear landed at a nearby airfield and was immediately picked up by New Mexico Police. They raced to the airfield where Sebastião Tavares Rezende was trying to take off.

When the Marshal’s arrived, they saw a gunfight going on. Marshal Joseph Running Bear sheds his suit jacket and quickly disappeared. Marshal Bullock wonders where his new partner disappeared too, as he makes his way to join a few other Marshal’s.

They were encountering heavy gunfire as they tried to apprehend Sebastião Tavares Rezende. Marshal Bullock and the other Marshal’s near him had their handguns, while the people they were trying to get past had automatic rifles and such.

“How in the hell did this happen?” Bullock looks towards the Marshal on his right.

“We had to react fast because they were about to take off. Who knew they had fully automatic guns with them?” Jose and several others were
surprised that they were so prepared.

The ground shakes as the Lear Jet Sebastião was going to take explodes in a big fireball. The mercenaries that had been back near it when it exploded were dead.

“Put your weapons down and your hands up in the air, Now!” Marshal Running Bear and several other Marshal’s were standing behind them with fully automatic weapons.

Marshal Bullock wonder how his new partner and several other Marshal’s had managed to sneak behind the merc’s and ambush them. He watches as the mercenaries dropped their weapons and surrender to the Marshal’s, and the New Mexico State Police. The Marshal’s and State Police start handcuffing all the mercenaries.

Marshal Bullock and his partner look at Sebastião Tavares Rezende as two state troopers bring him towards them. Bullock could see that Sebastião had been roughed up some.

“Looks like you have been caught again, Sebastião.” Bullock had a pleased look on his face.

“You won’t hold me. I have friends in high places.” A smile appears on his face.

Bullock leans forward and whispers in his ear. “so, do I and if they come after you. You won’t be breathing afterward.” He leans back to see Sebastião’s expression.

Sebastião has heard of a group of people that were famous for capturing the worse of the worse and making them disappear either for a very long time or permanently. He looks at Bullock and the few Marshal’s standing near him “you wouldn’t do that.”

“Try me and let’s see what happens.” Bullock would call Mister Bounty himself and ask him to go after Sebastião.

Running Bear saw his partner talking to Sebastião and walks over to them. He catches the last part as two state troopers come over and escort Sebastião to a waiting transport.

“Looks like we caught our man.” As he looks at Bullock.

“Where the hell did you go and why didn’t you inform me?” Bullock looks at his partner.

“Because you were pinned down and I saw an opening. I ran into a few others and we decided to cause an explosion and surround them. That way we could end this right away.” Running Bear figured if they could catch them in a crossfire, they could capture them.

Kat and Paul watches and wait for John Tamer and his posse to come their way. Everyone was in their positions and waiting to block John Tamer in. Kat wanted to make him pay for sending assassins and hit men after her family. Especially, after her big sister. Her sister tries to stay out of her bounty hunting business.

Paul glances over towards his wife and notices she was fidgety. The only times she has saw her like this when they went after a bounty by the name of Jerry Cosmos. He had been arrested for molesting his 8yr. old daughter. Somehow he had managed to make bail. Twelve hours later, he kidnapped a ten-year-old girl and repeatedly raped her for twelve hours straight, till Kat and he found him buried deep in the girl.

Kat went ballistic and almost killed him. He had never seen his wife so out of control before. It took four days to get Kat’s temper back to normal. There was only one other time and that was the church people they went after that had been torturing Brittney and Terri.

Kat notices her husband looking at her “what?”

“You seem antsy and fidgety.”

“I’m ready to end this night in murder. Sebastião and John Tamer messed up putting a contract out on our family.” Kat looks at her husband.

She knew he could be cold-blooded when he needed to be. Kat knew he had several kills under his belt, from his time with the Mafia in New York. She was surprised that they hadn’t sent anyone after him yet.

“Guys, our rabbit is approaching.” Paulina spotted three cars they were waiting for drive past her location.

There was one car in front, a black limousine and another car behind the limousine. Paulina photographs the cars as they pass her. The limo’s windows were completely blacked out.

Inside John Tamer’s Limousine:
“Boss, this slut is the best.” Greg was pumping in and out of the naked girl that was on her hands and knees between his boss and himself.

He had her multi-color horse tail flipped up on her back as he took her from behind. The spreader bar between her thighs kept her legs spread enough to fuck her. The cigars they put out on her back were still smoldering. He could see that his boss was enjoying her mouth.

John buries his cock deep into the girl’s mouth. It wasn’t like she could close her mouth with the huge O-ring keeping it opened. He buries himself so deep down her throat and stays there, cutting off her air supply.

“Hey, boss, where did you send the other slut you use to have before this one?” Greg slaps the ass of the girl.

“I sold her to a warlord in Africa. He traded diamonds for her.” The last time he talked with his friend. The girl he sold him was on her hands
and knees servicing his men twenty-four hours a day.

The girl in the middle starts choking as John cuts off her air supply. The spike choker collar around her neck tightens each time she lowers her head. She tries to not black out and breath through her nose. The fish hooks they put through her breast to stretch them and secure them to the floor of the limousine was hurting her chest.

The girl feels the guy inside her, erupts and fill her. She feels him pull out of her and use the tail that had been surgically attached to her body wipe himself. After he leaves, another guy takes his place and slams into her. Her mind was so foggy, and she was feeling sick to her stomach from being choked and used as a urinal.

Outside the Limousine:
Paulina pulls up behind the last car and using the Terra Dyne she rams the car. Mickey jumps out and slides an explosive device underneath the car, blowing the rear axle. He jumps back into the Terra Dyne with Paulina and speeds up to catch the limousine.

Kat and Paul pull out to block the front car. Lisa and another bounty hunter that owes Mickey a favor rams the limousine from the side with a plow truck. They push the limousine up against a parked SUV.

Inside the Limousine:
John Tamer is slammed up against the passenger side wall. He looks through the driver side window and sees a huge snowplow pressing against the limousine. The girl he was face fucking was choking from the spike choker chain digging into her neck. Rivets of blood were running down her neck from where the spikes were digging into her neck. Her breasts were stretched and pulled her back to the floor.

The guy that had been having sex with her, was thrown against the rear passenger side door. He kicks the girl several times in her butt. As he tries to pull his pants up.

Outside the Limousine:
Kat and Paul take out the first car. They were driving a box truck that they had rented. Kat jumps out and slides an explosive device under the front of the car. She steps back and watches as the front of the car explodes.

Paul moves the box truck back. He gets out to pull the men from the car. He zips cuffs their hands, while Kat covers them.

Afterward, Kat and Paul walk over towards the limousine and motions for the plow truck to move back. Paul uses a pry bar to pry the damage limousine door open. Kat was covering her husband as he opened the door.

When Paul opens the door, he was disgusted with what he was seeing. He couldn’t believe that there was a girl with a dog’s spike choke collar around her neck. He tries to hide her from his wife’s view.

He feels his wife stepping close to him and he hears a feral growl coming from her throat. Before he could stop her. She extends her claws and digs them into John Tamer’s leg. She yanks him out of the limousine so hard, he lands on the asphalt, with his head hitting it hard.

Kat stands over him and a snarl escapes from her mouth. Her tail was moving back and forth in anger. She reaches down with her hand and buries her claws into his manhood and testicles. She squeezes hard and was ready to rip them off his body.

“Kat, don’t! Don’t give in to your anger.” Paul knew his wife was beyond pissed.

She was in a killing rage. He had to stop her from seriously injuring John Tamer. He walks over to her and wraps his arm around her waist.

“Baby, don’t. Let the courts handle him. He’ll get what he deserves.” Paul tries to pull his wife off him.

Paulina and Mickey were in the limousine helping the teenage girl out of the bondage gear she was held in. Mickey couldn’t believe how any man could do this to another person. Yes, he has seen plenty of bondage acts between partners, but to purposely do this to someone. He also notices the girl was so drugged up, she had no idea what or where she was. He saw the track marks on both her arms. There were cigar burns all over her back.

Paulina holds her as steady as she could, while Mickey worked. Mickey removes the spiked dog collar, the O-ring mouth gag and the fish hooks from her breasts. He also removes the spreader bar from between her legs.

Gloria looked through drug-hazed eyes at the man as he removed all the gear from her body. She wonders what was going on around her. All she wanted to do now, was sleep.

The police and paramedics show up a few minutes later. Kat walked over to look at the girl. She discovered that someone had surgically attached a fake multicolor horsetail to the girl’s body. It wasn’t like her tail that was part of her body, but a faked tail to make the girl look pretty.

