Family Bonds: Book 2 of Sista

by Blackstar1979

Family Bonds the sequel to Sista. The the Superstars and Sistas have been through a lot that have carved out bonds where there were none. Will the past rip apart the bonds that have been forged or make them stronger? Reviews are welcomed as always.

19. Chapter 19 The Mother Mission

Chapter 19

The Mother Mission

Out in the waiting room Angel uses her hair as a curtain as she looks down at her shirt pattern Glenn looked so angry when he jumped up and left. JC had calmed down but he was now laying on her bladder which made her fidget for another reason. She didn't like that there were no single use bathrooms here except in the patient rooms. "Hey Sophie I need to go to the restroom will you come with? There are no single use restrooms in this Center."

"Say no more let's go" Candy says she's needs to go as well but didn't know where they were. Gloria says she needs to stretch her legs. They all move as a unit to the large plush women's room. The woman standing in the mirror stares at Angel. Angel huffs in exasperation and walks into a stall. Sophie stares back at the woman and Gloria does as well. The woman briskly walks out of the door. "Rude bitch, I can't stand when heifers stare at people like that."

Mark and Glenn both kick the shit out of the door after the red haze lifts some. Out of breath Mark says "Glenn stop there should be a release on the door at the bottom." Mark remembered in most packages that came with electronic doors there was a release in case the power failed. Mark steps down on a small indention in the door and a click is heard. He pulls the door open with and evil hiss as he pulls it faster than the air lock is ready for. "Motherfucker lock me in a fucking room away from my wife." Anger struck through his every movement he first tried the handle finding Paula's door still locked there wasn't a release on the outside of the door Mark steps back and kicks the door in. It flies open hitting the wall. He rushes in straight to Paula she looked surprised but tired and the entire med crew files out of the room except Luke. Who stood across the room by the powered off equipment. He didn't move towards the door by this time Glenn had his back and wasn't going to let Luke pass if he tried anyway. Mark walks towards Luke.

Paula was floating until Mark busted in the room looking like his TV persona come to life. "Mark come and hold your daughter." Her voice even to her own ears sounded weak but Mark was super pissed and there was something else riding in that beautiful usually unreadable jade gaze. Mark picks up Katie Jade Callaway as he talks to his baby girl he sees Luke check his phone. He makes eye contact "What you did was foul." Some of the red rage had dissipated after being able to hold his newborn daughter and seeing that Paula was ok.

"Mark I need to talk to you but right now I have to find something out first." Luke walks towards the door. "Excuse me Glenn" Glenn looks at Mark as if for conformation. Mark must have giving him the green light because Glenn moved to the side.

Luke heads to his office. His cell wasn't on when he plugs it into the charger it powers right up to 100%. Someone was using his own fucking equipment against him. He had to find the little girl. He marches into pediatric respiratory looking for the nurse that had taken so fucking long to come back to the room. He called Interactive Medical Supervisor and reset his password and meets with the Lead Team which was the lead doctor in each department via a mandatory conference call in his office. He was no closer to finding the little girl. This was the down fall of running Centers where he wasn't the direct hiring manager. He was a final say but he couldn't do it for all 78 locations spanning over more than five states. He logs in with his new password and tries to see when the system stopped in Paula's room. The last image he sees is Paula pushing the mask off her face. He sees another Image stream that brings him up short. Typing in a different time frame he tracks the movement outside of the door Mark looked as pissed as he did when he'd kicked in the door. Movement of his staff in the hall. He switches cameras to the one in Mark's room and there was no data. Switching back to outside the delivery room he sees what plunges his already angry anxious mood in to the icy depths of dread as he watches his employee walk out of the room with the baby with no name or tag ID.

Lucas S: Bobby can you please discreetly come to my office?

Bobby Ivey: Is there something wrong?

Lucas S: It has something to do with your ongoing case

Luke wipes his hand over his face and sighs shaking his head. He felt overwhelmed and he'd learned his lesson about asking for a consult. He had to get the Callaway baby girl back. He reads Bobby's response and pulled up his video log on information.

Luke never called him to shoot the shit if Luke was asking him to meet with him and saying it had something to do his case there was only one Case that Luke was aware of on his case load and that dealt with the Mother Underground. The girls had returned from the restroom talking about a female that was staring at Angel and how they stared her down and she left. Bobby texts his team requesting that if they went to the restroom again that one of the female agents should go as well. He liked the idea of going to a secure house he didn't like public places on cases like these too much shit could go wrong. Bobby didn't like when people acted weird it was usually a precursor to something bigger. A few minutes ago Mark had come out to tell everyone Katie Jade was born. Jonathon went back with him to see his new niece. A doctor Cartwright had said only one other person could visit at a time. He speaks to Chase "Hey dad I'm going to go for a walk around I'll be back soon." Chase nods and looks back at his phone. He looks at his younger sister as she curled up against his newest brother in law. When Sophie looks up with question in her gaze he points his finger up and makes a circle none verbally telling her he was doing a walk around. She nods and looks back down at her IPad. Bobby knew where Luke's office was and how to get there because some floor plans didn't change.

Bobby Ivey: I'm on my way.

As Bobby taps on the small covered window Luke opens the door. He looked exhausted. "So what'd you have to tell me?" Luke tells Bobby about the other Callaway child and shows Bobby the video. After showing Bobby the footage Bobby asks "Where is your main control room for this place?" Luke tells him and Bobby says "You have to tell at least Mark because this has to go out a certain way." He dashes out of the office shoving people out of his way as he made a call to his STOP team Captain. Bobby needed to track the nurse's movement. "Surround this facility and don't let anyone out. Until I give you an all clear. I need an Id on a license plate. I need Local on this I want the picture I'm sending on the fucking airwaves before this call ends. This Bitch is going down. I'm looking for three white females one of them is a newborn red and blue, her capture is a mid to late 20s female med build with Brown with blond streaks and brown eyes. The last person I want for questioning she is about 5'6 small build with blond and blue. Yeah she's the nurse."

After Bobby left his office Luke walks back in Paula's room. Paula was sleeping Angel sat next to the bed and held Katie which meant that doctor Cartwright had followed his directive to rotate one of the people on Paula's select guest list into the room at a time until Glenn left the room then there could be two at a time. Glenn sat by the window, Mark sat beside Angel. Clearing his throat Luke asks Mark to please come to his office. Mark eyes him and rises to his feet. Angel says she was going to let someone else have a chance to see her beautiful cousin. She gives Mark Katie and excuses herself. After handing Glenn Katie Jade, Mark walks out of the room behind Angel he sees Bobby as well. Angel had just got to the room when she said it was someone else's turn he looked at Glenn and Glenn looked out the window. He'd speak to his friend about the odd reaction later right now he had to speak with Lucas.

Angel walks out pass Luke and is surprised to see Bobby coming back down the hall. Something was wrong he had his shirt com on the outside of his shirt the cord wrapped around his waist and tucked into the box at his back. He'd said he was just walking around when he'd left the group that was an hour ago. He tells her that he'd walk her back to the waiting room. Angel knew by his tone that this wasn't the friendly request it sounded like. He walked to her left with her near the far wall of glass and away from the offices. "Bobby what's wrong?"

Bobby looks down at his younger sister and says he just doesn't like public places all that much right now. Angel nods and goes back to sit by Joshua. Janet pops up and Bobby offers to take her to the room.

Mark steps into Lucas's office but does not take the offered seat. Lucas sighs and skirts his desk. Mark spoke first. "I said it once and I'll say it again, what you did locking me in the fucking room and turning of video was foul." Luke explains the events that happened after Mark left the room from his point of view and ends with his fear and belief that the little girl was kidnapped. Mark suddenly felt like Luke had straight punched him in the gut. As he reaches for the chair he'd been standing in front of and plops down into it. Not only had Lucas not been aware of what Mark thought was a slimy move, but he'd had twin girls and one was missing and in danger. The nurse's behavior struck him as weird when he'd went back in the room. She knew he was out there before he even knocked on the door. Then told Glenn that Paula and Katie was in danger. Logan's side of the family the Kincaids, were fellow riders in his motor club most of the ones that weren't cops were EMT's and nurses and they would never over step there bounds and try to give a diagnosis. Too many thoughts ran in circles in his head. The most pressing ones was what came out of his mouth. As he meets Luke's gaze. "What does she look like? Has there been a ransom demand? What has been done to save her?"

