Disclaimers as Chapter 1.
Once again thankyou thankyou for all the reviews.
I might even cut our guy some slack ( might )
CHAPTER 6
"Just keep still and I'll get this done as quickly as possible" said the doctor "can't keep the lawyer waiting, can we now?"
Frank winced with the pain as the doctor got to work re-setting his dislocated shoulder "at least it's fixable" he thought.
"Have you reported this collection" said the doctor, motioning to the mass of bruises around Frank's ribs.
"What can I say Doc ?.........I fell off my bicycle or I'm just plain clumsy or I had an argument with myself? You choose, you know as well as I do if I report this I may as well sign my own death warrant"
"Alright alright I get the message, listen I'm going to try and arrange for you to be transfered to the infirmiry wing, we have segregation cells over here you know, It just might afford you a little protection"
"Thankyou"
"Thank me if, and when you get there, It won't be easy persuading the governor, he's not a great fan of yours, thinks you'll stoke up too much trouble"
"He's probably right, I'm not high up in the popularity stakes" sighed Frank
The doctor knew Frank needed a ticket out of there and fast ! The catalog of injuries was getting larger by the day.
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"What?" screamed Jenna "alive..........how?
"Jenna, listen to me" said Robert "he's the one behind this, remember I told you that the waitress from the hotel slipped the drugs into Franks drink" "yeah...? " quizzed Jenna "it was on Steven's orders, Mark Bailey merely bullied his girlfriend into doing the deed"
"Oh god, tell me this isn't happening, I am gonna wake up soon aren't I" pleaded Jenna.
"Jenna I really need you to think hard on this one" asked Robert
"Why on earth would Franks own brother want to put him through this kind of torture?"
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"Alex, this one's addressed to you" shouted Cody as he studied the package that had just arrived.
"No-one knows me here...............apart from, you don't think it's him do you" Alex questioned.
"Only one way to find out, but gloves on first yeah!" said Cody. "wait until I get back, I'm gonna go and get the others"
Alex sat staring at the plain brown package wondering if indeed it was from Steven Rosen and just what they were going to find inside it.
"Okay" said Jake "Now we're all here, who's gonna do the honours"
Alex put on the thin gloves and opened the package up carefully, it contained two audio tapes and a note from Steven Rosen.
"Happy listening , it may help clarify things for you,
I'll be in touch again sooner than you think.
Don't forget to pass on my regards to my dear brother, I'm presuming he knows about me now?
Yours Steven Rosen.
Cody was off like a shot to track down a tape player.
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"Alan" questioned Frank "What's all the urgency, has something happened to Jenna...or the kids?"
"Frank no, it's not Jenna or the kids, but I think you may need to sit down for this one"
Frank did as he was told and sat down, a totally bewildered expression spreading over his face.
"It's about your brother Steven, He's alive"
Frank looked mortified, his eyes wide open in disbelief and shock.
"Alan, just how do you know this?"
"Frank, you've hardly ever mentioned the fact that you have a brother, never mind a twin brother, why is that?
"I presume this is leading somewhere Alan" Alan nodded seriously so Frank continued
"We were never what you could call close, none of this I feel your pain or anything like that, I suppose even though we looked the same we were complete opposites. I'd hit the books and he'd hit the streets, he had a knack for finding trouble. Our mother shed a lot of tears over him!"
Frank paused for a moment to take a drink of water before continuing
"By the time I left home to go to college, he'd already done time in juvenile. He started to resent everything I did and when I joined the bureau he took it as a personal insult."
"We eventually stopped speaking to each other after Anna and I got together, man, I remember the big fight about that, busted each other up pretty bad. He fell for Anna you see, but she didn't want him, she wanted to be with me, that was the last I ever saw of him"
"Okay Frank, you better buckle up for this one" said Alan
"Steven set you up Frank, we got a statement from the waitress that served you in the hotel, she lives with a guy called Mark Bailey who was in here at the same time as your brother. She told us that Steven telephoned Bailey and arranged for you to be drugged, and only a few minutes ago I took a call from Alex"
Frank's face was set with a look of pure horror as he tried to take all of this in without throwing up. He felt sick to the pit of his stomach. The realization that his own flesh and blood hated him enough to do this repulsed and shocked him.
Alan waited a moment for Frank to compose himself before continuing.............
