Brother Mine

by Blackstar1979

"Brother Mine" Mark is preparing to retire from wrestling so he can keep a promise he made to Nina his dead first wife in a drug-induced dream. The bonds that were forged and those that were almost broken play a part in book three. This is a partial summary see Chapter 1 for full.

3. On your Knees Praying

Chapter Three On your Knees Praying

Niles relaxed just long enough to make his superior think he'd calmed. The man let him go and he turns around and hugged his commander just as he had when this shit happened 5 years ago. Something clicked into place his commander was on scene within seconds of his wife being killed in his driveway. His commander didn't live near him, he was also at that office building when he'd arrested Mr. Eric Valentine. Niles took his gun out and put it just below his commander's vest. "You need to start walking backwards. We are going for a ride." He sees Andrew moving. "Stark please take my guest of honor here to the limo." The minute Andrew takes his boss Niles gets back down on the ground with Captain Wildflower. She was breathing and still bleeding. He took off his jacket and tried to cover where he ripped her damn shirt down the middle, soon the med crew pushes him out of the way lead by a female. With the name Kincaid plastered across her shirt front and the Sheldon Med emblem on her back.

Stark gets to his feet, cuffed the dark agency commander, and guides him to the limo. When he gets the door open the guy tried a last-ditch effort offering more money. Andrew was so tired of people thinking that he got into this line of work for the money. He says, "really tell me more about the product" and then slams the guy's head in to top of the doorway of the car. Then shoved his now limp form inside and slammed the door. The police chief car rolled up, and a man that was shorter than Joshua jumped out of the car and started yelling at the officers. When he approached the stretcher, he looked at Joy, took her gun and walked away. "Hey chief" The guy flipped him off, got back in his clown car, and sped off.

Back at the hospital, Bobby got the call from Andrew and he'd lost it. After going off on Andrew and hanging up he felt like a hot air balloon like his head wasn't attached to his body. He'd felt this sensation before two other times, the night his birth father killed his birth mother 38 years ago he'd came back to his 8-year-old self, lost and afraid as strangers asked him questions as he'd fought to get away from them. Then again at 28 after hearing that Nana was dead and him suspecting what would end up being the truth that Sophia had killed her. He'd woke in rehab after smashing his car in to the water fountain. Both times he woke up after actions that weren't in his usual character his body had been moving but his mind wasn't along for the ride. His therapist had said he'd experienced Psychogenic Amnesia or a trauma blackout. It was only after years of therapy he was able to piece most of what happen together. He tried to breathe, but all that filled his mental balloon is Andrew's first words to him "Bobby she's down."

The others in the room tried to speak to Bobby who'd yelled into his phone and ended the call he stood swayed and said, "She's down." Chase had read the reports but had never seen his son like this. "Bobby talk to me son." Angel had gone further to the back of the room. Bobby was scaring the shit out of her. Chase stood and told Bobby in a firm tone to please talk to him. Bobby pushed Chase into Joey who had stood. Bobby kept saying she's down. Chase put out a hand telling Joey it was like before. Joey nodded. Bobby turned around looking for something. Chase called him Robert and that was totally the wrong thing to say. Bobby ran towards the door. Mark took him down before he went wild punching and kicking to be let free. He was saying shit that didn't make sense. When he switched into a small child's voice screaming for his mother to wake up. It ripped Chase's heart in two. It was one thing to read the report from the hospital the night Bobby's mother was murdered it was an even more surreal and saddening experience to hear what his son had probably screamed at the officers that found him hiding in Chase's unfinished mailroom at what is now the site of Ivey Solutions Glenview ten rainy blocks from where Bobby had once lived.

Flashback

Many years ago, a 24-year-old Chase walked into his newest building in a small town named Glenview and is met by his office assistant Nora Arrowood-Hawk, Bobby had her warm olive complexion. They had become fast friends even at her interview, now 2 years later he'd been happy that he'd took a chance as she said in her interview and hired the hard working, lighthearted, down to earth and proud mother of an eight-year-old boy named Robert. She'd invited Chase to Robert's birthday dinner that night. He thought about it and said he would think it over and get back to her. Chase still hated that he'd been distracted when he came in the office most days, that day especially because it would be the last day he'd see her alive. She handed him coffee and his messages. Some were from his mom and some were business. "Thanks" he says not really noticing the bruise on her face but that wouldn't be until lunch time. He'd went into his office and made his calls and went about his day. Nora knocked and told him his lunch delivery had arrived. He'd ordered enough for the entire office. When she walked in, he'd looked up and paused. He'd just been a part of a team of five lawyers that had wrapped a nasty domestic violence case just a week prior. Those images still disturbed him when he saw the start of a bruise on his employee's face, he rose and walked over to her moving her long dark brown hair to the side. "Who?" She'd flinched when he spoke. Thinking he'd touched the bruise he dropped his hand to his side. "Nora, look at me." when she looked up, she tried to smile but it vanished and was replaced by an anxiousness in her gaze. "Did your husband do this?" She lied to his face and told him no she'd fell out of bed and hit the night stand. Chase clenched and unclenched his jaw then crossed his arms over his chest. He went into, what Sophie called lawyer mode and asked about the fall he questioned her like she's on the stand, until she broke down crying for him please not to fire her because she knew of drug use and didn't say anything. "I'm not going to fire you, if you're on drugs we can get you help, but I don't think that is what is going on? Talk to me please." He handed her his handkerchief. She sat down in the chair, wiped her face, looked up at him, and told him Warren had started doing drugs and the drinking and that the drinking was the hardest to deal with because it made him hurt them. "Wait where is Robert? Did he hurt him too?" She shook her head and told him how Warren had chased after Robert for talking back and how her boy had dived under his bed crying. She said when she'd foolishly pulled Warren's arm, so he wouldn't flip the bed and beat on their son, her tugging on his arm made him accidently hit her in the face, and that the shock of his actions made Warren promise he wouldn't get that trashed anymore and had cried that she couldn't tell Chase about the drugs because he'd fire her, and they'd be out in the street by next month. "Like I said you're not fired. Is that why you asked if I wanted to come to the birthday party? I'd be glad to come and talk to him and see if we can get him in a program before his job cans him." He'd been doing so good with keeping his temper out of his voice, but Queens, New York wasn't just his birthplace when he was extremely angry it came out of his mouth. She'd got up and told him no. That she'd invited him because Robert wanted him at his party. She then said last night was long and stressful and that it was just an accident and maybe she'd let her emotions run high and was thinking about all this the wrong way. Nora asked him to pray with her. He wasn't above prayer, so he got on his knees next to her and prayed with her there in his office. They got up, ate lunch, and went back to work. It wasn't his place to get involved at the end of the day he was her boss, they were friends, but he didn't want to give the guy anything else to hit her for. Chase remembered the rain that night as he put on his coat and walked out of his office Nora asked to use one of his trash bags as a hair bonnet. Chase had smirked and said, "We have an awning." She then told him that she was walking tonight because Warren was in a mood because he had to go pick up Robert for school early. Chase looked out at the downpour. He'd insisted instead of wrapping plastic around her head, his driver give her a ride home. She thanked him and got in the limo as they rode up to her home, she thanks him again. "No sweat; save me some cake will ya?" She nodded and got out. His last image of Nora Arrowwood- Hawk was of her walking back into the house that held her killer. That night he went home had dinner with his mother at Ivey Mansion and went to bed. The next day, it'd been raining just as hard as the night before. He called to ask if she needed a ride. Mr. Warren Hawk said there had been an accident that she slipped and fell and hit her head? Chase hadn't believed him and asked were they at the hospital. Hawk's drunken belch, and answer of no, was alarming Warren asking had Chase seen his little boy made Chase run from his office leaving the man's question unanswered and his phone on the desk. He got in his limo and was soon back outside of the Hawk household. He walked in and there on the floor lay his employee and friend she was clearly dead. He was horrified to see birthday cake mixed with the blood coming out of her mouth, all over her face, and in her hair. Chase's legal brain kicked in he'd just walked in, the door was open. Looking around he caught movement right before blocking the pan that was swung at his head. After realizing who it was, Chase lost it and beat the living hell out of Warren who was 6'6 to his 6'2 and who out weighted him by a solid 120 pounds. His driver Frank had to separate them. Warren yelled that he didn't do it. Chase couldn't prove it, but that's what Warren said to the police when they came. Battered and bruised Chase didn't want to go home and scare his mother he had Frank take him back to his office building in Glenview. That's when he found Bobby fighting the police in his unfinished mailroom.

End of Flashback

As Bobby stops yelling and continued trying to get away though Mark wasn't actively trying to fight Bobby, he didn't know what the hell was going on and didn't know what would happen if he let him go. Dr. Lucas Sheldon Sr. gets on the floor making eyes contact with Mark and telling him to let him go. Mark looks to Chase who asked his friend was he sure that was wise.

Lucas remembered the tail end of an episode like this in his clinic. "Unless you want to fight him for as long as he is like this yes." Chase said with hesitation in his voice, for Mark to let him go. Lucas held out his hand he'd been the doctor on call that night Chase Ivey walked into his clinic in Glenview. That night a lie was told but for a very good reason. Chase walked in to his clinic with a child of about 8 and asked him to check him out. He and his cousin Dr. Eric Sheldon had looked at Chase and then at the little clearly Native American child. Lucas almost turned him away and Eric called him back into his office and said that it wasn't their job to play detective it was their job to fix the broken. Lucas was Bobby's first doctor within what would grow into the Sheldon Network. Calling him Robert was dangerous because there was a lot of pent up anger and pain to fuel the trauma responsive disorder. He starts speaking while watching Bobby's eyes as he stared at him. "Bobby Ivey, it is me Dr. Lucas Sheldon. Close your eyes Bobby." Bobby says his balloon is too full. "That is what I will help you with, if you will let me." He takes Bobby through an old exercise, letting his voice fall into a monotone as he spoke. He had Bobby stand up. Gloria starts to speak, Lucas without breaking eye contact, or his verbal pattern, he points at her, and then at the exit.

