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Chapter One
On a hill above a sprawling mansion compound in Mexico, Elaina and Jake are about to wrap up a case that has taken Elaina years to end. She had been assigned to the case when an agent disappeared. She was sent there to find out what had happened to the agent and who caused it.
She had found that a drug lord had ordered the murder of the agent. The murderer was Diego Santana. At the time he was only the hit man for a drug cartel in Mexico, but over the years he himself became one of the biggest drug lords in South America and Mexico. Now it was time for his rule to end.
Elaina had enough evidence from witnesses and surveillance that would put him away for life, if he weren't given the death penalty. That was the easy part, now she had to get him back to the states for trial. She had worked this case off and on for seven years and now all they had to do was break into the mansion and get out alive.
"Mind telling me again why you didn't want Frank to help?" Jake asked as they were watching the guards below them.
"He doesn't like me doing field work, so when I have to I tell him that I'm going out of the country for a meeting." Elaina replies as she checked the rope for scaling the wall.
"He actually falls for that each time?" Jake had his suspicions that Frank wouldn't believe that every time.
"We better get ready for the guards to change in three minutes." Elaina says to get off the subject.
They watched the guards carefully as they moved toward the outer wall. They saw that as usual the guards talked with one another before changing. Elaina and Sab had checked the security around the compound the past week and noticed that there was a blind spot from the cameras on the east wall of the compound that is where she and Jake were to get in. They scaled the seven-foot wall with no problem at all. As they reached the other side Elaina made contact with Sab.
"How are we doing Sab?" Elaina whispered into her headset.
"Great, the guards haven't noticed anything. Santana is still in his room." Sab informed her.
"I'm glad she's as good as Cody when it comes to tapping into security cameras." Jake said as they entered the house.
"That makes two of us." Elaina said.
"I prefer to be better than Cody." Sab replies back over the headsets.
"Sab."
"Yeah Elaina?"
"Not now."
They continue through the house to the bedroom of Santana.
"Whoa, there's a guard headed right toward you." Sab says as she looks at the monitors. "How far behind us?" Elaina asked in a whisper.
"He's almost there!" Sab's voice was cracking.
Jake found a closet and pulled Elaina into it. It was very small and cramped.
"Jake. I'm not the bad guy get your gun out of my back."
"Sorry not much room in here." He whispered in her ear.
They could now hear the guard outside the door. They held there breath hoping he did not hear them talking.
Sab watched the monitors as the man made his way slowly down the hall to another room. "All clear."
"Let's get this over with." Elaina said as they exited the closet.
They made it to Santana's room. They cautiously enter the room; they see Santana lying asleep on the bed.
Jake puts his gun to Diego's head as Elaina wakes him. She quickly gags and ties him up.
"Hello Diego we meet again." Diego tries to talk around the gag. "What's that? You're happy to see me?" Diego mumbled again. "You're such a sweet talker Diego."
Jake was laughing at the conversation they were having.
"Sab get my brother here pronto!" Elaina orders.
"Okie Dokie." Sab answers.
******
In the helicopter Reese is surprised when he sees Frank coming toward him gun drawn. Frank opens the door of the chopper and climbs in. "Where are we going brother-in-law?"
"How did you find out?" Reese questions.
"I have my ways. Where is she exactly?" Frank kept his gun pointed at him.
Sab's voice came over the radio. "Reese they're in his room, get moving."
"Don't say a word about me being here or you will regret it." Frank orders.
"I'm on my way Sab." He gives Frank the other headset. "If you don't want them to know you're here keep the mic off." As if he had to tell Frank that.
"You never answered my question where are they?" Frank asks again as he puts the headset on.
Reese sighed knowing he couldn't dodge the question again. "Diego Santana's compound, they have orders to bring him back for trial in the states."
"You said they, who is with her?"
"Jake is the only one with her, Sab is over there in the hanger."
"Now she has members of my team lying to me." Frank says it more to himself than to Reese.
"If you don't mind, I have to concentrate on getting them out alive and I could do that a lot better if you'd put that gun away. You may need it later when we get there." Reese says.
