Chapter 10.

Cate and Kelly headed towards the door of the truck station where they saw the companys name printed on it 4 Leaf Trucking.

'Calum must be trying to connect to his heritage.' Cate snorted as she opened the door entering in with Kelly right behind her. They walked passed men carrying boxes, paper work, heading out the door behind them. 'Two less to worry about.' Cate said quietly to Kelly who nodded in response.

'Caitlin!' Calum called from his office. He smiled a wide smile holding his arms out open wide. 'How nice you came to visit! Come on in here!' Calum called out beckoning Cate and Kelly in.

'Why don't you come out here Calum, more welcoming space out here.' Cate offered.

Calum lowered his arms tilting his head to one side he smiled a sly smile, nodding he slowly walked out of his office meeting Cate and Kelly in the centre of the building floor.

'So, you finally found your way here.' He said as he walked towards them. 'And you brought a friend, but wait she's more than that isn't she Caitlin.' Calum said in a tone that made Kelly feel instantly uneasy and on edge.

'Back off Calum.' Cate said as she moved in front of Kelly protecting her for Calum's glare.

'Now I'm only being polite Cate, no need to get all defensive, I just want to meet your sister.' Calum smiled looking at Cate from under his eyebrows making Cate's defences raise even higher. 'You don't seem surprised that I know that little bit of information, thought you might have mentioned it at our first gathering this week.'

'Well I was a little distracted by your friends now wasn't I?' Cate quipped back. Amused by this Calum moved away from the sisters taking a pack of cigarettes from his pocket he took one of the cigarettes from the packet and lit it whilst still watching the sisters.

'So, you've learned of your brother's true business with me.' He said between puffs on his cigarette. 'I take it you're not happy about it.'

'You take it right.' Kelly said moving to the side of Cate.

'She speaks!' Calum tormented.

'Oh she speaks Mr. McKee and a lot more besides.' Kelly said flatly a cold look in her eyes. Kelly despised this man, a term she used loosely for him, and wanted him put away for a long time.

'So, what's the play here Cate?' Calum asked tossing his cigarette end to the floor and stamping it out. 'Have you come to take me away? Got the police waiting outside for me and my men?'

'Something like that yeah, but I want some info from you first.'

'Oh, really...'

'Really. Where is she Calum?' Cate said coming straight to the point.

'Where's who?' Calum asked

'Don't play games with me Calum.' Cate warned taking slow steps forward closer towards Calum.

'Tell me the rules and I'll know the game.' Calum sneered back. Before Kelly could stop her, Cate lunged towards Calum this time catching him by surprise, grabbing him; Cate spun Calum around throwing him to the floor.

'Where's my niece Calum?' Cate demanded standing over Calum. Calum seeing stars for a moment stayed silent before sweeping Cate's legs out from under her sending her crashing to the ground.

'I don't know anything about your niece Cate, I promise you.' Calum said still flat on his back.

'You're giving me your word?'

'That I am. I've never lied to you Cate, I'm not about to start now. If your niece is missing that's down to your brother not me.' Calum said as he got up off the floor. Standing over Cate he held out his hand to her.

'Cate?' Kelly questioned cautiously as her sister took Calum's hand. Kelly had her revolver in hand, trained on Calum carefully watching every move he made as he helped Cate to her feet.

'It's all right.' Cate said to Kelly, keeping eye contact with Calum as she did. 'You're telling me that my brother, without your knowledge, had your men take my niece from her family?' Cate questioned Calum a mixed tone of disbelief and disappointment in her voice. Calum simply nodded his head now very aware that Kelly was training a gun on him. 'Where would they take her?'

'Where was your family when your niece was taken?'

'They were in a park in L.A. not too far from the beach and the amusement park.' Cate explained. At the mention of the amusement park Calum's eyes widened. 'You know where they'll have her don't you?' Cate asked stepping towards him.

'Some of the men who are on my payroll run the L.A. sector of my company. It's a smaller place that only houses a couple of trucks but she'll be there.'

'Why there?' Kelly asked still holding pointing her gun at Calum.

'Because the building runs off of the back of the amusement park, she'll be there, I'd bet my life on it.'

'You are.' Cate stated

'Despite everything I may have done Cate, I would never kidnap a child. Far too risky, and, far too many years on a sentence if you get caught.' Calum said with a slight smirk.

'Address Calum, give me the address.' As Calum began to open his mouth to give the address the stack of packing crates and plastic drums that stood behind Kelly, Cate and Calum began to topple towards them.

