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The thought of close your mouth before a bug flies in crossed Huck mind as he waited for Big Jerry and Fitz to take in all the information he just relayed to them.

Then as if a balloon popped Big Jerry jumped up and got in Huck's face, "What the fuck kind of story are you bringing us? Did you torcher her to the point that she came up with this fairytale!"

Big Jerry backed away and started to pace furiously.

"I was at home when Fitz was born! My wife nearly died bringing this boy into the world!"
Then as fast as he had started to pace he stopped just as fast. He stood their for what seemed like hours when Fitz finally spoke.

"Dad? Is there something you remember about that day?"

"I do. I wasn't in on the actual delivery, when you were born because they gave your mother a c-section or so they said. They said you were in distress and they needed to operate. They put your mother to sleep, so she wasn't awake when she delivered. But what I remember was something your Mom said throughout her pregnancy was she thought she was having twins. We didn't have the benefit of a sonogram back in the day. So it could be possible."

Before they started to delve in any further of what ifs, Huck pulls out a sheet of paper and laid it on the table. It's a full length copy of Kyle Garrett's license with picture. Mouth's and jaws were dropped and open. It was Fitz down to his hair his eyes his jaw, everything.

It was Fitz's turn to say something. "What in the fucking hell is going on?"

Huck pulled out an entire brief on Kyle Garrett.

"Apparently he's been living in a small farming town in Gettysburg South Dakota. Yeah, I get the irony with your last name being Grant. He grew up the only child of Fran and Tucker Garrett. I can tell you that up until they moved to Gettysburg, they didn't exist. Whoever took Kyle and either gave or sold him to the Garrett's was good at what they do. He graduate from the local high school, then went on to college at the University of Minnesota with a degree in Agricultural Engineering. After graduation he got a job at Monsanto as an engineer and moved to Chicago. Here's where I think he went off the rails, a few underground friends of mine who might just be running numbers in Chicago tell me our friend here has a really bad gambling habit, to the tune of about $200,000. This alleged friend also says that three months ago all his debt was squared around town. So here we are."

"No Huck we are not just here! How the hell did he get involved with Mellie?"

"Well, that is where Ms. Amanda Tanner filled me in on the rest of the story."


Flashback

Huck sat there for a minute to take in what Amanda just said before he spoke again.

"What the hell kind of game are you playing. I see one demonstration of my intentions aren't enough."

He grabbed his scalpel and moved toward her other arm as Amanda screamed.

"Hear me out! I know it sounds crazy, but you have to listen to why we've gone to such lengths to carry out this twisted plan!"

Huck sat back in his chair and nodded for her to continue.

"Remember that big case in Chicago three months ago?"

"Yeah, go on."

"After the firm won that big settlement, a few of the lawyers, Mellie included were down in the bar of the hotel celebrating. Mellie was one of the last lawyers to leave the bar, and when she went into the bathroom and came out about to leave she thought she saw Fitz sitting in the bar. When she went over and patted him on the shoulder and asked him why didn't let everyone know he was in town. He looked at Mellie like she was crazy. He told her he didn't know what she was talking about, but if she sat down he would buy her a drink. Long story short they did the deed. You know Mellie has always had the hots for Fitz and it was a fantasy fulfilled that night, but she couldn't get over how much he looked like Fitz and she had to find out why."

Amanda started to cough a little so Huck gave her a drink of water and told her to go on.

"Mellie hired a private eye to check Kyle out. He found out that his parents didn't exist until they moved to Gettysburg. This made Mellie a lot more curious so she took a trip out to speak to Kyle's parents. She bluffed them into believing she knew Kyle's origins, and said if they didn't give up the whole story she was going to the authorities."

"You know how persuasive Mellie can be. In no time they were spilling their guts. And now Mellie had the leverage over Kyle she needed to concoct this plan."

"So what's it in it for you?" Huck asked.

"What Mellie doesn't know is that for the past few months I've set up another account and have been siphoning off some of the money a little at a time. I give Mellie old balance sheets to assure her the money's there. I had my ticket ready to leave in two days. If you let me go, I'll transfer a couple of million into an account for you."

Huck chuckled at her little plan.

"Nice of you to offer, but I already have access to both your accounts and as soon as the Grant's give me the ok, I'm going to move it back to the company where it belongs."

"You are nothing but their lap dog! They'll never share any of that money with you! Don't be a dick and take me up on the offer!"

Huck leaned over and carved out another patch on her other arm. As soon as she stopped screaming and crying, he leaned over to her ear.

"Just so you know, the Grant's give me 5% of all recovered money and in my estimation that's about half a mill. Also, don't use rude language in my presence it upsets me."

He pulled away and smiled at her as he left.


Present time

"So we know their plan, and now we know everyone's reasoning behind this scam."
Fitz stood up and started to pace.

"What's on your mind son?"

"Two things Dad. One, how did Kyle get stolen from us. And two, if we can prove all of this with Kyle's help, I might be able to salvage my marriage."

"Huck, where do you want to go with this now?"

"Kyle's our corroboration to the whole story. If you want I can take him to my little bunker like Amanda, but I think somehow he might spill his guts to you guys on your own. He's over the proverbial barrel in all this. On the one hand, he has to keep his parents out of jail, on the other he has to be a bit loyal to Mellie because she bailed him out with his bookies. My friend said he was one day away from getting a knee cap popped."

