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Jo just stood there shocked of what Henry just told her, she could not believe she was related to the Spanish Shadow.
She wasn't the only surprised by the news, Hanson and Lucas both were shock as well to hear the Jo was related to that monster.
Henry didn't stop there and continued on tell her about the DNA and said " Jo and mostly likely this man is your father because the DNA sequence 50 % of your DNA exactly matches his and that."…before he could say anymore Jo put her hand up to stop Henry and said almost annoyed said
"I get it Henry; I'm a cop I know about that and not really in the mood for a lesson right now."
Hanson and Lucas decided that was enough to call it a day for them and they both said their goodbyes and told Jo to keep them updated on the case.
Henry got up from his seat at his desk and came around the front where Jo was and grabbed her hands and said softly "Jo, I didn't mean to upset you, I just thought you should know."
"Henry, its fine I'm not upset at you, it's just a lot to take in" Jo said as she took a deep breath and squeezed Henry's hands.
Henry still holding on to Jo's hands and curiously asked "If I may ask, Did you mom ever mentioned your father?"
"No, she always told me she was a bit wild back then, so she didn't know who my father was but she did have a thing for bad boys." Jo said just trying hold back all emotions that she could.
"I never really asked her because I didn't want to pry because she seemed like she never wanted to talk about and she died a couple years so I can't ask her now." Jo continued.
Henry wanted to lighten the mood so he curiously asked "So your mother had things for bad boys, what phase did you go through Jo?"
Jo let out a chuckle even though she was still a little shaken up about the discovery of her father and said "Ohhh, you want to know about young me. Yes, I had wild phase where I didn't want to listen to anybody and dated the wrong guys because my mother hated them but then I realized that I was probably heading down the same path my mother went with men and got realistic about who I dated."
"I think I have a phase right now, I like dating 200 yr old men who are immortal." Jo said with a smirk at Henry.
Henry smiled and pulled Jo close to him and wrapped his arms around her waist and said with a flirty tone "You must really like this phase since you are about to marry that 200 yr old man."
Jo put her arms around his neck and said in a playful tone " Oh, Very much."
Then Jo kissed him and laughed when Henry tried to take it deeper in public and just playfully hit him to stop.
Then Henry made a little fake mad face and then said "Alright, Alright."
Then Jo let go of Henry and said "I'll call you tomorrow with the rest of guys and tell you the plan."
"Alright, Be careful, Jo. " Henry said worried.
Jo smiled and said "I will, Henry."
Then Jo went to her house and she ordered some Chinese takeout, ate and then starting packing clothes and documents to the TMT case then she headed to a hotel and checked in there.
Jo just had a feeling that she would have FBI, Cops and whoever else tearing apart her home because of the Spanish Shadow so she thought it was best to leave before it happens.
Once Jo was in her hotel room which was nice but was an average size room with a big bed, TV, and had a nice view of the city from the big window the room had.
Jo watched some TV to just get her mind off everything a bit but then after a while she had to get back to the case and just think of what her next move was going to be.
Jo grabbed a pen and notepad from her bag and started to make a list of everything she knew about this TMT case.
TMT Case
· Had Troy killed looking into Marcus situation
· Marcus sold drugs for them and knew a lot about their operations secretly
· Nash was somehow of part of their drug trade
· Both killed because talked to police
· Spanish Shadow – no name yet or face but is my father
· Bow tie guy- Marcus said he's about 5 ft 9, white, wears oval glasses and has a limp when he walks
· Warehouse by the MP dog park one of their main spots and where they killed Nash- Not anymore probably
· Targeted Henry
· Got me fired and as prime suspect in Nash's and Marcus Murders
· Has something to do with the financial firm FTD industries
· Spanish Shadow has ties to everything media, cops, politicians
Jo was trying to think of anymore she could add to the list which lead her to re-read Marcus letter again and saw that he gave her the name of the his friend who got him with the Spanish Shadow drug dealings and he told her where she could find him.
Then Jo added to the list
· Bernard Lock- Knows of the Spanish Shadow operations and is long time dealer for them- How much does he knew though?
Jo circled it and then just put the list in her bag and decided to end this long day and head to bed.
