Alexander woke the next morning to find Harlie standing at the stove making
breakfast. Walking up behind her quietly he reached for her waist but
stopped when she suddenly turned around. Grabbing him by the hair she
pushed his head into the water filling the kitchen sink before realizing
who she was holding onto. Alexander stood up wiping the water from his eyes
and coughing slightly from the little he had swallowed unintentionally.
"Harlie-" he began turning to face her, but he was the only person in the room. Making his way down the hall he grabbed a towel from the closet and knocked on Harlies now closed door before opening it. Harlie sat at the head of her bed leaning against the wall with her legs pulled up to her chin as she held onto them tightly. Alexander stood there for a moment just watching not saying anything, before he hesitantly walked over to where she was and sat on the edge of her bed. She seemed as fragile as a small child, and in many ways she still was, but she was so much more.
He placed his hand on her head stroking her blond hair as he moved to place his back against the wall near her. To his surprise she moved quickly to his side barring her face in his shoulder and holding onto him tightly. He could feel her trembling and he became worried. He hadn't even known her twenty-four hours but she was different than his other partners; she was special, and he knew it.
"It's all right Harlie, I'm fine I just got a bath a little earlier than I expected." He laughed slightly trying to lighten the mood. Harlie pulled away from him slightly and looked up at him her eyes still puffy and red from crying and she mouth the words 'I'm sorry' as she pushed a strand of hair away from his eyes. He smiled at her in reply, and moved to the edge of the bed to stand up. Extending his hand towards her they walked into the kitchen and ate breakfast in silence.
Alexander's mind wondered. 'Why did I scare her that bad? I didn't mean to I was just playing around, but it scared her more than I ever thought. I will ask her about it sometime in the future when she wants to tell me.'
"Can I ask you a question?" He asked when he finished eating. Harlie looked up and nodded in reply.
"Have you ever been able to talk?" Her reply was a hesitated yes, and she motioned with her fingers a little.
"Would you ever want to talk again?"
She shrugged and I don't know as her fingers fumbled with each other
on the table.
"Maybe, one day you'll talk to me." He smiled after he stood and walked down the hall to his room to get dressed.
To herself she mouthed a maybe and smiled turning to watch him as he walked into his room, and closed the door quietly behind him.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Stephan, there's word you've been found. You slowed down because father sent me here and you shouldn't have; you were making good time." The young dark haired man said after closing the large oak door behind him.
"Brian, I didn't slow because of you, I'm tired of running. Five years non- stop is enough to drive anyone to the brink of insanity. They have found me but who's to say they will catch me? Even if they would happen to take me there's still you and father to continue, I'm not the end of the chain you know." Stephan replied with a smile as he stood up and looked his younger brother in the eyes.
"Is that why I stay in a completely different place than you Stephan?"
"Yes, it's for your own protection. I wouldn't want my little brother harmed because of the people chasing me. That wouldn't be right and you know it, not to mention the fact that if the government couldn't catch me to kill me father definitely would, and that would have to scare me more than the gas chamber."
"So what are planning to do? How are we getting away from these people?"
"Nothing"
"Nothing? Stephan they'll kill you."
"We'll see what they have to play with, and then we'll join in on their little game. When the time is right we'll be so far out of their reach they'll never find us."
"Your playing a game with dangerous people Stephan, they don't just stop once you've disappeared again. They've been following for a while now, and they're catching on quickly"
"Dear Brian, you worry to much. You have much to learn in your youth, so watch and learn."
"I know much more than you give me credit for, that one of your down falls. You assume too much for your own good. You're going to get yourself killed or worse." Brian finished turning and walking for the door.
"I'll prove you wrong yet brother, you'll see." Stephan got the last word in as the door slipped shut behind the younger man.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
So far everything I've been working on has come through, yet I feel things are rolling together to easily. I'm not getting all my information and I need to do something about that. Faith stayed up the rest of the evening looking through the information that was faxed to her at the station the evening before. She was so engrossed that she hadn't realized what time it was but even then didn't want to stop.
"What are you doing? Did you even sleep last night?" Bosco asked walking into the living room of their new condo.
"I wanted to finish this, but there's something missing. Some things not right and I can't seem to grasp it."
"Speaking of grasping-" Bosco started as he sat down next to her.
"Boscorelli!" she declared with a laugh as the man she had known for so long started drifting in and out the more they talked.
"What?"
She looked at him with a raised eyebrow, her head cocked, and a smile forming on her lips. In reply she only shook her head as he sat next to her laughing. She had received an update of the information the government had gathered so far and were willing to share. The fragments of information were few, and far between.
"Maybe Carlie will understand some of this, she's supposed to be good at deciphering this kind of information right?" Bosco asked looking over the paper work.