Elaina's voice then came over the radio for the first time. "Reese, where the hell are you? We're being fired at."
"I'm about two minutes away." Reese calculated.
"Make it one Reese." Jake says as he takes down another guard.
"Move Diego, you're our shield out of here. If they shoot at me, I want them to hit you first." She made him walk directly in front of her. Jake walked closely to her back watching behind them. He saw movement to his left and he fired at another guard taking him out.
"It's about time!" Jake yells as he sees Reese landing in the courtyard of the mansion. They all run to the helicopter, Elaina is the first to see Frank. "Oh hell!!" she exclaims looking at her husband.
"Oh my God!" Was heard over the radio from Sab. "Guess who's here?"
Elaina spoke to Sab. "My guess is, that it's Cody. You're the lucky one, we have Frank here."
"Alex is here too." It was Cody on the radio instead of Sab.
"You've got a lot of explaining to do." Frank's voice was as icy as his stare.
Jake, Frank and Elaina fired at the guards as Reese flew them away. They landed at the small airfield in Texas that they were using as a base. As they walked from the helicopter they saw Cody, Alex and Sab standing by the hanger with two other agents. Elaina gave Santana to the other agents then turned and saw Frank waiting with the others.
She decides to make a run for the plane to get away from answering to Frank. Frank sees what she is trying to do and takes off after her. He easily catches up to her and stops her.
"You know I'm faster than you." He says as he grabs her.
"I had to give it my best shot." She replies, struggling against his hold on her.
"Why did you lie to me again?" He asks letting her struggle.
"I didn't want you to worry about me." She finally broke free, but not for long, he grabbed her around the waist.
"I worry every time you are away from me, whether it be on a case or shopping."
"I'm a highly trained professional; I can take care of myself in just about any situation." Elaina replies as she tries to loosen his grip.
"You're a highly trained pain in the ass at times." He loosened his hold on her. "As for the situation you're in right this minute, you don't seem to be doing too great." He laughed at her that made Elaina angry. She wrapped her leg around in back of his knee and kicked it out from under him causing them both to fall to the ground.
"Hey you two, do you want me to arrest you for disorderly conduct?" Reese says as he breaks up their fight by picking up Elaina.
"Since when can you arrest anyone?" Frank asks as he got to his feet.
"Since about 1990 actually." Reese winked at Elaina.
"Reese is C.I.A. He's been my best kept secret." Elaina hugs her big brother.
"That's the only family secret you've kept." Frank says knowing that she has told way too much to his team about them already.
"Where are you off to now, Reese?" Elaina inquired.
"Back to big sky country until I get a new assignment."
"Say hello to Hank for us please." Elaina requested.
"I will. When are you guys coming back to Montana?" Reese asks Frank.
"Don't know exactly. It all depends on the answers I get when I interrogate her." Frank replies looking at his wife.
"Well I would love to see her worm her way out of this but I have to be getting back. Go easy on her Frank." Reese says as he heads for his helicopter.
"I'll think about it." They say their goodbyes and watch Reese take off. "Now where were we? Oh yeah, you where just about to tell me why you lied to me again."
"I already did that." Elaina replies.
"I'm talking about Reese now." Frank was angry again.
"He never wanted you to know."
"Then why the confession now?" Frank asks.
"My guess is he did it to try and take some of the heat off of me. If you knew there was more than one agent helping me you wouldn't be as angry." She looked at his expression. "That isn't the case is it? You're still angry with me."
"Damn straight I am. But any more, I think I might as well just be talking to the wind when I talk to you about working outside the office." Frank says to her.
"You got that right. You are not my superior Frank, I'm yours, remember. And I have been at this type of work a lot longer than you have. I know what I'm doing and I can handle cases without your help." Elaina's temper was flaring more.
"I'm tired of you throwing your promotion in my face." He turned away from her to get control of his anger, but it didn't help much with what happened next.
"I only do that when I think you need to be reminded of the fact. Which lately has been often. You had no reason what so ever to come down here. If you ever do something like this again I will see this unit disbanded, and you will be assigned away from me so you can't interfere with my cases."
