Chapter Fourteen
Miami 8:00 p.m.
in LA 6:00 p.m.
in Vegas 5:00 p.m.
in Denver 5:00 p.m.
in Oklahoma 6:00 p.m.
in Dallas 6:00 p.m.
in DC 8:00 p.m.
in New York City 8:00 p.m.
Saturday April 26th, 2007
Lisa was sitting at the kitchen table thinking about what Eric might think when he found out she had lied about who she was, had changed her name and had ran away from home twelve yrs ago. She got up and made herself a glass of ice tea, turning she opened her mouth to ask JT if he wanted some, then she remembered that Tommy had left, that he had had to run. Tears started gathering in her eyes as the doorbell rang, Lisa wiped at them as she went to the door. Opening it she was shocked to see Eric, Horatio, Ryan, Calleigh and Alexx standing on the front porch.
"Hey, Eric, guy's what are you doing here?" Lisa said as she opened the door wide and let them in to the house and into the front room. They gathered around the front room, Lisa motioned to the couch's and chairs in the room, they all sat down.
"Do you guy's want something to drink? I have some ice tea, made fresh just an hour ago?" Lisa said smiling, as she stood beside the loveseat that Eric was sitting on.
"No thanks Lisa, we need to talk to you and JT, is he here right now?" Eric asked as he looked at his girlfriend and fiancé as she sat down beside him.
"No. He had to go out of town last night. What do you need to talk about?" Lisa asked as she looked at Eric, who was studying Lisa like he had never seen her before.
"Lisa, one of the parents of your students ran a check on you and JT, a very deep and thorough check. They sent the findings to the police, Lisa, we know that you ran away and that you have changed your name. That your real name is Trini Kwan and that you were born and raised in Angel Grove California. And we know that JT's real name is Tommy Oliver and that he is wanted for kidnapping a young boy named Justin Stewart and that he is also suspected of molestation. We know that you probably didn't know about Oliver, but we need to know were he is." Horatio said gentle, as he watched how she reacted to the news of them knowing about her and the news about Thorten.
"THAT'S A LIE!! Tommy didn't do anything to anybody, and Justin he's…" Lisa started to say but stopped as a explosion rocked the house. She ran to the door and yanked it open, across the way Dojo lay in ruins as it burnt from the explosion, Lisa rushed outside and across to the Dojo. The others followed behind her, Horatio pulling out his cell phone and calling it in.
"No!" Lisa yelled and tried to run into the Dojo but Eric grabbed her from behind and held on to her, stopping her from going near it.
"Lisa, no, there's nothing that can be done. I'm sorry." Eric said as he pulled her back away from the ruins of the Dojo.
"Why? Why would someone do this?" Lisa said as she remembered when she and Tommy had painted and fixed the place up after building the place. They had fixed it just the way they had wanted it, and had wished to one day show the guy's the place in person. Behind her and Eric, Horatio picked up a piece of paper that was tacked up on a tree near the Dojo. He read it quickly and then looked over at Lisa.
"Lisa, I found a note. 'Give up or watch yet another friend die.' It's signed with a pink number one. Lisa, what's going on, was someone in the Dojo?" Horatio said as he held the note up for her to read, while Eric stepped back from her.
"No, no one was in there. She… she tried to kill me to get to Tommy? Why? She should know that if she killed me that Tommy would never go near her. He would hunt her down and kill her himself. And what did she mean 'watch yet another friend die', none of us are dead?" Lisa said as she looked at Horatio, trying to hold back tears as she felt the lost of Eric's arm.
"Lisa, what do you know about this and Oliver? You weren't shocked about him?" Horatio said as he looked at Lisa with suspicion in his eyes. Eric and them looked at her in the same way, it hurt to have Eric look at her like that.
"That's none of your business Horatio, this has nothing to do with you or… uh, Zach. He's… he's the only one of us that's dead. But… oh my god, she… she killed him. But why, Zach didn't do anything to Kim. So why kill him? I… I don't understand, why?" Lisa said as she turned and looked at Horatio, then turned around and looked at the ruins of the Dojo once more. Eric and Horatio looked at each other, while Calleigh and Alexx went to her.
"Lisa, what are you talking about?" Alexx said as she wrapped her arms around her, Lisa leaned her head on Alexx's shoulder, tears running down her checks.
"Kim did this, she wants Tommy back. Now I know why Jason said that we had to run and hide, she was threatening us. She killed Zach, but I don't know why. Zach didn't have any… Tommy. Zach liked Tommy, he had thought of asking him out. Was going to when he got back from Chicago, but he got killed before he could come home. She killed Zach because Zach was going to ask Tommy out, but that… that was a four months after she had dumped Tommy. Why would… she never wanted anyone to date him. She wanted to date others but she didn't want him to date anyone else." Lisa said, not really noticing the others that were there. Horatio, Eric and Ryan looked at each other then at Lisa.
