"But why would this man, Bubba, kidnap Sara?" Mr. Amster asked the FBI agents. "She doesn't even know him."
"But she does know me," Jesse said, as she came up to their sides and put her duster over the back of an empty chair. "He's using her to get to me. It's a call for attention. We used to use them a lot, back in the day."
"You were a bad person in your youth," Jeffery yelled at Jesse as he got to his feet and went up to her. He then raised a fist at her face and anger filled his eyes. "If one hair on her head is hurt, you're going to pay for this. How does a nice five-by-five cell sound to you?"
"Sounds rather comfy," Jesse said, as she looked up at Jeffery Amster. "If that was meant to scare me, it won't work. I used to pick on guys like you before I was ten. My father trained me not to be afraid of people who use empty threats to get back what they want."
"You bitch!" Jeffery then slapped Jesse and she simply took it and stared up at him with unemotional eyes. "If you had anything to do with this. You're going down. I'll make sure of it." He then stormed off leaving the agents in shock of his actions and the words that were said. "Be careful of your actions, Miss Shepherd."
"You too, Mr. Amster." She then turned to face the agents. "Okay, that didn't go well."
"No, it did not," Jack said to her, as she began to look at the reports. "We have some bad news for you, Jesse."
"I think that I all ready have a good idea what you're about to tell me." Jesse looked up at the board where Sara's picture had been placed. "It was Bubba or one of his men who kidnaped Sara. He's using her to get to me. We really don't know where to go since we can't located Bubba at all."
"That's about right," Jack said to her, as he watched her bit down on her bottom lip. "Have any ideas?"
Jesse was furious when she realized why Bubba had taken Sara. He was using her to get to her. The others kept a close eye on her as she began to pace. "You okay?" Danny asked her, as she grabbed onto her duster and pulled it on.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she said, giving them a smile, as she dug into her pockets for her keys. "I'm just gonna go home. There's not much I can do for you guys now. Bubba's one that can go hiding for months and you would never be able to find him until he was good and ready to show his face. Father had problems with him all the time because of that. I just need to clear my head. I'll call you guys if I come across anything." She then headed for the elevators leaving the agents behind.
"She knows something that she's not telling us," Jack said to the others, as soon as she was gone. "Fine, we'll let her do her thing, but we're going to have her back. Martin, you and Sam go through all the safe house information that Jesse gave us. We need to find a place that she'll go if she needs a safe place to go. The rest of us, are going to work on trying to locate Bubba." They then got to work.
As soon as Jesse left the building, she grabbed her cell phone and dialed a number from memory. "Ello," a voice called through the phone as she headed for the subway. "Who's this?"
"An old friend," Jesse said, as she took a pause next to Martin's car and placed a note under the windshield wiper. "I need some info."
"That comes at a mighty high price," the voice said, causing Jesse to smile. "What kind of info?"
"Tell me where to find Bubba and I won't turn you to the cops, Zeek."
"Jesse, should have figure it would have been you. Why you want to find Bubba so badly? From the word on the streets is, you turned to the feds to take down your papa."
"Sounds about right." Jesse shot a glance back over to see that Danny had just come out of the building. "You got my number. Give me a call back when you have the info that I need." She then hung up on Zeek and shot Danny a smile as he came up to her side. "What's wrong Agent Taylor?"
"Nothing," he said to her, as he placed a hand on her arm. "Do be careful."
"Tell, Martin, that I'm going to crash at my cousin's house in the city. I'll see him there." Then she was gone.
Jesse had just gotten off the subway when her cell phone rang. "Hello, Zeek," she said, as she walked toward her apartment building. "What can you tell me?"
"Hey, Shepherd, I found him." Zeek's voice called out through the phone and she froze at the door to her apartment building. "He's down at a place called Powder Place. Do you know where that is? I'll call you later about the price." The phone went dead and Jesse quickly hailed a cab. She told the driver the address and she was off.
Jesse dialed Martin's phone number and got his voice mail. "Marty, it's me," she began, as she shot the driver a smile. "I'm going to go to my Cousin Laura's House. I'll see you when I get there. We'll make s'mores and catch up." She then hung up the phone and looked at her watch, it was almost six pm."
The driver pulled up in front of an abandoned building and gave her a cautiious look as she got out and paid him. "Have a nice day, miss," he said, as he drove off.
"Yeah, I guess I will," Jesse said, as she looked up at the building and shivered as bad memories began to arise. "There's no place like home." She then entered the building.
Bubba stared down at Sara angry with himself about having to go to such low moves to get Jesse's attention. All he wanted was her back in his life. She was almost like a daughter to him. He loved her and missed her very much. Sara had huge tears running down her face as she watched his every movement. "You better pray that she comes to her senses," Bubba said to Sara as he sat down on a chair not that far from her.
"Hello, Bubba," a voice called out from behind him, and he spun around to face Jesse. "Long time since we've last seen each other." She slid her hands into the pockets of her duster. "I've missed doing this kind of stuff with you. It's been such a long time since I've done anything that was against the law, and I miss it. Living with a bloody F.B.I. agent isn't that easy. I can't really do anything that I want to."
"Poor, Pet," Bubba said to her, as she came up to his side. "It's really good to see that you are planning to return to the dark side." Jesse shot him a smile, as she looked at him, then over to were Sara was. "Knew that the little lass would bring you to me."
"Yeah, it was a great plan to get my attention but you kind of screwed up because now the Feds also know that she's missing. They know almost everything. It's gotten harder to go back to the dark side now." She then glanced over at Sara. "What's going to happen to the girl now? You got my attention and that's what you really wanted." He shot her a smile as he shrugged. "You had no idea on what you were going to do with her after you used her?"
"Maybe you have an idea?"
"Maybe I do."
TBC
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