Chapter 9.

The Angels were sat in the study after Bobby had left the house waiting for Cate to join them so they could all call Charlie. Cate entered the room sitting down next to Kelly who in turn handed her a glass of orange juice.

'Don't even think of skipping breakfast, Bette will be after me if you do.' Kelly said to Cate.

'She's been on the phone this morning then? I thought I heard it ring earlier.'

'Yes she rang, had a few quick words with Bobby before he handed me the phone. I told her you were in the shower to which she then told me to make sure you eat something before going anywhere this morning.'

'Pretty scary huh?' Cate said smiling at Kelly who looked so serious about the phone call from her mother.

'Just a little yeah, so just make sure you do ok?'

'Promise.' Whilst the sisters were chatting Sabrina had dialled the number for Charlie.

'Good morning Angel's!' Charlie's voice sailed clearly through the study.

'Good morning Charlie.' The Angel's responded in unison, it was just second nature to them now to do so.

'So, what do we have Angel's? Cate, did Jill pass on the information we had to you?'

'Yes she did, thank you Charlie. It led me to where I hoped it wouldn't.'

'I understand Angel and I'm so very sorry for you and your family.'

'Thank you Charlie, but now we have to decide what to do next. How do we stop Bobby from trying to hurt the family?' Cate asked taking a drink from her glass.

'I think we should take down Calum McKee and his men first Charlie.' Sabrina suggested from seat behind the desk. 'He's obviously the muscle of the operation making Bobby feel safe, untouchable. They even have the local police scared.'

'True Sabrina and I think you're right. The question is how do we draw Calum and his men out first without tipping our hand to Bobby?' Charlie threw out for suggestion.

'Well,' Sabrina began. 'Charlie if you could pull some strings and get us some police we can trust and count on to come and lock up these thugs and keep them out of the way before Bobby notices then we can deal with Bobby at the truck company afterwards where he won't have any one to hide behind.' Sabrina said looking round the room to her friends, her plan making look on her face.

'Sounds like a good plan to me.' Kelly said. 'How do you plan on drawing Calum out though?' Kelly asked Sabrina who in turn half smiled and looked straight to Cate. 'No, Sabrina, no way.' Kelly protested. 'We're not putting Cate out there as bate for this guy.'

'She's the only one of he knows Kel. We'll all be there with her, she'll be safe with us there.' Sabrina tried to reassure.

'She's sat right here guy's.' Cate said interrupting. 'Sabrina's right Kelly, don't give me the look or the argument, you know she is. We can go in to the truck station where they all are, take them down together and wait for Bobby to show up.' Cate explained quickly before Kelly could argue with her, that could come later.

'Sounds like you're on to the right track of a plan Angel's, I'll make a few phone calls here and get you the back up you need. I'll call back later to confirm everything with you. Bye Angels.'

'Bye Charlie.' The Angel's said when Kelly got up from her seat and stormed out of the study.

'Great. Kelly!' Cate called after her sister quickly getting up to follow her, Kris and Sabrina not far behind her. Kelly was in the kitchen beginning to very loudly clear away dishes. 'Kelly, please.'

'No, Caitlin, he's already hurt you once and in no more than 24 hours you want to go face him again and start a fight!' Kelly said slamming a handful of cutlery on to the draining board.

'Kelly, calm down.' Sabrina said trying to soothe the situation.

'Calm down! Bri, you saw the state she was in yesterday and you should see the bruising today, you want to add to that?' Kelly angrily said to Sabrina.

'I don't intend to have any of us get hurt in any way. I want us to go in taking them by surprise before anything can happen.' Sabrina explained.

'Do we know how many people are in the station?' Kris asked. 'We are pretty much going in blind.'

'Exactly.' Kelly said.

'I counted four last night, five including Calum. The drivers will be out all day on route with their trucks, business as usual, I doubt they even know what's really going on there.' Cate said moving to sit down at the kitchen table. 'If we cut the phone lines before going in then there's no way they can get word to Bobby or anyone else.'

'Right,' Sabrina agreed sitting opposite Cate on one of the kitchen stools. 'that then gives us control of their communications and with the reinforcements Charlie's organising we should be able to take them by surprise before they can make a move.'

'OK, just slow down a little bit.' Kris started standing by the side of Kelly who had a look of thunder across her face. 'Even if we do all that, Calum and his men still seem like the kind of thugs that won't go anywhere without some kind of a fight, are we ready for that?' She asked.

'We'll have to be.' Sabrina simply stated.

'Terrific.' Kelly said crossing her arms across her chest.

'Look Kel, I don't like this much anymore than you do but I want to shut these guy's down before they do any more damage to this family.' Sabrina said trying to get through to the practical side of Kelly. Clenching her jaw together tightly Kelly looked straight at Sabrina and then to Cate mulling over their options in her mind, which there weren't many of.

'Fine but we do this right, we stay in a group or in pairs. No splitting up.' Kelly demanded.

