Chapter 11.
'This is useless' Jessie said pacing up and down the width of the carriage house.
'Its not Jessie really, we're getting so much from you.' Jaime said reassuringly.
'Really, you're getting lots from me. Jaime I think I've told you all the same thing over and over again and I've forgotten how many times I've told you! This really just isn't working.' Jessie flopped down in to the couch deflated and defeated.
'Well, things may be a little stale here but that's no surprise really.' Rudy said scratching his forehead.
'How so Rudy?' Oscar asked.
'Well, Jessie you've been here for a while now and only visiting the same things in your mind over and over, there's nothing here that would forcibly trigger something.'
'Forcibly trigger?' Jaime echoed.
'What if we took Jessie back to where everything happened.' The room fell silent to the suggestion.
'Why the hell not.' Jessie said, Jaime looked at her surprised 'Why not Jaime, it makes sense, perfect sense, let's do it.'
'Are you absolutely sure about this Rudy?' Jaime asked concern coursing through her.
'No one can ever be absolutely sure when it comes to memories and regaining them but as a trigger mechanism I think it's our best plan.' Rudy explained.
'All right then, we go, all of us. Let's get you two packed and ready to go in, oh, let's say an hour two at the most.' Oscar decided for everyone. Jaime and Jessie both got up from their seated positions and headed out of the main room to start packing some essentials for a few days.
'I hope she's ready for this Rudy. Who knows what she will fully regain and what dangers it may bring.' Oscar said picking up the phone, he needed to make a few calls to organise getting them all back to the place of the incident and make sure it was kept as quiet as possible.
Like clockwork everyone was ready to leave the ranch to head back to DC and the crash site. After some quick goodbyes to Jim and Helen and promises that they would be safe Jamie and Jessie drove off with Rudy and Oscar heading for the airstrip.
A few hours later and the team was on the road again heading out to the site where everything happened. Parking the cars to the side of the road Jamie, Jessie, Rudy and Oscar all walked to the centre of the road which had been closed off to the public so that they could conduct their own investigation with out distraction.
'So you were all coming in from that direction.' Oscar said signalling with his hand to the direction at the end of the road to the right of them.
'Right, we came in from that direction.' Jessie walked part of the distance and stopped, Jaime not far behind her.
'What is it?' She asked. Jessie kept her eyes trained on the road then turned them down to her feet.
'This is where the first explosion went off. That tree, I remember that like a marker. That was where the first car went up in smoke the car I was in swerved to avoid and ended up over there.' Jessie pointed as she walked towards the point. 'The other two cars one landed there after the impact of the smaller explosions around it flipped it a few times.'
'Wait, there were smaller explosions?' Oscar said looking around
'Yeah, didn't you find any evidence of that when your guy's swept the area?' Jessie asked turning back to look at Oscar.
'No, no they didn't and I'd like to know why. Keep going Jessie, you're doing really well.' Jessie turned back to the road moving a little further up it Jaime following her not too far behind. Jessie continued on more and more came back to her as she did, Oscar had Rudy make notes of all the new information they were discovering a lot of it making him uneasy and angry.
'How is it possible that the team that came out here to work this site missed so much of what you have just described?' Oscar asked removing his glasses and rubbing his eyes.
'I could be wrong Oscar there's not really any guarantee that what I've just told you is fact. It could be a mesh of memories all coming at once.'
'Jessie from what we have in our official incident report and what you have just told us I'm certain that you've described everything correctly, but someone wants to make sure we don't see something, something that would lead us back to the mole.' Oscar stated as he placed his glasses back on.
'Well, I think we should head back to head quarters and process this all a little more.' Rudy suggested.
'Good idea we'll do that. Jaime, you and Jessie had better head to the hotel get yourselves booked in, we'll call you when we've got some things figured out like how the investigative team missed all of this!' Oscar boomed in annoyance quickly turning on his heel he stormed to his car with Rudy not far behind him.
'That didn't really make him that happy now did it?' Jessie asked Jaime as they watched Oscar and Rudy leave.
'Don't worry about it Jess, he's just angry at the situation is all. Come on let's get on to the hotel get freshened up a bit and maybe get something to eat.'
'Sounds good to me.' Jessie said walking beside Jaime to the car. Just as they reached the car both bionic women stopped dead in their tracks.
'You heard that too right?' Jessie asked turning her head slightly to Jaime.
'Yeah, sounded like someone cocking a gun to me.'