Several Hours Later at Henry Ford Hospital:
Kat and Paul went to the hospital after the police took John Tamer and his men into custody. Kat made sure that the US Marshal office in Detroit knew where John Tamer was took. That way he wouldn't be released on bail or anything.

Kat looks towards her husband “do we want to adopt this one as well?”

Paul thinks about her question. They had the twins who are two years old. Brittney who is seventeen years old and Terry who is fifteen years old. The girl they rescued looked like she was older than Terry.

“Let’s see how she is before we make a decision.”

“Alright.” Kat heads towards the women’s bathroom to wash her face and to pee.

Paul gets up and walks around. He stops at the vending machines and grabs a cup of coffee for himself and a cold drink for Kat. He has never seen his wife as pissed off as she did. He knew she wanted to kill or neuter John Tamer.

Doctor Hunnicutt comes out of surgery and into the waiting room. He spots the guy that had been asking about the girl.

“Mr. Romano, the girl that you and your wife brought in is doing okay. She’s got a rough recovery road ahead of her. Besides the drugs in her system, and the sexual abuse she has suffered. She has had some surgical operations done to her. The tail that she came in, was surgically
attached to her body. There was a tracker chip installed under her left armpit and her ears have been surgically altered to make her look like
she was an elf. Her canine teeth have been replaced with implants to make it look like she has cat-like canines.” Dr. Hunnicutt couldn’t believe an ethical doctor would do that to a person.

“Does she have any STD’s or anything?”

“Fortunately, no. However, she is going to need a lot of rest and counseling to help her overcome the drug abuse.” Dr. Hunnicutt found needle marks in her arms and between her toes.

“How long do you think she’s been taking drugs?” Paul hopes it hasn’t been long.

“The marks on her arms and between her toes look recent, so I’ll say maybe a month or so.”

“Could her captors have been using drugs to make her more complacent?” Paul knew a few human traffickers in New York that did that.

“It's possible. We won’t know till the young girl wakes up. We gave her a sedative to put her to sleep.” Dr. Hunnicutt saw how tired the girl looked.

Kat was on her way back to her husband when she spotted Paul talking to a doctor. She walks up to them and catches the last part of his statement.

“Doctor Hunnicutt, will the girl we brought in be okay?” Kat was concerned about the girl.

“She’ll need time to heal and therapy to overcome the trauma she's suffered through.”

“Alright, thank you.” Kat already had Tony running the girl’s name through the police database.

Kat and Paul watch as Doctor Hunnicutt walks off. Kat looks at her husband.

“So, what is the word about the girl?”

“She’s been surgically altered, been given drugs and has been sexually abused.”

“Dam! I was afraid of that. I have Tony running her fingerprints and pictures through the criminal database and through missing persons database to see if she has any family.” Kat really was concerned about the teenage girl.

Brittney snuggles closer to Crystal as she held her in her arms. Both were naked as they laid in her bed. She had approached her parents last night and informed them that she wanted to marry Crystal. She knew Crystal was the right person for her and since this was her last year in school before she goes to college. She wanted to marry Crystal after her graduation.

Kat and Paul weren’t completely taken back with Brittney approaching them and informing them that she wanted to marry Crystal. Kat could tell all the time how excited Brittney got when she saw Crystal. Paul, on the other hand, felt Brittney should finish college first, before getting married. Who knows if she’ll meet someone different while going there?

He knew Brittney wanted to follow in his and Kat’s footsteps. She wanted to become a bounty hunter like they were. Kat’s older sister had suggested that Brittney get a degree in law enforcement if she wanted to be in that field.

Paul and Kat knew Terry wanted to become a lawyer like her aunt. That she wanted to follow in her footsteps. She also wanted to get her learners permit as well.

Kat checks in on their visitor. Tony came through with her police record and it was a mile long. Her name was Gloria Ann McGill. The doctor managed to remove the horsetail from Gloria’s body. She had a slight scar where it had been attached.

Kat could tell she was still asleep. The poor thing was still recovering and fighting the drug addiction she had from the drugs they forcefully gave her. Valentina was helping her because she knew what it felt like to detox.

Alexa and her wife were going to take Gloria in. Gloria’s parents had been contacted and Kat offered to pay their airfare to come out and take her back home, but they didn’t want her back. They didn’t say why they wouldn’t take Gloria back in, but they didn’t want her back.

As for her police record. She had been arrested for grand theft auto, 2 counts for breaking and entering, assault of a police officer, prostitution, panhandling, trespassing, two counts for stealing. She was only fifteen years old.

One of John Tamer men had picked up six women from a local pimp and he liked how Gloria looked and had surgery done to her with her teeth, ears and the tail. According to the man that had been using Gloria when they stopped the limousine. Mr. Tamer had plans for her.

She closes the spare bedroom door and heads towards the kitchen to make herself a cup of coffee. Kat liked having the house to herself, first thing in the morning. The twins were still with their aunt and uncle in Walker, Kansas. She sits at the kitchen table and enjoys her cup of coffee. A few minutes later Terry comes stumbling into the kitchen.

“Morning sweetheart.” Kat smiles at her youngest as she pours herself some coffee as well.

“Morning mommy.” Terry walks over and kisses her mother’s cheek.

She sits down next to her at the kitchen table. Terry was happy her mother and the rest of the gang had made it home. She knew Crystal went to bed with Brittney last night. Valentina was dropped off at her place by Luke. Alexa had left to speak to her wife about taking Gloria in. Micky and Lisa had left to go back to their office. Her aunt was doing better. Sam was still in jail for helping to free Sebastião Tavares Rezende.

Kat looked at her youngest and could see she was in deep thought about something. She wonders what Terry could be thinking about, so early in the morning.

“What’s on your mind, Terry?”

Terry looks towards her mother “just thinking. I want to follow in Aunt Kristen’s footsteps.”

“There’s nothing wrong with that. Why don’t I talk to your aunt and ask her to start helping you with that choice?” Kat knew what she and Paul
did wasn’t meant for Terry.

They knew Brittney enjoyed the chase and the excitement. Terry, on the other hand, wasn’t like them or her sister. She admired her Aunt Kristen and enjoyed watching her as she defended her clients.

“Have you decided if you want to get your learners permit?” Kat knew Brittney enjoyed having her driver license.

Terry looks at her mother “really?”

“Yes, I and your father talked about it and its time you get your learners permit.” Kat and Paul had talked about Terry getting her learners permit.

When Brittney got hers, Kat had been her teacher, because Brittney scared Paul. She still teases Paul about being scared to let Brittney drive him anywhere. The thing was, she could understand now, why her father had been a little hesitant to let her get her license.

The two of them just enjoy their coffee. After twenty minutes, Paul comes stumbling in and notices his wife and their youngest enjoying coffee. He was sore and had decided that he was going to take it easy today. Spend some time with his girls and finish some work out in the workshop.

“Morning ladies.” Paul grabs his favorite coffee cup.

There was a saying on the outside of it that said, I might be the man of the house, but I still answer to my wife. He remembers Kat giving him that mug as a birthday present because his other one got destroyed when their house had been shot-up.

Crystal and Brittney’s bedroom:
Brittney moves careful, so not to wake Crystal as she reaches over to her nightstand and open it. She pulls the engagement rings she had custom made out. She slips one on her ring finger and slips the identical crafted one onto Crystal’s ring finger.

She turns around in Crystal’s arms and kisses her. She watches as Crystal’s eyes open and feels her arms tighten around her wrist.

“Good morning to you as well.” Crystal smiles at Brittney.

“Will you marry me?” Brittney was watching Crystal’s eyes.

“Sweetie, I would marry you right now, but we promise your mom and father we would wait.” Crystal caresses Brittney’s cheek.

“How about after I graduate from High School and before I go to college?”

“I don’t see why not. You’ll be 18yrs old by then.” Crystal didn’t see any reason they couldn’t.

“Good! Look at your ring finger, then.” Brittney had a smile on her face.

Crystal notices that she had a new ring on her ring finger. It was silver and had several small diamonds along the top of it. She looks at Brittney in surprised.

“Where did you get the money to buy this ring?” She was surprised.

“It’s from the first job I did with mom and you. Remember the five million bounty? Well, since I went along and help, mom put some money in my account and some in a trust fund I can’t touch till I’m 21 yrs. old. I used some of the money to have these rings made.” She holds up her ring hand to let Crystal see it.

Crystal gives Brittney a kiss. She holds her tight to her body.

“Yes, I will marry you, but it won’t be till you finish school.”

“Okay.” Brittney returns the kiss.

After a few minutes, she stops kissing Crystal and rush to the bathroom. Brittney felt her bladder getting ready to leak.