"Lisa, we need to know what is going on?" Horatio said gently as he walked up to her and Alexx. Lisa looked up at him then down at her feet. She then looked over to Eric, she nodded her head and turned to the house.
"Ok, but we need to go inside for this." Lisa said, then went inside and Lisa went upstairs and grabbed her lockbox and a few other things. Then she came back down, the others were in the kitchen with it's big table. She put the lockbox and other stuff in the middle of the table.
"Ok, you know that my real name is Trini Kwan, and that JT is Tommy Oliver. Ok, I've been friends with JT since he moved to Angel Grove at the start of our sophomore yr in high school. JT started going out with a friend of mine named Kimberly Hart a few months after he got there. They dated till she left and went to Florida to train for the Olympics at start of junior yr, JT and another friend of mine, Jason Scott started dating half-way thru our senior yr. Kim showed up two months before we graduated from high school. She showed up thinking that JT would still be waiting for her I think. She got real mad when she found out that him and Jason were dating. She said that either JT drop Jason or she would make his life a living hell. He told her no so a few day's later she took some drawing that he had done in to the police. How she found out about them I'll never figure out, but they swooped down on JT and wouldn't let him explain about them." Lisa said as she opened the lockbox and started empting it out. She pulled out the folders that held the other id's that she had.
"What were the drawings of?" Ryan asked, talking for the first time as he watched Lisa pull out a large album and a small leather bag, which she put in her pocket.
"JT was… was raped when he was fourteen. He was sent to a number of psychiatrics, who kept saying that he might one day do to others what had been done to him. It scared him to death, the drawings were what his new psychiatrics was having him do to workout those fears, without him having to talk about them. JT is a very private person, he tends to bottle things up. Well the cops wouldn't listen, but finally they did, after six days. But the damage had already been done, he had… he had been beaten and raped a number of times while in jail. A month later Kim was back trying to get JT back, and when he told her no again she sent a fake picture of JT and Justin in bed naked. A few days later Jason and… two of our other friends said that we needed to ran, that JT wouldn't and couldn't survive another stay in jail. But, now that I think about it, they were scared. They must have found out about what really happened to Zach, but didn't tell the rest of us." Lisa said as she sat down, looking at the box as the others looked at what had been in the box. Calleigh looked up at her as she sat down, a lost expression on her face.
"Lisa, your friend Justin, would that be Justin Stewart, the young boy that Oliver is suspected of kidnapping?" Calleigh asked as she opened one of the files and nearly dropped it. Inside was a complete set of papers in another name, it had everything.
"Yes. Uh… ok. You know why we ran. The others have ran by now, so it won't hurt them to tell you this. Jason was going by the name Jay Mason, he's a Texas Ranger, Justin was going by the name JD Dunne and he's a ATF Agent out in Denver. The others are, Adam Park, he became Alex Masters and is a Doctor. Rocky DeSantos he's a NCIS Agent by the name of Anthony DiNozzo, Billy Cranston is a M.E out in Vegas by the name of Will James. Aisha Campbell is a Vet out there too that goes by the name Alyssa Carson, Tanya Sloan is a DJ in New York that goes by Amber Wilton. Katherine Hillard, she went by Kat, she lives in London and uses the name Kelly Wilson." Lisa said as she picked up one of the albums that was on the table and opened it up. She turned it around so that everybody could see it.
"This is Justin at his High school and College graduations," Lisa said pointing to the photos, which showed Justin surrounded by the others, smiling as he held up his diplomas.
"An this is when he graduated from the Academy, then his ATF training graduation, we weren't there for that one. But Justin sent photos, that's his team, he's told me that their like a family. I hate thinking what this has to be doing to him." Lisa said as she pointed to the photos and then turned the album to her, a sad look passing over her face as she touched the face of each of her friends.
"Lisa, were did you get these documents at?" Calleigh asked as she held the folder up and then looked around at the others who were as so staring at the folders in shock.
"Uh, oh. Billy and Justin, why?" Lisa asked as she looked around the table at them.
Miami 8:00 a.m.
Sunday April 27th, 2007
Stella and Vivian pulled up to Trini and Tommy's home there were a couple of cars and a Hummer from the Miami-Dade police department in the drive way. Also to the side where they knew the dojo that they ran sat, a wet burnt-out ruin. They looked at each other as they got out of their rental car and walked up to the front door and rang the doorbell, the door was opened by a tall man with red hair.
"Can I help you ladies?" the man said as he looked them over.
"Yes. I'm Agent Vivian Johnson with the FBI, this is CSI Stella Bonasera of the New York Crime Lab, we need to talk to Lisa Tran and JT Thorten." Viv said as she and Stella showed their badges. The man just nodded and opened the door wide and let them in.