Bradley and Candy walked in and in that instant Bobby looked over at him and almost ran him over getting out of the room. Joey, Mark, Chase, Rapture, and Luke's dad goes after Bobby. Out in the hall it wasn't the doctor or the other four men in pursuit of him that stopped Bobby his phone speaks to him "Sheldon Medical Center switchboard calling" He stopped and looked at the screen and everyone around him no longer were in sight as his vison tunneled and he swiped to open the call putting it on speaker phone. "Hello."

The recording brought him back down, the balloon shrunk, and his vison returned to normal as the machine spoke to him. "This is the second attempt to reach a medical liaison or contact for Wildflower Joy Captain. Is this Robert Hawk-Ivey Medical Liaison 2?"

"Yes" Bobby wondered where the first call went? Who was L 1. The system said Joy's name and listed her condition as critical upon arrival and asked did he give permission to continue lifesaving techniques. "Yes" It thanks him, gave him the address of the building he was standing in, and says goodbye. Looking around after the balloon lifted, he had trouble figuring out why the guys were standing around him. He remembered yelling at Andrew. Looking at Chase he got scared it had been a long time since he'd blacked out but since he couldn't remember leaving the waiting room it must have happened. He looked over at Mark who had a shiner and his shirt ripped to shit. "I… I'm sorry." Lucas Sr. asked what for, Bobby thought about it, that was the hardest part about this condition he didn't know how he got out here. Looking around he asked his dad. "Chase how did I get out here in the hall?" his dad told him. The last time Chase had seen any part of his condition he was a kid. Chase was out of town when Bobby found out about Nana and tried to run down Sophia. The drugs and booze he'd ingested that week and even that day weren't the problem. The substance abuse kind of saved the people in the park that day, because the shit slowed his reflexes. If he had of been sober someone could have been killed. When Chase showed up at the rehab center and broke down crying that he didn't want to lose his son so close after losing his mother it had hit Bobby harder than any AA or addict session ever did. Bobby swallowed hard, today he'd pushed his dad, hell he could have hurt Mark. He was embarrassed and ashamed of his actions as he leaned against the wall. Running his hands through his hair he apologized again and walked down the hall to the other waiting area.

Chase walked with him after briefly speaking with Lucas then sending the guys back to sit with Angel to wait on word on Joshua. Bobby stopped before he enters the other waiting room. Turning to his father he says "I'm glad that was a private waiting room I could have hurt a perfect stranger. Or ended up on the fucking news. He looked up sharply "Oh shit Gloria was in the room you don't think she would?"

Chase speaks "No I don't believe she would post an article about your illness, not unless she likes career suicide. Speaking of which, Bobby, I have a question do you know who Joy's liaison one is, because Lucas says that the script only changes to that default when someone has answered no. Due to her condition being listed as critical the program overrides the negative repose and searches for a L2. If she'd been listed as serious the negative response would have stopped treatment. I know it's neither of us because Sophie is a med contact and Lucas says she only has four slots approved. If you are slot 2, Sophie is 3 and Angel is 4 who is number 1?"

Bobby thought about his original liaison 1 when Chase moved to Florida and before he met Joy and spoke slowly "Since she isn't married yet, someone from the department would be first liaison, her family really doesn't like her being a cop, but they wouldn't refuse her treatment. I don't like this dad. There is more going on than I first thought. Someone in that department that works alongside her said no."

Back in the other waiting room, Bradley looks at Jonathon who sat with Angel who looked freaked out. He walked over and says, "Angel I'm sorry." Angel looked behind him and rose. Bradley turned around and sees Dr. Middlebrooks. Angel, and all in the private waiting room converge on the doctor and ask in unison, how is he?

Sandra asks Angel into her office. Angel hugs herself as she sits. Sandra closes her door and skirts her desk and says, "We were able to stop the internal bleeding Joshua is not going to be able to be released for a time. He is concussed, has two broken ribs, circulation issues in his hands and feet that will be monitored to see if there is any permeant nerve damage. He has soft tissue damage to his fingers we had to cut his wedding ring off. We have him on a mild muscle relaxer and pain med to calm the spasms or twitching. We have him on fluids he was very dehydrated." Angel asks about his back. "When Dr. Lucas Sheldon Sr. filled out the "Art No Tell" he mentioned that Joshua had spoken of passing out in the cooler, we removed glass that had imbedded itself into his skin from his fall. We want to make sure that the swelling goes down around his collarbone. He is in a neck brace because of the whiplash evidence we did see on the scan. As for his face I'm not sure what he was hit with, but I am glad that Dr. Sheldon Sr. was able to clean him up without wiping any of the metallic particles that we found on the side of his face and in his hair into his eyes. No facial bone breakage, a lot of soft tissue damage, and swelling." Angel asked could she see him. Sandra asked did Angel want to tell the family or let her do it. Angel asked her to tell the family and to please let her see Joshua. "You know how he responds to medicine he is lethargic but awake. He's in room E4005."

As Angel exits her office into the back-hallway, Sandra walks out and informs the family about Joshua's condition and the fact that because of the rules in this area only one person was allowed in the room at a time. Gloria had returned in time to hear the doctor's words. She asked would he be able to play guitar. Bradley said he didn't think she should even be here. Sally covered his mouth. Cass told her big brother to shut it. Gloria says she was just trying to keep it professional as her talent had wished of her. Jonathon looked her way and she sat down and looked away from his hard gaze. Sally walked towards her. Mark pulled her away and asked her to please not make more of a scene he'd done enough refereeing tonight. The doctor excuses herself and carded her way into the back corridor. Joey suggested that they pick who was going in next. Jonathon says "I don't believe my girl is going to come back out tonight." For once Sally didn't go nuts she got up and told Bradley to please take her back to Ivey Mansion. Lucas asked could he get a ride as well. Bradley said sure and asked could he and the doc talk on the way. Sheldon said he didn't see why not.

As soon a Sandra sits down, she is paged to OR 2. Logging in she sees that she has maybe 2 hours before she must take her mandatory 90 minutes. She looked at Luke's and his was in the red heading to purple. When she reads the "Art No Tell" On one Joy Wildflower she charged out of her office. Scrubbing up and entering, she sees Luke and knew this was going to be hairy. They trade medical jargon and Luke manages to stop the bleeding. When Joy started convulsing, he glanced at the monitor and his words sped up and she assisted. She turned on another monitor. She now knew why he'd requested her, he needed to keep it together he came here shortly after his dad was reported missing. They manage to stop the convulsions and suction blood out of the damaged area. Joy was lucky that the person that stabbed her didn't have enough force to do any more damage than they did. Luke even with a face mask on and his trademark clear glasses she could see he was having a really hard time. "I'll finish up here doctor." He looked at her she looks back and raised her eyebrow. He nods, and she takes over. He walked out of the room. It was the hardest call she ever had to make it wasn't an easy task using her senior doctor status. He'd had the power to put a stop to her use of it but left the rule alone for times like this.

Luke walked out of the OR and into a decontamination shower. That was a lot of blood and some of it wasn't hers. Though she'd been stabbed there was gunpowder residue on her wound. The bitch had stabbed her in the spleen they'd had to remove part of it. A partial splenectomy wasn't a hard job for him but with her being newly pregnant made it very personal. When she'd started convulsing and her heart rate dropped his heart had nearly dropped into his socks. He'd worked on friends and family and pregnant family, but never when he was expecting a child. After taking a regular shower in his office's ensuite bathroom he finished, dressed, and called his wife.

Sophie answers and listens to Luke tell her about Joshua and then he went quiet. She knew he was still on the line because his breathing picked up. "Luke?"

"Sophie, I almost lost Joy." Sophie hadn't heard he spoke fighting back tears of relief when he'd got the text from Middlebrooks when he got out of the shower. "She came in and flat-lined on my operating table. She'd been stabbed and at first, I froze, I haven't frozen in a situation like that in a long time. I worked on her and got her stable for the second time in two hours. Middlebrook was able to join me. Sophie I was so afraid, after the second time I couldn't detach. Middlebrooks must have seen it, because she ejected me from the room." Sophie asked how Joy was now. "Middlebrooks closed, and Joy and baby survived." The shuttering sigh that came over the line made him say. "Sophie, I love you." She says she loves him. "I'm coming home tonight I'll order a transit I need to get out of here. After the day and night, I had, I just need to see you, touch you., to feel my wife laying on me as only she can." She said she'd already ordered his ride. "See you soon." As he is walking out of the hospital, he sees Police Chief Patterson who asks how his little lady was. Luke had a message from his father and one from Bobby that he hadn't looked at with everything that had being going on. After looking at the system and seeing Chief Patterson as her L1 that had said no, a muscle in his jaw twitched and he said in his best detached doctor tone "I'm sorry sir, I can't give you any information about Captain Wildflower, your negative response given when a patient is in critical condition ended your ability to secure information about her health." Luke's car arrived he got in "Goodnight Chief Patterson."

