Chapter 46

At 05:45AM Alex was still busy tossing and turning in bed since she didn't really get much sleep the night before. She remembered that Ryan asked her to call her awake and she figured now would be a good time to do it since there's no way he would get up immediately. She picked up her phone and dialed his number. It rang a few times before her groggy and sleepy husband answered. "Morning." He greeted voice still thick with sleep. "Good morning, sunshine." Alex greeted from the other end way too friendly for his liking so early in the morning. "Are you out of bed already? Or did you at least open your eyes to see daylight?" Alex questioned trying to imagine how he is lying in bed right now with an arm thrown loosely over his eyes to protect it from the morning light entering the room. "No. I only have like 5 minutes of sleep and now I have to get up again." He whined sitting up in the bed resting his back against the head board. "Aaauuuuwww you big baby." Alex said in a little voice she knew he wouldn't like. "Get up and get dressed so you can get this case over with I need you to come home already." She said honestly. Not that she didn't enjoy having her two mothers around she really enjoyed the girl time they have together, but there's just something about falling asleep in her husband's arms or lying her head on his chest or just having him around that she misses, and can't really explain. "Okay fine, I'm getting up." He answered moving towards the bathroom so he could turn on the shower. "Be careful, babe." Alex reminded him. "I will, sweetheart." He responded before dropping the call and heading into the bathroom.

Alex figured it was still too early to go downstairs to get something to eat so she'll try and dose off for some time before going into the kitchen. She woke up about two hours later from the clattering of pans making her jump a little because she forgot she wasn't home alone. She made a quick trip to the bathroom and then went to see what all the fuss was about in the kitchen.

Theresa and Sita were busy chatting up a storm while making toast, scrambled eggs and bacon and freshly squeezed orange juice. Alex don't even remember buying oranges but she's not going to ask questions. "Good morning." Alex greeted them stopping on the fourth step to take a peak into the kitchen. They both looked up from where they were busy to greet her before continuing. "Well take a seat little lady. You're going to need all these energy for today." Theresa said smiling at her as Alex tok a seat at the kitchen counter. "Why are you two up so early?" Alex questioned looking between the two of them. "Because we're going baby shopping today!" Sita announced proudly and the two grandmothers to be high fived each other before joining their daughter to eat breakfast.

After Ryan's shower he ate some breakfast, which mainly consisted of toast and coffee before grabbing the files and the information he got last night, and made it to the conference room. Some of the other Special Agents were already seated waiting for the meeting to begin, but Liam was still no where to be seen. They started speculating that the police stations might have called and told him to get his ass back in the hospital where he discharged himself, or maybe he just didn't feel like showing up to the meeting today, which they won't mind because that means that they could go home. Their speculation soon ended when Liam entered the room hurriedly. "Morning guys, sorry for being late. What do you have for me on those three names I gave you yesterday?" Liam questioned looking over his team.

"Bobby Chow is a high ranking member of the Korean Mob. He did five years and refuse to point a finger at his boss." One agent answered. "Bernard Degreassi, Russian Mafia family captain. Now that the big boss is in Chino we expect Degreassi to take his place with the armed connection." Another answered presting his file to Liam. "Drew Watts, was the Long Beach Lord's top crack dealer. He skated on three drug trafficking charges until he was finally nailed by O'Connor for the possession of an unlicensed firearm." Ryan concluded adding his file to the pile that was presented before O'Connor.

A tracker was placed on Watts's car the day before since they wanted to know his every move. There was a call on the radio that shots were fired close to the location where drew Watts's car was. Liam got a call from his CI on the location and was hesitant to go into this alone. They all geared up wearing body vests under their street clothes trying to look and act as normal as possible to track this guy down. They all pulled up to the location to find a man dressed in a suit laying on the front steps of his home and a briefcase next to him.

"Victim is public defender William Steiner. Witness says a Caucasian male walked right up to him, called his name. When he turned around he opened fire." Liam informed his team as he calls the forensics to the scene. "How is this connected to Liam in any way this seems like a random shooting where an innocent civilian got caught in the cross fire." One agents said not knowing how this could be related to his superior. But the forensics team wasn't so sure about this. "I think I know who your suspect is." Dwayne Wallis, the CI working with them said when they rolled up to the scene a little while after. "Of O'Connor's many enemies one name stands out on the AB 109 list. A few years ago Liam arrested this man, Drew Watts." Dwayne said pointing to a picture in the file he showed Ryan and the rest of the guys. "Yeah we found that out today this still doesn't make sense why he would hurt Steiner." Ryan said looking at the file. "Let's not worry about Mr Steiner right now. Liam arrested Watts and it was his third strike which meant that he was on his way to slammer and O'Conner was going to put him away for 30 to life." Wallis explained and then things started to make sense slowly but surely. "So are you saying that Steiner here, was Drew Watt's lawyer?" Ryan asked pointing towards the body as Dwayne nodded his head to confirm his statement. "I take it he was an unhappy client." One agent said.