Luke says "she's identical to Katie from what I could tell the nurse took her out of the room before I could take her picture and ID tag her." Mark asks what he was doing that he couldn't do what he was supposed to. Luke wanted to wait on this part but he would not withhold information Mark deserved to know. "I passed your other daughter to the nurse because by the way she was trapped I had a split decision to make. I saved Paula's life but in doing that I had to remove her ovaries. As for has there been a ransom demand no. When I saw the footage of the abduction I informed Agent Hawk." Mark looks confused "Bobby" Mark nods and gets to his feet saying he was calling Harold. As he is about to leave he stops and asked did the nurse leave the hospital with his little girl? "No the nurse was a part of it. I've only seen her at dinner tonight, but I believe Kathrine Cole showed up in another car it looks like her but I'm not sure. Anyway a woman that looks like Kathrine took your daughter from the nurse and drove out of the parking lot. I have that on video only because I was tracking the nurse." Mark asks to see if he could ID the bitch and Luke shows him the footage. Mark storms out of the office.

Mark called Harold and told him what was going down. Harold assured him that Bobby had told him and that he was on his way. Harold had went back to New York for the holiday so it would take him a while to get back to this area. Mark stops outside of Paula's room and tries to collect himself. Unclenching his fist he looks at his palms as the color returns. He couldn't upset Paula. Walking in he sees Janet holding Katie Jade Paula was awake but her tracking was off the drugs had her in and out he really had to keep a rein on his temper now. He would not scare the shit out of his dazed wife, and his daughters. He greets everyone and turns and asks Glenn to speak with him in the hall.

Glenn thought Mark wanted to talk to him about Angel's quick visit. She'd stayed ten minutes if that but when Luke asked him out of the room Angel had been the first out of the room. He is surprised when Mark walks back into the room they had been locked in. The room looked like well, like two angry large men tried to escape. "Mark if this about Angel…" Mark holds up a hand and closes the door.

"No you wanted to know how I felt about your girlfriend. I want to do her bodily harm. She fucking kidnapped my daughter." Mark growls Glenn looks puzzled. Mark walks closer. "Katie Jade has a twin" Mark explains what Luke told him minus the part about the other surgery.

Glenn says "Mark that can't be true, I drove and Kathy is at the hotel asleep." Mark moves quicker than Glenn expects and pins him against the wall near the door by the throat asking was he calling him a fucking liar. Glenn manages to get out a no when Mark eases his grip and tells him to call the bitch Glenn holds up his phone and thumbs to Kathy's image and presses the screen. Glenn didn't care about waking her up she needed to answer the phone.

Katherine had taken the baby to the hotel the doctor that worked on another case with her gets in the car and takes the little girl, hands her an envelope with her cut and takes the baby puts it his truck and drives off. Katherine goes back up to the hotel room someone would drive the rental back to the agency. Her phone rings Glenn's image pops up. Once again it was ShowTime. Dropping her voice into her lower register to sound like she was asleep she answers. "Hey how did everything go babe?"

"Fine. So what did you end up doing last night?" Mark goes to say something but Glenn shakes his head. Mark folds his arms across his chest.

"Well I got a text from Josh."

Glenn's eyebrows raise as he says "Oh and what did Band Troll have to say to you?"

"Don't worry he wasn't trying to get back with me or nothing. Like his Punk Barbie bodyguard said he's happily married to the redhead. Anyway after that I had a bath and went to sleep." Someone from the underground was calling her. "Did you need something I'm kind of still tired." He says nah he was just checking in with her and calling to tell her that he would be back for check out.

"You think that prove shit I know what I saw." Mark says as he swings at Glenn. Glenn blocks the strike attempt and pushes Mark away from him. Mark trips over a broken chair and lands on his ass. Glenn holds fast to the belief that his girlfriend was where she said she was. Mark calls Luke and tells him that the bitch was back at the hotel. Luke says he will relay the message to Bobby. Mark closes his phone as he painfully climbs back to his feet glaring at Glenn. "Until you get your head out of her ass stay the fuck away from my family." Mark pushes pass Glenn out the door and leaves Glenn staring after his friend. As Mark is walking out of the room Joshua was heading towards Paula's room. Mark grabs Joshua up by his shirt and says through clenched teeth "You could have told me that ex bitch of yours was a nut."

Joshua speaks with a calm he does not feel. He wasn't on the ground and was glad he'd seen Mark before he grabbed him. Meeting Mark's glare with what he hoped was a neutral expression. "Mark put me down, I have no clue what you're talking about and we're in public." Mark seems to come back to himself a little and at the very least lowers him to his feet. Mark tells him that his bitch of and ex had kidnapped his little girl and if Joshua started defending her he'd try to put him in to the wall. "She took Katie?" Mark lets him go and says no. Something wasn't adding up shit Janet was as tall as Kathy "How the hell did she take Janet?"

Mark looks around Joshua was getting loud and Mark wasn't ready for Paula to know. Hell he wasn't ready to know but he knew and he would insulate his wife from this shit as long as he could. "Lower your voice" Mark says then tells Joshua what Luke told him. He watched Joshua if the boy said anything in defense of the little bitch he'd lose it plain and simple. Joshua looked dumbstruck and something else crossed his gaze as he tells Mark that he dated Katharine 10 years ago and he would have warned Mark but in the 2 years they dated she never gave him any clue that she would do something this insane.

Joshua was ready to run take his little family and get hell out of Pittsburg and back to the relative safety of his home. Angel was already on to something because she mentioned Bobby's change in demeanor. He'd come back here to see Katie. He couldn't just walk right back out and insist they leave all of a sudden because he didn't want to worry Angel and he sure as hell wasn't telling her. Was this an isolated dose of Katharine being bat shit crazy? Had he dumping her pushed her over the edge? Thinking about the text message sent another chill down his spine. Katharine had said she was a surrogate mother but what she described wasn't the role of surrogate mother. Her saying she would have traded it to be with him made his skin crawl. Was she apart of the underground? Was it chance or had she tracked him down and found an in with Glenn. She seemed so normal at the amusement park. That was a lie he hadn't thought anything of it, because lots of people congratulated them. He remembers her congratulating him and assuming Candy was his wife to be. The shock of seeing her and the unwelcomed scrutiny of his group made him introduce them he hadn't said anything about his engagement. How did she know he was getting married? Was she after Angel and lucked up on Paula going into labor tonight? Grabbing his hair, he needed air, he wanted to get the fuck out of here. He felt like someone was sucking the wind out of the room his pulse had quickened along with his breathing when pin points of light dots across his vision and he almost face plants the floor Mark firmly pushed him into a chair and pushed his head down telling him to breath. It had been a long time since Joshua had been so close to a panic attack. He does his doctor's version of the balloon exercise his doctor called it the box he pictures himself putting the negative thought patterns in a box and sealing it. Now for an image that makes him happy he thought of how happy Angel looked when she came back from holding Katie Jade. The hysteria was starting to subside he soon puts up a hand so Mark would let him back up. "I'm good" he says trying to convince himself more than Mark as he gets to his feet and walks into the men's bathroom. Splashing cold water on his face he exits the rest room and walks into Paula's room following Mark.

Glenn doesn't hear Mark in the hall anymore and walks out of the observation room. He looks at Paula's door Mark had told him to stay away from his family. He couldn't believe his luck with woman was that damn bad. Mark was a short fuse and he just needed someone to blame. Glenn walks toward the exit he spots Angel and Candy in the alcove with the vending machines. He'd heard Mark talking to Band Troll and hearing that he'd texted Kathy when he knew she would be alone was sneaky he wondered did Angel know her happy little band troll was texting his ex. He walks by the doorway she looks up he smirks shakes his head and walks on out the door. She thinks band troll can do no wrong wait until she finds out. He was heading to his woman she wasn't interested in band troll anymore. He'd make Kathy forget all about Band troll maybe he'd wake her in a special way if she was still sleeping.

Glenn slips his card in the door the lights turns green he pushes open the door and quietly closes it walking around the wall he says "hello pretty La…" He walks into the bathroom she wasn't here. Walking back out into the bedroom he looks for anything that could boost his hopes from bottoming out. A knock sounds at the door she'd went for ice that had to be it. Mark's words had seeped into his head making him doubt her. Shaking his head he dashes to the door and whips it open to be rushed by a team of men in riot gear. The STOP team had him on the floor in 2 seconds flat with his face in the carpet. Someone grabs his hair and turns his head so he can breathe. Someone else yells all clear and they pick him up and set him up in the office chair near the desk.