Chief Dylan Emanuel Patterson watches as the stretch Hummer limo drives away towards the older part of Grandville South. He noted the cameras facing the street and got back in his car. He had to find out if he'd have to take matters into his own hands or had a criminal cupid ended his love hate relationship with the female Captain of the Cyber Division. When he'd got the call that she'd got stabbed Dylan was nothing if not an opportunist. When he'd got called by her medical program asking him if he wanted them to start lifesaving procedures he answered no, and the thing hung up. His new pick for the Captain of the Cyber Division was a real man that wasn't as nosey. Joy was a little woman playing a man's game. She asked too many questions and had found his offshore accounts lucky they didn't require real names, or he would have been screwed out of more than the now seized money. She'd came in his office glowing and gloating about popping open a huge case and had gave him her report in that stiff unfeeling way of hers. While she, her boyfriend, and their teams, were tracking the Vargo money laundering case that wasn't even supposed to turn into a case. For years he'd kept everything funneling where it was supposed to be. Her and that damn team of hers were like bitches with a big meaty bone. He came in to power a few months shy of her getting promoted. If it were up to him, she would have been an officer in vice until she retired. That's where he'd met her. Almost 17 years ago. He'd saw her in here hooker apparel and wanted a chance at that. At 25 she was a stunner in short leather skirt and high heels. Back then he wasn't her boss, so it should have been fine. She'd told him she wasn't interested in anyone she worked with. That was a damn lie. The first time she moved up to detective she fell for a goddamned fed almost 6 years ago. He didn't much like sharing the spot light with federals. Especially one that was connected to the new mayor, Ivey had made it clear if his son wasn't found he would start firing people. He'd gave Joy the lead so when she flopped Ivey could start with her head rolling. Dylan called the hospital as he trailed the large car on the highway. They wouldn't answer his questions. He'd tried using his status as a concerned boss and leader in the law enforcement community but not one of those little meaningless medical drones would tell him shit. Seeing the Hummer limo turn off the highway he hit his siren and lights he was going to find out once and for all if that little cock tease with his career in her hands was alive or dead.

The chief badged his driver and ordered Luke out of the car. Luke gets out and looked down at the 5'5 man with the bad comb over. He says he was going to ask one more time what is the condition of his fucking officer. "Chief at this point I would be breaking the law that we are both…"

Chief Patterson said in an angry tone. "You want to play hard ball ok game on. You're under arrest." The doctor asked him what the charge was. "Endangering an officer, that officer was assaulted and needs protection." The doctor spouts some crap about abuse of the HIPAA laws. Patterson put his hand on his firearm and says, "Okay hot shot doctor, let's turn around and put your hands on my vehicle and spread'em." Chief Patterson cuffed the doctor and frisked him.

Luke watched as the man takes the contents of his pockets out and throws the remote to his car, and the keycards to the hospital, and his home system on the ground. His phone was taken off his belt. When the officer tried to open his screen, Luke closed his eyes. Fear licked at his mind. Joshua's attack had started as a routine traffic stop and escalated into a traumatizing event. Luke had never been arrested in his life. He asked for the chief's superior.

"I doubt the Commissioner is awake right now." Patterson says as he walked the doctor to his squad car. "Watch your head."

Instead of getting in the car after closing him in the backseat Luke watched the cop fiddle with his phone and pick up his discarded belongings. Patterson shows him his own lock screen. He finally gets in the car. Patterson drives away from Grandville South Proper. He fought the tremble out of his voice as he said, "The department is in the other direction chief." Patterson slams on the breaks, smacking Luke's face against the metal divider. Luke tasted blood. They were heading towards his home that at this very moment were filled with children, and his pregnant wife. "How do I stop this?" The chief tells him to tell him what he wants to know. "Then you'll stop the car and release me?" He pulled over at the pier.

"I can't have you lying to me, so we are going to play a game. If I think you are lying when the game is through, then I'll leave you to float onto your property with the tide." His phone rings with a love song and a picture of the Ivey woman. "Sounds like your hot new wife is wanting a man to come satisfy her. You don't seem phased by that, are you already sharing?" The doctor's blue eyes flashed with hatred. Patterson gets out draws his gun opens the back door and tells Luke if he tried to head butt him or kick him, he would float for a different reason. He walks Luke down under the pier until the water is knee high on Luke and tells him to get on his knees. Luke says he'd tell him what he wanted to know just please don't make him do this. "Ok so you like it rough."

Luke shook his head no. As he knelt to get on his knees the cop pushed him over. Without the use of his arms which were still cuffed behind his back water covered his head he remembered that the water wasn't that deep and sat up. It was 40 degrees at night, and he was under the fucking pier with a nut. Chief Nut grabbed Luke's hair and asked him the status of Joy. Before he could speak the nut submerged him backwards. When he thought he'd drown he is pulled up. Air rushed back into his body along with lake water as he sputters and coughs. Chief Nut says that was a test. Patterson then pushes him forward smashing his face into the waters' surface and seemed to take longer to pull him up. Luke had swam for years had even swam against Joshua a week ago. This wasn't swimming, the chief of police was going to kill him. The chief asks is Joy alive. Before Luke can answer he is pushed under again. When he is pulled up, he says what he thinks the man wants to hear. "She's dead ok, are you fucking happy I couldn't save her. System ordered me to stop treatment that's just as good as a DNR." He was lying but prayed to god that the chief didn't dunk him again. Chief Patterson went behind him Luke tensed prepared to go face down again. When he felt the handcuffs unlock, he stayed where he was. Patterson leaned down and handed him his house keycard his hospital card but chucked his wallet in the sand and his 1500-dollar phone into the lake. He then says if Luke spoke about this or if he was lying he'd end his life and it wouldn't be as quick as drowning. When Luke heard the car door slam and the engine start, he looked out at the water still sitting with the water at chest level. As soon as the car pulled off, he stood up ripped off his top shirt and swam for his phone, it was waterproof not just resistant. Ivey Communications made sure of that. It started glowing Sophie was calling him. He dived for the phone. It was getting away and he was running out of air. He swam as far as he could. But couldn't reach it before it went black. He floated for a minute trying to catch his breath. Without it glowing he'd be out here all night and if it dropped off onto the true lake floor. He was good, but as tired as he was even if he got down the 20 extra feet he doubted he'd have enough air and energy to come back up. At 6'2 he already couldn't touch the lake floor where he was, he swam back to shore under the pier and collapsed in the sand, spitting out the house, and hospital card, he'd clenched between his teeth. Now with nothing stopping it, his teeth chattered from cold and fear. Climbing to his feet he started walking.

Up in Joshua's room Angel walked in and closed the door quietly. When she turned around, though she'd been told what to expect the sight of her lover still took her a minute. She walked to him and sat in the chair near his bed. When he opened his eyes everything that had sat on her the past few days and hours finding out he was missing blaming herself, having Bradley blame her. Bradley thinking, she was cheating with the person that locked her lover in a cooler and waited until he was called again to decide to open the door. Watching the playback in one screen and the live stream in the other. Watching and listening to Andrew verbally and physically hurt him. Waiting for him to be rescued, finding out Deon's plan and Alex's first plan to kill him after using him like a fucking straw. Hearing him sound like he was giving up. Hearing that he'd passed out. Joshua's one-word greeting opened her floodgates.

He smelled her Jasmine scent, before he forced himself to open his eyes. "Hey" She just looked at him and then started crying. His fingers were as large as Ball Park Franks right now and moving wasn't good if he didn't want new stabs of pain. "There shouldn't be any tears left, I think I cried them all." He smiled or at least he hoped he did. Whatever Middlebrooks had put in his IV was not super knock you out strong, but it kept the pain at bay. She smiled through her tears at his bad joke, but to be fair he wasn't all that funny anyway. "Please stop crying babe. You know you shred me when you cry. I'm going to be ok." She leans down and kissed him. His good luck charm was kissing him, and he honestly couldn't feel his face right not. He felt the pressure but not her skin. She stood up and he tried tracking her movement. She leaned over and turned down the lights. She asked was that better. "Was I squinting?" she nods. Something Middlebrooks said to him before, sunk in. "My ring or the two halves of it, are in the drawer. They had to cut it off." Though he'd not been super alert, just this few moments with her was the best but he felt sleep creeping up again. "Tired, need sleep, don't want to dream." She says think of her, she'd watch over him, and this time she'd keep him safe. His lover's words softly, and warmly wrapped around him as sleep took him under.

Angel meant it, she wasn't going to let him out of her sight nor out of her proximity. Her husband had fought this hard to stay with her and she'd not have him ripped away from her. They would really have to make a few changes. Not just temp ones either. Two times he'd been taken in his office, only this time the person had took it a step further than subduing him and planning to come back for him, this time one of the people that discovered him the first time had helped in the planning and took him out of the club and away. Joy was injured, while trying to finish wrapping up Deon and his mob family. She looks over when he makes a whimpering sound in his sleep. She runs her thumb under one swollen eye lid and captures the tears that escaped wiping them away she says softly, "Still right here babe, you're safe with me." The hard line of his swollen lips relaxes as she keeps speaking and touching him on the small amount of exposed skin that wasn't as bruised.

Sophie was officially freaked she'd called Luke's phone at the very least 20 times and got his voice mail and even his answering service when she marked it as urgent, she didn't want to hear the chipper woman ask her to hold again. She tracked his location and that did not help the growing panic. He was near the lake she knew that's not where the dot was, but he couldn't be in the lake. Sophie remembers when her phone was thrown into water and tried to fight off more panic. She'd been in Venice heading from a photo shoot and got mugged. The guy had surprised the fuck out of her, she was 19 and had just got off the phone with Adina when out of nowhere something was pressed into her back and 2 Italian men asked for her purse. If she didn't have the good / bad habit of putting her ID and a card her dad gave her for emergencies in her bra, back then there is no telling when she would have been able to contact anyone. After they got the cash, and her cards, they chucked her purse along with her phone into the Grand Canal and ran off. She'd ran for all she was worth back to the apartment she'd been assigned and call her dad collect. That event was why when Luke wouldn't tell her where they were going for their honeymoon, she'd asked anyone he may have told. It wasn't until Angel said that she'd like it that she'd calmed down sitting there waiting for her wedding to start. Her phone ringing in her hand brought her out of her reverie. "Hello?"

