Son
Chapter Fourteen
I'm going to leave you hanging a little while longer as to what happens to Jake, Kyle, and Bridgette at the hands of the crazy Jamie and Anna. And I really haven't added Horatio in here much so we'll go back to him. At least for a little bit. I'll try to make it a little longer than the last few chapters.
Horatio stared intently on the screen as Ryan reviewed the tapes from the detention center. The quality was horrible. A silver hummer appeared in the bottom of the screen, parking mostly out of view. A woman got out of the drivers seat, the back of her to the camera. She walked out of frame. A few seconds later the back door opened and a man exited, quickly moving behind the vehicle. It seems like forever before the man gets out from behind the hummer, entering the drivers seat. A baseball cap hid his face when he looked in the direction of the camera. The hummer finally peels out.
Ryan sighed, rubbing his eyes. This was the tenth time he had watched the video with Horatio present. It was another dozen times before he had arrived. They weren't able to see their faces in any of the tapes they had.
"Did you get the tapes from the parking garage?" Horatio asked still looking at the screen.
He nodded, inserting one of the tapes from the garage.
This time the quality was a little better.
"Fast forward to when Bridgette and Jake arrive."
Ryan did as he was told, fast forwarding until the Ranger popped into screen. He pressed play. The Ranger pulled into a spot just out of view. A silver hummer slowly drove past them speeding up around the turn.
Horatio frowned. Same hummer as the one at the detention center.
Bridgette glanced over her shoulder before saying something to Jake. He nodded as the two of them headed to the door. The same woman from earlier jumped out from behind a beam catching the teens off guard. She quickly grabs Bridgette placing a knife to her throat. Half of the woman's face was visible. She laughed glancing at the camera.
Ryan paused it at the moment she was looking directly at the camera.
"Anna Thompson."
Ryan turned and looked at him. "You know her?"
He kept looking at the woman on the screen before nodding. "I killed her husband years ago. He was involved in a Human Trafficking Ring."
Slowly, Ryan nodded focusing back on the screen. He played the video again. Bridgette brought her heel down Anna's leg getting away for a brief moment. The teens ran only to be stopped by a man coming out from around the corner, a pistol pointed right at them. Again he paused the tape and zoomed in on the man's face.
"Look familiar, H?"
Horatio frowned trying to remember the face. "Jamie Vern. His son was part of a drug smuggling ring. Attacked one of the officers when we raided their warehouse."
"You kill him?"
He somberly nodded. "They're after revenge. Mr. Wolfe... go back to when we first see the silver hummer."
Ryan did as he was told.
"Freeze it when the license plate comes into view."
Again, he did so. He zoomed in and cleaned up the picture.
Horatio was already on the phone repeating the plate number. Ryan turned around to find he had already left the room.