"We need a place that is secluded and away from my wife. If she finds out that someone took our son, she will be devastated. I want to look him in the eye also, to get a bead on his character. So far, he's not much of a winner in my book."

"I know it doesn't look good Dad, but strange as it sounds I always felt I wasn't alone. I want to look in his eyes too."

"Listen, don't you guys have a lake house up state? It's the middle of the week and we don't have much time for this to resolve. The paternity test should be back by Monday, and we need Kyle to talk. Don't tell anyone where you're actually going. Matter of fact tell everyone your going to look at a hunting property in Canada. Tell them you may or may not be out of cell reach."

Fitz and Big Jerry gave him the affirmative nod and they all left Big Jerry's office.


Fitz and Big Jerry went to the house and packed a bag. They were glad Martha wasn't home yet from one of her clubs. Big Jerry left her a note trying to eliminate as many questions as possible, and told the staff to let her know they would be back on Sunday.
Fitz called Olivia and told her he was going out of town with his Dad and he wouldn't be able to get the kids this weekend. To say she was not pleased was an understatement. He wished he could tell he what was going on, but he didn't want to get his hopes up by telling her. What Fitz didn't know was that Stephen was heading into town for the weekend to be with Olivia.

Kyle walked into his hotel room after getting dinner down at the corner diner. Just as he's pulling off his coat, he hears nighty night before everything goes dark.

Kyle has no idea how long he'd been out, but when he wakes up he can feel his hands restrained behind his back and something was over his face.

"It looks like he's awake."

Huck goes over and pulls the pillow case off his face. As Kyle adjust to the room he sees someone, not just anyone, but someone who has his face.

"What? You don't have anything to say brother? No? Lets get to the part where you helped Mellie ruin my life, why don't we start there!"

Fitz just hauls off and slaps him as hard as he can. Jerry jumps in and retrains Fitz.
Kyle spits out the bit of blood that was in his mouth.

"Real brave with my hands tied!"

"Enough both of you!" Jerry screams.

"Look Kyle the game is over before you even get to play, so you need to start talking."

Kyle looks around and sees Huck in the back against a wall and as soon as he sees him he knows his life might be in a little danger.

"Ok! I'll tell you what you want, but you have to know first that I didn't want to do this. I'm only doing this to protect my parents. I know I'm your son. Mellie told me all about me being stolen from your home the night we were born. The doctor and the nurse were in on the scam. Mostly the doctor. The nurse was my Mom. The doctor told her to take me home for a couple of days and he would find a buyer for me. Sure she was in on it, but once my father found out what I was doing at the house he told her she needed to go to the police. She convinced him that if she did, she would go to prison as an accomplice. So, Dad took us to California first to get our new identities and then we moved to South Dakota to lie low."

Big Jerry was so overwhelmed by what Kyle said that he started to get dizzy and almost fell over. Fitz caught him and dragged him over to one of the chairs in the living room.

Huck spoke, "Go on."

"I'm not proud of what I've done, but she literally saved my ass from some bookies that were going to break my knee caps any day. I owed her for that and not turning in my parents."

Fitz asked about the elephant in the room. "Are you the baby's father?"

Kyle dropped his head, "Yes."

"Are you positive that Fitz is not the father?"

"Yeah, he was so drunk I had to drag him in from the hall after he passed out, besides Mellie was already pregnant when Fitz was dragged in the room. We had to make sure she was before her scammed worked?"

Huck perked up at this revelation.

"Did she go see a doctor to get confirmation?"

"Yeah, but the doctor is in Chicago and she paid cash. She made me go with her."

"Got her! What's her doctor's name? What alias did she use?"

Huck got all the information he needed then scurried off to do some more digging.
Big Jerry got up and untied Kyle's hands and then laid his hand on both sides of his son's face.

"You look like Fitz in every way that counts, but you don't have his sense of honor. You've been raised by thieves and now you've become one."

Big Jerry walked away with so much grieve on his face that Fitz was worried about him. He turned around to see Kyle crying silently. Tear after tear cascaded down his face. Fitz saw how distraught his brother was also.

"Is our Mother still alive?" He croaked out.

Fitz put his hands in his pockets, "Yeah, she's still alive. And she's wonderful. You would have loved to grow up with our parents. They were so loving and encouraged me to be anything I wanted to be. All I ever wanted to be, was just be like Dad in every way. He taught me how to be a good Dad. How did your parents treat you?"

"They always held their love back from me. Looking back now with the knowledge I have now, I think they didn't want to get they're feeling invested in me if they got caught. They provided all I needed, but the one thing they never gave was love and affection. I always thought there was something wrong with me. I guess I know now. I'm not even sure why I'm covering for them."

"For whatever reason, they were still your parents. Come on, lets get something to eat. Dad will be in his room for a while. I think he's morning your loss now. You'll have to give him a while to get it right in his head."

"Are...are you guys going to turn me in?"

"I don't think so Kyle. I think you've paid enough don't you?"

Tears started to well up in Kyle's eyes again as they walked into the kitchen to get something to eat.