Chaz, the driver of the Ivey Transit car that was sent to pick up the doctor had got up his nerve to call not the police, but the owner of the company that had hired him. "Is this Mrs. Ivey Sheldon?" She answers yes. He almost threw up with nerves he wasn't a mogul he drove for them, but something about the chief and the doctor's exchange bugged him. "Mrs. Dr. Sheldon jore husband was arrested I think." She asked him questions in his native tongue of French. He was able to speak to her. He lapsed into his native tongue and continued. He spoke of how the police chief had got very angry with her lover and then drove away in the opposite direction of the station house though he told her love he was under arrest. She asks him was that why her husband's trip was canceled. He explained that when the police chief badged him, he was ordered to hit the cancel button. She hung up and he sighed.

Sophie ran downstairs to her home office to see if Luke's phone moved. It moved but further away from the shoreline. For the last almost 38 hours Sophie had been everyone's rock, her rock, her husband Luke who had kept her grounded until even he needed her support, he now was only god knew where. She called her dad and before he could finish his usual question of is, she ok by the time he hit the word sweetheart, she burst into tears. Saying no she wasn't fucking ok and trying to tell him that Luke was possibly in the lake and how she couldn't even call the police because the chief of Grandville Police was the one who had him.

Across town, Luke sloshed as he walked but didn't want to take off his shoes. He was dirty enough. An Ivey Transit limo sped down the road he was approaching that lead out of Grandville South Proper back towards the pier. He watched as it pulled in and the driver pulled someone out of the back seat. From this distance he couldn't see their faces and it was a good thing to, because in seconds the man that was on his knees just as Luke had been was murdered not even 50 feet from where he'd kneeled in the lake under the pier. The gunshot and splash echoed through the night. The men got back in the limo and turned onto the road he was on. Luke turned and ran. The limo sped past him and turned towards Grandville North. An idea crossed his mind. He looked like shit, but he did have his ID he was going somewhere that he could access a phone. Luke had never walked into Grandville North but his hospital there was closer than trying to walk home.

Niles had told Andrew that he was going to do something that if Andrew saw he'd have to go underground. Andrew had opted to not witness the murder of a top-level dark agent. Andrew drove until he got to his hotel and then another man got in the driver's seat and drove off with Niles and his captive. At his hotel Andrew had packed up his gear and drove out of the garage. An entire police unit had seen him get up from being shot for running towards Joy who was stabbed. No one trusted him, and he didn't dare try to make contact with anyone. It made no sense that no one on the local force had the sense to think that the hideout that was so damn secret was Valentine's house that she'd shared with Vargo. Andrew didn't know about the house until he was inside. There had to be records or something it sickened him that the government or a part of it was aiding and abetting a mob family. Andrew wondered how far up the dark government ladder this shit rose. Speaking of things rising like refuse, he thought about the hot tense conversation Niles had with the guy that had pulled him off Joy. The guy was Nile's superior that much was obvious. Andrew wouldn't lie he wanted the answers to the questions almost as bad as Niles did. Andrew had no destination in mind. He just knew that with no one on his side he was fucked. He hoped that Joy survived because if she didn't that would just speed up the timeframe for Bobby to come after him. As he drove a side street he saw Luke staggering down the street, He had a gash on his forehead a busted lip and looked like he was on the edge of passing out. Andrew pulled over and slowly came to a stop near the doctor. Luke was soaked from head to sloppy wet loafers. "Luke," the doctor jumped away from his car in into a wobbly fighting stance. "I mean Dr. Sheldon can I give you a ride somewhere?" Andrew saw the fear in the doctor's eyes. Luke asked him a strange question about whether he could get out of the front door of his car if he had to. "Yeah. I also have a phone you can use." Luke looked back toward Cherry Lake Street where he had come from and then ahead of them. Then asks him why he wanted him too. He says that Joshua wasn't on the street anymore. "Look you'd find out sooner or later, but Alex is dead if not dying, Deon and the woman who stabbed Joy are dead. I don't want to hurt you, I didn't want to do that shit to Joshua, I was put in a situation that if I didn't do that shit my sister and her small children would have been killed. I can't leave you out here like this. It's not safe for either of us, because if someone found out I left you here then not only do I have Bobby to worry about, but also Chase and anyone he can rope into coming after me. Tell me where you want to go, and I'll take you there. The minute you think I'm not taking you where we agree, tell me to stop the car. That's as good as I can give you short of letting you hold a gun to my head." Andrew gets an idea, unloads his gun. "Matter of fact it's not loaded, but it still hurts. He lays his unloaded weapon on the passenger seat." Luke takes the gun out of the seat and watches him with wide eyes as he slowly gets in. Then asked him to take him home. "I can take you anywhere but there. I can't go up to Ivey Mansion I don't want you stranded but I can't drive up that hill. I wouldn't be able to get away if Bobby has reported me as rouge." Luke then says take him to Sheldon Center Granville South. The doctor shivers so bad he stutters at times. Andrew powered up the window and turned on the heat "Look, I know you guys are really pissed at me and I get it, but please don't set me up. The minute I found out my family was safe, I tried to help you as best I could."

Fear warred with anger for control of Luke's words "What the fuck kind of pandora's box did you open? I'm not trying to set you up. To do that would mean I expected to see you. If anyone should be worried about being set up, it's me. I just have no other safer dry option that doesn't include walking back to Shelden Med Center North. Now because of whatever you started there is a hell storm happening around and to us. How long did you plan on attacking my brother or helping them take my father?" Andrew sticks to his story then says that he would drive him as close as the number streets to his home. Luke nods as Andrew pulls toward the highway and merges. Luke gripped the gun if Andrew didn't get off on exit 144 towards the oldest part of Grandville South near the streets that would lead him to home, Luke was going to beat the shit out of him. Not a smart move to render your driver unconsciousness, but he just couldn't get taken again. Andrew turns up the heat in the car Luke had shivered so much he was sore. True to his word, Andrew left the highway via the right exit and turned the right way. When the heat kicked in and started warming him enough to where he could speak without sounding like a stuttering dolt, he says "You said I could use your phone." Andrew handed over his phone. Luke dials Sophie knowing that she'd be worried sick, he was supposed to have been home almost, he looks at the time, 3 hours ago. "No Sophie, Sophie please stop crying, I know the lake, it's just my phone. I'm on my way." He looks over at Andrew. "Yes, this is Andrew's phone, Andrew is who picked me up, no please listen, not as a hostage." Hearing her cry always knocked the wind out of him. It didn't happen a lot, rarely ever, but when she did it add in the fact that he'd scared her just it made that much worst. "Babe, please stop crying." Andrew says he could take him as far as Cherry Drive, but he wasn't going up that hill. "You hear that? He's going to drop me off on Jonathon's street, I'll walk home from there." She says she could send a car. Fear made his, "No" come out with a finality in his tone that he hadn't meant to use with her. He looks around and made sure they were still heading towards his home. "I'm sorry for yelling I was…" he stopped. "I'll tell you soon, just not now." As Andrew stops the car. Luke says "Sophie I'm on Cherry Drive. I'm on my way." Luke hands Andrew back his phone and weapon. Luke then gets out what he saw made him take off at a dead run up the hill. Sophie was running down the hill. Hearing screeching tires behind him made him run faster and almost face plant the ground. He looked back and was relieved that Andrew had just sped away. When he heard the acceleration, his fear riddled brain had thought that Andrew was preparing to run them over. It was a good thing Luke slowed down, because when they met up at the edge of the property his wife jumped in his arms she'd hit him with such force he almost lost his footing. After kissing him and him returning it, she climbed down and asked what happened and why he was wet. After reclaiming his breath both from the running and their kiss he says, "I'll tell you everything, but can we get behind closed lockable doors first?"

Up inside of their bedroom, Sophie sits on their bed watching as he took off his wet clothing. "The driver said you got arrested. I'll ask again, why you are wet?" He tells her about getting put in the car in cuffs and noticing that they were going the wrong way. He spoke of pointing that out and getting up close and personal with the divider. That explained why his top lip was busted. When he spoke of being told to kneel in the water under the pier cuffed and at gunpoint. His words came out in short bursts the more he said the faster his words came. Sophie stood and walked to him hugging him. He hugged her back and she could feel that he was still trembling. He spoke of the whole ordeal but when he got to the lie. He stopped speaking let her go and ran for the house phone. Lucky it wasn't a video call because he was standing in the middle of the room on the phone trying to reach Middlebrook's in only his wet socks. She must have given him a look as she stood hugging herself because he pulls the phone from his ear and with the most stricken look she'd ever seen on his face, he said he'd lied, and it worked in his favor, but he still had to protect their sister, so his lie wouldn't become truth. Sophie asks, "I don't get it why would her boss want her dead?"

Luke says "I don't know but from the way he was asking I played the only card I thought wouldn't get me drowned. It worked. When he let me go, I swan for my phone, and it was a good thing I left from under the pier when I did. Sophie, I saw a man get shot kneeling almost in the same spot under that damn pier." Middlebrooks comes on the line. He tells her what he did and why. Sandra told him that she would handle it. She was having Joy moved as they spoke. "Sandra I'm sorry I have brought you into this."

