The Many Secrets of Woodland Demars

Chapter 14: 2018 Realizations

"What are you guys talking about? You guys sound like you know-" Lang cut himself off when he realized who he was talking to. 

Lexi Finn, Woodland Demars, Patrick Jones, and Jack Thomas were the ones who got away. The ones that The Fisherman couldn't break.

"You guys are the wanted 4. The special ones. The ones he used to" Lang turned a shade of green that Lexi was pretty sure that didn't exist until now.

Lexi nodded.

Tom Lang though sympathetic on the inside, was angry on the outside. He was angry at his junior Agent. The kid lied. He lied about his background.   

"Jack Thomas, you lied to me to get on this case, not only that you lied about your background! Your record may be clean. But this, this is a federal case, kid!"

Jack paled. Anger. He heard it in his boss's words, his PTSD was starting to kick in.

Lexi and Woods stared at the angry FBI Agent. Didn't this man understand that the Fisherman had nothing to do with the HI5 Break In? 

Patrick was looking like a cod fish.

Lang looked at his other agents. He expected them to agree with him; but was surprised when they only glared at him.

"Tom we will fix this, but man you have to calm down. Plus Jack is not a suspect here, he is a victim. The Fisherman is a different case Boss, a case that is close because its cold" the Agent behind Tom said.

The agent was right. The Fisherman Case and Marcus were two different cases.

Tom cleared his throat and turned back to Jack.

"We will be having words Jack Thomas" he said. He would look into this later at a different time.

Jack nodded but was unable  to shake off a certain memory he really didn't care for.  He hated when people yelled at him even when it wasn't his fault.

The Fisherman made sure he would never forget that.  

Flashback:

"Everything will be your fault Thomas. No matter who caused the problem. I will shove this into your head if  I have to. Its your fault that your mother  and father aren't looking for you! Its your fault that they think your dead!" the Fisherman said. 

Jack was unable to keep the man's words out of his head. So with a bowed head, he said,

"Yes Master"

Jack still wasn't broken but the Fisherman's words would make an impact later in the boy's life. This was one thing Jack would never be able to shake off.

No matter what.

End of Flashback

"How did you guys even meet anyway? Jack and Patrick are some years older than you two. Not to mention kidnapped years before you and Woodland were" Tom said. 

Thankfully this brought Jack back from his flashback. Jack was able to shake the rest of it away.

The four looked at each other. 

"I was kidnapped when I was 12 1/2 years old in 2003" Jack said. That's as far as he was willing to go. Anything else would trigger another flashback.  

"I was kidnapped in 2004 at 12 years old" Patrick said. Like Jack, Patrick didn't say anything else. He didn't want to bring back any unwanted memories for both Jack and himself.

The two boys looked to Lexi and Woods.

Lexi spoke for both of them. Woods found himself unable to shake his on coming flashback.

Having PTSD sucked.

"I was 13 and Woody was 12 in 2005. Patrick and I are the same age, he was just kidnapped a year before I was. Anyway The Fisherman kidnapped us from a park in New York City.  Woody was 13 when...I actually only know how Jack and Patrick helped us escape but they were caught by  the compounds front gate guards" Lexi said with a stutter.

Woods was trying to breathe normally again after flashing back.

Matt looked confused while Amanda didn't. When Matt saw this he grew worried.

Lexi wrapped her arms around Woody. 

"She knows because I told her about my ex boyfriend Marcus. Marcus has his own reasons for going after Woods and I. Woody, Jack, and Pat remove your shirts" Lexi said. 

Pat and Jack did as they were told. Woods however didn't.

Lexi glared at him. 

"Matt has already seen my back Lex" Woods told her. She nodded.

What they saw terrified them. Jack and Patrick's back were worse than Woods.  Agent Lang wanted to ask why but the glare he got from Lexi stopped him.

As two boys put their shirts back on, Matt asked Lexi a question.

"If you were only used as and I can't believe I'm saying this, Whipping Boys and Girl, then why did Marcus say you and Woods were raped? And I think I asked this once before, how the hell does Marcus know about this?"

"We were but only once. It was suppose to break us, it didn't work." 

Well that was little untrue but Agent Lang and the others didn't need to know that. Plus she and Woods had promised that if they ever saw Jack again, they wouldn't bring it up. Agent Lang's cell phone rang.

Lexi who was glad that phone rang, found the she was getting uncomfortable now.  As she was fighting off her own flashbacks.

She and Woods had both agreed to keep the history between the Fisherman and Marcus a secret. But this man was digging for stuff that wasn't even about the Break In at HI5.

Thank god that Agent Lang who had been on the phone with his supervisor while the others were in thought, was just hanging up his phone. This hadn't given her and Woods much time to discuss what they wanted to tell Matt and the others. They wouldn't get the chance to and those ideas would go out the window.

"The reason that the Fisherman knew where you 4 were all this time was because of former FBI Agent Mike Masters, Marcus's grandfather who was and why don't you guys look surprised at all?" Lang asked

Woods blushed.

Lexi glared.

Pat and Jack stared. 

Lang answered his own question.

"Masters told you when you and Woods were placed in Witness Protection. What about you guys?"

"We finally escaped the compound in 2007. We were 15 and 14 years old by the time we were put in Witness Protection, but yeah Masters told us as well" Jack said

Lexi and now Woods were getting antsy as were Jack and Patrick. The man was digging for information. This unnecessary interrogation needed to end.

Lexi put a stop to it.

"Agent Lang we know you are only doing your job but there are things that are too sensitive to talk about especially in front of my niece who has been awake for the last half hour. We will speak to you and your supervisor who is a friend of Woods and I, in a more private setting. Right now we just want to hang out with each other and with Matt and Amanda" 

Lexi gave the Agent in charge her cellphone number and told him to call in a few days.

"Or never" she muttered as the Agent and his team minus Jack, left the room. 

Agent Lang would never get that phone call in a million years.