Okay, so I am on a roll! I am not sure we are going for broke tonight or not, but we are heading to to final countdown. So read and review. I am very excited we are soooooo close... Help is on the way Doug and Tommy:-) Thanks for reading and have fun!

Chapter 9

Adam Fuller pulled up to the old school. The structure was crumbling by the foundation. There were "NO TRESSPASSING" signs posted around the property. Metal chain link fence surrounded the area. Windows were missing trough out the facility. In places wooden planks had been nailed up to prevent entry into the building. There were buildings all around the neighborhood. They were run down tired looking. Homes built in the early 1900's. Perhaps they were even older. Some even appeared to be vacated. Nobody paid attention to the men and women preparing to step out of the car.

Fuller stopped before opening the door. He looked around at his officers and one extra passenger. "Folks, this may get ugly. We don't know what we are going into. If we get seperated, travel in two's or threes. Hoffs, you stay with me. Ioki, you take Dennis with you. Lance…" Fuller took a deep breath in. "Lance, stick with Dennis and Ioki and DO NOT leave their sides. I have to be out of my mind letting you come along, but we don't have time to mess around. Doug and Tom are in deep and we have to get them out now. Do what you have to do and we will get the hell out. Lance, where do you think we should start?"

Lance looked around the car. He could not imagine how much he wished Grant, Dustin and he were this close. He had never seen someone willing to give so much for someone. He wanted this so badly. A family… "Start with the pit. Grant keeps people there before he… well… gets rid of them. If they're not there they could be in the gym. It is another hard area to get into, but, you see those broken windows there?" He pointed to the roof of the building. "That is the gym; the doors are blocked off from the outside and inside. There is only one way in and two ways out. Through the inner hallway and out the storm cellar…" He pointed over to the metal doors on the ground. "You can not open them from the outside. He has them locked on the inside. I can tell you do not get separated. If he has the others with him, there are 8 totals counting Dustin and Grant." Lance looked down at the floor of the car and then back up at Fuller. "Sir, I am sorry that they did this…"

Adam Fuller reached out and touched the youth on the shoulder, "It's not your fault kiddo, you're one of the good guys now…" Lance smiled at Fuller as he gave the signal, "Let's go…"

The group of people quietly excited the car taking care not to slam any doors and give the indication there was anyone on the trail. Lance led them around the building to a small opening in the chain link. He squeezed himself through the hole. Judy was next, followed then by Harry and Dennis. Halfway through Dennis caught his black leather jacket on the metal of the fence ripping a two inch gash across the surface.

"Shit…" The dark haired officer stated.

Judy laughed in spite of herself. "That'll teach you to wear your Sunday best to a crime scene Booker."

Booker looked up at Judy his dark eyes meeting hers. "Yeah, me and this coat, we've been places together…"

"Cool it you two." Fuller stated as Dennis shifted and finished moving through the fence. Fuller slipped through next and the group continued the rest of the way in towards the dilapidated building. As they got closer they moved as a group in towards a set of bushes. Fuller looked at them and asked… "Folks if anyone here doesn't want to do this let me know now. This might be the end of a few careers including mine. You don't have to do this."

"Your right Captain, but they would do it for us." Harry Ioki looked up at his superior. He was young but wise beyond his twenty plus years. These people had worked together for so long, it was almost unthinkable what they wouldn't do for each other.

"Alright folks on three, 1, 2…3…" together the group ran from the bushes to the front door. Booker got to there first. He looked through the cracks in the wooden boards that covered the door. He pocketed his weapon and reached up to grab onto a wooden plank and tugged it free falling backwards with the splintering material. He hit the crumbling sidewalk with a thud.

"Mother F…" he started to curse out loud. Ioki placed a hand over the officer's mouth and quickly quieted him. "Keep it down Booker; we don't want the whole world to know were here right now." Lance looked back at the man who had quickly befriended him. Booker had slithered through the window at the safe house he had been staying at. He had been a quick talker explaining what was going on to the younger man. It had not taken much convincing to get him out of the window. Lance had not trusted the Chief at the Metro Police Office he had spoken to. The man seemed almost uncaring about what his brothers were doing. It hardly even concerned him that one of his officers was helping run guns and drugs.

"Look, guys, we go in here." The youth began. "Follow me keep your eyes and ears open there are not a whole lot of lights in here." Lance quickly slid through the whole in the wood, with the rest quickly in pursuit. All weapons were drawn upon entry into the dingy building. The smell of animal urine wafted over the team of officers. Plaster lay strewn across the floors and stairwells, dark wooden framing boards shown through the broken plaster along the walls. A once proud school now demoted to the playground of a murdering drug dealer and his twisted brother.

The sound of footsteps alerted Fuller to the possibility of problems. With a signal to stop they all dropped to the floor onto one knee. Booker and Ioki slipped onto either side of Lance offering him protection from a possible bullet or anything else that could come along. Fuller waited he could here them getting closer. He turned and looked at his officers. Holding up three fingers he then pointed at the hallway in front of him. Fuller pushed Hoffs behind a door which was in front of him. He then reached around Booker and grabbed at Lance's arm, he shoved the youth in the gap with Hoffs. "Watch him." He said abruptly. Hoffs quickly nodded her head and reached around the boy pulling him close to her.

Fuller ducked to the other side of the hallway behind another door with Booker and Ioki. The plan was to take them out without a shot so the others would not be alerted to their presence. There were thee men stopped just shy of the officers. The taller man had noticed the light coming in through the broken panel on the doorframe. He pointed in the direction of the hallway the Jump Street officers were hiding in. Cautiously the men proceeded forward again. Lance was ready to crawl out of his skin as the men cam dangerously close to him and Judy. She put her index finger to he lips indicating they would be fine as long as nothing was said. Lance shook his head acknowledging he understood.

As the men passed by Booker, Fuller and Ioki Adam gave them a quick signal and the three men jumped out from behind the door. The trio quickly disarmed the men and had them on the ground and secured with wrist locks. Fuller looked at the men. They were still conscious. He asked Booker if he had something to keep them quiet. Booker scrunched up his face and looked at the older cop. "I was afraid I would have to do this." Fuller raised his weapon and with the butt of the pistol hit one man over the head rendering him unconscious. Booker and Dennis both exchanged puzzled glances and did the same to the man in front of them.

Fuller quickly reached around the door and pulled Lance and Judy out. Lance looked at the three men quietly. He looked at Fuller and then at Dennis and Booker. "You okay?" Judy asked Lance. He looked at the female officer and shook his head up and down.

Lance could not believe he saw these three men on the floor unconscious, wrists bound behind them.

"Well folks," Fuller whispered, "let's get going." Together the group ventured on into the school not knowing which direction to turn next.

Ohhh... cliff hanger if I do not get #10 up so... I hope you are enjoying it! Thanks for reading and let men know what you think. I am so excited now!