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A/N: Thank you to all who have taken the time to review Chapter 1. Reviews good or bad, are always welcome.

Chapter 2

Don arrived back at the FBI office in a bad mood. David and Colby picked up on it and tried to stay out of his way. They knew that he was just at the Craftsman, and that Charlie was supposed to leave today. From Don's mood, they figured Charlie hadn't agreed to stay behind and help with the case.

Don stood up to leave his desk and motioned to Colby to come over. "Colby watch for an email from Charlie. I have to go talk to the Assistance Director about this case."

Colby brought the file he was reading with him and sat at Don's desk to wait for Charlie's email. When Don came back 45 minutes later there was still no email. Colby quickly returned to his own desk as Don was grumbling about kid brothers who couldn't do what they were supposed to on time.

The phone on Don's desk rang. "Hi dad, I was hoping you were Charlie, I still haven't received an email from him yet."

"I know Don, Charlie sent it to me. He thought it would be safer that way." Alan knew Don would be annoyed. When he'd spoken to Charlie, he'd understood why Charlie hadn't wanted to send his results to Don's computer.

"What? Why would he do that? If he's mad at me, this is a very childish way of showing it." The anger was evident in Don's voice.

"Don, listen to me for a moment instead of getting mad and you'll understand. Charlie tried to call you but your voice mail picked up. He didn't want to use the office line in case someone heard. His equation found the leak in your office to be one of the computer techs. He figures the guy's been monitoring your email and maybe your calls. Then warning the drug gang before you can get to them."

Don calmed down considerably after realising he'd had his cell off during the meeting and hadn't turned it back on. "What's the name of the tech?"

"Roger Ward. Call me when you have him and I'll forward the email on." With that Alan hung up.

Don told David and Colby about the email then headed back to the Assistance Director's office to fill him in. When he came back he and Colby went to the tech department to question Roger Ward.

Don took Roger into the interrogation room. He slapped the file on the table, "Two dead agents! It seems you've been leaking information from this office. These deaths are on you. Best you cooperate and tell me about it."

Roger smiled, "So Charlie finally figured out it was me. That's too bad for him. I'm not telling you anything." From Roger's defiant attitude Don could tell he'd get nowhere with him. He left to talk to David who'd called Alan as soon as they had Roger in custody. After viewing the email David had a SWAT team suited up and ready to go.

Telling David what Roger said made Don realize that maybe Charlie had been right, and getting out of town was the best thing right now.

The raid on the gang's operation went smoothly. Within 30 minutes of receiving Charlie's email, they'd arrested everyone except a couple of enforcers that were not there when the raid took place.

"We'll pick them up later. Get an APB out on them right away." Don was pleased that everything had gone so well and decided to call Charlie and tell him. Also he planned to smooth over the argument they'd had earlier. He figured that by now they'd be half way to Bakersfield. After turning his cell back on, Don tried to call Charlie but it went straight to voice mail. Must still be mad at me Don thought.

Just as Don was putting away his cell, he realise the voice mail light was flashing. Looking at the phone he saw that he had two voice mails from Charlie. Smiling, he thought, good, maybe Charlie was apologising and he wouldn't have to.

The first voice mail was the one from earlier telling him about Roger Ward. The second voice mail had Don suddenly running towards his SUV.

"Don we need help. There's a car trying to run us off the road. It's a blue SUV like yours, licence plate starts with 249, I'll try…"

Don stared at his phone in shock. The call ended abruptly with what sounded like two gun shots followed by a crash.

Waving at David and Colby to join him, Don jumped into his SUV. "David. Get a trace on Charlie's cell phone, now! I just got a voicemail from him. It sounded like they were shot at and run off the road. Colby call my dad. See if he's heard from Charlie in the last quarter of an hour. The call to my voice mail was made ten minutes ago." Don was already speeding towards the highway to Bakersfield with lights and siren going.

David hung up from talking to the tech at FBI headquarters. "Don, they can't trace Charlie's phone. It must have been damaged in the crash. I told them to try tracing his laptop, but that will take longer and it may have been damaged as well."

"Damn," Don said. Charlie's little Prius wouldn't be a match for something the size of an SUV.

Colby was still talking to Alan, asking when he had last heard from Charlie. "Okay, hang on a minute Alan." Covering the phone Colby asked, "Do you want me to tell him about the voice mail?"

"Yeah I guess so. Find out who was driving." Don knew that his dad would be mad if he didn't tell him what was going on.

Colby put his phone on speaker so Don could hear, then told Alan about Charlie's message. "We're heading towards Bakersfield now to try and find them. Who was driving?"

"Oh my god," Alan said breathlessly. "Larry was driving. He rented a bigger car as he thought the Prius was too small. Amita went with them. I'm going to head out too."

"No Alan. You need to stay there in case one of them calls. We'll call as soon as we know something." Colby closed his cell and had to grab on to something as Don took a corner at top speed.

"I thought Amita was staying home. David, see if the techs can trace Amita's cell." Don needed to concentrated on his driving because of the speed he was going at, but he thought it should only take 30 minutes to catch up to them.

TBC

A/N: I'll try to post Chapter 3 tomorrow but it may be Thursday.