'Look out!' Calum called noticing them out of the corner of his eye. All three of them turned towards the danger before making a move to get out of its way. Calum grabbed Cate by her jacket throwing her and him to the floor away from the toppling crates, Kelly threw herself away from the danger. Crates and drums crashed to the floor creating clouds of dust. As the dust settled Calum and Cate, unharmed, began to pick themselves up from the ground coughing and spluttering the dust from their throat and lungs. Hearing the side door open they both turned to see who had entered, Sabrina and Kris with guns raised rushed through to see what had happened.

'You OK?' Sabrina called rushing towards them.

'Fine, where's Kelly?' Cate asked looking across the mess of crates and drums.

'Over here!' Kris called. Running towards her Cate's heart began to pick up speed with fear as she saw her sister lying unconscious on the ground, her legs caught underneath some of the crates.

'Kelly! Kelly, can you hear me?' Sabrina said to her friend as she checked her vitals. Kelly wasn't responding but Sabrina found that she was breathing and had a strong pulse. 'She's alive. Let's get these crates off of her and get her out of here.' Sabrina said. As the Angel's began to help Kelly they heard a fight going on behind them, turning they saw Bobby and Calum having an all out brawl.

'Are you insane having your niece kidnapped!' Calum yelled at Bobby between blocks and punches.

'But it wasn't me Calum, to the police and your men it was you not me and this mess here is all you as well.' Bobby yelled back kicking Calum to the floor.

'You're wrong Bobby.' Kris said approaching them. 'We know the truth Bobby, we know what you've been up to, what you've been planning and trying to do to your own family and we'll stop you.' Kris stated just as Bobby held Calum in a headlock after knocking the wind out of his lungs with a lucky punch.

'I'd like to see you try.' Bobby sneered as he threw Calum in to Kris sending both to the floor. Cate watching over what was happening watched as Bobby made a run for it.

'Go.' Sabrina said. 'Go, we'll take care of Kelly, just go get him and be careful.' Cate sprinted off after her brother as Kris and Calum picked themselves up off the ground.

'Do you smell that?' Kris asked Calum looking around at the ground. They both spotted the culprit together and the canister it was pouring from, turning to look at each other they both had the same look of fear in their eyes.

'Gasoline!' The pair called together. Rushing to Sabrina they helped her get Kelly up from off of the ground.

'Here, let me take her.' Calum offered. The two Angel's looked at one another unsure and surprised. 'It's all right, I won't hurt her.'

'You're a surprising kind of man Mr McKee.' Sabrina said cocking her eyebrow at him. 'You'd help us, not try to kill us? You'll forgive me if I find that hard to believe.'

'There's a lot going on here that has nothing to do with me and I'll do a lot to try and lessen the charges that'll be brought against me, besides she means a lot to Cate.' Calum said nodding towards Kelly.

'That she does.' Sabrina agreed. 'All right you take Kelly, but I'm warning you McKee.'

'No warnings necessary.' Calum said picking up Kelly.

'Right, he wouldn't want to hurt his best bargaining chip to make the cops and lawyers go a little easier on him.' Kris said looking at Calum through determined eyes.

'The law, yeah this will look good their eyes.' Calum began as he headed towards the door. 'But Caitlin's wrath, now that's something to be afraid of.' Sabrina and Kris looked to one another as they followed after Calum out of the building.

Bobby ran up a slope that headed towards the raised back area of the building and the storage space throwing anything he could in to Cate's path to stop her from catching him.

'Bobby stop, this is crazy just stop!' Cate called after her brother as she dodged another plastic barrel tossed towards her. 'I don't understand Bobby, why do this to the family, why have your own niece taken from her family? Do you really hate us all that much? What happened Bobby what did we do?' Cate called after him as he stopped running his back still towards her. 'Tell me Bobby, please, help me understand.' Cate pleaded.

'Do you know what the last thing dad said to me before he died?' Bobby asked still with his back to Cate.

'How could I, I wasn't there.'

'Exactly, you weren't there. We were, his family, his children.' Bobby spat out, his hands pulled in to tight fists, anger coursing through him as he turned to finally face Cate. 'Yet he asked for you. I told him you couldn't be there we all did.'

'I know this Bobby. Is this what all of this is about, it makes no sense.'

'No, what this is about is the last conversation dad and I had. He told me how disappointed he was in me, how he wondered why I couldn't work as hard as my brothers and my sister. He couldn't understand why a child of his own blood was such a disappointment when a child who wasn't even his could make him so proud that he would boast to everyone about her and her accomplishments.'

'I won't apologise for that Bobby. I worked hard for everything I did in my life after coming in to your family. I worked doubly hard to repay mom and dad for everything they did for me.' Cate said defending herself.