"I have factory names, car dealers, police reports, fragments of information they gathered from the data bases but there's still holes. How am I supposed to find these men when the only thing I have to work with are patches?"
"Faith your tired, you've been up, what twenty-four hours now at least. Sleep for a while I'll send a message out to the group and we'll meet with them later tonight. We'll find out what they know from the small cases they'd been working with before and see if it ties in with any of the information we received last night."
" I wasn't going to bother them this weekend, I wanted them to get to know their partners before jumping into the case." Faith explained feeling defeated. She wanted this to work out but she was, in a way waiting for something to backfire. "I'll look into this more when I get up, that's if I can sleep and then if I can not find anything by Sunday afternoon we'll get together and try to put this together."
"All right, but now you sleep. You've been up way too long for your brain to be functioning."
Standing up Faith looked at Bosco and wondered when he had become her. She used to say things like that to him after he had spent the entire night before lost in his lustful acts instead of sleeping. Now here he stood giving her advice she never thought he'd say.
"We'll figure this out, just give it time." Bosco said watching her walk across the room. She turned to look back at him and smiled in reply to his reassuring words before disappearing behind a closed door.
For the next four hours Bosco read over reports, and matched the information they sent to the information he had gathered for the six months prior to being 'found' by Faith. A lot of it matched but even then there was information missing.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The sound of wood breaking pulled Carlie away from her work. She walked down the stairs to the basement where she found James practicing his kickboxing. "What was that sound?" She questioned quietly not even sure if he had heard her.
"Sorry I broke a board, nothing to worry about." He replied still concentrating on what he was doing.
Carlie looked around at the gadgets he got to work with. From what she knew of him he had everything from guns that shot backwards to miniature bombs that could look like just about anything.
"So what is this?" she asked picking up a small black box. James looked over at her smiling. His smile quickly faded as he noticed what she held in her hands, but she was faster than he had anticipated and he didn't have time to tell her not to. Taking a deep breath he caught her before she hit the ground. The smoke filled room would take a few hours before the gasses subsided so after carrying her upstairs he sealed the door and then returned to see if Carlie was ok.
"Carlie. Carlie.." He said shaking her shoulders slightly knowing she would more than likely be sleeping this one off. He remained close by for the remainder of the day waiting for her to wake up. He also knew she would be just fine due to the fact that it was a sleeping substance that would give him time to get away if need be, and also knowing she would more than likely ask before opening anything. Not being able to help himself he laughed quietly sitting down on the couching letting her head rest on the pillow he had placed on his lap, and turned the television on.
"Harlie-" he began turning to face her, but he was the only person in the room. Making his way down the hall he grabbed a towel from the closet and knocked on Harlies now closed door before opening it. Harlie sat at the head of her bed leaning against the wall with her legs pulled up to her chin as she held onto them tightly. Alexander stood there for a moment just watching not saying anything, before he hesitantly walked over to where she was and sat on the edge of her bed. She seemed as fragile as a small child, and in many ways she still was, but she was so much more.
He placed his hand on her head stroking her blond hair as he moved to place his back against the wall near her. To his surprise she moved quickly to his side barring her face in his shoulder and holding onto him tightly. He could feel her trembling and he became worried. He hadn't even known her twenty-four hours but she was different than his other partners; she was special, and he knew it.
"It's all right Harlie, I'm fine I just got a bath a little earlier than I expected." He laughed slightly trying to lighten the mood. Harlie pulled away from him slightly and looked up at him her eyes still puffy and red from crying and she mouth the words 'I'm sorry' as she pushed a strand of hair away from his eyes. He smiled at her in reply, and moved to the edge of the bed to stand up. Extending his hand towards her they walked into the kitchen and ate breakfast in silence.
Alexander's mind wondered. 'Why did I scare her that bad? I didn't mean to I was just playing around, but it scared her more than I ever thought. I will ask her about it sometime in the future when she wants to tell me.'
"Can I ask you a question?" He asked when he finished eating. Harlie looked up and nodded in reply.
"Have you ever been able to talk?" Her reply was a hesitated yes, and she motioned with her fingers a little.
"Would you ever want to talk again?"
She shrugged and I don't know as her fingers fumbled with each other
on the table.
"Maybe, one day you'll talk to me." He smiled after he stood and walked down the hall to his room to get dressed.
To herself she mouthed a maybe and smiled turning to watch him as he walked into his room, and closed the door quietly behind him.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Stephan, there's word you've been found. You slowed down because father sent me here and you shouldn't have; you were making good time." The young dark haired man said after closing the large oak door behind him.
