« Well, I've got the tickets. Now where is Chris?" As Jax looked around for Chris his jaw dropped. There, coming off of the train that he was supposed to get on in a couple of hours, was his brother with his arms around some blond with a bad dye job. 'No wonder I couldn't get a hold of him.' Jax looked closer at the woman. For some reason, he felt that he should know her. Just when they were starting to get close enough that he could see her face, she stopped and turned her back to him, then leaned into Jerry.

Jerry and Skye had just gotten off of the train and were walking toward the exits when Skye stopped and turned to him and gave him an unexpected hug. For a second, he was completely shocked until she looked up at him. "Jax is here." Skye said

Jerry stiffened. "Where?" He looked around, but didn't see him in the crowds.

"I don't know. But I can practically feel him. He is nearby."

Jerry gave a little smirk. "Aren't you being just a little bit paranoid? I mean. What are the chances that my brother would be in the same train station at the same time as us? I mean I just talked to him this morning. If anything, he is flying to Seville to check out his most current lead on you. There is no reason that he would be in Madrid."

"I'm telling you, he's here and he's close. I can practically feel it."

"Jerry" Jerry heard his brother shout. He turned his head a little to the left and saw his brother coming toward him. 'Oh Shit. How the hell did she know?'

"Go talk to your brother Jerry. I'll be by the ladies restroom when you're through." As a crowd of people from the train came by, Skye let go of Jerry and put herself in the middle of this moving mass of people. Jerry watched as one minute she was there and the next she was lost in the crowds.

Feeling slightly nervous, having Skye out of his sight, and guilty for leaving Jax in the dark, Jerry turned to face his brother and gave him a quick hug. "Hey Jax" Jerry said with a smile, "I didn't expect to see you today. What's up?"

Jax took one look at Jerry and asked, "That depends, what's wrong?"

Jerry laughed. "Now why would you think that something was wrong? It's an excellent day. The cops in this country aren't currently after me and I finally get to see my little brother after how long?"

"That would have been your last non-wedding, due to the fact that the cops showed up and arrested you right before you said your I do's. Bobby's doing well, by the way."

"I know. We exchange e-mails."

"After that stunt, I'm surprised she even still talks to you. So what's wrong? Don't bother saying nothing. I know you. You have that same look that you get every time that you are up to something. Which means that if you aren't in any trouble already, you soon will be."

"Jax, I am more than old enough to take care of myself."

"I notice that you aren't denying that you are up to something."

"What would be the point?"

"Anything to do with the Blond with the bad hair do I saw hugging you?"

"Don't you have your own woman to worry about?"

"Ahh, so it does have something to do with the Blond."

"Let's just say that I'm trying to take a sheet from your book and play the knight in shining armour to her damsel in distress. So what brings you my way?"

"Skye cashed a check in Seville. I'm headed that way now. I tried to call you to get your help tracking her down."

"I was probably already checked out."

"And you don't look to surprised to hear that Skye was in Seville."

"Well she had to be somewhere."

Jax started swearing as the pieces started to fall into place in his mind. "Why the hell didn't you call me? You knew how worried I was and that I was looking for her."

"Jax, do you want to clue me in on what you're talking about?"

"How could I be so stupid? That red head that you called me about, that was Skye."

"Jax, there are a lot of woman with red hair in this world. I know. I've dated a good portion of them. The fact that I would go out with one while you were searching for your ex doesn't mean that the woman that I went out with is your ex-wife."

"There aren't that many red headed woman that I have introduced to my parents. For that matter, there aren't that many woman period that I have introduced to my parents. That alone should have clued me in. Where is she, Jerry?"

"You seem to be jumping to an awful lot of conclusions here. Among other things, I've never met Skye."

"Which accounts for the phone call asking me questions about a red head calling herself Toni."

"And Skye never met me. She had no way of finding me. Think about it for a second. Even if she did go to Seville, it is a large town. She had no way of knowing I was there."

"The blond. She was the right height and build. Hell, she even felt familiar to me and that was just from a glance from a distance."

"Now Jax."

"Where is she, Jerry?"

"Yes Jerry, do tell us, where is she?" Jax stiffened as he felt a gun being pressed to his back.

"Chris, what the hell do you think you are doing?" Jax asked.

"My job. Now Jerry, I suggest that you start talking if you want your brother to walk out of here alive."

Jerry glared at Chris. "You won't shoot him here. There are to many witnesses. You would never make it out of here."

"I don't need to make it out of here. I just need that little bit of information. It's worth a mint."

"But even if Jerry does tell you Chris, you will never get that information to Alcazar before Skye disappears again. Why would he bother bailing out an operative that failed by showing his hand this miserably?" Jax reasoned.

"Have you seen the jails in this country? Trust me, foreign jails are nothing like the US. The jails in the US are almost luxury hotels in comparison." Jerry added.

