Chapter Eleven

Cherokee Indian Reservation, Oklahoma 9:00 a.m.

Dallas 9:00 a.m.

in Denver 8:00 a.m.

in DC 11:00 a.m.

in New York City 11:00 a.m.

in Vegas 8:00 a.m.

in LA 7:00 a.m.

in Miami 11:00 a.m.

Sunday April 27th, 2007

Walker looked at the Rez as they drove up to the house of Jesse Trueheart, it was a small house. In front of the house was a pickup, an old beat-up blue two-tone Ford truck. Walker and Trivette got out as a man stepped out of the house. He was in his late fifties; he had long salt and pepper hair.

"Washo, what do I owe this visit to?" asked Jesse as he waved Walker and Trivette into the house. They walked into the house, then went into the kitchen.

"In the course of a investigation we found half of your old arrowhead necklace that your father gave you and we were wondering if you knew how it had gotten in the position of a Jay Mason also known as Jason Scott?" Walker asked, Jesse just shock his head.

"I don't know, I gave the two halves of the arrowhead necklace to my son's at their births. I know that David still has his, but… my youngest one… he was adopted when he was a baby. I begged the nurse to let him have it, but I don't know if they were able to do it or if they even tried." Jesse said as they sat down at the table.

"Do you know of any way to find your youngest?" Walker asked, as Jesse stood up.

"No, sorry Washo. I don't even know what his name is. Do you want something to drink, or eat?" Jesse asked as he went to the refrigerator and pulled out a bottle of coke and the fixings for sandwiches.

"I'll take a coke, that's it." Walker said.

"Do you have any Pepsi?" Trivette asked as he got up and went to fix himself a sandwich.

"Yes. Just grab a bottle." Jesse said, he turned as the front door was opened.

"Dad, I hope you don't mind but I got a couple of… other things. Oh, sorry." a young man said as he walked in with two bags of stuff.

"It's ok David, this is Washo, his you're… what eight cousin, on my mother's side?" Jesse said as he turned to Walker, who just nodded.

"Yeah. Texas Ranger Cordell Fire Walker, but most people call me Walker. This is Ranger James Trivette, my partner." Walker said to David as he looked at David. He could see something familiar about the boy, but he couldn't lay his figure on it.

"Oh, uh what are you guy's doing here. Isn't Oklahoma a little out of you way?" David asked as he put down the two bags that he had and turned around and started for the front door.

"Yeah. But we need to talk to your father about something." Walker said, David nodded and went back outside, Trivette went with him, and they brought in six more bags of stuff, then went back out and brought in more drinks. Walker and Jesse unloaded the bags, there was food and other stuff.

"David, why did you buy so much? And what is this?" Jesse asked as he held up three memory sticks.

"Oh, those are for my computer and as for the food… I don't know. I just felt like we would need it." David said. The he made himself a sandwich and grabbed himself a coke and sat down with the others.

"So what was it that brought you guy's here?" David asked as he took a bite out of his sandwich.

"We found half of your Dad's arrowhead necklace, we were trying to found out how a Jay Mason, also know as Jason Scott would have gotten a hold of it." Trivette said as he eat his sandwich and watched David, he felt that David looked familiar, but didn't know were from. David looked at them in shock then slowly got up.

"You found… you found Jason? How? Were the others there?" David asked as he started pacing around the kitchen. Jesse looked at Walker then back to David.

"David, you know this Jason Scott?" Jesse asked as he watched David as he grabbed his drink and took a long drink.

"Uh…" David started but then Walker spoke up.

"David, you know about the others that ran away with Jason, twelve yrs ago?" Walker asked as he watched David.

"Uh… yeah. Dad, I lied when I said that I couldn't find my baby brother. I did find, and I even got to know him a bit. But… His name is Tommy. Tommy Oliver, he ran away twelve yrs ago and… and this is the first time that we have heard anything about even one of them. How did you find Jason, anyways?" David asked as he stopped pacing and turned and faced them.

"Jay went missing up in New York, he actually works with me he's a Texas Ranger." Walker said, David just smiled and thought 'Once a Ranger, Always a Ranger'.

"Have… have you found the others yet?" David asked as he looked solely at Walker.

"Yes, we have found were they are, but we think that Jay sent out the word for them to run. We know that Rocky DeSantos, Tanya Sloan and Billy Cranston have all gone missing. And Tanya Sloan was last seen with Jay right after he went missing." Walker said, David just nodded at that.

"Yeah. That sounds like Jason. I take it that they are most likely spread out and most of them are off by themselves but Tommy and Billy." David said as he looked at Walker then at his father who was sitting in shock, he hadn't said anything since David had told him that he had lied about Tommy.

Yeah. How did you know that?" Trivette asked as he looked at David.

"I found Tommy when he was Seventeen, I hung out with him a lot for about six months. I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life at the time, then Tommy's adopted father told me that maybe I should join the Marines or something. So I joined the Navy and tried out for the Navy SEALs, and I got in. I'm on leave right now, but when Tommy and them took off, it was three weeks before I found out that they had taken off." David said, then he turned to his father.

"Dad, you have to understand, I… I didn't want to get your hopes up. I… I really didn't think that we would ever find them. Ever. And I didn't see why I should tell you when you would most likely never get to see Tommy." David said, Jesse nodded at him, then he sighted.

"It's alright David, I understand." Jesse said, as he got up and pulled David into a hug.

"David, can you think of were they would run to now?" Walker asked as he thought about what David had said and what he hadn't said.

"No. Even then, I had no ideal. An trust me, I tried to find them. All I can think of is that they will have a back up plan, and that if we don't find them now… we most likely won't ever find them, again." David said, Walker nodded at what he said.