"Like hell you will! I have just as many friends at the top as you do and I know that the A.G. would never let this team disband no matter who wants it done. As far as my being away from you, if that's the way you want it then Sweetheart you got it!" Frank stormed away from her.
Elaina felt as if he had hit her in the stomach. Alex and Sab walk up to her seeing that she was in shock by what Frank had said and done.
"You two got pretty loud, did you mean what you said?" Alex asks her.
"Yes I did, and I think he did too." Her voice trailed off as she spoke.
"I'm sure that when you both cool off it will be okay." Sab noticed that Elaina was shaking.
Frank went to the plane that was waiting for them. This was one time Frank was glad that they had a private plane. The last thing he wanted was to be bothered with was airport security. He looked at Jake and Cody. "Get everyone on the plane we're going back now."
Jake motioned for Cody to go after the girls. "Donavon, I'm sorry about not telling you but Elaina gave me orders not to." Jake says as they got on the plane.
Frank sat down in a seat after getting something to drink and never looked at Jake to acknowledge he heard him. "You take orders from me not her. Never, ever do this again."
Cody and the ladies got on the plane. Alex was thankful that there was plenty of space to keep Frank and Elaina away from each other in hopes that they would make up after they had time alone. But she was wrong. Elaina stood in front of Frank and took her wedding ring out of her pocket; she acted like she was going to put it on when she threw it in Frank's drink.
"I hope you choke on it!" She says as she walks to her seat.
The others took their seats as the pilot shut the door. "Please buckle up." He says as he headed into the cockpit.
"It's definitely going to be a bumpy ride." Cody says in a whisper that only Sab could hear, which made her punch him in the arm.
"Ow! What was that for?" He asks rubbing his arm.
"Not now."
Frank and Elaina spent the first part of the flight staring at one another not saying a word. The team members kept to themselves not knowing what to say to either of them.
"Elaina doesn't look too well." Alex observes.
"It's probably from the daggers that Frank is throwing at her." Cody replies.
"We've seen them argue before, but this is the worst one yet." Sab notices.
Elaina's nerves then got the best of her and she ran to the restroom. Alex followed to check on her.
"Elaina, are you okay?" She heard her throwing up. "Elaina, I'm here if you need me." Alex went to the bar and got a bottle of water. Frank never made any sign that he was worried about his wife.
Elaina came out looking paler than she did when she went in. Alex held out the water. "Here this might help."
"Thanks Alex but the last thing I want is to put something in my stomach. Maybe later." Elaina forced herself to smile to let her know she was okay for now.
Cody didn't like the fact that Frank was ignoring his wife when she was feeling ill. He walked over to Alex and Elaina. "He must be really pissed off at you to not ask you how you feel."
"Cody I don't care if he is worried or not. I'm fine. I'm just angry, tired and I miss my children." Elaina then realized that Monica had not come with them. "Where is Monica, Cody?"
"She volunteered to stay with the children." He tried to choose his words carefully but it didn't seem to matter how he said it, Elaina would think that Frank had asked Monica to stay.
She walked over to sit next to Frank. He tried to get up but she pulled him back into his seat. "Why did Monica stay behind?"
"Megan is sick so she volunteered to stay with the kids."
"Why didn't you stay with them? Monica is not your private babysitter."
"I said she volunteered I didn't ask her or force her to do it." He got up and went to the next compartment of the plane. Elaina followed him.
"Get away from me E; I'm not in the mood to talk, especially to you."
"While we are on the subject of our children, I would like to tell you that if you are going to hold our daughter, remove your gun or make sure you have a jacket on to cover it. I don't want a repeat performance of the day I left." Elaina stated.
"I didn't have time to take the gun off, she was crying and I automatically picked her up."
"And when she stopped crying and saw your gun she made a grab for it. When you stopped her, she smacked you in the face and tried again. You grabbed her hand and it made her cry out."
"I didn't hurt her; I was barely holding her hand back." Frank protested. "I told her not to touch it. She needs to learn the word no."