Crystal watches as Brittney runs out of the bedroom in the nude “am I that bad.” A smirk appears on her face.

She gets up and slips on the nightshirt she keeps in Brittney’s bedroom. She slips on a pair of panties, before heading towards the kitchen. As she walks towards the kitchen, she spots Gloria sticking her head out of the spare bedroom.

“Hi there, I’m Crystal why don’t you join me in the kitchen?” Crystal had met Gloria when Kat brought her home with them a few nights ago.

Gloria looks at Crystal and knew she could trust her. Kat and Paul had informed her that she would be staying with them for a while. She knew Alexa and her wife were going to let her stay with them. She didn't mind living with a lesbian couple.

“Okay” as the two of them head towards the kitchen.

Trenner's Garage, Walker, Kansas:
August walks out of the office of the garage and inhales the cool evening air. She stretches to relieve her back muscles. She has finally caught up with all the paperwork and balanced the books. She couldn’t believe they made a nice profit this month.

They had to do a complete overhaul and rebuild on the C-17 Globemaster III Rebecca acquired from the Royal Australian Air Force. They had a non-working one they were using for parts and Rebecca saw it and asked how much they wanted for it. They sold it to her in exchange for some restorations on a few aircraft they still had that they wanted to keep.With the restoration deal she cleaned them out of old parts and ‘junk”— really treasure for those who knew what they were looking at.

As August was heading back into the office. She hears the alarms going off inside. She grabs the shotgun in the office and heads into the hallway through the door that leads further into the converted hangar. As August is entering the hallway, she hears Brutus and Titus attacking something.

She rushes towards them. She hears the muffled sound of a gunshot go off. She spots Titus with a person dressed all in black with their arm in his mouth and Brutus shaking the leg of the person as well. She spots the gun she heard laying near the wall.

“Brutus, Titus, heel.” As August points the shotgun she had in her hands at the black figure.

Titus lets go of the person's arm and Brutus lets go of the person's leg. August kicks the gun further down the hallway. She notices it had a silencer on it.

“I would stay still unless you want your chest blown open.” August pulls her cellphone out and calls 911.

“911, what is your emergency?”

“Yes, this is August Trenner, down at Trenner’s garage I have an intruder laying on my floor bleeding. Can you send the Sheriff and the paramedics?”

“We sure can Mrs. Trenner.” The 911 operator recognizes August’s voice and the address.

Rebecca used to have a lot of problems with people protesting her when she started working for her father. It got so bad, that security at the airfield had to start arresting people for trespassing.

“Thank you.” August ends the call.

She looks down at the figure on the floor, bleeding from his wounds “I don’t know who you are, but you made a big mistake.”

Air Field Security:
The people up in the airfield control tower across the airfield saw the red lights on top of Trenner garage flashing. They inform airfield security about the emergency lights. Sergeant Brooks and his partner O’Connor was on duty. They jump into their jeep and drive across the airfield towards the garage.

They knew to enter the converted hangar through the office door and head further into the building from the office. They were careful to enter into the building because they knew Rebecca had dogs that protected the building.

They spotted August with Titus next to her. August was pointing a shotgun at a figure dressed all in black, laying on the floor bleeding. Brooks and O’Conner spotted the black and tan German Shepard named Brutus sitting on the other side of the figure.

O'Connor saw the gun with the silencer laying against the wall. O'Connor puts gloves on and picks up the gun.

“We got this, August.” Brooks approaches August carefully.

Titus looks at him with a goof look on his face. No one really knew what Titus was. All they knew, was August found Titus in the storage lot as a puppy. He was extremely skinny and would have died if August hadn’t adopted him.

“Okay Brook’s, the Sheriff’s Department are on their way here to arrest whoever this person is. Along with the paramedics as well.” August steps back to let Brooks handle the matter.

She spots a rope hanging down from one of the skylights in the roof. Whoever the person was, hadn’t realized that Rebecca had alarm systems on the skylights.

“Come on boys, let's get you a treat.”

Brutus and Titus follow August to the kitchen. She grabs a treat for each of them from the container and gives them to both dogs. August wonders if that guy had been sent to kill Kat’s twins?

When Brooks and O’Conner come walking towards her with the intruder. She notices he was Indian. She has never seen an Indian person like him before.

“Brook, wait a minute please.” August takes her cellphone out and takes a picture of the guy.

She was going to forward the picture to Kat so she could investigate who this person was. The paramedics show up and tend to the wounds Brutus and Titus gave the person. Just as the Sheriff’s are escorting the assassin to their patrol car.

August steps in front of the assassin “I don’t know who sent you, but you tell them this. Next time they send someone to kill two little babies, they will end up being dog chow.”

August couldn’t believe someone would try to kill Kat’s twins. Thank goodness, they weren’t staying with her here at her sister’s place, but at hers and Butch’s place across the airfield. Her aunt and uncle had come with the twins as well. Her place was just like Rebecca’s place. A converted hangar they had refurbished. It had been used as a storage area by the airfield before August got permission to turn it into her and
Butch’s new place. It was smaller than Rebecca’s, but it was nicely furnished and comfortable.

Just as she was resetting the alarm system. Her cellphone rings. She pulls it out of her pocket and notices it was Rebecca calling her.

“Hey, Becca, what’s up?” August heads towards the garage area to grab the ladder, a piece of plywood and some tools to fix the skylight.

“What happened over there, August?” Rebecca had been called to let her know the emergency red lights at her place were going off.

“We had an assassin break-in. He came in through the skylight that lights the hallway between my old bedroom and your new bedroom.” August knew it uses to be Rebecca’s father’s bedroom.

Now it was Rebecca’s and Lev’s bedroom. Becca’s old bedroom was turned into the nursery for the twins.

“Did you get hurt?” Rebecca was concerned about August.

“Nope. The only one that got hurt was the assassin. Brutus and Titus took him down after he set the alarm system off.” August looks up at the invisible laser boxes near the skylight.

“Lev and I are coming over.” Rebecca wanted to see what damage had been done to her place.

“Okay. Oh, I took a picture of the assassin when sergeant Brooks took off his mask. He was an Indian person.”

“I wonder who sent him?” Rebecca was curious.

“I was going to send the picture to Kat.”

“Don’t do that, yet. Send the picture to me and I’ll send it to her. She’ll want to know what happened.” Rebecca felt that the news would be better coming from her, instead of August.

“Alright, sis. I’ll see you when you get here.” August ends the call and waits for her sister and Lev to show up.

Trenner's Garage, Walker, Kansas:
August snuggles against Butch as they laid in bed. She didn’t envy her sister telling Kat that an assassin had tried to kill her children. It was a good thing that she and Butch bought the other hangar for their place.

She knew Butch had to get up early in the morning and fly to Florida. He was going to be gone for a week picking up and delivering cargo for a client of theirs. She knew Rebecca was going to call Kat later in the morning. Her own child was sound asleep in the nursery.

When Morning comes, August gets up and fixes breakfast for Butch. His bags were already packed. She drives him over to the plane he was taking, which belonged to her sister. The maintenance crew had gone over the whole plane yesterday and found no problems with it. It was fueled and ready to go.

She gives Butch a goodbye kiss and heads back to their home to check on her niece and nephew. While she is checking on the twins, her
Uncle Benjamin pops his head in.

“You're up early.” Ben comes walking into the nursery where his nieces and nephews were.

“Butch had to leave early this morning to fly to Florida.” August covers up a yawn.

“You need coffee.” Ben looks at August and smile.

“I agree. However, before I can grab a cup. I need to check on my son.” August heads out of the twin’s bedroom and goes to her son’s room.

Her Uncle Ben could handle all the little ones in the nursery. She pops into her sons’ room and notices he was still asleep. She walks over to check on him. A smile appears on her face as she looks down into the crib.

Butch had been happy as a clam when he learned she was pregnant. He was even happier when she gave birth to a healthy baby boy. They named their son after Rebecca’s father since she was adopted by him, before he died.

August turns around and heads back towards her bedroom. She needed to start getting ready for work. It’s not like she has far to go. All she had to do was take the golf cart across the airfield towards Rebecca’s place.

Rebecca comes walking into the kitchen and spots August. She noticed she was dressed to head to work.

“Good morning, August.” Rebecca walks over to the coffee maker to brew herself some coffee.

“Morning sis. Have you called Kat yet?” August takes a sip of her coffee.

“Not yet. I asked Ben and his wife not to tell her yet.” Rebecca pops a coffee pod into the coffee maker and starts brewing her coffee.

“I don’t envy you.” August takes a sip of her coffee.

