Chapter 6.

With the house empty the Angel's moved themselves from the back yard to the family room, surveying the damage that was left behind from the previous nights attack.

'I'm going to go outside and get some photo's of the tire marks left on the road out there. If we send it on to Bosley maybe he can find out some information on the car used?' Sabrina said as she picked up her camera heading out the front door. Kris and Kelly continued their focus on the wall where the bullets had ended up.

'Do you think the police left any behind?' Kris asked

'One way to find out.' Kelly said as she headed towards the inner garage door re-appearing from the garage with a stepladder. 'Let's get up there and have a look.' She said as Kris helped her set the ladder up. Kelly went up the ladder whilst Kris weighted and steadied the other side for her. With a small torch Kelly checked the first few holes she could reach with no luck. Moving on to the next selection of holes she found what they were looking for. 'Ah hah! Got one!' She called out just as Sabrina walked back in to the house closing the door behind her.

'They left us a bullet? How considerate.' Sabrina said as Kelly tossed it to her before she climbed back down the ladder. Folding it again Kris took them back to the garage.

'Well I would say that your run of the mill slug from an automatic weapon. Kris was damn lucky none of them hit her.' Sabrina said passing the bullet back to Kelly.

'I know but I don't think they meant to hit anyone anyway Bri, looking at the scatter pattern up there of bullet holes they just wanted to scare the hell out of us.'

'Well they succeeded at that.' Kris said coming back in to the room

'Did anyone see Bobby this morning?' Sabrina asked his absence dawning on her.

'No, I would imagine he skipped out last night before anyone noticed or could stop him. He probably cleared out after Cate had checked on everyone.' Kelly said sitting down on the couch placing the bullet on the coffee table in front of her.

'So where next?' Kris asked 'Do we go in search of Bobby, check on the bad guy's operation or see what the police have found out?'

'Well we had best see what the police have to say, if any thing and then move on to the bad guys.' Sabrina directed. Kris nodded her head in agreement they both turned to Kelly for her agreement but she was paying more attention to the bullet that laid on the table in front of her.

'Kel, you OK?' Sabrina asked her brow furrowed slightly with concern. Kelly lifted her head to look at her friends still slightly distracted but smiled anyway and nodded her head.

'Fine, the plan sounds good to me. Let's go.'

'Um, one problem, do we even have a car to use?' Kris asked.

'Yeah, Cate left the Mustang here for us, she took the family in the station wagon.' Kelly answered getting up to find the keys.

'Ok then let's go.' Sabrina said as the Angel's all grabbed their purses checking they each had their detective licences with them and revolvers. Charlie had gotten them clearance to take them with them on the plane before they had left L.A.

At the airport Danny helped Cate load the luggage on to a trolley as they made their way towards the building.

'There seems to be a lot more luggage here than is needed for you three.' Danny noted looking at his family who looked straight back at him. The penny dropped. 'Oh no, I'm not going. Cate I'm staying right here with you and your friends to help straighten Bobby out. I'm not gonna leave all of that for you to handle alone.'

'That's why I need you to go Danny. I love you for wanting to stay and be all big brotherly about it but I can't do my job, we can't do our job, if we're looking over our shoulders for you to make sure you're not in any trouble yourself.' Cate explained

'Me make trouble? Cate, Bobby's the one we're all uprooting ourselves for and separating the family.'

'It's not like they won't be coming back home Danny, it's just safer if you go to stay with my friends in L.A. I'd feel happier if you were there with them, Tessa, mom and especially Rebecca need you there with them than I do here. Here you'll only get in the way and I don't mean that to sound the way it did but..'

'What your sister is trying to say Robert is that she could concentrate more and feel safer on all accounts if you came and looked after the family in Los Angeles rather than stayed here in harms way.' Bette stepped in and explained. Danny still did not want to back down from his stubborn stance that was until his daughter took his hand, looked him straight in the eye.

'Please come with me daddy, I don't want to go to this strange Boswey's home without you.' Rebecca pleaded with her big puppy dog eyes. Danny looked down at his little girl then bent down and picked her up in a big hug. Looking at Cate with a dark look.

'That was low, even for you.' He said then carried on in to the airport pushing the luggage trolley still carrying Rebecca.

