LJP- Cain, and Able are two completely new characters. I'll post their bio's up on the cast list when I post the next chapter. I'm glad you like their characters. They play a major role in this story as you'll soon find out.

CHAPTER 6

A LEAD

October 29, 2010

7:31am

Unknown Town, Tennessee

Ramada Inn

Back at the hotel, all of the Russell clan had awaken, and were conversing in one of the larger rooms Jarod had rented earlier that morning. Bailey, had arrive fifteen minutes prior and had been given all of the details concerning Pete, Jason, and Jack's disappearance.

"Will, what about your girl, and her brother?" Bailey asked.

"Jamie, and Jeff are one their way to Bangor right now," Will answered running a hand through his already tousled hair, his bangs falling into his eyes.

"Any word on the license plate?" Chris asked. Aaron, Andros, and Alex slowly raised their hands. Will and Alley groaned.

"I thought we told the three of you to get some sleep," Alley chastised.

"Actually I believe your exact words were 'I don't know about you all but I'm beat so I'm headin' off to bed I suggest you all do the same.'," Aaron grinned.

"Little brother by now you should know that my suggestions are really commands." Alley said glaring at her younger brother.

"We tried t' sleep, Al," Andros said cutting off the impending argument between his brother and sister. "But we woke up a few hours after we fell asleep."

"We couldn't get back to sleep we hacked into the Arizona DMV," Alex spoke.

"What did you three find?" Jarod asked his triplets.

"Car is registered to one John Doe," Aaron answered.

"Wonderful," Sam said rolling his eyes a habit he had picked up from his teenage daughter and nieces. The rest of the rooms occupants sighed.

"Uh guys we weren't done," Andros said. "We hacked into the video footage from the stop lights in Arizona and discovered that the car has been spotted in a general area," Andros continued as he got up from his spot off of the floor and retrieved a map from under his hotel bed.

"We marked all of the areas the car has been spotted. From the locations gathered we've been able to triangulate our suspects location. A little town outside of Phoenix," Alex said.

"Why am I not surprised," Morgan muttered. "The Centre had it's annual training seminar in Phoenix."

"Hey didn't the Centre own a bit of land outside of Phoenix. I'm pretty sure that they had a small compound in that area." Marc commented.

"Actually, it was a genetics lab," Tobias replied.

"Well then let's head out," Jarod said rising from his chair. As the group began to file out of the room, several cell phones went off. Everyone reached for their phone to see if they were the owners of one of the ringing phones. It turned out that Jarod, Will and Bailey were the owners of the ringing cell phones.

"Hello," The three men said at the same time. It was the only word Bailey or Jarod said before they hung up their phones ten seconds latter. Will still remained on his phone.

"You sure that's what he said?" Will asked his caller. "You may be right and Lo is just getting psychic feedback or something... Still though Ad it's good you told me... I'll let the others know. Stay safe and send everyone my love," Will said and hung up his cell.

"What's going on?" Maddie asked. Jarod, Bailey, and Will sighed. The three exchanged looks.

"Guess I'll go first," Bailey muttered. "Richard Parker escaped yesterday," Bailey informed the group, the agent then braced himself for the out burst that would follow. All were shocked save Jarod.

"I just received a similar call as well. Apparently the warden decided that the information of the escape wasn't pertinent enough to inform us that our family may be in danger," Jarod said anger evident in his voice. "He escaped sometime between lights out and morning roll call. No one is quite sure how he made it out."

"Didn't have a poster of Rita Hayworth hanging in his cell covering a man sized hole in his wall did he?" Greg joked trying to relieve the tension. Everyone except the other Black Files, Will, Alley, Chris and Debbie, stared at the teen with blank looks. "Hello, The Shawshank Redemption. Based on a Stephen King novella from his book of novellas Different Seasons." Greg sighed.

"Son of a bitch," Jeremiah said calmly looking down at a scrap sheet of paper in his hand. The rest of the rooms occupants stared at the boy, shocked at his rather calm outburst.

"What? What did I say?" Greg asked confused, snapping the rest of the room out of their shock.

"Jeremiah James Grey, whatch your language," Sam reprimanded.

"Sorry." Jeremiah said dismissivily.

"Jer what are you looking at?" Will asked. Jeremiah passed the older boy the slip of paper. Will let out a string of curses, in various languages.

"I only speak English, but I have the feeling that what ever you just said would have been censored on television," Bailey said to Will.

"It would have," Alley said staring at her brother curiously. "Will, what's going on?"

"The license plate," Will sighed. "We should have known. Hell it wasn't even a difficult code. Any gradeschooler could have cracked it."

"Um I'm confused," Greg said holding up a hand.

"What else is new," Lissa replied.

"16-1-18-11," Jake said. "Correspond each number with the alphabet and what do you get?"

"Park," Alex said her eyes flashing red. "Parker."

"How could we have been so stupid. He left us a clue that was so obvious," Tobias sighed

"We don't have time right now to wonder about that," Morgan said. "William, what did Adam have to say, when he called?" She asked getting back on subject.

"Logan had a dream last night," Will informed them.

