Thank you all for the wonderful reviews. Well it is December. Where in the world did this year go? I hope each of you had a nice Thanksgiving and was able to spend time with your loved ones.
Wow, Christmas is right around the corner. I haven't bought the first thing this year. Have any of y'all? This isn't like me but life sometimes gets in the way.
We put our Christmas tree up the night before Thanksgiving like we always do. Have y'all got yours up yet? The house smells like Christmas and looks like Christmas. Well it smells like pinto beans and ham and a hambone right now. Ham leftover from Thanksgiving. Got it in the crockpot cooking on low and got a pawn of cornbread in the oven. Yum yum.
Thank you for your continued prayers. I am doing better. Taking it day by day.
Now on with the story.
Chapter 41 Part 13 Hoosegow
I will get to the interrogations in a little while. First and foremost are the children.
Captain Trevelyan and her agents are walking down the hall to where all the children are in the rooms. They are approached by four very distinguished looking people walking toward them. They stop when they are in front of them.
"Captain Trevelyan, our CEO would like to meet you ma'am." Dr. Evanson tells her as they all stop in the hallway.
"Hello I am Captain Anastasia Trevelyan of the FBI and I appreciate all you all are doing for the children that were brought into your hospital recently." She tells them as she is holding her hand out to shake theirs.
"Captain Trevelyan my name is Newton Bellmount and I am Chief Executive officer of the hospital. I have been expecting you ma' gentleman beside me is The Chief Medical Officer Astor Cummings and to my right is Mrs. Benicia Alverez is the Hospital Administrator and beside her is Cabot she is our Chief Nursing Officer." The CEO tells her as he shakes her hand and the other follows.
"Very nice to meet you all. Let me introduce you to my agents. This is Agent Paula Donovan and Agent Raymond Steele. They were with the children when they were brought to the hospital. I have other agents with the children and outside the doors for safety precautions." She tells them
" Yes Captain, I understand your precautions and I have security around the hospital as well to make sure no one comes in that isn't nice to meet you all." Mr. Bellmount replies and shakes their hands.
"Captain Trevelyan I just want to thank you. We all want to thank you for what you all have been doing. Saving those precious children before they were taken out of the country." Mrs. Cabot, the Chief Nursing Officer tells them but doesn't look at the Captain.
'Me thinks something is fishy in Denmark.' She says to herself.
"Agent Steele, would you please call the owner of the children's clothing store and have them open for us please. Have them sign the NDA and make sure they do not speak to anyone. You know what to do sir." Captain Trevelyan tells him.
"Yes Captain, I will take care of it right now. If you all will excuse me for a moment." He says looking the Captain in the eyes and knows that she is on to something.
"We have security all around the children including your agents. You do not have to worry that someone will walk in here or find out what is going on inside these walls." Mr. Bellmount reassures Captain Trevelyan again.
"Thank you sir, I appreciate that very much. I also have my agents with the children when they were brought into the hospital." She informs him.
"Yes Captain, we saw them standing outside the doors. I would like to move the children up to the tenth floor. There is more room and they will all be in the room together. It is where we hold our awards dinner and Christmas parties at. There is only one way in and one way out if you are wondering about safety." He tells her.
"Always wondering about safety sir. May I see the room before we move all the children?" She asked him.
"Yes of course. Please follow me." He replies as they walk toward the elevator.
"If you will excuse me I must return back to the floor and speak with the doctors and nurses concerning the conditions of the children." Mrs. Wynonna Cabot tells them.
"If you don't mind Mrs. Cabot, I would like for you to accompany us to the ten floor ma'am." Captain Trevelyan tells her, looking at her for any signs that might tell her she is up to something.
"I really must take care of my patients and see to their well being Captain Trevelyan." Mrs. Cabot tries to explain.
"Correct me if I am wrong but aren't the doctors capable enough to see to the children's recovery? Isn't that why they were hired?" The Captain says to her.
"Yes, yes they are now come along Wynonna they are in good hands." Mr. Bellmount replies.
"Very well." She says not liking this at all.
They all walk into the elevator as the doors open. Mr. Bellmount pushes the button for the tenth floor and once they arrive the door opens and everyone steps out.
"Here we are Captain Trevelyan." Mr. Bellmount tells her.
"Thank you sir but before we go in my agents will secure the room first." She tells him.
"What agents Captain Trevelyan?" Mrs. Cabot asked her because the only one that came up with them was Agent Donovan.
"My men came up on the other elevator ma'am." Captain Trevelyan tells her.
"Oh I see." Mrs. Cabot replies.
"Gentlemen please allow me to unlock the door for you." Mr. Bellmount tells them holding a set of keys up for them to see.
They step to the side and allow Mr. Bellmount to unlock the door.
"Sir, are you the only one with a key to this room?" Agent Holden asked him.
"No sir upper management also has a key and one is given to the house keeping staff when we know the room will be used." Mr. Bellmount tells him.
"Thank you sir." Agent Holden replies.
"Captain Trevelyan there are way too many hands that hold the keys to this room. As of right now with the situation we have. We need to bring in a locksmith and have the locks changed." He explains to her.
"Yes Agent Holden, I agree with you." Captain Trevelyan replies.
"Mr. Bellmount, do you have a problem with what Agent Holden has suggested?" Captain Trevelyan asked him.
"No Captain, none at all." He tells her.
"Very well sir I will have Agent Holden call a locksmith in immediately." Captain Trevelyan tells him.
"We have our own locksmith. He is on call." Mrs. Cabot replies.
