An: Thanks always for the reviews, favorites, and follows. Sorry about the extremely slow update. See, i had this written in a notebook since the beginning of last week but I forgot it in my locker twice. Then i was sick for a while and had tons of work to do. Have to love school. Anyway.. here's the next chapter. Thanks for the patience.

disclaimer: I do not own anything except my OCs. All mistakes are mine.

Chapter 6: Repercussions

Briggs' fingers impatiently tapped against the steering wheel of the bland orange jeep as he drove slowly past Cassie's house. DJ's pickup wasn't parked anywhere along the street. Weird. He knew the kid didn't have sports today. So strange the things he knew about Jakes and his family that no one else did. He kept one hand on the wheel and dialed Jakes again on his phone. Still no answer for the 12th time. The customs agent's behavior was really starting to irk him. He understood that DJ wanted his family back but he wasn't going about it the right way. Going behind Cassandra's back was not the right answer to be able to see Daniel.

Derek. The bar. Seemed like it was worth a shot to check out. It was a 10 minute drive there and sure enough the truck was in the parking lot. Paul pulled up beside it and went inside. DJ didn't even look up when he heard the tell-tale ringing of the bell, signaling that the door had been opened.

"You have been a hard person to reach, DJ, my man."

"Not in the mood, Briggs." Was the tart response as he went back to drinking his second beer. Paul took a seat beside him and folded his hands on the bar counter.

"That's a nice shiner you got there." He continued, nodding towards his friend's already swelling eye.

"Again, not in the mood. What do you want?" Jakes turned to face him, elbow propped on the counter, drink in hand.

"Bello has Johnny and we believe he has Mike too. Nesi is off the grid." He answered in a hushed voice. He was not going to give any more details while in a public place. Even though it was nearly dead.

"Why today of all days?" Jakes muttered. He threw money down on the on the counter top and vacated his seat. He already had a shitty day and now he had to go save the others' asses. No matter how ticked off he was right now, he would do anything to get the three youngest FBI agents back.

"Mike? Mike!?" Johnny shouted. His friend couldn't be dead. Oh dead lord don't let him be dead. Akeem chuckled.

"One down. One more to go." Johnny's eyes shot over to him. He couldn't die. No. As he tried to escape his binds he shouted though he knew there wasn't much use. He needed to get out of here right now. This was a disaster.
Nesi. Oh god. His eyes turned to her. She was barely holding it together. She picked up the knife and started at it in her hand. She hurt Johnny. She let Fletcher kill Mike. It was all her fault. She was responsible for the hurt.

"Bello requires my presence. Will you be ok with this piece of trash?" Akeem asked her after reading a text message. She slowly nodded.

"Yes, go. Leave us." When he left was when she broke. The only reason she allowed herself to was because she knew there were no windows or cameras anywhere. Her legs gave out so she ended up on the floor with her face covered by her hands as soft sobs raked her body.

"Johnny, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry." She kept repeating.

"Ness, look at me." Johnny coaxed, his voice quiet as to not be overheard, but direct enough to catch her attention. The brunette slowly rose to her feet and went over to him, kneeling beside the table and chair. Johnny held back a groan of pain as he leaned forward so that his forehead touched hers. He couldn't provide more comfort than that while chained up. "Just stop. We need to get out of here right now." He didn't want to push her. Hell, Johnny didn't even want to think, but he needed to get free. Genesis's hands fumbled as they reached up to her hair, pulling out a bobby pin.

"Think this will work?" He gave her a weak smile and kissed the top of her head.

"It has to. We need to kill these bastards. For Mike." Nods with watery eyes were exchanged. They had to do this.

Charlie did not get up when she heard the front door open. Paige didn't even move. They just hoped that Jakes was back with Briggs. The more heads they had to put together, the better. Her eyes were starting to hurt from surfing through the camera footage so long, but she pushed on. She was going to find Mike, Johnny, and Genesis. They, along with Paige, were the babies of the house. They were the youngest and least experienced. They were the ones she kept a special eye on. She hated seeing them hurt the most because of how innocent they still were. Her brown eyes gravitated to Paige. She knew the DEA agent was fighting so hard to stay strong. Paige was a bad-ass too but she had also experienced Bello's violent ways first hand.

