Chapter Ten
Katie had no idea how Alanna Hennessey had founded her. The last time Katie saw Alanna was four and a half years ago at Jim's house in San Diego, when Sara was only seven months old. Alanna came to see Jim and Sara on Halloween without any notice, being very drunk. Knowing that his ex girlfriend is going to be a problem, Jim decided to do something to make sure that Alanna don't be near their little baby girl unless she get some help. Right away, Jim asked Katie to watch Sara while Jim drive Alanna to the nearest rehab in San Diego. Halfway through the ride, there was a terrible car accident. The car was smashed by a truck, going over the speed limit and hitting where Alanna was siting, at the passenger seat.
When Katie got a phone call from Jim who wasn't injured at all after she finally put Sara in her crib to sleep, Jim told her to go to San Diego Memorial Hospital to be with him. Right away, Katie told him that she come over right away, shut off her cell phone, put a baby monitor in her purse in case Sara got up from her sleep, and quickly drove her car to the hospital in under ten minutes. Once she got there, Katie founded him in the ER and sat right next to him. After a few minutes of silence, Katie turned to Jim and asked him, "How's she is doing?" referring Alanna. Jim saw those pale blue eyes of his college sweetheart and told her that his ex Irish beauty had serious injuries and having surgery to repair her arm. After she heard about Alanna, Katie got closer to Jim, put her hand on Jim's left knee and head on his shoulder to tell him that Alanna is going to okay and when Alanna get out of the hospital, the both of them are going to drive her to rehab, hopefully in the next few days before Katie go back to Las Vegas. Jim smiled at the idea and to get her that is a wonderful plan by putting his right hand on top of Katie's and started rubbing it softly.
That wonderful plan didn't happened. Two days later, when Jim and Katie went back to the ER while a friend of Jim is baby-sitting Sara, the desk clerk told the both of them that Alanna Hennessey got out of the hospital a few hours ago. Wanting to know where she is at, using her year worth of FBI experience, Katie asked the clerk who got Alanna discharged and if there are any clues of where Alanna might be at next. The desk clerk told her that Alanna got herself out and had no clue where Alanna is at right now. "Thanks for your help." said Katie who is giving her card to the clerk in case she want to do a missing person case on her. The clerk looked a little shocked when she looked down at the card to figured out that Katie is a FBI Agent and had no badge on her but she smiled at Katie and Jim and told them if she heard of Alanna, she called Katie right away. Katie smiled back and with Jim, they walked out of the ER and into his Trailblazer to go home.
Once they got in and put on their seat belts, Jim turned the engine on, turned to Katie and with a serious look on his face, Jim said to her, "Alanna probably never coming back here. She might be gone to rehab." Katie agreed with that. When Alanna was half sober or once, all sober up, she is usually a good listener and a smart woman. If she is that way all the time, this incident would never happened. To stop thinking about this, Jim drove Katie back to his place to hang out with him and Sara before Katie go back to Vegas until she comes back for Sara's first Christmas. Since then, Katie hadn't heard of Alanna until now.
Back to the present. Katie is staring at Alanna like she is a ghost or something. Alanna looked different from when she was last seen. She wasn't wearing much makeup and didn't looked like a whore. In fact, Alanna was wearing clothes that Katie might wear like instead of wearing very revealing shirts like halters and tube tops, she is wearing pretty shirts that shows a little cleavage and instead of mini skirts and short-shorts, she is wearing jeans. She is even wearing a jacket for once. Without a jacket, goosebumps are all over her lightly tan skin. Jim sometimes offered Alanna a jacket so she can be warm but Alanna often told him no and moments later, it really looked like that Alanna really needed a jacket or two. The makeover had changed from a prostitute to a mature woman. Hopefully, the mature thing had came to Alanna's little brain.
Alanna stared back at Katie's shocked face and joked to her, "You thought that you never see me again. Didn't you?" After hearing that question, Katie thought that woman who is asking her that question had fallen out of the Earth but she is really here. Years later. In New York City. When Sara is having a different father. Which Katie is having a crush on. Not that Jim is not the perfect man, he is really but with Martin, Katie sometimes acted like an idiot around him but unusually is fine when she is not staring at his butt. Wanting to know how Alanna got back alive, Katie stopped staring at Sara who is still playing with Emily and Jane and went back to Alanna to ask how?