'You'd better get yourself back to your friends and sister.' Bette said taking her smaller bag from Cate. 'We have everything we need with us and your instructions where Mr. Bosley will meet us, go on, go.' Cate hugged her mother as she watched Tessa move after Danny and Rebecca. 'I'll talk to him don't worry. Now you be careful, be safe, don't do anything reckless or stupid and make sure you tell your friends that too, you hear me?' Bette demanded pulling her self up as tall as she could.

'Yes ma'am.' Cate said smiling. 'Call me when you get there, and don't worry we'll get this all figured out and you'll be home before you know it.' Cate hugged her mother once more before Bette turned and made her way in to the airport, Cate watched until she was out of sight then got back in to her car to start the drive back home. 'I hope the Angel's have found out something.' Cate said aloud to her self. As Cate got out on to the main road and drove for a while she noticed that someone was tailing her. 'Well now who have we got here?' Cate said as she turned her car down a quite street waiting to see if the black pick-up would follow her, it did. Continuing on Cate picked up her speed slightly as did the truck she began to manoeuvre as best she could in the heavy station wagon through the streets until she got to a point where she had no where to turn, she hadn't driven her home town for a while and a few things had changed, it seemed that the driver of the black truck had pushed her to where they wanted her. Swinging her car round to face the truck Cate's heart began to really pick up speed, the adrenaline started to pump, she was ready for whatever was to come next. The black truck stopped, out of it stepped a man in a tailored black suit, blue shirt, no tie and shiny black shoes. He looked to be as tall as Cate maybe a couple of inches taller, he had sun tanned skin and sandy blonde hair which was tied back in a slick, small pony tail. Cate thought he looked like something out of a martial arts movie with his styled hair and they way he held him self in his stance. It wasn't until he turned towards Cate and looked at her, removing his sunglasses, that she was shocked to see who it was that had been playing chase with her.

'Calum McKee.' She whispered. Slowly Cate opened her car door and got out stood behind her drivers side door with one leg still in the car she propped her arms across the top of the door and the car roof. Tilting her head to one side she watched for his next move. She didn't have to wait long.

'Hello Caitlin, been a long time. How's the world been treating you?' Calum said moving purposefully slowly towards her.

'It's been all the better without you in it Calum. You look like you've gone up in the criminal world.'

'That I have. No more shopping streets for picking pockets and fast grabs, it's all high end things for me now, but then you must already know that by now?' Calum taunted. Cate looked at him through confused squinted eyes.

'What are you talking about Calum?'

'He didn't tell you?'

'Who didn't tell me what?' Cate had a feeling of dread, as she feared she knew the answer.

'Bobby of course! Didn't he tell you about our little business dispute? He seems to have borrowed from me and doesn't wish to pay it back. Can you believe Cate, the rudeness of your older brother, thinking I wouldn't discover the missing money and items.' Calum explained a sickly sweet smile across his face. 'I did warn him that things could get very awkward if he didn't make payment with me.' That did it, that made Cate snap.

'You! That was your doing last night, firing guns in to my family's home!' Cate shouted moving swiftly towards Calum stopping fast when she heard the cocking of a gun.

'Easy there sweet C. We don't want any accidents between us now do we? I didn't think so.' Cate stood watching the driver of the truck who had quickly moved out of the drivers seat to aim his gun at her from across the hood of the truck. She lifted her hands out from the side of her body to show she wouldn't be reaching for any weapon. 'Now we didn't hurt anyone, we just wanted Bobby to realise we're not playing around here, he didn't seem to get that before.'

'You always were a nasty piece of work Mckee.'

'Now Caitlin let's not become insulting.'

'Insulting! You jumped up low life gangster.' Cate yelled, anger seething through her as, forgetting about the gun-toting henchman, she threw herself at Calum. Before she could even lay a breath on him Calum lifted his leg and kicked Cate square in her stomach sending her flying back to the ground. The air blasted out of her lungs Cate rolled to her side coughing and spluttering trying to catch a breath.

'Temper Cate, you never could control it.' Calum said flatly as he straightened his now roughed up jacket and shirt, pulling the cuffs of his sleeves down again so that the white of them just stuck out from his black suit jacket. 'Now, all I wanted was to say hello to you and to see how you were. I understand you didn't last long at the police academy but have now become a private detective with a very prestigious agency. Yet you don't seem to have changed, still short fused and picking fights in the streets, I really thought working for this Townsend agency you would have changed a little, become a little more dignified or lady like.' Calum taunted running his hands over his hair smoothing it. Cate still recovering, began to pull her legs up under her so that she could stand, using her car to steady her she got to her feet still trying to steady her breathing but keeping her eyes set on Calum.