"Alex received tape recordings of two conversations, the first being between Steven and Mark Bailey arranging for the drugs to be given to you via the waitress, and the second was a conversation between Steven and Karen Moore discussing a meeting between them at eleven p.m. on the night you had dinner with her"
"Jesus Christ" said Frank shaking his head in disbelief "I just can't take all this in, why?....why does he feel as though he has to destroy me?..... it's all in the past , years ago, is he still carrying a torch for Anna"
"Alan" said Frank gravely "does he know she's dead?"
"I don't know Frank, I'm thinking that may be our only advantage"
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Next Day
"We have got to get this over to a judge, even though It doesn't clear him completely, it may just get him bail" said Jake.
"Just let me finish authenticating it first" said Cody "We don't want to fall down on the last hurdle, it'll only take me another hour I worked all night with it."
"Cody, you do what you have to with the tapes and meet me in chambers this afternoon, I'll have the judge waiting at two sharp" said Alan.
"Let's knock the smile of Ms. Carr's face shall we?" grinned Jake.
"You got it"
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"Robert do you think this'll get him out" asked Alex.
"I don't think it's quite enough, Steven obviously knows what he's doing, should do, he's spent enough time on the wrong side of the law himself."
"He'll give us more yet" smiled Monica as she walked into the room with confidence, "he's your typical attention seeker, thinks he didn't get enough of his parents attention, that somehow his brother was stealing all his thunder, feels threatened by authority, when Frank joined the bureau he represented authority and Steven couldn't handle that, he's feeding us breadcrumbs, leading us up to a grand finale"
"Do you really think so" asked Alex
"Oh yeah, he desperately wants the showdown with Frank, but he wants it to be on his terms, that's why he felt he had to prove he could get to him, that he could take him down at any time he liked, he finally feels like he's got the upper hand and all the attention's on him now"
"He's got that one right, he has my undivided" sneered Robert.
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Judge's chambers 2p.m.
"I'm presuming there's a very good reason for this meeting" hissed Moira Carr.
"All will be revealed shortly" replied Alan just itching to knock the self satisfied look off the womans face.
"Now let's begin shall we" said the judge
All of them listened as the tapes were played, the look on the D.A.'s face changing somewhat, the letter was studied at length.
A loud argument was taking place outside the door, Alan recognised Alex's voice and motioned to the judge that he should let her in.
"Your honor" said Alex "I have just received something that will completely exonerate Frank Donovan of all guilt for the murder of Karen Moore"
"Come in" said the judge "Let's all sit down and discuss this shall we"
"That's presuming no-one has any objections" he said looking directly at Moira Carr who just nodded in a gesture of defeat.
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The infirmiry wing was indeed affording Frank some protection, for the first time since he'd arrived at Rikers Island he was able to shave without the threat of his razor being used on him. That in itself was a huge relief, some semblance of normality was what he needed now.
The revelations of the past few days had shocked him to the core, he was finding it difficult to reconcile himself to them.
"Donovan" shouted the guard interrupting his thoughts.
"Get yourself ready, the governor wants to see you, now"
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"Get your things together Frank, You're out of here as from now" grinned Alan Jennings
"WHAT"
"Just do it......... I'll explain on the way after all the paperwork's signed"
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Frank Donovan walked away from prison a completely free man, released of all guilt, he was visibly shaken but felt light headed with the relief.
Jenna sat in Alan's car grinning from ear to ear, at last she had him back. Frank cupped her face in his hands and kissed her long and hard not wanting to let her go anytime soon. She wasn't complaining!
Alan was reluctant to break up the reunion but he had to bring Frank up to speed with events and quickly.
"Steven sent a videotape of the murder to Alex, along with a letter inviting you to meet him, he said he'll be in touch with Alex to set it up"
"Why Alex" asked Frank.
"I really don't know, Monica reckons it's got something to do with her being the only one who's seen him"
"Frank, you do realise you can't go don't you, the chances are he's just itching to pull the trigger on you personally, you can't risk it, leave it to your team, you've had enough" said Alan.
Frank's eyes met Jenna's, and a look of silent understanding appeared in her's. She knew her husband well.
"Alan if I ever want to sleep soundly in my bed at night again, I have to find my brother and find out WHY?"
Please keep R&R ing
It'll be a little while before the final chapter goes up because I'm away on vacation soon.