Agent Andrew Stark had saw Glenn Jackass at the hospital now he was here in this room. "What, you do call and give your girl a heads up you in on it with her?" before Glenn can say a word, in walks Bobby. He says to Bobby he knows that he wasn't in on anything he was at the hospital with them.

Bobby puts on gloves as Glenn sits there yammering at him. He walks over to the bed it hadn't been touched. "If your little bitch came in here and slept she must have done it on the floor because no one has been in this bed." Bobby looks down and on the floor. Where they had pulled Glenn up was what looked like a makeup bag. He bends while looking at Glenn. "Want to say this is yours?" Glenn shakes his head no. Bobby pulled out a camera. "Smile Glenn do you recognize this camera? I'm sure you do she took pictures at the house. I even remember commenting on this very camera model. Let's see what else she took pictures of. Nice group shot, Angel eating, Angel with Joshua. That's got to sting both of you. Paula in the kitchen. Paula in the den. Oh I love this one a picture of the control room at Mark's house. Still want to defend her Glenn?" Glenn mumbles no. "Oh I'm sure you can say it louder than that. She say anything about returning to Mark's place?" Glenn says no. "Oh let's see here the one I took with her camera, of you, her, and Glenny. The next picture stopped Bobby cold. He swiped backwards the further back he swiped the worse the photos got. There were pictures of Joshua at the Davenport in his office. Pictures of him washing his truck which meant she was on Ivey Mansion property, there was no gating in the picture. There was a shot of Angel walking out of the mall on the day before her birthday. Shot after shot of Angel and Joshua just doing daily stuff. Bobby swipes backwards one more time and he almost drops the camera it was of Joshua on the ground out cold this bitch was close enough to take this shot and didn't help Joshua the night he was abducted. He looks at Glenn. When he swipes back again he did drop the camera. It was a picture of Angel in the hospital after she was attacked by Scott. This bitch had been following his sister since a little after she got pregnant. He picks up the camera and drops it back in the make-up bag. Grabbing Glenn by the hair he yells in Glenn's face. "Where is she Glenn? Where's Katharine Cole?" Glenn swears he doesn't know. "If I ever find out you are bullshitting me you will cease to exist. If you run oh please run, please give me a reason to put a fucking hole right here." Bobby pulls Glenn's head back and puts his finger in between Glenn's eyes. "Your bitch was stalking my family." Andrew comes over and addresses Bobby "WHAT?"

Andrew had first thought that Bobby was just trying to play bad cop when he grabbed Glenn's hair and pulled him almost out of the chair backwards and threaten to shoot him in between the eyes, Andrew knew Bobby was real unstable when it came to his family. "Commander Ivey we have an imprint of some writing you may want to see." Glenn's phone rings. Bobby holds up his hand and tells Glenn talk to her and if he tips her off it will be with his last breath.

Glenn had no doubt that Bobby was serious. Bobby put his phone up to his ear. Swallowing hard he says "hello" She says she had to head out, her job called her but she would be back in a few weeks. "You could have told me before you left. I came here and thought something had happened to you." Bobby makes a motion for him to keep talking. "Who are you touring with?" She tells him not to worry so much. It reminded him of Carla. Genuine anger lights his tone. "Katharine it's 5 in the fucking morning you said you would be here. You said you were going to sleep. I came back to surprise you. The fucking surprise was on me. You're just like her, you just like my ex-wife how in the fuck am I supposed to trust you?" She says he can trust her. "Right so how did you get to where ever you are?" She tells him she doesn't like this tone he's taking with her. Not wanting her to hang up he says "Kathy who are you are touring with? Is it Band troll did he call you and ask you to come save him from spending all his wife's money? You said it wasn't him trying to get you back so it had to be business right?" She says he knows she can't tell him who the band is? That's bullshit, you've told me about the local acts so what do you think I'm going to do with the fact that you could be touring with a bunch of guys that don't give two shits about your money management skills, all they will see is your huge tits and your pouty lips." She asks him was he jealous. "Fuck yes, I'm jealous and right now you're not making it easy for me to trust you." She says that she was jealous when he was running up behind band troll's wife. "What the hell are you talking about I've been nothing but faithful to you. Angel and I were over before we began." She sounds like she is crying. "Why the hell are you crying? You fuck with my head then you disappear?" She says she is sorry he hears glass clink. "Are you drinking?" she says a little "Why?" she says he was going to be mad. "Did you already fuck the band you're touring with?" She says no "then why am I going to be mad at you?" She tells him she loved him and hoped he could understand. "Understand what Kathy?" Bobby stared at him and so did the STOP team.

Katharine looked at the cars and Hummers out in the parking lot of the hotel she had left and hour ago on the video the Mother had provided for her. "Glenn I need you to meet me at this address and all will come to light or as much of it as I can explain." He says she left him now she expected him to run after her. "Not after with runaway with me." He asks what they are running from. "I'll text you the address of where I will be before I have to be on my way. If you love me you'll come if not I'll understand." He screams her name she hangs up. Glenn would understand and if not it would be a shame he had some moves but she could buy better sex. He just had to realize that the mission was larger than them. The Mother helped those that could not help themselves. The Cole family had taken her in when she was born and they were great parents. She was one of the chosen. Joshua was adopted but he'd pushed her way she'd shed real tears for him and he told her some shit about him not being worth her tears if he'd been chosen he would think better of himself. She would rescue his child from his or her self-doubting parent. Callaway already had a kid the family that adopted the little girl couldn't have children and wanted to adopt but because the father was infertile and had a criminal past they could not adopt. They had the money to raise a child and give it a good home, the law should not be a part of the decision.

Glenn closes his eyes. They had it wrong when she wasn't here his trust took a hit but hearing her affirmed that she needed him. Yeah they had only been dating for a few months but he knew her and she did have a crazy schedule. They both did. Bobby's phone rings. He answers saying his last name then relaxes his tone speaking to his dad. He tells Glenn not to leave the country and tells his team to exit that they had to get back to the hospital. Chase wanted to go home. They leave the room and Glenn lets out the breath he'd been holding. Mark had to of set this up. His texts Mark

Glenn: I don't know what you think you proved by sending them here. No she wasn't here but she had good reason she's going on tour. You know sporadic schedules, hotels being home for long periods of time.

Glenn gets the promised text message he takes a shower and dresses in black jeans and a button down shirt. He grabs his suitcase and drops the keycard on the bed.

Joshua walks back into the waiting room he'd held Katie Jade but knowing there was another little life out there in danger had him getting up and at least wanting to be back out there with Angel. When he walks back out and Angel wasn't in the chair he looks around and spots her at the door talking to Chase he was leaving. Joshua wanted to do the same thing Mark had asked him to take Janet back to Ivey Mansion since he wasn't leaving Paula and Katie up here to fend for themselves. He'd told Mark yes. Joshua didn't care who else wanted to come, as long as he could get his family out of here. Candy walks over and hugs him saying he looked like he needed it. She tells him she is about to go after she sees Katie Jade then her and Deon are heading back. Joshua nods and tells her to make sure Deon was awake enough to keep her safe before they tried to make it back all the way home. She asked Joshua was he okay he nods and moves closer to Angel as Candy heads back to the back.

Chase leaves and Angel turns around Joshua was standing in the mezzanine with her she hadn't heard him walk up. He'd been to see Katie Jade "Hey babe isn't she beautiful?" He says yeah and asks is she ready to head back since they were taking Janet back as well. "Oh I thought she was staying with Mark and Paula. I mean we can you want me to drive half the way?" he says he's good. "Okay" they head to the truck he puts his hand at her back. He was extra jumpy, a car door closed and he was ready to jump out of his skin. He was starting to freak her out. "Babe are you okay?" He looks at her for a time before saying sure. As Janet climbs in she had wanted to stay but said her daddy made her come. Joshua hit the highway and he was flying. "Josh if you want I can drive for a while" What was wrong he was super tense and said little to nothing from Pittsburg to Dallas. He slows down to 60 and she relaxes a little she had to focus on something else. She didn't want to piss him off he got defensive about his driving. She wondered what had him in such a mood. He'd come from in the back with Mark and Katie had she missed something? She knew she hadn't been back there long but seeing Katie just made her think of her child he would be here soon. Janet had fallen asleep she noticed he speeds up as he crosses the bridge through Pyramid. For that she couldn't blame him. They made the four hour trip in under 3 and half hours. Janet wakes when the truck goes into cool down mode. Joshua jumps out and comes to her side opening her door. She gets out and noticed that he had come over too far when she lands in the grass with him standing there so she wouldn't hit the ground. The grass was lower than that of the pavement that made up the cul-de-sac. He tells Janet to get out on his side. He sounded irritated. They head up the stairs and Janet says goodnight or morning and heads to the room she usually claimed upstairs. She'd asked what was up something wasn't right he was so tense and she just wanted to know what the glances were about. It felt like he was shutting her out. What was wrong, he was fine before he went in the back now he was withdrawing into himself? As he closes their bedroom door she turns around and says "Joshua something isn't okay I've asked and I know what you said but you were flying like a bat out of hell" She recounts other nuances of his change in behavior. "You went back to see Katie Jade and came back tense ready to go, did something happen that I missed. Bobby is marching around the hospital like he's on duty. What happened in the 20 minutes you were back there? It feels like you're shutting me out and I have no idea why."