Sandra watches the transfer of Joy from her room on the 20th floor to the 80th floor from her office. She types a message to her staff. "Luke if you are worried about your career, don't be you did what you did to save a life, two really one of those, being your own. If you are afraid that I will at some later date if called to ever speak of this. I'm bound by another confidentiality law you are my patient. I don't have to repeat any of what you just told me. I will use it to keep your sister safe but please do not fret for a second that if asked I would repeat this." They close the call and Sandra sets up a few other blocks. Luke was so much more than her boss and the son of her former boss.

After a long hot as he can stand it shower, and putting on warm boxers, Luke lays down with Sophie laying on him as only his wife could. He'd been so worn out when he left the hospital but that had changed when his car was pulled over a mile from his home. Hearing JC cry in the portable crib on the other side of their room Sophie stirs. "I'll get him babe go on back to sleep." Sophie turns over. Luke gets up and changes JC's diaper and feeds him a smaller bottle. Since he wasn't much for singing and didn't want to wake Sophie, Luke turns on the classical channel, one of Sophie's favorites starts to play and as Luke rocked his nephew, as he hummed along with the melody thinking of when he'd be able to do this with his own child. Soon JC was back asleep. He places him back in his crib and laid back down. He slept for maybe an hour and couldn't turn off his thoughts. He slides out of bed and grabs a shirt and gym shorts and heads down into the kitchen for a bottled water then he would go to the basement for some one on one with a punching bag.

Luke walked down into the basement gym and turned on the radio, just by what was programed he knew who had been down here last. Though Josh and he hadn't sparred anymore after the last time, they had got back to working out here or at Ivey Gym and then swimming against each other. Luke had added to their gym when he fully moved in. He'd brought his speed bag and a massive weighted punching bag that was tethered to the ceiling via three durable chains. Wrapping up his hands, he warmed up with a shadow boxing exercise Mark had taught him. He then starts making the speed bag dance he reflected on his night and the other thoughts that had warred for control, when he'd been too scared to let anything out. Stopping the speed bag, he went at the weighted bag with combo after combo with a severity that he had to stop and take a breather. The door opened Luke sharply looks over as he sees Nikki poke her head in sees him then backed out of the door closing it behind her. Maybe he'd been wrong about who had been down here. Finishing up with a brisk run on the treadmill he thought of the other things he had to do today. He wanted to get his phone's information transferred to another phone that was to arrive at 10 this morning. He heads back up to his room and is surprised that Sophie is awake. She looked up as he came in and asked where he went. "Had a bout of insomnia, and figured I'd try to work it off down in the gym. I briefly saw Nikki, but she just ducked back out when she saw me." Sophie asked did he want to stay home today. "No, I'll wait on my phone to be delivered and then I'll go into the office. After I'm done there I'll head over to the hospital, do my rounds. I'll be able to check on Joy she is my patient. I'll drive myself." She says he should just hire one of the drivers he trusted. Sophie then suggested he try to sleep until his phone got here. "Sophie, we all process things differently I'll sleep when it comes, but right now I need to stay on top of things. Yesterday's events just make me crave that much more to put it behind me and carry on. If I drive myself I can control when I leave, and I will be able to control when I come home. I travel too much to let this make me fall into the pattern that Joshua did after his unlawful stop." Sophie was clearly irritated as she asked was he trying to convince himself or her. "The fact I even considered having Dr. Simmons fill in for me at the office and having Middlebrooks cover SMC South out of fear just makes this that much more important for me to not let that happen. If I start hiding out, I don't know if I'd be able to come out of it on top. I've told you before, you make me want to be my best self, I can't do that hiding from the outside world."

She felt hot emotion behind her eyes. Oh boy these hormonal shifts were going to be a beast by the time their baby got here. "I'm not trying to have you hide out from anything. Don't you get it Luke it didn't matter who was driving you last night, he still could have stopped you. You once told me that you didn't take chances in your big shiny toys with your own safety by driving when tired. I know you are amped right now, but that doesn't mean you are going to be functioning at this level all day. I get it believe me I do. After the stuff with Dave, and when that limo crashed into mine I was hyper and nervous about leaving the house for a time. Like you said everyone deals with things differently I just want you to be safe about it, is that too much to ask?" He pulled her in to his arms and told her that he'd have his long-distance driver drive him in one of his toys that way he could always have Ivey Traveler activated and it may deter the chief from messing with him if he knew he'd be recorded the minute he or any of his underlings got in range. As he spoke and held her to him she didn't miss the trimmer that ran through him. She holds him that much tighter. He wasn't the only one afraid last night. Her heart had been sitting in her mouth until he'd got out of that damn car at the end of the hill. He leans down and kisses her. It started as reassurance, a light brushing of lips, then grew into a hungry urgency. It was then interrupted by a giggling and the sound of a stuffed horse with a rattle imbedded in its belly slapping against the railing of the portable crib that sat on the other side of the room. Their eyes open at the same time as they part, they both say, "coming JC."

The following day everyone had a chance to visit with Joshua, giving Angel time to return home and clean up and be with their son, for a few hours. One of Joey's men had gone to the club after getting her spare fob and brought her truck up to the hospital. On her way back up to be with Joshua she'd visited Joy's room, Joy hadn't yet regained consciousness. Bobby sat by her bedside and talked to her. When Angel walked in Bobby told her the answer to the question that must have been on her face. He looks over and says that Middlebrooks had been in and said the baby was fine and that all they were waiting on was Joy to regain consciousness. Bobby had shared that seeing Joy so pale upon entering the room scared the crap out of him. Angel says, "At the very least Joy is able to breath on her own and that is a good sign." Her brother asked about Joshua, "He's not in as much pain due to the medicine Middlebrook has him on, he sleeps most of the time." Bobby says he was surprised she wasn't in the room with Josh now. "I had to go home and see JC and change clothes. I'm here because I wanted to see how Joy was doing, and how you were handling everything."

Bobby hadn't missed the hesitation in her words when speaking about him handling things. "Angel I don't remember doing anything in the waiting room Pop says I pushed him and fought with Mark." Bobby described coming out of his balloon head feeling while getting the call from the system. "After waiting for what seemed like forever, they came and told me what had happened and how she and the baby were going to live. I called her parents and her sister pissed me off, but I kept a lid on my mouth. She accused me of making Joy go out and get herself hurt. Her family got it in their head that she just jumped up the night Joshua was taken and started throwing her weight around to lead the case. She didn't volunteer, her boss told her it came down the pipe to him and he gave it to her. Angel I didn't want her out there, especially when I couldn't physically back her up. She had a feeling about why she was asked to lead this and now with what her boss has done, and not done, it put a lot of pegs into holes for me and it pisses me off. He sent someone that had not actively worked a case like this in years with limited support from their own damn department. I couldn't even call any agents to back her up until I had a clear picture of what the fuck happened. It was hard enough getting approval for the shit I did get to help her with." he takes a breath and changes the direction of the conversation. "So, are you heading back up there or after leaving here or are you going to wait for everyone to get some time with him?"

Angel sighs and stands looking out the window as she speaks, "I'm trying to let everyone on the list have some time to visit, I don't have time or the energy for any more family drama. The one person that is just going to have to get over it is Gloria. I don't want her near him. We both agreed to work with her, so my father wouldn't work himself into an early grave. I will not let Gloria upset Joshua, not here in the state that he is in, not now. Sally said she and Michael would watch JC, so Sophie can get a break. I better get back." Bobby get up hugs her, and a thanks her for coming he says he'd come visit with Josh after Joy woke.

Over at Mark's school the buzz about him leaving the business was louder than any other news or gossip. Rapture was happy as he strolled through the school because he was in town for a live show. Mark had asked to meet him here. Rapture nods at the woman at the desk outside the office that read Owner and Coordinator. So, Mark had finally found the time to get his title put on his door. Rap walks in and Mark greets him and tells him to have a seat. Rapture knew this was a business meeting because other people from WWE creative were present. Sophie was in a window, her home office shown in her background. He waved at the screen. Mark started speaking and Rapture was dumb struck. "So, you want me to interrupt your match and start a feud with you?" This was a chance of a life time. A knock sounds at the door. Big Cass and Enzo walked in and Mark invited them to do the same but as run ins from the training show that would be like Tough Enough but would follow their interaction with other students on their journey through the school. The working title was WWE School Stroll. Rapture was glad he'd graduated before that idea hit the table. He wasn't up for sharing some of the experiences he'd had to go through. The death notes from that cop that beat up Joshua and shot Bobby had put the former co-coordinator Denary Strat- Clarke's husband behind bars. Rapture was going to trial in a few months because of his own attack by Denary and her people that had once worked here. Since he wasn't suing her yet, he was a part of the criminal trial that Mark's school and the prosecutor had put together. Rap's testimony along with the witnesses, and the video had the potential to send Denary Strat- Clarke up the river for a long time. Mark speaks bringing him out of his thoughts and back into what just that quickly had turned into a heated discussion. A female student had wanted to fight Mark for the belt and push. Mark looked at the young lady and says he was not fighting a woman for the title and to hand off the torch too.

