Paternal Bonds

Disclaimer: I don't own iCarly. I keep it simple.

A/N: Thoughts in "Italics" and regular speech in "Regular font." Only applied if in quotes.

A/N: By the way, everybody is 26 in this story, except Spencer who would be older. I doubt he'll be mentioned much. Please read this regardless of their age. It will all make sense, I promise. They have to be this old in the story.

Chapter 13 (Bloodhounds On the Trail)

"Look, I'm sorry you're getting tired of waiting for the attack to begin, Valerie," Jonah said as he talked into a radio. "Yes, I'm getting tired of it too, I'm also getting tired of the fact that you aren't telling us where Sam is being held, we all are!"

"Hey, Hector doesn't trust me, just like he didn't trust you, Jonah! He moves his bases nearly every goddamn week!" Valerie exclaimed. "This week has been really sporadic and this time it was Freddie that said to remain conspicuous until he can find out how to take down Hector. I'm so tempted to set Sam out of here, I mean god…Whatever happened to the paternal promises, this is so wrong. Ugh, I couldn't have made a more convincing act, do you think Freddie will be mad at me?"

"Heh, I really have no clue. As long as you didn't injure Sam in any way."

"I've never hurt her, I just had to sound cruel and evil, but it's getting harder to bear with this and I think the others are starting to get suspicious." Valerie paused a moment and then started to speak. "And what the hell took you ten years to find Carly?"

"She's an actress, it was hard to finally get into contact with her."

"Ten whole years!"

"Hey, I started out very much like you, angry and mad at Sam. I'm just the one that got sick first and I'm the one that dropped out."

"And forced me to stay in this thing!"

"Hey, you don't know what they did to me when I dropped out, I didn't want you to have to go through that…"

"I'm sorry…but hey, why did it take so long for you to get to her? Why didn't you just go after Freddie?"

"Carly can talk to Freddie and he'll have a better reasoning when talking to her, if I were to go to him…do you not remember who got beat up when he acted like an asshole and tried to get his girlfriend's best friend to kiss him?"

"Oh yeah, that was you."

"Yeah, thanks for the sympathy." Jonah sighed and shook his head. "The reason it took so long was because of media, bodyguards, directors and a whole lot of other things that were in the way. It took a while to plan how I'd manage to get a word in to her edgewise."

"And she didn't believe you when you told her it was Hector Puckett, right?"

"Remember that I just contacted her about two weeks ago, and no she didn't believe it was him. Neither did Freddie when she told him. Though he started to suspect him, he contacted us just yesterday to say that he believed it was without a doubt Hector and he wanted to try and find where Hector was."

"I could start the attack, uh…he's been ambushed by the old lady."

"I see, well then he will contact us probably…"

"Hector's strange this year, I think he let his guard down. Every year before, each of us was on strict surveillance, which is why it was always hard to contact you, I could never tell anyone where Hector was. Hector himself is not even here, I don't know where he is."

"I want you to be extremely careful then, Valerie. Look, I don't want anything to happen to you, who knows what that bastard could do if he found out you were a traitor as well."

"Yeah…I'm actually not all that comfortable being the only female here. Seeing Sam tortured on a day to day basis has always scared me out of ever saying or doing anything, but I'm losing it here. Just tell me when to begin the assault on this damn place and I-"

"No! You will not try to get Sam out on your own, I forbid it!"

"But Jonah! Freddie's been captured, there's no way we can get Sam out if his group is captured." Jonah sighed as he heard a bang from Valerie's end and then a sob. "I can't take it anymore, Jonah. I can't act all evil. I'm no actress, I'm just a girl who has been watching another girl being tortured for ten years and raped during this time! I can't stand it!"

"Shh, its okay Valerie, you'll be fine. Hey, I'll talk to Carly and her bodyguard, Briggs…" Jonah shuddered at that thought, it was Mrs. Briggs that was Carly's bodyguard and through her he managed to finally talk to Carly. "I'll talk to them about possibly beginning the attack, just try to hold on, we'll be there soon. Valerie, hold on just a little while longer, just a little longer and I'm coming. If you want to avoid suspicion, then stay away from Sam because I know it'll be hard for you to avoid being nice to her and breaking down. I don't want anything to happen to you, so just stay where you are and when the time is right, we'll ask you for your assistance."

"I think I could try to tell you where the place is now, but what's hard about it is that none of us here really know where we're at. Every time Hector moves his base, he pretty much blindfolds us and stuff so we don't know where we are. All I know is…this is the biggest mansion in America."

"You're not exaggerating?"

"Have you ever seen a mansion that looks like a castle going up almost as high as the empire state building?"

