Summary: Zack phones Jondy to get her to come and help rescue Max at the beginning of 'And Jesus Brought a Casserole'. Jondy turns up with three friends to help take down the DNA lab, but their past catches up with them at a very bad time.
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Friends and Family
Chapter 2 - Memories
It took them four hours to reach the warehouse and Jondy was worried that Zack and the others may already have left on their rescue mission. She would be dreadfully disappointed to get there and find them gone. She had spent several years looking for her family before Zack had contacted her, and to miss the first opportunity to see them in over 11 years would be terrible. She was intensely worried about Max and devastated about Tinga. There was nothing she would love more then to wrap her hands round that bastard Lydecker's neck and snap it, ending his evil and destructive life in revenge for her sister's death. But she knew she must be patient; there would be plenty of time for Lydecker. Right now she had to help ensure her sister's safety; that was the mission and that was what was important.
Jondy smoothly slipped off her motorcycle and signalled to her friends to hang back and stay where they were. She removed her helmet and focused her hearing in the direction of the warehouse. She caught odd snatches at first and then began to hear clear phrases. Whilst she was doing this, Fay was trying her hardest to hold back her laughter. She thought her friend looked ridiculous with her head to one side, as if her neck could no longer support it. Jondy rolled her eyes at her and focused even harder.
"Syl, Krit, what have you got?"
Jondy didn't need to hear any more. She knew that only Zack could sound so utterly commanding, even when he was asking friendly, simple questions. She turned to her friends. "
Guys, I know that this will be hard for you, but please keep your mouths shut. My brother is very... touchy when it concerns his family, and he may see you as a threat. He might decide to kill you first and ask questions later. So it's best if you let me explain everything to him, ok?" she asked.
"Like we would say anything that might get us killed," Sam exclaimed trying to sound outraged at the very thought. Jondy knew from experience that her friends had indeed opened their mouths once too often. A few instances came all too readily to mind.
There was that time when ...
"You listen to me you punk ass kid. I am not a happy man, and when I'm not a happy man, Bruce here is not happy, and when Bruce ain't happy, arms start coming off."
He released his painful grip on Sam's throat, causing him to crash heavily onto the hard floor of the seedy bar. Radar, Fay and Jondy were surrounded by a gang of vicious, trigger-happy thugs wielding sub-machine guns.
Sam gingerly propped himself up on one elbow and rasped, "That would just be stupid. I mean, why would you want Bruce to pull one of your arms off? I thought that wisdom was supposed to come with age, but I guess that's just grey hair."
The gangster's face turned purple with rage, as he pulled back a fist, ready to beat the smart-mouthed kid to a bloody pulp.
And on another occasion ...
The gang were walking through a narrow, dingy alleyway. Just as the path widened a man stepped out from the shadows. He was waving a loaded gun and his pants were undone. Fay looked down for a moment, her head tilted to one side considering, then she smirked and looked up, staring the flasher straight in the eye.
"You know you should try Viagra for that," she suggested innocently.
The gun came up and pointed directly at Fay's head......
And then, of course, there was the time..... "
Look I really didn't mean to con your daughter out of fifty–thousand dollars. It was a complete mistake, I swear," Radar told the gang leader who was advancing on him with a long-bladed knife.
His image was being projected back to the rest of the gang, who were in the surveillance van, speeding towards their friend.
"What do you mean my daughter? This is my wife!"
"Jesus. Baby-snatching much," Radar couldn't help but say and the blade flashed.
Jondy was brought back to the present by Radar's quiet voice.
"Don't worry Jondy. You can trust us," Radar reassured her, "we know when to keep quiet."
Jondy nodded then took a deep breath and walked over to the warehouse door. As she turned the handle she suddenly thought of something. What if Zack ordered her to leave her friends? Would she follow an order like that and abandon all that she had grown to love. They were her life now and she was in too deep with them to turn her back on them. She loved everything about the underworlds in which they lived, the contact system, the way that gangs always stood up for each other, and all the different codes of conduct they had. She even loved the creepy 'Messengers', a group of people whose only purpose was to deliver messages for their strange boss, Nightwing. If Zack tried to make her leave all that behind...
Jondy quickly came to her senses; she was worrying about herself when Max was in grave danger! She pushed open the door and stepped into the warehouse, so he could see her first. A second later the others followed her in.
"Take one more step and you're dead."