Then the next morning, Jo went back to her place and just like she thought, there they were the FBI and cops all surrounding her place and all in her house. Jo went past the crime scene tape and was going in her house before one of the cops stopped her.
"Ma'am, I can't let you in here. This is a crime scene and only cops and FBI is allowed." The cop said as had his hand up to stop Jo.
Jo annoyed said "Well, this crime scene is my home that the cops and FBI are tearing apart and I am allowed to take some pictures with me."
The cop sensing Jo was annoyed and didn't know what to do and didn't seem to think her taking a few photos would cause any harm, so the cop let her in and told the other cops and FBI what was she was doing.
As Jo entered her house it made her crazy how they were tearing every inch of her house apart but she knew she couldn't do anything about it.
Then Jo grabbed a couple pictures of her mom and Henry and her from her living room and bedroom then made her way of out her house but not before saying in sarcastic tone to the cop who stopped her earlier " Hey, you might want to check out the fridge there some real toxic Chinese takeout in there."
Then Jo went to a off the grid store and bought a burner phone because she was not taking any chances of calling on her phone if the Spanish Shadow is watching and listening.
Then she called Henry, Lucas and Hanson and told them the plan that she had thought of to get more info on the Spanish Shadow but she told them she wanted to wait two weeks to actually do it. Jo told the guys she wanted them to lay low and just make the Spanish Shadow think that his plan has worked.
Jo was about to get some unexpected news in those two weeks as well. The beginning of the second week Jo noticed she was not feeling well a lot and getting nauseous at lot food she loved and the cause only had to be one thing.
Jo went to a local drug store by the hotel and bought a pregnancy test then went back to the hotel room. Then she took the test and exactly what she thought showed up on the stick. Jo was pregnant.
Then Jo threw away the stick away in the trash can in the bathroom and then sat on the bed and thought she was happy about this baby and marrying Henry because in her professional life was in ruins but if her personal life was great that's all she cared about.
Then Jo laid back on the bed thinking how she should tell Henry and as she was thinking of ideas she fell asleep.
The next morning Jo went to Abe's shop and saw it was closed but saw Henry in the store window, so she knocked on door and waited for her fiancée.
Henry opened the door and smiled and happily said "Hello, my sweet love. I haven't heard from you since you told us to wait two weeks for the plan."
Jo blushing and smiling said "I know. I didn't mean to cut off communication from you Henry. I just been busy fine tuning the plan and I haven't talked to anybody in the last two weeks."
"But I came for another reason." Jo said as she pulled out 2 big pocket watches and 1 little pocket watch and put in Henry's hand.
Henry stared at the pocket watches for a couple minutes wondering what they meant but then he looked at Jo holding her stomach and smiling at him. Then it clicked, Jo was pregnant and they were starting a family.
Henry started laughing gleefully and just a big fat smile went on his face and he said "WE ARE HAVING A BABY."
Henry then grabbed Jo and rushed upstairs to where he lived and took her in the hallway said happily "Then I have to show you the finished renovations done to the house."
Then Henry opened the door and showed the big room that had light Blue airplane wallpaper, light Blue ceiling, airplane hanging light and cute little airplane crib.
Jo almost cried when she saw it because she knew Henry was not the " it" type and he put all this effort for her and their future family.
Jo overwhelmed with tears "Henry, I love it."
Henry smiled and said "I figured every kid has a fascination with planes and Abe has this plane light and I thought it all came to together pretty good."
Jo just stepped in the room and still overwhelmed said "Henry, our kid is going to love this."
Then Henry went behind Jo and wrapped his arms around her waist and his face very close to hers said with a smile "I'm glad you love it, Jo."
Jo turned in his arms now facing him and just smiled at him and gave him a sweet kiss and both of them just stared at each other lovingly before Henry broke the silence and said lovingly
"Jo, you know you can live here. My home is your home and I think we are better together then apart."
Jo sighed and said "Yes, we are better together. I just been so focused on this case that yeah I been pushing you away and I'm sorry. I know I haven't been the best fiancée recently and Henry yes I would love to live with you."
Henry said lovingly "Hey, hey, don't beat yourself Jo, I know you been busy. We all have been busy with this Spanish Shadow around and busy or not you will always be the best fiancée."
