Twenty two

Jody came running into the living room. "Kingsley is here. He knows about the presents," she said. She looked terrified. Carmen jumped up.

"Ok, we need to get everything together," she said.

Elektra glared. "you can't take presents back once they've been given," she said. Carmen glared at her and she reluctantly handed over the MP3. Everyone else began running round, finding all the bits they had been given and taking them to Carmen's room. Jessie and Tee watched. Jody was terrified, quite clearly, of her brother. Jessie thought about it. Her brother was terrifying, she'd seen him when she'd opened the door that morning to Jody's mum and brother and Rob. Jessie thought there was more to it than that. Tee went after Jody and Carmen to help her pack. Jessie headed out into the entrance hall and sat down on the sofa opposite the office. Rick and Tyler started coming down the stairs. They stood leaning over the stair banister behind Jessie, waiting. Jody's mum and brother came out the quiet room. They stood with Mike and rob. Jessie, Rick and Tyler just sat and watched. Kingsley was looking at them suspiciously. Soon the other kids were joining Tyler and Rick on the stairs. Eventually everyone was there and they were just waiting for Jody. Kingsley started to look impatient as Jody finally brought her bags down the stairs and dropped them at Kingsley's feet.

"I'm packed," Jody said quietly. Kingsley picked up her big bag with all the electricals in.

"Come on then Jody," he said. He was showing all the right signs but Jessie didn't like the tone he was speaking in. Everyone followed them out to say goodbye, everyone except Tee which Jessie did notice.

Jody was hugging everyone and when she hugged Gina, her mum prised her off and got her to get in the car. The car drove away and everyone went back inside. Jessie and Rick went down to the kitchen. "I didn't like it. There was something about the way Jody and Kingsley acted with each other," Jessie told Rick. They were alone in the kitchen. Rick nodded.

"You know what Jessie I agree. But I'm not sure what," he said. Jessie thought about it. Carmen walked in on her mobile.

"she's not picking up," she said. Jessie shrugged.

"Give her time. I mean she's probably only just got home," Rick told her. Carmen nodded and phoned the mobile again.

In fact for most of the day and night Carmen was on the phone trying to call Jody. The next morning she still wasn't answering. "What if they've found the mobile?" someone suggested.

"Even if they had why are they not letting her answer it? I mean we gave everything back," Carmen said.

Tee looked guiltily at them from behind the worktop. "What if something had gone missing?" she suggested. Everyone spun round to face her, suspicious. "Ok, I took the tablet," she admitted.

"When?" Carmen asked angrily.

"When Jody felt ill," Tee replied. Jessie stood up and went and stood next to her.

"Well done Tee. Because of you Jody could be getting hurt," Carmen said. Jessie wrapped her arm around Tee.

"I'll go and return it," she said, almost crying.

"You don't know where she lives," Carmen said.

"We could take her though," Tyler suggested.

"Yeah but they know what we look like. We need someone who they haven't met before," Carmen said. As she said that Lily walked in and everyone in the kitchen smiled.

"What?!" Lily asked.

Half an hour later

Tee, Carmen, Tyler and Jessie were hiding behind a skip watching Lily approach Jody's house. Jessie was only there as an extra layer of protection being one of the oldest. The door opened and Lily was talking to the mum. The door slammed in her face and Lily ran back to where everyone was hiding. "Not in apparently," Lily said.

Carmen started panicking. "But what if they are hurting her?" she said. Just then they saw a face appear at Jody's bedroom window. It was Jody. "Jody!" Carmen shouted. Lily grabbed Carmen and pulled her back behind the skip.

"Shh. Her mum will hear you," Lily told her. Jessie nodded.

"We need another plan," Jessie said and they started plotting. Next thing Jessie knew she was stood outside Jody's house, waiting for a text message from Carmen to knock on the door. Jessie had been picked to do this as she was wearing a black skirt and a coloured shirt so looked a little bit like a business person. She also had a pair of glasses that Carmen had brought with her from the dressing up box. She felt her phone vibrate on her pocket and so Jessie knocked loudly on the front door. It was a distraction to take away from the noise the back door would make when they opened it.

The plan was that Tyler and Carmen were going to go inside the house, return the tablet and try and get Jody out. However the back door made an awful noise when it was opened so Jessie's distraction would provide the cover-up for the noise. They would leave the back door almost completely closed until Mrs Jackson had returned to the living room then creep in.

The door opened and Jessie smiled sweetly. "Hello, I'm from BT. I was inquiring about your broadband," Jessie said in her best posh voice. Mrs Jackson glared at her. "I'll come back another day then," Jessie said turning away from her before she could figure out where she'd seen Jessie before. Jessie heard the door close as she walked away from the house. She hoped Tyler and Carmen were ok. She went and joined Tee and Lily and waited. Tee spotted a car and Jessie pulled Lily down. Tee explained that it was Jody's brothers. While Tee phoned Carmen, Jessie phoned Gina and asked her to come and help them. There was a long pause where nothing happened. The Tyler appeared flashing his torch out the window. Tee phoned Elektra and got Gus to translate. Tee was saying things like flash and flashy but Jessie could differentiate between dot and dash, just. Gina turned up and they went and saved Tyler, Carmen and Jody. Jessie was relieved to see Jody safe and pleased to see that at least one of her brothers was concerned for her.

A/N: I liked this story a lot when I saw it on the TV. I know the words aren't completely true to the story but I was... paraphrasing without access to a continuous loop of TDG. Indigo :)