"Why on earth would you have a locksmith on call Mrs. Cabot? Do the patients lock themselves in the bathroom or the staff lock themselves out of their offices? Do the nurses lose the key to the room that houses the medical supplies or the room that houses the narcotics and other medicines for patients? Does the nursing staff not have extra keys for that purpose? Please explain what you mean." Captain Trevelyan asked her point blank not taking her eyes off of her.
"Yes Mrs. Cabot I would like to know the purpose for a locksmith on call? I do not have any notes or messages from you stating we have a locksmith on call. My lord that is preposterous. I do not know of any hospital that does that." Mr. Bellmont tells as he looks at her dumbfounded.
"Well.. well sometimes it does happen and the nursing staff does misplace or lose the keys. I know some of them have forgotten to put the keys back and we have to call someone to open a door." She tells Mr. Bellmont and the Captain still not looking at her. She knows the Captain is suspicious of her.
"Well the way I see it there should always be extra keys on each floor just for that reason. I certainly hope you have reprimanded the ones that have done that." Mr. Bellmont is highly upset now.
"To me and everyone standing here that should not have happened in the first would not want a patient that was sick or heaven forbid suicidal to be locked in a bathroom for a long period of time now would you Mrs. Cabot? I am sure someone on the floor could call and have the nurse bring the keys back immediately." Captain Trevelyan says as she walks over to her and looks her in the eyes.
"No ma'am I would not." She replies rather irritated with the questions.
"Yes, the ones that have taken the keys or misplaced them have been reprimanded by me. Mr. Bellmont and Captain Trevelyan I take my job very seriously." She tells her not liking that the Captain is getting in her business.
"There will only be keys given to our agents that will be standing guard outside this door as long as the children are inside and one given to Mr. Bellmount. As I see it there is no need for anyone else having access to this room." Agent Holden tells Captain Trevelyan not only telling her but everyone else.
"Very good Agent Holden." Captain Trevelyan replies.
Agent Holden and Agent Donovan walk in the door and check every place out to make sure there is no one in there and no other access to the room but from the front door. They secure the room and walk back to the front door of the room and open it.
"Captain the locksmith will be here within the hour as he is on another call at the moment. The room is secure and you all may proceed inside." He tells them.
Captain Trevelyan walks in and looks around. She walks over to the windows and looks out.
"Yes Mr. Bellmount, this room will accommodate the children very nicely. I am also bringing in some people to talk to the children so we can get some information from them." She tells him.
Mrs. Cabot butts in again.
"Captain Trevelyan we have staff here that are more than capable of helping the children. We have Psychiatrists, Psychologists here to help with what they have been through." She tells her.
"Yes ma'am I understand that and they will be brought in to talk to the children at some point. At the moment I have The Department of Justice and personnel from The National Human Trafficking Resource Center coming after the children are situated here." Captain Trevelyan explains to her.
"Very well I assumed you were bringing in your doctors ma'am." She tells her.
"Would that be a problem Mrs. Cabot? I am sure that your doctors are very knowledgeable when it comes to situations like this. I have no reason to bring in other doctors even though they are very knowledgeable about situations like this and I would never step on toes to do that. I would go through the correct channels before I even attempted something like that ma'am." Captain Trevelyan tells her trying to keep her cool.
"No ma'am it would not be a problem." She tells the Captain.
"Mr. Bellmount I would like to see your background checks on all of your employees sir as soon as possible. I understand you have a company that does in depth background checks on all your employees and updates every year unless there is a problem with an employee. Is that correct sir?" She asked him.
"Yes Captain I do and I will have those for you when we return back downstairs. Let me make a call to my Personal Assistant and her secretary to have the background checks available for you and your team." He tells her.
"Thank you sir." She replies.
"Mr. Bellmont I would like to check on the children as that is where I was going when I met you all." She tells him.
"Yes ma'am of course." He tells her as they start to walk out the door.
They walk to the elevator and walk in. Captain Trevelyan presses the button for the emergency room floor. They all walk out and head down to the rooms where the children are.
The Captain sees her team in place and walks over to them. "Agents, we are going to move the children to the tenth floor to the reception room for their safety and well being just as soon as I see them and the doctors say they are well enough to be moved." She tells all of them.
They all nod.
"There is a locksmith that will be changing the locks on the reception room and each of you will be given keys to that room if you are to stand guard outside the door." She tells all of them.
"Captain, do you have a list of agents that will be receiving the keys to the room ma'am?" Agent Steele says as he walks back up to them.
"No sir, Agent Donovan and Agent Holden will be assigning the agents sir." She tells him.
"Very good Captain." He replies.
"Captain Trevelyan we have private elevators that the medical staff use for emergencies and surgery. We will be taking the children up that way to the tenth floor. They will not be seen that way." Dr. Evanson tells her and her agents.
"Very good sir thank you." Captain Trevelyan replies back to him.
"Shall we proceed, Captain?" Mr. Bellmont asked her.
"Yes sir, thank you." She tells him walking down the hall to the third door.
"Captain Trevelyan." Agent Bentley acknowledges her.
"Agent Bentley, we will be going inside and checking on the children. I have told the other agents that the children will be moved to the tenth floor reception room for safety. If you are assigned to the tenth floor you will be given keys to the reception room." She tells him.
"Yes ma'am." He replies as he opens the door for her.
She walks in and sees all these children ranging in ages from early teens to seventeen years old. They look like they have not bathed in months. Their clothes are tattered and the smell is ungodly retched.
"I was under the impression that the children were getting showers and a change of clothes. Why is that not happening?" She asked no one in particular.
"Ma'am who are you to walk in here and question us?" A nurse with a name tag that says Tracey Cook.