After they leave the meeting and walk down the hall Paige just kept saying she could do it. Rapture turns to his former classmate and says to Paige "Honey there isn't that much working safe in the world. Did you not hear what he wants the match to be? If you win the audience would hate you and not in the they hate me and I'm getting paid sense. If you lose it would put a big ole bullseye on his head and the media would have a field day. Mark in a steel cage with a woman half his size that would basically have to be so "tough" she went through all the men in line for this shot. Tell me something, would you be alone, or would you have females attacking us throughout this storyline?" Paige says just because he was on the roster now he didn't have to be an ass. "It's not about me being on the roster it's about image. I'm opening matches for house shows and he is well, he is the fucking Undertaker think about that. He's not going to fight you for the belt for two reasons. This isn't the Attitude Era. Also, what the hell he looks like beating up on you. Or playing mind games with you that won't get him sued nowadays. In the middle of a no bullying campaign. Sophie a female by the way, said it in there and she made sense. The start of the storyline would start in October which is Domestic Violence Awareness Month this would not look good or go well. Those still shots live on way after the count of three." She stormed off saying she was going to talk to other people that could see her vision. Rapture says, "Hey while you are telling them to let you fight Taker for his last match, please do remember to mention there are weapons involved and a steel cage."

On the night of the captive extraction after getting more sleep, Wolfe reentered the room he'd locked Sal and Alex in. He'd given them both a chance to speak. After Salvatore explained the plan and his part, he also said that he was trying for as much damage control as possible and had planned to take out Deon himself and even provided proof that he'd double crossed Deon by not leaving well trained men in Florida. He made his case. Wolfe would have done some of the same. Wolfe did remind his number one that he would be punished. Alex was last and the very unlucky one in the room. When Wolfe asked him what his plan was and why he'd worked with the pet don of a rival family. Alex had first lied, which earned him a few lashes to the gut with a tire iron. He then revealed his entire plan. Wolfe walked over and unlocked Salvatore from the chain around his wrists that had made him stand straight up for the five hours Wolfe had been dozing and dismissed him. Wolfe asked Alex did he know of Joshua Davenport's relation to one Mr. Chase Ivey and one Mr. Jonathon McBride? Alex said yes. He then spoke of how Joshua was his son and to his knowledge the only one except for his grandson that could save his life from his blood disorder. Max asked about a part he'd seen on the video he'd had copied and sent to him. Alex froze when Max asked about Alex's plan to discard both his son and a doctor. Alex confessed. When Max asked what if the blood from his son didn't cure him. When Alex revealed his plan to pull the same stunt but next time with den members to get his grandson. Maxwell asked one last question, he asked Alex whose brilliant idea was it for him to hire professional killers to walk into a home with three children and a woman with another young on the way? Alex admitted it was him but said that the agent did his job and the hired guns didn't hurt the woman or the kids. Wolfe walks out of the room. Alex had angered Wolfe in ways that were not forgivable. Those hired guns were den members. That night Wolfe ordered Salvatore to take that same group of men with him to execute Alex Knight.

Tonight, Maxwell Stalk Wolfe sits in a posh eatery and a man comes to his table at the back in the corner. Max plays with a card in his fingers It was a gift to let those that Alex had hurt not have to doubt that he no longer lived. Joey sits across from him. Wolfe had Alex Knight killed in a fashion that his body would soon surface unlike most of Wolfe's kills. Alex planning and following through with kidnapping Chase's son and a doctor that long ago had saved the Wolfe's own life made him look into the middle distance for a time, and remember when he'd saved a building, and made sure it would be the only one not touched by crime after he left.

Flashback:

Maxwell Stalk Wolfe had been about to shut down a clinic that had refused to pay the protection fee over in Glenview, but when he stood in the back entrance with a loaded weapon and his den ready to come in from all sides to take out the doctor and burn down the building, he saw that even though the clinic was supposed to be closed for the night, there was a young male that he would later find out was Chase Ivey and a small skinny native young one that was now known as Agent Robert Hawk-Ivey there. Wolfe watched and listened as the doctor spoke to the scared young with wild eyes. He'd spoke into his radio telling his den they were to hold a position but make no advance. As the doctor patched the child. He then did the same for Chase. As his den let Chase and the young one out the front door. Wolfe had stepped out of the back hall with a freshly nicked face mask and asked the doctor point blank "Why is it you are willing to sell drugs against my operation and refuse to pay for protection when you appear to care for this community?" the doctor said he wasn't selling drugs he was caring for the sick. Wolfe had his den search the clinic and came away with not much in the way of drugs that were popular on the street. "What are you some kind of apothecary?" The doctor had corrected him and told him he was an internist. "How much do you charge these people? To smear tree shit on them?" The doctor looked at the way he was standing and asked him how long his side had been bothering him. "Never mind that, you're not smearing mud on me." The doctor had told him if it was a bite, he could draw out the poison and possibly elongate his life. "What is that your con, you have attack spiders out here or something?" The doctor even at gunpoint smirked and asked him to lift his shirt. Maxwell had, and the doctor's eyes had widened. "Don't tell me, it's the biggest one you have seen?" The doctor smirked again and said not hardly. That day not only did Wolfe not burn down a building with a child in it, but the heavens sent the smart mouthed doctor into his life and though when Sheldon touched the huge 5 inch infected bubble on the side of Wolfe's waist he wanted to pull the trigger to make the man stop touching it. He stayed his hand as he let the doctor smear white smelly mud on him. It wasn't long after that, the pain that had been getting worse dulled. Days later a large stinger had popped free of his skin it had not been a spider, to this day Max didn't know what had him for lunch, nor did he know what was in the cream, all he knew was the poorer part of the Glenview community had not got themselves a drug operation to rival his, but a real doctor that seemed to give a shit even about hoods with guns.

End of Flashback:

Coming back to the present Maxwell slides the card across the table, Joey picked it up read it, ripped up the card, and set it a flame in the little candle tray in the center of the table. As they both watched it burn, Joey says he would make sure the gift of information was delivered.

Joey stood and leans over and says to Wolfe. "If your number one who is not on that card lives? Please tell him that if he ever tries to off Ivey or any part of that circle while I'm protecting them, I will feed him into a rather large woodchipper feet first." With that Joey walked out, got in his car, and drove towards Grandville South Proper. He had a meeting to get to.

Angel sits in the room with Joshua, who is more awake tonight. She smiles as he asks can she please unbutton his gown since no one else was coming. "Bradley said he was on his way, and besides I really don't want to unfasten anything. Is it hurting you?" He sighs and says no it's just. That was a small sign to her that her lover was getting better he hated shirts when he couldn't get up and move around. "How about I will unbutton a few in the front after your brother leaves." He looked at her and asked had Bradley did or said something out of the way to her. It was her turn to sigh. "It's fine, I'm not trying to start anything." Bradley was soon seen standing at the door that lead to this set of rooms on the monitor. Joshua asked her as she was walking to the door if it was anything that Bradley may have to be ejected from here like with Sally last time. Angel turns around swiftly hearing the unease in his voice. "No, it's nothing like that, if I thought for a second, he would do anything, I would not have allowed him in here." She walks to the door and pushed the button for the door at the end of the hall to open. Bradley passes her and walks into the room with Joshua.

Bradley stood by the door and looked over at his little brother. After running around trying to find Josh and running from the frightening dark thoughts of never seeing him again had not prepared him for seeing what all the doctor had come out into the waiting room and said. Bradley had thought it was Deon, how bad could he look? Getting his answer right now as he stood frozen by the door. He then remembered Deon though not a skilled heavy, hadn't afforded Joshua the use of his hands and feet to defend himself. Anybody could do damage when they were a fucking coward that locked you in place. This had to be worse than when James and Patrick ambushed him, because this time he'd been forced to be awake and still couldn't defend himself. Joshua broke the spell when he asked what he said to Angel. "What? Hello to you too. When just now? I didn't say anything to her. Are you feeling any better?"

"I'd feel better if you stopped staring at me, and if I knew why Angel has gone back to giving you a wide circle of space both verbally and physically." Bradley put his hands in his pockets and broke eye contact then said only one person can be in here at a time. Bradley asked what Angel had told him. "She didn't that's the problem. All she assured me is that whatever it was it wasn't something like what made mom lose her shit on me last time." Bradley told him how he was the one that let Angel know that he was missing. "Ok?" Bradley walks over and sits down rubbing his hands on his pant legs and says his wife would probably get around to saying what he'd said so he might as well tell him before it got jumbled or something, making it sound worse than it did. "Ok I mean what more could you have said that would make it sound worse?"

Bradley looked up at his little brother and explained the clues he had gathered after discovering that Joshua was gone that night. "I mean Andrew was supposed to be having your back and when Candy called him, and he blew her off. I went out to find you." Joshua asked is that when he called Angel. "No, I called Logan and told him the small pieces I was putting together kind of bouncing shit off him and then he told me about how Andrew liked Angel and asked her out after blowing away Braden and it scared me ok. I was freaked out and called Candy and asked her if she knew about the Andrew shit and because of the shit that was said to her after the limo thing she clammed up saying that she shouldn't say. I took that way wrong and hung up on her." Joshua eyes lights with alarm and something darker. Bradley pushed on before he lost his nerve. "That's when I called Angel." Bradley spoke of what he'd said to Angel and how she told him off and hung up on him. "I wanted to call her back, but I knew nothing short of me finding you would have made it right. I did apologize when I got here but that was right before Middlebrooks came out to get her when you were here and had been in recovery."

