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"Hey Sis in law, I am fine. Everything under control! Please send word on Danny. I have to finish something before I see you Sarah, promise. Will text later, am."

Luke and Sam said it at the same time "What the Hell!"

Sam kept looking at his phone. What the hell is she thinking, why keep this going, his face twisted and he looked at Luke. He just wanted to punch him. Luke got her into this and now she was staying in after all this. All Sam wanted to do is punch something.

Sam's phone ringing broke the silence in the car. He looked at the ID and answered. "Marlo what have you go for me?" He presses the speakerphone button so Luke can hear too.

"Hey Sweetie, it seems your Josh guy is a regular double spy. He works not only for a very dead drug dealer at the club, but also for the Galloway Boys. From what we pieced together from all the interviews at the club, Josh and Nick did not get a long at all. He moving some product for the Galloway Boys gang and it seems our Club owner was cutting into the gangs profit and we think Josh orchestrated the whole shooting and fireworks at the club yesterday night."

Sam thinks it over and quickly asks, "Has Nick regained conscious yet?"

"I haven't heard yet, but will call Traci and see. We are all interested in hearing what he has to say, but I can't will him awake Sam."

"Just give me an update, ok?"

"Sure, talk to you soon."

Why does this have to be so hard Sam thought.


Josh pulled into the bed and breakfast parking lot. He was so glad they were getting off the road. He could barely see a foot in front of him while driving. He got out of the car, ran around and opened the car door for Andy.

He lightly shook her, "Heather, baby, we are here."

Andy opened her eyes; she wondered how long she had been asleep. Dang it, she thought, I don't know St. Catharines so she had no idea where they were. That was going to make things difficult.

Andy climbed out of the car; Josh guided her into the bed and breakfast. She looked around and saw it was a lovely home, a fire going in the front room and the bed and breakfast was almost some place she would have love to come on a retreat. Now that was out the window.

The Inn Keeper Emma greeted Josh and Andy. Andy noticed she seemed to know Josh. But Andy didn't really pay attention, she was to busy looking around. She noticed Emma seemed to smile a lot at her. She gave a nice nod and continued to talk to Josh.

Andy sat down in the living room in front of the fire and waited. It was so peaceful; snowing outside, fire going and just so quiet. If only she could enjoy it. She saw Josh walking over to her.

"Hey, they only have one room available because of the weather, but it's the best one. "

Andy looked at him, "How do you know Emma?"

"I went to school with her, she married a good friend of mine. I use to come up her a lot when I needed to think. It always helped me get through anything here. I think this is a perfect place for us to collect ourselves.

"Ok, show me the way."


Marlo called Traci, but Gail answered.

"Gail, where is Traci.?"

"Taking Nicks Statement."

"Ok, thanks, tell her to call me."

Marlo hung up the phone and texted Sam.


Sam's phone alerted him to a message.

Luke looked over at him, "Do I need to pull over again."

Sam read the message and said "Nope, Nick is awake."

Luke did an immediate u-turn and headed to Mercy.


Traci was sitting next to Nick letting him collect himself. He was still trying to wake up fully and kept asking where he was.

It annoyed Nick that Traci kept calling him Danny. Why was she doing that? That is not his name. Then he realized, noticing an officer from 27th division posted in the room with her. His hand handcuffed to the bed. The OP is still on. Where the heck was Andy?

Traci quietly asked, "Are you ready to talk and answer questions?"

Nick looked at her with a mixture of anger and worry in his face, "Yeah, lets get this over with."

Traci pulled out her notebook and asked, " So tell me what happened at the club?"

Nick took a deep breath and started, "The boss had called me in to help with a business negotiation. Everything seemed to be going well, until one of the Galloway Boys started mouthing off about my boss cutting into his business. Before I knew it, guns were being pulled and everyone was out of control. I remember shots being fired; Heather had been standing in the doorway with Josh when everything went south. Next thing I know, Heather is hiding me in a storage closet and Josh is pulling her away. "

Nick took a deep breath, "I don't remember anything until I woke up here in this room. Is Heather ok?"

Traci looked up from her note pad and commented, "We think Heather was injured but ok."

Nick looked at her, what does she mean, THINK!

Traci continued her line of questioning, "Tell me about Josh."