She knows how she would react if someone tried to kill her son. She would want revenge and would do whatever it took to get it.

“Neither do I.” Rebecca pulls her cellphone out and dials Kat’s number.

K&P Services, Knoxville, Tennessee:
Kat was up and at the office doing paperwork. Her assistant was off getting supplies for their office. The insurance papers she had to fill out for the two damaged SUV was something she hated to do. While she was finishing the last bit of paperwork, her cellphone starts ringing.

Kat looks at the number and notices it was Rebecca’s number. She answers the call “Hey Becca, is everything okay?”

“Everything is fine, Kat. However, I do have some news. Are you sitting down?” Rebecca watches as August stood nearby.

“Yeah, I’m sitting down.” Kat was worried now.

“We had an intruder last night. I think he had been sent to kill your twins.” Rebecca didn’t enjoy telling Kat this.

“Are my babies okay?” There was a growling sound in her voice.

Kat was feeling angry and concern for her children. She was very protective of her children. That was the reason she sent them to her Rebecca to protect them.

“They are fine. They were at August’s and Butch’s place with your brother and his wife. The guard dogs we have stopped the intruder.”

Rebecca was proud of her guard dogs. Brutus and Titus earned their keep by chewing on the assassin.

“What did the intruder look like?” Kat was trying not to get madder than she already felt.

“I’m sending you his picture now, sis.” Rebecca sends Kat the picture August took of their intruder.

Kat hears her cellphone beep as the picture comes through. She looks at it and didn’t recognize the person. She saw an Indian person looking back at her.

“Did you get the picture?” Rebecca was worried that Kat might not have received it.

“I got it and I don’t recognize the person. Why would an Indian assassin go after my children?” Kat hasn’t gone after any Indian people since
she has been bounty hunting.

“Beats me, sis. Can your US Marshal person help out?” Rebecca couldn’t figure out why an Indian assassin would be sent to kill two little babies.

“I’ll ask him. Thanks for protecting my children, Rebecca.”

“Hey, what are sisters for? You be careful Kat and watch your back. Who knows if there isn’t a second assassin out looking for you?” Rebecca was concerned about her sister.

“I will Becca. You take care as well.” Kat hopes whoever is after her, don’t go after her family again.

“Don’t worry about me. If I must, I have a place to go.” Rebecca figures they couldn’t touch her up in the air. They had a blimp at the airbase that they have been working on.

“I will worry Rebecca, you’re my sister. Take care.”

“You too.” Rebecca ends the call.

Kat looks at the picture again and wonders who this person was and why they were sent to kill her children. She dials Marshal Bullock’s number.

US Marshal Office, Knoxville, Tennessee:
Marshal Bullock and Marshal Running Bear were back at their office in Knoxville. Sebastião Tavares Rezende was in jail and now they could investigate who planted the explosives that destroyed the courthouse. Bullock was on his third cup of coffee as he read through all the reports, he had from the forensics that had been done so far.

As he was looking over a report, his cellphone starts ringing. He looks at the caller Id and notices it was Kat’s number. He presses the accept button “Hi Kat, what can I do for you?”

“I need a favor. Someone tried to kill my children in Kansas. My sister and her sister managed to stop them and took a picture of the person responsible. I was wondering if you could run the picture in your database and tell me who he is and who does he work for?” Kat was hoping
Bullock could help her.

“Sure, send me the picture and I’ll see what I can do for you.” Bullock figures he owes that much to Kat for what she and her crew have done.

Kat sends the photo to Bullock's cellphone. She could hear his phone beep letting him know he received it.

“I got it, Kat.” Bullock looks at the picture and the only thing he could see was an older Indian man with a few scars on his face.

“I don’t recognize the face, Kat.”

“Let me see it, Bullock.” Running Bear was curious.

Bullock shows Running Bear the picture. He wonders if Running Bear has ever encountered the person before. He didn’t know much about his new partner.

Running Bear examines the picture. He enlarges it to see who this person is. He did indeed look Indian. He could tell that right of way.

“Kat, where was this picture taken?” Running Bear was curious.

“At my sister’s place in Walker, Kansas. The Sheriff department there has him according to Rebecca.”

“Alright, I’ll let you know something once we figure out who this is.”

“Thanks.” Kat ends the call.

Kat looks at the back door when she hears it rattle. She had her hand near her handgun. She watches as the door opens and Carol comes walking in with her hands full.

“I’m back Kat. You can go and grab us some lunch.” Carol carries in the items she bought.

Kat releases her grip on her handgun. She grabs some money out of her purse as she stands up.

“Is there anything special you want for lunch?”

“A nice fresh salad will do, Kat.” Carol puts the items she had in her hands down on a nearby table.

“Okay.” Kat opens the back door.

Before she even takes two steps outside. Her body jerks as it gets hit by a bullet. Kat falls backward into the office.

Carol turned around when she heard the gunshot and watched as Kat falls backward and hits the floor. She rushes over to Kat and finds a bullet hole in the center of her chest. She calls the paramedics first and than call Paul.

Carol does what she can for Kat while waiting for the paramedics. She put pressure on the wound and tried to keep Kat from losing a lot of blood. The paramedics show-up as does Paul with three police cars following behind him.

Paul was at the law enforcement supply store they normally used. When he got a frantic call from Carol. She was so upset that he couldn’t make out what happened, till she calmed down. He had dropped what he was carrying and tore out of the parking lot in Kat’s old pick-up truck.
He passed several police cars doing sixty in a thirty miles per hour zone.

They chased him all the way back to the office and saw him jump out of the truck and rush to his wife. The paramedics had beaten him by a few seconds. He saw them trying to save Kat’s life.

The police didn’t try to arrest him after they saw why he had speed. Two of the officers recognized Kat right away. They had seen her up at the precinct a few times.

Brittney, Carol, Terry, Crystal, Marshal Bullock, Tony, Alexa, Valentina, Luke, Marshal Running Bear and Paul were all out in the waiting room at the hospital. Brittany and Terry were holding their father, one to comfort them and two to keep him from going berserk. They knew their
father was ready to kill whoever shot their mother. They have never seen him so pissed before.

The doctor’s working hard on keeping their mother alive. If her heart had been like most normal people’s, she would be dead right now. However, because her organs and heart were on the other side of her chest and reverse. The bullet embedded itself in her chest plate, but it did nick an artery.

Marshal Bullock looks at Paul and could tell he was ready to kill someone. The only thing stopping him from flying off the handle was his girls. They were worried about their mother and knew their father was ready to kill someone.

Their aunt Kristen was in the same hospital. She had been told about what happened to Kat. She was worried about her little sister.

“Do we know who shot Kat?” Tony looks towards the Marshal’s for an answer.

“We think it might be the same person related to the man who tried to kill her children in Walker, Kansas.” Marshal Bullock shows the picture Kat sent him.

Tony looks at the picture and saw it was an Indian man. As far as he knew, there hasn’t been any Indian assassins in Knoxville.

“I have no idea who he is. Did you run his face through your systems?” Tony looks at both Marshals.

“Not yet. As soon as we heard Kat had been shot. We came as fast as we could.” Marshal Bullock felt he owed Kat that much for what she and her crew did.

The surgeon who had been working on Kat comes into the waiting room and over to Paul and the girls. He removes his mask.

“How is she?” Paul was concerned about his wife.

“She’s in critical condition right now. I need to know; did you know she was born with a condition called Situs Inversus?” The doctor looks at Paul and her girls.

Paul looks at the doctor with a puzzled look on his face. He had no idea what that was.

“Doctor Stroke, what is Situs inversus?” Brittney was curious.

“It is a congenital condition in which the major visceral organs are reversed or mirrored from their normal positions. Your mother was lucky her heart wasn’t set up like a normal person is or she would be dead right now. I did manage to fix the nick to her artery and remove the bullet from her chest plate.” Dr. Stroke managed to stop the bleeding from an artery the bullet nicked.

“Can we see our mother, Dr. Stroke?” Terry and Brittney wanted to see their mother.

“I’m sorry girls, not right now. Maybe in a few days, you can visit her.” Dr. Strokes figure Kat is going to be out of it for a few days.

“Mr. Romano, she’s going to be alright. If you would like to go in and see her, go ahead.”

“Thank you “Paul looks at Terry and Brittney “girls, go with Alexa and Luke back to the house. Crystal and Valentina, go with them please.”

“We will boss.” Crystal and Valentina look at the girls.

Brittney and Terry hug their father before they walk off with Alexa, Terry, Crystal, and Valentina. Both girls had tears coming down their face. They didn’t want anything to happen to their mother.