"I am Captain Anastasia Trevelyan of the FBI and this is my case. These are my agents Donovan and Steele. I am sure you have met them already as they were here in these rooms with the children when they were brought in ma'am." The Captain replies.
"Yes ma'am I have met them and they did say that their Captain would arrive soon. Forgive me ma'am I was just doing my job." She tells her.
"Very well and you are doing an excellent job but there was no need to question me as the agents outside this door know not to let anyone in here or the other rooms without proper identification." She tells her as she walks over the young girls.
"Now I will ask again why they have not been given showers or baths and clean clothes?" Captain Trevelyan replies, raising her voice.
"Captain, we are taking care of the young ladies one at a time. They will all receive baths as soon as possible. We wanted to feed them and diagnose them first. Some of the children have IVs as there are a lot of them dehydrated. Some of the children have been held longer than others and they need the IVs ma'am." She tells her as she walks over to the children with IVs in their arms and hands.
"Thank you Nurse Cook for the explanation." Captain Trevelyan replies.
"Yes ma'am." She says.
"Children or young ladies as so many of you are. My name is Captain Anastasia Trevelyan of the FBI. We will have new clothes, under garments and shoes brought to each of you just as soon as my agents receive them from the stores. They will have toiletries for you all as well." She tells them.
The young ladies thank her.
"Now when the doctors say you all can be moved we will be taking you all up the tenth floor to their reception room for your safety and well being. As we will be taking all the children up there. No one will be allowed up there but my agents and medical personnel that we approve of." She tells them.
"Thank you Captain Trevelyan we are all so very glad that you got us all out of that basement." One young lady says.
"May I have your name and age hun?" Captain asked her.
"Yes ma'am my name is Brandi Moore and I am seventeen years old and I have been in that basement for months. I know because I have had three menstrual periods since they took me from the mall." She tells her crying.
"It's alright honey you are safe now. We are going to take good care of all of you. After we move you all up to the tenth floor we have groups coming in to talk to you all. Then we will be getting information from you all about how you were abducted and where you were at at the time. That is if you can remember anything. Do not worry if you can't right now." She tells all of them.
They are all crying and saying thank you and wanting their parents to come and get them so they can go home and see their siblings.
"We have to go through proper channels and get as much information from you all as we can and then we will contact your family members. I hope you all understand what I am saying." She tells them.
They all nod their heads and some yes ma'am.
"Very good now I am going to leave you in the capable hands of the nurses and doctors. My agent Paula Donovan will be with you until you are all moved out of this room." She tells them.
They walk out of the room and they all take very deep breaths.
"Agent Bentley please make sure that the children receive the packages that the agents are bringing them." She tells him before she walks away and down the hallway.
"Yes ma'am." He replies.
"Captain, we have children in all these rooms and there are twenty five rooms here." Mr. Bellmont tells her.
"Wow I didn't know hospitals had this many emergency rooms sir." She tells him looking up and down the hall.
"Yes ma'am this is a children's hospital as you know and we need plenty of room for sick children. We also have a floor for abused patients, cancer patients and disabled patients." He tells her.
"Thank you sir for telling me that. I did not realize your hospital was equipped for all of that. Do you have room for their parents to stay if need be?" She asked him.
"Yes ma'am we do and we have a home for them to stay free of charge as well." He tells her.
"So sir your hospital and the home is like the Ronald McDonald Home? Saint Jude?" She asked him.
"Yes ma'am we do not charge the parents anything for the children being here. We have sponsors and donations coming in to cover the bills." He tells her.
"That is very helpful and very considerate of everyone that wants to help your patients and hospital. I am sure the bills alone are astronomical." She says.
"Yes they are but we are not in the red so we are doing good at the moment." He tells her, smiling.
"That is very good to know and after we have children in place on the tenth floor I would like to speak to you and your financial personnel that are available to speak with me." She tells him.
"Captain that can be arranged. I will notify them as you speak to the children and let them know of a meeting with you," He tells her as they walk down the hallway to the next door.
"Captain Trevelyan good to see you ma'am. Everything is nice and quiet here." Agent Peyton tells her.
"Thank you Agent Peyton. I am going in to see the children. I have agents bringing them all packages please be sure they receive them." She tells him.
"Yes ma'am I surely will." He replies as he opens the door for her.
She walks and can breathe better than she could in the first room. The children have had baths or showers and are wearing scrubs from the nurses.
"Hello all my name is Captain Anastasia Trevelyan of the FBI and this Agent Steele he was with some of you when you were brought in earlier. Do any of you remember him?" She asked them.
"Yes ma'am I do and there was a woman with him but she left the room earlier." The young girl tells her.
"Yes, that was Agent Donovan. She is with some of the other children right now. I just wanted to come in and check on you all. We are moving you all to the tenth floor reception room for your safety and well being just as soon as the doctors and nurses say you can be moved." She tells them.
"We want to go home, Captain Trevelyan." Says one of the young ladies.
"I know you all do and we have to go through proper protocol. We need your names and ages and where you are from. Your parents' names and phone numbers. After you are all moved to the tenth floor reception room there will be some people from different groups and agencies that will be coming to talk to you all and take the information from you." She tells them.
"What was your name hun?" She asked her.
"My name is Patricia Burton and I am sixteen years old." She tells her.
"Thank you hun and we will have you all moved as soon as possible. As there are some children here that had to have medical treatments." She tells them.
"We also have clothes, shoes and toiletries arriving for you all as soon as my agents receive them from the stores. I have to leave now but Agent Steele will be with you all until Agent Janie Baxter arrives to take over." She tells them.