"Hmm…" Jonah rubbed his chin and the door burst open.

"I AM NOT SHALLOW!" Carly exclaimed with clenched fists. Jonah looked at Carly and chuckled.

"I'm sorry?"

"Who are you talking to on your radio? I've been trying to contact you damn it!"

"Actually I was on with Valerie."

"Hey Carly," Valerie said from the watch.

"Hey Val, you do know that Freddie's a tad upset with you."

"A tad!" Freddie's voice exclaimed from Carly's watch. "Dude, could you be any more convincing? You sounded like a total bitch around Sam, how the hell would she believe that you are on our side!" Valerie sighed from her side of the watch.

"I'm sorry," Valerie said quietly. "Just please do something."

"Oh we're doing something," Carly said as Mrs. Briggs stepped into the room. "We're going to Arkansas, then we are going to find Hector Puckett, then we are getting Sam out of this hell that she's been under for ten years! Jonah, I just wish you would have gotten to me earlier."

"I COULDN'T!" Jonah exclaimed. "I kept being run off whenever I got close."

"Heh, you should have contacted me," Mrs. Briggs said with a smirk. She placed a large briefcase on the table and looked around. Carly and Jonah clicked off their watches and Mrs. Briggs patted the suitcase with her hand. "We're going to have to work fast. I'm still not pleased with being awakened at six in the morning."

"Did you honestly sleep?" Jonah asked while rubbing his chin. "I personally couldn't see myself sleeping. Oh and how was I supposed to know you were Carly's bodyguard?"

"She's my lead bodyguard," Carly said with narrow eyes. Carly sighed and placed a large piece of paper on the table, it was a drawn map of a house. "Okay, here's what Freddie and the others described the map as. A lot of the inside rooms they don't know about." Carly pointed to two ends of the house. "There's a front door and the back door has three dead dogs in it."

"Freddie killed dogs?" Jonah asked with a raised eyebrow.

"No you idiot…it was Freddie's mom." Jonah took a second to process that and then started laughing.

"Man that sounds so appropriate!"

"Yeah, she's not as crazy as she lets on." Jonah nodded and let out a sigh.

"Normally I'd want to go for Sam and Valerie first, but right now I think Freddie is the only one Sam still has any trust for. She loves that guy, and he has to be the one to get her out." Carly nodded her head and Mrs. Briggs investigated the map.

"Okay, Mrs. Puckett told us that there were two bodyguards," Carly said while looking over the map. "He said they came around the sides of the house, so I think they either guard the front of the house or the sides of the house."

"So we shouldn't attack from the front or the sides?" Mrs. Briggs asked.

"I think that's the case, Mrs. Benson also told us that they saw a fourth dog in the back, chained to a post. It was a big dog with a loud bark."

"So the back is also off limits," Jonah said with a sigh. "We could attack from underground."

"Be serious, Jonah, that would be foolish."

"There's only one way to get in," Mrs. Briggs said quietly. "We need to pull Santa Claus and sneak in under the eagle eye of that old woman."

"Hey, I'm not dressing up as a fat guy in a red suit with a white beard," Jonah said.

"Be serious!" Carly said quickly as she slapped the back of Jonah's head. "And if you had to, you would."

"Yeah that's true."

"Now an air attack, we can't use a helicopter, those are too much."

"Didn't Freddie say to contact his pilot?" Mrs. Briggs asked. "That man can come pick us up, give us parachutes and when we're flying over the spot, we can land on top of the woman's house."

"In daylight we would be spotted by the hound dogs, aka, the bodyguards." Carly rubbed her chin. "Well there are three of us, so each of us could do something. Someone would have to distract the hound dogs and another would have to distract the old lady while another got into the house and probably knocked the old lady out."

"We should call them bloodhounds, that sounds so much better," Jonah said with a grin.

"You're an idiot."

"What?"

"Hound dogs, lackeys, morons, that's what we call them. We are the bloodhounds. Bloodhounds: fierce, loyal, sharp, and tricky, that's us."

"Oh whatever, it doesn't matter."

"Right." Carly stood up straight and smirked. "Well, I think it's time I star in a real action tale. Let's commence operation: Save Freddie."

"Tell me you don't have a name for every step." Carly closed her eyes and held her smirk.

"The next step is operation: Rescue Sam."

"Whatever…"

"Anyway, let's contact Freddie's pilot." Carly crossed her arms and opened her eyes. "Beware when the bloodhounds come calling for you."

Carly's brigade is moving out, let's see what happens. I am posting the chapters now because in the morning I'll be playing with my cousins