"What!" Ethan asked concerned.

"Oh and it was rerun. Let's see it originally aired say six, maybe seven years ago. Dad was in Blue Cove at the time. Me, Al, Air, Andy, and Alex caught the original broadcast of it. Was not the best dream I ever had." Will said.

"You mean the gun shot dream we all had?" Alley asked fear in her eyes.

"One in the same," Will replied.

"Yeah 'cept this time it's not Momma and Daddy getting shot it's two other people. And oh yeah Pete's the gunman," Alex said. Everyone turned to look at Alex, Andros, and Aaron.

"Did we fail to mention the fact the reason we were unable to return to sleep last night was do to the disturbing dream revolving around our younger brother?" Aaron asked.

"Why yes Aaron-Daniel, I do believed you failed to mention that tiny fact," Morgan said. "When all of this is over with the three of you are grounded." The triplets groaned. "You know the rules. You inform us immediately when you have a dream like that. No matter what time of day," Morgan scolded her children.

"If we did that, we'd be waking you at two a.m. every morning," Andros muttered. The other children stifled a giggle.

"What was that Andros Thomas-Kyle Russell," Jarod asked.

"Nothing Dad," Andros replied quickly.

A short while later the group checked out of the hotel and headed towards Phoenix, Arizona. It would still quite some time before the group reached the outskirts of Phoenix, and even longer before they reached the former Centre laboratory.

October 29, 2010

8:17am

Unknown Location

Holding Cell

"Pete what time is it?" Jack asked his brother.

"A little after eight Jack," Pete yawned. He had received little sleep the night before.

"Eight in da mornin' or night?" Jason asked.

"Morning squirt," Pete told the boy. It was pitch black in the boy's cell save the camera light. Not since the visit from Richard Parker had anyone been to see the boys.

"Pete we're hungry," Jack said, Jason nodded his head for emphasis. Pete silently sighed. The twins had every right to be hungry they had not eaten since noon the previous day. It had been close to twenty hours since the boys had last eaten.

Pete stood up and walked blindly towards the door to the cell and did the only thing he knew to get someone's attention. "Hey my brothers are hungry and so am I! You didn't go through all the trouble to abduct us just to starve us!" Pete yelled pounding on the cell door. He continued for close to a minute before someone came.

"About time," Pete muttered as he herd the electric lock give away. He stepped back from the door massaging his knuckles he had made raw from pounding. The door opened and the three boys blinked at the blinding florescent light that came on when the door opened.

"Listen we haven't eaten in close to twenty hours. Is there anyway possible we can get some food?" Pete asked the wiry man that stood in the door way.

"Your father has sent me to inform you, Master Parker, that you are to have breakfast with him," The man said with a English accent.

"Daddy found us!" Jack said excited at the prospect of being reunited with his father.

"He's not talking about Dad, Jacky. Hush now," Pete said softly to his baby brother. "Look tell old man Parker that I go no where without my brothers." Pete told the man "Tell him my brothers come with, or I stay here with them. Either way I want some food for the three of us," Pete commanded.

"Yes, Master Parker," The man said.

"Look..."

"Bret, Master Parker," The man supplied.

"Look Bret don't call me Master Parker. I'm not a Parker I'm a Russell. My name Is Peter Russell, not Peter Parker. The only Peter Parker I know is Spider- Man. And as you can see I'm not wearing red and blue spandex. Which means, Spider-Man I'm not. So just call me Pete okay?"

"Yes, Master Parker. And I shall inform your father of your wishes" Bret replied and left. Pete sighed.

"Who did I wrong in my past life?" Pete said, asking no one in particular.

"Uh Pete, are you talkin' to yourself? 'Cause Alex said that talking to yourself is one of the first sings of insanity." Jason said.

"Actually it's the third sign Jasa. The first is hearing voices, and the second is seeing things. And well, half of our family has those two down." Pete replied.

"Pete what's going on?" Jack asked.

"Yeah Pete why did that man keep calling ya Master Parker. And who's the guy he keeps saying is your Dad?" Jason asked growing serious.

"Is it that old guy that was here earlier?" Jack question.

"Chill with the twenty questions, you two!" Pete said growing a headache, due to the stress of his situation. And his brothers questioning him constantly was not helping.

"But Pete," The twins whined. Pete took a deep breath trying his hardest not to loose his temper. Jason, and Jack could be annoying when they wanted, and at the moment they weren't really pushing Pete's buttons but Pete was too tired to deal with the twins whining.

Pete massaged his temples and tried to contemplate his best course of action on what to tell his brothers. The twins knew of the Centre and their family's past with the corporation but only the basics. Certain fact had been left out due to the fact that the twins -though quite brilliant beyond their years- were still just little boys. Around the twins tenth birthday Morgan and Jarod had planed on revealing all of the family's past with the Centre to the boys. Unfortunately the task had just fallen on Pete's shoulders.

"Gather round you two it's story time," Pete said.

Up Next: Pete retells his family's history to his baby brothers. Robert Jamieson, is contacted by his biological son, Jeremiah.

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