They walk out the door and she stops.
"Agent Peyton the children will be moved to the tenth floor reception room as soon as the doctors release them to be moved as some of them are dehydrated and need medical care. If you are assigned to that floor you will be given keys to the door. We are having a locksmith change the locks as there are too many people with the keys." She tells him.
"Yes ma'am." He says.
"Agent Janie Baxter will be here shortly to relieve Agent Steele." She tells him. Then walks down the hallway to the next room.
She goes from room to room checking on all the children and hearing the same diagnoses from all the doctors. They are dehydrated and filthy. She tells them they are getting clothes, showers and being moved from the emergency rooms to a safe room.
The children are all finally in the reception room on the tenth room with enough agents to protect them in there and on the floor outside the door.
They have food , drinks, snacks, anything they want to eat and snacks are provided for them.
The groups, agencies and Human Trafficking Rescue group are here as well to speak to the children and get information they need to make sure they are taken care of and their families will be with them unless something is not right. They will talk to Captain Trevelyan about their findings.
In the meantime Captain Trevelyan walks down to the conference room with Mr. Bellmont. The financial and board members are seated and waiting on them. The gentlemen stand when the Captain enters the room.
"Please be seated gentlemen." She tells them.
She walks to the front and stands behind the chair.
"Welcome I do not know if any of you know me by name. I am Captain Anastasia Trevelyan of the FBI and my team and I are here in Texas to break up a Sex and Human Trafficking Ring. We have brought children in from the age of fifteen to seventeen that we have rescued overnight. They are getting the medical attention that they need." She tells them looking at each person to gauge that reaction to what she just told them.
She waits for someone to say something before she continues.
"Yes Captain Trevelyan we were all made aware of the situation earlier. There was an all points bulletin email sent to everyone." He tells her.
"I also want to offer some financial help for your hospital." She tells them.
"Captain Trevelyan, very nice to meet you ma'am. My name is Emmerson Patton. Yes your name and your face is well known to a lot of us. I will say that I follow you on instagram and other sites that your employees use. I am a huge fan of your baby food. My sister and I order it all the time for our little ones. They love the different flavors and I will admit your desserts are delicious." The young lady tells her.
"Nice to meet you Mrs. Patton and thank you. I try to make the baby food as tasteful as I can." She tells her as she sits down. Wouldn't want anyone to have to look up at her.
"Captain Trevelyan my name is Quentin Oshay and I would like to say I am very glad that you and your husband have recovered from the accident at your plant. It would have been a very sad day if the world had lost you two." He tells her standing and holding out his hand to shake hers.
"Nice to meet you sir and thank you." She tells him, smiling.
She has met every board member and the financial personnel. Now down to business.
"As I said when I walked in, I would like to offer financial assistance to your hospital for the care of the children that are brought here. This also applies to the home you have made available for the families to stay in while their child is here. Is one home enough for all the parents that need to be here? Or do you need more accommodations?" Captain Trevelyan asked them all.
"We are always looking for better ways to provide housing for the families. Yes ma'am more housing would help as the house we have for families can only accommodate twenty parents at a time. It is rather crowded when all the rooms are being used." Mr. Jenkins told her.
"I am sure it is sir. Has anyone looked into finding another home? Maybe a hotel that has closed down that would be close to the hospital." She asked them.
Everyone looks at each other for a minute.
"Captain Trevelyan my name is Kristy McMahan and I am the Chief Investment Officer. We have been in talks with a real-estate company. They have been showing us properties but nothing within our budget or what we are looking for." She tells Captain Trevelyan.
"May I ask what kind of properties you have been looking into Mrs. McMahan?" She asked her.
"Oh yes of course you can Captain. We have been looking at homes that need work. Some of them are in very bad condition and it would hurt our budget to indulge in them." She tells her.
"As I said a while ago, look into hotels that are closing are closed down? They have a lot of rooms and the parents would not be on top of each other so to speak. There are hotels that have kitchenettes in some of the rooms. If not I am sure they can be fixed to have kitchenettes. So the parents can prepare their own food." She tells all of them.
"Yes that would help a lot but we never thought that hotels would fit into our budget or be a good investment." She tells her.
"How would you know if you have never taken the time to look into it? I am sure you are not the only one that can do that. I see the Chief Financial Officer Mr. Mason and Manager of Finance Operations Mrs. Weston sitting right here. Mrs. McMahan, are they not as qualified as you are?" She asked her looking at all of them.
"Yes Captain Trevelyan they are but as I said we never thought it was a good investment." She tells her.
"I apologize if I am coming on strong but what is the problem that you all think it will not be a good investment in the long run? You do have sponsors and hold charity events to bring in money do you not?" She asked them.
"Yes we do but we do not have a lot of sponsors as you might think we do." She tells her.
"Okay well we are getting off track here and I need to be elsewhere. Let me just say look into some closed or closing hotels and please let me know. Mr. Bellmont has all my information you all can send me emails once you have decided on a place." She tells them.
"One question Captain Trevelyan my name is Mrs. Evelyn York and I am the Vice President of Corporate Finance. My question is are you going to purchase the property once we have found a suitable hotel?"
"Yes Mrs. York I am and I will have all the renovations done on it if any of it needs repairing. Just know that I will be talking to sponsors to help with the cost as I am." She tells her.
"Are there any other questions that I need to answer? If not I must be on my way as I have background checks that I need to look at." She tells them looking at all of them.
"No ma'am not at the moment." Mrs. McMahan replies.
"Very well Mrs. McMahan." She replies also.
"If you all will excuse me I have to show Captain Trevelyan where she needs to go." Mr. Bellmont tells his colleagues.