"Brian, I didn't slow because of you, I'm tired of running. Five years non- stop is enough to drive anyone to the brink of insanity. They have found me but who's to say they will catch me? Even if they would happen to take me there's still you and father to continue, I'm not the end of the chain you know." Stephan replied with a smile as he stood up and looked his younger brother in the eyes.
"Is that why I stay in a completely different place than you Stephan?"
"Yes, it's for your own protection. I wouldn't want my little brother harmed because of the people chasing me. That wouldn't be right and you know it, not to mention the fact that if the government couldn't catch me to kill me father definitely would, and that would have to scare me more than the gas chamber."
"So what are planning to do? How are we getting away from these people?"
"Nothing"
"Nothing? Stephan they'll kill you."
"We'll see what they have to play with, and then we'll join in on their little game. When the time is right we'll be so far out of their reach they'll never find us."
"Your playing a game with dangerous people Stephan, they don't just stop once you've disappeared again. They've been following for a while now, and they're catching on quickly"
"Dear Brian, you worry to much. You have much to learn in your youth, so watch and learn."
"I know much more than you give me credit for, that one of your down falls. You assume too much for your own good. You're going to get yourself killed or worse." Brian finished turning and walking for the door.
"I'll prove you wrong yet brother, you'll see." Stephan got the last word in as the door slipped shut behind the younger man.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
So far everything I've been working on has come through, yet I feel things are rolling together to easily. I'm not getting all my information and I need to do something about that. Faith stayed up the rest of the evening looking through the information that was faxed to her at the station the evening before. She was so engrossed that she hadn't realized what time it was but even then didn't want to stop.
"What are you doing? Did you even sleep last night?" Bosco asked walking into the living room of their new condo.
"I wanted to finish this, but there's something missing. Some things not right and I can't seem to grasp it."
"Speaking of grasping-" Bosco started as he sat down next to her.
"Boscorelli!" she declared with a laugh as the man she had known for so long started drifting in and out the more they talked.
"What?"
She looked at him with a raised eyebrow, her head cocked, and a smile forming on her lips. In reply she only shook her head as he sat next to her laughing. She had received an update of the information the government had gathered so far and were willing to share. The fragments of information were few, and far between.
"Maybe Carlie will understand some of this, she's supposed to be good at deciphering this kind of information right?" Bosco asked looking over the paper work.
"I have factory names, car dealers, police reports, fragments of information they gathered from the data bases but there's still holes. How am I supposed to find these men when the only thing I have to work with are patches?"
"Faith your tired, you've been up, what twenty-four hours now at least. Sleep for a while I'll send a message out to the group and we'll meet with them later tonight. We'll find out what they know from the small cases they'd been working with before and see if it ties in with any of the information we received last night."
" I wasn't going to bother them this weekend, I wanted them to get to know their partners before jumping into the case." Faith explained feeling defeated. She wanted this to work out but she was, in a way waiting for something to backfire. "I'll look into this more when I get up, that's if I can sleep and then if I can not find anything by Sunday afternoon we'll get together and try to put this together."
"All right, but now you sleep. You've been up way too long for your brain to be functioning."
Standing up Faith looked at Bosco and wondered when he had become her. She used to say things like that to him after he had spent the entire night before lost in his lustful acts instead of sleeping. Now here he stood giving her advice she never thought he'd say.
"We'll figure this out, just give it time." Bosco said watching her walk across the room. She turned to look back at him and smiled in reply to his reassuring words before disappearing behind a closed door.
For the next four hours Bosco read over reports, and matched the information they sent to the information he had gathered for the six months prior to being 'found' by Faith. A lot of it matched but even then there was information missing.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The sound of wood breaking pulled Carlie away from her work. She walked down the stairs to the basement where she found James practicing his kickboxing. "What was that sound?" She questioned quietly not even sure if he had heard her.
"Sorry I broke a board, nothing to worry about." He replied still concentrating on what he was doing.
Carlie looked around at the gadgets he got to work with. From what she knew of him he had everything from guns that shot backwards to miniature bombs that could look like just about anything.
"So what is this?" she asked picking up a small black box. James looked over at her smiling. His smile quickly faded as he noticed what she held in her hands, but she was faster than he had anticipated and he didn't have time to tell her not to. Taking a deep breath he caught her before she hit the ground. The smoke filled room would take a few hours before the gasses subsided so after carrying her upstairs he sealed the door and then returned to see if Carlie was ok.
"Carlie. Carlie.." He said shaking her shoulders slightly knowing she would more than likely be sleeping this one off. He remained close by for the remainder of the day waiting for her to wake up. He also knew she would be just fine due to the fact that it was a sleeping substance that would give him time to get away if need be, and also knowing she would more than likely ask before opening anything. Not being able to help himself he laughed quietly sitting down on the couching letting her head rest on the pillow he had placed on his lap, and turned the television on.