"Damn it Frank, she's not old enough to grasp that concept yet. No matter how hard we try to get her to understand the word, she doesn't right now."
He backed her against the wall. "I don't want you to ever accuse me of hurting our daughter. I don't know why you would ever think I could hurt her."
"I never want her that close to a gun ever again whether it is mine or yours, until she is older and can understand better." She tried to move Frank but he wouldn't.
"I agree with you, but if you hadn't decided to take this trip she wouldn't have been upset in the first place. So you are at fault just as much as I am. I want you to tell me when you're on a case before you go, not after the fact." Frank explains.
"Some of my cases are highly classified, I can't tell you every time." Elaina explains herself.
"Nice dodge, but it won't work. I have the same clearance as you remember?" "I'm not promising anything." Elaina wasn't going to give in.
"Don't you ever think about me or the children before you take an assignment?"
"Do you think of us, Frank? Or do you figure we will survive if anything were to happen to you?"
Of course I think of my family before I go but I can't during an assignment, you know that."
"Exactly! I do know that. We married each other knowing the dangers and risks we take day in and day out. I am adventurous, I've always been." Elaina replies. "I can't sit behind a desk and not get involved occasionally, and I know you are the same way."
He moved slightly to let her relax. "Why don't we just agree to disagree? It would save a lot of time and energy. What happened to you earlier?"
"So you do care about me I was wondering there for a while. I guess it was just a case of my nerves getting the best of me." She felt the knot in her stomach again.
He felt her forehead. "I don't think so, you look pale and you have a slight fever."
"Frank, move I'm going to be sick again." Elaina pushes past him to the restroom.
He went to get the water she left by his seat. "You may not want this, but drink it."
Elaina took the bottle from him and washed her mouth out then sipped some of it. "Did you say Megan was sick?"
"Yeah, come to think of it she was spending time with her head in the toilet." Frank laughed at how he said it.
"Thank you for that picture." Elaina went to walk but had to lean on Frank when she came out.
"You better lie down the rest of the way." He barely finished his sentence when she passed out. "I didn't mean for you to do that."
Jake saw it happen and he went over to help Frank put her on the sofa. "Something you said?" Jake asks smiling at his boss.
Frank called Monica and told her what had happened and that he wanted Elaina's doctor there to check her out, instead of taking her to the hospital. When they arrived home the doctor confirmed the suspicion that she had the flu as Megan had.
"Monica I want to thank you for being here with the kids." Frank tells her.
"I had fun taking care of them, especially Sarah. You'll be at work tomorrow won't you?" Monica asks as she picks up her bag.
"If Elaina isn't any worse I will be. Hope you don't catch it."
"That makes two of us but I have had a flu shot so maybe I won't. Aren't you afraid that you'll get it?"
"Like you I've had a flu shot. Elaina missed getting hers, she was supposed to get it last week and we all know where she was. Maybe this will teach her a lesson." Frank thought about that then added. "I doubt it."
"From what I heard from Cody, you two had a big fight and her wedding ring was thrown in your drink?" "Cody didn't waste any time updating you did he?" Next time I hope she asks Cody for help then I'll know everything that happens. Frank laughed at the thought.
"I'll see you tomorrow. Good night." Monica left and Frank walked upstairs to check on Elaina.
She was sound asleep; he closed the door and went to find Megan and Sarah.
"Where's Daddy's little girl?" He asks as he hears giggling from her. Megan had made a tent out of the blankets and Sarah was hiding in it. "Well I guess she's not in here I better go look somewhere else.
Sarah came crawling out from the blankets. "Here." Was the only thing she said.
Frank sat down on the bed and held his little girl. "Mommy and I missed you and Derek while we were gone. I hope you miss us when we're away."
"She does Frank, she looks for both of you when you leave. She always wants to go in your room, and takes her naps in there." Megan told him.
"Derek use to do the same thing, when he was younger. We'd come home and Hank would tell us about him sleeping in there, even at night." He looked at Sarah, "Did Derek teach you to do that?" Sarah just smiled at him.