Jo smiled at him and said "True, then do want to help take the rest of the stuff from my house to here and plus go back to the hotel and pick my stuff up there."
Henry just squeezed her softly and said "Yes Jo, Let's do it."
So Jo and Henry went to the Hotel first and picked up her bag of things and got her all checked out there then they headed to Jo's house.
Once they got there, Jo was not looking forward to see the mess that was made by the police and FBI looking for things.
Jo opened the door and was disgusted how they left her place, it looked like a tornado had been in here and all she thought was if they looking for anything related to the TMT case those idiots wouldn't have found it here.
As Henry stepped in Jo's place after her and just had surprised look on his face with all the mess he saw and said "Jesus Jo, the Spanish Shadow's dirty law enforcement really did a number to your place."
Henry continued "I know you just want to pick up a few things but I really think we should clean your place up."
Jo rolled her eyes and said "Fine, let's do it."
It took them about 2 hours to clean everything up and Henry looking at the spotless house said proudly "Nice and clean."
Jo just smiled at Henry and said "Alright grabbed all the pictures and put them in a bag and I'll grab all my clothes and shoes."
When they were finished, Henry carried the bags back to Jo's car but when he got to the shoes and clothes bag he said struggling with the bag " My God, what do you have in, Rocks?"
Jo rolled eyes at Henry and said sarcastically "Ha, Ha, very funny, God you such whiny thing sometimes."
"Hey." Henry said little offended.
"But you love this whiny immortal." Henry said with a flirty grin at Jo.
Jo went up to him and touched his face and kissed him and then pulled away and said lovingly "Yes, I do."
Then Jo pulled back in for the kiss and the two went at for a good couple of minutes and then Henry tried to go further but Jo stopped and said almost laughing" Hey love, there is already one bun in the oven in here."
Then Jo grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the house and they headed back to Henry's place.
After Jo and Henry put all Jo's clothes away in their bedroom and place all pictures around the house they ate dinner and called to end this long day and headed to bed.
Jo was in one of Henry's dress shirts and she went to the right side of the bed and Henry had on pajamas pants but no shirt and went on the left side of the bed.
Then Henry moved near Jo's side and put his arms around her and they were just cuddling in bed.
"So when will this plan of yours go in motion?" Henry asked curiously.
"Tomorrow, so I hope Lucas and Hanson are ready." Jo said tiredly
"Let's change the subject, please." Jo continued
"Alright, have you gone to the doctors yet for the pregnancy?" Henry asked.
"No, I will though. You can come with me. I think it's too early to see what the gender is though." Jo said tiredly.
Henry squeezed her softly and said "I would love to come and yes, probably your second visit you can find out the gender."
"Alright, I am falling asleep, Good night my love and be ready for tomorrow" Jo said softly
Henry kissed her forehead and said softly "Good night, my love."
Then fast forward to the next afternoon where Henry, Jo, Hanson, and Lucas were all in a surveillance van in Brooklyn getting ready to do the plan and then Lucas all squirmy in a baggy t-shirt, loose pants and backwards Yankee cap said whiny " Why do I have to go to him?"
Jo just gave him a disapproving look and said "Do I have to go over this again?"
Jo continued as she pointed at herself and let something slip "Prime suspect of a murder and Pregnant."
Henry looked at Jo with a surprised face that she let that slip.
Hanson and Lucas said in unison with a surprised tone "Pregnant."
Jo just laughed and said "Whoops."
Hanson told Henry and Jo both congrats on the baby and Lucas got all loud and said "MY FAVORITE COUPLE IS HAVING AN IMMORTAL BABY."
Jo just laughed and said "The baby won't be immortal."
Lucas continued with his gigglefest and said "How do you know? Henry could pass that on to the baby. Probably when the baby comes out he will be wearing a vest and holding a pocket watch."
Henry just rolled his eyes and said annoyed "Lucas, most likely the baby will not be immortal and can we please go back to the plan."
Jo smiled at Henry said "Oh by the way, I don't know if I can handle any immortals of I seen too many already."
Jo laughed and then got back to why Lucas was the guy who was going to meet Bernard Lock.
She then pointed to Henry and said "Spanish Shadow has already sent his guys after him and knows what he looks like."