"So, basically Drew is still out there and he has a hit list of who knows how long of people he believes wrongfully accused him and he'll go around hurting them, and won't stop unless we find him and put a stop to it." Ryan said and the rest of them got to work. Searching the premises and trying to track down Watts's car once again. Which was the weird part when they stopped at the scene they went to the car but there was no one inside. Clearly he must've gotten out and walked away or someone else was doing his dirty work for him. "Well, let's go on a joy ride around the neighborhood, Booth." Liam announced way too enthusiastic for Ryan's liking.

They drove around the block searching every street when a man who matched the description of Watts walked in their direction. He looked up and noticed Liam's face and made a run for it. Now their cover was blown. They blocked his entry on both sides of the road as two other police vehicles stopped. Ryan and Liam. He jumped a fence, ran through someone's yard before jumping another fence and ended up in someone's back yard. Not just someone, they assumed this was people he knew, dangerous people. They all looked like they were about to cut their throats. A barbeque grill was sending really awesome aromas around the backyard and some loud music were playing out of a car. They guys stared at the four of them waiting for them to make a move as Watts stood in front of the gang smiling. "All right, now I could right all of you up for obstructing justice right now, you know that right?" Liam asked out of breath looking at these gang members. "But uuhh I don't have my pen." He said petting his pockets acting as if he's looking for a pen. "You got a pen Ryan?" Liam asked looking over at his agent who has beads of sweat on his forehead looking really scared right now. "Nope. No pen." Ryan said shaking his head from side to side. "I think I'm gonna let this one roll." Liam said looking at the guys. "You're good man?" Liam asked as he pulled Ryan towards the exit of the backyard they were standing in. "yeah yeah yeah, it smells good though. For real." Ryan said as he and Liam jogged out of the yard back to the safety of the road the cars were parked.

They went back into their cars and drove to the CI's offices to do some more investigation on where Drew lives. They are determined to get this guy caught before the end of this day. "Public defender Steiner received three calls from this address before he was killed." Dwayne informed the team, giving them new directions to a motel down the street from where Liam and Ryan almost got into some real trouble. "Y'all can go in there, I'll wait outside." Ryan said to Keith and Eugene two other agents who worked with them. "I so wanted to see that!" Eugene laughed when Ryan and Liam told them about what they've encountered. "I don't know why you two are laughing. I almost lost my life out there." Ryan exaggerated thinking back to where they were a few minutes ago before focusing on the location hey were driving to.

"I don't want no trouble." A Mexican guy playing solitaire at a table close to the window said when he saw these guys walk up to him. "All my tenants are good people." He said looking up at them. "Yeah that's great, tell us what room Drew Watts is in." Liam said showing him the mugshot of the guy they are after. "I don't know who this guy is." The tenant said scanning the picture and then continuing his game. "Arrest him." Ryan ordered Eugene, who waked over ready to cuff the guy since they knew he was lying. "Wait for what are you arresting me?" The guy asked. "You just became an accessory to a public defender's murder." Ryan said. "Room 113." The tenant answered handing them a key and Eugene let go of his hand. "Thanks. We're cool man." Eugene said slapping him on the back a couple of times before following his crew towards the room.

They walked up the stairs towards his room weapons pointed in front of them as they moved. They knocked on the door casually before entering and found Watts standing with his hands in the air slowly turning towards them. "Please, if you guys are here to arrest me please do it outside in the passage and not in here." Watts said and they had no idea why he was so calm right now when an hour ago he was hiding behind his gang. "Daadyyy, when can we go to the park?" A little girl asked as she ran out of a room hugging Watts's legs. "In a little while baby girl. Go into the other room and tell grandma to put your shoes on, I'll be with you now." Watts said. The girl looked at the FBI agents and who hid their guns when they saw the child appearing. "I know what I've done all right. But this is my reason for doing it." Drew said pointing towards the closed bedroom door where his daughter disappeared to. "How can I spent 30 years inside and miss the entire childhood and not see my kid grow up?" He questioned looking at them. "She sees me as her father. A good guy who was looking for a new start. Because I told her I've changed. She doesn't know mw as a crack dealer or some murder who's out there shooting people on his hit list. I won't become another statistic and let her come visit me in jail. I'd rather die. She deserves more than that." Drew said slowly walking towards his window on the 5th floor. "Watts, what are you doing man, come back here." Ryan said but Drew didn't pay him no mind.