'Ok, that's the way I would have played it any way, safety in numbers.' Sabrina smiled. Just then the phone rang, Cate got up and picked up the phone in the kitchen.

'Hello? Hi Charlie.' Cate fell silent listening to what Charlie had to say. 'Ok Charlie, yeah, I'll let the others know, if you could let Danny know I'll call him as soon as I can, don't worry Charlie I'll call him as soon as I've updated the others. Right, bye Charlie.' Cate slowly hung up the phone turning to sit back down, the colour drained from her face.

'Cate what is it?' Kelly asked concerned watching her sister.

'They've taken Rebecca.' Cate quietly said.

'What?!' Sabrina and Kris said in unison.

'They were all at the park together, Bosley with them, a shot rang out Bosley moved to get everyone to safety and somehow in the blink of an eye Becca was gone. They searched the park, got the police involved but nothing. Once back at the office they found a message on the answer machine, demanding the money Bobby owes or..' Cate stopped her self not having to say the words the Angel's knew the threat only too well.

'That's how Bobby intends to get the money and business away from the family, they'll give everything to get Rebecca back safe and sound.' Sabrina said stunned by the news.

'I can't believe Bobby would go this far.' Kris astonished said.

'I'd better go and call Danny.' Cate said as she got up from the table again headed out towards the study. Leaving the other Angels in a stunned silence.

'We move on them, find out where Rebecca is and have Bosley handle things on that side, there's no way they would have been able to have brought Becca here, she has to still be somewhere close to them in L.A.' Kelly hoped and reasoned. 'I can't believe Bobby would allow anything to happen to her.'

'I hope you're right Kel, I really do.' Kris said as she walked out of the kitchen. Kris walked through the house back to the study, the door was open and she could hear Cate talking to Danny trying every way she could to calm and reassure him. Kris stood by the door so that Cate could see her standing there which she did and waved Kris to come in.

'Danny, I promise we're doing everything we can, we're moving on the men in question today to shut them down, they seem oblivious to the fact that we're so close to doing that. I'll find her Danny, you know I will, I'll make sure she's home safe and sound. No, Bobby's not here, he had to go to a meeting with the bank, yeah I let him go, he's been safe all the time he's been out on his own. Yes, I'll let him and Scotty know what's going on as soon as I've finished talking with you. Just tell mom and Tessa that I'll get her back, we'll get her back.' Cate said whilst rubbing the back of her neck. Saying their good-byes Cate hung up the phone leaving her hand on the receiver, Cate stood silent just looking at the phone.

'How're they doing?' Kris asked looking at her friend with worry and concern in her eyes.

'As well as can be expected I suppose. I barely knew what to say to him Kris, all I could really say was that I'd get her back.' Cate said fixing her eyes still to the phone forcing her self not to fall apart, not now, not yet. Kris moved forward placing a hand on Cate's shoulder.

'We will get her back. Bobby wouldn't harm her, I can't believe he would harm his own niece.'

'I'm not sure how I can face Bobby to tell him our niece is missing when he knows exactly where to find her.' Cate said moving to the window in the study. 'How could he go this far? What could have possibly have pushed him to go this far?'

'We'll find out Cate, we will.' Kris said with determination. 'As for Bobby, well, I might have an idea about that, come on.' Kris said leading Cate out of the study back to join Kelly and Sabrina who were now sat at the dining room table go back over their notes trying to find a lead in L.A. where Rebecca may have been taken to.

'Hey, I've got an idea on how to handle Bobby.' Kris announced as she and Cate entered into the room.

'Let's hear it.' Kelly said looking up at them both.

'Well, it's probably best if Cate isn't here when Bobby get's back so I think one of us should stay here, wait for him and break the news about Rebecca whilst the other three go to the truck station and sort out Calum and his men there. I know we said we wouldn't split up in to smaller groups but three taking down Calum and his men is much better than two of us could.' Kris finished explaining.

'Sounds like a good plan to me.' Sabrina said. 'So who's going to stay?'

'I will.' Kris volunteered straight away. 'As soon as I've told him I'll tell him that he needs to call the family in L.A. and I'll make the excuse to go and meet you all somewhere.' Kris planned out loud.

'Ok, let's do it.' Kelly said slapping her hands down on the dining room table as she got up to go.

'Kris, give Charlie a call tell him the plan and have him make sure our back up is ready for us in an hour let's say.' Sabrina ordered as she herself got up to leave.

'Cate, I'll need your bike.' Kris said a wide smile on her face. 'It'll be quicker for me to use than the station wagon.' Cate looked at Kris and smiled.

'Ok, the keys are hanging up and you'll find my biker gear in my room. Just remember, you scratch it, you pay for the new paint job.' Cate joked as she caught her jacket that Kelly tossed to her.

'Fine.' Kris smiled. 'Be careful you guy's, I'll call Charlie and get everything with him in place.' Kris called after her friends as they headed out of the house.