“Tony, can you watch over them, please? I know Kat trust you.” Paul had turned to look at Tony.

Tony has been Kat’s friend since they were little kids. If there was anyone she trusted with her children and family, it was him.

“I’ll watch after them. I’ll talk with my captain and have a car posted outside your place.” Tony follows the girls.

Paul looks at Marshal Bullock “it wouldn’t be too much to ask if you could post a guard here, would it?”

“I’ll post a guard here, to protect Kat. What are you going to do?” Bullock had a bad feeling.

“Something that you two Marshal’s can’t do.” Paul pulls out his cellphone and dials a number he hasn’t dial in a while.

He left that life behind him when he became a bounty hunter. Unfortunately, he was going to step back into again.

The Mark, New York, New York:
Casey was pulling her panties up when her cellphone starts ringing. She looks over towards the john she drugged and rolled. The man was an overweight guy that loved beating on women and gambling. His debt was high, and she was sent to collect. He had a weakness for pretty faces.

The drug she gave him was going to kill him over time. By next week, he will be half his size.

She checks who is calling her and couldn’t believe the name that showed on it. She presses the accept button “well, hello stranger. It’s been years since I heard from you.”

“Hey Casey, sorry for not staying in touch with you, but I felt it was best if no one from my old life knew about what I was doing.”

“Then you're dumber than I thought you were. You and that cat lady have been on the news even up here. Why did you call me?” Casey continued to get dress while she was talking with Paul.

“I’m cashing in the favor you owe me. I need for you to see if a contract was put out on my wife and me and by whom.” Paul knew Casey had connects that span beyond the mafia.

“If I do this favor for you. We’re even. I don’t owe you anything, anymore.” Casey knew she owed Paul big time.

“Yes, your debt to me will be paid in full.” Paul will clear her debt to him.

“Okay, is this a good number to reach you at?” Casey was finally dressed and was leaving the hotel.

“Yeah, you can reach me at this number any time.”

“Alright, I’ll call you when I learn something. You take care, Paul.” Casey ends the call.

Paul dials another number. The person he was calling was part of the Scranton Wilkes-Barre family in Northern Pennsylvania. He hasn’t talked with Dominic for a long time. He dials his number and waits for an answer.

Bradford County, Pennsylvania:
Alice was getting a glass of iced tea for her father. He was outside working on his car and she was helping. The house phone starts ringing. She walks over and picks it up “hello?”

Paul was surprised a young girl answered the phone “Hello, I’m trying to reach Dominic Trovato. Is he available?”

“Can I ask who is calling?” Alice was told by her father to always ask who was calling.

“Tell him it’s Paul Romano from New York.” Paul knew Dominic only knew him from being from New York.

“Let me get my dad.” Alice takes the portable outside.

Paul didn’t know Dominic had a daughter. The last time he saw him, he was just made a Capo and had no kids. The young girl on the phone sounded young and couldn’t be Dominic’s daughter.

Alice walks out to her father with the tea and the phone “daddy, there’s a guy on the phone called Paul Romano from New York asking for you.”
Dominic looks up from under the hood and over towards Alice. He knew Paul from New York. It’s been several years since he has spoken to him.

“Bring me the phone sweetheart.” Dominic looks at his adopted daughter. It’s been four months since he found her and nursed her back to health.

Alice hands Dominic the phone and his tea. She’s been happy since Dominic rescued her. She stands nearby, just in case he needed anything.

“Hello, Paul?”

“Hey, Dominic. It’s been a while. I’m calling to cash in the favor you owed me.” Paul knew Dominic hated owing favors.

“What can I do for you, Paul?” Dominic wonders what Paul was going to ask.

“I need for you to check on a few things for me. I had an Indian assassin try to kill my children. I also had someone try to kill my wife. Can you see who put the hit out and see who picked it up, please?”

“No problem give me your number and email address so I can send the information to you.” Dominic pulls out a small notebook.

Paul gives Dominic his email and phone number. He was curious about the girl, but he and Dominic weren’t that close.

“Alright, give me a few days to get the information for you.” Dominic puts the notebook in his back pocket.

“Thanks, Dominic.” Paul ends the call.

Bullock and Running Bear looks at Paul “who were those people you called?”

“Friends of mine that owe me a favor. The first one, you know as Bloodflower. She uses different types of poison to punish her victims. The
second is Dominic Trovato. He is the Capo for the Scranton Wilkes-Barre family.”

“You know Bloodflower and Dominic Trovato? Both those people are wanted on numerous charges.” Bullock has seen both their records.
Bloodflower along was wanted in eight countries for killing over a hundred people. She never killed kids, but she did take the life of people who deserved it. She was known to use all sorts of deadly toxins and poisons found in nature.

Dominic Trovato has been arrested sixty-seven times and never convicted. No one has ever been able to make a case stick. He wasn’t a violent criminal, but he made sure he got the point across.

“You know both those people are wanted, don’t you?” Running Bear looks at Paul.

“I know and you would be a fool to go after them. First, they are my friends and I need their help. They have access to the information you would never get. Secondly, no offense to you Bullock and Running Bear, but what needs to be done falls outside of normal justice. You don’t put a hit on children. No hitman worth his salt would kill a child. The hitman that do take contracts for killing children are normally dealt with by people like me and Dominic.” Paul knew how Dominic felt about people who abused children. He has been known to put them in the hospital or worse.

“Alright, but keep us informed, please. You and Kat have been helpful to us and we want to help.” Bullock meant what he said.

After all of them being almost killed in that warehouse explosion in Memphis. He still felt responsible for almost getting them killed. He knows it couldn’t be helped, but he still felt responsible.

Marshal Bullock and Marshal Running Bear leave the hospital. Paul stays with his wife and holds her hand.

“I’ll get the one responsible for hurting you Kat, I promise.” He hated seeing Kat like she was.

Brittney and Terri arrive home with their bodyguards. Crystal was holding Brittney as they walked into the house. Terri was upset and wish she had someone like Crystal. She knew her sister would do anything for her.

Neither one of them were hungry. Luke stopped at one of his favorite restaurants to grab food for everyone. Valentina and Alexa were watching the girls. They could tell that they were upset. Alexa walks over to Terri and holds her. She remembered when Paul and Kat adopted her.

Now she would be a mother herself. She and her wife adopted that young girl they rescued. She holds Terri as she cries. Both girls’ cry themselves to sleep. Alexa takes Terri to her bedroom and undresses her. She slips Terri’s nightgown on her sleeping form.

“Sleep tight, pumpkin.” Alexa places a kiss on her forehead.

Crystal leads Brittney to her bedroom and manages to undress her. She lays Brittney down on her bed.

“Sleep tight, sweetie.” Crystal walks out of the bedroom and closes the door behind her.

Valentina looks at Crystal as she comes walking out of Brittney’s bedroom. Normally, Crystal would have crawled in bed with her.

“What, not laying down with your girlfriend?” Valentina had a teasing look about her.

“No, Brittney is upset about Kat. I know what it is like to have a parent in the hospital.” Crystal worried when her mother went into the hospital.

“I’m afraid what Paul is going to do. He’s pissed beyond words. First, someone tried to kill the twins and then tried to kill, Kat. I don’t recall ever seeing him that pissed before.” Crystal was looking at her teammates. They have been working for Kat and Paul longer then she has.

Tony looks at Kat’s team “I think he is going to war. I know if Kat was awake, she would be by his side.”

“You know Kat better than anyone, Tony.” Alexa looks at the man that was Kat’s childhood friend.

“That I do, and I know she has a mean streak in her that is a mile long. She’s calmed down since meeting Paul and becoming a mother.
However, attack her family or friends. She becomes the angel of vengeance.” Tony knew how vindicated, Kat could be.

“Do you think she would go as far as Paul would?” Alexa and Luke were curious about that.

“To a certain point. Kat was raised by a police officer. She knows when to cross the line and when not to. Although, lately she is getting closer and closer to crossing that line.” Tony has been watching his childhood friend.

He has seen some changes in her. He figured it was the jobs she took, but he wonders if its not only the job but her children as well. Was she trying to make the world safer by eliminating the dangers to her family and herself?

“All we can do is hope Paul doesn’t cross the line and hope Kat recovers from her operations.” Luke would hate to see Paul cross the line.

Knoxville, Tn. US Marshal Office:
Marshal Bullock and Marshal Running Bear had gone back to the office and was running the picture Kat sent them through the criminal database. They were also reaching out to people they knew.

Marshal Bullock dials a number he hasn’t dialed in a long time. He hopes she hasn’t changed her number.