He opened the window and stood with his back towards it, taking out his own weapon. "Lower your weapon Watts. That's an order." Liam said moving closer to him but yet again Drew didn't obey. "Didn't you hear me when I said I'd rather die than have my daughter come visit me in jail again?" Drew Watts asked. He opened his mouth, cocked his gun. They all ran towards him but the shot was already fired and he fell down the five floors to the ground. They stood there looking down at where he laid when the door opened and his daughter ran up to Ryan. "What happened? Where's my daddy?" She questioned with big sparkly eyes.

At the shopping center Alex was almost certain she had never seen as many baby clothes as she did today. She always looked at it but never actually thought the day would come that she'd have to buy them for herself. "It is so tiny, will it even fit?" She asked holding a light pink I love Daddy Babygro in her hands. "Before you know it'll be too small." Theresa commented smiling at the amused face of her daughter in law. She saw the cutest little things with the sweetest stiff written on them. Her favourite was the one her mom showed her. A white vest with the words Party at my crib. Bring your own bottle. She loved every minute of it. Just when they thought they have enough clothes in the cart the two grandmothers were carrying, they saw something else and that was added to the cart. They got to the checkout, paid for everything before grabbing something to eat and then head home again, since Sita and Theresa would be leaving later tonight.

"Before we go home there is two more things we need to get." Sita said and they walked into another baby shop selling all kinds of toys ad baby essentials for a nursery. They looked at everything from car seats to cribs to strollers and a playpen. Alex was in love with the white crib and the black and pink car seat. She took pictures of it and made a mental note to send it to Ryan when she gets home so they can come back and buy it, but her plans didn't work out. "So which one do you like?" Sita questioned looking at her daughter smiling at the crib while tracing it lightly with her hands. "I like this one." She said pointing to the crib. "And that one." She said again pointing to the black and pink car seat. "You can have it then." Theresa said and Alex looked at her uncertain. "Yeah, I took some pictures I want to show it to Ryan when he gets back so we can buy it." She justifies looking at her two mothers. "No Alex. We mean you can have it now. Your mother and I decided we want to contribute since this is our first granddaughter." Theresa corrected. Alex stood there in shock shaking her head. "No you guys, I cannot let you do that. First the wedding dress and the vacation and now this. No it's too much." Alex explained hands flying all over the place. "No Alex it's not too much. We want to do this for you and Ryan and we want you to know that you have our support all the way." Theresa explained. "The two of you just bout a brand new house and having a baby on the way, things might get tough sometimes. See this as our way of helping you guys out. We really want to do this, because that's what grandma's do. They spoil their grandkids." Sita said looking over at her daughter who had tears in her eyes. This whole pregnancy has really made her soft, she wasn't always the type of person who cried over everything. It took her a while to find her voice. "Thank you." She whispered hoarsely as the tears were still flowing freely from her eyes creating lines down her cheeks. They all went in for the group hug standing there hugging and laughing, since people from outside the window looked in and stared at these three grown women crying.

Back in the conference room they all debriefed and handed over their reports to Liam. They informed social services on what happened at the scene. This was the first time Ryan has seen something like that in his FBI career. He was blown away by the amount of love Drew Watts had for his daughter, to rather take his own life than have his daughter come see him in prison again. The look in that little girl's eyes was haunting Ryan the whole time. Those big sparkly innocent eyes that had so many questions and he didn't know how to answer any of them. He went back up to his room to pack his things and head home to his family.

*maybe you guys need to re-read the previous chapter again. Because I had to lol*

Hey guys I'm back! Wrote my last subject today. Sorry for the long delay in waiting to upload. I had some internet troubles but it seems to be solved now. This wasn't exactly how the case was planned in my head but somehow it ended the way it did (I hope you guys liked it since it something different to how the other cases always plays out). Thank you for all the reviews, follows and favorites. Those of you who said you can't wait for the next chapter I hope this wasn't too much of a disappointment, I really hope you guys liked this. Like always, read review and let me know what you think. Lovies-S