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Skye was starting to get bored waiting by the restrooms. She considered leaving her hiding place between the ladies room and the shops when she heard someone walk by mention Alcazar's name. Skye moved herself up against the wall as she heard that person stop just a few feet in front of her. Her heart pounded in her chest. For a second, she thought he had found her, but when he kept talking she realized that he was just taking advantage of the relative quite of the area, to use the phone. Skye would have let out a sigh of relief if she hadn't been afraid that the noise might catch his attention. Instead, she leaned in closer to try to catch what was being said.

"Yes Sir. Jax is in Madrid and he is taking the train to Seville. He should be there in about an hour and a half. Jerry? According to Jax, she doesn't know him. He tried to call Jerry in Seville, but he hasn't gotten an answer. She's with Jerry? Is Alcazar sure? Oh they were seen on tape at the hotel. They stayed at the same hotel? Yes, I guess he is pretty sure. No Jax can't hear me. He's over by the trains. I can see him from here. Ahh, Sir? Jerry's here and he is talking to Jax. What? Which Jacks brother? They are both here. Both of them? I realize that he's tired of the interference but wouldn't be useful to keep one of them alive to lead us to her? But this is to public? There are to many people here. To many witnesses. No offence, but I don't want the jail time. How much? Yes, that would be worth a little bit of jail time. How long before I would get out? Yes, sir. Consider it done."

Skye's life took on an almost surreal quality as she watched the man carefully pull a gun out of the bag he was carrying and stick it in his pocket. Keeping a few paces behind him, she followed him across the crowded path. She held a place further back as he came up behind Jax. Skye looked around for options and noticed the guards by the metal detectors at the train platforms. Skye carefully skirted around the argument and went up to the guards.

"Yes mademoiselle, how can I help you?"

"Ah, sir, I have a bit of a situation. You see, I caught my husband over there, the blond in the blue shirt, with his mistress Brenda. And my brother, the guy right behind him found out. He has a bit of a temper. I know that it isn't your job to get in the middle of domestic disputes but I know that he stuck a gun in his right pocket when he left the house. He's just angry enough that he might use it in this crowd." Skye quickly blurted out.

The officer swore and got on the radio. "Don't worry Madame. We will take care of this situation. Wait here."

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Skye watched with worried eyes as the guards moved in to tackle the man behind Jax. She held her breath and her stomach dropped when she heard the screams as the officers grabbed his arm from behind and the gun went off. Then she couldn't see anything. The crowds made it impossible. Everyone was moving away from the sound of gunshot, blocking her view. The mass of bodies between her and Jax were to thick to get through. Not knowing what was happening was killing her. Skye looked around for an alternative and noticed the crosswalk above. That she thought she could get to. A few moments later, she was climbing the steps to the walkway. She paused for just a moment as she heard the sirens outside the building. Praying that she did the right thing when she talked to those officers, she continued moving up the stairs. Half dreading what she would see when she reached the top, she forced herself onto the walkway and looked down.

She started laughing. Whoever that idiot was, the only thing that he had managed to shoot was himself in the foot. She watched the Jerk as he sat down and shouted as the attendant tried to stop the bleeding. Jax was talking to one of the officers, not far away. Where was Jerry? When she couldn't locate him anywhere in the area, I turned and looked over the other side of the ramp. After a couple of minutes, she spotted him making his way towards where she had originally said she would be.

Skye pulled out a piece of paper from her purse and wrote down where Jerry should meet her. Then practicing a science she had perfected during some rather boring classes as a child, she pulled out a couple more sheets of paper and made three paper airplanes. The first one she threw to get the direction of the breeze. The second one had Jerry's attention. He looked up and soon located her on the ramp.

Jerry signalled his hands to tell her that he was coming to her, but Skye shook her head and held up the third airplane. She pointed at the airplane then pointed at him. He nodded his head, understanding that she wanted him to get this one. She threw the third airplane and laughed as it went over his head and landed directly behind him.

Skye looked around startled as she heard a few cheers. Apparently Jerry wasn't the only one who had noticed her antics. Several bored people sitting around the waiting area were watching too. She noticed that a couple of children were now running around with the other two airplanes. A third child had run up, picked up the third airplane and handed it to Jerry. Jerry opened the plane, read the message, folded it back up and gave it back to the kid to play with. Jerry looked back up at me nodded, and started toward the area she had written on the plane.

Before starting back down the stairs to meet Jerry, Skye took one last look over the other side at Jax. He was still talking to the officer. Just for a moment, he looked up, met Skye's eyes, and smiled. Skye smiled back. Just for that moment, everything bad that ever happened between them was pushed aside. With that one look, Skye was back in that safe place that Jax's presence always seemed to create for her.

Then reality, in the form of one of her paper airplanes, intervened. One of them had literally hit her in the back of her head. Skye picked it up, turned around and saw a couple of kids waving their arms around for her to throw it back down. Skye shook her head, laughed and threw the plane. Then she left to meet up with Jerry.

-- Sorry everyone. I'm going on vacation. I'll be back sometime in July. Take a break and read someone else's stories.