Friendships Ties That Can't Be Unbounded

Joe called Jake ready to kill as he looked at the large picture of Brittany. But it went straight to voice-mail.

"Pick up damn it, Jake pick up." Just as he said this Jake picked up the phone.

"Sorry Joe I was just about to call you. I have your next job whenever you want it."

"Cancel it"

"Why would I do that it seems like your deal, and you haven't even looked at the file yet?"

"Doesn't matter I want you to find another email, addressed to me and the sender would be Roses...."

Joe got inturpted as Jake finished the sentence with an erry tone. "Roses, the color of blood. Yeah Joe that is the file I was going to call you about I got it about twenty, no thirty minutes ago how did you know?" Jake was curious and frightened at the same time. He normally brought cases to Joe and when Joe told him things about cases he wanted to do never had the cases aligned before so why now?

"I got a letter telling me that you would be sent a file."

"Joe it is not just one file but many, and how did you get a note you just got that hotel room."

"YOU TELL ME, JAKE WHO HAVE YOU BEEN TALKING TO!"

"Wow I dont know what is going on but you need to calm down and tell me what is going on."

Joe knew Jake was right everyonce in a while Jake was level headed. "I didnt just recieve some random letter Jake I got a letter inside my brown leather pouch and one inside the vent where I sneak out of and in it the letter talked about you, and....."

"And what Joe, what else did it say?"

"It had a picture of Brittany, Jake it was the same one as in the locket but a bigger picture. The only time that pouch is not on me is when I am at your house how did it get in there?"

"Okay man I don't know but on my end it is weird also, so I opened the files and it is messed up it is about a family with many children mostly foster kids. Throughout this family's history they have fostered ten children and I have files here on hospital records for each of them broken ribs, collar bones everything."

"You think the parents hurt these kids."

"Yeah man, but it gets worse it turns out they have kids of their own who also have history's of fighting with the foster kids. This whole family is messed up well, your stocker and mine I guess asks you to make things right. Not that things could ever be right but they want you to save the current foster child. That is where it gets interesting there are no hospital records, no foster care records of there being anymore foster kids sense one three years ago. When social workers were called from a hospital. They lost there license to foster Joe there shouldn't be another foster kid. I have the best of the best technology I would know if there was another foster kid. It gets worse when I try to ping where this email is coming from there is no address it is impossible."

Joe sat there in silence as he thought about the foster kids. Foster parents are supposed to love the children make them feel important when there own parents could not, not hurt them. So many time he had seen this, but so many children, how had so many children been missed, and what about this new one? Why was there no records of him/her. Joe wanted to ignore his secret stocker, to leave his message on read it would show he wasn't messing around, but he couldn't ignore this.

"Joe, one more thing the person who sent this also has a large file I opened it, it is a bank account with over one million dollars linkable to ours."

"Don't take the money Jake don't do it!"

"Joe that is a lot of money just to pass by."

"A stocker offers you over a million dollars on a job you don't take it."

"Fine Joe I won't..."

"For real Jake don't."

"You have my word Joe I won't take it. What about the case though are you going to follow through with it."

"Yes based on principle I will. What is the address?"

"Joe...."

"What Jake, just tell me the adress."

"There isn't one just another email came in and it asks if you are taking the job... It is a trap Joe it has to be. Maybe Brittany is working with the feds and is trapping you..."

"No Jake don't she would never do that okay we didn't see eye to eye, but she would never do that.... Tell them yes I am going to take it and I need the address."

"Joe I don't think you should take it..."

"I don't care about being caught you should have learned that by now Jake there is another foster kid. I am not going to let anything else happen to them."

"Be realistic Joe what if it is a trap what if there is no kid? Joe there is no other kid."

"Then I have to be sure. I told you one day Jake it might come down to one day being trapped. You told me at the very beginning you were with me till the end."

"Man I told you our friendship is forever never unbinding. I'll be with you till the end. I'll figure out the address you have my word man."