"Where's our little girl?" Zoe questioned walking into the hospital room a few hours later, to see her boyfriend sitting up in the bed watching a kid show. She hadn't been able to find Lavon when she was leaving the prison and what she had to talk to him about could wait until a later date.
"She ran away with the traveling circus that came through," Wade replied with a very serious look on his face. "As her father who am I to ruin her dreams?" He questioned, holding out a hand for her to take.
"A loving father is who," she retorted, letting him pull her down next to him on the bed. "But really where is she?" She asked, playing with his fingers on the hand that rested in her lap.
"She's at the gift shop with the warden," Wade informed his girlfriend. "He stopped in to make sure that I haven't made an escape and let us in on the fact he came to see his little boy."
"I didn't know he had a son, what happened?" She quickly asked feeling worried about the man that she worked for that had easily become a good friend to her.
"Something's wrong with his heart, he's waiting on getting a transplant done, but you know how that goes," Wade sighed, squeezing her hand lightly.
Zoe nodded, knowing just how that went for a person no matter the age. "Do they have a donor?" She asked. There wasn't much she could do to help Lavon out but she felt she had to do something, anything with how much he was helping her out when it came to Wade. There had to be some little thing she could do.
"No we don't, thought we might, but it fell through," Lavon stated from behind. Zoe turned enough to give him a sympathetic smile. She was determined to help him out any way she could. Her smile turned to a frown, a surge of panic ripping through her when she noticed that her daughter wasn't with the warden. "She's with my wife, Evie and Austin are playing a little game, I do promise to bring her back to you once my little man needs to rest," he said noticing the panic that had arisen from within Zoe. "I should be getting back."
"Thanks and if you need anything regarding you son, let me know and I'll see what I can do for you," Zoe told him. Lavon nodded, heading out. He didn't want to stay gone any longer than he had too, but he wanted to inform Zoe and Wade what was going on with their daughter.
"Did you see Jesse?" Wade asked bringing his girlfriend's attention back to him. He could see that he was going to lose her if he didn't do something and with Evie not there it was the perfect moment to ask about his brother.
Zoe nodded. "He's the reason I had to go in, he wouldn't see any one else, nothing was wrong, a few cuts on his hands, he said sorry and wanted to know how you were doing," she filled him in.
"I know this is his whole mess, but I do feel sorry for him," Wade sighed, closing his eyes. "He's my brother and I feel like I should've done more to keep him from going down the path he had gone down."
"There's nothing you could've done, Wade," Zoe told him. "He's lost and he's trying to find his way from everything that happened to him. Once it first happened he wasn't able to focus on the pain because he was taking care of you, but once you didn't need him anymore he had the time to actually think about the pain he felt for losing your mom, he was able to finally mourn her and he didn't take it easy and lashed out, there was no way you could've stopped him," Zoe said, bringing her head down to rest against his forehead.
"I still don't like seeing him like this, that's part of why I had to help him, to keep him from ending up behind bars but what kind of brother am I when I can't even stop that from happening?" He asked bitterly, mad at himself.
"The best brother a guy could ask for," Zoe quickly replied with. "If it wasn't for you, he would've been behind bars a long time ago; you've talked him out of doing a lot of stupid stuff. I never liked that you would blow me and your daughter off to help him out, but I do understand why you did it for, you were looking out and protecting him the best you could. But it really is doing him good to be where he is at because now he's seeing just what his actions can do too not only him but everyone else. It's the lesson he needed to learn the hard way."
"Why must you be right?" He asked with a small smirk.
"I'm not always right," Zoe told him with a small laugh. "But I do like you think so," she smiled, lightly grazing her lips against his.
"What do you want?" Jesse asked seeing just who was waiting to see him. He didn't like it one little bit. Now he knew what that bad feeling in the pit of his stomach had been the second he had woken up that morning. He had tried to push the feeling away, but the more time that went by the stronger the feeling got and when he was told he had a visitor he knew he it wasn't going to be good, other than George no one else came in to see him simply because he didn't have anyone else to come and see him and he was okay with that. He wanted to think that Wade would've came in and seen him if he wouldn't have gotten his little brother locked up with him.
"I need you to do a favor for me," the man smirked, seeing how mad Jesse was getting at that those little words.
"Haven't I done enough for you?" Jesse asked with a snarl. "I did what you wanted and you framed me!" He growled out, keeping his voice low not wanting to draw attention to them.
"It shouldn't have been that way," the man told him. "I didn't know Jonah was going to be there and I didn't tell you to shoot the kid, just the old man," Jesse's visitor barked at him, getting upset with the turn of events. No one told him no and got away with it.
"But the ol' man was dead when I showed up," Jesse argued back feeling outraged that he would show up and demand him to do something that he had been told he didn't need to do because he was out and done with it all. He wanted to better his life.
"Again that wasn't the plan. Now are you going to do me that favor?" The guy asked through clenched teeth. He was done playing games.
"Not going to happen," Jesse sneered at the man. "I was told I was free when I did that last job for you," he smarted off, ready to get up. He didn't have time to listen to lies and excuses that just didn't add up no matter how long he thought about it, he had been framed and he was too stupid to realize it back then.
"If you want to live you will sit back down," the man warned him with a smug smirk on his face.
"Kill me, I don't care," Jesse told him coolly, with a small shrug.
"What about your brother? Or how about his little girl and girlfriend?" The man asked knowing he had Jesse right where he wanted him at.
"You won't touch them or hurt them. You will stay the hell away from them," Jesse hissed sitting back down. He didn't want to do any favors for anyone that wasn't his family. He would do most anything for Wade and Zoe after what he had put them through, but he would refuse to do anything for the man that had ruined his life to begin with.
"You do this one thing for me and I'll get you out of here and you won't ever see me again," the man smirked, leaning forward some. "Do we have a deal?"
Jesse took a deep breath to get his anger under control. He couldn't turn this down. He wanted out of prison he did, but above that he couldn't let anyone harm what family he did have left. It was up to him to keep his little brother safe and he had failed at that once, he couldn't make the same mistake twice. It wasn't even a question he would do it to save Wade and his brother's girls.
"What do you need me to do?" Jesse asked, not liking that he had to make deals to keep Wade safe and he only had himself to blame for such a thing.
"You're going to have a very special visitor in the next few days, you will do as they say in the time allotted and I'll be back once the deal is done and you've held up your end," the man smirked getting up from his seat.
He would do what they asked of him, he had no choice in the matter, he couldn't let his family get hurt anymore than they already were because of him, but he had to come up with a plan of his own to make sure that all parts of this deal were withheld and followed through. He wasn't going to let anyone double cross him.
