Note: I do not own 'The Black Donnellys'. I do own Teegan. I take liberties throughout the story.

I agreed to the deal and left the precinct. I walked back to the diner and grabbed my bag from Jenny before heading to the bar. Once there I actually found the door locked. I went to the side door and picked the lock. Once inside, I unlocked the front door and turned on the lights.

I found a phone book and called a locksmith to get the locks changed. I told him if he could be here in an hour, I'd give him an extra hundred bucks for each lock. He was here in half an hour. I had him replace the front and side door locks with heavy-duty security locks. He gave me two keys per lock and said that because I chose the heavy-duty kind, I'd have to get duplicate keys from him.

I thanked him and paid him. I locked the doors and headed downstairs to check out what was down there. There was a large store room, a couple of small rooms, and a small kitchen. The place was a mess. I checked and there were no cleaning supplies. I did find a dry pool of blood under a chair in one of the small storage rooms though.

I went back upstairs to look at the bar. The space underneath was filthy and had seen better days. I checked the cupboards and there were a few dead rats in the back. I made a list of cleaning supplies and other things that I'd need. In the phone book, I located the nearest hardware and grocery stores.

Since it was going to be a long trip, I emptied my bag of everything except my wallet and iPod. I hid everything in the little fridge behind the bar.

I checked both doors before leaving. I hit the hardware store first and picked up the cleaning supplies and a few basic tools. Because I had a lot of bags, I had a taxi take me back to the bar. I dropped the bags off just inside the door and then went off to the grocery store.

I grabbed the necessities from the grocery store: soda, chips, sandwich meat, bread, condiments, a couple apples, and a bag of paper plates. When I had a better understanding how long it was going to take to clean up, I would get more food.

On the way back to the bar, I ran into Joey. He seemed jumpy.

"Joey, what's up?"

"Where's Tommy?"

"At the hospital. Maybe at school. Last I saw him was last night. Why?"

"Nicky Cottero. I have a message to give to Tommy from Nicky."

"Help me take these to the bar and I'll give you a free beer and a sandwich if you tell me the message."

He helped me to the bar with the groceries and commented on the locks, said they were impossible to pick. He nearly tripped over the bags from the hardware store. Joey sat on a stool and I pulled a beer from the fridge.

"Nicky caught me walking. Knew that I knew Tommy and could find him fast. Wants Tommy to be at the restaurant tonight at eleven. Said its business from the Louie Downtown thing."

"What thing?"

"It's believed Jimmy kidnapped Louie Downtown, a bookie Kevin owned money to. When they went after Sean, Jimmy killed Louie. Then someone killed Sal, the head of the Italian mob, and Huey, the head of the Irish mob."

"What was the head of the Irish mob doing with the head of the Italian mob?"

"No one knows. Nicky thinks Jimmy did it but he was in jail so that leaves Tommy."

I finished making a ham sandwich and gave that to Joey. He hesitated and then gobbled it down.

"Joey, are you working now?" I asked.

"In between jobs. Why?"

"Tommy and Jimmy gave me the OK to fix up the bar and get it going. Would you like to help? It needs a good cleaning and if I do it alone, it's going to take forever."

"Sure. Will I get paid?"

"How about $200 a week but we start at 9am and go to 6pm daily? I'll provide lunch and you get two beers a day. If you're late, I start docking."

"No prob."

"We'll start tomorrow. Do you have a CD player or something? I got cords to hook up my iPod but no speakers."

"I'll get some."

"Don't steal them. Here's $50. Go buy a docking station or something. Get a receipt. I'll want to see that."

Joey pocketed the money and asked if I was going to tell Tommy the message. I said I would and he left. I locked the door behind him and called the hospital.

Tommy wasn't there but Kevin was so I told him the message. He said he knew where Tommy was so he'd tell him. I told him that the door would be locked and that his key wouldn't work in it so he'd have to bang on the door.

I cleaned the little fridge under the bar and the area around it. I unpacked the groceries into it. I decided to start cleaning the basement first. I grabbed the cleaning supplies and headed downstairs.

The kitchen (a little room with a counter, fridge, and a freezer) wasn't bad. It only took three buckets of water and half a bottle of Mr. Clean to get it disinfected and clean. Since I was down there, I cleaned up the pool of dry blood. I didn't want anyone to see it. I swept the basement too before heading upstairs. The real cleaning would get down tomorrow with Joey.