Once again thankyou thankyou for all the reviews.
I might even cut our guy some slack ( might )
CHAPTER 6
"Just keep still and I'll get this done as quickly as possible" said the doctor "can't keep the lawyer waiting, can we now?"
Frank winced with the pain as the doctor got to work re-setting his dislocated shoulder "at least it's fixable" he thought.
"Have you reported this collection" said the doctor, motioning to the mass of bruises around Frank's ribs.
"What can I say Doc ?.........I fell off my bicycle or I'm just plain clumsy or I had an argument with myself? You choose, you know as well as I do if I report this I may as well sign my own death warrant"
"Alright alright I get the message, listen I'm going to try and arrange for you to be transfered to the infirmiry wing, we have segregation cells over here you know, It just might afford you a little protection"
"Thankyou"
"Thank me if, and when you get there, It won't be easy persuading the governor, he's not a great fan of yours, thinks you'll stoke up too much trouble"
"He's probably right, I'm not high up in the popularity stakes" sighed Frank
The doctor knew Frank needed a ticket out of there and fast ! The catalog of injuries was getting larger by the day.
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"What?" screamed Jenna "alive..........how?
"Jenna, listen to me" said Robert "he's the one behind this, remember I told you that the waitress from the hotel slipped the drugs into Franks drink" "yeah...? " quizzed Jenna "it was on Steven's orders, Mark Bailey merely bullied his girlfriend into doing the deed"
"Oh god, tell me this isn't happening, I am gonna wake up soon aren't I" pleaded Jenna.
"Jenna I really need you to think hard on this one" asked Robert
"Why on earth would Franks own brother want to put him through this kind of torture?"
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"Alex, this one's addressed to you" shouted Cody as he studied the package that had just arrived.
"No-one knows me here...............apart from, you don't think it's him do you" Alex questioned.
"Only one way to find out, but gloves on first yeah!" said Cody. "wait until I get back, I'm gonna go and get the others"
Alex sat staring at the plain brown package wondering if indeed it was from Steven Rosen and just what they were going to find inside it.
"Okay" said Jake "Now we're all here, who's gonna do the honours"
Alex put on the thin gloves and opened the package up carefully, it contained two audio tapes and a note from Steven Rosen.
"Happy listening , it may help clarify things for you,
I'll be in touch again sooner than you think.
Don't forget to pass on my regards to my dear brother, I'm presuming he knows about me now?
Yours Steven Rosen.
Cody was off like a shot to track down a tape player.
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"Alan" questioned Frank "What's all the urgency, has something happened to Jenna...or the kids?"
"Frank no, it's not Jenna or the kids, but I think you may need to sit down for this one"
Frank did as he was told and sat down, a totally bewildered expression spreading over his face.
"It's about your brother Steven, He's alive"
Frank looked mortified, his eyes wide open in disbelief and shock.
"Alan, just how do you know this?"
"Frank, you've hardly ever mentioned the fact that you have a brother, never mind a twin brother, why is that?
"I presume this is leading somewhere Alan" Alan nodded seriously so Frank continued
"We were never what you could call close, none of this I feel your pain or anything like that, I suppose even though we looked the same we were complete opposites. I'd hit the books and he'd hit the streets, he had a knack for finding trouble. Our mother shed a lot of tears over him!"
Frank paused for a moment to take a drink of water before continuing
"By the time I left home to go to college, he'd already done time in juvenile. He started to resent everything I did and when I joined the bureau he took it as a personal insult."
"We eventually stopped speaking to each other after Anna and I got together, man, I remember the big fight about that, busted each other up pretty bad. He fell for Anna you see, but she didn't want him, she wanted to be with me, that was the last I ever saw of him"
"Okay Frank, you better buckle up for this one" said Alan
"Steven set you up Frank, we got a statement from the waitress that served you in the hotel, she lives with a guy called Mark Bailey who was in here at the same time as your brother. She told us that Steven telephoned Bailey and arranged for you to be drugged, and only a few minutes ago I took a call from Alex"
Frank's face was set with a look of pure horror as he tried to take all of this in without throwing up. He felt sick to the pit of his stomach. The realization that his own flesh and blood hated him enough to do this repulsed and shocked him.
Alan waited a moment for Frank to compose himself before continuing.............