They walk to the door and leave.
"Mr. Bellmont I am sorry if I overstepped in there but I do not understand why they would not even consider looking into hotels. I am a business owner and that would have been in my sights." She tells him.
"Yes I agree with you Captain." He tells her.
They walk down the hall to the elevator and walk in when the door opens. They speak very little on their way to the fourth floor. The doors open.
"This way Captain Trevelyan." He tells her holding his hand out to the right.
She follows him down the hall to a door on the right side.
He opens the door and they walk in.
"Juile, this is Captain Trevelyan and I would like for you to show her where the background checks are please." He tells her.
"Yes sir and Captain if you will follow me we have all of them on the table in the conference room for you to look at." She tells her walking into another room.
"Captain they are in alphabetical order and from the date everyone was hired. I have the first background check and every year after that. They are all up to date." Juile tells her, showing her what she is looking at.
"Thank you Juile and I have two more agents coming here to help me. They should be here within the next thirty minutes or so. Their names are Agent Casey Felton and Burt Jonas. Please bring them back here when they arrive." She tells her.
"Yes ma'am I will. Could I get you a refreshment?" She asked her.
"A bottle of water would be fine. Thank you." She tells her.
She is sitting there looking through the background checks in front of her. She is looking for one in particular but she hasn't come across it yet.
"Agent Washington, do you and Agent Carmichael have the subject within hearing range but out of sight from you?" She asked him.
"Yes Captain we do. She seems to be worried she is rubbing her forehead and neck so much that her forehead has turned red." He tells her.
"Has she made any phone calls or has she spoken to anyone?" Captain asked him.
"No ma'am but she has looked at her phone quite a few times." He tells her.
"Alright stay with her." She tells him.
"Yes ma'am we will ten-four.' He tells her.
"I will check in with you later. My help is here." She tells him.
"Captain Trevelyan here is your water and your agents are here too." She tells her handing the water to her.
"Hello Agent Felton and Jonas, how are you both this morning?" She asked them.
"Hello Captain Trevelyan we are well and ready to assist you." She tells her.
"Hello Captain Trevelyan, how are you today? I know it has been a long night and morning so far." He tells her.
"I am alright and yes it has been no doubt about it but we have accomplished what we all set out to do. The children are safe and the bastards were all apprehended at the houses and on the docks. Now they are in their cells snug a bug in a rug and not going anywhere." She tells them.
"Did you see who some of the bastards were Captain?" He asked her.
"Oh yes I did and I got the names of the other backers that were bankrolling this group. I could not believe the names of the ones doing this and thinking they were going to get away with it." She tells them.
"These are people that you wouldn't think would want their names associated with these traffickers. I can't just say Sex Traffickers there is Human Trafficking going on too." She tells them.
"Yes ma'am we are aware of this." Agent Felton replies.
"Alright now let's get down to the nitty gritty. We have to look through all of these background checks and if anything I mean anything doesn't look right get my attention." She tells them.
"Yes ma'am we will and we are looking for anything that looks too good to be true correct? I am referring to no red flags at all?" He asked her.
"Yes, if it looks like it would have been altered I need to know immediately." She tells them.
"Captain, you have your sights set on someone or a lot of someone's right?" Jonas asked her.
"Yes sir I do." She tells him.
"Let's get started, Felton." He tells her.
"Alright I will start on this section and you can start on the one on your right." She tells him.
They both look over and see the Captain so deep in thought as she reads a background check.
Then they look at each other and then get back to their background checks.
"Come in." Captain Trevelyan tells the person knocking on the door.
"I am sorry to disturb you Captain but may I speak to you?" Mr. Bellmont asked her.
"Yes sir, how may I help you?" She asked him, looking at him trying to read him. He seems upset or worried about something.
"What seems to have upset or agitated sir?" She asked him helping him to a chair.
"Captain, I have read all about you ma'am and what I have read is very interesting and fascinating. I know that you can read people and you have a photographic memory and are a speed reader. You are also the owner of your baby food companies. I also have learned that you and your husband have open homes to all types of people that need help and built soup kitchens where they are all needed. He tells her.
"Yes sir all of that is true and I have read your background and bio as well." She tells him.
"Now sir, what can I help you with? You came to me for a very serious reason. I can see it in your eyes and body movement." She tells him waving her hand up and down his body.
"Come on sir, we need to know what the problem is sir." Agent Jonas tells him.
"Mr. Bellmont if you are worried about talking to me with my agents here sir I can vouch for them. Both are top notch agents." She tells him.
He lets out a heavy sigh." Captain I feel like there is someone you are looking into that might be a part of this Trafficking Ring. I am pretty sure I know who you are targeting in your background checks." He tells them.
"Well sir until I know without a shadow of a doubt I am not at liberty to give any names." She tells him.
"I understand but can you tell me if the ones you are looking at are under surveillance? I would not want anything to happen at the hospital that is why I am asking Captain Trevelyan," He asked her with a pleading look.
"I will say they are being shadowed, sir. No one will be able to do anything that my agents will not see."She tells him.
"Sir I am Agent Burt Jonas nice to meet you and this is Agent Casey Felton." He says as he shakes his hand.
"Nice to meet you both as well." He replies.
"Mr. Bellmont have you noticed anything out of the ordinary that looks suspicious that has been going on here now or before?" Captain Trevelyan asked him.
"No nothing like that. I just have a feeling something has been going on and I haven't been able to pinpoint anything." He tells them.
"Have you spoken to anyone about this feeling you have?" She asked him.
"Yes I have my niece Jennifer Culpepper." He tells her.
