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A/N: An early update (possibly more in near future but it's a might be possible)

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Carter had been in the guest bedroom and could not really hear what the two women were discussing. However, he was busy trying to get a hold of Jamie to get an update on what was happening.

"Carter I told you I would call you if we found anything." Jamie said worried about her boss who should be resting.

"I want to know what's going on now." Carter said relaxing on the bed, the pain was becoming less intense when he moved wrong.

"We still have not found anything. Gina is almost done running down the final phone calls on the agents phones who are protecting the informant. Ty nor Dean have checked in yet, but we expected it would be a day at least before they could risk making a call to us."

"Tell Gina to hurry up we don't know what the two walked into if we do not know who is feeding the Patriots information." Carter snapped, not mad at Jamie or Gina, but annoyed that he was out of play. He was useless sitting in the guest bedroom of Ty's house.

A knock on the door stopped him from saying anything more.

"Jamie call me the minute Gina know something or someone checks in." Carter said hanging up the phone.

Jade was smiling in the doorway, "Aren't you suppose to be recovering?"

"I am. I'm not in the office right now. Close as I can get without going insane."

"I understand. Over summer break if I'm not teaching a class I'm still at work all the time working on papers for publication." Jade said.

"Did you need something?" Carter asked, he thought to himself smooth move. Really nice way to dismiss her.

"Just wanted to say goodbye and thanks for listening to me most of the night. It was nice to have something to talk about that I know about. "

"No thank you for saving me. I was out of place."

"I hope to see you at more of their parties. Usually they are dreadfully boring." Jade said waving goodbye as she walked out the door.

A few minutes later Carter heard a car start and take off outside. He doubted he would see her ever again. His job and his life was much better if he was alone. The only thing he would bring her was pain. Pain was something he knew about, not physical but mental pain and he didn't want to be the cause of anymore pain to anyone. That was why he choose to live alone and give himself to the job.

"Time to change your bandages." Melissa said surprising Carter who had been looking at the window. "Sorry didn't mean to scare you." Melissa smiled, and wondered what Carter was thinking about. He looked tortured his blue eyes full of longing and sadness, both competing to be the dominate emotion.

Carter smiled, "It's ok I was thinking about work."

"Is everything ok?"

"Yeah." Carter said knowing it was a lie. Chances were that things would go wrong very quickly.

"You do not know how much it means to hear you say that. I always worry about Ty when he goes under. To have you here to tell me about things, it helps a bit."

"Ty's good at what he does." Carter attempted to assuage her fears.

"But being good cannot control for things that can go wrong. Carter I know the dangers of the job, without even knowing much about it. Just like everything in life you can try to plan for anything that could go wrong, but something is going to take you by surprise no matter how much planning you put into it."

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Dean and Ty were in the car provided by the Patriots driving to a destination they had been given. A black bag was in the backseat full of product. Dean was carefully driving not wanting to cause a random police officer to pull them over for a traffic violation.

"I am going to call a friend." Ty said in case the car was bugged. Dialing the safe house number he waited for an answer.

"Hello." Jamie answered the phone.

"Hey girl. How have you been?"

"When did you get out?" Jamie said playing off a script she had memorized.

"Awhile back. I'm in town trying to find some work, but I thought I would check in. Things going good?"

"Yeah all is good here. How about you?"

"I'll be good soon. Like I said I'm trying to find work and it's difficult right now."

"I know with the recession and all. Plus all the dirty cops out there."

Ty perked up at this, this was not part of the script. What was Jamie trying to tell him? Dirty cops, were dirty cops involved?

"I'll call you back later I got some business to take care of."

"Ok be careful." Jamie said hanging up the phone hoping that Ty picked up on what she was trying to get across.

"What was that about?" Dean asked looking at Ty.

"Nothing." Ty answered, but they both knew something was going on.

Reaching their destination Dean and Ty walked up to the house and knocked on the door. A woman answered, they could hear kids screaming in the background.

"Is Paul here?"

"Paul you have company." The woman said closing the door in the two men's face.

"I guess he'll be out soon." Dean said looking around. He did not like the idea of leaving drugs with a house full of kids. But that was not his choice.

A man with red hair came outside a few minutes later, "Finally took you all long enough."

"We got lost." Dean said lying. "You have the money?"

"Yeah." The kid said handing Dean a book bag.

"Where is the product?"