'Oh, I've changed Calum, believe me I've changed.' Cate said standing up for her self against him as Calum smiled put his sun glasses back on turning he walked back to the truck waving to Cate as he did. 'I'll have you put back in jail Calum, just like last time, you know I will.' Cate called after him, now standing tall her jaw set she stared at his back anger rippling through every inch of her. Calum stopped in his tracks, turning his head to his right side he spoke.

'We'll see sweet C, we'll see.' Looking to his henchman he nodded his head 'nothing broken, nothing visible.' He said as he got in to the truck. Another man exited from the back of the truck, with the gunman, who had placed the gun down on the hood of the car, they made their way towards Cate both smirking. It had been years since Cate had heard that expression used but knew exactly what it meant and prepared her self for it. The two men both taller and larger than Cate stood slightly apart from each other surrounding her, the man to her right lunged at her forcing Cate to move out of his way but straight to the arms of the man to her left who in turn grabbed her around the waist, lifting her so that her legs were away from the ground and threw her to the ground. Cate quickly tried to get her self back to her feet when the man on her right put his left down on Cate's so that she couldn't get up, moving swiftly Cate brought right leg up and kicked the man squarely in to his left knee forcing the knee back on itself, the man cried out in pain and stumbled back giving Cate the opportunity to get up again only to be grabbed by the other man Cate thought looked like the Michelin man. Michelin man grabbed her by the shoulder of her jacket and punched Cate in her ribs causing her to double over giving Michelin man the opportunity to bring his linked fists down across her back forcing Cate to fall the ground. He then proceeded to kick her in her side flipping her on to her back, lifting his leg he was about to bring his foot down on to her stomach when Calum called for them.

'That's enough fun for now boy's. If you're lucky maybe will play this game again another time.' Michelin man grunted and turned as ordered and went back to the truck. The gunman, who's knee Cate had just mangled, staggered towards her as she lay on the ground trying to recover and pull her self back up to stand. As she began to get up, again using her car for leverage, the gunman grabbed her and pushed her hard against the cars front. Cate fell awkwardly slamming her upper body and then as she twisted from the pain rebounded her right side on the wing before crumpling back down to the ground. 'That's enough Thomas! Come on leave her be.' Calum shouted from the pick-up truck. Thomas sneered at Cate who lay still on the ground and staggered back to the truck clambering in to the back of it as the Michelin man put it in to gear and drove off.

Waiting for the sound of the truck to be distant Cate pushed her self up to a sitting position and sat with her back resting against her cars tyre. Breathing slowly and painfully Cate sat there for a while before attempting to get up and in to the car.

'Calum Mckee, that's just terrific Bobby, you could have worked for any other bad guy and you work for him. Just terrific.' Cate said aloud to her self as she attempted to get up, burning pain coursing through her as she did forcing her to sit back down again. 'Maybe I'll sit here just a little while longer.' Cate decided gently rubbing her hand back and forth across her rib cage.

'Well, that was a wasted hour.' Sabrina said slamming shut the car door as Kelly started the engine. 'Nothing, the police have nothing to go on, a random shooting, Random shooting! When is a shooting ever random?' Sabrina blasted, angrily slamming her hand in to the side apohulstry of the car.

'You know back home or in another bigger city where crime rates are high I could understand but here?' Kris commented from the back seat. 'Something's not right here in this town.'

'Certainly seems to be someone holding power and it doesn't seem to be the police.' Kelly said as she continued to keep her concentration on the road she was driving.

'Crime boss.' Sabrina said 'And Bobby's working for him.'

'Wait until we tell Cate what we've learned.' Kris said looking out the car window.

'Well, we don't have anything concrete yet,' Kelly said 'there might be some hope for Bobby and less disappointment for Cate.'