"Oh my god your niece is the one that got in touch with my superior. Director Horatio Thompson. I know she is an FBI Agent here in Texas." She tells him.
"Yes ma'am she is and she really wants to meet you and your father. The man so few do not know is in the back pocket of our President as you are." He tells her.
She turned her head so fast she felt like she got whiplash.
"How do you know that?" She asked him.
"My niece did some work for the President a few years ago and she saw your father there. She didn't have a chance to speak to him as he was on his way to his plane." He tells her.
"Why was she doing work for my Uncle J?" She asked him.
"Well to put it the way she said it. As you know I can't tell you. But I will say she has done something like you did for a while." He tells her.
"Oh my lord she.." She can't finish that sentence.
"Yes I am sure you are right." He tells her.
"Is your niece here in Texas now?" She asked him.
"She is with some agents in Dallas at the moment. She will be back by the end of the week. I know she hates it that she wasn't one of the agents that helped you and your agents take down all the scum and save all those children." He tells her.
"Yes well she should be proud of herself for taking it upon herself to talk to someone about what she suspected. A very brave young lady is what she is." She tells them and her agents.
"Yes ma'am she is." He tells her.
"I will let you all get back to your work. I didn't mean to take up so much of your time Captain." He tells her.
"That is fine sir and I am very glad you did talk to us. I will make sure my father and I meet her before we leave." She tells him.
He takes his leave and they all pick up the background checks and start reading them again.
"Captain, I found something that doesn't look right. Would you come over here and take a look?" Agent Felton asked her.
Captain Trevelyan gets up and walks over to where Agent Felton is sitting and sits down beside her.
"What seems to be the problem Casey?" She asked her.
"Look at this one when this person started and look at these for ten years and now these for the last four years." She tells her sliding the papers over to her.
She looks at them and looks closer.
"Oh my lord we need to get this to the attention of Mr. Bellmont." She tells Felton.
"How in the hell did the company not catch this all these years but the last one was done not four months ago. It was time for this person to have it done." She tells her.
"Captain, I have found the one you have been looking for and you ain't gonna like it." He tells her getting up and walking over to them.
She looks at it and grabs the one she was going over.
"Y'all look at this. Do you see what I see here on both of these background checks?" She asked them.
They both look at the papers and then back at the Captain.
"Oh for heaven's sake you were right but this just adds more fuel to the fire." Agent Jonas tells them.
"I need to put some agents on these people pronto." She says.
"Well damn I will say we need to be putting them there fires out before they burn everything down. What in the hell is going on here at the hospital." Agent Felton says.
"Why are these people doing this to these children? Are they getting rich taking the children from their families?" Agent Jonas says pissed off.
"These fuckin assholes will pay dearly for what they are doing and I am going to find every damn last one them and they won't see the outside of a prison until they are old and gray." Captain Trevelyan tells them standing up and slamming her fist on the table.
"We will find them, Captain." Felton says.
"Yes we will and I have a good start on the names from the Queen Bitch Slovenia Padres herself. I found out a lot of information from her. She didn't want to give it up but she did after I told her some things I found out." She tells them.
She writes down the names of the people that were working with the Queen here in Texas, Florida, New York and New Jersey.
She finishes her writing and gives a paper to each of her agents.
"Find these scumbags and lock their sorry asses up. Get some teams together and send them where they need to be to find these sorry ass bastards. If they are not in jail make sure they are there soon. People like this do not need to be on the streets." She tells them.
"Mr. Bellmont, would you please come to the conference room? There is something very urgent you need to see sir." She tells him on the phone.
He walks in and looks at their faces and knows this is bad news.
"Mr. Bellmont please sit down and take a really good look at these background checks and then call the company that does these and them all to come over here at once. I don't care what they are doing. I want them here like yesterday." She tells him.
He looks at the ones she has laid out on the table for him and then she puts the other ones down that he was worried about.
"Oh hell what is going on here in my hospital? How does a company with a five star rating that I have used for years miss something like this over and over?" He says to no one in particular.
"We are asking ourselves the same questions sir and we do not have an answer either. I am sure the company will come up with some cock and bull story for us." Agent Jonas tells him.
"Sir if you will look at the name of the person that did the background checks and look at this background you will see they know each other." Agent Felton tells him.
He looks at all the papers and shakes his head.
"I am at a loss for words, Captain. Are there any other background checks that throw up red flags?" He asked her.
"We are all going through them sir. I am going to do my Deep Sea Diving Background Checks on every employee you have and sir I have to do one on you as well." She tells him.
"I know you do and you do what you have to do in order to get these assholes out of here and in hoosegow where they all belong." He tells her.
"Hoosegow lawd a mercy I haven't heard prison called that in years." Captain Trevelyan tells him laughing.
"Me neither it has been ages since someone said that." Agent Jonas says.
"Mr. Bellmont I want you to go about your day as if nothing is unusual. Can you do that for now and the next few days sir? While I do my checks on everyone." She asked him.
"Yes ma'am I can but what the heck is a Deep Sea Dive Background Check?" He asked her.
"It is Military and no one can see what I am doing. I go into stealth mode." She tells him.
"Don't need to say more Captain I got it." He tells her.
"Very well sir I will see you this evening before I leave. I need to spend some time with your financial officers and head them on the right track." She tells him.
"I know I said I would wait on them. I believe they have had ample time to come up with something if they have been in touch with a realtor or reality company. I am just going to put a bug in their ears of someone they can call and they will help them." She says.
"Alright Captain and Agents I will see you all later. I think I will check in on the children before I go to lunch. Oh lord, lunch. Did anyone in the kitchen know to fix those children anything to eat?" He asked them.