"In the car." Ty said taking the lead while Dean thumbed through the money.

The man looked in the bag and found the product. "Good. You all have a nice day. Good doing business with you."

"Yeah." Dean said now standing beside the car.

The two men got into the car and started to drive away when they heard an explosion in behind them. Dean stopped the car and both men looked back to find a small whole blown into the front of the house they had just left. Bit of the man they had just talked too decorated the front yard and nearby houses.

"Fuck!" Dean snapped angrily. He knew that was his explosive device. They guy with the briefcase must have put it in the bag before Ty and Dean had reached the place where they picked up the car and the drugs.

"Drive!" Ty said wanting to get out of there before police showed up.

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It was around 1 a.m. when Gina finally tracked down the last numbers of the agents who were protecting the informant. "They are all clean." Gina said confused by her findings. It had to be one of them that called, it made no sense. "The only thing is if they used a drop phone. Then we cannot find who made the call."

"What about the call from the hotel room?"

"No way to track down the person who made the call. We could narrow it down to who was on at the time, but all of them are clear. There haven't been any unexplained deposits in their bank accounts, no unknown numbers dialed, nothing." Gina said looking at Jamie both of them trying to figure out the next step.

"It has to be a drop phone and someone is covering their tracks."

"They are not covering their tracks they are erasing them somehow. Except for that call." Gina said, both of them hung up on the phone call. Why would someone who obvious covered their tracks so well screw up and make a phone call from a hotel room where the informant it. It didn't make sense.

Jamie called Carter despite the early hour.

Carter was in a deep sleep pain pills helped the sleeping process, even for the man who never slept the dose he was on and the activities of the day were enough to put him into a deep sleep. He heard a noise that filtered through into his dream. His wife was telling him about something, he wasn't focusing on what she was saying, just focusing on her and her beautiful face. A phone was ringing somewhere. After a few more rings he realized it was his phone, he was dreaming.

Groggily he answered, "Carter."

"It's Jamie. Gina tracked down the last few numbers and nothing came up." Jamie waited for his reply.

"What do you mean nothing came up?" Carter asked still waking up.

"We didn't find anything in the agents background that would suggest they are doing anything on the side. The only thing we have is the phone call." Jamie explained. "Their bank accounts are clean. Family members banks accounts everything."

"Well someone had to make that call." Carter said his voice stronger than before.

"I know. But why would they call from the hotel room? If they are covering their tracks this well, why make that mistake?"

Carter thought about it, the drugs made him a bit foggy so it was a slow process. "What about Ty and Dean?"

"They checked in. I told them that we might have a dirty agent."

"What did they say?"

"Nothing I'm not sure if Ty understood what I was insulating. He was still in his cover when he called."

"You need to be sure!" Carter snapped trying to keep his voice low, he did not want to wake up Melissa.

"He hung up not me." Jamie said in defense of herself.

"Let me know the minute they call back." Carter said wishing he could drive himself to the safe house, and he did not want to try to take a taxi there. This time of night he'd be lucky to get one to show up at the house let alone drive him to the safe house.

"I will." Jamie said hanging up the phone stewing over her conversation with Carter. Nothing she did was good enough for him. She was doing her best.

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They arrived back at the destination they had established before they left. Dean was pissed he went after Ryan. Ty grabbed Dean before he could do any damage pulling him back and restraining him.

"You asshole!" Dean snapped, "There were children in that house!"

"A moral explosives expert. Rare to come across them. Usually you guys just like to blow shit up."

"Not kids." Dean said struggling against TY.

"Don't worry the kids weren't hurt. Just the snitch."

"Why didn't you warn us?" Dean snapped.

"Because I didn't know if I could trust you. And now I'm not sure if you would have gone through with it like I planned. This way I know I can trust you for the most part, at least your skill, and worry about your moralistic tendencies later."

Turning his focus to Ty, "Can you get your friend under control?"

"Yeah just give us a minute." Ty said.

"Fair enough when you are ready meet us out back. Rick can show you around." Ryan said walking off into the back of the warehouse.

"Come on man." Ty said letting Dean go.

Dean closed his eyes trying to calm himself. "I'm fine." Dean said relaxing with each breath.

"Better." Ty said. While he understood Deans anger, he did not want to jeopardize the mission or their lives. The Patriots were no joke. They would kill them if they thought they were cops, or kill them if they thought they were not going to go with the plan.

