¹ Snipes || Reacher

04. Spoonful

Lizzie's phone rang and she jumped up like her life was on the line. Lizzie swiftly dove for the burner phone on the bedside table and she was picking it up.

"Yeah?" Lizzie asked and she was glancing over at Reacher, who was wide awake as he looked at her. "That was Roscoe." Lizzie said after her fellow cop had hung up the phone as she sighed.

"What happened?" Reacher asked and she was shaking her head, putting the phone on the counter again.

"Her house was broken into last night, she was at the station with Finlay overnight and there was a message carved into the inside of her front door. "See you soon" it said. So she is packing a bag, and she will meet us soon." Lizzie stated. "I guess that it's better for her to meet us, than it is for her to meet whoever broke into her house. I'm glad that she's safe." She said and Reacher nodded, as a knock came at their door.

Lizzie grabbed for her gun and Reacher brought out a knife that he had in one of his pockets, ever since he had helped out with the Hubble's getting away from Margrave and to help them get off of the grid.

The two of them held their weapons and Reacher looked through the peephole in the door, before he nodded. "It's Joe and Tommy." He murmured and she lowered her gun, before he was quickly opening the door for the two of them.

"Thanks for not shooting us." Joe stated as the two of them were each holding guns of their own and Tommy also had two combat knives in his belt. "Tommy managed to find a couple of old friends." He said and Tommy was holding out one of the knives for each of the older adults.

Lizzie took one of the knives and she spun the blade around quickly, getting used to the weight.

"These are some military-grade made knives, where did you find these?" He asked and Tommy was shrugging.

"I took the truck and I went back to the weapons range. I grabbed a few knives, a couple of extra guns and ammo for your McMillans." Tommy said and he looked over at Joe and Lizzie, who both were nodding slightly. "We don't really know when we ever might need ranged weapons, so I figured that I might as well just grab a bit of everything." Tommy suggested.

"Good. Especially since Roscoe is also packing up her stuff to get out of town, since her house was broken into last night." At the words, the boys didn't look surprised. "Did she call you two first?" Reacher guessed and they both nodded.

"Yeah, she did." Tommy said. "She thought that it was a better course of action, since she remembered what happened when she called you directly first." He said to Lizzie, as she looked awkwardly at the floor.

"What happened?" Reacher asked and Lizzie's mumbling was nearly incoherent and he sighed. "Speak up, Snipes." He said and she grunted in annoyance.

"Let's just say, I am glad that it wasn't just me alone in the apartment that day." Lizzie said and she was shaking her head, putting her gun on the table. "You guys should get some food, all three of you eat twice as much food in a meal, as I do in three." She said as she was walking into the bathroom, shutting and locking the door behind her.

"Okay, so what happened?" Reacher asked as him, Joe and Tommy were all eating their food in the room and the two younger guys looked at each other.

"A couple of years ago, I made the stupidest mistake of my life. I went into Mom's room when she was struggling to differentiate her memories from her current reality, which meant that I put myself right into the line of fire." Joe muttered and quietly, he was just shaking his head. "She woke up and she didn't recognize me." He said and then, he was grabbing a bottle of water.