Chapter One
On a hill above a sprawling mansion compound in Mexico, Elaina and Jake are about to wrap up a case that has taken Elaina years to end. She had been assigned to the case when an agent disappeared. She was sent there to find out what had happened to the agent and who caused it.
She had found that a drug lord had ordered the murder of the agent. The murderer was Diego Santana. At the time he was only the hit man for a drug cartel in Mexico, but over the years he himself became one of the biggest drug lords in South America and Mexico. Now it was time for his rule to end.
Elaina had enough evidence from witnesses and surveillance that would put him away for life, if he weren't given the death penalty. That was the easy part, now she had to get him back to the states for trial. She had worked this case off and on for seven years and now all they had to do was break into the mansion and get out alive.
"Mind telling me again why you didn't want Frank to help?" Jake asked as they were watching the guards below them.
"He doesn't like me doing field work, so when I have to I tell him that I'm going out of the country for a meeting." Elaina replies as she checked the rope for scaling the wall.
"He actually falls for that each time?" Jake had his suspicions that Frank wouldn't believe that every time.
"We better get ready for the guards to change in three minutes." Elaina says to get off the subject.
They watched the guards carefully as they moved toward the outer wall. They saw that as usual the guards talked with one another before changing. Elaina and Sab had checked the security around the compound the past week and noticed that there was a blind spot from the cameras on the east wall of the compound that is where she and Jake were to get in. They scaled the seven-foot wall with no problem at all. As they reached the other side Elaina made contact with Sab.
"How are we doing Sab?" Elaina whispered into her headset.
"Great, the guards haven't noticed anything. Santana is still in his room." Sab informed her.
"I'm glad she's as good as Cody when it comes to tapping into security cameras." Jake said as they entered the house.
"That makes two of us." Elaina said.
"I prefer to be better than Cody." Sab replies back over the headsets.
"Sab."
"Yeah Elaina?"
"Not now."
They continue through the house to the bedroom of Santana.
"Whoa, there's a guard headed right toward you." Sab says as she looks at the monitors. "How far behind us?" Elaina asked in a whisper.
"He's almost there!" Sab's voice was cracking.
Jake found a closet and pulled Elaina into it. It was very small and cramped.
"Jake. I'm not the bad guy get your gun out of my back."
"Sorry not much room in here." He whispered in her ear.
They could now hear the guard outside the door. They held there breath hoping he did not hear them talking.
Sab watched the monitors as the man made his way slowly down the hall to another room. "All clear."
"Let's get this over with." Elaina said as they exited the closet.
They made it to Santana's room. They cautiously enter the room; they see Santana lying asleep on the bed.
Jake puts his gun to Diego's head as Elaina wakes him. She quickly gags and ties him up.
"Hello Diego we meet again." Diego tries to talk around the gag. "What's that? You're happy to see me?" Diego mumbled again. "You're such a sweet talker Diego."
Jake was laughing at the conversation they were having.
"Sab get my brother here pronto!" Elaina orders.
"Okie Dokie." Sab answers.
******
In the helicopter Reese is surprised when he sees Frank coming toward him gun drawn. Frank opens the door of the chopper and climbs in. "Where are we going brother-in-law?"
"How did you find out?" Reese questions.
"I have my ways. Where is she exactly?" Frank kept his gun pointed at him.
Sab's voice came over the radio. "Reese they're in his room, get moving."
"Don't say a word about me being here or you will regret it." Frank orders.
"I'm on my way Sab." He gives Frank the other headset. "If you don't want them to know you're here keep the mic off." As if he had to tell Frank that.
"You never answered my question where are they?" Frank asks again as he puts the headset on.
Reese sighed knowing he couldn't dodge the question again. "Diego Santana's compound, they have orders to bring him back for trial in the states."
"You said they, who is with her?"
"Jake is the only one with her, Sab is over there in the hanger."
"Now she has members of my team lying to me." Frank says it more to himself than to Reese.
"If you don't mind, I have to concentrate on getting them out alive and I could do that a lot better if you'd put that gun away. You may need it later when we get there." Reese says.
