Fulcrum

Chapter fourteen

Jake quickly pulled Walker to the side to their conversation, it wasn't easy since the dark skinned man was in a wheelchair. But there wasn't any time to waste, Jake had to show the ranger what he found.
"I'm sorry about the chaos ranger," Jake said. "My sister can be very lovely dovey when it comes to Felicia."

"Jessy is your sister?" Walker asked in surprise, he wasn't expecting that considering Jessy was more outgoing while Jake was antisocial. Plus while they shared the same mixed skin tone, Jessy had her hair in braids and Jake left his hair a complete mess.
"Yeah we've only ever had each other," Jake answered. "Our parents died when we were little so we grew up in foster care," he explained. "Some of them were really nice, our first one there was an old couple who took care of us," he continued. "But we got moved when we were thirteen to the Davidson house, its how we met Felicia."

"I've heard about what happened there," Walker responded. "I promise you she won't get away with that."
"You don't need to say that to me ranger, " Jake answered. "I don't wish to seek vengeance, when I know she can be brought to justice," he continued. "But the reason I brought you back here, is there something you need to see." Jake rolled over to his computer which consisted of a bunch of large ones, the drive was still plugged in and while the file was still locked tight, Jake had managed to find a list of names. Walker looked through it and the list seemed to never end, but that wasn't what unsettled him about it. No it was the fact there people crossed out on the list, and one of them was his late wife.

In fact his whole family was on the list, along with people he knew, some of which were dead but others that were very much alive. Felicia was also on the list along with her companions, and a few other names he didn't recognize.
"Jake what is this?" Walker finally asked.
"As far as I can tell this a tracking list of some kind," Jake explained. "Every person who has their name crossed out is either dead or has been sexually assaulted," he continued. "I think Avis has been planning something for a long time, this is much worse than him stealing those paintings or running others out of business with his own."

Walker was about to answer and say that he thought that Avis might be part of the north side nation, but before he could his phone went off. He apologized to Jake before checking his phone to see that it was his brother.
"Hey Liam now really isn't the best time." Walker said.
"Cordell you have to come down to HQ right now, Miles Warren is here and I have a feeling it can't be good." Liam told him.
"Oh shit, I'll be right there just don't let him do anything!" Walker exclaimed. He hung up and figured that Avis was pulling his last strings. "I'm sorry about all this, I'll be back."

Jake didn't answer since he was busy decrypting another large file he had come across. Walker snuck out while he was distracted but did apologize for having to leave early.
"Um Ranger Walker?" Jake asked. He had stumbled across something else he knew the ranger should see. "I think..." He stopped once he realized that Walker had left. "How did he move that fast?" Jake asked. He looked through the another piece of information he had managed to crack in the file.

Avis had been placed under horse arrest after he and his girlfriend had been accused of kidnapping. But the charges were cut since the child didn't have a given name, but Jake knew that the article was important. So he continued to look through, and saw that the article had been released twenty years ago from today. And as yesterday Felicia was almost twenty one, which lined up with the article release date. A sudden thought occurred to him and he called for his sister, he had to tell her what he found.

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Felicia was a little disappointed when she found out that Walker was leaving, while she knew it was most likely for his jump. He kept giving her these weird looks that concerned her, had something happened to one of his kids or his brother?
"Walker are you sure you're alright?" Felicia asked.
"Yeah I'm fine," Walker responded. In all honestly he wasn't really, but he couldn't share his suspicions with her when they were so close to figuring this all out.