Night before the time trials:
Jill walked into the garage where her car was sitting waiting for the race the next day, "Al what are you still doing here/" she asked her chief mechanic
Al lifted his head up from under the hood of the car. "Just last minute tune up my dear you know me."
"Yes I do. You're sweet. But she's fine and ready. Go home to your family. I'll see you tomorrow." She said as she started for the door.
"Tomorrow." He smiled as he watched her leaving. He looked down at the engine before him and smiled to himself. "Ok she wins. You are done." He lifted the small arm holding up the engines cover before slamming it down closed. With his rag he carefully wiped away the grease marks left from his hand.
Turning out the lights he went to the change rooms and quickly showered off the days grease then changed and started for his own car.
As he past by the garage entrance he thought he heard voices talking quickly and quietly. He was about to turn on the light to find out who was in the garage till he heard someone say the name Devane. With that a new fear rippled through him. Being from Italy himself he knew what the name Devane meant and with that knowledge he stayed in the shadows till after he heard them leaving.
Making his way over to the car he carefully looked around. Not seeing anything visible he quickly took a look underneath. It was there he found what he was looking for.
He had quickly and gently moved back away from the under of the car and called up an old friend. The two of them spent the remainder of the night making some modifications to the car to ensure Jill's safety. Though she may not like it come morning.
Jill sat in stunned silence as her manager, her chief mechanic and someone she didn't know explained what happened the night before.
"I can't believe this."
"Believe it senora. What is under your car will make a very large bang and will leave nothing of you or your car."
She thought back a few days before when she was talking to Kris about losing her address with info and it suddenly made sense. Someone wanted her dead and her crew had saved her life. But what they were asking her now was ridiculous. "I have to call Kris she's going to freak."
"Jill you can't tell anyone. They will be watching. This is the only way for them to think you are dead. It may also save your sisters life in the end."
Jill got up and paced the small room, "Who else knows?"
"Just us here." Al replied. "It was safer."
She turned and looked back on the two faces she knew faces of those she trusted. "What then? I can't stay here I can't go home, cause as much as I hate to admit it you're right, letting Kris know would only put her in danger."
Al's friend looked up at her, "You come with me. I have a small but secluded cabin in the mountains of Austria. We hide there till this all blows over."
"And if it doesn't?" She asked.
Al got up and walked towards Jill, "Senora I know you are scared. But it will work out. You will see your sister again. Trust me."
She smiled at Al, "Trust you. I do every time I sit in that car. But ok." She sat back down. "So I go to my interview come back here and we disappear." She said as she looked up at the stranger before she turned back to Al and her manager, "While you two push the car out to the line with a real likeness dummy and drive it by remote control."
"By the time the car explodes you will be half way through France on your way to the Alps." The stranger spoke again.
He was wrong about one thing. She was barely through the city when she heard the explosion and looked out the back window to see the billow of smoke coming from the direction of the race track.
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Present:
Kris sat on the couch and listened while her sister told the story she heard last night. She still couldn't believe it. Well maybe deep inside she did what she still didn't believe is that she never called, never told her.
"In the end I couldn't stay over there. I came home via a very long way. With stops and lay over's long enough that no one would follow us. I've been in LA for almost a week. I heard about Franco getting shot and that's when I called Charlie." She finished her tale and watched as her friends took it all in.
"Believe me Angels I was as surprised to hear her voice as you were to see her at the hospital. She told me what happened and that was when I told her where you all were."
"This scared me more, when I heard you were hurt again and Bri was in the ER." Jill said as she looked over at Kris who had been quiet the whole time. "Until I saw you standing there I feared the worse. Charlie told me when I called who was behind everything. I went there to see him. To let him see me and let him know he failed."
Kelly looked at her friend and gave a smile, "Well I thin I speak for all of us to say we are very glad your chief mechanic was still around when those guys were planting that bomb."
"And a friend who knew who to rig the car for remote." Sabrina added in.
"Well that makes three of us then. Cause I couldn't even imagine leaving you guys behind like that." She looked at each of her friends, "I'm sorry though that I had to deceive you to thinking I was dead. I know that was hard on all of you." She looked at Kris with her last words.