Then she pointed to Hanson and said "He looks too much like a cop."
Jo then pointed at Lucas and said "Lucas, you just have the right look and they haven't seen you."
"Are you saying I look like a druggie? Did Henry tell you I smoke some weed every now and then?" Lucas said curiously.
Jo almost laughed but held it in and said "No, Lucas you wanted to do undercover missions right? Well here is your chance."
Lucas all excited now "Yes, I wanted do undercover work."
"Ok Lucas, you have the video feed on your shirt, mic on the bullet vest under your shirt and remember we can see you from these TVs in here." Jo said as she checked Lucas to make sure he was good and pointed at the screens.
Then Hanson asked a question "Jo why do you think they haven't gone after me or Lucas?"
"Good question but I think because they haven't seen you. Neither you or Lucas have talked to any of the players in their operations." Jo said as ready to get her plan started.
Jo continued "Nobody said these guys were the brightest, they just have a lot of connections."
"There's No way they should have been able to get a search warrant for my house, just because I talked to Marcus and Nash that would usually never work. Really? Where was my motive to kill those two?" Jo said in a serious tone.
Hanson just nodded in agreement and said "Yeah, it crazy how this Spanish Shadow has connections to everything and everybody. He can get people to go to jail for him."
Hanson continued "Oh Jo, I forgot we have to be real careful in the precinct because Reece can tell something is up because I stay later now to look up info at these guys. I don't think she's a part of this Spanish Shadow but she has been asking questions because she's know you shouldn't have been let go. If she's sees you or I looking into this, she will tell Internal Affairs and then Spanish Shadow has us."
"Hanson, don't worry I know she is just doing her job and has to look out for herself and the other cops. We will definitely try the best we can to do this quietly." Jo said calmly to Hanson.
Jo grabbed Lucas and said seriously "Alright, this where you get out, Lock is 3 blocks away on 54th street and we will be one street over."
"Alright, wish me luck guys." Lucas said nervously and jumped out of the van and on his way to 54th street.
As Jo, Henry, and Hanson were watching Lucas on the TV monitor, Jo said "Does anybody have a bad feeling about this?"
Then Henry and Hanson raised their hands.
"I thought so." Jo said just watching the screen.
Then Hanson drove the van to next street from the 54th and the parked it and continue to watch Lucas make his way to Lock.
Then about 10 minutes later, Lucas saw Lock and looked exactly how Jo described to him. He was black about 6 ft 7 inches, looked about 200 pounds of muscle, had a little afro that was peeking out his Mets baseball cap and a silver chain hanging from the back pocket of his jeans.
Then before Lucas approached Lock, he just mumbled to himself nervously "Here we go."
Henry, Jo and Hanson heard that from the van and had all the same uneasy look on their face as they were thinking this might have been a bad idea.
Then Lucas went up to Lock and said " Yo, my man. I'm really tight on money and my boy Marcus told me you know where I can make the big money."
Lock looked at Lucas confused of who this man was and stepped near him and grabbed Lucas shirt and said to him with attitude "First, I ain't your man, skinny ass white boy. Second, Marcus wouldn't hang out with a low life like you and even if I can get you big money, I'm not going tell you white boy. So move on."
Henry, Hanson, and Jo all watched from the van and Jo said worried "Hanson drive the van where they are we need to help Lucas now."
Lucas still at it said scared "Look, I don't mean no harm. I'm just down on my luck and thought you could help me out."
Lock annoyed "Well you thought wrong, dumb ass." Then Lock raised his fist about to hit Lucas as Lucas was flinching in his arms scared of what was coming but then the rest of the gang came just in time with the van and parked right in front of Lucas and Lock.
Then Jo, Henry, and Hanson all jumped out of the van and surrounded Lock and Lucas.
Jo and Hanson had their guns and told Lock to put Lucas down and after couple minutes he finally let Lucas go and Lucas ran near Jo and Hanson.
Hanson and Jo still with their guns and surrounding Lock as Lock said as he was laughing "Is some kind of drug sting because wow that was bad and that white boy couldn't sell that shit."
Lock continued " Plus you have no evidence, I said nothing to him to incriminate me so I'm not hitting the cell today."
