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Jeffery's eyes flamed. "You stupid bitch!" he yelled. He kicked Frank in the side as he set down some papers. He looked Frank strait in the eye. "Did you think you were going to escape?"

Frank didn't answer him. He was already terrified of the man.

"I SAID, DID YOU THINK YOU W ERE GOING TO ESCAPE?" he shouted. Frank winced when he saw the man's face turn red, then purple.

"Yes, sir." he said. He winced as Jeffery kicked his arm.

"Stupid ass," he muttered. "I heard about earlier, too. You are very, very, stupid to think you're going to get away with trying to escape. Don't try it again!" with one swift kick, Frank's world went black.

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"Joe," Fenton said after he got home from school, "We got something from Frank's kidnapper."

"Do we know who it is?" Joe asked. Finding out who kidnapped someone was the most exciting part of the case, it was lead-breaking or lead-destroying.

"Jeffery White," Fenton said.

"Dear God…." Joe muttered, falling to the floor in dead faint.

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Frank woke up a few hours later and winced as he got out of bed. He remembered trying to escape, and Jeffery kicking him.

Frank bit his lip. His whole body ached. What I wouldn't give for some painkiller, he thought as he heard the guards joking around the door. He listened for a brief minute.

"Yeah, that Hardy kid is such a pathetic dope. I mean come on, you don't escape from a terrorist."

"Nope. You don't even try. Good thing you remembered to bolt it."

"That Hardy kid escaped from me once. I'd do anything to get my hands on him for ten minutes."

The second one snorted. "Good luck. He belongs to the boss now."

"The boss is an idiot, if I want something, I get it."

Frank rolled his eyes. The first man said something and growled. Suddenly the door was pushed open and Frank was staring, once again, into the steal-hard eyes of Jeffery White.

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Joe woke up about twenty minutes later and blinked his eyes rapidly. "What happened?"

"You fainted when you heard who kidnapped Frank."

"Oh. Yeah. Jeffery White. What's the lead?" Joe asked, quickly sitting up.

"He sent us a tape of Frank," replied Fenton. "He wants us to know that Frank's in his custody. I've already listened and dusted it for prints."

Joe pressed play.

"I have your son, Fenton," the chilling voice said before pausing. "I have your brother, Joseph." Joe could almost see him smiling. He grimaced as the man went on. "Frank here has something to say."

Joe could hear papers shuffling in the background. "Dad, I'm sorry –" Frank said. "OW! STOP!" he gasped. "I'm sorry I was such a horrible son and brother. I never should have been born and I'll get out of your lives now. I'm sorry I was born… please forgive me." He paused for a minute. "Take it all back," he shouted as the tape recorder clicked off.

"Take it all back?" Fenton asked Joe, staring directly into his face.

"Of course! Remember the case? Take it all back."

"I don't get it."

"The case we were on, the one Frank called Take It All Back, we had to travel to Iraq."

"Joe, you can't go galloping around the world on a hunch –" Fenton interrupted.

"It's not a hunch. I know."

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-Frank recording the tape-

"You're lucky I need you alive," Jeffery growled. He shoved a piece of paper into Frank's hands and Frank read it.

"What's this?" Frank asked. "I'm not saying any of these things."

"What do you think?" demanded Jeffery. "You are. Unless you want me to bring Joe here."

"Don't bring my brother into this," Frank said. "Wait, I thought –" he paused.

"He was rescued," snapped Jeffery. "Doesn't matter. I can get him easier this way. So you'll be recording the tape, correct?"

Frank nodded. He pressed play. "Dad, I'm sorry!" Frank said before Jeffery could stop him.

Jeffery's eyes bugged and he twisted Frank's arm behind his back – hard. "I'm sorry I was such a horrible son and brother, I never should have been born… I'll get out of your lives now. I'm sorry I was born… please forgive me." He paused a second. "Take it all back," he said before Jeffery pressed stop.

It was a name of a case that he and his brother Joe had been on when Jeffery was involved. Not only did Jeffery run a terrorist organization called the KGB, he ran thousands of minor operation, and had once killed five hundred people in a crash. He bit his lip.

"Good," Jeffery said. "But make any more mistakes, and I'll bring your brother here, you understand?"

Frank nodded. Joe, please find me, he thought.

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People do seem to use Joe for blackmail a lot don't they?