Joshua walks over and sits on the couch he looks up at her as she walks over and sits beside him. "Angel I'm not shutting you out, but I didn't want to tell you while we were there or while Janet was in ear shot. Katie Jade has a twin." Angel looks confused "the little girl was kidnapped." Angel asked how? Saying that there were no alarms and that Paula didn't say anything about having twins. "Paula doesn't know she was sedated Luke had to give her a C-section and that's when he found the other little girl. As for the alarms someone shut off the security and some of the power in the delivery room. There was a nurse that took the little girl out of the room before she could be ID tagged." Joshua runs his hands through his hair. "Bobby and his team is looking for the nurse she seemed to up and disappear into a washroom but didn't come out." Angel puts her hand to her mouth. "There is one more thing. Luke and Mark have footage that may point to Katharine as part of it."

"Oh my god she was with us at the table in Mark's house, does Glenn know? He walked out and smiled at me shaking his head as he was leaving." She shudders as he puts his arm around her pulling her in to him. Angel lays her head on his chest as she stares at nothing. "Mark is his best friend, he couldn't know but what if he did? She helped, do you think she's a part of April's group?" Angel looked up and his answer is written all over his face. As he says some things point to her being a part of it, and talks about the text message Katharine had sent explaining her baby situation. Angel looks down at her stomach and rubs it she wondered would they ever be safe. When Katharine was there? She'd made sure to announce the fact that she knew Joshua. Was she hoping for an in with him to get to JC. This train of thought was smothering her. As tears pricked her eyes. Her little baby cousin was taken out of one of the most secure hospitals she knew. She needed air tapping his arm he releases her and she wraps her arms around her middle going out on the baloney. Joshua comes out with her as they both lean on the railing staring out into the massive front yard with the sun high above them. "April is now using people we know. I'm scared babe, she keeps getting closer. Bobby and his team have to get Paula's little girl back they just have to." Angel puts her hands up to her face.

Joshua pulls her into him as she cries. "Please don't cry you'll make yourself sick, and I really don't want to have to take you to the hospital right now. Look at me" She looks up at him. He softly cups her cheek breaking a stream of tears with the pad of is thumb. "I'm not going to let her hurt you. Yeah she caught me off guard when I was being stupid, but babe trust me I will not let that woman hurt you or my son." Joshua catches her trying to hide a yarn by firming her lips. He yarns in response. "Look we need to get you in bed. I know you had a nap but three hours for a span of over 4 or 5 days isn't enough sleep." She breaks eye contact and says she doesn't know if she will be able to sleep. "I have an idea come with Me." he leads her back into the bedroom but through it to the tub. They shower together when finished he wraps a huge towel around her and picks her up. Her first reaction was to tense thinking she was too heavy. "Relax babe I have you okay" she nods as he walks to the bed lays her down kissing every inch of her. He slowly makes his way back up her inner thigh and blows on her private area making her shiver but in a good way by the look on her face. After driving her over the edge of bliss with his fingers and mouth. She says she wants him inside of her as she claws at the sheets. He makes love to his Angel. When her climax took her it was just good the walls were soundproof. Her pleasure did to him what her smiles did, her happiness was something he treasured and took pleasure from as he follows her over the edge. They fall asleep sated and curled around each other.

At the Hospital an hour after Angel and Joshua leaves Bobby returns after giving Andrew instruction to head back to Grandville as the lead car behind Chase. He spots Sophie but Angel and Joshua weren't in the waiting room. Walking around the divider he asks his youngest sister. "Where's Angel?" Sophie tells him to calm down that Angel went home. "Where is everyone else?" Bobby looks around Sophie tells him who else left. He looks over at Logan who sits with his head back and eyes closed with Glenny curled up in the fetal position on his side sleep. Sophie asks what was up with him anyway. "Okay, Joshua drove them here, so that means he drove her home right?" She slowly nods and asked him was he okay. "I'm not okay but I wish it was as simple as a cold. Have you seen any news on that thing?" he points at her iPad in her lap. She says no it's black Friday and she's been shopping with the alerts turned off why? "Come with me please to Luke's office I have something to tell you, and I really don't feeling like announcing it to these fine people."

Sophie knew something was up but Angel didn't know and Joshua was acting his weird self and now Bobby was very much in mission mode. Getting up she wondered why Luke hadn't texted her. Though whenever he came into one his hospitals it was like everyone needed him at the same time. It was nothing for a meeting to end up in him doing rounds or getting a million and one request thrown at him from the lead staff. They were going shit when he took off for Christmas he had already put it on his schedule that he would be off line for the rest of the year. Her smile fades when she sees Luke in his office as they walk in. He looked washed out. His shirt was soaked through with sweat his eyes were bloodshot and he just looked off. "Hey" he gets up and walks around his desk wiping his eyes. He asks Bobby had he found anything.

"That's what I came back to tell you. Sophie this is news to you but there has been a kidnapping. Paula had twins one of the young girls were abducted shortly after birth. I'm tracking Glenn he just left the hotel to meet with Katharine I can't prove it until he get there but he got a call from her and as soon as we left about 20 minutes later he left with his luggage. Glenn Jacobs and Katharine Cole are suspects as of now. Katharine is who we are looking for. Luke I know you weren't sure but I found a piece of her property that ties her into all of this. Glenn had been informed of her possible involvement and he did not heed my warning not to try anything. The minute we left he got a text to an address what he doesn't know is when I handed him his phone I put an A/V tracker on it. He peels something off of a white piece of paper. "I attached this to his phone face when the team had his ass on the ground. I want this bitch she will pay." He pulls out the camera "she's stalking my family and has already aided in the abduction of one infant. I won't let her get anymore."

Sophie turns on her alerts and her phone and tablet buzzes with alert after alert popping up on her screens. "Can't this family have one fucking holiday where no one is kidnapped or have to run some emotional gallant shit?" Turning to Luke she asks. "How did the nurse get pass you don't you have a system in place to prevent shit like this?" Luke explains what happened from his point of view. "I can tell you now if either of us are in Angel's room we will get out of your way but leaving the room isn't even an option not after something like this. You said you have some video footage. I want to see it." Luke steps back and turns his screen towards her. Sophie watches and tells Luke to stop the feed. "May I?" he waves for her to come closer and hands her his keyboard. Sophie looks at the nurse for a while and recognition dawns. "What camera controls the one by the waiting room on this floor?" Luke touches the screen. Sophie pauses the video when the staring bitch walks out of the restroom. "This is the bitch that took Paula's little girl." Luke looks closer and asks was she sure. "Look she goes in to the restroom and that's her coming out the hair and eyes are a different color but some facial shit don't change. Look the makeup is the same and no one else but Angel, myself, Candy and Gloria leave that restroom for like 10 minutes. She was staring at Angel we stared her down and she left. She'd just stole a child and fucking thought she was going to go for Angel? We went with Angel only because she knew there wasn't any single use bathrooms. If she didn't know and walked in alone this bitch could have made a try for my sister." Sophie pinches the bridge of her nose trying to stop the headache that was coming on like a freight train. This shit was way too close for her comfort. She turns to Bobby "Find that bitch Glenn might know what was going on because he smirked and shook his head at Angel as he left. It took great restraint for me not to snap on his ass for staring at Angel before and making her uncomfortable. When Jonathon saw Glenn eyeing Angel saying nothing he went and set on the other side of Angel when Glenn jumped to his feet if he had of stepped towards Angel Jonathon would have beat the shit out of him wrestler or not. Glenn jumped in his feelings and stormed off. I thought he had chilled out silly me no matter what happens he's to stay the fuck away from my sister."