It was Joshua's turn to speak. "I don't know where to start. Not only did you tell Angel in an explosive way, but then turned around and blamed her like she had a part in it. I mean if you had of just been the one to tell her just that I was missing, I would have thought ok it was kind of a don't shoot the massager type thing, but Bradley that's not what happened. We all were doing so well." Bradley says he knows that's why he felt like shit after she told him off, because she wasn't a good liar in tense situations, and him knowing she wasn't lying made it that much worst because it left no doubt that he fucked up, by not only scaring her with the news Joshua was missing and maybe hurt but also of accusing her of cheating with the person that took him. Bradley says how Candy had tried to call him but how he wouldn't answer until he spoke to Angel thinking that Candy was covering for her and how Candy had gone off on him and told him she didn't know whether Angel had ever told Joshua about Andrew making passes at her. "Just to clear the air on the topic once and for all." Bradley says Angel told him that she didn't hide it because of their couple promise not to keep secrets from each other and considering she didn't want Andrew. She shared it for it not to look like a secret. "Yeah I mean we both thought that she'd finally set him straight" Bradley looks confused Joshua continues "Andrew said something that revealed to me that he still has feelings for Angel, when he was locking me fully to the table. What I don't get is what set him off, he did a lot of stuff to keep us safe. Just to end up working for Alex. The fucker admits to wanting my wife and says it wasn't personal. Brad he played us all." Joshua's head was starting to hurt, and he didn't feel like talking to Bradley anymore right now. Ever since Bradley had told what he'd done. while trying to talk through the confusion of the situation. Knowing how Angel had blamed herself for shit that wasn't her fault in the past, and then finding out his own brother would wrap something as terrifying as him missing and hurt, up with angry accusation and drop it on his wife like that, pissed him off. Bradley asked what he could do to make shit right with her. "She started to let you close to her and you hurt her, like others she's come to care about has done. Right now, leave her alone Bradley, in fact just leave. I really don't want to talk on this with you anymore."

Bradley gets up and says "Joshua just know I am sorry I hurt her. I'm glad you got rescued, because at least me telling her that you were missing and hurt didn't manifest into something worse that I don't even want to think about." He then says, "I'll let you get some rest." and walks out into the hall where Angel was sitting. She gets up and heads towards the room moving from in front of the little window he gets in her path. She steps back looking at him with annoyance in her gaze. "Joshua asked me what was up with us two, and I did tell him. Angel, I'm sorry." Something crossed over her way too expressive face.

Angel wasn't doing this today. "Just stop. What do you want from me? When you called me that night, you meant every word." With that said she side stepped him and walked back in the room. As she enters, she walks over, and watches Bradley get in the elevator on the monitor. When he does, she hit the button so no other people besides herself and medical staff could enter that hall. Turning to Joshua she walks over and says, "Which side do you want it unfastened on?" he says the left. She undoes the shirt and saw the bruising that rose up over his torso, sitting back down, noting the pinched expression on his face she asks, "You want the lights turn down?" He says he's fine just a headache and that he really didn't want to hit the pain med button until they spoke about this Bradley shit. Angel covers her mouth then moves her hand and says, "That night after we got off the phone, I went to take my shower and came back and watched video's and made notes on where our next photoshoot could be. When it was nearing time for the club to close and you guys to finish up, when Bradley called, I was surprised." She then speaks on the weird question about Andrew without even a hello, and her response and Bradley telling her that he was missing and hurt and wrapping it up with his dial-a-fed comment. "On one hand, I am glad he called because I was able to tell Sophie who was able to get dad and Bobby on it quickly, and it worked. We got you back." Joshua asks but? Angel says, "But, it hurt to think that though we had been getting to a better place as a family, a person I held as a brother would think I would ever want to hurt you in any way. I keep asking myself why that would even remotely be a conclusion that he would draw about me? He keeps apologizing at me now. I even asked him what he wants me to do? He meant every word. I told him off because I felt attacked and scared." Joshua says Andrew liking her wasn't her fault. "I know and he's over that have been since my party." Joshua glares at the ceiling and tells her no Andrew still wanted her, before she could speak, he tells her what Andrew said to him while he was being locked in place. "None of this makes any sense he called and told me where you were, and so did Vivian." Joshua tells her about the deal. "I'll never be happy that she had you kiss her, but I'm glad she at the very least held up her end of the deal." He then tells her what Bradley said about after she told him off. "Now he wants me to be ok with it or something. I'm not." She leans her forehead on his bedside. "I'm not ok, with any of it."

Up on the 80th floor, Bobby sits talking to Joy telling her about stuff they could do for the wedding and stuff he'd seen on a video she'd sent him. "I don't think me doing that dance will help improve your family's view of me." Yes, the conversation was one-sided, but he kept talking. Occasionally, he'd glance up. He glances up at her she was moving her hand. Standing he says, "Joy babe please wake up." He takes her hand. It twitches in his larger one. "Joy wake up, please wake up."

Joy felt like she was climbing out of a large pillow or something else fluffy. Then it was like her body had a mind of its own. Her hand twitched she hears someone tell her to wake up. They sound like they are still inside the fluff for a time. She starts to feel the weight of her body she wasn't in her bed. Where the hell, was she? The voice repeats itself. This time it sounded louder. Was he mad? Why was he yelling? She opens her eyes and is met with a large fuzzy man standing over her. Pushing herself into the pillow she tries to lean away from him. He leans out of her face. She tried to remember more than her name and pain stabbed her in the brain. She looks up and see the tracks in the ceiling. "Hospital why?" Her voice startled her. She sounded drunk. Sgt. Richards was going to be so pissed. Had she crashed or something? The pain came back double time. "Ow." She wanted to put her hand over her eyes but slapped herself in the face instead. Oh great, one of the new guys was here to watch her back and she was crying. Why would she need someone to watch her back? Okay asking herself questions was not going to make the headache go away it was making it worse. She would try to ask the officer that had been posted. She first needed his name. "What's your name officer?" She was slurring and suddenly he left, was there something going on? Had someone tried to get in here? "Where did you go?"

Bobby charged out of the room and almost ran Luke over grabbing him to steady him then not letting go he says. "Luke, she doesn't know who I am. What the hell?" Luke asked Bobby to release him in a firm tone. Bobby let's go and explains the strange question. Luke walked in and Joy was upset and crying. "Captain Joy Wildflower?" She slurs that she's a detective but hoped to make his statement true one day. Luke frowned then says, "I'm doctor Lucas Sheldon" she asked about the officer. Luke looked around and then remembered Bobby's concern that Joy didn't know him. "He's in the hall. I have come to check on you since you are awake now." She looked confused. She knew who she was but was missing a lot of time. He writes on his tablet and approaches the bed. He talks to her and tells her his movements. Her visual tracking was off. He asks her a few questions, whenever she tried to recall something recent or even five years ago, it seemed to bring on pain. He looked at her history she was a detective almost 6 years ago. She was experiencing traumatic memory loss. Thinking of a person she was employed by that he'd like to forget he asked did she recall a man named Dylan Emanuel Patterson. She says yes, he was a little creep to her at times but still a good cop, then shakily covered her mouth. She then asked was he in the car with her. "Detective you weren't in a car. You were stabbed on scene and brought here to "Sheldon Med Center South." She asked South of what. Six years ago, their town wasn't divided Luke replies "Grandville."

Over at Ivey Mansion, Chase and Jonathon sit in the den waiting on Joey to arrive. When he does, he walks in with his name being read through the system. His new access card had worked. "Hello gentlemen, I'll have to tell Sophie Elaine thank you for her agreeing to give me access." Chase says with mirth in his tone if Joey didn't want to be a foot shorter, he'd not call her Sophie Elaine to her face. "Duly noted, the last thing I need is her showing me the door via throwing shit at my head. You know why I say that Chase." Chase smirks and tells Jonathon that his mother Nana Barnett had found Joseph taking fresh baked cookies from the tray without washing his hands and she'd smacked him in the forehead him with a wooden spoon. "Yeah, your mother didn't take no shit. I have some news that will uh lighten the load sort to speak. I figured I'd tell you both before Sophie gets in here. Alex Knight's body was found. His former employer wanted those people that Alex hurt, with the kidnapping to know that he would not be a problem anymore." Jonathon says if he knows who Alex worked for that was a gift indeed. "You would be right McBride I'll still keep an eye on him I don't trust a lot people and I have a job to do." Jonathon nods.

Sophie waits on Luke in the atrium, she'd told her dad that Luke was back at the house and who had him. Luke called her and texted her a lot today and some points she could hear him warring with himself to stay active. The "push through" mentality could only go so far on an hour of sleep and a pot of coffee. He calls and says he is leaving the office now. Sophie could hear the unease in his voice and asked. "Since you're not driving would you like to vid chat?" He sends her a request to do so. "He looked tired and every so often, he'd look away from the camera. She knew what or more accurately, who he was looking for. She wanted to reclaim his attention and give him something to focus on. "Luke, so how is Joy?"

As Luke watches the activity down the street he looks back at his wife on screen. "I'd rather speak of that behind closed doors." He then speaks of the rest of his day that was filled with challenges he had not readied himself for when fighting an internal struggle for normalcy. He shared the pace of his thoughts and the over awareness in situations that had never given him issues before. Sophie says that was because he never had to deal with something like that before. "All in all, I think if this feeling doesn't subside, I'll take Middlebrooks up on her offer of a session."

The latter part of his statement was murmured, but she'd heard. Sophie had worried that throwing himself back in to his usual routine after last night would mess with him. Hearing the way, he'd took to using the skywalk for most of his office to med center travels told her that he'd just traded hiding at home for hiding at work. She nods as she sees the gate closing in his background. He tells his driver thank you and they both watch as the driver got in his car and drove back out of the gate. "Dad, Jonathon, and Joey wanted to meet with us in the den." They soon close their call as he enters the house and his name is read through the system. She watched as he leans on the front door with his eyes closed for a full minute. Opening his eyes, he sees her and walks towards her she meets him at the entrance to the den. "Do you need more time?"

