Chapter 17
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So you 2, you dated whenever you were children," Blu asked both of them, wondering if he got the story right.
"That's right," Jaime responded to Blu.
"Oh, so you 2 don't date anymore," Blu asked.
"No, not anymore," Jewel responded. Blu turned his head away from Jaime and Jewel who stood next to each other across from Blu. A kind of evil smile spread across Blu's face.
"Let's go," Blu whispered to himself with a smile across his face. Jaime leaned in towards Blu, he thought he heard him say something.
"Did you say something Blu," Jaime asked. Blu turned his head back to the 2 birds quickly. He immediately changed his smile back to a serious look.
"No, I don't think so," Blu responded quickly. After he said this the room went silent for a little bit. No one knew what to say. It was kind of awkward that all of a sudden Jewel's old boyfriend showed up all of the sudden. Not that it was a bad thing though. Even Jewel's face seemed to heat up. Deep down, Blu thought that Jewel knew how he felt about her old boyfriend shows up. Blu felt like Jewel knew that he was kind of upset that her old boyfriend showed up. But It's not like Blu hated Jaime. He actually seemed like a cool guy. Plus they were both detectives, they had that in common. Maybe Blu and Jaime could actually be friends. Blu didn't know why he was upset about Jewel's old boyfriend showing up. It's not like they were dating anymore. And it's not like Jewel liked Blu at all, right? Suddenly a call from the Walkie-Talkie that hung on Jaime's FBI vest broke the silence. A static voice came from the Walkie-Talkie.
"Help us, We're in the back of a truck. I am not sure where we are, but I think we are at an abandoned building. There's not much time left," The male at the other end of the Walkie-Talkie whispered. Blu's eyes widened in surprise, so did Jewel's and Jaime's. No one could have expected that. Blu and Jewel's turned their attention towards Jaime. In a panic, Jaime reached his wing down to the Walkie-Talkie that was trapped to his chest. He had a piece of velcro taped to the end of the Walkie-Talkie, so it was on his vest pretty tight. Jaime gripped the walkie talkie tightly with his right-wing and quickly ripped it off his vest. A loud velcro ripping sound filled the room for mere seconds. Jaime brought the Walkie-Talkie up to his beak and held down the button on the side of it with the same wing he used to hold the device.
"Who is this," Jaime asked the bird on the Walkie-Talkie.
"I am one of the FBI agents that got captured, there is a bunch of us, please, send help," The male responded to Jaime's question. A shocked expression spread across his face as he stared up at Jewel and Blu. They also had shocked expressions across their faces. Jaime stared back down at the Walkie-Talkie and held the button back down.
"I'll send help," Jaime told the bird on the other side of the Walkie-Talkie, but no one responded this time. Jaime laid the Walkie-Talkie on the piece if Velcro that was on his vest, he did this in shock. He released his grip from the Walkie-Talkie and it stayed on his vest, as he thought. He brought his wing back to his side. He stared back up at Blu and Jewel with the same shocked expression on his face.
"What do you think it is," Blu asked Jaime. Sweat was forming on Jaime's forehead do to the situation. He wiped his wing across his forehead to clean up the sweat.
"I think that it's one of the kidnapped FBI agents," Jaime answered Blu's question honestly.
"What if it's a trap," Jewel joined the conversation. Blu shook his head at Jewel in response.
"I don't think that's a trap, I could hear the fear in his voice," Blu answered Jewel's question.
"I think so to," Jaime sided with Blu. Jewel stepped closer to Blu. She stared into Blu's chocolate brown eyes. Then she stared behind at Jaime.
"Do you guys know any sort of abandoned building," Jewel asked both of the guys.
"I know one," Blu said, "it's actually where I bought my Fedora hat." A frustrated look then spread across Blu's face. "I should probably go back to Dreamworld and see if it's still there," Blu told himself.
"Oh," Jewel said, "You forgot your hat at Dreamworld, that sucks." Blu nodded his head at Jewel's response.
"Yeah, it does suck," Blu told Jewel.
"That hat really looked good on you," Jewel complimented Blu as she smiled at him. Blu was surprised by the sudden compliment that Jewel had given him. He smiles at Jewel as he accepted this compliment.
"Thank you," Blu said as he smiled at Jewel. Jaime looked at both Blu and Jewel. He rolled his eyes at them.
"Blu, what building are you talking about," Jaime asked Blu. Blu's smile faded as he realized that he hadn't told them what building he was talking about.
"Well I can't really remember what it's called, but It's the old factory that used to make clothes. It's the one that's far away from the city. It's actually on the same path to the docks. There's another dirt road that you can turn off of and that leads to the factory," Blu explained. Jaime smiled at Blu, Jaime thought that Blu could be right.
"Good thinking Blu," Jaime congratulated him, Blu didn't really care though. "Also you know that Dreamworld is closed, right," Jaime asked and told Blu at the same time. A surprised look spread across Blu's face, but then it quickly faded.
"It's probably closed because of the incident," Blu thought to himself, it would make sense. They definitely needed to rebuild that room. And Blu still needed his refund. Blu became frustrated as he thought of this. He decides to ask why anyways.
"Really, why," Blu asked with a confused look on his face.
"Well, there was an explosion there, but the main reason is that the bird that owns the place went missing, we figured this out whenever we arrived there to ask the owner some questions. She was nowhere to be seen." Blu's eyes widened in horror. He wasn't afraid about the owner going missing, hell he didn't even care about that. Blu knew that sounded harsh, but it was true. He looked back at Jewel, she had the same horrific look on her face.
