Chapter Six: Family Ties
Sejae sat at the hotel bar and lit a cigarette. She should of left but she knew they would of been on her the second she left the hotel lobby. She made a couple of phone calls and sat herself in the courner of the bar. She could see everyone coming and going. The two men sitting at the far end of the bar had come in behind her and sat watching her ever since. She took a swig of the beer in front of her and watched the door. Her cell phone rang just as Elliot entered the bar.
"Boscorelli."
"The kids safe?"
"As Fort Knox. Why?" She heard a tone in her husband's voice she didn't like.
"We got trouble with a capital T. Seems my old man and his new wife were laundering lots of cash for more then one organization. By looks of it they had thier hands in everything the East Coast was dealing in."
"Bosco they want us dead."
"I know. It's time to run and hide." He watched his son pack. "We're on the next flight out of here."
"I can't get out of where I am but back ups on the way."
"Seajae."
"Bosco I'm ok. Elliot's here now. We'll fingure something out." She smiled at her friend. "I love you."
"I love you too."
"Head to my grandfather's. We'll meet you there."
"I'm not going to Texas when you're there."
"It's the safest place Bosco. Please. If I know you an Bailey are safe I can handle things on this end."
"Seajae..."
"Bosco please. I what I'm doing. Trust me. I love you." She hung up the phone. Elliot looked at the men at the bar.
"You ok?"
"No. The kids are safe here but I want us all to get out of here before the whole thing comes tumbling down."
"Seajae it's all taken care of. Your uncle has the McBride jet waiting for you and the kids at an air strip about fifty miles in the Pensylvania wilderness. We just have to get you and the kids out of the city." Seajae looked at the men and then back to Elliot.
"I think we need a room." Seajae took Elliot's hand in hers. He smiled at her.
"I knew you'd break down and cheat on the man of yours." He clasped her hand. "Anyone who knows us wouldn't fall for it."
"But they don't know us." She looked into Elliot's eyes. "We can do this Elliot."
"I didn't say we couldn't." He leaned over and wispered. "Your always five thoughts ahead. How are we going to fake it past your family in the lobby?"
"We'll make sure we can avoid them." She dialed Ty's cell phone. He picked up on the third ring.
"Tell me your safe somewhere?"
"I'm in the bar. Take the kids and pack them up. Keep them as far away from the lobby as you can."
"Seajae…"
"Please Ty. Just pack them up and take them to the room. I'll meet you up there in a half- hour. Call my phone when you're safe upstairs."
"Ok. Take it easy." She hung up and leaned over and snuggled closer to Elliot.
"I need another drink." She motioned to the waitress. "You got back up?"
"The whole NYPD if I need it." He leaned over and wispered. "Just say the word."
"We can keep this in the family. For now."
"Seajae, this is bigger then the Boscorelli's."
"This is going to have do for now." Her phone rang at her waist and she checked to see if it was Ty. "All set?"
"Yeah." She hung up and started sliding out of the booth. Elliot right behind her. Holding her hand. They headed to the lobby and the front desk. The two men where three steps behind them.
"They're not falling back."
"Just head to the elevators. There's enough back up in this lobby to take down an army Seajae. You press two floors below the kids and take the steps up. Grab the kids. Get them the hell out of here." Elliot pushed Seajae toward the elevators and turned around pulling out his gun. "Move another step and I take you down." Seajae ran for the elevator as at least ten men surround the two that had been following her. She never looked back as she got in the elevator and pressed two floors above where the kids were. Her and Elliot made a great team and if anyone heard what he said to her they would be two floors up looking for her. She sprinted down the steps and though the door. Ty, Calab, Jimmy and Micheal stood by the service elevator holding it for her.
"Smart thinking keeping your phone on." Micheal carried the bag of things they abosultly needed and the others carried the Boscorelli children. Ty gave Angel to her mother. "Are you ok?" She looked at Ty.
"What the hell is going on Ty? I come home and they come after me like an animal." Seajae clung to her eldest daughter.
"What do you want me to say?" He looked at Calab. "Can you tell her what's going on?"
"I thought you would know. Heck I just watch her ass not look where it's headed." He held Hope and soothed her as she sqirmed wanting her mom.
"No one knows who those guys are?"
"Well I'm sure Elliot will find out." The door opened. Six of Calab's men were at the parking ramp exit waiting for them. They took them to the car Calab had left in the lot earlier. "God I'm glad I think three steps ahead." He put Hope in the car seat and took Mac from Jimmy. "You're aufully quiet Doherty. It's not like you."
"I don't like this Caleb. I don't like this one bit."
"Yeah I know the feeling." Seajae and Angel got in and Seajae buckeled up the girl and kissed and huged the other two children.
"Mommy's here now. We're going to meet daddy and this whole thing will be put behind us." Caleb got behind the wheel and the others got in the van. "I can't ask y'all to do this for me. It's too much. These guys want us dead."
"You're not asking. We do for you. You do for us. That's what families are for." Caleb put the van in gear and headed to safty. Seajae and covered the kids and ducked down hoping the men in the lobby didn't have back up outside.
