Lester was driving to the location he had gotten from the control room. His mind was going over the things he wanted to do to Hal the moment he got a hold of him.

Castration? Too good for him. Mutilation? Nah, I'm not that sadistic. His nose would have healed in a few weeks. Two feet of her hair! Two feet! He did it when she was totally defenseless. Lester thought.

Lester heard the guitar strums and the screaming of Axel Rose, the drums kicked in and then Axel started singing. When he heard I wanna watch you bleed. His foot pushed further down on the accelerator. The song filled the need of the raging beast that was pacing back and forth like a caged animal within his chest.

I'm gonna watch you bleed. Watch it flow out of your veins. I know where he is, he's in the jungle and he's going to die. Lester thought as he took a corner fast as the car hugged the corner. His foot eased off the gas only long enough to move around another car and then the song blared out inside the car. Fear Factor, Demanufacture hunter-killer only fed the beast raging inside Lester even more.

I'm your judge, and your jury, you don't get an attorney, with my verdict of guilty, an execution in fury. Lester thought that one part of the song over and over in his head as he pulled into the parking lot of Quaker Bridge Mall. Lester scanned the parking lot looking for the SUV. He saw the SUV and pulled in beside it. Lester got out of his car and locked it up. He set the alarm and then headed into the mall. He can run but he can't hide.

His head scanned left and right for Hal as he stalked down through the mall. Lester spotted Hal sitting at one of the tables in the middle of the food court. He strode over and grabbed Hal by the front of his shirt.

"She was fucking defenseless." Lester said as he pulled Hal out of the chair and shoved him back and letting go.

"Lester, I…"

Lester let his right hand come out into a ridge hand and caught Hal on the left side of his face connecting with the right inner part of Lester's right hand. Hal moved to block but he was too late and only managed to knock Lester's hand away. Lester drew his hand back and spun around bringing his right hand up to protect himself as he drove his right foot into Hal's chest with a rear spinning side kick. Hal went back and went over the chair that was behind him.

The tables that were around them cleared out fast. People backed up. Some cheered, some just watching at the horror of two men fighting in the middle of the food court.

"Kick him in the balls." Yelled a teenager with blue and purple hair and dressed in black with a silver loop belt holding up his already sagging pants.

"Totally righteous destruction! Go for blood!" Yelled the blue and purple haired male who was the teenager's female counter part. She had silver and blue hair with a nose ring that had a big silver hoop in it.

Lester strode three steps and reached down and picked up Hal before he had a chance to stand up. He yanked him to his feet and stepped into a back stance and brought his left fist back and swung a back fist to Hal's head and with his right fist he brought it forward with the same force and he blocked the punch Hal threw. Double fist strike block worked like it always did for Lester, he loved that move. The snarl more poignant on his upper lip as he glared at Hal.

Hal spun and sent a back fist at Lester's head and caught him over his left eye. The ring on Hal's finger dug into the skin over Lester's eye. Lester growled as he felt the ring open his eye.

"First blood!" Yelled the female Goth teenager.

"Jeez. Can't you do any better than that?" Yelled the male standing beside her. "Get him damn it."

"Do unto others," the male Goth teenager said.

"As they do unto you," the female Goth teenager finished the quote.

"Anarchy!" they yelled together, banging their heads to the invisible beat of a drum.

Lester pushed off with his back foot and brought it up with his right foot as he kicked out and caught Hal in the chest. Hal doubled over with the pain. Lester grabbed the back of his head grabbing part of Hal's shirt in the process and drove his left knee up into Hal's head. He pulled him back and then drove the same knee into his chest again, and again on the same side.

"You don't fucking mess with someone I care about." Lester told him. Lester released him. While Hal was bent over Lester pushed off from the ground one more time and kicked Hal in the chest. Hal went back and landed on a table which collapsed under his weight and sheer force of momentum.

"Anarchy!" Shouted both the Goth teenagers again.

Hal grabbed the chair that was closest to him and Lester felt the chair hit the left side of his shoulder as Hal swung it at him as he reached down to pull Hal up again. Lester felt someone pull him back and swing him around away from Hal. He turned and saw the Mall security officer; Lester swung his right fist and hit the security guard right in the face releasing his hold.

"Beat the cop! Beat the cop!" Yelled the Goth male teenager.