'Yeah from behind but not that close.' Jessie continued then in what seemed like a split second grabbed Jaime by the arm and threw them both across the trunk of the car as bullets began to fly. Bullets hit the car and area around the two bionic women who stayed close to their car for protection.
'Think we've upset someone?' Jessie quipped. Jaime said nothing but stayed down out of the way waiting for the firing to stop. Soon peace fell again both women using their bionic hearing listened for clues as to what might happen next, they both could hear someone running, a car door slam shut and then the car moving fast away from where it was away from Jaime and Jessie's position.
'What was that all about?' Jaime wondered aloud.
'I think someone's trying to tell us something.' Jessie answered getting up from behind the car and surveying the damage.
'Well I wish they wouldn't use automatic weapons to do it.' Jaime said back meeting Jessie at the other side of the car looking at the holes that were fanned across it. Glass from the windows lay across the seats and road, the car wasn't going anywhere in a hurry. Jaime's gaze went from the car to Jessie when she noticed something that made her panic.
'Oh my God Jessie, you're bleeding!' Jaime rushed to the young woman's side. Jessie looked down to her side where there was indeed blood on her sleeve. Jaime grabbed her looking for a wound.
'It's not me Jaime, I've not been hit.' Realising who had been hit Jessie looked straight to Jaime and saw the wound. 'Jaime, your arm.' Jaime looked at her left arm, just below the shoulder she saw her own blood. Placing her hand over the wound straight away Jaime wobbled slightly on her feet.
'Oh my.' She said looking back to Jessie who in turn steadied her, leading her to sit on the hood of the car.
'It's OK Jaime. Let check the wound ok?' Jessie said reassuringly. Jaime lowered her hand from her arm her hand now covered in blood. Jessie helped Jaime take her jacket off so that she could get a better view of the wound.
'Looks like it's just a graze.' Jessie said after a quick examination of the arm.
'That's a lot of blood for a graze.'
'Yeah well you're obviously just a bleeder.' Jessie teased trying to lighten the mood. 'Trust me this kind of wound can produce a little more blood than you think. Wait here a minute I'll see if there's a first aid kit in the car or something we can use to stop the bleeding, I don't think it's that bad but I'm sure you'd rather not have blood continue to pour out?'
'I'd prefer that it didn't.'
Jessie looked through car finally finding a first aid kit in the trunk.
'Ok, here we are.' Jessie said taking out bandages 'Let's just pack some of this on to your arm and wrap it. Once we get back to HQ, I'm sure Rudy will do a much better job.' Jessie said as she placed wads of bandage onto Jaime's wound and then wrapped it with bandages. 'As the car isn't going anywhere right now, you think you're up to walking to the nearest phone?' Jessie asked Jaime looking at her concerned.
'Yeah, I'll be fine. Besides I've got you to help me, I'll be fine.' Jaime said smiling. Jessie stood back from her looking at her smiling.
'True you have me to prop you up. First though I want to go check the area where the shooter was, you ok with that?' Jessie asked looking over at the tree and hill where the shooting came from.
'Let's go. If the investigative team missed so much from your original attack I'd dread to think what they might miss from this one. In fact.' Jaime said an idea having just come to her. She moved away from the front of the car to its side looking around she found what she was looking for. 'Here we are, I think we should take a couple of these, just to make sure we have them.' Jaime removed a couple of bullets that had flown through the car into it upholstery.
'Good idea, let's go see if the shooter left us anything else.' Jessie led the way to the tree-covered hill. 'Certainly is a good point to shoot from you'd be well covered and unnoticed by anyone.'
'Unless you have bionics.' Jaime said looking around the area where the shooter had been. Grass had been flattened where the shooter had stood and shells were left on the ground. 'It's just as well we do or else we'd be dead.'
'The blessings of bionic hearing. What's to say that this person didn't know that about us though.' Jessie said turning to look back at their car. 'Look at how the bullets are spread across the car, it's like the shooter wasn't even trying to hit us.'
'Excuse me.' Jaime said motioning to her arm.
'Well, all right who ever it was hit your arm but surely if they wanted us dead we'd be dead.' Jessie reasoned.
'Gee nice thought kid, but you're right. Someone is either trying to scare us or warn us and they might just know about our abilities. Come on, let's get back to Oscar and Rudy. I'm not feeling too hot.' Jaime said wrapping her left arm across her waist and steadying it with her right hand. Jessie moved to her side to support her as they moved back down to the road and on to find a phone.