"That means-" Jewel was going to say something, but was interrupted by Blu.
"Yea, that means that they probably took Rafael and Eva aswell," Blu explained as he interrupted Jewel. Jaime stared at Blu with a confused look.
"Who is Rafael? And who's Eva," Jaime asked Blu. Blu turned his head to Jaime when he finished saying this.
"They're cops, in other words, they're probably my only friends or used to be, They're probably dead now," Blu told Jaime. Jewel covered her wing over her beak as she gasped. She shook her head at Blu in disappointment.
"Don't say that Blu, don't give up hope," Jewel told Blu. Blu turned his head to Jewel and smiled at her.
"Sorry," Blu told her quickly. He turned his head back towards Jaime "They're probably not dead," He told Jaime. Jewel walked towards the side of Blu, she gently placed her wing on his shoulder.
"Don't be a smart ass," Jewel told Blu with a stern look. Blu looked away from Jewel and stared at Jaime to avoid her stern gaze.
"Can we stop fucking around," Jaime told them with a bit of an angry tone. Jaime needed to go to the factory that Blu told him about and check if anyone actually needed his help. He should probably go get some birds from the FBI to help him with the distress call he got from the Walkie-Talkie. Jaime turned his body towards the direction of the door that led to the hall. He took one step forward and looked back at Blu and Jewel. "I'm gonna go check out that distress call," Jaime told Blu and Jewel. He stepped in front of the door and stared down at the doorknob. He gripped the doorknob and twisted it, causing the door to open. Jaime pulled the door towards as it revealed the hallway. the room that they were in was at the end of the hallway. There wasn't a hallway to the left, but there was one to the right. There were also doors down the hallway to Jaime's right, these doors probably led to more rooms with patients inside of them. Yesterday it was rainy and cloudy. Rain filled the roads and the sound of wind gusting filled the night. It wasn't like that this morning. The city was still wet from the pouring rain last night. The light from the sun shined over the city and the cool breeze blew through the street and the hallway of the hospital into Jaime's face,
"Wait," Blu said to Jaime. Jaime turned his head in the direction of where Blu was. Blu ran up to Jaime quickly and stood next to him. "I and Jewel will help you," Blu told Jaime as he smiled at him. "Actually would Jewel do that," Blu asked himself silently. He stared back at Jewel, she still stood where she was standing before. "You in Jewel," Blu asked her. Jewel smiled at both of them.
"Of course," Jewel told Blu. Blu turned his head back to Jaime and he noticed that Jaime now had a smile on his face.
"It might be dangerous," Jaime informed him, Blu wrapped his arm around Blu's neck in a friendly gesture. He stared into Jaime's eyes.
"I eat danger for breakfast," Blu told Jaime, then Blu changed his face to a sarcastic serious face "Without any milk," Blu finished his joke. Blu patted Jaime on the back.
"Whatever you say," Jaime told him "Also can I ask again, how did you guys heal all of a sudden," Jaime asked them. Blu sighed at him. He knew that Jaime wouldn't believe him if he actually told him the full story. Jaime stood by the door the whole time so he couldn't see the mess that Blu threw up. It was blocked by the bed. Blu decided to tell Jaime something that might actually be close to truthful.
"I made a deal with the devil," Blu told Jaime. Jaime chuckled a tiny bit at the response that Blu had given him, but when he saw that Blu's expression didn't change at all his face became serious.
"Really," Jaime asked Blu in a serious tone.
"Man I don't know," Blu said honestly to Jaime as he laughed. Because Blu actually didn't know how he got healed. He thought that the voice that he heard in the dark place healed him, but he still didn't know.
"Well we should probably hurry up," Jaime told Blu and Jewel. Blu unwrapped his wings from around Jaime's neck and nodded at him in response
"You drove a car here right," Jewel asked from behind Blu. No one had seen Jewel walk up behind him. Jewel's voice beeing so close to Blu all of a sudden startled him a little bit, causing his heart to beat faster.
"Yep," Jaime responded quickly in response. Blu reached his wings into the same pocket that he had his badge in and grabbed another item out of it, they were a pair of car keys. Jewel noticed that there was an unlock button on it and there was also a lock button on it. These car keys were similar to the car keys that the female Hawk had given her and Blu. Jaime pressed the unlock button on the car keys, causing the doors of Jaime's car to unlock. They all heard a silent and sudden beep sound from outside the hospital. This sound was so silent they thought that they might have imagined it. Jaime walked out of the room and into the hallway. The exit of the hospital was just down the hallway. Well, the hallway led to the lobby. They were going to exit the way they entered. "Come on," Jaime shouted to them from the hallway "We don't want to waste any time." Blu turned around slowly as he prepared to be met with Jewel who stood behind him. Jewel was smiling at Blu the whole time. Blu's eyes were met with Jewel's turquoise eyes. Blu grabbed Jewel's and tugged it playfully, motioning her to come forward.
"Come on Jewel, don't be a Slow Poke," Blu teased Jewel.
"I'm right here," Jewel told Blu with a smile. Together, they both began to walk out of the room and catch up with Jaime.
"You know," Blu started to Jewel, Jewel stared at Blu with a curious look. "Jaime is a pretty cool guy."