"Lawlessness rules!" Yelled the Goth female teenager.

Ranger had dialed Lester's number over and over again while Tank was on the phone tracking where they were.

"He's shut off his phone." Ranger said. "Maldígalo. ¿Lester, qué la cogida? Maldígala, cogiendo mierda." (Damn him. Lester, what the fuck? Damn it, fucking shit.)

Tank turned to look at Ranger, "Quaker Bridge Mall. Lester got the information a few minutes before we did."

Ranger had sped all the way to the mall. He parked right by the door and got out. Tank was right after him along with Lula, Stephanie, and Bella. All five of them ran down the Mall. Ranger in the lead, he heard the fight going before he saw anything. He pushed his way through the crowd as he saw Lester throwing the security officer and Hal was standing up holding his ribs. He saw Lester turn and kick Hal back in the chest. Hal flew back and rolled over spitting out blood and trying to get air. Ranger dove for Lester, Tank went after Hal.

Ranger felt Lester's arm as he shoved him aside. Shit, he's out of control. He's lost it. What the fuck happened? Ranger thought.

"Men in black rule! Anarchy rules!" Yelled the Goth male teen.

"Men in black! Men in black!" Yelled the Goth female teen. "Fight, fight, fight."

Ranger shook his head, he had looked over to Stephanie and Lula, and both of them were laughing at what the two teenagers just shouted. Ranger looked at the two teens. "Shut the fuck up!"

Ranger went back for Lester and bear hugged him from behind. "Lester, stop this shit now!" He saw Bella step in between Lester as he went back for Hal and Lester swung back to pull Ranger off his back and Bella got hit in the process.

"Beat the man in black! Beat the man in black!" Yelled the Goth male teen.

Ranger went over Lester's shoulder and on the floor. Ranger reached out for Lester's legs and yanked him off balance and he went to the floor. "Tank! Forget Hal. Stun Lester's ass, now!"

He saw Lester go slack.

"Beat the man in…"

That was the last thing said as Ranger stood up and looked at the two teens that had turned and tried to get away through the crowd.

"Run away you little dickheads." Ranger told them.

Alex's heart started racing. Oh God! Then I'm not who I am, I'm not even Alex anymore? Alex thought. The feeling of fleeing rushed over her, she felt the overwhelming desire of getting away. Anywhere. It didn't matter, as long as she put space between everyone and herself. She backed away from Joe.

"Alex, it'll be okay." Joe said.

No it won't. I'm not me anymore. Alex thought as she backed faster away from him.

Joe reached out for her, "Come here."

"No." Alex told him. She watched as Joe took a step. Alex turned her head and looked for the first escape route she could take. She saw Joe's SUV door still open, he didn't shut it. She looked back at Joe.

"Alex, we have to have our DNA tested. Come on. You can do this. I need to know if your mine, Alex please." Joe said.

"What then?" Alex asked as she backed up to where she was closer to Joe's truck towards the driver's side. "I won't be me anymore. I won't know who the fuck I am. I never asked for any of this shit." Alex turned and ran around Joe's driver's door to his SUV and jumped inside shutting the door and hitting the locks. She saw the keys hanging in the ignition and started the SUV.

"Shit! Alex, no!" Joe ran towards his truck just as Alex pulled out and almost hitting the car that was coming down the parking lane to find a place.

Alex stopped just in time and threw the car in gear and took off.

Joe saw Bobby going for the thing around his wrist again, Joe dove for it. "Don't turn that on and juice her you idiot. She'll wreck. I'll kill you if anything happens to her, give it here." Joe growled at him.

Bobby took the receiver off his wrist. "You can't track her from here. Only through the control room." He tossed the receiver to Joe. "It's off, I didn't get a chance to turn it back on."

Joe grabbed it and shoved it in his pocket. "Give me your keys. I'm commandeering your vehicle and your phone."

"Damn Morelli, don't do this." Bobby said.

"Now." Joe told him, "Or I'll bust your ass for something Brown."

"Shit!" Bobby handed over the keys to the SUV and his phone. "I want it back."

"You'll get it back; go get the swab kit from the doctor. If he won't give it to you think of something." Joe ran to the SUV and got inside. He started it up then dialed his cell phone that he had tossed on the passenger seat.

