Chapter 12 Missing
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Good days do not last long. Leon and Ada got used to their family lives like normal people and even enjoying their time with their children almost too much, they let their guards down.
June 2016
It's the summer, the kids have their holidays. Jesse signed up for a summer camp which he invited his brother to come along, but Johnny doesn't like the outdoors too much and the duration of the camp is too long for him. Ada is 8 months pregnant, almost due next month. Struggling with her big belly, Johnny attends to her needs most of the time instead of Leon which warms Ada's heart. She just loved how her eldest son is as considerate as Leon, like father like son.
Johnny also kept reading more books and he's getting better at it, he could finish a highschool textbook material within one week. Who knows what this little man can do in the future. The other day Johnny accidentally slipped his mouth (because Ada is too good at teasing anyone for information) about the account Jesse made to invest, Ada was surprised and also delighted about what the boys have achieved. They basically have made their money to attend college with full amount of tuition fees. How on earth are they doing that?
Leon is contented with his 9 to 5 job as the Director of DSO, the workload isn't too much because the days have been peaceful so far. Happily married with wonderful kids, and a third on its way. Leon and the boys have been guessing their newest member's gender but Ada decided to play with them. What she didn't expect was Leon already knew it's a girl, because he thought Ada would appear a little bored if the third child will be a boy. So considering how cheerful Ada has been in her pregnancy so far, it's definitely a girl. She overestimated her self confidence of keeping secrets for me, she's getting bad at this. Leon sometimes chuckles at this thought.
Jesse has been sending his family pictures of his journey in the summer camp, not forgetting to tease his brother for his lack of social life. He also has been constantly texting his mother with sweet sweet words because he also missed her a lot.
But today, it's been quiet whole day. It's been strange for Jesse not sending texts to tease his brother, sharing memes or sending warm regards to his parents. He probably passed out from camp activities, it happens. Leon didn't pay a high attention to this incident thinking Jesse will resume his outrageous humour tomorrow using online languages. Kids these days.
Another day went by, all quiet. Ada began to wonder if Jesse got really busy because one of his hobby is annoying his brother and sharing lame jokes with the family. She checked Jesse's location, still in Greenbrier State Park. Ada didn't put too much mind into it but in the evening, everything changed. Leon randomly checked Jesse's location and found nothing, he thought he saw wrongly. He rubbed his eyes and looked again, it says Jesse's PDA has went offline, and last location was the same Greenbrier State Park.
Didn't want to alert his pregnant wife, Leon dialled Jesse's regular cell phone. It has also went offline. He went to his computer and started tracking Jesse's cell phone history. Last known location was also Greenbrier State Park. Leon frowned at the info, impossible Jesse's PDA died from lack of battery. Their encrypted devices has been expertly improved since, the microbatteries has been developed from sand batteries and gold nanowire fibres. These are the pioneer of the future batteries that do not die, despite these technologies are not widely used in the market yet but Ada got her hands on these materials and got people to make them into the family PDA they held. The batteries don't just die like that.
Leon immediately dialled Principal Davis's number.
'Hello, Mr Davis. This is Leon Kennedy, Director of the DSO. I am requesting your aid in locating my son Jesse Kennedy if he is still in the Greenbrier State Park summer camp with other kids from your school. This is not a joke, just making sure this is not a planned conspiracy from intentional parties.'
'Hello, Mr Kennedy. Yes, understood. I am with the kids now, and I'll check the tents now.' Principal Davis replied.
'Thank you. I will also call the Greenbrier State Park staffs to help you out. Please let me know ASAP.' Leon replied and hung up the phone. He sighed at his anxiousness, because outside of his study is a wife who could read his mind and his face expressions. She is very very pregnant and soon she will dig the truth out of him. Leon stood up and left his home office to speak to his wife.