Jonathon and Gloria walk into Paula's room after Candy, Nikki, and Deon had a chance to see his little kin. He'd seen Janet leave with Angel and Joshua he was under the impression that Mark had told his niece that she could stay. Janet was visibly upset as she left. Mark sat in the room holding his little one. "She looks like you already" Katie Jade had that unmistakable McBride red hair but she also had Paula's blue eyes. "You'll be batting the boys off with a bat in no time." When Mark looks up something was not right. Jonathon rarely saw beyond Mark's mask he showed the world. There were only a few times especially after he had trained his features working in show biz no doubt. He saw this look when Janet was taken. The hairs at Jonathon's nape stood on edge. Mark reminded him of Rosa if you didn't know him and had not been raised with the original owner of that green gaze you would miss it. Looking at Paula's sleeping form Jonathon quietly asks his nephew in Irish "Markus something is troubling you?"

Before he can respond Paula speaks in a sleepy tone with her eyes still closed. The room was bright she could tell that through her lowered lids. "If you're going to talk about me do it in English. Can we turn down the lights please?" She opens her eyes squinting until Jonathon walks over and closes the curtain. "I didn't know it was morning already" looking at her baby. "I want to hold her." Mark puts Katie in Paula's arms. Gloria walks over and coos at her. Paula asks had Gloria got a chance to hold her. Gloria says no. Paula felt herself floating and didn't want to risk dropping Katie so she says "please take her I thought I was awake I guess not all the way."

Gloria picks up Katie and sits beside the bed turning Katie so she could see her mum. Paula's gaze was already starting to hood. "She's beautiful Paula." Paula soon drifts back off. "Your da needs rest as well." Gloria says as she looks at Jonathon's nephew. Mark says he wasn't going to sleep with no one awake to watch over his girl and his wife so whatever she was thinking she could just forget it. "I didn't mean anything negative by it."

Mark asks Jonathon out of the room for a minute. Jonathan walks outside the room. Mark put his hands on the wall and explains to Jonathan what happened, before Jonathan can respond Bobby walks down the hall and ask Jonathan for his car because he was on a mission and needed an unidentified vehicle Jonathan asks did it have anything to do with his niece. Bobby nods, Jonathan hands him the keys. Bobby hands Jonathon his keys and says they can make the switch when they both get back to Granville. Jonathon says he would be in the area at Mark's house.

Bobby thanks him and walks back down the hall. He'd got notice from one of his programs that Glenn had stopped moving he would not let Glenn and that bitch get away if he could prevent it. Bobby heads into the neighborhood that his tracker has stopped at. He needed audio. He pulls up closer to the building like he is looking for a parking space. He sees the minivan that was the sound truck. Its windows were tinted. He texts his team asking how long had they been in there. They send him back that they had visual and there were only the two of them in the dining area the others which had to be her people were all hiding in the kitchen. Bobby logs into the system so he could hear the conversation being monitored and recorded via the audio visual tracker.

Upon Glenn walking into the bar that had no other patrons but him and Katharine he sits with her as she tells him how she was helping other families. When she tells him she helped a family by securing them the miracle of baby Callaway. Glenn felt sick why the hell he always went for the damaged ones? His almost relationship with Angel would have been the most normal interaction with a normal female he had since before getting married. He had to not look at her because if he did he'd give himself away. He had to treat this as a script. She was feeding him lines of rhetoric about some underground business all he had to do was act. He was a performer. He had no doubt that someone was watching him. This set up was too clean. Yeah it was after 9 in the morning but this place didn't scream to him that it was used often. Where were the lingering smells of food? Where was the evidence of foot traffic? She was looking at him she'd asked him a question. "This is a lot to take in." she asked him if he could run away with her because she believed he would be a great power to have on the side of the Mother. "I can't just run away I have to be in Houston by Monday night." She says she understood and asked him did he want a drink. "No I'm good I can't drink before a show Vince will fire my ass." She accuses him of not being on their side. "I don't know any more proof you need that I'm on your side. I mean I'll help you and the cause when I can but babe if I drop off and no one knows where I am the police will find my big ass real quick. They were at the hotel when you called but I waited until they left and I made sure that none of them were following me." She says if he really wanted to help her he could give her the new access code to Ivey Mansion. She tells him she needed the new one since her cover was kind of blown and she would not be able to go on the grounds as a landscaper. She tells him when the guard takes lunch and when the back of the mansion is less patrolled between 2 and 4am with the access code she could slip in the back gate and get in the back door. "Honey I can't let you do that" She accuses him of still loving the redhead and not her. "No I don't have a code my card was disabled Angel never gave me a code. As for why I said I couldn't let you do that unless you are planning some kind of self-sacrifice mission there is no way off that property once that system is tripped." She says nothing is impossible she asks him did he know where in the house the control room was. "That I can tell you it's in the weirdest place it's in a bedroom on the third floor. I stumbled up on it when Angel was letting me stay there." She says she trusting him but if he breaks her trust they both could get killed so she begs him to be straight with her. "Honey Mark isn't talking to me anymore Angel is having Band troll's baby. I know you probably don't want to hear this but I wouldn't be doing this purely for the greater good of your organization. I still have an ax to grind with band troll what better way to fuck with him than to take his kid and give it to someone that can give it an even better life than he can?" Glenn tasted the bile in his throat if she didn't wrap up this trust test soon he'd vomit. "So who are we delivering the first kid too?" She gets excited and tells him the chain of people not by name but by profession. She calls her men out of the back. Six men with assault rifles walk from the back. "You set me up? "

"No Glenn, no aim" the men stop pointing at his head. "I was afraid you were trying to set me up but all you have is a hidden agenda for revenge." She would get Glenn to help her and he could get his revenge and she would get her cut of the deal then she could let Glenn swing for the crime and she would have to cheer up poor Josh. She would be a rebound at first someone to lean on but he would learn to love her again. She smiles "I think us working together is going to be mutually beneficial." He asks so what was their first order of business. "We have to do double duty. We have to get the redhead and it is good you have to be in Houston because that is where we are to meet back up with the to-be parents of Mark's child. His name alone is worth more than the red head but the Mother wants her child and she has found a buyer." She lays out the plan they had to be in Houston in less than 16 hours.

Bobby wanted to go in now guns blazing, but Cole laid out a plan that involved the child. Bobby orders his team to keep eyes and ears on both of them. Glenn thought he could get some kind of misplaced anger off by coupling up with this nut? Anger flared as Bobby opens his door but Harold was calling him, Agent training made him answer and close his door. Harold says he's close Bobby tells him what has been said Harold tells Bobby to get the fuck away from there before he blows cover and get nothing but that woman's spilled blood. He says if there was a chance Cole was going to lead them to his niece he wanted to take it. Bobby says yes sir and hangs up. He knew if he went off on his own. He could end up hurting the case more than helping it, or getting himself suspended again with the threat of not only losing his job but also he could come up on charges. That is if Harold felt generous enough not to shove federal IA up his ass and get him fired and fined for life. Bobby speaks to his team "Keep me posted do not let them get too far ahead of you. If we lose them I know nine STOP agents that will be meter maids by Sunday." Bobby heads away from the scene Glenn knew what he looked like on sight and since it was clear that Glenn could not be trusted he leaves his men to the job of tracking him. Bobby would be going to Houston very soon but right now he needed to debrief Harold and get some sleep.

Harold bursts into Paula's room. "Hey Mark. PJ, I came as fast as I could we have a plan of action to get Katie Jade's twin back." Paula asks him what he was talking about. She didn't have twins. Mark sits holding Katie and says he hadn't found the right time to tell her yet. "I have to go Bobby got some Intelligence for me. I'm taking him off line for a while. Glenn knows what he looks like and I don't want to mess up this chance on getting her back." Harold starts to walk towards the bed then thinks better of it and walks back out of the room.

Paula had been so groggy and she heard lots of stuff but really couldn't make out whether it was a part of a dream or reality. Flashes of memory invade her mind's eye along with auditory illusions. Mark holding her hand through the pain. Her saying she couldn't do this. Mark assuring her she could. More pain like white hot fire. Them putting the mask on her face. She can't get air she keeps telling her hand to push the mask off. Luke is closer than at the bottom of the bed he is out of place. Where's Mark? She hears hissing and something dings. One of the nurse staff smiles at her. She feels weighted. Why would Luke sedate her? FADE when she is climbing back into consciousness Luke says something about Katie Jade she can hear her baby crying she want to hold her but can't move. I'm here baby girl. Voices are raised did someone say something about her baby not breathing. Oh NO. FADE Mark kicking in the door and shoes squeaking. He looked like his persona standing there looking like he was about to challenge Luke why was Mark angry? Hey don't you want to hold her. Some of the anger leaves his face as he comes closer. FADE. Mark asking different people into the hall. One of the nurses are talking to and intern something about her scar. What scar what had Luke did to her? Other snippets of conversation and the look on Mark's face when he didn't know she was looking has Paula staring at Mark and saying "You said you didn't have a time to tell me. This is the longest I've been awake. After all of the ultrasounds that said we were having only Katie Jade was there really another baby?" Mark nods "Mark what happened one while I was having Katie Jade, how did I miss another little person coming out of me? Mark please tell me what happened I get pieces of stuff and some of it feels like a dream like I don't know if this really happened or not but did you kick in the door?"