Charlie's voice crisped through the speaker box, "I agree. You will all be happy to know that the police went by the Devane mansion and found weapons, drugs, laundered money and much more in that warehouse. They also found several missing women. Seems Franco was taking after Stetson in selling women to white slavery." He paused a moment to let them all take in what he had said. "Looks like everything went back to the start. Good job Angels. Take a few days of on me. You all deserve it." There was a slight click as Charlie hung up the phone leaving the Angels and Bosley in the office in silence.
Kris got up and placed her cup on the top of the bar before reaching for her purse and looking at her friends and sister. "I've a few things to take care of and I think Charlie just gave us some time off. I'll se you guys." With that she turned and started out the door.
Jill watched her sister get up and leave the office. Standing up she gave Kelly and Sabrina a weak smile. "I'll call you guys. We can catch up."
"Sure Jill its ok." Kelly said understanding the need for her friend to patch things up with Kris before anything.
"Take the time Jill." Sabrina added in also knowing the two sisters needed this time.
She cast one last look before leaving the office, "I really am sorry about all of this. You know that right?"
"Yeah Jill, we understand." Kelly said quietly letting her friend know they did understand and were there if she wanted to talk.
Smiling an understanding Jill followed after Kris.
Kris sat in her car with her hands gripping tight to the steering wheel, so much so that her knuckles were white. She closed her eyes and tried to push past an anger that was still brewing towards her sister. She knew Jill was not far behind her, it wasn't a matter of seeing her sister follow her a few minutes later it was a matter of knowing her sister. Or at least she thought she did.
Jill opened the passenger door and got in noticing her sisters silence and posture right away. "Thanks for waiting." Jill said quietly and she bucked her seatbelt. But she got no reply from Kris as her sister shifted the car into gear and started for the long silent drive home.
Kris pulled into her parking spot along the side of the beach house. She got out and went straight in the house. Tossing her key and purse on her bed as she had done a million times before she kept going into the living room and around the corner to the kitchen.
Jill followed after Kris and watched her every move. She knew her sister well enough to know what's going on. She walked through the bedroom door and watched as Kris rounded to the kitchen. She knew she would have to ve the one to say something. "Kris."
Kris stood in the kitchen and placed the kettle ion the stove.
"Kris how long are you going to be mad at me?" Jill asked with sincerity.
Kris looked up at Jill and wanted to say nothing but she reacted, "As long as I feel is long enough. Damn it Jill I've heard your story twice and I still can't believe for a second that you didn't call me."
Jill looked at the floor then back up to her sister. "You know why I didn't call. If Franco knew I was still alive he would have killed me anyway and I was trying to protect you. How the hell was I to know he would shoot up the beach house and go for you anyway? I stayed hidden and it killed me Kris, I knew what I was putting your through. Damn it I can't count the amount of times I stopped myself from picking up the phone and calling you. Because I KNEW it was killing you." Jill stepped closer to her sister and she softened. "I wanted to protect you and I am sorry for everything. I love you Kris and that is why I did what I thought was right. I'm sorry."
Kris watched the kettle for a minute but she felt her sisters' presences right beside her. As Jill wrapped her arms around her from behind she caved. She turned and almost melted in Jill's arms as the tears once again ran down her face, "I'm sorry Jill. I love you too."
"Hey you don't have to be sorry Kris. It's me." She held her sister as in that one moment everything seemed to disappear.
Kris pulled back slightly from Jill and wiped away the tears on her face. "God I feel like I was when you decided to beat up Billy Meyers."
Jill looked at Kris then laughed at the memory, "Hey, he had that coming."
"I know but I was mad at you for sticking your nose in it." Kris replied a she hugged Jill tight before pulling away.
Jill looked at her sister and treaded with some caution, "So, we ok?"
Kris looked at Jill knowing she could never really stay mad at her, "Yeah. I just needed to blow off whatever steam I had. Really I understand why you did what you did. I may not like it, but I understand."
Jill smiled at her sister knowing that they had passed through the impossible.