Ada is in the living room with her eldest son lying on her lap having her to clean his earwax. Johnny liked the tickling in his ear and he fell asleep fast. Leon gave her a dreadful look and she softly pushed Johnny onto a pillow. They went into Leon's home office and closed the door.
'Ada, I guess you know who I'm going to speak about.' Leon spoke.
'Yes, it's about Jesse isn't it? His phone died today. The last time he texted us or his brother was two nights ago.' Ada replied. 'What are you going to do?'
'I guess I'm going to Greenbrier State Park now. I'll update you, don't worry about me.' Leon kissed his wife and took a jacket from his closet. Ada nodded and wished him good luck, she couldn't help but worry more about Jesse. After Leon left the house, she woke Johnny up and signalled him to put on his earpiece and his computer. She then dialled Madam Hu's phone, hoping she's not sleeping yet. 10.30pm.
Ada told Madam Hu about Jesse and notified her about the actions she and Leon are taking. She then turned to Johnny who is in his room wondering why did his mother make him turn on the computer.
'Alright Johnny, time for education but this is not a joke. Your brother is missing, his PDA and cell phones are off. I'm going to teach you how to reactivate the PDA remotely with a code.' Ada said to his young son. She was going to do this herself but considering how terribly pregnant she is, she's going to be exhausted staying up and sitting for too long under the stressful emotion when she's worried about Jesse.
Ada then guided her son through the complicated process of slipping into satelites, pinpointing the device and send out a code.
'Got it! North Carolina?' Johnny looked at his screen, confused.
'Are they moving?' Ada asked.
'No, he's at a small town called Biscoe. Should we call him?' Johnny replied.
'Johnny, no. He might be abducted, can you activate video feed? Here click this and type activate video feed, then the code. Enter.' She guided.
'Ok.' Johnny then brought up a screen of darkness. Nothing can be seen from the video feed. He also brought up the audio. Dead silence. This is getting creepy, he thought. Ada's thoughts were blinking at an alarming rate, contemplating the best solution to take action in order to tackle the problem.
'Look, Johnny. I can't leave you alone in this house with a baby in my belly. I want you to call Daddy now and tell him to turn back from Greenbrier, use your card to buy him a ticket from DC to North Carolina. Then pack your bags with some clothes, we need to leave this house. Bring your laptop with you, we are racing against time.' Ada said to his son clearly.
Johnny nodded and did what she asked swiftly. Ada went into her room, grabbed some weapons and tossed them along with some clothes into her travel bag. Clearly annoyed with whoever dares to mess with her family, life is never easy for her. She stretched her aching back and caressed her belly softly whispered, 'Hang in there little one, stay tight with me.'
Ada then walked out of her room and checked with her son. They left the house and hopped into her BMW i8 which she hid it at the VIP parking spot. She is driving them to their New York house in Upper East Side, thinking that Leon's place might be compromised.
Ada dialled Leon's number while driving.
'Leon, I'm going back to my old house in Manhattan. Johnny will assist you if you need him to.' She spoke.
'Ada, don't involve Johnny in this. He's too young for this cruel world.' Leon replied.
'Leon, honey. I don't mean to change your viewpoint in raising a child but, I don't prefer protecting them if I can teach them how to survive. Johnny might be even smarter than both of us, if Jesse really got taken by our enemies who knows if Johnny wouldn't be the next?' She said in a worried tone.
'Ada, I agree with you but I'm not sure if he's ready. He's only 9 years old.' Leon sighed.
'Leon, you bought him Harry Potter when he was 5 years old. You convinced me back then, look how he turned out and now I'm telling you back.' She assured him. 'We can never prepare for what's ahead of us. I rather guide him now than regret later.'
'Alright.' Leon gave up arguing. Then Johnny spoke into his earpiece.
'Oh, it started to move! Jesse's phone.' Johnny exclaimed. 'It's going into the Uwharrie National Forest!'
'Who the hell is bringing him into a forest?' Leon said angrily.
'Good luck, Leon.' Ada said.
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