A/N – I think that Jason's ability to be enforcer in one moment and caring in another is what makes him such an interesting character. I never understood why they always had him estranged from his family when he has forgiven others for way worse sins. There will always be a conflict there because of what Jason chooses to do for a living, but there was still a lot of love there. Anyway, thanks for the reviews as always.

Chapter 36 – Safety Breach

The next morning, Jason called Tomas on the phone.

"I need your advice."

He explained what was going on with Anthony and his idea to fix it.

"I have a guy in there right now. He was a mercenary and has two months left on a six month sentence."

"You think he could handle this?"

"We just have to get a few things to him, but I don't think that will be a problem."

"I'm listening."

"If we can take him out from the inside, it will be a lot less messy. My guy works around food, so we could easily slip something into it."

"That's a thought."

"I'll put out a few feelers. Let me see what I can do."

"Thanks, Tomas."

Jason headed over to see Johnny & Claudia.

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Jason knocked on the door of the safe house and a minute later, Claudia answered.

"Hey, is that what I think it is?" She pointed to the bag.

Jason handed it to her and then entered the house. He put the coffee on the table.

"Omg, this is so good."

Johnny strode down the hallway. "Claudia who's here?" He spots Jason and smiled. "Good morning."

Johnny saw the coffee and pastries on the table and grabbed some. "So, any news?"

"I have some people working on getting to Anthony from the inside. I'm doing the best I can to avoid getting him out of prison."

"Is there anything we can do?"

"I'm curious, is Anthony allergic to anything?"

"Um, I don't think so."

"What about his health?"

"He was on blood pressure pills and anti-psychotics."

Jason stopped and thought for a moment.

"When he was at his craziest, what scared him? Did he have any visions or was he hallucinating?"

"Um, he kept seeing some woman. She was dressed in white with dark eyes. He thought she was there to kill him," Johnny said quietly.

"Anything else?"

"I was younger, so that's all I really remember. We'd be in a room and he'd start staring into the corner and start freaking out. It would scare the shit out of me. He was put in a psych hospital for a while several times. The only reason I know what he was seeing is because he'd yell at me, 'Don't you see her?' and then he'd describe her. I'd have nightmares for weeks. "

Claudia sat next to Johnny and rubbed his back, hating that he had to deal with Anthony alone.

"Thanks. I think that might be our answer. I'll get back to you."

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Liz is working on Claudia's painting in the studio. She turned on some music and started to really get into what she was doing. The window with the fire escape was behind her, so she didn't hear someone slip through it until it was too late. She swung around and there is a man with a gun.

"Who are you?"

"You don't need to know who I am. You just need to do what you're told."

"Do you know who my boyfriend is?"

The man laughed. "Of course I do. That is why I'm here."

Liz swallowed hard. She had nothing she could use as a weapon. There is a pallet knife not too far, but it wouldn't do any damage. "What are you planning to do?"

His grin turned sinister. "Let's just say that I'm probably going to enjoy it more than you will."

He starts to move towards her as Liz braces herself. She screams, thinking her guard will hear her, but unfortunately, he's dead.

The man laughed. "You can scream all you want. In fact, it just turns me on. No one is going to hear you."

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Claudia was taking a nap upstairs, and Johnny was downstairs reading, but thought he had heard something. He peeked out the window in the dining room and saw the guards lying on the ground.

"Shit."

He grabbed the gun out of the kitchen drawer and ran upstairs and woke up Claudia.

"Shhh, we got trouble."

Claudia jumped up and grabbed her gun out of the night stand drawer.

Johnny motioned for her to get into the bathroom and he stood behind the door opening. The door slowly crept open and a man started to move forward. Johnny hit him with the butt of the gun and he went down hard, and then Johnny dragged him into the bathroom with Claudia.

"Keep your gun on him."

He went back into the room, hearing a second person coming up the stairs and pause outside the door. There is no time to hide as the man opens the door slightly and then shot threw it, narrowly missing Johnny. Claudia slightly moved out of the bathroom and then shot the man in the head. He collapsed and Johnny jumped raced towards her. They are both breathing really heavily.

"I'm going to check and see if there any more people and get something to tie the other guy up with."

Johnny slowly went downstairs and methodically checked all the rooms and the outside perimeter. There didn't appear to be anyone else around. He called Jason, but there was no answer, so he ran back into the house and looked through the kitchen drawers for something to use to secure their prisoner, but didn't find anything. He went into the garage and finally located some rope and ran back upstairs.

"You okay?"

"I'm fine. How did they find us?"

Johnny turned the man over and tied his hands and feet.

"You know Anthony, he's not going to stop."

The man's phone rang and Johnny answered it.

"Is it done yet?"

"Almost" Johnny whispered.

"Why are you whispering?"

Johnny didn't answer.

"Look, when you're done there, go to the studio to help your brother. We need to send Jason a strong message."

"What's the address again?"

"What are you a fucking idiot? Check your fucking text messages."

"Fine. Have to go."

He hung up the phone and flipped over to the text messages.

"Claudia, can you handle this?"

Claudia shook her head.

"I have to go."

Johnny looked through the man's pockets and found some keys. He grabbed them and ran downstairs. He didn't see a car at first but then he ran out to the road and saw a dark sedan parked down a ways. He ran to it and jumped in and tried calling Jason one more time, and left him a message to meet him at the studio, then drove as fast as he could.