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CHAPTER 24

It hadn't been easy for Mozzie to leave without knowing if Neal ever got saved or not, but he didn't know what Keller would do to get back at him so he needed a head start.
Within an hour he had left the city and Neal behind, hoping that he had made the right choice.
He couldn't abandon the kid completely so before he left he had asked June to update him as soon as she heard anything about Neal's wellbeing.
Through the woman's updates he knew what happened in the kid's life, the boy was passed around for a bit.
One second he was staying with June, then the next he was taken away to a foster home and then all of the sudden he was living with a FBI agent.
Mozzie wanted desperately to return to New York and find the child but he didn't want to risk putting Neal in danger yet again.
He didn't hear from June for a while and he had to assume that the kid was doing okay with the FBI agent.
Mozzie started to relax but it turned out that he had relaxed way too soon, of course Keller had managed to escape and it didn't take long for the man to locate Neal and now the boy was in danger after all.
Mozzie didn't even hesitate before calling Keller, he was not going to let a kid get hurt or killed because of him.
He was given an address and just minutes after the phone call ended, Mozzie was sitting on a train leading back to New York.

Once he was back in New York it wasn't hard to find the FBI agents house and once he dropped Neal's name it wasn't hard to get inside either.
As soon as he got inside, a golden retriever walked to him and greeted him happily.
The suit however was not as friendly as his dog and he still had his hand on his holster.

"What do you know about Neal?"
"I might know where he is"

The man slowly moved his hand away from the holster while his wife got up from the couch, looking at Mozzie with a hopeful look.

"Where is he?"
"I can not be totally sure but Keller did give me an address"
"Why would Keller give you an address? What's your connection in all of this?"

Mozzie gestured towards the dining table.

"Why don't we sit down and discuss this? Perhaps over a glass of wine?"

The couple shared a look before the wife went to the kitchen, returning seconds later with three glasses.
The suit fetched a bottle of wine while giving Mozzie a skeptical look.
As soon as they were seated and the wine was poured the suit gave him a serious look.

"You better start talking"

Mozzie sipped his wine while trying to find a way to explain the situation the best without incriminating himself. You had to be careful about what you said around an agent after all.

"I met Neal on the street, I took pity in him, I made sure he was fed and I offered my home to him. We bonded."
"So you just picked up a random street kid?"

The suit asked in a skeptical tone, and Mozzie could understand where he was coming from. Normally when grown men picked up young kids from the street, it was for much darker reasons.

"As I said, I took pity in him. I used to be an orphan as well"

The couple seemed to drop some of the suspicion and believe what Mozzie was telling them.

"How did Keller get in to the picture?"

Mozzie told them a story about how he and Keller used to be friends but had a fallout, the man got mad and decided to kidnap Neal for revenge.

"So you were just friends, not 'business partners'?`"

The agent asked suspiciously but Mozzie insisted that he had never been involved in any of Keller's illegal activities. The suit didn't look totally to convinced but he seemed to realize that there were more important things to focus on.

"What did you do?"
"Well, it's a dark day when I turn towards the system instead of recoiling but I called in an anonymous tip"
"That was you?"
"Yes and now I'm asking for help again"
"Whatever I can do"

It seemed like the couple actually cared about the kid and if that was the case then they could be Neal's happy ending, the one he himself never got as a child.
If that was the case then he wouldn't drag Neal further into the criminal life, he couldn't deny a child a good family after all. Even if it meant that Neal would live with a suit.

The address turned out to be an abandoned warehouse, just like Neal had told June.
That did make Mozzie feel a little more hopeful that this is where Neal was, but just to be safe Peter had given him a watch that had a GPS system.
Peter stood next to him, gun in hand, and a handful of agents were behind them. Mozzie never thought that he would feel safe being surrounded by FBI agents.

"You ready, Mozzie?"

Mozzie nodded before opening the big metal door, that creaked loudly.
He walked into the building with agents in tow, but he came to halt just seconds later.
In the middle of the large room was Keller, sitting on an old wooden stool, shaking his head at them.

"I really expected you to be smarter, Moz"

He didn't get the chance to answer because the suit pointed his gun right at Keller's head before demanding to know where Neal were.

"Did you really expect me to be stupid enough to bring Junior with me?"

As expected, Keller had lost his trust in Mozzie and he had expected Mozzie to not come alone.
The man got up, walking calmly towards the group.

"Don't you guys worry, junior is safe…for now"

Keller was taunting them and no one could do anything about it. They couldn't shoot him and they couldn't arrest him, not as long as Neal was captured.

"You are coming with me"

He said to Mozzie before looking at the agents, who still had their guns raised.

"And you will all back off. I have people watching and if you follow us, junior will suffer. Capiche?"

Keller waited until Peter nodded before turning back to Mozzie.
None of them were worried, Mozzie's watch would lead the agents right to Keller. They just had to wait before following.
One way or another, Neal was going to be saved.