Elaina's voice then came over the radio for the first time. "Reese, where the hell are you? We're being fired at."
"I'm about two minutes away." Reese calculated.
"Make it one Reese." Jake says as he takes down another guard.
"Move Diego, you're our shield out of here. If they shoot at me, I want them to hit you first." She made him walk directly in front of her. Jake walked closely to her back watching behind them. He saw movement to his left and he fired at another guard taking him out.
"It's about time!" Jake yells as he sees Reese landing in the courtyard of the mansion. They all run to the helicopter, Elaina is the first to see Frank. "Oh hell!!" she exclaims looking at her husband.
"Oh my God!" Was heard over the radio from Sab. "Guess who's here?"
Elaina spoke to Sab. "My guess is, that it's Cody. You're the lucky one, we have Frank here."
"Alex is here too." It was Cody on the radio instead of Sab.
"You've got a lot of explaining to do." Frank's voice was as icy as his stare.
Jake, Frank and Elaina fired at the guards as Reese flew them away. They landed at the small airfield in Texas that they were using as a base. As they walked from the helicopter they saw Cody, Alex and Sab standing by the hanger with two other agents. Elaina gave Santana to the other agents then turned and saw Frank waiting with the others.
She decides to make a run for the plane to get away from answering to Frank. Frank sees what she is trying to do and takes off after her. He easily catches up to her and stops her.
"You know I'm faster than you." He says as he grabs her.
"I had to give it my best shot." She replies, struggling against his hold on her.
"Why did you lie to me again?" He asks letting her struggle.
"I didn't want you to worry about me." She finally broke free, but not for long, he grabbed her around the waist.
"I worry every time you are away from me, whether it be on a case or shopping."
"I'm a highly trained professional; I can take care of myself in just about any situation." Elaina replies as she tries to loosen his grip.
"You're a highly trained pain in the ass at times." He loosened his hold on her. "As for the situation you're in right this minute, you don't seem to be doing too great." He laughed at her that made Elaina angry. She wrapped her leg around in back of his knee and kicked it out from under him causing them both to fall to the ground.
"Hey you two, do you want me to arrest you for disorderly conduct?" Reese says as he breaks up their fight by picking up Elaina.
"Since when can you arrest anyone?" Frank asks as he got to his feet.
"Since about 1990 actually." Reese winked at Elaina.
"Reese is C.I.A. He's been my best kept secret." Elaina hugs her big brother.
"That's the only family secret you've kept." Frank says knowing that she has told way too much to his team about them already.
"Where are you off to now, Reese?" Elaina inquired.
"Back to big sky country until I get a new assignment."
"Say hello to Hank for us please." Elaina requested.
"I will. When are you guys coming back to Montana?" Reese asks Frank.
"Don't know exactly. It all depends on the answers I get when I interrogate her." Frank replies looking at his wife.
"Well I would love to see her worm her way out of this but I have to be getting back. Go easy on her Frank." Reese says as he heads for his helicopter.
"I'll think about it." They say their goodbyes and watch Reese take off. "Now where were we? Oh yeah, you where just about to tell me why you lied to me again."
"I already did that." Elaina replies.
"I'm talking about Reese now." Frank was angry again.
"He never wanted you to know."
"Then why the confession now?" Frank asks.
"My guess is he did it to try and take some of the heat off of me. If you knew there was more than one agent helping me you wouldn't be as angry." She looked at his expression. "That isn't the case is it? You're still angry with me."
"Damn straight I am. But any more, I think I might as well just be talking to the wind when I talk to you about working outside the office." Frank says to her.
"You got that right. You are not my superior Frank, I'm yours, remember. And I have been at this type of work a lot longer than you have. I know what I'm doing and I can handle cases without your help." Elaina's temper was flaring more.
"I'm tired of you throwing your promotion in my face." He turned away from her to get control of his anger, but it didn't help much with what happened next.
"I only do that when I think you need to be reminded of the fact. Which lately has been often. You had no reason what so ever to come down here. If you ever do something like this again I will see this unit disbanded, and you will be assigned away from me so you can't interfere with my cases."