~~ ~~ CA ~~ ~~ CA
Steve stepped up to the beach house and pulled his jacket straight before knocking. He knew Kris was home as he had seen her car in the driveway. Well a driveway as such it was along the beach.
He looked out to the crashing waves and turned at the sound of a car pulling along side Kris'. He watched as the man in the car got out and into a wheelchair and a small boy ran along beside him.
He watched as the two started towards the beach house deck and Steve quickly moved around to help. "Big step need a hand?"
Mike looked up, "Normally I would say no but seeing as you are a friend of Kris' I'll go along."
Steve thought a moment before lending a hand up the steps.
He reached up and knocked on the door, not waiting that long for the swing of it to reveal to him Kris Munroe.
"Hey. They let you out." She said with a smile as he wrapped his arms around her.
"I forced them. Told them I would run off in the night if I didn't get free to see my girl."
Kris looked up at him, "Your girl hey?"
"Well I was hoping. If not know soon." He said smiling down at her.
Jill stepped from the bedroom in her robe with her head upside down in a towel, "Hey Kris what say we take a walk along the beach towards…" she flicked the towel up and over her back and saw her sister standing there with company, "Oh hi."
Kris smiled as she saw her sisters face turn slightly red. She turned back towards Steve, "Steve I'd like you to meet my sister…Jill."
Steve looked at the blonde before him and then to Kris, "I'm sorry. Jill?"
Kris smiled, "Yeah same sister. Long story."
Jill smiled as she watched her younger sister with the man before her, "Which you can discuss over lunch. I had a call earlier from Mike." She cast her eyes at Kris knowing what she was to say. "He is picking up Jake from school and we are going to lunch before we take him back and I teach his classmates that a girl can do more then cook and clean."
"Who will not take no for an answer."
Jill turned and saw Mike and Jake standing just in behind Steve.
Jake ran past his dad, Kris and Steve and jumped up into Jill's arms. "Dad said we were going to the pier and then you could come talk to my class."
Jill held the boy in her arms and then to Mike. "I think I can arrange that, but first lunch."
Jake stood beside her, "Yay."
Jill leaned down and spoke quietly, "And I'll talk to your class on one condition Jake."
He looked at her wondering what shed wanted.
"While I'm getting dressed you convince my sister to come as well." Jill explain end.
Jake looked from Jill and over and up to Kris before looking back, "She's still mad at you."
"I know, but I am hoping that you can help me make it better."
Jake looked up again at Kris then back to Jill. "Ok. But it'll cost you a chocolate sundae too."
Jill laughed as she stood up and ruffled Jakes hair, "Deal."
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Kris sat on her board and let the waves pass by under her. She was waiting for the right one but she was also thinking on the last few weeks.
She turned her head slightly when she heard splashing getting closer. She smiled when she saw her sister pull her own board up along side her.
"Any good ones?" she asked as she sat on her board beside Kris.
"Not really, just a couple."
Jill looked out the water waiting as her sister was. "Steve seems like a good guy."
"He is. Met him on a case actually."
"Yeah he told me at the pier when you took Jake to play that game."
"He's a good kid." Kris said as she watched another wave pass under her.
Jill looked towards the beach house and saw Kelly and Sabrina sitting near the shore line watching them. "You think we will ever get those two out here sis?"
Kris turned and looked towards the beach, "Not likely Jill." She laughed.
"I think you're right." Jill laughed with her sister. "Kris, I don't want to bring it all up again but. I want you to know I am sorry. For everything. All I wanted was to protect you."
Kris looked down at her board, "I know." She looked up at Jill and out to the incoming wave. "But I will never be sorry for kicking your ass on a wave." She laughed as she flattened out on her board and started to paddle. "Love you." She called back as Jill suddenly realized what her sister was do9ing.
"Oh you little." Jill said as she followed after her sister.
Both bringing in that only perfect wave of the day.
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And that is the end of my first Charlies Angels Trilogy. Which really only started as a Charlies Angels story. Thank you to everyone for all teh a great reviews. I never imagined I would get that many reviews for one story. But it's you the readers that anyone who has ever written a fan fiction keep writting them. Thank you I do hope you enjoyed this as much as I did writting it.