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Chapter 13: The Van

Friday, August 16 at 1:00 PM

Kim was at her desk attempting to get her work done, while Kendra and Natalie had settled down onto two chairs across the room from Kim's desk. Natalie was reading a magazine while Kendra was holding a book of Sudoku puzzles but in reality was actually working on the puzzle of Trent's stalker.

On the way over to Thunder Investigations Kendra had dropped Cassie off at HOPE and had apologized to her friend for having to be on the sidelines of the situation. Cassie had told Kendra that she didn't mind helping since Kendra had been helping her.

Kendra had also, rather reluctantly, called Hunter just as they had arrived at Thunder Investigations and had let him know about the packages that she, Kim and Natalie had received. He had wanted to leave work and go to her but Kendra had convinced him that he had a case to work on. Kendra had promised him that she wouldn't leave Thunder Investigations or Uppercuts.

Carlos and Trent were sitting in their office with the door open each working silently on the case. Carlos was writing notes on a legal pad while Trent was using a program that allows him to make a web that shows connections.

The phone on Carlos' desk rang and he answered. He remained silent as he listened to the person on the other hand. He told the person that "they" would be there soon. He returned the phone to its resting place and stood up. "Hey that was Tony." Carlos said as he pulled his coat off of the back of his chair.

Trent turned and looked at Carlos. "Yeah?" He asked, with an unusually impatient tone as he stood up and headed toward the door.

"They have the guy who tried to hit Natalie. They are going to interrogate him now.

"Let's go." Trent said as he left the office. Once he stepped into the outer office, he quickly told the three women that they might have a lead on something and that they should wait in Uppercuts with Butch.

Trent and Carlos were surprised that none of them protested as they stood up and followed the boys out the door. The three women headed into the bar while Carlos and Trent headed to Carlos' Durango.

1:30 PM

A man with a baldhead and a tattoo of scantily clad mermaid sat across the table from Tony and his partner, Detective Buck. The interrogation room had the typical table, four chairs, the two-way mirror and the camera with the red light blinking up high in the corner of the room.

After Tony and Detective Buck had set up the tape recorder and had said the date, time, who they were, the suspect's name, etc. They started the interrogation. It wasn't too long before Guy Pensworth was spilling his guts. "I was hired to scare the blonde haired woman. That's it. Nothing else."

"You don't even know the name of the person who hired you?" Detective Buck asked.

Guy leaned back in his chair and swatted the question away. "Nah man. Got sent a note with 2 C's and it said once I did the job that I would get eight more."

Tony leaned forward and stared directly into Guy's eyes. "So you took this so-called job and you didn't even know who sent the note and who hired you?"

"Hey, look. I needed the money and all I was doing was scaring some girl. It was probably her old man or something. The where and the when was written on the note. Of course, I didn't think that other chick would be there." Guy replied.

Tony backed off and spoke again in a calmer tone. "All right. Do you still have the note?"

"Nah threw it away." Guy replied his voice a little less nervous.

"All right. We'll be back." Tony said as he stood up and Buck followed suit. They stepped outside the interrogation room where they met with Trent and Carlos.

"So?" Carlos asked impatiently.

Tony shook his head. "He got paid in cash. Threw out the note and instructions he had received. He didn't know who sent it or why."

Carlos held back the urge to slam his fist into the wall. "That's it?"

Tony nodded his head and clapped Carlos on the shoulder. "At least we have this guy. Maybe the scumbag will remember something."

"Thanks. Please let us know when and if you get any fingerprints off of those packages." Trent said as he shook Buck's hand.

"No problem." Buck said.

Trent and Carlos left the police station and headed back to Uppercuts to tell their friends that even though they got the guy who tried to scare Natalie with a car, the stalker's identity was no closer to being revealed.

3:00 PM

Trent and Carlos headed into the bar and stopped to speak with Butch. Trent relayed what they had found out and Butch told them to handle it carefully.

"I'm not going to do or say anything stupid, Butch." Trent replied.

