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CHAPTER 40
KIDNAPPED
June 23, 2003
Charlottesville, Virginia
Russell Family Home
9:57am
Will was afraid. No one could find the triplets. He blamed himself. He had spent so much time with Alley that he didn't notice that his baby sister was angry. Will felt as though he deserved it. Silently Will promised that he would make it up to his sister and his brothers.
"Over here!" Nick yelled. The group ran towards him.
"What is it? What did you find?" Morgan asked her brother. Nick held up a shoe.
"Oh God." Morgan whispered, bring a hand to her mouth as she dropped to her knees. It wasn't the sights of Danny's shoe that broth Jarod to his knees though. It was the words caved into the tree.
BLUE MOON RISING
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN PRODIGY
Jarod let out a howl as though he were a wounded beast
June 23, 2003
Charlottesville, Virginia
Russell Family Home
11:23am
Jarod then called the only person at the FBI he felt he could trust.
"Bailey it's Jarod. I need your help." Jarod explained to Bailey the kidnapping of the triplets as well as his past –an abridged version- involving the Blue Moon Killer.
"What can I do for you Jarod?" Bailey asked.
"Find the bastard that took my children."
Two hours later Agent Jarod Russell was placed on a team with Bailey Malone and two of the FBI's top profilers personally requested by Jarod himself. Agent's Samantha Waters and Rachael Burke sat across from him.
"Why you Jarod?" Sam asked.
"Twice now I have kept him in jail."
"He sees his as both a game and revenge. You kept him from his killings. Now you want to see if you can stop him again only this time he's using your children." Rachael told him.
"I know." Jarod sighed.
"Why does he call you Prodigy?" Bailey asked.
"Because that's what I am." Jarod replied. He then told the two women everything.
"Well that explains a lot." Rachael said.
"Jarod we have three days to get your kids back. You and I both know that Willard won't think twice about killing them." Sam told him.
"We know that the question is how are we going to get them back." Will said walking in to the room. Alley, Chris, Debbie, and Jake and his group followed him.
"The way we se it Uncle Jarod you've got fifteen resources you aren't using." Jake said.
"Or have you just forgotten what we are?" Rach asked.
"Let us help please." Cassie begged.
"Jarod what can they do?" Sam asked.
"What ever you need." Marc said.
"We already discovered how Willard escaped." Tobias told the adults.
"He earwigged another guard like last time." Terra elaborated.
"Willard convinced the guard to release him. The guard's dead now committed suicide." Mike said.
"How did you all find this out?" Rachael asked the children.
"Research." Maddie told her.
"Dad we already know Willard didn't take then to Snow Hill." Alley told her father.
"We followed his tracks out of the woods." Greg said.
"He took 95 north." Spoke Jeremiah. "But we believe that he's headed to Blue Cove."
"We found this." Melissa said handing Jarod a slip of paper.
"Damn!" Jarod yelled
"Dad you can't blame yourself you couldn't have known." Will told his father.
"He's right Jar." Chris spoke. "Who would have know Willard had discovered the Centre."
"What's going on?" Bailey asked.
"Willard is using Danny, Andy, and Alex as bargaining chips." Jake explained to the three agents. "He promised to bring the Centre a "prodigy" in exchange for a new life."
"We need to get to Blue Cove now." Jarod spoke. "Will call your grandfather tell him to get the plane ready. Deb call your Dad let him know what's going on. Ask him to see if he call stall Lyle. The rest of you home, now. See what else you all can find out." Jarod told the children. "Wait how did you all get here."
"He, he, funny story big brother." Chris said. "Me and Deb drove."
"You two are barely sixteen."
"We've got our learners." Chris told him.
"Get home I don't have time for this." The children left quickly.
"William." Jarod called after his son.
"How's your Mom."
"She's holding up." Will told his father and then ran out of the room.
June 23, 2003
Charlottesville, Virginia
Russell Family Home
9:18pm
Back at the house Nicholas and Ethan were sitting with Morgan. Ethan had given her a drug to help her relax but not cause harm to the babies. Morgan had been a nervous wreck. Jarod had been able to calm his wife down after the shoe and message had been found. After Jarod had left Morgan had woken from her slumber. The house was once again thrown into chaos when no one was able to find her. Peter was the one who found her thirty minutes later, crying holding one of Alex's pillows.
"Don't worry Momma. Daddy and the others will find um. I know it." Peter told his distraught mother.
So Morgan was asleep, Peter curled at her side. Ethan and Nick sat watching as the two slept on.
June 23, 2003
Blue Cove Delaware
Abandon Garage
9:21pm
As two people slept three other's were just waking up. Danny, Andros and Alex found themselves lying on cold concert.
"Where are we?" Alex whispered her head throbbing.
"I don't know." Danny replied.
"You two alright?" Andros asked.
"'M fine. Head hurts a little but other than that." Alex answered
"Same here." Danny said.
"Mom and Dad are going to be so worried." Andros told them.
"Right now I'm more worried bout us than them." Alex spoke.
"You still mad at then Alex?" Danny asked.