Key Largo, FL.:
Jackie was laying outside on her lounger enjoying the breeze coming off the ocean. Her home was built on stilts after the flooding the place has suffered over the years. She had her top and bottom off as she tanned her slim athletic body.

Music was playing in the background as she enjoyed herself. Her cellphone starts playing Good Morning ringtone. Jackie picks it up and check who it was that decided to disturb her afternoon. She saw Marshal Bullock's name appear on her screen. She hasn’t heard from him in years.
She wonders what he wants now.

Jackie presses the accept button on her phone “good afternoon, Marshal. What can I do for you?”

Bullock was surprised when Jackie’s childlike voice came over his speaker. If he didn’t already know how old she really was, he would think he was talking to a twelve-year-old girl.

“Hi Jackie, I know its been a while since I have called you, but I need your help identifying an assassin.” Marshal knew Jackie had a database of ever assassin and agent that has ever lived.

People call her the Librarian. How she got their picture or information was unknown, but she knew everything about them and where they might be. Even if they changed their name and looks. How she does it, no one knew, and she never reveals how she finds the information.

“What’s the favor, Bullock?” Jackie wonders who she needed to find now.

“The last time she had to find someone for him, it almost cost her.”

“I need to find an assassin that went after some kids and went after a resource of mine. Do you think you might be able to find them?”

“Send me a picture of them, and I’ll see what I can do.” Jackie needed a picture of them or some sort of description of the person.

“I can send you one, but I don’t know what the other one looks like.” Bullock wishes he had a description of the person.

“Do you have anything that they have touched of their own?” Jackie knew it was harder to work with, but she could do it.

“I can get you a bullet that he touched.” Bullock figures he could get the bullet they removed from Kat’s chest.

“Alright, send me that and make sure it hasn’t been touched too much.” Jackie figures she could use it to locate the killer.

“Send it to your normal drop box?” Bullock wasn’t sure if she used the same dropbox.

“Yes. Once I receive it. I’ll let you know what I get from it.” Jackie slips her sunglasses on after a cloud passes by.

“Alright, I’ll send it by Federal Express to you.” As he jots down some notes.

“I’ll send you my bill like normal. Good day, Marshal.” Jackie ends the call.

Knoxville, Tn. US Marshal Office:
Running Bear looks over towards Bullock as he sets his cellphone on the desk. He wonders who he was talking too.

“Who was that you were talking too?” Running Bear was curious.

“The Librarian.” Bullock wanted to see if his partner ever heard of her.

“Who’s the Librarian?”

“Who she really is, no one knows. Her identity is unknown, but she is known to be able to get information on anyone she goes looking for. No one knows how she manages to do it, but she does. She can dig up information on people that they didn’t even know about themselves. A lot of Government agencies would love to get their hands on her and make her work for them. The problem is, by the time they find where she is living, she is gone. She leaves no traces that she has been at the location, except a note saying Bye-Bye! It's like she knows they are coming for her.” Marshal Bullock knew agents from several countries that had tried to grab her, and she managed to evade them.

“How did you find her?”

“I was working on a case and I received an anonymous message telling me to watch my back. One of the people I was protecting, was planning on killing everyone. The killer was playing us, so he could get close to the ones I was protecting. Turns out her message was spot on.
The killer missed me. I managed to take him down before he could try to kill me and the family I was protecting. After that, it seemed like she was looking after me and gave me a way to contact her.” Bullock still had the letter and instructions on how to contact her.

“So, you do know it’s a girl, then?” Running Bear caught that about the way Bullock talked about the person.

“Yes, I do know it’s a woman. She sounds like a teenage girl, but she isn’t.” Bullock was watching Running Bear.

“How do you know, she isn’t a teenage girl? You said no one knows anything about her.”

“Because I saw her once. She was dress like Carmen San Diego from the kid's cartoons. I couldn’t see her face, but she moved like a well-trained agent.” Bullock thought it was funny when he saw her. He never asked her why she was dressed that way, that day.

“That still doesn’t prove the person is female.” Running Bear knew people could disguise themselves to look like genetic women.

“How about a piece of DNA taken from her?” Bullock pulls out a clear baggy with three strands of hair inside.

“Are those her hair?” Now Running Bear figures they had something.

“Yes, she has true red hair, not dyed. She’s twenty-six years old and is of Irish and Welsh heritage. According to her DNA, she has green eyes
and is XY.” He had the DNA still attached to the hair follicle.

“So, we know she is a she and how old she is. Since she has never committed a crime before. Her DNA won’t be in the system.” Running Bear leans back in his chair.

“The thing is, every time someone enters it in the system. It disappears later. Even on the back-ups.” Bullock checked after they entered it.

“Then, that means she is a hacker and has access to our system.” Running Bear wonders if that is how she gets her information.

“The tech department monitored her file and it still managed to disappear without being accessed.” Bullock was still confused about how it happened.

“I don’t know then. Hopefully, your trust in her. Will be of some use to us.”

Jackie looks at the file she had of the man that had been captured in Kentucky. She ran his face through all the databases she had access to. The only one that had anything on this person, was in the immigration computer. He had entered the country through California. When she tried to access Interpol or the Indian government computers, there wasn’t anything on Mehta Singh, which was the name on the passport he had used.

According to the backtracking she had done, he had boarded a flight in Hyderabad, India and made his way to Walker, Kansas. According to the police record, she pulled up on him before she left home. He was being charged with assault, breaking and entering, first-degree murder. They had found three bodies just outside the perimeter of the private airfield.

She takes a sip of her sparkling water. As for the bullet Marshal Bullock sent her. That told her a different story. That assassin’s name was Rayshon Laghari and he had a lot of bad energies to him. That told her he had a lot of kills and ghost following him. Both men had a unique scar on their right hand. She drew a picture of him from memory to send to Bullock.

Jackie was on the way to visit Mehta Singh in Walker, Kansas jailhouse. As for the other assassin, he was still in Tennessee. She had felt that he was upset that his target wasn’t dead and was planning on trying again.

As for the person he tried to kill. She was fighting for her life. She touched the bullet. However, she does know for certain, the woman will overcome the battle going on inside her.

“How much longer before we land, Ralph?” Jackie moves up to the cockpit and looks out the front windshield of the cockpit.

“We’ll be landing in thirty minutes. Are we staying overnight?” Ralph looks at Jackie.

“Only for a few hours, Ralph. We’ll be flying back to Knoxville, Tennessee.” She had sent the text message to Marshal Bullock to warn him
about the second person and what his name was. She included the drawing she did of him. That way Bullock would have some type picture to pass along to law enforcement and the husband of the strange woman that had been attack. As for his location, she needed to be closer to locate where he was. As for his target, she suggested that they moved her and don’t let anyone near her that isn’t authorized. She didn’t know when he planned on attacking her again, but she got the feeling it would be soon.

Airfield, Walker, Kansas
Jackie’s private jet lands at Walker airfield. Her plane is met by the ground crew there. There was a car there waiting for her from the local sheriff department. While Jackie is gone, her pilot files a new flight path with the air tower to Tennessee.

August was outside the hangar watching as a flight landed at the airfield. She wonders who it was. As she was watching, one of the Sheriff’s patrol car pulls up to the parked plane. A person dressed in a black business suit walks out of the plane and gets into the patrol car.

August watches as the Sheriff’s car turns around and leaves the airfield. She only caught a glimpse of the passenger and saw that they had black hair. She wonders who the person was and who the plane belonged to.

August snaps a picture of the plane and head back inside the office and runs the number on the tail. It comes back as government owned. She leans back in her chair and wonders if the person she saw was FBI or NSA. She checks on the children and her sister. Rebecca and Lev have moved back into their place. Some friends of Rebecca’s father were securing the garage. No one was getting into this place again. Brutus and Titus were making sure of that. Titus was watching Rebecca’s kids in their bedroom and Brutus was watching Kat’s children. He stayed in their bedroom over at her place.

Sheriff’s Department, Walker, Kansas:
Jackie arrives at the Sheriff’s department and gets out. She follows the deputy sheriff inside the building. He takes her to meet Sheriff Gibson.

“Hey boss, FBI Special Agent Carol Connors is here.” Deputy Henderson steps aside to let his boss see Carol.

Sheriff Gibson looks at the petite black hair woman. She was dress in your typical FBI black suit and wearing dark shades. She wasn’t very tall and looked extremely young.

“Welcome to Walker, Kansas special agent Connors. I hope your flight was enjoyable.” Sheriff Gibson had been told by the FBI that an agent would be flying in to question the assassin he was holding.

“It was enjoyable, Sheriff. Has your prisoner said anything at all?” Carol could feel the assassin nearby and was planning his escape.