Cate, Kelly and Sabrina all climbed in to the Mustang, Cate in the driver's seat started the engine and peeled out of the drive heading straight to the edge of town and the truck station where they would find Calum and his men.

'Probably best to put the car in that alley we were in last night. We'll be nicely out of sight then.' Kelly suggested.

'My thoughts exactly Kel.' Cate agreed as she pulled out on to the main road.

Moments later Cate parked the Mustang in the side alley across the street from the truck station. Standing at the mouth of the alley Sabrina watched the station. It was pretty quiet she noted, Cate was right all of the truckers were out on jobs there was only two cars in the car park and one man outside smoking by the time Sabrina turned to talk with Kelly and Cate the smoking man had finished his cigarette and gone back in to the building.

'Our back up's just arrived.' She said nodding her head towards the police cars pulling up by the side of the street, covered by the trees and bushes they parked behind. The three Angels made their way over to the police to make introductions and put together a plan with them. It was decided that Cate would lead the way in to the warehouse, as she was familiar with Calum he may not spook and run as soon as he saw her enter. Kelly wasn't far behind her and Sabrina would cover the back exits with the police to take any that made a run for it.

Looking at the building Cate stood silently taking it all in just taking a few deep breathes before they moved forward, there was a lot at stake if things went wrong.

'Rebecca.' Cate thought solemnly as she took a deep breath and stood to her full height a little over 5'8.

'You ready for this.' Kelly asked standing by Cate's side looking out as she did to the truck station.

'As I'll ever be.' Cate said a concentrated, stern look on her face.

'Just be careful. We want to bring everyone home safe.'

'Yeah, I know.' Cate said starting to move forward when Kelly took hold of her arm.

'I'm right beside you.' She said looking at her sister straight in the eyes. Giving the nod to Sabrina, Kelly and Cate made their way to the truck station.


Back at the house Kris paced around the family room waiting for Bobby to come home or for an update from Sabrina and the others. Eventually she gave in heading up to Cate's room to get changed in to the biker gear Cate had told her was there. Kris found it all straight away, the leather biking trousers with protective padding, Cate's jacket that was laying across the chair in the room. Kris opted out of wearing the biking trousers, Cate was taller than Kris by a fair margin so there was no way she would fit in the same trousers. 'Jeans will do.' Kris said aloud to her self, picking up Cate's jacket. Kris noticed something fall from the inside pocket, picking it up Kris discovered it was photo's bound together with ribbon. Looking at the photo's she saw one of Cate and Kelly together at the beach one that Kris remembered very well as she took it, a candid shot of the two sisters sat next to each other laughing about something, Kris remembered with a smile, that was the day a crab had grabbed a hold of Bosley's big toe and would not let go, another reason Bos wasn't so keen on the beach. Flicking through the photo's that were there Kris saw ones of the Angels together, Cate and Jill together at the race track with Jill's car, then there were pictures of Cate with her brothers spending holiday's together, Christmas. The last shot was of Cate and Rebecca fast asleep together on the couch, Rebecca huddled up to her aunt as close as she could get. Kris ran her fingers lightly across the image before putting them all together again with the ribbon and back in to the inside pocket of the jacket. Seeing the image of Cate and Rebecca together would stay with Kris she knew until the case was ended and the two could share that kind of fondness again.

Once changed Kris headed back downstairs just as Bobby walked back in to the house.

'Bobby, good you're home.' Kris said practically collaring Bobby as soon as he came in the room. 'You need to phone your family in L.A. straight away, Calum's men have taken Rebecca.' Kris quickly explained leading him through to the study, Bobby entered the room spinning Kris round to face him.

'They took Rebecca!' He said shock across his face but not in his eyes Kris noted to her self. 'When? How?' He blurted out.

'Your brother will explain but you need to call them now. The number's right here on the pad look.' Kris pointed out before turning to head out of the room.

'Where are you going? Where's Cate and your friends, why aren't they here?' Bobby asked picking up the receiver.

'They're out tracking down information to get Rebecca back, I said I'd wait here for you but I've got to go and meet them now and help. Cate thought you'd understand that she was out straight away finding out anything she could to get Rebecca home safe and sound.' Kris said testing the waters with Bobby, seeing what his reaction would be to that. He paused a moment before he spoke, as if thinking the best thing to say.

'Of course.' He said shaking his head like he was shaking him self out of some kind of trance. 'Of course that's what she should be doing. You'd best go and join them, like you said, I need to phone the family talk with them, has any one told Scotty yet?'

'Cate said she would call him. Look, I'd better get to your sister and the others, we'll all be back before you know it, try not to worry.' Kris said squeezing Bobby's forearm as she did to show some kind of sympathy towards him, playing his game. They nodded to one another as Kris briskly rushed out of the room, she had the urge to punch Bobby, she couldn't bare to be in the same room with him for much longer. Walking through to the garage Kris put on Cate's boots, at least they fit her, threw on the jacket, started the bike and peeled out of the garage and on to the road just as quickly as she could.