"No sir, they do not know the children are there or in the hospital for that matter. We have had food brought in for them. Relax, they have been fed and they all have a place to sleep as well." She tells him.
"Good good now my blood pressure can go back down." He tells her.
"Yes sir it can. You go and have yourself a nice cold bottle of water and relax before you go and see the children sir." She tells him.
He walks out and goes to his office.
"Alright y'all let's get back to work." She tells them as she makes a phone call.
"Agent Morris, this Captain Trevelyan, how are things at Headquarters going?" She asked him.
"Hello Captain, well things could be better. These assholes are throwing their food and anything else they can find at the guards. Oh just another day in paradise you know." He tells her laughing.
"Wow I thought we locked up men not children. The reason I called is because I need my laptop and it is at the hotel. I need you and another agent to go and bring it to me." She tells him.
"Yes ma'am I will get Rivers to go with me. He has had enough of the fools for today." He tells her.
"Thank you and bring it to the hospital. I will be in the conference room next door to the CEOs office on the fifth floor unless I am still in the financial officers offices and they are on the third floor." She tells him.
"Yes ma'am I will have it here as soon as I can. I will call and see where you are." He tells her.
"Uh Oh we got trouble Houston big trouble here." Agent Jonas says as he points to the background he is looking at.
"What on earth are you talking about?" Captain Trevelyan says, walking over to him.
"Look at this and this, not to mention this one. See what I am talking about. How could they not catch this. It is misspelled and the age is all wrong from the copy of the birth certificate I am looking at here. Look at who the father is, Captain." He tells her.
"Oh my god this can't be right. There is no way this could be right could it? Y'all tell me it's not right." She asked them.
That's all for this chapter. Sorry about the cliffhanger but no one is going to die. Just a little suspense going on. Makes you wonder who it is right?
Well we will see soon.
Now what you all have been waiting for.. Drumroll please…The interrogation of the Queen Bitch Slovenia Margarito Padres. Yeah I got her to give me her whole name. Wonder how that happened?
The interrogation with the Queen as she calls herself. We call her Queen Bitch Slovenia Margarito Padres.
Captain Trevelyan and Agent Paula Donovan walk in and sit down across from the woman that tried to wreak havoc on the town of Florida and Texas not to mention New York and New Jersey with the help of her minions and backers that are in prison right now because they are waiting on an attorney. No one wants to take their case because they all know they are filthy scum and will lie through their teeth.
"Well it's about damn time you got your sorry asses in here to see me. Now you have seen this..she waves her hand up and down her body. Now get me the fuck out of her bitches." She tells them.
Captain Trevelyan clears her throat and looks the bitch up and down.
"My name is Captain Anastasia Trevelyan of the FBI and I will do the questioning and you will answer comprehend ma'am?" She tells her.
"This is Agent Paula Donvan of the FBI." She tells her.
"Oh wait a damn minute you are going to question me?" She says looking at the Captain.
"You are under arrest for Sex Trafficking and Human Trafficking of minors. You have been read your rights. This room is recording everything that will be said." She tells her.
"Please state your full name and age. Please acknowledge that you are aware of the video and audio taping of this interrogation." She tells her.
"My name is Queen Slovenia Padres. I am thirty two years old. Yes I know I am being recorded and videotaped." She says looking at the camera.
"I asked you for your full name not just your first and last name Ms. Padres." The Captain tells her.
"I gave you my name bitch. How can you be a Captain you aren't big at all?" She tells the Captain.
"It doesn't matter but what does matter is your full name. Now give me your full name Ms. Padres." She tells her.
"Are you going to talk to me without an attorney present?" She asked her.
"I don't need one but if I do, my lawyer from my country will be as soon as I say so." She tells Captain Trevelyan.
"Oh I am sorry to say your lawyer from your country and his cohorts are in prison here for coming into this country under false pretenses and carrying drugs on their persons." She tells her.
"You are lying. Eat shit bitch you got all I am giving you." She yells at the Captain and tries to stand up.
"Going somewhere?" Agent Donovan asked her, smiling.
"Go to hell bitch." She tells her.
"Look Ms. Padres we can do this the easy way or the hard way. The choice is totally up to you. But I will tell you you will not like the outcome if you call me names again. I promise you that." She tells her getting in her face.
"There is nothing you can do to me, you whore bitch slut." She tells her trying to move her hands so she can hit her.
"One last damn time do not I repeat do not call me names. You do not know me and you won't like me if you keep this language going on in here." She tells her.
"Are you threatening me Captain?" She sneers at her.
"Oh no it is not a threat but a promise. I do not threaten anyone. Now what is your full name I will not ask again." She tells her leaning into her and speaking so softly that not even Paula can hear her.
"Just so you know bitch I have your brother in prison, your so called backers from the east coast to the west coast. I have the owner of the Candora ship Reggie Sayers and his brother Burton Sayers in prison. I have the ship's Captain of the Tubor Carrier here in prison. Your helpful nurses are going to serve time." She tells her. She looks at her and she is looking pale.
"I have your men in New York and New Jersey in prison. I have the women and men that helped you in Florida and here in Texas. Bet you didn't know we brought you here for you to learn you have no one to help your sorry ass now." She tells her.
"You have no one to come forward to help you. Everyone that you have had working for you has turned state's evidence against you. Trying to save their own neck. We have the ones at the shipping yards in both New York and New Jersey. Not to mention the truck drivers that carried the containers to the docks and the shipping companies that loaded them and then lied about knowing what was in them or what was going in them." She tells her.