“No, ma’am. He hasn’t spoken a word and he has refused to eat any food we give him.” Sheriff Gibson wonders why he was being so stubborn.

“Do you mind if I talk with him?” Carol already felt she was going to have to rip the information from this person’s mind.

“I don’t think he’s going to talk, but your welcome to him.” Sheriff Gibson escorts Carol to the interrogation room.

The assassin was brought in and secured to the table. He had bandages where Brutus and Titus thought he was a chew toy. He looks at the short black hair woman sitting across from him.

“Hello, my name is Carol Connors and I’m with the FBI and I have some questions for you. Now, can you tell me your name and where you are from.” Jackie was watching and saw the answers when he thought it.

A smile appears on her face “can you tell me what this scar means on top of your right hand?”

The man said nothing, but she got it from his mind. She looks into his eyes and could tell he was thinking about killing her and everyone here in the sheriff’s department. Carol leans towards Mehta Singh “you can tell me your secrets, or I can rip them from your mind. If I rip them, you won’t like it, Mehta Singh.”

“I’ll tell you nothing.” Mehta gives her a death glare.

“Oh, you will tell me anything I want you too.” As she enters his mind and starts ripping thoughts from him.

Mehta Singh starts screaming as he feels her inside his head. He could feel her going into places no one should be allowed to go. He tries to keep her out of his mind, but she just breaks through. He falls forward onto the table with drool coming out of his mouth.

Carol leans back against her chair and got her breathing under control. She tore into his mind and took every thought she could from him about the assassination. She took where they were from and what the scar meant.

Her head was hurting a little, but she would get over it. She had every name of every victim he had gone after. She could see their spirits clinging to him.

Sheriff Gibson and one of his deputies were outside the interrogation room watching the FBI agent. He heard the agent ask him a question and then there was static and the next thing they saw and heard was the assassin screaming his head off like someone was killing him. All the FBI agent did was watch him.

After a few minutes, the assassin falls face forward towards the table. He had drool coming out of his mouth and the FBI agent writing some information down on a tablet. She sat back in her seat.

“What the hell just happened, sheriff?” The deputy couldn’t figure out what just happened.

“I don’t know, but I am going to ask.” He walks around to the door that leads inside the interrogation room and entered.

Sheriff Gibson walks into the interrogation room and looks at petite FBI agent Connor as she wrote down some information. He wonders where she got it.

“What the hell just happened?” Gibson just looks at her.

“I used hypnosis on him to get the information we need, Sheriff. Here’s the information he gave me.” Carol hands the paper she wrote to him.

Gibson takes it and looks over it. It had the person’s name, where he came from and what the scar on top of his right hand meant. It also listed that he was a member of an ancient assassin guild in India called Thuggees.

“Why would an assassin from India be trying to kill Mrs. Romano’s children?” Gibson couldn’t figure that out.

“Why do most assassins kill people, sheriff? They were more than likely paid a lot of money to do the job and since they aren’t from the states. None of the crime families or assassins here would know about it.” Carol knew more, but she wasn’t going to say.

“Did he say who hired him?” That information would be helpful.

“Unfortunately, no.” Carol had tried to get the information, but he didn’t know. He had been sent by his clan leader from the council.

Sheriff Gibson looks at Carol” you said you used hypnosis to get the information?”

“Yes, sir. It’s a new technique we are using. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t work.” Carol hopes he believes the explanation. She didn’t want to use her ability to make him forget what he saw or implant a memory.

“What caused him to scream as he did?” Sheriff Gibson was curious about that.

“Oh, that. I made him believe he was falling. He’ll be alright when he wakes up.” Carol was lying through her teeth. She knew when he comes around, he was going to have one hell of a headache.

“Alright, so when are your people coming to escort him out of my jail?”

“In a few days, after his case has been heard. Oh, one more thing Sheriff. It might be best to keep your eyes on this one. He was planning on escaping tonight.” Jackie does use a little bit of her ability to compel the Sheriff to take precaution.

“I’ll do that. If you’re done. I’ll have you driven back to the airfield.” Sheriff Gibson figures she would want to go back to wherever she came from.

The Deputy that brought Carol Connor from the airport, takes her back to the airfield. He drives her right up to her Learjet.

“You have a nice flight, Mrs. Connor.” Deputy Henderson watches as FBI Special Agent Carol Connor boards the Lear Jet.

“You have a nice night, Deputy.” Carol boards the plane and shuts the door.

“Ralph, take us to Knoxville, Tennessee please.” Jackie sits down in the chair she sat in when she arrived.

“Yes, ma’am.” Ralph starts rolling down the airstrip after getting the okay from the tower.

Once they were up in the air, Jackie grabs herself a flavored water and a snack to munch on. She looks over the notes she jotted down from being inside Mehta Singh mind. She doesn’t want to ever go inside another mind like his. He was sick, demented and only cared about his religion and money.

Jackie now knew what she had to do. She accesses the Indian government computers and goes looking through their black Op’s files. While digging through the files, she finds their listing of several different assassin or death squads that the government kept track of in their country. It takes a while to dig through the files but she finds the one she was looking.

“Ma’am. We're about to land. You might want to shut down all your electronics and fasten your seat belt.” Ralph gets instruction from the control tower to land.

Jackie looks at the time on her watch and couldn’t believe she has been at it for four hours. She shuts down her laptop after she gets the information. She checks the reservations she made for herself, under another one of her false identities.

Paul was pacing back and forth out in the hallway of Kat’s hospital room. Kat’s older sister was in there with her, helping the nurse give Kat a sponge bath. Kat had woken up and squeezed his hand before she fell back asleep again. The pain medicine she was on, kept her out so her body could heal.

Kristen comes walking out of Kat’s room. She spots Paul pacing back and forth. She walks over to him and lay her hand on his shoulder “she’s going to be okay, Paul. My little sister is tougher than a junkyard dog.”

“I know Kristen, it’s just I have never seen Kat looking so vulnerable, before. Your sister has always been hard to bring down. Even when she has a cold.” Paul was trying to be strong, but he was having a hard time controlling his anger.

“Just give her time, Paul and remain calm. I know you want justice as much as I and my brother do.” Kristen wanted the son-of-bitch who shot her sister brought to justice.

McGhee Tyson Airport, Alcoa, Blount County, Tennessee:
Jackie’s private Lear jet lands. She had made arrangement for herself and her pilot. She covers up a yawn as she exists from her plane. She goes up to Enterprise car rental to see if her car was ready. There was a young woman behind the desk. She looks up when she notices a red haired woman wearing a business suit standing at the counter.

“How can I help you, ma’am?” Julia couldn’t believe how young the woman before her looked.

“I’m here to pick up my rental. It’s under Rosie Ann Huckabee.” A playful smile appears on her face.

She had designed the identity so well, that if anyone did research on her. They would find that Mike Huckabee and some woman that he had an affair with was her mother. The woman Mr. Huckabee had seen uses to work for him. She had a social security card, birth certificate and the medical form the doctor recorded when and what time a child is born.

“Ah, yes. Here it is.” Julia pulls the reservation order.

She looks at it and notices it was for a 2017 Dodge Challenger. She checks her inventory and notices they had one waiting for her.

“All I need now is a copy of your driver license and you’ll be all set.”

Jackie pulls the driver license out and hands it to Julia. She also pulls her insurance card as well. She hands that to Julia as well.

Julia makes a copy of her driver license and insurance card and adds them to her file. Once she was done with copying the license and insurance card. She hands them back to Mrs. Huckabee.

“Your car will be waiting for you outside, Mrs. Huckabee and thank you for using Enterprise.”

“You have a nice day as well.” Jackie turns around and heads towards the exit. She spots the Black Dodge challenger pulling up.

“Here you go, ma’am.” A young man with black curly hair hands her the keys.

“Thank you and here.” Jackie gives the young man a twenty-dollar bill.

“Thank you, ma’am.”

Jackie just smiles as she drives off. She stops at a gas station on her way to her hotel and buys an old fashion map. Once she arrives at the hotel, she checks in and goes directly to her room.

Once inside her room, she set’s up her ritual supplies and lay the map out. Once everything was laid out. She takes a quick shower and walk into the room naked and begin chanting as she forms a circle and lights some incenses.

She takes a quartz crystal on a string and holds it over the map. Jackie wraps the bullet she had been giving with the string connected to the crystal and concentrate on the bullet and the person who held it.

She didn’t need to do this fact-finding the way she was doing it. However, since she studied Wicca. She found this to be the best way to gather her thoughts and focus her talent in locating the assassin she was looking for. She knows she is copying what they did on the show Charm. The crystal starts moving on its own when her ability locates the assassin.