Nick looked at her, what was she getting at. "Josh works the bar, he has a thing for Heather, but Heather is with me."

"Is that all?"

"What do you mean, is that all? The dude is a bartender, he wouldn't hurt anyone."

Traci eyed him, "He has a few arrests for assault and we are told he is not only helping your boss sell drugs, he is in with the Galloway Boys."

Nick face said it all, Traci was trying to read his non-verbals, but it looked like Nick didn't know Josh was in with the Galloway Boys. All he could think of was that explains a lot.

Traci looked at him, "Anything you say will be a big help and go a long way with the judge."

Nick frowned, "Josh had one guy always sniffing around the bar at odd times, his name was Tony. I never knew what was up between the two, but Josh always tried to keep Tony away from Heather. Josh and I would always have to intervene when Tony would corner her in the hallway. He was always overly aggressive. I think Heather had a picture of Tony on my phone. It always seemed Tony was rough with Heather to get Josh all riled up."

Traci's phone with off alerting her to a message, she opened her phone and looked at it.

"Thank you for the information Danny, I will return if I need anything else. The officer will be outside your door for now."

Nick just looked at her as she walked out of the room.

If Nick could have broke the cuffs and gotten out of bed, he would have. All he thought was, were the hell is Andy. He needed to make sure she was safe and unharmed.


Traci walked into the office that now had Sam, Luke and Marlo, "What have you got guys?" Gail walked in at the same time she said it. She turned to Gail, "Can you please go get Nick and Andy's burn phones that were found on them. I need to go through their pictures."

Gail nodded her head and left the room.

Traci turned to the others; "Nick says that Josh had someone by the name of Tony hanging around. Tony was overly aggressive with Andy. He thinks Tony did it to get Josh all riled up."

Marlo thought it over and said, "Josh has ties to the Galloway Boys. A few people think he is the reason for the shooting. This is going to get ugly fast."

Gail walked into the room with the cell phones.

"Thanks Gail."

Traci handed one phone to Marlo and Traci went through the other.

Sam looked over Marlo's shoulder at the pictures, Luke looking over Traci's. It seemed by the pics, that Traci had Andy's phone and Marlo had Nicks.

Traci found all kinds of pics of all kinds of people in Andy's phone. She started sending the picks to the station to start running them for names. It was Sam protest of Marlo walking away that made Luke and Traci look up.

"Get back her with that phone," Sam said trying to grab it.

Marlo glared at him, "You don't need to see these pictures of Andy."

Traci walked over to the phone to see what she was talking about. The first one she saw made her hold up her hand to both Luke and Sam.

"Both of you stop, Marlo and I will go through these."

"I have already seen one of them, give me the damn phone Marlo."

Marlo looked at him with this sick sweet look, "Sweetie, you don't need to see pictures of Andy on Nicks phone. End of story."

After a horrible tense moment, Traci quietly said, "Nick documented a few pictures of what looks like an assault on Andy. The pictures look like they were taken over a time frame so there maybe more than once incident."

Marlo reaches over and grabs Sam's hand, "It's going to be ok. She is a big girl and it seems Nick had her back."

It was Luke's face that made Marlo and Traci stop talking. Sam followed their gaze and realized they were glaring at Luke.

Marlo looked at Luke and said, "Are you kidding me, you knew about this."

Luke face was riddled with guilt. He just stared back at them.

Traci moved to stand in front of Luke, blocking both Marlo and Sam from getting to him.

Luke shook his head, "Yes, I knew. Nick sent the pictures to me every time it happened. Nick told me that one of the people at the bar kept manhandling Andy at the bar and that he suspected that there was a leak in the department. They kept approaching her and accusing her of being a cop. But after about two months of this going back and forth it just stopped. I guess this Josh character had something to do with it. I had no idea this guy or Josh was tied to the Galloway gang. We never did figure out if there was a leak or not. Andy never said anything about it going on, only Nick. That maybe why Andy is still trying to keep the OP running. The OP may be bigger than we thought."

Best walked into the room, took one look at the four of them. He shook his head, "The roads are starting to close, I am leaving a team with Nick, the rest of you get back to the station. "

Sam looked at Luke, "I'll ride with Marlo. Traci, see you at the station." Sam just wanted to punch Luke. Marlo sensing this grabbed his arm and dragged him out the door.