He drops his head as he looks at Katie. Then looks up at Paula. "Paula I didn't know how to tell you this. When you were having such trouble you got worse right before my eyes. I thought I was losing you both. Luke told me that I could watch from the room next door since more of his med team had to be in here. I get over there and the screen goes out. The last image of you I saw on it was of you trying to get the oxygen mask off your face." Paula raises the bed and winces as she reaches for his hand. Mark lays Katie Jade in the little raised crib provided by the hospital. He was procrastinating there wasn't really any good way to tell her. He'd always tried to be direct with her cause she deserved to know. He takes her offered hand and tells her everything about her C-section, and the other surgery, about the nurse that come out of the room and the abduction. Paula gasped for breath as tears flood her eyes. Panic has him standing ready to hit the alarm as he says louder than he'd intended. "Paula breathe. Come on breathe out darling." Katie starts crying he'd startled her out of sleep. Paula's air gushes out of her along with waterfall of emotion that ripped him in two.

When she can breathe again tears sting her eyes and overflow as she speaks to Mark as he picks up Katie Jade. "Give her to me" Holding Katie Jade she looks down at one of her miracles. For years she thought she couldn't have children. She finally gets blessed enough to have not only one but two and they steal one of her babies. There was a little girl out there somewhere in the hands of people that thought of children as cargo. "When I was taken the doctor said they wouldn't stop until they got the cargo. Mark they just have to find her. I thought that when I was rescued. I thought it was over." Fear and other emotions war in her mind clawing for release. She felt sick and her body was starting to hurt the drugs must be wearing off. She closes her eyes tightly she didn't want to let go of Katie what if they returned? Mark reaches for Katie and tells her he would hold her. A knock sounds on the door putting Mark on guard as he stands up from where he'd been bent over the bed holding her. Barbara pokes her head in asking was it okay to come in? It was out before Paula could make it sound better "No" Mark looked at Barbara he knew she was Hilliard's sister Barbara had been on Paula's side, but if Paula didn't want her around right now he completely understood. Barbara looks shocked and nods walking back out of the room. "I don't need her telling her brother my fucking business. I don't know who we can trust anymore. The woman came with Glenn and now Glenn's not here and Harry is worried about Glenn noticing Bobby. Did you hear him?" Mark tells her about the conversation he had with Glenn. "Bobby and Harold have to get her back Mark they just have to." She breaks down again crying. Mark picks up Katie putting her back in the crib and holds Paula once again he feels an unwelcome sense of helplessness because this wasn't something he could fix. He prayed for the hundredth time that Bobby and Harold could return his child.

Chase sits in his home office drawing up plans for another business that wanted to move into Grandville using his organization. He takes a break and gets a text from Sophie.

Sophie: Hey dad have you seen the news?

Sophie didn't know if Angel would know by now and she didn't want to be 4 hours away and slip up and say something so she texted her dad. If Joshua told Angel at least he would be there with her.

Dad: No I've been catching up on work for the Org. What's wrong?

Chase read her response about a kidnapping and switched on his mounted television. The news was limited on facts but had a picture of the little girl from the video footage. Moments old and taken from her family one of the broadcasters say. Chase texts Bobby and he responds with he's on it. This was to close, April said if he didn't pay her what she would have made she would snatch Angel he couldn't let that happen he calls in a secured team to replace all the grounds people on Ivey Mansion property except the head guard Frank he'd been with the family many years. Frank also knew that Chase wouldn't think a second about taking him out if he ever tried to cross him.

He gets a call from his contact and sends back instruction. Chase calls a few of Sharp banking's investors up and starts the conversation with talk of a takeover. He calls the media contact he has and tells them to check out a few charities that had been a cover for some illegal activity he tells the reporter what accounts to check for and how they did not match what was reported. He calls one of the head doctors that invested in the local clinics around Grandville and set up a meeting with the man for a friendly game of golf. Chase had warned the woman not to force his hand but he wasn't in the mood to play nice. April had stopped messing with his family now she was back and hitting very close. April had to pull her head out of the sand or go under without a word he would wait for her to pop her head up to confront him and he would have her silenced forever. This was beyond personal if she could take Callaway's child she could get to his grandchild and that was not to happen.

Bobby walks into his home after switching back vehicles he drop his car keys on the table by the door, and heads straight to the shower. Standing under the hot spray he thinks about this case. He'd worked kidnapping cases both as a Texas Ranger and an Agent this case was too close to home. He knew the family of the little victim. Harold had ordered him off line until tonight when he is to track Glenn to the hot location. It did nothing for his mood to know that the people that did the kidnapping or helped with it for one wanted his nephew JC, and two he'd sat across from them at a family dinner and didn't know. Joy Wildflower sits in his bed and asks how dinner was? Bobby walks in to his bedroom from the shower with a towel wrapped around his waist. "Dinner was fine" he grounds out as he sits on the edge of the bed. "Let's not talk about this night or day or whatever. How was your family dinner?" She talks about her family and how this cousin did this and that and normal holiday stuff as she starts rubbing his back. He climbs in and she tell him about the funny little nuances of her family. This was what normal families did they ate had fun and no one got kidnapped. He drifts off to sleep listening to Joy retail in detail everything that happened at her mother's home.

That night Glenn sits in yet another hotel room he put in his ear buds. He just wanted out of this mess maybe he didn't need a woman right now. His luck was crap they were either nuts or nuts. His playlist plays "Cheers Darling" by Damien Rice one of Angel's favorite artist. He hits the next song and it was Angel doing a cover of "Lovesong". She'd song it the night she'd found out from Megan that he was married. Great just what he needed right now hearing her voice and remembering when his life was a lot simpler for three weeks. The what-ifs flooded his mind for the thousandth time. What if he'd answered her call that night? What if he'd not called her a whore and scared the shit out of her. Then Joshua wouldn't have had to cheer her up and Glenn would have been with a sane female. Something hits him and has him walking into the bathroom. He'd thought he was so smug when he left the hospital, if Joshua was dumb enough to cheat on Angel with this looney tune in the next room he could get Angel hurt. He types out a message but then deletes it if Kathrine found out or if Angel didn't believe him and told Joshua it could do more harm than good. Not to mention Mark would hunt his ass for trying to talk to her. Even though he would just be sending her a text. He couldn't sit on this information he just hoped Mark read the text.

Glenn: Mark you were right about Kathrine she's working with April. I am not trying to throw dirt at Joshua but Katherine admitted that Joshua texted her and had a conversation when she was supposed to be sleeping. I don't know what was said. I just thought you should know because I don't want anything to happen to Angel. If Katharine thinks she can get a in with Joshua it could get Angel hurt and I don't want that.

Luke and Sophie are in his office Sophie was on the sofa asleep. He walks over takes her IPad out of her hand she stirs. "It's just me babe don't swing." Sitting beside her she lays on him he lays his head back and sleep claims him as soon as his eyes close.

Mark's phone buzzes with a text message from the tone he knew who it was. Glenn had sent him a bullshit message earlier he would ignore round two. He then opens the message if Glenn said one more word about how great that bitch was he was going to invite him behind the hospital and kick his sorry ass. What he read he wanted to believe his friend was finally pulling his head out of his ass. But Mark couldn't trust him he'd trusted him last night and invite his little girl's kidnapper into his home. He wouldn't stay quiet if there was a chance this shit was on the level he also didn't want Angel in anymore danger. He'd saw Joshua's reaction so he'd ask Joshua what was said.

Mark: hey I'm not gonna pussy foot around, it has come to my attention that you may have been texting that bitch. I'm saying this once don't get Angel mixed up in anything death is forever. You get her hurt I'll end you.

