¹ Snipes || Reacher

13. ATM: Part II

"Hey Snipes, you all right?" Neagley asked and the question rather effectively brought Lizzie back into the present day and she was jumping briefly.

"Yeah, sorry." Lizzie said and she was shaking her head quickly. "So... What are we talking about again?" She asked and Neagley was nodding.

"Tommy called me after he called the police but... If it wasn't for him and Kilo, his trained detection dog, then who knows when Franz would have been found." Neagley said and at the words, Lizzie narrowed her eyes.

"Wait. Hold up and just hang on for a second." Lizzie said and Neagley glanced at her again. "How in the hell would Tommy know, who Franz was?" Lizzie asked.

"With this." A photo was dropped onto the table with a loud thud and Lizzie jumped again into the air at the sound, before she looked up to see that it was Tommy. "It was my mom's. I cleared out the house after she died, she didn't have any other relatives and well, Dad was dead."

"Hey Tommy." Reacher said simply as he looked up at his nephew, who was standing in uniform silently as Tommy nodded a little bit at him.

"Uncle Reacher." He said and after Lizzie looked down at the photo again, she slid it back to Tommy who was taking it back. "I have Kilo with me. Can I borrow the truck?"

Lizzie took the truck keys out of her pocket and she tossed them over to Tommy, whose hand shot up to catch them. "Thanks." He said as he looked down at the sandwich on Reacher's plate. "Uncle Reacher, are you gonna..." Reacher cut off the pieces that he had bitten and gave the rest to Tommy, who was holding it. "Thanks." He said.

"Tommy." Lizzie said and Tommy turned back around to look at her, surprise in his bearing as he was lifting his eyebrows. "Stay out of trouble." She said as Tommy shrugged at the words.

"I'm a Reacher. I don't look for trouble, it just finds me." Tommy replied and then, he was headed out to the truck and they could hear a dog barking briefly.

"The ATM message, it was actually Lizzie's idea." Neagley explained as she was shaking her head. "Do you have a hotel room booked?" Neagley asked and Lizzie shook her head.

"I was gonna sleep in the truck." She said and Neagley groaned at the words, as she shook her head.

"Nope. I'll get you a room if you don't have the cash,"

"It's not a lack of money, Neagley. It's because I'm not overly fond of people bursting into my room, whenever I wake up in a panicked shouting out of a nightmare of any sort." Lizzie said a matter of fact and at the words, Neagley looked surprised at the sudden sharp words. "Besides, Tommy's partner just called and they have a guest bedroom available that I can crash in."

"Is it still that Zacarias guy or whatever the hell his name was?" Reacher asked as Lizzie glanced at him.

"You make it sound like Tommy is going through boyfriends and partners constantly, Reacher. Zac is his... Third boyfriend since he turned 16." Lizzie said with a shrug. "And Tommy is twenty-four. I think." She said.

"Tommy's gay?" Neagley asked and Lizzie glanced over at her, before she was tilting her head to the side as she thought about it for a minute.

"Actually, I think that he told JJ that he was bisexual. But, don't either of you dare quote me on that." Lizzie said and then, she was hopping quickly into the backseat of the Range Rover and she was buckling up her seatbelt.

After seeing Franz's son Mikey and then giving Angela Franz a small hug, Lizzie was leaving the house as she was shaking in her boots. "Too many memories?" Reacher asked and she was shaking her head silently.