Speeding across the freeway Joe says.

"My mom is going to kill us!"

"Not if we`re dead already." Devin replies.

Glancing down at his wife and then back at the road Joe asked.

"What?"

"The way you're driving."

"My mom told us to be early!"

"Well Joe, your mom knew we were flying in from work, there was a delay, it happens."

"Yeah, that`s why we should`ve flown in last night, this isn't some family dinner, we`re trying to make sure the person that kidnapped and held us hostage isn't leaving her padded room anytime soon." Joe explained.

"But we didn't, so by you speeding, you`re not only endangering my life AGAIN, but you`re endangering the people around you AGAIN, which is only going to get you three results, a ticket, in jail because you`re not going to just take the ticket like a normal person, or three in a grave and I`m not trying to die at 32 Leati."

Checking to see if he could get over as he continued to speed almost like he didn`t hear anything his wife had said Joe asked.

"Can we save your b***hyness for later, there are a thousand and one things going on in my head right now I don't have time for this?"

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Pulling the door open for his wife Joe and Devin both walk into the somewhat quiet court room besides the witness and occasionally Joe`s mom and Devin`s sister talking the room was quiet, you could hear a pen drop.

Sitting in the first row right behind the wooden fence that was directly behind Joe`s mom and Devin`s sister Jessica Joe leans forward to whisper something to his mom when his mom rudely throws her hand up.

"My Mom, dad and my two aunties Rocky and Rachel were in the kitchen, while my little brother my two little sisters, my cousin and I were upstairs, my brother and my youngest sister were in their room sleep and the rest were in my cousin's room- or in my room I don't really remember exactly where we were, I just remember we were in a room playing." JoJo explained.

"Then what happened?" Jessica asked.

"The door bell rung, I got up to tell Mama or Daddy someone was at the door, but by the time I got to the stair case Mama was already at the door, and it was Jazmine, she said she was daddy`s daughter so mama called daddy and he closed the door in Jazmine`s face while Mama, Auntie Rachel, Auntie Rocky and Daddy went back and forth on what to do, that`s when daddy walked away and saw me at the top of the stair case and told me to go back to the room."

"Thank you, sweetie, that`s all for now." Jessica says.

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"On the evening of December fifteenth I responded to a call from a Rachel Orton and a Raquel Good, I originally spoke to a Rachel Orton but you could tell she was a little frantic, so I asked if there were any one else I could speak to and that`s when she passes the phone to Raquel, who was bothered as well but I was able to understand what she was saying versus what Rachel was saying. Raquel explained how they felt like their friend Devin Anoa`I, her four children and her niece lives were in endangered, they had spoken to her earlier and the conversation left off a little sketchy an hour or two later they tried calling her back a few times and she didn't answer, she had called her friend Devin`s husband Leati Anoa`I and spoke with him about his wife and they mentioned that she hasn't been answering the phone and Leati had mentioned that he had a phone call from the dna place saying that Jazmine had altered the results to come back saying she was his daughter." The police officer explained.

"Can you tell us what happened when you arrived?" Jessica asked.

"We went into the house, the front gate was open ,by what I understand is always locked, the front door was open, no one was inside, the alarm was going off, the door I assumed to be where the kids had been hiding in had been kicked in and the window was wide open, I had called for backup and for the place to be finger printed because of what had happened the week before, by the time we had gotten outside they were walking out of the woods down the street, Devin had been shot multiple times, once in the shoulder and once in the leg and had to be rushed to the hospital and the children were severely shaken, Galina looked like she hadn't eaten in months she too looked like she was shaken up a bit."

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"We had to rush her immediately into surgery, the bullet went through the shoulder and traveled down to her spleen, there was a lot of internal bleeding as well as outer bleeding." The surgeon explained.

"But you were able to stop the bleeding am I correct?" Jessica asked.

"Yes, we were able to stop all the bleeding, but we had to remove her spleen which means for her she`s not allowed to get sick, a normal cold for us would be like walking pneumonia for her which could result in death for her." The surgeon continued.

"I see, and the police file you said and I quote 'I had to revive her' am I right?"

"Yes, you are."

"Can you explain what happened?"

"We had to revive her once when the suspect had snuck into her hospital room and strangled her with a cord until she went unconscious and she dug her knee into her spine that she injured years prior."

"Galina Becker- she was one of the victims, explain to the court and I what she was like when they brought her in." Jessica says.

"Judging by her records, Galina Becker had lost crazy amount of weight after- Jazmine kid napped her and refused to feed her she also suffered from psychological damage."

"What were the children like when they were brought in?"

"The children were all afraid, she was going to come back and hurt them, they all but mostly the little boy woke out of their sleep several times screaming, it was also on record that Jennifer Lobdell had an allergic reaction to fruit a couple of months earlier which turns out was given to her by Jazmine knowing she was deadly allergic to fruit."

"What was Joe like when he came in?"

"The father who was said to be the target from the beginning seemed a little shaken but there was no sign of any physical damage or mental damage his top concern was to get back to his family."

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Pacing back and forth in his mom's office an upset Joe says.

"Mom, I told you we didn't want our kid`s to take the stand."

"Leati you don't get to tell me how to do my job!" Patricia replied.

"And you don't get to go behind my back and do the exact thing I told you not to do!" Joe shouted.

"Lower your voice!" Sika said challenging his son.

Joe takes a deep breath and says.

"Mom…"

Cutting him off Patricia explains.

"Joe, you weren't there when I told you to be, it was either JoJo or the judge drop the case before we get to the trial even begun."

Joe sighs and says.

"So, what now?"

"We wait until the judge lets us know if we have enough evidence to go to trial." Jessica answered.

"And how long will that take?" Devin asked.

Patricia shrugs and says.

"Any day now."

Sitting on the corner of his mom`s desk Joe asked.

"And their okay with it going every other day instead of every day- you know if we do go to trial?"

"Yeah, the judge is fine with it if the defenders are."

"And they are?" Joe questioned.

"Yeah, they feel like they owe us one, because Devin wrote that letter asking if Jazmine could be put in a mental hospital instead of her waiting in a jail cell." Patricia explained.

Arching her eyebrow Jessica asked.

"Why did you do that?"

"One her mom wrote me a letter and…."

Cutting her sister off Jessica said

"And that`s when you should have sent her a picture of the gunshot wounds her daughter gave you."

Joe just stood there sending her disapproval glares as he shook his head.

Throwing her hands up in defense Devin said.

"Listen, here me out, what her mom was saying made a lot of sense, not that I really cared what would help her or her mother but the more that I thought about it, I realized there is clearly something mentally wrong with that girl, she wasn't just bitter and evil, no she was all that and more, there was something seriously wrong with her, not that it`s my problem, but look at it this way, she goes to prison and she gets no help so she`s sitting in there plotting revenge, we all know what a great actress Jazmine is, she acts good for a while and gets out on good behavior and all of that psychoticness mixed with a little bit of bitterness, anger, evilness and all of that time on her hand can you imagine what she would do- the fear we would be at, now if she was in a mental hospital she would be getting the help that she needs and she`s on medication so she`s thinking rationally, I don't know about you but nothings scares me more than a psychotic person plotting, so by default the mental hospital sounded a whole lot better."

"I mean, when you say it like that!" Jessica says.

"Shhh, the phone." Patricia says answering the phone.

"Mom who is it?" Joe asked.

Patricia puts her fingers to her lips.

"Uhuh.."

"Mom!" Joe calls again.

Patricia swats her son.

"Alright thank you, okay bye."

"I`m afraid to ask who that was." Devin states.

"It was the judge." Patricia says.

"And?" Devin asked.

"We can go to trial."