'I'm sorry Kel but the facts we do have point to organised crime and a boss at the top of the crime pyramid. Bobby has really gotten himself in serious trouble if this boss who ever he is has control of the local police.' Sabrina said pushing her hair back as she did, not liking having to say what she did. Kelly knew Sabrina and Kris were both right the evidence did point exactly to what they were thinking she just didn't like it and did not want to have to break the news to her sister or her family. The car fell silent for the rest of the journey back to the house. Kelly parked the car in the drive next to the station wagon Cate was home. The Angels' entered in to the house.

'Cate?!' Kelly called out

'In the kitchen.' Cate called back to her, the Angel's followed the voice to the back of the house and in to the kitchen where they found Cate sat at the kitchen table with her feet up on the seat next to her.

'Everything go OK?' Kris asked as she entered the room ahead of Kelly and Sabrina.

'Kind of.' Cate replied half smiling. 'How'd you all get on?'

'Well,' Kelly started and then stopped as she saw Cate resting an ice pack across her ribs. 'What happened?!' She asked rushing to Cate, kneeling down beside her taking the ice pack from her sister's hand moving her shirt up to reveal the bruises forming across her ribs.

'I bumped in to an old friend.' Cate said wincing slightly as Kelly carefully placed her fingers across her bruising.

'Pretty hard bump' Sabrina said looking painfully at Cate's bruises.

'What kind of an old friend did this to you?' Kris asked sitting in one of the chairs at the table opposite Cate.

Cate explained what had happened after she dropped her family off at the airport whilst the other Angel's sat around the kitchen table listening.

'So this Calum McKee,' Sabrina started 'He knew you when you were both teenagers?'

'Yeah, I'd run away from the foster family I was with after they got a little heavy handed and I ran in to Calum. He was like the Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist.'

'And you were Oliver?' Kris asked

'Hardly, he was Dodger and I was a light version. He was the worst kind of influence on me but at the time he and his crew offered me shelter, food and protection. Appealing to a kid on the run.' Cate explained thinking back on the time.

'So, what changed?' Kelly asked

'Mostly it was all pick pocketing and snatching from store fronts but Calum was always looking for something bigger. I drew the line at breaking and entering and any kind of robbery that involved violence which, he didn't like and that's when I first learnt of "nothing broken, nothing visible" their way of keeping you in line with one hell of a beating without making it visible to the outside world.

Calum decided one day to rob a small store, he'd been casing it for a while. I didn't want to do it I tried and fought hard not to but lost out. We went in to the store, five of us. Calum and couple of the other bigger guys threatened the storeowner while we had to grab as much as we could. Then Calum wanted money, he moved towards the cash register and that's when everything went horribly wrong. The store owner stood in Calum's way stopping him from getting to the money, Calum has a vicious temper and a short fuse, as the man wouldn't move Calum took a baseball bat that one of the other boys was holding and struck the man. He kept on hitting him until the man fell to the ground and stopped trying to get up again.' The kitchen was silent only the hum of the refrigerator could be heard.

'God, Cate this guy sounds like a psycho.' Kris said shocked by Calum's brutality at a young age.

'Yeah he's not exactly the most stable person.' Cate said moving slightly in her seat.

'What did you do?' Sabrina asked.

'Well, the others including Calum all ran. I couldn't, I couldn't stop what he had done not without him using the bat on me too but I knew I'd have to try and stop him from doing it again. I called the police and paramedics for the man. He was still alive and I stayed with him until the police and paramedics came. I got in to some serious trouble myself but with my testimony and help I gave the police it wasn't as bad as it could have been. I was sent back to the system, another State and another family, the Carter family and then everything changed.' Cate explained finishing her story. Cate got up slowly from her seat and moved to the kitchen sink to get a glass of water. The Angel's continued to watch her as she stood at the sink with her back to them, she wasn't proud of her past but she wasn't going to hide it either.

'What happened to Calum?' Kelly asked a dark look across her face.

'He went to jail for five years I think, could have been longer I'm really not sure by the time he was sentenced to jail time I was all ready here with my new family.'

'So, this is revenge then?' Kelly asked looking Cate straight in the eyes.

'I don't know Kel, I really don't. I don't think Calum had a grand plan to get back at me he's just not smart enough to plan something this thought out. I think fate had a lot to do with it.'

'Meaning what?' Sabrina asked.