Marlo shook her head, she knew the only reason why Sam wanted to ride with her is to get the phone and look at the pictures. At least Luke and Sam were not trapped alone in a car anymore, she thought for sure Luke would wind up in the lake somewhere beaten to death by Sam.

They all left and headed to the station.


Traci walked into the station, she looked around and everyone was there. All she could think of was Andy. Please be somewhere safe and I hope you realize how much everyone miss you.

Traci walked into the D's office and sat down. Sam handed her a slice of pizza. She wanted to refuse but decided she didn't know when her next meal was happening so, she started to munch.


Andy and Josh walked into the room. Andy couldn't believe how beautiful it was. To bad she was here on horrible circumstances. The room had a huge King size canopy bed, stuffed with pillows. The living area had a sofa and a lounge chair in front of the fireplace. Andy then walked into the bathroom. The bathroom was bigger than her whole apartment. The bear claw tub, the huge walk in shower, the bathroom was awesome. She would love to enjoy the tub but with the company she was keeping, she was not so sure.

She walked out to the living area and noticed that Josh had sat down and was getting the fireplace going. She smiled at him and sat down.

"It's going to be ok Heather. We can lay low here for a couple of days and then if the weather has cleared up, we can head north to a friend of mines house. "

"Ok. We have any snack left?"

"No, but Emma said she will prepare a meal for us. I think I will go down and help her make it. If you want to soak in the tub, might help you relax and feel better." Josh could only hope and maybe tonight, she can get her to cuddle up to me.

"Sounds like a plan, but before you go, can we talk about what happened?"

Josh looked at her with a questioning look.

Andy looked back, "How did you know it was going to go south so quickly?"

"Why do you say that?"

Well, here goes nothing, "You warned me away from the office, and then you knew where to hide Danny. Be honest with me Josh, what is going on?"

Josh looked at her and knew he had to tell her.

Josh took a deep breath and let it out. "I may bartend at the club but my brother works with the Galloway boys. I applied for the job there because my brother needed someone on the inside to find out what was going on. That is how I got Tony to finally leave you alone. My brother Derek. I called him and said Tony was scaring the employees and keeping me from getting info. That got Tony to stop. But Derek didn't like that Mike was cutting into their profits. Mike was also getting sloppy, he had cops in the bar and that is bad for anyone's business. So Derek sent him a warning, Mike didn't take it and I was warned that it might go to the next level at the meeting."

Andy just looked at him. Did he think she was a cop? Crap, "Josh, I never saw cops around the bar, you would think they would stick out like a sore thumb."

Josh chuckled. "My brother has a cop on the payroll from the station near the bar. With the intel, Derek kept me out of trouble. But Derek had to deal with Mike. I couldn't let you get into trouble too. I wanted, no I needed to keep you safe. You deserve so much better than the life you have. Danny is not good for you if he keeps mixing you up into this stuff." There he said it, Danny was not good enough for her, and maybe she would see that and be with him.

Andy schooled her reaction, she knew there was a leak, she just didn't' know who but now it all fit. How a lot of the bust would go sideways or not happen at all. But with the Galloway boys involved, this was going to be dangerous. The Galloway Boys killed first, asked questions later. She looked at him and said what she thought he would want to here, "Thanks Josh, for having my back."

Josh got up walked over to here and hugged her. "Its ok. I am going to go down and help Emma make some food for us, why don't you get in the tub and soak away the day. Emma got you some comfy clothes and a robe to lounge in. Ok?"

"Ok."

Josh walked out the door thinking that went a whole lot better than the thought. On to the next step, food and sleep.

Andy walked into the bathroom and looked around. There were sweats and a t-shirt next to the tub. She started running the water and turned on her phone. She typed a quick message, made sure it sent and shut down the phone again. She climbed into the tub and tried to relax.


Traci had just finished her piece of pizza. Her phone dinged. Everyone looked up at her. She reached for her phone and opened it. She opened the message and proceeded to read it out loud.

"Hey Sara, any news on Danny? Will need to fix the leak near the club before seeing you. But I am not far. Just need to sit with a bear claw in water before seeing you. Hope to text soon, am."