"Like hell you will! I have just as many friends at the top as you do and I know that the A.G. would never let this team disband no matter who wants it done. As far as my being away from you, if that's the way you want it then Sweetheart you got it!" Frank stormed away from her.
Elaina felt as if he had hit her in the stomach. Alex and Sab walk up to her seeing that she was in shock by what Frank had said and done.
"You two got pretty loud, did you mean what you said?" Alex asks her.
"Yes I did, and I think he did too." Her voice trailed off as she spoke.
"I'm sure that when you both cool off it will be okay." Sab noticed that Elaina was shaking.
Frank went to the plane that was waiting for them. This was one time Frank was glad that they had a private plane. The last thing he wanted was to be bothered with was airport security. He looked at Jake and Cody. "Get everyone on the plane we're going back now."
Jake motioned for Cody to go after the girls. "Donavon, I'm sorry about not telling you but Elaina gave me orders not to." Jake says as they got on the plane.
Frank sat down in a seat after getting something to drink and never looked at Jake to acknowledge he heard him. "You take orders from me not her. Never, ever do this again."
Cody and the ladies got on the plane. Alex was thankful that there was plenty of space to keep Frank and Elaina away from each other in hopes that they would make up after they had time alone. But she was wrong. Elaina stood in front of Frank and took her wedding ring out of her pocket; she acted like she was going to put it on when she threw it in Frank's drink.
"I hope you choke on it!" She says as she walks to her seat.
The others took their seats as the pilot shut the door. "Please buckle up." He says as he headed into the cockpit.
"It's definitely going to be a bumpy ride." Cody says in a whisper that only Sab could hear, which made her punch him in the arm.
"Ow! What was that for?" He asks rubbing his arm.
"Not now."
Frank and Elaina spent the first part of the flight staring at one another not saying a word. The team members kept to themselves not knowing what to say to either of them.
"Elaina doesn't look too well." Alex observes.
"It's probably from the daggers that Frank is throwing at her." Cody replies.
"We've seen them argue before, but this is the worst one yet." Sab notices.
Elaina's nerves then got the best of her and she ran to the restroom. Alex followed to check on her.
"Elaina, are you okay?" She heard her throwing up. "Elaina, I'm here if you need me." Alex went to the bar and got a bottle of water. Frank never made any sign that he was worried about his wife.
Elaina came out looking paler than she did when she went in. Alex held out the water. "Here this might help."
"Thanks Alex but the last thing I want is to put something in my stomach. Maybe later." Elaina forced herself to smile to let her know she was okay for now.
Cody didn't like the fact that Frank was ignoring his wife when she was feeling ill. He walked over to Alex and Elaina. "He must be really pissed off at you to not ask you how you feel."
"Cody I don't care if he is worried or not. I'm fine. I'm just angry, tired and I miss my children." Elaina then realized that Monica had not come with them. "Where is Monica, Cody?"
"She volunteered to stay with the children." He tried to choose his words carefully but it didn't seem to matter how he said it, Elaina would think that Frank had asked Monica to stay.
She walked over to sit next to Frank. He tried to get up but she pulled him back into his seat. "Why did Monica stay behind?"
"Megan is sick so she volunteered to stay with the kids."
"Why didn't you stay with them? Monica is not your private babysitter."
"I said she volunteered I didn't ask her or force her to do it." He got up and went to the next compartment of the plane. Elaina followed him.
"Get away from me E; I'm not in the mood to talk, especially to you."
"While we are on the subject of our children, I would like to tell you that if you are going to hold our daughter, remove your gun or make sure you have a jacket on to cover it. I don't want a repeat performance of the day I left." Elaina stated.
"I didn't have time to take the gun off, she was crying and I automatically picked her up."
"And when she stopped crying and saw your gun she made a grab for it. When you stopped her, she smacked you in the face and tried again. You grabbed her hand and it made her cry out."
"I didn't hurt her; I was barely holding her hand back." Frank protested. "I told her not to touch it. She needs to learn the word no."