"My name is Detective Horatio Cain, of the Miami-Dade crime lab. Miss Tran is in the front room, but Mr. Thorten is not here." Horatio said as they walked into the front room, Trini and Eric were on the couch talking and Alexx and Calleigh were sitting at a table in the next room looking over what Billy and Justin had done.
"Lisa, these ladies would like to talk to you, FBI agent Vivian Johnson and CSI Stella Bonasera." Horatio said, as Lisa looked up at the women.
"Oh, hello. Uh what can I do for you?" Lisa asked as stood up, she shook Viv and Stella's hands then waved them to the chairs that sat in front of them.
"Thank you Ms. Tran, can I ask were Mr. Thorten is right now?" Vivian asked, as she sat down, Stella beside her.
"JT had to go away on business, why?" Lisa said, hoping that Horatio and them wouldn't say anything about her lie.
"Ms. Tran, we know that you and Mr. Thorten changed your name and ran away from home twelve yrs ago. We know that your real name is Trini Kwan and that JT's is Tommy Oliver. We know about the other eight people that ran away with you, we found Tanya's black book when her boyfriend reported her missing and it had your first names and numbers. When we crosschecked them to get the last names, we found that the names that Tanya had put down were not what was listed in the phone records. We know that your on the run from your former best friend Kimberly Hart, from a letter at Jay Mason's, we also found the identities for when he needed to run. We also found the drawings that JT had done, we realized that they were the kind that a psychiatrist would have had some one do." Vivian said, watching as Lisa started in shock at what she had to say.
"You… you know all of that? You know that JT… Tommy didn't hurt anyone?" Lisa asked, everyone could see the hope and fear in her eyes.
"Yes, Lisa… Trini, we know that he didn't do anything. Now, we need to know what is going on now, why have you all ran, what happened?" Stella asked, sitting forward in her chair.
"Kimberly called, she has been having us followed, I guess. She showed Jason photos of all of us… photos that she really shouldn't have. Some that she would have had to… to break in to places to get the photos. All I ever knew… before now, was that Kimberly said that if Tommy didn't come back to her then she was going to say that all of us had been… been doing what she said that Tommy had been doing. She had already gotten Tommy in trouble and the cops hadn't believed us then, so we figured that they wouldn't believe us this time either. So we all decided that we would take off for awhile and let her forget about Tommy. Well about three months after we had been gone, we got a package, it was from Kimberly. It showed Tommy and Jason, in the bathroom… well she shouldn't have been able to find us, let alone get photos of Tommy and Jason. So that's when we knew that we were going to have to leave for awhile longer then we had planned. After that, we would get packages in the mail about every three months, till just after our Freshmen yr, when Billy did something that hid us. She would find us every once in awhile, after College, but once we moved houses or towns we were hidden once more. In fact we haven't heard from her in about… a two an a half years. I had hoped that this meant that she was gone, it was the longest she had left us alone. Before this, the longest that she had left us alone was eight months." Lisa said, leaning in to Alexx, who hugged her tightly to her.
"Then when JT left, someone working I guess with her blew up the Dojo, and left a note. Saying that they had already killed one of us, and it was signed with Kimberly's signature sign, so I know that it was from her. And the only one of us that's dead is Zach Taylor and then I knew. She had killed Zach because he had thought about asking Tommy out, he must have called and talked to her about it. They were real good friends, I thought." Lisa said, tears running down her face, she wiped them away, as she closed her eyes and breathed deeply.
"Lisa, why didn't you go with JT when he left? That was the plan wasn't it?" Stella asked.
"Yeah, but once the call came from Jay, I just couldn't. Eric had asked me to marry him, and I want to, so I told JT that I was staying. I was going to tell Eric that JT had met the man of his dreams and had ran off with him, then in a couple of months I was going to tell him that I had changed my name and had ran away. I thought that I would work, but one of the parents of our students ran a deep check on us. I guess the times have caught up with us." Lisa said, as she smiled a sad smile at Stella and Vivian, then leaned back and looked up at Eric, as he wrapped his arms around her from behind.
"Now, all we have to do is find all of your friends, clear up this mess and let me meet your parents, then we can walk down the aisle." Eric said with a smile, hope and love shining in his eyes. Lisa twisted around and climbed over the back of the chair, she threw her arms around Eric, kissing him deeply. Alexx and Calleigh laughed at them, tears in their eyes and smiles on their faces. Stella and Vivian just smiled as Lisa sat back down after letting go of Eric and watching him walk back in the other room.
"Lisa, we need to know were Jay is going, can you tell us, please?" Vivian said, looking Lisa in the eye, Lisa, bit her lip as she looked over to a picture of her and JT that had been taken when they had opened the Dojo.