'They're not your mom and dad!' Bobby yelled as he lunged toward Cate, grabbing her by her jacket and slamming her into the metal shelving that stood either side of them. Surprised by Bobby's attack Cate had no time to prepare herself to take the impact. Burning pain shot through her back and shoulder blades crying out in pain Bobby swung her round throwing Cate to the ground so that she collided with the base of the shelving causing small cardboard boxes and tin cans to fall off the shelves down on to and around Cate, thankfully they were empty not causing any harm except causing Cate's temper to begin to rise off the chart. Bobby saw his opportunity to run again heading back towards the main section of the warehouse. Cate swiftly got to her feet in hot pursuit of her brother.

'You've got no where to run to Bobby.' She called after him. 'The police are all around outside. Let me take you out, it'll be easier.'

'Yeah right!' Bobby called back. 'I'll find a way Cate I always do.' It was then Bobby saw it, the spill of gasoline on the floor. He ran for Calum's office hearing Cate's fast footsteps not far behind him. Coming out of the office Bobby hand in his hands what he was after, a lighter, lighting it he waited until Cate was close enough to him to see. As she approached Cate watched Bobby as he raised the lit lighter in his hand with an evil smirk across his face. 'Like I said I always find away.' Cate watched as he tossed the lighter to the ground, she saw the liquid on the floor guessing what it was she came to a fast halt as flames quickly shot up and around the main room. Cate dove for cover landing in the skip by the side of the slope, her dive was softened by broken down boxes, packaging and plastics, pulling herself up she searched the room for Bobby, the smoke was beginning to thicken making visibility poor and soon so would breathing be. Pulling herself out of the skip and jumping down to the ground she heard Bobby struggling with one of the doors to the far side of the building heading towards him Cate jumped and dodged the flames as best she could, beginning to cough and splutter as the smoke got thicker.

'He cut me out, his own son! Because of you!' Bobby shouted knowing Cate was approaching him from behind. 'He gave you what was rightfully mine! It should have stayed in the family.'

'It did Bobby, I couldn't take the money Dad left me I knew it wasn't right despite what dad had written and mom had said. I left the money in a trust for Rebecca. You see, it's in the family.'

'It should have come to me. How could he have put Danny in charge of my money like he was some kind of daddy substitute, it didn't work anyway.'

'You spoilt, good for nothing brat!' Cate spat at her brother, as flames grew stronger burning the insides of the building to cinders. 'If you had just tried, just really tried and showed Danny that you could work hard he could have given you your inheritance whenever he wanted and he was going to! All you had to do was work a little, to actually want to work to earn something not just expect it to be given to you, that's all dad was trying to teach you and look what you do instead and for what vengeance?!' Cate yelled.

'They turned their back on me in favour of you! You're not even real family you're just someone they took pity on, just picked up and couldn't bear to throw out again. You don't deserve our family.'

'And right now Bobby, neither do you.' Cate said in a low voice as crates and barrels began to crash to the ground engulfed in flames.

'Cate!' Kris yelled from the entrance of the building distracting Cate for a moment giving Bobby the break he needed to make another run. Running past Cate he aimed for the entrance and towards Kris. Cate followed suit with awesome speed. Kris saw the pair of them rushing towards her not looking as though either one was going to stop even for the door she moved quickly out of their way. Bobby ran but couldn't out run Cate as she jumped and made a flying tackle at her brother wrapping her arms around his back clamping his arms down to his side causing him to fall crashing over the doors threshold out on to the parking area outside of the building. The pair both tumbled over one another until they stopped with Cate having the upper hand with Bobby pinned underneath her.

'It's over Bobby.' She said slamming him to the ground when he attempted to get up. 'Just stop.' Cate ordered as Bobby continued to struggle.

'She's right son. Now, calm down, you're under arrest.' A police officer stated as he held his gun over Bobby. Two more officers came over to pick Bobby up off the floor as Cate got off him.

'I hate you! I've always hated you and the day you walked in to our home.' Bobby yelled at Cate as the police cuffed him, reading him his rights. Cate stood watching, Kris stood behind her.

'And yet all I tried to do was love you Bobby.' Cate said in a controlled voice.

'Go to hell. All of this, it's your fault, you're to blame. I hate you, do you hear me? I hate you!' Bobby spat out as he was dragged away to a police car. Cate continued to watch as the police officer placed his hand on Bobby's head as he was put in to the car.

'Are you ok?' Kris asked knowing full well it was a dumb question but the only thing she could think of suitable to ask.

'Where's my sister.' Was all Cate responded with as she turned her back on Bobby and headed back towards Sabrina and the ambulance she stood next to.