"Damn it Frank, she's not old enough to grasp that concept yet. No matter how hard we try to get her to understand the word, she doesn't right now."
He backed her against the wall. "I don't want you to ever accuse me of hurting our daughter. I don't know why you would ever think I could hurt her."
"I never want her that close to a gun ever again whether it is mine or yours, until she is older and can understand better." She tried to move Frank but he wouldn't.
"I agree with you, but if you hadn't decided to take this trip she wouldn't have been upset in the first place. So you are at fault just as much as I am. I want you to tell me when you're on a case before you go, not after the fact." Frank explains.
"Some of my cases are highly classified, I can't tell you every time." Elaina explains herself.
"Nice dodge, but it won't work. I have the same clearance as you remember?" "I'm not promising anything." Elaina wasn't going to give in.
"Don't you ever think about me or the children before you take an assignment?"
"Do you think of us, Frank? Or do you figure we will survive if anything were to happen to you?"
Of course I think of my family before I go but I can't during an assignment, you know that."
"Exactly! I do know that. We married each other knowing the dangers and risks we take day in and day out. I am adventurous, I've always been." Elaina replies. "I can't sit behind a desk and not get involved occasionally, and I know you are the same way."
He moved slightly to let her relax. "Why don't we just agree to disagree? It would save a lot of time and energy. What happened to you earlier?"
"So you do care about me I was wondering there for a while. I guess it was just a case of my nerves getting the best of me." She felt the knot in her stomach again.
He felt her forehead. "I don't think so, you look pale and you have a slight fever."
"Frank, move I'm going to be sick again." Elaina pushes past him to the restroom.
He went to get the water she left by his seat. "You may not want this, but drink it."
Elaina took the bottle from him and washed her mouth out then sipped some of it. "Did you say Megan was sick?"
"Yeah, come to think of it she was spending time with her head in the toilet." Frank laughed at how he said it.
"Thank you for that picture." Elaina went to walk but had to lean on Frank when she came out.
"You better lie down the rest of the way." He barely finished his sentence when she passed out. "I didn't mean for you to do that."
Jake saw it happen and he went over to help Frank put her on the sofa. "Something you said?" Jake asks smiling at his boss.
Frank called Monica and told her what had happened and that he wanted Elaina's doctor there to check her out, instead of taking her to the hospital. When they arrived home the doctor confirmed the suspicion that she had the flu as Megan had.
"Monica I want to thank you for being here with the kids." Frank tells her.
"I had fun taking care of them, especially Sarah. You'll be at work tomorrow won't you?" Monica asks as she picks up her bag.
"If Elaina isn't any worse I will be. Hope you don't catch it."
"That makes two of us but I have had a flu shot so maybe I won't. Aren't you afraid that you'll get it?"
"Like you I've had a flu shot. Elaina missed getting hers, she was supposed to get it last week and we all know where she was. Maybe this will teach her a lesson." Frank thought about that then added. "I doubt it."
"From what I heard from Cody, you two had a big fight and her wedding ring was thrown in your drink?" "Cody didn't waste any time updating you did he?" Next time I hope she asks Cody for help then I'll know everything that happens. Frank laughed at the thought.
"I'll see you tomorrow. Good night." Monica left and Frank walked upstairs to check on Elaina.
She was sound asleep; he closed the door and went to find Megan and Sarah.
"Where's Daddy's little girl?" He asks as he hears giggling from her. Megan had made a tent out of the blankets and Sarah was hiding in it. "Well I guess she's not in here I better go look somewhere else.
Sarah came crawling out from the blankets. "Here." Was the only thing she said.
Frank sat down on the bed and held his little girl. "Mommy and I missed you and Derek while we were gone. I hope you miss us when we're away."
"She does Frank, she looks for both of you when you leave. She always wants to go in your room, and takes her naps in there." Megan told him.
"Derek use to do the same thing, when he was younger. We'd come home and Hank would tell us about him sleeping in there, even at night." He looked at Sarah, "Did Derek teach you to do that?" Sarah just smiled at him.