She could see him watching the hospital, looking for the right opportunity to strike. He was making note of the people coming and going out of the hospital. Jackie opens her eyes and grab her laptop. She does a google map search of the hospital and spots on it where he was watching the hospital from.

“Gotcha, you son of a bitch.” She gets dress as fast as she can and blow her candles out.

Jackie runs out of the room and with her keys in hand and races over to where the assassin was watching the hospital. She knows she needs to get there as fast as she could. He wasn’t going to stick around much longer.

Nearby Building, Near Knoxville General Hospital:
Rayshon Laghari has been watching from the rooftop, ever since he learned that he hadn’t killed the cat lady. The past two days he has seen her husband come and go, along with several others that belong to her family. There was no way he could shoot her through the glass because she was put in a room with no windows.

The only way he could kill her was to sneak into the hospital and up to her room. He had spotted his way into the hospital, from a back entrance.

“It’s a nice view from here, isn’t it?”

Rayshon turns around when he hears a female voice. He spots a young woman with red hair and dressed in a black skirt business suit and two-inch heels looking at him. There was nothing in her hands, that he could see.

He pulls a curved knife and moves quickly to strike her. He brings his knife across her chest and up. He back slices across her throat, so he thought.

Jackie blocks the strikes towards her body, with a wooden dowel she always carries with her. It was made from Allocasuarina luehmannii, which is an ironwood tree native to Australia. She picked up several arm length dowels made from the tree.

She blocks his strike to her body. She slips a second one down from her sleeve into her other hand and starts striking back. She uses one to block his attacks while striking his fighting hand.

Rayshon couldn’t believe his strikes had been blocked by the red hair woman with only a dark wooden dowel. He was even more surprised as a second dark wooden dowel appeared in her hand and when she connected with his wrist. His dominant hand was smarting painfully where those dowels of hers had connected.

He feels the dowel connect with his hand and caused him to drop his karambit. He feels her connect with his other hand and cause him to drop the karambit he was holding. He drops to the ground when the woman knocks his legs out from under him.

“Now, you are going to tell me who you are and where you came. If you don’t, I am going to rip it out of your head.” Jackie looks down at the Indian man kneeling before her.

“నేను మీకు ఏమీ చెప్పను!” He just looks at Jackie.

“Okay, the hard way then.” Jackie didn’t know what he said, but she figured it was the same thing his friend said to her.

Jackie looks directly into his eyes and could see and feel him resist her. A smile appears on her face as she pushes harder against his mental barrier.

“I see you have had some training. It isn’t going to help you.” She pushes hard and breaks through his weak barrier.

She didn’t like what she was seeing and what he had done to people. Especially, what he did to several teenage girls that he had been hired to make an example of. She could feel her stomach roil as she tries not to throw up. The crimes he committed were unbelievable.

Jackie pulls out of his head. He didn’t know who hired him or the other assassin. All she got, was that he had been hired to kill Kat and bring her head back as proof. She looks at him “you know, I should do this world a favor and kill you. However, there is someone I think who will enjoy torturing you even more.”

Jackie pulls her cellphone out and dials Paul’s number. She got it from doing research on him. She’ll call Bullock afterward and tell him what she yanked from this guys head. That is if she can get the images she saw out of her head.

Knoxville General:
Paul was holding Kat’s hand when his cellphone starts vibrating. He glances at the display and it showed blocked number. He turns back to Kat and ignores it.

It starts vibrating again and showed a blocked number on the display. He picks the phone up and answers it “Hello?”

“Hello, Mr. Romano. You don’t know me, but I know all about you and your wife. I have the person that shot your wife and what he had planned on doing to her body. If you’ll come out to the back parking lot behind the hospital. I will turn him over to you, to do whatever you like to him.” Jackie felt that Paul should make that judgment.

“Why should I trust you?” Paul was suspicious.

“Because there isn’t anything in this for me, except information. I really don’t care if you meet me or not. I could just turn him over to Marshal Bullock but figured you would like to interrogate him first.” Jackie looks down at Rayshon.

She had zip-tied him and gagged him as well. She didn’t bandage his wounded hands. She figures Paul would like to have some fun first. She also left a mental command in his head to tell Paul whatever he wanted to know.

“Alright, I’ll meet you. This better not be a set-up or I will hunt you down.” Paul wasn’t in a nice mood.

“Promises, Promises.” Jackie ends the call.

She looks down at Rayshon “Now, how am I supposed to get you down for Mr. Romano to have his fun?”

Jackie picks him up and locates the rope he used to climb up the back of the building. She uses it to lower the two of them down and carry his body over to where she said she would meet Paul. She pull her mask up to cover her face and put her dark shades on to cover her eyes.

Paul rushes out of Kat’s room and takes the emergency stairs down to the ground floor. He rushes towards the back exit, where the ambulances pull in and out the door. He looks towards the back lot and spot two people. One had red hair and stood a little taller than Kat. The other one was Indian and was gagged and zip-cuffed.

“Are you the one that called me?” He walks towards her.

He could see that her eyes and face was covered up. He didn’t see any weapons in her hands. She was also wearing a skirt business suit.

“Yes, I called you. Here is the person responsible for shooting your wife. Do what you want with him. I leave that to your discretion. Oh, before I leave, you might want to ask him what he was supposed to do with your wife’s body to prove he succeed.” Jackie turns to walk off.

“Why are you helping me?” Paul looks at Rayshon and was already thinking about what he was going to do to him.

“I'm not. I’m helping Marshal Bullock. Good day, Mr. Romano.” Jackie heads towards her rental.

Paul looks down at Rayshon “now you are going to see what real pain is.”

Twenty minutes later, US Marshal’s Office, Knoxville, Tennessee:
Marshal Bullock was going over everything Jackie sent him when his cellphone starts ringing. He picks it and notices there was a text message on the display. It said, come to the garage, now.

He couldn’t believe Jackie was here in Knoxville. He looks over toward Running Bear.

“You better come with me.” As he gets up and heads towards the door.

“Why what’s up?” Running Bear gets up and follows behind Bullock.

“She’s here and wants to talk to us.” Bullock heads towards the elevator and takes it to the garage.

They get to the garage and look around.

“Over here, fellows.” Jackie spotted Bullock and someone who must be his partner with him.

Bullock and Running Bear walks in the direction of the voice.

“That’s close enough, fellows.” Jackie steps out of the shadows dressed like Carmen Sandiego. The long red trench coat and fedora hat and dark sunglasses.

“Back to your tricks, Jackie?” Bullock had a smile on his face.

“I figure, since we first met like this, that it would be appropriate for me to be dress like this. Also, this way you know it is me and not imposters.” A sly smile appears on Jackie’s face.

“If you say so. What do you have for me?” Bullock wonders what she had.

Running Bear was watching her and everything around them. He didn’t think this was a trap, but he didn’t want to risk it.

“It’s not a trap, Mr. Running Bear. I wouldn’t do that to someone I saved. As for why I am here, catch.” Jackie tosses underhand the flash drive she created.

Running Bear caught it. He notices it was a USB thumb drive.

“What’s on it?” Running Bear looks towards Jackie.

“Everything I took from Rayshon Laghari. There is some sick stuff in there. Trust me, that you shouldn’t go through that drive with a full stomach.” Jackie still couldn’t get those images out of her head. She shivers just thinking about it.

“Where is Mr. Rayshon Laghari?” Bullock was wondering about that.

“With someone who is going to make him talk or not. I would advise not to interrupt him. The man was supposed to send his wife’s head back
to India as proof she was dead. As for who put the hit out. You are going to have to go to India to find out. Neither assassin knew who commissioned the hit. All they were told was to bring Kat’s head and her children’s heads back as proof.” Jackie shivers again and feels her stomach ready to heave.

“So, we have to go to India to find out?”

“Yes. I might join you, just to collect information on the culture of the assassins. That is if you go. Also, you’ll have additional company. You’ll need to talk with Paul Romano once he has his fun.” An evil grin appears on her face.

“You know, you could have turned him over to us.” Bullock was a little disappointed Jackie hadn’t.

“You’re right, I could have. But, it wasn’t your wife or mother that was shot. Paul Romano needs to vent his anger before it destroys him. Now, since my time is up. Contact me if Mr. Paul Romano decides to go to India.” Jackie turns and disappears into the shadows.

Running Bear looks at Bullock “should we stop him?”

“No, let him get the information, we were handed.” Bullock starts heading back to the elevator.

Running Bear follows behind him.