Elliot headed to the hiway that would take him to the farthest place away from Seajae. Things were bad. The men following Seajae were CIA. They wanted her for questioning in the dealings of her father in law. It wasn't fair. Anthony Boscorelli finnally was out of their lives and he brought the worst trouble they had ever been in. The men would follow him. He knew they would. He wanted to be there to put Seajae on the plane to Texas but this was the way to go. Make them think she's a thousand miles away from the deserted Pennsylvania field Jackson had found to land the McBride jet and take Seajae and her kids to safty. He'd drive to Canada if it helped his friend get far enough away to be safe.
Bosco watched the Texas landscape role by. They landed in Austin twenty minutes ago and got a call at the gate from Olivia. No cell phone calls to Seajae or him were going to get though because someone with some big connections were tracing all their calls. Olivia was calling from a secure line in her precient. She told him to watch his back and some of Calab's FBI friends would meet them at the terminal. "Stay safe." She told him. How safe can they be with God knows who on their ass.
"Seajae?" Jimmy Doherty stood at the bottom of the steps leading to the plane. Seajae stood about a yard away. "Come on Seajae, we need to go."
"No. You need to stay here with your family Jimmy." She looked at him. He knew the storm that was brewing behind her dark sunglass wasn't a pretty one.
"They're all fine. Faith and Sully are at your place along with a half a dozon other people. Kim and the kids are safe."
"You're not safe with me Jimmy. Please."
"You're not telling Calab and Ty to stay. Or Mikey."
"They know how to take care of themselves. Micheal…we'll he's in just as much danger as me and Bosco."
"You think I can't take care of myself?"
"I think you have a wife and three kids that need your ass more then me. Please Jimmy. Don't make this into a fight. I don't want to fight you." She took off her sunglasses and looked at her friend. "I love your family more then anything in this world and if I was resposible for something happening to you I couldn't live with myself Jimmy." Jimmy stood in front of her and put his hands on her shoulders.
"I can take care of myself and I swear I'll come back safe and sound to my family." She shrugged his hands off her.
"NO!" She took a step back. "Jimmy this isn't some game. You need to go home to Kim and you kids. I can't have you here. Just take the van and go back to the city and take care of your family."
"You know something your not telling me, don't you?" He looked at his friend of nearly ten years. She was a good lier but she could never lie to the one closest to her.
"Just go home and be with your family and let me take care of mine."
"Would you tell Elliot the same thing?"
"I would tell all of you to get as far away from me as possible if any of you would listen. Jimmy please…just do this one thing for me."
"Be safe Boscorelli." He took her in his arms and hugged her. "Don't get your ass killed because me and my family can't make it without you and yours." He sqeezed her tight and let her go. "Watch her ass Makenzie." He shouted to Caleb. The older man nodded and shouted back,
"Keep my family safe. I'll be back in a few days." Seajae entered the plane and Caleb shut the door behind her. He watched as she sat in the seat next to her sleeping children. Her uncle coming to sit in the seat facing her. She needed comfort now weather she thought so or not. Jack had only been back in her life a few months but sometimes family was the best comfort of all. Calab headed toward the cock pit and told the pilot to get them the hell out of here.
"Are you okay?" Jack looked at his only niece. His only living blood relitive he had left.
"I just want to go home and have this all go away." She looked out the window. "Maybe this family thing was never ment to be."
"This family thing. You make it sound like a pair of shoes your trying on. Seajae this is your life. You made it what it is good or bad. You can't change the way Anthony Boscorelli made his life. You can't do anything about the way his life interfeared with yours. It's too late."
"You think I don't know that. I just want to have a normal life. I can't go a day without a crisis." She rubbed her eyes. "I don't know how much longer I can go on like this."
"You'll do it as long as you have to to get by. Seajae you love your husband and kids more then anything. You'll do what you have to to make it." Jack took her hands in his. "I love you Seajae. I never knew how much family ment till I came back to you and yours. I lost everyone and I let you go. I didn't know what I was missing till that day I came home to you. You don't know what your missing till you've lost it. I lost you for a lot of years and I regret every day we wern't together. If you lost this you would regret it. If you walked away you would never make it past tomorrow."
"When can I say enough is a enough."
"When your dead." He stood up. "And I don't think that's going to be for a long time." He took his niece and hugged her. He hoped he was right. He couldn't bare loosing what was left of his family. Seajae was all he had left of his brother, of his father and mother. She was made strong and bread to be a fighter. He had to let her fight her battle. But he wanted to help her. Help her though whatever Anthony Boscorelli was into. His government connections only went so far as did Seajae's and Calab's. Why wasn't the government they all worked for at one time or another protecting her. He needed to know. Needed answers. He pushed Seajae away and looked into her eyes. "I'm going to make this right Seajae. I owe it to you and your family."
"You don't owe me anything Jack. You were young. You knew nothing about raising a child."
"Your all I have left. I need to make sure you raise your family. You're the last of the McBride's."
"I'm a Boscorelli now."
"Even better. Your kids will grow up strong and wise. And you'll be there for them. Forever and always." Jack stood and sat across from her again. "Get some rest. I have a feeling you'll need it." Seajae closed her eyes and let the sleep she'd been fighting take over her. Rest was the last thing she shoud be doing but it was the one thing that would keep her going. For herself and her family.