"Alex received tape recordings of two conversations, the first being between Steven and Mark Bailey arranging for the drugs to be given to you via the waitress, and the second was a conversation between Steven and Karen Moore discussing a meeting between them at eleven p.m. on the night you had dinner with her"
"Jesus Christ" said Frank shaking his head in disbelief "I just can't take all this in, why?....why does he feel as though he has to destroy me?..... it's all in the past , years ago, is he still carrying a torch for Anna"
"Alan" said Frank gravely "does he know she's dead?"
"I don't know Frank, I'm thinking that may be our only advantage"
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Next Day
"We have got to get this over to a judge, even though It doesn't clear him completely, it may just get him bail" said Jake.
"Just let me finish authenticating it first" said Cody "We don't want to fall down on the last hurdle, it'll only take me another hour I worked all night with it."
"Cody, you do what you have to with the tapes and meet me in chambers this afternoon, I'll have the judge waiting at two sharp" said Alan.
"Let's knock the smile of Ms. Carr's face shall we?" grinned Jake.
"You got it"
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"Robert do you think this'll get him out" asked Alex.
"I don't think it's quite enough, Steven obviously knows what he's doing, should do, he's spent enough time on the wrong side of the law himself."
"He'll give us more yet" smiled Monica as she walked into the room with confidence, "he's your typical attention seeker, thinks he didn't get enough of his parents attention, that somehow his brother was stealing all his thunder, feels threatened by authority, when Frank joined the bureau he represented authority and Steven couldn't handle that, he's feeding us breadcrumbs, leading us up to a grand finale"
"Do you really think so" asked Alex
"Oh yeah, he desperately wants the showdown with Frank, but he wants it to be on his terms, that's why he felt he had to prove he could get to him, that he could take him down at any time he liked, he finally feels like he's got the upper hand and all the attention's on him now"
"He's got that one right, he has my undivided" sneered Robert.
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Judge's chambers 2p.m.
"I'm presuming there's a very good reason for this meeting" hissed Moira Carr.
"All will be revealed shortly" replied Alan just itching to knock the self satisfied look off the womans face.
"Now let's begin shall we" said the judge
All of them listened as the tapes were played, the look on the D.A.'s face changing somewhat, the letter was studied at length.
A loud argument was taking place outside the door, Alan recognised Alex's voice and motioned to the judge that he should let her in.
"Your honor" said Alex "I have just received something that will completely exonerate Frank Donovan of all guilt for the murder of Karen Moore"
"Come in" said the judge "Let's all sit down and discuss this shall we"
"That's presuming no-one has any objections" he said looking directly at Moira Carr who just nodded in a gesture of defeat.
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The infirmiry wing was indeed affording Frank some protection, for the first time since he'd arrived at Rikers Island he was able to shave without the threat of his razor being used on him. That in itself was a huge relief, some semblance of normality was what he needed now.
The revelations of the past few days had shocked him to the core, he was finding it difficult to reconcile himself to them.
"Donovan" shouted the guard interrupting his thoughts.
"Get yourself ready, the governor wants to see you, now"
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"Get your things together Frank, You're out of here as from now" grinned Alan Jennings
"WHAT"
"Just do it......... I'll explain on the way after all the paperwork's signed"
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Frank Donovan walked away from prison a completely free man, released of all guilt, he was visibly shaken but felt light headed with the relief.
Jenna sat in Alan's car grinning from ear to ear, at last she had him back. Frank cupped her face in his hands and kissed her long and hard not wanting to let her go anytime soon. She wasn't complaining!
Alan was reluctant to break up the reunion but he had to bring Frank up to speed with events and quickly.
"Steven sent a videotape of the murder to Alex, along with a letter inviting you to meet him, he said he'll be in touch with Alex to set it up"
"Why Alex" asked Frank.
"I really don't know, Monica reckons it's got something to do with her being the only one who's seen him"
"Frank, you do realise you can't go don't you, the chances are he's just itching to pull the trigger on you personally, you can't risk it, leave it to your team, you've had enough" said Alan.
Frank's eyes met Jenna's, and a look of silent understanding appeared in her's. She knew her husband well.
"Alan if I ever want to sleep soundly in my bed at night again, I have to find my brother and find out WHY?"
Please keep R&R ing
It'll be a little while before the final chapter goes up because I'm away on vacation soon.