"Good, because I don't think that any of those three ladies would let you get away with either." Butch said he looked pointedly in the girls' direction.

Natalie, Kendra and Kim sat at a table that was closest to the bar each with a strong cup of coffee sitting untouched before them. Trent and Carlos headed to the table.

They had been in the bar since Trent and Carlos had headed to the police station. Butch had become their bodyguard and had sat with them for an hour and a half, telling them stories about his boxing days.

Kendra's eyes were burning with fury while Kim's was a little wide with shock and Natalie's was blank as her eyes stared off into the distance.

Kendra raised her eyes and looked at Trent. "What did you find out?"

"Someone hired a man named Guy Pensworth to scare Natalie by pretending that he wanted to run her over. He said that Stephanie wasn't in the plan. Apparently whoever hired him left a note and knew exactly when and where he should scare her."

"Your stalker." Natalie said in a quiet voice as she turned her head and brought her eyes directly in line with Trent's blue eyes.

Trent nodded. "It seems that way. A note was written with instructions with cash and after the job was done, more cash was sent to the man."

"We have that mystery solved, but your stalker sent us three so-called gifts trying to frighten us. We can't be intimated by this deranged stalker." Kendra said fiercely as she clutched a napkin in her right hand, her nails digging into her palm.

"Yeah, Kendra's right. And you, Trent can't feel guilty about any of this. It is this stalker that is causing this and has nothing to do with you." Kim said as she placed her hand on Trent's arm.

"Thanks, Kim." Trent replied as he gave her a smile.

6:00 PM

Hunter and Cassie had arrived at the bar, Hunter having picked up Cassie on the way. Cassie and Hunter each took a seat at the table where Kendra sat alone taking her fifteen-minute break. Hunter took a seat next to Kendra. She filled them in with the news that Trent and Carlos had brought earlier before they had returned to their office with Natalie and Kim.

"Walker and Trivette have no leads on whom shot at us in the diner but it seems that it may be Trent's stalker." Hunter said as his green eyes stared into Kendra's blue fiery ones.

"We can't allow this to ruin our time at the reunion." Cassie said more firmly and determined than Kendra had ever heard come from her friend before.

"Of course not. So, have you and Carlos discussed anything about the reunion?" Kendra asked.

Cassie shook her head. "No, but I'm glad that he's taking me even though you pushed him into it."

Kendra's eyebrows rose as a mock look of innocence came onto her face. "What? Me? No!"

"Is it still a good idea to go to this reunion? Since Trent's stalker has threatened you, Kim and Natalie." Hunter said looking at Kendra with concern.

"True but as I said before, we can't let this stalker win so, we are still going to the reunion." Kendra said firmly and then she gave Hunter a kiss. "I'll be careful, I promise."

Hunter smiled and then his face became serious. "You say that but you know…" Hunter began as Kendra's eyes narrowed.

Hunter laughed. "I'm kidding. I know that you will be careful. Or at least try to be and hopefully not do anything rash."

"The same goes for you, Mr. Prescott." Kendra remarked.

"Uh, there is one problem. With everything that has been happening, I don't have anything nice to wear to the reunion." Cassie said.

"Don't worry, my aunt owns a dress shop, we can go right now. She's open until eight." Hunter suggested as he rose. "I'll take you, since Kendra has to get back to work, anyway."

Kendra agreed and headed back to work while Hunter took Cassie to the dress shop.

Hunter and Cassie didn't notice the figure ducking in the driver's seat of an old beat up Honda. Hunter opened the car door for Cassie and made sure she was in before he shut the door. He ran around and opened the driver's side door. He sensed someone was watching as he carefully turned his head to look around. None of the pedestrians seemed to be paying any attention to them. Hunter shrugged off the feeling and got into the car.

He started the car and pulled out into the street. The Honda waited a few moments before following Hunter and Cassie.

guardianM3: I hope that these last few chapters haven't been boring you all and I hope you all will continue to read this story.