Luke shook his head and says "No, the longer I wait, the harder it will be to go through with it." Luke had agreed that he would let Chase know the details of what went on last night, though if he was honest with himself, he was still afraid of the threat the chief left him with. Too many people had come way to close for his comfort, in turning their threats into promises here lately. They head into the den holding hands. As they enter, conversation stops then Chase introduced Joey. Joey greets them. Chase asked him what happened last night. Sighing and running his hand through his hair a usual gesture for him was accented tonight by him wincing when he touched the bruise on his forehead. He'd did a good job of hiding it from his staff with his hair. Lowering his hand, he says. "There are parts of what I'm going to say that must not leave this room." He tells them his account of what happened only having to stop once when his words had sped up into a frenzy of stuttered dialogue. Chase had approached him and told him to stop. He then suggested that he ask questions. Frustrated with himself Luke says, "Yes ask away, that way you'll get the information you need without me sounding like I've lost brain cells." Luke crosses the room and pours himself coffee. The action was more for something to do with his hands than to fill his caffeine addiction. Sophie asked would that hurt his being able to sleep. "No, right now I'm about one quiet pause away from falling asleep on my feet." Chase asks him a few more questions and that quiet pause came as Luke sat down near Sophie on the couch as Chase paused for Luke's answer. All in the room noticed that Luke had fallen asleep. Chase says that for now they'd table this, and he would put a few things in motion.

Sophie walks over and puts a cover over Luke. Since waking him via touch would probably be a very bad idea considering just putting the cover on him made him tense. He wasn't a violent sleeper, but with all that had gone on she didn't need him in half fugue state and trying to defend himself. When he was awake, he wouldn't hurt her. Even when he slept walk, she'd been able to calmly suggest he go back to bed. After all the crap that he'd been through lately she wasn't risking finding out. Her father in law poked his head in Sophie turned and told him that Luke had a bout of insomnia and this was the result of him crashing.

Lucas Sr. walks further in the room "Chase just informed of me what happened last night. We were dropped off here by Bradley, and after a shower Ella says she spoke to me, but I guess I fell asleep on her. The fact that I could have awaken this morning to my son missing or worse is beyond frightening." As he watched his son sleep with his head on the back of the sofa. "If he stays like that all night, he won't be able to move without discomfort by morning." Sophie tells him that she didn't want him to sleep down here either, but she didn't want to set him off by trying to wake him. She explained about sometimes being able to get him moving when he was extra tired but not after something so traumatic. Lucas has her come over by the door. He walks over and stands not over Luke but beside him. Taking the cover off he noticed the tense posture even in sleep. Lucas sits next to his son and was prepared for when Luke felt the depression of the cushion beside him and struck out. Lucas caught his son's hand and told him he was safe. Lucas releases his son and speaks at first Luke flinched as he moves his hand back to protect himself. His father speaks sternly but firmly in a quiet reassuring tone. "Lucas you are safe, you're downstairs in your own home." Luke speaks but Lucas had no idea what he was talking about. Sophie says he was probably answering a question posed to him while he was awake. Lucas nods and continues "You are in your den here at Ivey Mansion, you are home, get up, walk upstairs, get in your bed, you are safe son." Luke says he made it home. In a questioning tone. Sophie speaks to him like when he would fall asleep in their shower. He gets up and proceeds her up the stairs and into their bedroom he takes off his shoes, as he stood by his side of the bed, he took off his shirt and fell face first across the bed. Sophie waited until he turned his head and his facial features evened back out and his light snoring resumed, before she laid down with him. She found that sleep was calling her too as she drifted off.

Over at The Davenport Candy wiped down the bar, her and Vash were covering tonight. Bradley walked in and sat in her area and orders his usual locally brewed beer. "So how did your visit go?" He tells her what was said and how Joshua told him to leave his wife alone and to just leave. He goes on to describe his interaction with Angel in the hall, and how she sidestepped him after asking him what he wanted from her. "Babe, right now Joshua is right. I think you'd rather her not be thinking constantly about you and the phone call. Right now, just let her revel in the fact that her husband is out of danger. Give her some time, a lot went down and for now letting her not think about you is best. She let you up to see him. She also let you be the one to tell Joshua what happened between you two. That says a lot." Bradley jumps on the defense saying he would have been able to see his brother without Angel's approval because he was a med contact. "Yeah, keep telling yourself that. Bradley don't take this wrong way. Angel is Medical Liaison one, and very protective of Joshua at times like this, if she honestly didn't want you up there you would not have been able to get on that elevator, none of us would have. As for her not telling Joshua about how you delivered the news, she just didn't want him amped I don't think she'd say anything right now that may upset him. I got a chance to go see him this afternoon Angel texted me and sent me the code. When I got up there seeing what Deon and Andrew had done really made me have to push aside all the shit I wanted to say. Joshua says that he's afraid he won't be able to play anymore. He's scared about a lot and has a lot of shit on his mind, so I think you guys talking and him getting upset just made him want you out of his space for a time. Let him and Angel deal how they need to. I'm not saying do as I was trying to do and try to wait them out or anything but let them deal with what is going on right now."

The next morning Joy called the officer that was outside her room. When he rushed in it startled her, but recognition dawned on who he is and that made her nervous. He was the federal agent that worked her first serial killer case as a detective with her. "Oh wow, Agent Robert Hawk-Ivey. I have a question what about my situation warrants protection from a federal agent? The doctor said I was stabbed but when I asked was my attacker still at large he said my attacker was killed at the scene." His expression opened when she'd said his name and then it closed again. He says he was not here on duty he was here because he'd heard that she was hurt in the line and came to make sure she was ok. "Oh, thank you?" She smiled up at him. Hearing that he'd came to check on her warmed her and made her feel safe. If she remembered correctly, he was always easy to talk to. "Well, besides feeling like a truck ran over me when the cream wears off. I'll be fine unless they stop putting that cream on its surprisingly effective at keeping the pain down. I guess they have the record of the last time I had to have pain med. I'm allergic to whatever it is in Tylenol 3. I tried to call my parents and let them know I'm ok. This room has no phone to the outside it seems. I tried pushing 9 and all that, but it's like they won't let me talk to anyone. He tells her that he'd got in touch with her parents. "Oh, I'm sure my dad asked you a million and one questions."

This confused Bobby, because her memory of him seemed to be based on shortly before they started dating. Seeing her as she may have been those nights after they'd worked that first case together was very surreal for him. He wondered how long her brain would protect her from the truth. Though right now he would follow her lead, in months she would be having their baby. Earlier than that she would begin to show. He comes out of his thoughts and asks, "Why is that?" She explains about her ex how that didn't go so well. She goes on to say that her dad hadn't wanted her staying on the force, but it was her decision and she decided to remain and how it paid off because she was now a detective and her ex was demoted to street patrol. Hearing her speak of her old partner and ex-boyfriend gave him a clearer picture of why she was so hesitant to date him in the beginning. He talked with her and got caught up in the conversation to the point he temporarily forgot that he wasn't talking to the woman he was engaged with. She told a joke and he laughed so hard his eyes teared. Catching his breath, he says, "That's why I love you." The shock on her face that was soon replaced by dread struck him.

"I'm sorry you what?" he shrugs and looked pained. Joy stared in horrified silence. "No, you can't we hardly know each other. I learned that lesson, I told you about that this very night. If that was your idea of a joke, I don't find it amusing." He stammers that he didn't mean to upset her. "Thanks for coming to check on me. Now that you know I'll pull through you can leave now." He gets to his feet the look on his face was one she'd seen before but for the life of her, she could not remember when. He opens his mouth and her native language in the Spokane Indian dialect rolled off his tongue expertly as he said he once promised her that he would never lie to her therefore he could not take back what he had said. With that he walked out of the room. He was Blackfoot Indian but raised by a man by the name of Chase Ivey. She'd looked him up and ran into lots of blocks she'd hacked the data base and only found pictures of blacked out pages, she suspected he was a darker agent than even he suggested. If he had not of told her while on a stakeout about his relationship to Chase Ivey, she would have found nothing.

Bobby stormed down the hall to the area where he could safely use his cell on this floor. He sat down in the waiting area and looked at the time. It blurred as tears ran from his eyes that he hadn't even know were falling. What had he done? He foolishly thought him speaking her native language would speed up her memory because she was the one that taught him. It hadn't worked and though he would not apologize for telling her he loved her. He did not know how he was going to get through this. He calls his father and explained the situation leaving nothing out and then ended it with his latest fuck up. "I don't know what else I can do dad. I now know the fear Sophie spoke about when you had your nightmare after your attack, she'd fear you had forgotten her."

Chase says "Joy hasn't forgotten you son. She remembers you before whatever is locked away in her head happened. All you can do is give her time. She is in the best place and being protected by part of some of the best medical professionals on this side of the world, just give her mind time to catch up with itself."

Chase suggests that when Joy asked him back in the room for him to show her images of their time together. "I can do that. She made beautiful photo albums. I'll go get them and bring them up here." Bobby now at least had a mission he could complete instead of just going home and being scared out of his mind that his wife to be would never remember him.

Author's Note: Joy is in a secure no ground access room. The reason she can't call out is because these rooms are called non-com or no communication in or out, because land lines are easy to trace. Will she remember Bobby? Will Bradley's spiral be the final arrow allowed to strike Joshua through hurting Angel? Will Mark let Paige convince him to pick her to fight his last match with, or does Rapture have the right Idea that it would be the end of Mark's legacy and not in a good way? :End Note