'Meaning I think Calum ended up here in Oklahoma, but by the time he was here I was gone again moving on to a new part of my life. He didn't know I was here with a family, but he eventually stumbled upon the connection when Bobby started to work for his trucking company, his apparent legal operation that covered his illegal ones. He saw opportunity and Booby's stupidity and grabbed at it.'

'He's certainly not the Artful Dodger anymore.' Kris said looking down at her hands on the kitchen table.

'No, sounds like he's grown in to a Bill Sykes.' Kelly unhappily said.

"It also looks like we now have our crime boss.' Sabrina said moving to stand next to Cate facing her friends.

'Ok, so what next?' Kris asked looking around the room. Everyone's face was blank.

'Good question, Calum knows I work for Charlie, but I don't think he knows much else.' Cate said.

'So he may not know we're here working to have him put away. Well if that's so it could work extremely well in our favour.' Sabrina said.

'He knows that I know he had his men shoot at the house, he'll be expecting something to happen. He knows it won't be the police, I'd say he'll be expecting us to move in at sometime in some way.' Cate unhappily said placing her glass in to the sink.

'What should we try then?' Kris asked turning her self in her chair so that she faced Cate and Sabrina.

'Do you really think Calum is the head man in his organisation?' Kelly asked still with a dark look across her face.

'One way to find out.' Sabrina said looking down at her feet. 'Let's get Charlie to give us the latest information on this guy, see what he's been up to in the last few years. If we know what he's moving around in those crates of his and where they're going maybe we can trap him in his own game?' Sabrina suggested.

'Best plan we have so far, I'll head in to the office and try to get Charlie on the phone.' Kelly said moving from her seat out of the room. The three Angel's left in the kitchen could all see from Kelly's face that she was not happy.

'She looks angry' Cate noted knowing her sisters expressions pretty well now.

'I'll talk to her.' Sabrina said 'Why don't you two go to Bobby's place and collect his paper work from his trips he must keep a book or something like that for his record of hours.' She suggested.

'Ok, we may as well bring him back here if he's there.' Kris said 'At least that way we can get some answers to some questions we have about Calum's merchandise.' Kris said moving from her seat to stand in front of her friends.

'Let's see if he's there first. Mom has his house key hanging in the hallway with the others.' Cate said heading out of the kitchen her right hand held across her left side as she moved, Kris not far behind her.

'You sure you're up to this?' Kris asked watching Cate as she took Bobby's keys off the hook they hung upon.

'I'll be fine Kris, doesn't hurt as much now as it did earlier.' Cate smiled at Kris as she spoke. 'Let's go see if my brother is at home. You mind driving?'

'Do I mind driving the Mustang? Nope can't say I mind that at all.' Kris said smiling from ear to ear taking the car keys from Cate's hand.

'Good, let's go then.' Kris lead the way as Cate picked up her jacket on the way out of the house.

From the office window Kelly watched Kris and Cate walk across the drive to the car.

'You OK?' Sabrina asked as she entered the room.

'Look at them both. Carrying on as though nothing has happened.' Kelly said not taking her eyes off of the scene at the front of the house, Sabrina moved next to her to watch also.

'It's the way Cate does things, you know that.' Sabrina said placing her hand on Kelly's shoulder to comfort her. They continued to watch as Kris motioned to help Cate put her jacket on who in return moved away from her to do it her self, the discomfort visible in her face. Getting in to the car the pair drove off.

Kelly moved from the window to sit on the small leather couch leaning forward and lowering her head to rest on her hands.

'I haven't called Charlie yet.' She said not looking at Sabrina.

'I didn't think you would have.' Sabrina stayed by the window watching her friend. 'What are you thinking Kel?' She asked.

'That I'd like to take this Calum guy and return the beating he had put on my little sister ten fold.' Kelly said lifting her head to look at Sabrina a determined dark look in her eyes, so determined and dark that it unsettled Sabrina, it was rare that she ever heard or saw Kelly act this way.

'I want him to Kel, but you know that's not how we work. We'll bring him down, I promise, him and his whole operation. But we'll do it the right way.' Sabrina said in her best team leader tone.

'That just doesn't seem like enough sometimes.' Kelly said tilting her head to one side as she spoke looking at Sabrina angry eyes.

'Kelly I…'

"We'd better phone Charlie.' Kelly said cutting Sabrina said moving for the phone. Picking up the receiver she dialled out. 'Charlie? It's Kelly.'