Rick came into the room, "I'm sorry guys I had no idea Ryan was going to do that."

"It's fine now." Ty said speaking for both him and Dean. "You gonna show us around or what?"

"Sure." Rick answered leading them around the warehouse showing them the various areas that were open for them.

"What's through there?" Dean asked noticing what looked like an old deep freeze door that was chained closed.

"Nothing." Rick answered continuing the tour of the place. "Up here we have a few bunks for the guys who work overnight or for guys who have nowhere else to go. We have a few bunks open if you guys want to get out of the hotel."

"Sure. T hanks man. That'll help us a lot." Ty said trying not to smile at the fact that they were in now. The doors were opened they just had to keep their cool.

Dean couldn't help but think about the old deep freeze. Was there were they were keeping the woman and her children? He hoped not, even if it was no longer working there was probably mold growing on the inside, ventilation was questionable, and overall it was just not a great place to be. Not that being kidnapped was great, but hopefully they were at least somewhere else. But in his gut he knew his hope was wasted, there was a good chance the woman and her children were being held inside the deep freeze. Why else would it be locked and Rick would refuse to say what was inside?

"So what are you guys working on now? Or may I saw what are we going to be helping out with?"

"I think the old man wants Dean to continue working explosives. As for you I'm not sure. You guys keep doing what you are doing you'll probably meet him soon." Rick said using the unofficial title of respect used in the armed forces to refer to the highest ranking officer in charge, old man. It was a sign of respect only to be used when the old man was not around.

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Carter could not get back to sleep. He couldn't stop wondering about who made the call. He kept coming up with nothing. Even after he had Gina and Jamie email him all of their work, he still could not find anything they missed. It did not make sense, why would someone call from the hotel room? It was a red flag that even a beat cop would be able to find.

Then it dawned on him. There were other options! All of the hotel staff was not allowed into the room so it could not be them. If it wasn't one of the agents it just left one person.

Quickly he grabbed his cell phone off the night stand, not bothering with the light he quickly dialed Jamie's cell.

"Hello." A tired voice came through the line after a few rings.

"Was the informant arrested before he came forward?" Carter asked.

"I think so." Jamie said sitting up from the couch she had crashed on inside the safe house. She noticed it smelled of Carter.

"So he did not willingly come forward at first?"

"No he cut a deal with the FBI."

"What type of deal?"

"He gave up his contacts for immunity."

"Does the informant have any offshore accounts?"

"I think so." Jamie said looking around for Gina, then she remembered Gina went home for a few hours. "Give me a minute Gina went home to sleep. Like normal people do. Like you should be doing."

Carter smiled on his end, "Just get the information. I'm a big boy I'll be fine."

He heard Jamie typing in the background, "Yes he has a couple of Swiss accounts that the FBI couldn't freeze."

"Have they been accessed recently?"

"Not that I can tell."

Carter thought out it, he didn't necessarily have to access his accounts he could have planned for this way before.

"What are you thinking?" Jamie asked confused as to why Carter is asking about the informant.

"Does he have any military background?"

Jamie typed some more, "Yeah he was in the Marines. Logistics Officer."

Carter smiled, "He planned this."

"What do you mean?"

"See if he has any past connections with Sanchez or anyone known to be high in the Patriots ranks. "

It took Jamie a few more minutes to come across the information, "Yeah he served with a Ryan Anderson, who is believed to be Sanchezs second in command."

"He planned it. This is all planned."

"I don't understand." Jamie said confused as to why the informant would want his family kidnapped.

"They didn't kidnap the family. Not really." Carter said, "I bet his wife and children are sitting on some beach right now."

"Why would he go through all of that?"

"Because if it looks like the Patriots kill him they get to shove it in the governments face and he is a free man to live his life. He can access his banks account from anywhere in the world. His wife would become the person in charge of the accounts."

"So he planned this. But why not just kidnap him?"

"Because he's a family man. He wants his family with him. By having them all gone it gives them a clean break. He made the call. Told them where his family was, and is waiting for an exchange that will go wrong." Carter said. "that or he wants his family dead so he can make a clean break."

"Let's hope it's the first option." Jamie said. "Should I have Ty and Dean come back?"

"No let them play it out. Try to get them the information somehow. We might be able to take them all down." Carter said.

"Anything else?"

"No." Carter said hanging up. He still had it, even injured and drugged he still had it.

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