Joshua is in his music room Angel and Janet was in JC's room putting his clothes in the newly assembled dresser. He gets a text from Mark. "What the fuck?" He calls Mark because he didn't want anything to get lost in the translation of a text. "Mark I don't know what you heard but Angel knows I texted Katharine believe me it wasn't a friendly chat." Joshua tells Mark about fearing that he'd fathered a child with her and finding out her little slimy version of surrogate motherhood. He even offers to give Angel the phone saying he'd told Angel what was said in texts to prevent shit like this and about the abduction.

"Joshua stop talking I believe you. Glenn sent me a message and I was just trying to tie it all together. I told Paula. Yeah it was, hard as I thought. She's sleeping now and so is Katie. I am. Logan is gonna come in the room with Glenny so I can catch a nap. How's Janet? Well at least that gives Angel and her something to do. I know Janet was pretty sore at me for not letting her stay but I just can't have her here right now. Yeah, well Logan and Glenny just came in. Joshua keep them safe is all I ask bye"

Logan sets a kids meal in front of Glenny in a stuffed chair on the other side of the room. "I come bearing gifts" he offers Mark the sandwich Mark shakes his head saying he needed sleep more than anything right now saying he'd just got back in town Wednesday night slept for a few hours then he got back up to make sure the house was set up for the holiday. Logan watches as Mark sits in the reclined chair next to Paula's bed and before he mumbles another word he's asleep.

Katharine walks with Glenn through the orphanage funded by The Saving Mommy Foundation. They'd walked through the detector and Glenn made it go off he pulls his phone they tell him no phones or weapons beyond the front door. He says he can take it back out to the van he rode in. Katharine says she needed to put hers away as well. They returned to the vehicle he had rode in with no windows into the underground car park. Glenn had refused to be blindfolded and asked her was all these precautions really necessary. She'd explained that since she was his contact that he could get her killed if she brought someone in and they turned them in. They head into a darkened room. She feels him tense. "Relax Babe so far so good I just want you to see the happiness that the Mother can provide." She shows him to a chair and he notices he can see a couple sitting in a room through the window of the room they were in. The soft glow of the light from the other room illuminates them. Katharine looks at Glenn he meets her gaze and asks what now. "Well now we wait until the cargo I mean the baby arrives." He asks will he get a chance to meet the Mother. "No silly she is only to be seen by the Chosen and the Doctor"

Glenn watches as the lights in the other room get brighter. "You sure they can't see us?" Katharine assures him that this is some the best two way glass on the market. Glenn wonders if he could break said glass, but strikes that Idea. Just because he couldn't have a weapon back here he doubted that was the case for the staff. When the woman that was supposed to take his niece turned around he felt instant betrayal. The Snyder couple were Nina's parents. No, Mark had told him their little secret and the fact that their real last name is Brooks. It didn't matter what their last name was they were here to take a female child home with them. There were a lot of criminal activity surrounding that man. It was one of the reasons Sophie was able to use their past as a way to stop the court proceeding for them to get ahold of Janet. Now they were going to be a part of stealing a child out right from him? They had once again used their money and position to be able to order a child and since they requested Mark's child they knew who they were getting.

Bobby and his team geared up " look we don't have audio anymore because he must have taken the phone back to the car all I keep hearing is a rumble like a car garage. " We still have position held. I have a name and a face with each one of the people that went pass our set up to enter that fucking garage. Bobby looks at the orphanage. Yeah memories faded over time but he remembers the strange smell and the people talking to him and sleeping in a room with three other boys his age and then Chase had saved him and from the point that Chase walked him out of Pine Ridge Orphanage he'd been Bobby Ivey. Bobby lays out his plan one of his men says that the system in the building was Supervisor the Extended Office Package. Not wanting to get his hopes up Bobby asked did that mean someone had visual. One of the female agents says in a hushed tone you bet your ass. Bobby asked her how much of the system could she see? The agent says that she didn't hack it because when she saw the seal on the control box she knew it would send a signal to local. That meant that she had managed to get inside the building Bobby asked did that mean she was unarmed. She says negative Field Commander Sean had sent her here via the D Mission. The D Mission was put in effect so that younger looking agents could infiltrate operations such as this but that also left her in there alone. Bobby asks her could she get off a picture of the control box Supervisor was housed in. The woman says yes and Bobby gets a picture of the system with the metal doors open. They were using a server provided by Chase's computer company. Bobby calls Sophie.

After Sophie gets a call from Bobby she checks her laptop and her battery was low so she asked Luke could she use his computer in his office Luke tells her sure. She pulls up Supervisor and pulls up the master view selects the feed she wants makes a duel stream and sends it to Bobby. Sophie calls Bobby asking could he see he says yes this was the break they needed since now they had eyes and ears and thanks her. Sophie Looks at the feed when she sees Glenn siting with Katharine anger glued her to the screen. She moves to a different camera and her anger ratcheted up a level higher the couple sitting there in the room in front of a huge mirror sat Mark's dead wife's parents. She goes into her cloud and snags the file that would destroy their image with the truth beyond their picture perfect smile and wave of being a Judge and a man running for governor in Tennessee. The man was a fucking pervert and his wife had hid his crimes the best she could. Sophie had started unveiling their seedy incest ridden past Nina's parents were brother and sister using a false last name. Peeling back the layers Sophie had saw a lot of the cases that didn't make it to trial or witnesses would disappear. Sophie texts Bobby, what she knew about who was on camera IE0147.

Harold sees the image and Bobby tells him who he is looking at. Bobby grabs Harold before he charges the building. Harold tells him to move his fucking hand saying that was an order. Bobby lets go but reminds him to remember the baby girl still wasn't safe and that they had an agent on the inside that could get killed if he blew his top right now. Harold stays in the cab of the F-350 Super Heavy-duty truck they had rented. When the baby is brought on camera into the room. Bobby yells "LIGHTS OUT" and jumps from the truck with Harold on his heels. They put on the Computerized glasses that would allow them to see in the dark not only heat but entire image via a system connected to the internet.

Glenn watches as the nurse from the hospital walks into the room. He closes his eyes to get his anger in check. Katharine asks him what he was thinking. "The little girl is very cute and already looks like the woman." He was lying through his damn teeth that baby looked like Janet when she was born only she had blue eyes she looked nothing like Nina's mother who had a bad red hair dye job. Suddenly the lights flicker then go out. Yelling and gunfire is heard Glenn gets to his feet and grabs Katharine by the throat. Katharine says oh no you don't and he feels a stick. "What the fuck are you doing we have to get out here?" he yells as he tries to keep ahold on her. He hears glass breaking and all out the chaos starts to sound muffled, his limbs start to feel heavy he couldn't see anything in the dark he knew he was in trouble when she took his hand off her neck with ease and cuffed his wrist to something he hears his heart in his ears as he tries to pull free of the cuff soon he feels himself falling as his big frame hits the floor and pain explodes in his head his last thought is "I'm sorry."

Katharine had brought the needle just in case she couldn't trust Glenn and she couldn't. When the lights went out he'd tried to choke her out. The Mother was going to be furious. She had to get out of here. She walks to the door and screams when the door comes open with a slam and a pair of hands grabs her throwing her to the ground. She hears someone yelling something at her but the trip to the floor had her disoriented. Someone put her hands behind her back and yanks her up off the ground by her hair sending her in the wall hard enough to knock her out.

Inside the room with the baby the little girl cries her unique little cry of it. Hands pick her up out of the car seat they had her in. The nurse that brought her in tries to crawl away out of the door she is kicked in the face and a loud voice tells her if she moves another inch she will die. She stays on her hands and knees and spits out blood into the darkness as she tries to stay still. A boot meets her midsection knocking the wind from her as she collapses to the ground. She is then hand cuffed and yanked up by the back of her shirt and handed off to someone else. A female asks her how it felt to be passed off like she did the little girl. The nurse says she didn't hurt the cargo. The person stops walking and pins her against the wall saying she hated that fucking word and gut punches the nurse making her double over. She is then pulled back into a standing position and marched through the hall. The nurse knows they were in the car park and tries to pull away from the female that had captured her. She is slammed into the side of a large vehicle then shoved inside of the back of a van she'd heard the door opening. She couldn't believe this she was getting abducted.