"Yes, I did but how you got there? I thought that you got out of the radar." asked Katie. Alanna smiled at her and said, "I went to rehab after the accident. After the stint, I went back home to Dublin, had a secretarial job at a law firm, and went to AA meetings there. Right now, I am in New York, visiting my sister." Katie smiled at Alanna, knowing that she did the right thing of recovering from drinking but something don't seem right. Something that is not true. When did Alanna had a sister?
Katie heard from Jim that Alanna had three brothers, no sisters who still lived in Ireland. Unless she had female friends but no woman could wanted to be friends with Alanna Hennessey. She is a rude, selfish bitch who ruined people's lives. Katie knew that from experience. To get the truth out of Alanna's mouth, Katie is thinking of a plan.
After a minute of thinking, Katie had an idea. She could trick Alanna of telling why she's in New York. To do that, Katie did this. With a fake smile on her face, Katie told Alanna that is a wonderful thing she did but Katie wanted to ask something else. "What is it? Katie." asked Alanna. "Part A, completed." thought Katie when she heard her name. Alanna is one step up of following in Katie's trap. She never called Katie by that name. Alanna always called her "Katherine" or once, "Kate." It is okay when Jim called her "Kate" or one of her team mates to called her that. She even got a "Katherine" from her father and once by Jack. "Katherine" or "Kate" coming out of Alanna's mouth sounded like an insult.
Off to part B, Katie asked Alanna what is the name of the sister she is visiting? Alanna looked around for a minute and then turned back to Katie to answered her question. "Well, you never heard of her before. My sister's name is Rebecca. We called her "Becks". said Alanna who had "lying" eyes right now. Katie saw those eyes and knew that is not true. Alanna took a minute of think of that name. If you had a sibling, you say their name right away. Not a whole minute and a look-around. Alanna quickly had fallen to the last part, the one she had to confess.
Katie grinned at her, and joked to Alanna, "No. You not?" Alanna gave her a face and answered back, "No. I am." Katie crossed her arms and asked her if that is true, what job did "Becks" had? Alanna did another of those 'minute and look-around' and answered back in a nervous voice, "She worked for the FBI here in New York." "Which unit?" asked Katie to see that is true. Alanna took another minute to think and told her right away that she worked for Missing Persons. Boom, Alanna Hennessey had just fell in. There is so such woman as Special Agent Rebecca "Becks" Hennessey in Missing Persons, not in the whole agency. Probably not in the entire world. If "Becks" should exist, Katie could probably met her. Alanna hadn't changed at all. She is still the lying, ugly bitch.
To tell her the truth, Katie shook her head from side to side and told her something that might break Alanna. "Alanna, I don't think that your sister don't worked for the FBI or any government agency in particular." Alanna looked at Katie again, and angrily answered back, "It is not true. Rebecca is just shy. Okay, Katherine?" Knowing that Alanna is just seconds before telling the truth, Katie asked her very important. "Why you are really here? Alanna."
Alanna saw the face that Katie had just made and knew right away that she had to tell Katie the truth. Why she, Alanna Rose Hennessey is really here in NYC? To do that, she finally had broken down and answered Katie's question, "I just wanted to see my daughter, Sara." and pointed at the light-browned little girl. Katie stared at the finger and then at Sara who is still happily playing with her friends. After seeing that, Katie turned to Alanna who is about to cry, and asked her, "How did you know that Sara is here?"
Hearing that question, Alanna walked over to the bench where Katie was sitting a couple minutes before while Katie followed her. Once they had sat down, Alanna told her everything. "Once I heard about Jim's death, I went to the funeral. I saw you there and knew right away that was a mistake and wanted to go back home." Alanna wiped the tears away by using her sleeve. After she did that, Alanna went back to the story. "The moment I got to my car on the way to the airport, I saw some woman carrying Sara to a car and putting her inside. It wasn't no one that I know but I knew that I had to get my daughter back." "The minute I got to Ireland, I did everything to find her for almost two years. I did everything from doing research to calling every social workers who worked in foster care like that woman who do Sara's, Keri Moyers to saving up money for me and Sara when I get her back."
