"TAKE MY BREATH AWAY"
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
Title: "Take My Breath Away"
Author: Michelle Heath
Rating: MA for adult situations and language
Summary: Continuation of the "Salvation" series by popular demand
Disclaimer: I so do not own Hawaii Five-0; unfortunately! All original characters are the property of the author!
Date Written: April 4, 2011
(Still concerned about the worry he heard in Sam's voice, Steve hits the end button on his cellular phone and shoves it in his pocket. He looks up to find Kono "sliding" something onto the flat screen monitors. Five pictures pop up; two women and three men, and Steve, correctly, assumes they are photos of Callie Newton, Claire Anderson, David Maxwell, Jake Anderson, and Charlie Chapman Stepping closer to the largest monitor, Kono points out each person as she brings Steve up to date. She starts by pointing to the picture of the woman who was on the security footage at the rental car agency.)
"This is Calinda Mae Newton, AKA, Callie Newton. She's an only child of an upper-middle class family. Her mother was a legal secretary and her father was an accountant, and they moved to San Francisco shortly after Callie graduated from high school because her father was offered a partnership with a prestigious accounting firm there. Her parents were killed two years later during a home invasion/robbery by members of a local gang. Callie was attending UCLA and was in Los Angeles at the time of the robbery. Although the S.F.P.D. had several suspects, they were unable to gather enough evidence to convict anyone of the Newton's murders. Callie dropped off the map after her parents were killed until she turned up back here in Honolulu and was arrested for cocaine possession for which she served eighteen months. .
Next we have Claire Anderson, Jake Anderson's sister. Their father walked out on them when Jake was two and Claire was three weeks old. Their mother got a job as a waitress at a truck stop and made ends meet by working as a prostitute after her shift ended in the restaurant. She left her kids with which ever of the other waitresses wasn't working at the time. When they were six and four, respectively, their mother was arrested for stabbing a truck driver to death after he refused to pay for her 'services'. She was convicted of second degree murder and was sentenced to forty-five years. There were no other family members, so Claire and Jake were put into foster homes. Their mother was killed in a fight with another inmate at the prison a year after her conviction. Claire and Jake finally ended up with Major and Mrs. Carl Anderson as foster children and the Andersons adopted them when they were nine and seven. Claire met Charlie Chapman when they were in the ninth grade, they started dating, and were inseparable until she became pregnant their Senior year and her parents sent her to boarding school in France after the baby was born and put up for adoption. Since Claire and Charlie were both still minors when the baby was born, their parents signed the release papers putting the baby up for adoption. The day Claire turned twenty-one, she packed up and left the boarding school and went to Paris looking for Charlie, only . . ."
"Only Charlie was already back in the States."
"Yeah, and Claire was killed in a traffic accident in Paris shortly after she left the boarding school. Jake Anderson, unlike his sister, was a problem child almost from the time his mother was sent to prison. He was constantly picking fights and getting into trouble at school, and was involved in some misdemeanor vandalism incidents through middle school. Maj. Anderson, however, apparently threatened to send Jake to military school if he didn't straighten up, and that, seemingly, got his attention because for the next four years, Jake was a model citizen on the surface. We now know that it was during that time that he raped Lana and did God only knows what else and managed not to get caught."
(Before continuing, Kono sends Steve a look that lets him know that his is definitely NOT going to like what she has to say next.)
"After graduating from high school, Jake Anderson enlisted in the U.S. Army where he remained for six years until he was dishonorably discharged after being involved in a bar fight off-post in which a man was killed. Although the authorities didn't have enough evidence or witnesses to charge Anderson with manslaughter, he had been written up for minor offenses enough times that his C.O. had had enough. Steve, the last four years he was in the Army, Jake Anderson was Delta Force. Once he was discharged, he, too, dropped off the map until he called Lana a few days ago. I've tried to get information on exactly what ops he may have been involved with while in Delta, but they're all classified."
(The wheels are beginning to turn and Steve, now knowing that Jake Anderson was Special Forces, is positive that he is George Gatney's killer. They had already decided that the murder was committed by a professional, and it doesn't get much more professional than someone trained by the U.S. Government. The question is, why was Gatney killed?)
"We need to connect the dots, Kono. . . Where's the information on Charlie Chapman's family?"
"Right here. What are you looking for, Steve?"
"Chapman's brother and sister . . . Here it is; Michael and Melissa Chapman both graduated from Harvard, David Maxwell was in his fourth year of medical school; again, at Harvard. I bet, if we contact the Cambridge, Massachusetts Police Department and get them to take a picture of Callie Newton over the to campus, we'll get some hits."
"You think Newton was in Cambridge sometime after she went under the radar and before she resurfaced here."
"Yeah, Kono, I do."
"Why?"
"Callie Newton and David Maxwell dated all through high school. After her parents were killed, she might have gone looking for him because she had no family and she and David had been close at one time. . . We need to know what Jake Anderson was involved with when he was with Delta. Get in touch with the Cambridge Police Department and the University Police Department at Harvard. Get them pictures of Callie Newton and ask them to canvass the campus. I'm going to call my father-in-law and see if he can get us some more information on Jake Anderson."