Pain Brings Love
Disclaimer: I do not know Leland Chapman, his family or anyone associated with Da Kine Bail Bonds, Dog the Bounty Hunter or A&E. I have no association with Degrassi, its production, characters or crew (although if I did things would have been quite different).
A/N's: This is an older man/younger woman story, and has some ****TRIGGER WARNINGS**** I'm sure you could have assumed given the title. This story and any characters not associated with Dog the Bounty Hunter or Degrassi are my own, but the idea is not exactly. It is a combination of things that came from Dog the Bunty Hunter episodes, my best friend's Degrassi stories, and a fanfiction writer named badwolf1988 who I am currently beta-ing stories for who has become a friend, a number of which are Leland or Duane Lee stories.
I am not a person with a lot of specific medical knowledge and although I try to make my stories realistic and tried to research, its been difficult, so I am writing the medical stuff to fit the story.
Although it's been erased from public access, Leland actually did own part of Da Kine Bail Bonds at one time just like this story mentions.
Leland was married to Maui and had Leiah with Lynette but Jamie does not exist. I changed a little of the dynamics for the story, including that he is currently renting a place on Oahu.
I also played around with the timeline of Dog the Bounty Hunter episodes/family life. Go with it.
Clare and Eli broke up in high school
Clare dated Drew, but there was no sex, pregnancy or cancer
Darcy's background is taken from Degrassi history, but not word for word.
In this story Clare was born Oct 1994 making her 17 at the beginning
Chapter 1: Bounty Hunting
June 18, 2012
Leland's POV
"Ok, today we are going after Michael Weineki. What's his date of birth Baby Lyssa?" my dad asked as the camera guys walked around the office filming us for another 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' episode.
I sat at my desk as Baby Lyssa answered, waiting for my dad to ask me the guy's age. "32," I responded when the question came. Dad continued asking questions and I looked the guy up on my computer to memorize his face. The guy had been arrested on drug and abuse charges. I heard the phone ring before we could leave the office and my step-mom Beth answered.
Lately I was annoyed at Beth and my dad for the fighting and ultimately the firing of my older brother Duane Lee from the family business. At first, I quit in solidarity, but after talking to Duane Lee and thinking about my kids, it didn't last long. I really love what I do despite the drama. Recently dad had brought our friend Sonny in again to help be the muscle we were lacking without Duane Lee. Dad and Beth had also started showing my little sister Cecily, who had recently graduated from high school, about bail bonding and bounty hunting.
"That was the co-signer on this case saying he wants off the bond, and that he had sent in a letter explaining why. Apparently, he just returned home to the islands and is currently at a place known for drugs, and multiple people, and believes there are guns too," Beth announced after hanging up. Guns made me nervous about Cecily and Lyssa, but I couldn't let that get to me.
We all geared-up and headed out to meet the co-signer, all making sure we had non-lethal weapons, including my pepper-ball gun. We grabbed hands and dad prayed in the parking lot before we left.
We met the co-signer, Owen, downtown near the house he thinks Michael is at. Although I was listening, I pulled my sisters aside trying to get away from the cameras. "I want you both to be especially careful if this place does have guns," I said. I know Lyssa could handle herself quite well by this point, but after losing Barbara Katie so young I always tried to look out for my siblings, especially the girls.
I focused in on the conversation again. "I didn't know until he was in California that he left the state. I am a newly-wed and leaving Africa to live in Hawaii this past year was quite the jump so it's taken some getting used to. But before the wedding and him leaving I had seen him at this place a few times and people going in and out like it's a drug house. I saw one guy with a 9mm and one with a shot gun I think, although I never saw Michael at those times."
Owen's POV
I couldn't believe that after all I tried to do for my cousin, including inviting him to my wedding, he had left the state and me high and dry. My wife Darcy and I could lose our new home. I remembered where Michael used to hang out and went by last week. It definitely looked like a drug house now and one guy even stood on the porch with a gun. I drove by on my way home from work today and saw Michael's car. I didn't even know he was back in Hawaii. I had sent a letter to the bail bonds company owned by Dog, Beth and Leland Chapman when I found out Michael had left Hawaii but hadn't heard anything yet. I just couldn't help Michael anymore.
"I saw Michael's car at the old place," I told Darcy when I arrived home.
"Call Dog and Beth so they can help and you can get off the bond," Darcy encouraged. While we had been enjoying life as a married couple, we had learned from Darcy's step-brother Jake, that while visiting him at his home in California after our wedding their younger sister Clare had gone missing this week.
"Hello," Beth answers. We talk and I explain the situation and tell her I sent a letter about getting off the bond. She asks to meet me so I can point out the house I saw his car at today. I didn't tell Beth my family issues, just that there are some I need to focus on. I really needed to focus on my marriage and helping Darcy and Jake find Clare.
"So, I'm going to meet Dog, Beth and the team to point out the house," I tell Darcy when I am off the phone.
"Please be careful," Darcy tells me as she gives me a hug and I pull her in tight to me. "I can't lose you too," she says starting to cry.