Nina's mother takes the baby girl and walks to where she thought the door would be. Mark's infant cries the sound of what sounded like the word it. Air moves pass her face she reaches the door and walks into the hall her husband calls out to her he was still in the room. She says nothing this was her baby she had purchased her. She would name her Nina. She finally had her little girl back. She'd wanted Nina's child but Mark would not cooperate. Something is inserted in her ear and her whole body goes numb when she can feel again her arms are empty she drops to the floor had she dropped her bundled Nina? She couldn't lose another baby. Her first Nina wasn't of her and her husband/brother's union when she found out that her husband had felt Nina up saying that since she wasn't his he felt no remorse for the action his admission of the act that drove her daughter away was years after Nina moved away and started dating Mark. The woman had tried to reconnect with her daughter but Nina wouldn't come back then Mark let her get killed in that hospital and he wouldn't even let her be in Janet's life. Someone grabs her around the throat she tries to push the person away but she was on her knees from where she'd been looking for her new Nina. She feels what had to be a gun slide between her panting lips as her body begs for air. Another man yells "Sean NO we'll need her she's more valuable alive." The gun stays in her mouth. Though there was no light she closes her eyes. If he didn't let her neck go soon he wouldn't have to shoot her. Her body trembles with both trepidation and oxygen deprivation. What seemed like an eternity later, the first man says to take her before he depopulated her ass. The hand lets go of her neck as he pulls the gun from her mouth.

When Bobby put the device in the woman's ear and numbed out her system he takes the baby and gives her to Andrew who walks out and puts the baby in the car seat of the Silver Charger he rented. He radios back that the child is clear of the building and on her way back to check point one meaning the hospital. He calls ahead and ask Luke to meet him when he gets there. Andrew slowly make his way through the darkened garage. When he gets outside he takes off the glasses and hits the nearest Highway. Baby Callaway had cried from her exchange until he got her in the car. When he no longer heard the trademark wail of the word it the silence scared him. He pulls into a rest stop and gets out looking in the backseat to make sure she is ok. She was smaller than her twin but just as adorable. Content that she was just sleeping he hops back in and logs his stop and its reason so he wouldn't have both field commanders ready to shoot his ass on sight. Though Angel trusted him as much as she could afford to trust anyone outside of her family right now. His field commander Robert Hawk-Ivey still made him log every stop.

Back at the orphanage Bobby and Harold and their teams round up the children and the adults sending the children to another location and the adults to an office connected to Homeland security to take their statements and officially detain the people on the listing that worked for the mother. Bobby walks into the room they put Glenn in he was out cold in the observation room cuffed to the table served his ass right. Glenn now lays on a cot that was in the building they were using. Bobby had convinced Harold to let him take Glenn's statement. Bobby knew that if Harold did it in the mind frame he was in Glenn wouldn't survive.

Glenn is brought awake with a slap to the face. He looks up and flinches. Bobby stood over him he was on his back on a cot his head hurt and he is cuffed to the cot. He closes his eyes and memory of the last few seconds before he went out flash though his head. He'd tried to take Katharine out, but she'd been more than ready for him. The image of Marks's former in-laws waiting on his niece. Bobby hit him again saying nap time was over he wanted answers now. Glenn had to know what happened. "Bobby where's the baby?" Glenn asks and is hit again.

Bobby hauls off and punches Glenn "you don't need to know where anybody is right now you need to answer my questions and follow my instructions to the letter or I will send Harold in here and just walk away. Open you fucking eyes." Glenn looks at him Bobby meets his glare with one of his own. "Why did you lie Glenn? I see your bitch tried to leave you as the sacrificial lamb. I made it very clear I was looking for her and you went behind my back and met up with her. For months now we have been dealing with this bitch you bring one of hers to the dinner table. What do you have to say for yourself? You had better start talking." Glenn feeds him some bullshit about not knowing at first that Katharine worked with April. Then trying to get his niece back on his own. "See the problem with that is I heard you talking about getting back at Joshua." Glenn looks shocked. "Oh yeah here is something you forgot. Your little thing against my brother in law would hurt my sister even more. You were seen in her hospital room backing off camera crews when she had her mischarge. You don't think it would eat her alive if you took her child that she has fought this hard to keep safe?" Glenn says he was just playing a part so he could get the woman to trust him. "Bullshit, you told that woman where the control room in Ivey Mansion is and admitted to having your own vengeful agenda. If it was a as you claim it was very believable because no one's stupid. Everyone has heard you talk shit to and about Joshua. The thing that pisses me off about you telling that bitch anything about that house is just like I was listening. You had to of guessed her people were to." Glenn mentions Joshua's possible involvement talking about how Joshua had texted Katharine. "So you think that Joshua is cheating on Angel with the kidnapping bitch? When she came in she made sure to greet him here's something you didn't notice where you are to me a proven liar Joshua's not." Glenn says Joshua has them all snowed. As he pulls at the cuffs asking since Bobby had got his lick in could he please take the cuffs off now. " Glenn I'm going to remind you on why you are here now. After I heard your side of the conversation and left you in that hotel room you waited until I left and broke camp to go meet up and runaway with that bitch. I wouldn't need cuffs to get in a lick on you but if you woke on your own and walked out into the hall while Harold was still in this side of the building you'd be a dead man. Wait were you and Katharine together in September?" Glenn says yes. "So did you and her go to any amusement parks last month before Angel's wedding?" Glenn looks surprised and says yeah. "I'm only bringing this up because you knew Angel was getting married and to whom your little kidnapping kitten congratulated Joshua on his engagement at a part of his bachelor celebration he hadn't said anything to her about getting married." Glenn says he was going to send Angel a gift but thought better of it after speaking with Mark. "Glenn from now on even if by some chance you and Mark are ever square again and I will posed this to Mark as well I think since you still got some fucked in the head issues with my sister that when you date your next criminal or whore that you leave my sister's name out of your fucking vocabulary and no more chance meetings. Your bitch didn't know Angel would be there but you did." Glenn says he didn't see himself trying to date for a very long time. "I guess not with you track record? Your wife is an all-around whore / child abuser and you girlfriend is a kidnapper." Bobby asks a few more questions about the parts before he got audio back and unlocks Glenn's cuffs telling him he was free to go. As Glenn sits on the side of the cot rubbing his wrists. Bobby turns back around "I want to put you behind bars so bad I can taste it, but we have the Snyder's confession we have the nurse's confession and lucky for your sorry ass one of our other agents interviewed your bitch when we threatened to stick her with more charges she sang like a bird and it happens to match some of what you've told me. Her locking you there for us to find you helped, if she had of believed you and you both tried to leave the room, you would be dead by now. Glenn you didn't come correct with me and I'm not the person to make an enemy out of. Your bitch was stalking my family. Here's an answer to a question you asked me, the little girl is on her way back to her real parents goodbye Glenn." Bobby walks out of the room and slams the door.

Andrew pulls pass the public garage into the employee parking, the guard already knew to expect him. Luke said he didn't want any unnecessary air expositor on the child since she was taken before he could no more than look at her. Andrew also knew the employee parking area was inside which would be a straighter shot into the building and less room for error via someone trying to intercept him. He wasn't putting the little bundle of redhead into any ones arms but Luke's or her parents with the way she had been taken no one else was to even come close. That was the directive that came down from his boss's boss. Andrew gets out and unhooks the car seat. "You have got to be one the cutest missions I have ever had little one." She had awaken an hour before he got here and started crying he'd turned off the radio and spoke to her as he drove. His sister had kids so he wasn't all thumbs when it came to being around them.

Luke gets a call from the guard house on the premises "I'm on my way thank you" He finally would have good news. He didn't want to say anything while she was on her way he believed in prayer and luck and didn't want to jinx it. The little girl was once again under his care in this location. Luke briskly walks out of his office. He reaches the door as Andrew walks in carrying a car seat the bundle was so small you couldn't tell it had someone in it for all the padding and the cover. Luke takes the car seat into one of the exam rooms. After making sure she was unharmed and giving the proper post birth shots he opened her case starting her medical history. Putting on her tag he'd update the name beyond Callaway when he returned her to her parents. Baby Callaway was still crying from her shot when he carried her into Paula's room. "Mark ,Paula, meet your daughter, she is 5 pounds 3 ounces of angry at me right now she has up to date shots and I made sure to give her a ID tag she is in the system."

Luke hands Paula the little girl and mother and daughter both cry for two different reasons. Mark holds Katie Jade and says in a gruff tone bursting with emotion that her sister was here. Luke asks them to please give her a first name as of now her a name is Callaway Callaway." Though Mark's face gave way no external change Luke heard the change in tone and would give the small family a minute. Mark thanks him. "I was just glad to have good news for a change." Luke says as he walks out of the door he really hoped his professional mask hadn't cracked when Paula busted into tears he'd tried real hard to not give way any of his own emotions. Mentally berating himself to keep it together Sheldon.

Author's Note: Thanks to my Muse and my main Beta readers and my renders this chapter was possible. : End Note