Jo and Hanson lowered their gun and Jo rolled her eyes at Lock's comment and said " We could arrest you because you are known player of the Spanish Shadow drug operations. We could give you some kind of deal if you help with info on the Spanish Shadow and help us take him down."
Lock looked at Jo and said " Wait, your that cop who is accused of killing Nash and Marcus how you supposed to help me when you are radioactive yourself."
Then Hanson spoke and said "She's got us, we are cops and here and we will be here for you too if you agree to help us."
Lock took a deep breath and said "If I help you, I want to go in Witness Protection and be able to make a new life and do it right this time."
Jo stepped forward towards Lock and said seriously "If you help us take him down, we will get that for you."
Lock put out his hand for a handshake and said "Ok, I'm in and you will keep me safe because he's going know I talked to you."
Jo shook his hand and then said seriously "Yes, we will keep you safe."
Then Jo ushered him into the van and the rest guys went in and Jo said" I'm going to keep you in a hotel in New Jersey which is a hidden place that not many people know about and Lucas will be there with you."
Lock started laughing "I liked the hotel part but Lucas, I don't know if he can't protect me."
Jo laughed and said "He's just there to watch you and I know you can protect you and him."
Then Jo said " Alright, Lock now tell us what you know about the operations."
"Ok, I'm guessing you guys know bow tie guy. Well I heard his minions of Russians and other white guys call him by Franklin and pretty sure it's a last name. It's like how cop shows hardly of use their first name and call people all by their last name." Lock said as he was trying to think of all the things he knew about the operations.
Jo laughed at the last part of Lock's response and said happily "Franklin, so we got name to the bow tie guy now." Then Jo wrote that down on a notepad she had for she could look it up later.
Then Lock spoke again and said with an uneasy tone " I guess the myth is really true then, you don't get to see the Spanish Shadow till you cross him. "
Then Jo said a comforting way to Lock "Look, he's not going to find you in this hotel, very few people know about it. I have feeling if Spanish Shadow's minions came after you; I think you could take of them."
Lock gave a sly smile to Jo and then grabbed Lucas and said "We are going have a lot fun, Lucas. Just don't pull any of the crap that you did when we first met."
Lucas shaking a little bit said nervously "I won't, I promise."
It took about an hour to get to the hotel and they parked the van in the parking lot and Jo looked at Lock and said "You are reserved under the name Steven Jordan and will stay here but you will still do your daily routine because we don't want the Spanish Shadow to get any ideas that we are working with you. We need time to look up the new info of bow tie guy and look it to that, so it may be a couple weeks."
Lock nodded his head an agreement and said " I like it and that way I can get more info for you guys. Alright, Lucas let's go."
Then Lock got out of the van and then a nervous Lucas got out of van and waved bye to the rest of gang as they started up the van and the rest of the gang went back to Henry's place to starting looking up the Franklin.
Meanwhile while Henry, Jo, and Hanson were trying to find more on the "Franklin" the bow tie guy, the Spanish Shadow and Franklin met up at one of their warehouses in New York.
Franklin walked into the warehouse and said with echoes following it "Sir?"
Then the Spanish Shadow stepped out of the shadows and said "Yes, Franklin. I'm sorry I didn't answer your calls I been busy."
"I understand Sir, I seen you have taken care of your daughter so far," Franklin said in calm tone.
"Yes, I think she has gotten the message because I have not seen or heard from cops about her disturbing things since she got suspected of the murders. But I do have more planned and she will regret the day she even looked into the TMT case."
"Well that's good. We don't need people interrupting our operations and oh by the way, I had my people take of the M.E."
The Spanish Shadow laughed and held up a picture of Henry at work the next day and said "He's seems perfectly fine to me, no scratches or nothing on this man."
Franklin had a surprised look on his face and said to the Spanish Shadow "I'm sorry, my people told me they ran over him multiple times and killed him."
"It's not your fault; I will get you new people. Obviously the ones you have now can't do the job and will order someone to take them out. You know what forget the doc, let's just go after my daughter because I don't think the doc is a major player in this anyway." The Spanish Shadow said as he walked towards Franklin.
"So ramp up the attacks on your daughter, Sir." Franklin said.
"Yes." The Spanish Shadow said evil way.