I kiss her nose and then her lips. "I promise I'll be safe," before I head out. I reach my destination in about 20 minutes and speak to Beth and Dog when they arrive. Its decided I'd ride in Leland's SUV with him, Baby Lyssa and Sonny. We arrive in about 15 minutes. I tried calling Michael on the drive. He finally answered but refused to talk to me for long. I heard a girl scream and another male voice before Michael hung-up. Leland informed the others when I told him and Lyssa.
"Ok, I'm dropping you off here. You need to visibly see Michael before you signal," Leland reminded me as I got out and he drove away. As I knocked on the door I was incredibly scared, even after my time at the ravine as a kid and living in Africa, but I was doing this for my family… even Michael because he needs help, I reminded myself as the door opened.
"Who are you?" a guy asked.
"I'm looking for Michael, I'm his cousin," I greeted trying to keep down the fear. I noticed the guy had on baggy pants, no shirt and a joint hanging out of his mouth.
"Hang on," he slurred walking away. He left the door open so I started to follow. I noticed a girl in barely anything asleep or passed out on the living room couch. I began looking around a little and noticed all the doors were closed. I could hear some voices and saw the house looked pretty gross, and smelled worse.
I heard pounding steps and "you let him in you idiot?" from upstairs. Suddenly I saw Michael with the first guy trailing behind but what pulled my focus was the gun in his waistband.
"I'm sorry I bothered you Michael, I saw your car back and just wanted to check in," I rushed out the door signaling Beth. Michael grabbed my shirt, but I ripped away from him quickly and saw Leland. Michael must have seen Leland too, because although he had a gun when I saw him, he shut the front door. I moved out of the way to make room for Dog and Sonny. Leland raced to the back and I stood near Cecily at the corner of the house. "He had a gun," I warned Cecily, who warned everyone over the radio.
While Dog and Beth, dealt with the first guy, and a second that appeared there, many curse words sent both ways, I noticed Michael at a window Cecily and I could see.
Using the radio, Cecily warned, "he's climbing out a window," moments before Leland said there were a bunch of girls running out the back door.
Dog, Sonny and a cameraman, raced past us toward the window, and I saw Beth run the other way, I assume to help Leland deal with the situation out back. Being the only ones near the front I saw Cecily move toward the front door with her pepper-ball gun in hand. She warned me to stay back a bit since I wasn't armed and had no training. I stayed back a little, but near her just in case.
Thankfully no one came out the front and very soon Dog and Sonny were walking a screaming, cursing Michael out toward the driveway. I could see Dog holding the gun in his hand. A camera man followed close behind. All of a sudden another vehicle pulled up and a guy got out wearing a vest and badge, and saw the trouble Dog and Sonny were having as Michael did everything he could to fight them.
"Baby Lyssa called saying Beth asked for my help and I was close by," he commented when Dog noticed him, and went in to help hold Michael.
"Thanks for coming, we've missed you brother," Dog said. "Good call on getting Youngblood here Beth," Dog said over the radio.
Leland's POV
I stood for a few minutes at the back of the house. I could see Cecily and Owen near the driveway and I knew dad and Sonny were dealing with the situation up front.
All of a sudden, multiple girls, most in next-to-nothing, the others in sweats, all started running out the back door into the fenced in yard and I could hear crying. At the same moment Cecily said over the radio that Michael was climbing out a side window. "There's multiple girls coming out the back door," I called over the radio. I wanted to help catch Michael, but these girls looked petrified and some looked high from what I could tell with the few lights on under the night sky. Beth and baby Lyssa appeared quickly.
While I tried to help, Beth and baby Lyssa were able to calm a few of the less troubled girls enough to get some information. I was happy to know only Michael and two other guys were currently here. What troubled me most was hearing the words, kidnapping, rape and prostitution. It had been years but my mind immediately went to the Andrew Luster case.
"I know this isn't our normal routine, but I asked Lyssa to call Youngblood, because we need to get these girls help and some of them want to charge the other guys in the house," Beth said brining me back to the present. I heard swearing and yelling from Dad and another voice, I assume to be Michael, before I turned, noticing a gun pointed out the back door toward my family and these girls.
"Duck," I yelled shooting my pepper-ball gun at the door. I raced toward it and grabbed the guy's arm to make him drop the gun, handcuffing him behind his back quickly. I looked to Beth who raced up grabbing him, handing me her pink cuffs. The second guy never got the chance to move.
"Lyssa, call the police," I heard Beth say.
"Good call on getting Youngblood here Beth, where are you and Leland?" dad called over the radio.
"Leland, Lyssa and I are in the back. We have two guys handcuffed back here that both need to be charged and taken away so we can deal with the other situation back here," Beth answered. "Duane, please come take these guys. Cecily when these guys are out front I need you to come to the backyard," Beth commented kindly.
Dad came to the back and he and I each lead one of the guys out front. Thankfully I noticed Michael was already in a vehicle. We quickly got the other two washed of the mace and situated in other vehicles, apart from each other, after searching them. Both just had ice and oxy, but no weapons.
I could see Youngblood with 1 guy, dad and Sonny with Michael since he was the one we had been after and I stayed with the last guy. Even sitting with dad, I had heard Michael cursing out Owen from inside the SUV with the windows closed.