Come on Alex, answer my phone. Come on! Joe thought. Joe pulled out of the parking lot and saw his SUV up ahead about three blocks and losing him. He put his foot down on the gas to follow her. Joe looked at the gas gauge on the SUV almost a full tank. He smiled, he only had a quarter of a tank of gas. He hung up the phone and dialed again.

Alex heard the phone and picked it up. She looked at the number and the name, she read Angie Morelli and answered the phone.

"Hello?"

"Who is this? Where is my Joseph?" Mrs. Morelli asked.

"Uh…Joseph is at the hospital." Alex said. "Who are you?"

"Don't sass me, tell me who this is. I'm Joseph's mother. Why would my Joey be in the hospital?"

Alex pulled the phone away from her ear and read the name again and then stopped at the light. "I didn't say in the hospital, I said at the hospital. I'm no one."

I can't tell her who I am. I don't know who I am. Alex thought.

"No one. Smart mouth. A no one wouldn't be allowed near my Joseph's phone. Now tell me your name." Demanded Mrs. Morelli.

"No!" Alex hung up the phone. What a bitch for a mother! Damn! Alex thought. She started going again as the light turned green. Alex reached for the dial on the radio and turned it on.

"Ugh! What is this shit?" Alex looked at the dial and groaned. "I can't believe he listens to this." Alex saw that a cd was in and popped it out. The phone rang again and Alex looked at the readout. Bobby Brown, "Don't want to talk to you?"

Alex turned down the next street and then pulled out the cd and read the name on it, Buddy Holly. "Yuck, some old fart. God what a sick taste in music. He can't be my father, I'd die if I had to listen to this shit." Alex rolled down the window and tossed the cd out on the road. "No more Holly." She laughed. "Die Holly, die."

The phone rang again and she saw the same Morelli name again. "No way grandma! You are way too bitchy."

Alex turned on the radio, the oldies were playing. She looked at the radio and then found an alternative rock station. When the phone rang again she looked at the readout. It said, Stephanie Plum. Alex answered the phone.

"Morelli's mortuary, you stab 'em we slab 'em." Alex answered.

Alex heard a snort on the other end. "Um…Where's Joe? I need to talk to Joe. This was an improvement from the normal uh, I normally get." Stephanie laughed.

"At the hospital." Alex told Stephanie. "He sort of can't come to the phone. Where are you?"

"I'm at the mall watching Lester being cuffed. He's going to jail; I was trying to call Joe to see if we can get him out since he's supposed to be with you until your court hearing." Stephanie told her.

To jail! Alex thought and pulled over the SUV. No, no, no. Bobby said he went to pay Hal back. Please don't have killed him; I don't trust Bobby or Joe like I do Lester.

"What did he do?" Alex asked as she choked back the lump that was starting to form in her throat.

"He beat the shit out of Hal; they rushed him to the hospital. Collapsed lung that we know of so far. Hal isn't the one pressing the charges so far, it's a mall cop who is. I really need to talk to Joe. Which hospital?" Stephanie asked.

"I don't know. I just got in Joe's SUV and took off, he left the door open and his phone was on the passenger seat. He's with Bobby." Alex said. Alex leaned her head on the steering wheel. "I don't want Lester to go to jail."

Joe saw his SUV was pulled over on the side of the road. He stopped Ranger's SUV and got out and ran over to his driver's door. He saw Alex had her head on the steering wheel, he opened the door.

My stomach is a mess already; she's going to drive me insane. I can't help what is happened to her already. God I want to make this right for her. Joe thought.

"Alex? Are you okay?" Joe asked her.

He saw Alex hand his phone to him, "Talk to Steph."

What happened? I don't like that hurt sound to her voice. Joe thought.

He took the phone. "What is it Stephanie?" He asked. He listened as Stephanie filled him in on the details of what transpired at the mall. Joe leaned on the truck's driver's door as he kept his eyes on Alex. "I'll see, I can't promise anything. Yet."

Joe hung up the phone. "Hey, look at me, Alex."

Alex lifted her head off the steering wheel, he saw the tears streaming down her cheeks. Son of Bitch! She likes him, either that or…shit I'm not going there. Joe thought. If she's mine there is no way I'll let him be with her now, she's too young. Think Joe, get her back where she needs to be right now.

"I'll get Santos out of jail, as long as you come back with me for the DNA test. Do we have a deal?" Joe asked.