"Sweetie, you are still bleeding." Charlie pointed out gently. Sure enough, when Paige touched her cheek she could feel the sticky wetness of blood coming through the piece of gauze taped over the cut. She had refused to go to the hospital and get stitches right now. That could wait. It wasn't like she was going to bleed out anytime soon.

"It can wait." Paige decided, going back to typing on her laptop. Charlie shook her head.

"No one wants blood all over the phone room. Especially not Briggs or I." Paige usually didn't put up a fight with Charlie. No one did. Everyone knew better than to mess with the no-nonsense mother of the house.

"I'll clean it up." Charlie was just opening her mouth to argue when Briggs and Jakes made their presence known.

"What do we got?" Paul inquired, her and DJ walking over to stand behind the girls.

"Besides a stubborn agent?" Charlie spouted, eyes leaving the computer screen again to flash a look at the agent being spoken of.

"I'll fix the kid up in a minute, Mama. Relax. You find anything?" Paige rolled her eyes at being called a kid though she was used to it. In a way she was like one of the kids of the house with mama bear Charlie and papa bear Briggs. It didn't matter how old she was. She was always going to be less experienced than them.

"We couldn't find much security footage after Bello's men left with Johnny from Hector's. They did a good heat run." Charlie answered, tapping a pen against the desk as she spoke."We managed to get one hit though on their locations from footage, but nowhere else."

"Where was it?" Jakes spoke up, leaning over Paige's shoulder to get a look at the monitor. She pointed to a spot on the map she had pulled up on the left side of her computer screen.

"West Holdbrook and Smithson. We caught sight of Mike's car in the same area."

"That's miles away. It's towards the outskirts of the city. Lots of buildings there." DJ responded.

"Bello's safe house is out that way. Of course that's where they would take him. It's secluded from the city." Paige and Charlie got to their feet, ready to go find Johnny and Mike. Briggs held up his hands, making them stop. There was no way they could rush into this. It would break Johnny and Mike's covers if they managed to convince Bello that they were who they said they were. There was most likely not a big chance of that with Bello's high paranoia, but it still couldn't be risked. "We can't just waltz in there, guns blazing. Bello has the place on high alert." He surmised.

"Then we bring some heat. Big guns and a backup team." Paige countered, her blue-green eyes looking at Paul. He just shook his head.

"We can't take the chance. Mike and Johnny wouldn't want the complete cover with Bello blown to pieces. We go in there hot and take him down then Odin and Jangles are in the wind."

"Mike and Johnny's lives are more important than some case!" Briggs let out a sigh. He could understand her way of thinking. Forget about the case. Save the people who really matter. Our family. He was sure that most people would agree with her. But Paige didn't know what Jangles did to him. No one did, so they didn't have the drive he did. Except maybe Charlie. She wanted Odin badly for basically killing Whistler. Of course she didn't know that he was Odin. Plus she was so protective of her housemates that she would give up the case if she had to in order to save them.
Jakes put his hands on Paige's shoulders and spun her around to face him.

"They are important, Paige. But there are other ways of doing this." He pointed out, looking at Briggs to continue.

"My cover is still intact with Bello. I can make an excuse to go over there and meet up with him. I can get to Mike and Johnny." Paige wasn't content with it, nor was Charlie.

"Bello's definitely going to be doubting Mike so why wouldn't he doubt you to? After all, you introduced Mike to him." Charlie said, sitting on the edge of the desk. Her dark eyes were unrelenting. Briggs would know that his cover would be in question. He was more than smart enough to know that. So why would he say his cover is intact? He wouldn't risk getting himself caught too.

"Trust me, I've worked with Bello for a long time. He wouldn't question me." Or because I'm Odin. Odin couldn't possibly be an agent. No way in hell would he say that thought out loud.

"Paul-"

"Just have some faith in me, Charles." She wasn't happy with it, but she had to trust Briggs.

"Alright. Do it your way. Bring Johnny and Mikey home."

Mike breathed heavily in through his nose and out through his mouth. It was the best he could do to keep from throwing up or passing out. It wasn't like he could even move his hands to pressurize his heavily bleeding shoulder. That bullet was imbedded deep. Who knew how long he could last with the rapid blood loss. Honestly, he was just glad he was alive. It was the only upside to things right now.