"We also got the ones that were in Charleston, South Carolina. Poor Lincoln tried like hell to kill me but the poor bastard died at my hands. Oops I wasn't supposed to say that but it's all over now." She tells her.
"You don't think I remember you saying you knew me from the pedophile Elena Lincoln when we caught you in Florida. Well that bitch will rot in prison just like you are going to do." She tells her.
She looked white as a sheet and like she is going to pass out.
"My name is Slovenia Margarito Padres and yes I know I am being recorded and videotaped as we speak. No, I do not want a lawyer." She says.
"Now was that so damn hard?" She asked her.
"Ms. Padres, I want to know who in your country and here in the United States started this Sex and Human Trafficking Ring to kidnap young children and take them out of the country? I also want to know why you are involved with these rings? I want to know how you got so many backers that are high profile men and women to do your dirty work for you?" She asked her.
"My father, his brothers and nephews were sitting around one day talking about the women at home. There were lazy putas and their pussies had been used and abused so many times that they were no good for anything any more. They wanted fresh meat as they called the women." She tells her.
"Go on." She tells her.
"This has been going on for years not just here in America but in other countries. They would kidnap women or young girls and make them slaves, beat them into submission for their pleasure. My father was one of them and my brother was another." She tells them.
"They decided to talk to some people or high profile people there and abroad to find more women. My father got the idea in his head that they could make good money bringing the young girls over here as virgins untouched and make millions off of them." She says, holding her head down.
"Oh come off with the shyness you ain't shy and you don't give a damn about those girls we have saved. Stop the sad shit and finish your tale." Paula tells her.
"Is this what you two bitches want to hear? My father was a wonderful man until my mother god rest her soul passed away. He didn't care about anything after that. He would whore me out to any man willing to pay him anything for me. The first time I was only eleven years old." She tells them crying.
"Then he met his second wife and they had my sorry excuse for a half brother. He was just as bad as my father. When he turned fourteen he thought he could treat me the same way as my father did." She tells them.
"I was twenty years old and my brother thought he could whore me out one night. I showed him I was not like the other women that he got rid of." She told them.
"Not long after that my father decided to take his ship and sail around the world kidnapping young women for his and his men's pleasure before selling them. Then he realized like I said before he could make more if they were virgins." She told them.
"Go on or do you need a break for a few minutes? You have water to drink if you are thirsty." Captain tells her.
She takes her water and drinks some.
"Why feel compassion for me now after the way I have been talking to you?" She asked her.
"I am human just as you are." She tells her.
"Anyway my father did this for a few years and he got me involved in it later. That way if I helped him I was safe from his men. So I did my part and helped them bring young girls on board to sell. I never saw the money or knew how much he got for them."She tells them.
"It was now in my blood and I was gung ho for the money. So I did what I knew how to do and then my father was shot and killed on our ship by one of the men that worked with him. My brother thought he was going to take over but I knew he wasn't. Even though my father treated me like shit on the bottom of his sandals he left everything to me. My brother can't stand it or me." She tells them.
"Now no one will get anything because we are all in jail and going to prison. I am tired of running and hiding. I will tell the courts and judge everything I know." She tells them.
"Do you have the names of the girls that you all have abducted over the years and where they are?" Captain Trevelyan asked her.
"Yes ma'am there is a book on the Tubor Carrier in my room under my bed . You have to move the bed and pull three planks up. You will find a lot of information in it. Not from me but from my father. There is a book in my office back home in my mansion in the bookcase with the words forever free on it. There you will find all the names of the girls and boys we have taken and where they were sent to and how much each one was worth." She tells them.
"What about the men and women in New York and New Jersey? How in the hell did you get them to back you?" The Captain asked her.
"Two words, Elena Lincoln." She said,
"That fucking bitch troll pedophile I am going to..oh lord I don't know what I am going to do her." Captain Trevelyan says.
"What did that bitch troll do to them?" She asked her.
"A lot of the backers were at one time or another in one of her BDSM clubs and she has their names and pictures. So she blackmailed them to help my father and she got a good chunk of the money herself." She tells them.
"Why would they continue to do this? They all knew she was in prison because I put her there and they knew she would stay there after she and all the idiots thought they could have my business blown up and Christian and I dead." She tells her.
"I guess they were in too deep and afraid to back out with me and my brother. Like I said I have done this for years and now that I am finally caught it is time to give you all the evidence I have on everyone. There are people you have no knowledge about involved in this ring. People I knew nothing about until I read the journals from my father and brother." She tells her.
"I think we will call this interrogation halfway finished and we will take up where we left off after we get all the journals and look over them. You are not out of the woods by no means. You are in this so deep." Captain says.
"Yes I know I am." She tells her.
"There will be a guard here in a few minutes to take you back to your cell." She tells her walking over to the recorder and taking the tape out. She and Paula walk out without saying another word.
"Do you believe her sob story about what her father and brother made her do?" Paula asked her.
"I am not sure but I could tell some of it was true. Just how much I am not sure at the moment." She tells her.
"Let's get out of here and grab some lunch." Ana tells her.
Well you all that was the first part of the interrogation. What do you all think? Was she lying about what her father made her do when she was eleven years old and as she got older? What do you all think about the way the Captain went at her when she basically whispered to her all she knew about who was in prison now and they all turned state's evidence on her? I believe Captain Trevelyan got to her cause she was turning as white as a sheet.
Up next Chapter 42 Part 14 Bringing in help
Any mistakes are totally mine. I was typing and watching the Georgia and Texas Championship football game today. Woo hoo Georgia won in overtime 22 to 16.. Nerve wracking game