"What's your name?" I asked.
"Darrell," he responded.
"So's what going on?" I tried to be like my dad and help this man before he went to prison and work on my own courage in talking to people.
He stayed silent for a moment before speaking. "Michael and I had been friends for years. We always had fun and got into some trouble. Got busted for drugs and such, but in the last six months or so he got in with these guys," he said before pausing.
"Do you know them brah?" I asked trying to get him to continue.
"I never talked to them. They would call Michael or he would call them. Michael, me and a few friends would hang out here doing pot, and had for years, but after meeting these guys it soon became ice and girls started hanging around. I didn't think much of it, but the girls Michael has been bringing back lately seem younger than the ones a few months ago. And a few certainly aren't professionals like he said," Darrell commented, and I don't even think he could get what he was saying.
"So, Michael told you all these girls were hookers or here for drugs and you didn't question it?" I asked, almost fearing the answer.
"My girl left me a while back, I was just happy to get high and laid," he said leaning back in his seat beginning to put together what he was involved in as I noticed a few police cars and ambulances pull up so I got out of the car.
I quickly explained the situation with the guys, the girls out back, and what I was just told. I helped an officer move Darrell to a cruiser as 2 officers and EMTs headed out back.
"We need to get these girls checked out and check the house," Beth said over the radio. I followed the police to the back.
"We can check the house," Lyssa suggested, so Cecily, Lyssa and I headed inside, all still carrying our non-lethal weapons.
I was almost finished my second room on the first floor, and so far only found drugs when Cecily called on the radio. "Shit, Lyssa, Leland get upstairs to the last room quickly!" I raced up the stairs with Lyssa right behind me thinking Cecily was hurt, but what we found was incredibly shocking, which is tough to do in our business. Thankfully, Cecily was only scared.
"Oh shit," I muttered, and in that moment I wanted to kill Michael Weineki and Andrew Luster. I was still for a moment, just staring at the face of the girl on the bed. Her eyes were closed, but her hair and lips were beautiful, but I needed to be careful, she looked quite young.
"Leland, she needs help," Lyssa said as she took out her phone to take photos of the scene. I'm glad my sister was thinking clearly. I also realized one of our camera guys had followed us up, but I noticed he stepped out of the room after realizing the situation.
I knelt down beside the girl's body as Lyssa finished taking photos. "Cecily find a blanket so we can keep her warm please, and be careful of the guns," I said, noticing the room was full of them. "Lyssa, put on gloves and see if you can help me get these knots undone," I said. Even though the girl's eyes were closed, I kept my eyes on my task or her face so they wouldn't wander to other parts of her body that weren't covered. Lyssa and I with some help from Cecily, since none of us had knives, untied the ropes holding the young girl to the bed.
"We need EMS with a stretcher at the back door and police to investigate this as a full crime scene," I said into the radio, not knowing if Michael, Darrell and the last guy were gone yet.
"The other rooms up here looked almost the same, but without the girls," Cecily commented and I nodded at my sister.
With the ropes undone, I took the blanket Cecily found and I wrapped her in the blanket and started carrying her down the stairs. I didn't want to let her go, but I placed her on the stretcher when we got outside. "She does have a light pulse, and we know there's drugs in the house," I told them. Some police officers headed in when we were out, and I walked with my sisters and this girl.
We got to the front yard and I noticed the cars with the guy were gone. I was just about to speak to Beth as the EMTs took the stretcher toward an ambulance when Owen spoke up. "Clare?! Oh shit, Clare!" he finished in a yell running toward the still unconscious girl.
I grabbed him and held him back. "Owen," I said trying to calm him slightly. He is a bigger guy and seems strong, but being a bounty hunter and a boxer, I was stronger. My heart plummeted for a moment when I realized he knew her. He turned around and I could see the unshed tears in his eyes.
"Owen, how do you know that girl?" asked Beth. By this point our whole team was gathered together since the police had taken the guys to jail.
"She's my sister-in-law. We found out last week she went missing while visiting her step-brother in Cali," he said. "I need to call Darcy," he said while frantically pulling out his phone. I couldn't help but smile, not at Owen's or Clare's pain but learning they are related.
While Owen was on the phone with a woman I assume to be his wife, we stepped away from him slightly. And I realized that as much as Beth likes drama she knew to give Owen's family privacy by stopping the rest of the film crew from filming. The ambulances had taken Clare and the other six girls to the hospital. "What happened?" Youngblood asked and everyone looked at me.
"Cecily, Lyssa and I were checking the house to make sure there were no more issues. Cecily got on the radio calling for me and Lyssa and we thought she was hurt. We raced upstairs and found Cecily in a bedroom full of guns and Clare tied naked on the bed, unconscious."
Owen and a police officer approached as I finished. "Lyssa took photos of the scene, but Clare needed help, and I didn't think it could wait, not knowing why she was unconscious, so as soon as she was untied we covered her in the blanket and brought her down," I explained why I moved her.
"Leland has always been our first aider if there were injuries," dad explained proudly patting me on the shoulder.