"No. I'm more worried about use cause I know who brought us here." Alex answered.
"Willard." Andros hissed.
"We gotta come up with a plan." Aaron said.
A few hours latter the door opened. The boys stood in front of their sister.
"Hello Willard." Andros said.
"Very good my young prodigy." Willard said stepping into the room. "I'm quite pleased your father thought enough of me to inform you three of our past together.
"Our father never told us about you." Alex hissed.
"We like our father were forced to perform simulations on you." Danny spoke.
"Ah yes simulations. Your Mr. Lyle has informed ma all about your little simulations. And might I say yours are quite superior to your father's.' Willard said running finger along Alex's jaw line. "Aren't you just a beauty. I can see why your Mr. Lyle is fond of you."
"Don't you ever touch my sister again." Danny said kicking Willard in the shin. Willard punched the boy in the face knocking him to the floor. An angry red mark began to make its presence know on Danny's cheek. As did one on both Alex's and Andros's face.
"You must learn to control your temper young prodigy." Willard said. "We wouldn't want for anything to happen to you now would we." Danny's eyes briefly flashed red, but Willard didn't notice Andros and Alex did though.
"Want do you want with us?" Andros asked
"I'm glad you asked. You see I recently managed to escape the confines in which your father placed me. I intended on traveling south and starting a new life for myself. Imagine my surprise when I just so happen to stop in a quaint little town on my way to the border and I spot you three and your father at the local market. Well I just couldn't pass up the opportunity, so I followed the four of you home and spent the next few days studying the layout of that lovely home you reside in."
"How did the Centre get involved in all of this?" Alex asked the obviously insane man.
"Well during my incarceration I did a little research on my conviction, the little information I did not learn form my records your father inadvertently supplied. I learned all I could about the little corporation based in Blue Cove and what role they played in my incarceration."
"One of the only decent things they every did." Danny sneered.
"It is rude to intrurupt!" Willard said and punched Danny in the stomach. The the three children grunted in pain as Danny fell to the ground. "Have your parents taught you no manner? Now as I was saying I research this Centre and found that they called them selves a think tank. But one must wonder why a think tank would allow for such a small boy to "simulate" such a "monster" as I. I became intrigued with this corporation and soon learned all that their was to learn about it. You see during my research I stumbled across this wonderful web site. It was extremely hard for me to get in it took quite some time, but eventually I seceded. I was very surprised to learn that this powerful corporation had managed to lose fifteen of their most valuable resources. Not to mention that two of their own, the chairman's supposed children had been murdered. I believe they were known as Miss Parker and her baby brother Peter."
"Let me guess we're you bargaining chips for your new life?" Andros asked.
"You would be correct young prodigy." Willard told him. "Partly any way. You see I told the Centre I would bring them two children. One of you I get to keep. One of you I get to kill."
"Let me guess that would be me?" Alex asked.
"You truly are a perceptive group of children. It would almost be a shame to kill you little one." Willard whispered, his eyes tracing the contours of Alex's frame.
Alex laughed both starling and angering the monster. "You think that they are going to just let you live?" Alex said. "Let me tell you just how the Centre is going to reward you for returning their prized merchandise. First they are going to beat you for thinking that you are superior to them. Then they –more than likely my dear Uncle Lye- will torture you, and let me tell you now Lyle loves jumper cables. They will torture you for two reasons one they'll want to know where the rest of my family is, the second reason is because you tried to play a game with them. Lastly they will kill you –very slowly- for attempting to kill me." Alex told him
"My dear child, I believe that you misunderstood me. I am going to kill you and take grate pleasure in doing so." Willard said.
"No Willard you misunderstood. You aren't going to kill anyone. By the time the next blue moon arrives you'll be dead by either my father's hands of the Centre's." Danny told him.
"You see Willard right now two groups of people are tracking you. The Centre and my family along with help from the FBI. And that phone call you made to the Centre an hour ago, -right before you waltzed into this room- has been triangulated by one Mr. Jon Broots." Andros said
"Mr. Lyle has just dispatched three sweeper teams. What the Centre did not count on was my big sister intercepting your phone call. She has just relayed the coordinates to my father and he and a team of FBI agents are one their way." Alex told him.
"The local authorities have already barricaded all major entrances and exits to the highway and interstates. All planes and trains have been grounded. You can't leave the city." Danny said. "Can you hear them Willard, the sirens?"
"Can't you hear the screeching of the tires Willard?" Asked Andros
"Can't you hear the cocking of fifty automatic rifles all trained at you, Willard" Alex asked.
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" He yelled at them. "You're lying you can't possibly know all of these things."
"You read our files Willard you know what we are." Danny said
"You know what we can do." Andros teased.
"So the question is Willard, what are you going to do?" Alex asked.
Willard pulled out a gun from his waistband. The children's faces fell. Three shots were then fired.
Michelle I'm so, so, so sorry for the cliffhanger –she says hiding behind her chair-. Please don't throw anything at me. I promise the next chapter doesn't have a cliffhanger. I think.
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