A second later, Alanna got closer to Katie to tell her something. "Then last November, I came to New York to find Sara myself. The moment I stepped out of JFK, I went toward her social worker's office and founded out that Sara is getting adopted. I asked the social worker who is the person adopting Sara." Alanna made a disgusting face when she told her the next part. "That social worker told me that part was private and it was only between her, Sara, and the man who is adopting her. After I heard about the man part, I was curious who it was? So after that social worker went home for the night, I broke into her office to find out who the man was."
"Next, I went over to her file cabinet to get Sara's file. Once I finally founded it, I went over to the desk and started looking through it to find out who's the man is." "Who is the father?" asked Katie who is pretended to be shocked since she knew it was Martin. With a smile on her face, Alanna whispered to Katie's ear and said, "Martin Fitzgerald" and got a few inches from Katie to tell her something very shocking.
"The moment I founded out his name, I founded his address and did something that you don't like." That disgusting smile appeared on her face and Katie knew it that Alanna did something horrible. "I went to see what he looked like and whoa, Katie. Jim and Nick are cute, great men to be with but Martin? Wow, he is so unbelievable. I can see why you like him." After hearing that, Katie got pissed off and asked her something. Katie got up, went in front of Alanna's face, and asked her angrily, "What did you do to him?" Alanna smiled to her and said, "Well, nothing but following him around for a few months." Katie got more angry and yelled at her, "you were stalking him?? Did he know about it, your little 'hobby'?"
Alanna got up, got to Katie's face, and yelled back, "No, he didn't. In fact, he doesn't noticed me at all. Even his friend and Sara didn't see me either." Katie knew that the friend she was talking about Danny and got so pissed off that Katie wanted to punch Alanna's fugly face. Also, Katie felt some spit on her face when Alanna was talking. To tell her to stay away from her, her friends, and most importantly, Martin and Sara, Katie did something.
Katie got toward Alanna's face and said to her, "You better stayed away from me, my friends, and most of all, Martin and Sara. Like Jim, Martin is going to be a great father to Sara and will love her very much. I think that something is going to be very wrong when you get Sara back and I don't want to happen. If you don't follow my rules, I will arrest you and you will never see her ever again. Get that?" Alanna went back, and answered back, "Okay. Jesus, from hearing that speech, I am starting to think that you are really like... Wait a minute, I got to change that word." After thinking for a minute, Alanna went back to finish that answer. "Here is the perfect word for it. You love him personally."
Katie got more pissed off than ever. She can't believed that Alanna knew her secret. The whole team and everybody else she knew well expect Martin and maybe Jack already knew that she had a crush on Martin and wanted to be with him. Katie even think that Sara knew it too. Sara probably knew it from seeing her Auntie's face every time she was with Martin. This had gone too far!! Then again, Katie want to do something that she wanted to do for a long time.
Before she could do anything, Katie felt someone tugging one of the sleeves of her trench coat jacket. She looked down to see who it was. The minute she looked down, Katie saw Sara's tired-looking face right below her. From seeing that face, Katie went down to Sara's level and asked her, "Sara. Pumpkin, is there something wrong?" With a little voice, Sara told Katie that she is tired and want to go home. After hearing that, Katie looked down to her watch to see what time is it? It was almost thirty minutes after two. Katie looked down at Sara to ask her it was true? Sara nodded back. After seeing the nod, Katie carried Sara up and told her that their New York adventure is over for the day. Katie also told her since Martin is not home, they are going to Long Island to be with the Tolands instead because Martin is there already. In her soft, little voice, Sara told her okay while Katie snapped her back into the stroller.
After kissing Sara on the forehead when she finally fell asleep, Katie is about to roll the stroller onto the gravel sidewalk. After putting the stroller onto the sidewalk, Alanna interrupted them and told the both of them something. To Sara, Alanna went down and said to her, "Bye, Sara." but when she got to Katie, "I hope to see you very soon." After saying that, Alanna turned around and left the playground. The moment Alanna had turned away, Katie made a face to herself, pushed the stroller back to the apartment building so she can drive herself and Sara to the Tolands to tell Martin what had happened at the park today.