Fletcher was laughing softly. Obviously at his pain and discomfort. What a sick man. Bello didn't even question why Antonio didn't kill him. Maybe because he was. Slowly and painfully. Mike's pain dulled blue eyes snapped to the door. It was just Akeem. He spat at Mike.

"Traitor."

"Enough. Any progress with Michael's friend?" Bello questioned, turning from Mike since he no longer wanted to look at him. Mike lifted his head a little wanting to hear this.

"She roughed him up a little. Slow and steady approach. He's still denying it." Bello didn't have a chance to respond to Akeem before his phone rang.

"I must take this call." He said, leaving the room. Mike didn't feel any better when he left the room along with Akeem. That just left him the cold-blooded arm dealer. Terrific.
Antonio's shoes clicked against the ground as he came over.

"It's amazing how much blood there is in a human body, you know?" Mike couldn't stop the gasps and screams that tore through his throat as the man pressed his thumb into the bullet wound. Holy hell. Just let this be over.

The screams would have made anyone cringe but to Johnny and Genesis it was a welcoming sound.

"He's alive. Mike is alive." Johnny felt some weight lifted off his shoulders. Nesi even sighed in relief. Oh thank god. She hugged Johnny. After a moment she pulled back and looked into his eyes. Whether it was out of pure relief, guilt, or something more, Johnny didn't know, but her lips met his in a slow kiss that grew fiery and needy. Nesi seemed to realize what she had just done when she abruptly pulled away.

"Genesis." Johnny's voice was soft and filled with some emotions that she couldn't begin to grasp right now. She walked towards the door, adamantly shaking her head.

"I'm sorry. Oh god I..I should go. Once you are free lie low. I'll take care of the guards in the hallway. I'll also talk to Fletcher and Bello to try to get them to do something about the other guards. It'll just take some thinking on my part. Stay safe, Johnny." Nesi left the room, never once looking back at him. She made sure to leave the door unlocked like she had when she came in.

Johnny's eyes stayed on the door, willing her to come back. He could never figure out Genesis. One minute she was hot and the next she was cold. That kiss, there had to be something there, but she had pulled away as if burned. Did he do something wrong? Was it just heat of the moment? Man, he couldn't think about this right now. His fingers nimbly picked the lock, freeing his wrists. Standing up, he nearly keeled over. Damn had she beaten him good. No way was he ever going to mess with her.

It couldn't have been more than 15 minutes after Paul hung up with Bello that he had arrived at the safe house. The guards didn't bother with him since they knew he was an associate of Bello's. They didn't know he was Odin. They just thought of him as Paul. Bello knew though but wouldn't say anything.
Going inside, he was met with a sight he least expected to see. Bello with Genesis. She looked surprised to see him and like she really wanted to run into his arms. Bello had told her that a visitor was stopping by but not who. She had quickly insisted that they all head up to greet said person and leave the captives to suffer alone. Most of the guards had even left, leaving only a few for Johnny to worry about.

"Paul, my friend. Business discussions will have to wait for a little. I am in the middle of something. Meet Genesis. She works for one of my business partners." Sweet Jesus. Fletcher. He must be here too. Oh crap. He couldn't act like he didn't know Nesi. If he did and Fletcher showed up and saw, he was screwed. At least he could tell Bello minor details.

"I'm fine with waiting. I also do know Genesis. I met her when I did some time in jail. She's my girl." Genesis took the opportunity and ran to Paul, wrapping her arms around him tight like she was trying to squeeze the life out of him. He wrapped his own arms around her and kissed her hair before grinning over at Bello. "She hates being away from me."

"Do you know Fletcher then?" Bello asked, easily accepting what Paul said. Thank heavens. Nesi was shaking a little in his arms. It wasn't noticeable but he could feel it with her so close. If she was scared then things were really blown to hell. She turned her face into his chest as he smoothed a hand over her hair. She wasn't going to be speaking up any time soon. Briggs was fine with that. It was easier with only one of them speaking.

"Yes, I've worked with him before." He admitted. He wasn't going to elaborate unless asked. He looked down at Genesis as she stiffened immediately in his arms.

"Paul? What are you doing here?" Now Fletcher was here. The party had just begun.

AN: Hope you liked it :) This story may seem like it could end in a few chapters, but I'm telling you it is farrrrrr from over.