¹ Snipes || Reacher

14. What Happens in Atlantic City

Lizzie was shaking her head at the open-mouth look on O'Donnell's face and Lizzie quietly was sighing at the sight of the picture. "What do we do, Reach?" She asked as he was silently shaking his head at the sight of it.

"What are you thinking?" O'Donnell asked at the same time, recovering his composure from the shock of seeing JJ and the blunt and abrupt reveal about his parentage as Tommy was kneeling down next to the dog Maisie as he shook his head with pain in his eyes, before he was getting up onto his feet again. "Major?" O'Donnell asked and for the first time in a long time, Reacher didn't correct him.

"I'm thinking there's someone hell-bent on taking out the special investigators. And they're coming after us." Reacher put the picture down on the table as he turned around to look at them all. "Good." He said and Lizzie glanced over at Tommy and JJ, who were associated and stuck with them now.

"We've got contacts we can call." JJ pointed out as him and Tommy were putting their guns away and Lizzie sighed.

"I shouldn't have dragged you guys into it." Lizzie muttered as they were all walking out of the house and Tommy was headed over to the truck where Kilo was barking from where the window was down. "Hey boy." Lizzie said as Tommy was letting the dog out and Kilo was whining, walking straight over to Lizzie. Lizzie, who stumbled as she was suddenly feeling dizzy. JJ caught her by the shoulders and Kilo whined loudly, rubbing his head against her legs.

"Sit down." Neagley ordered Lizzie, immediately pointing down quickly at the front passenger seat of the Range Rover and Lizzie sighed at the words, sitting down reluctantly as then, she was scratching Kilo behind the ears and the dog whined.

"Wait. So, if someone's coming after the 110, how come they haven't made a run at the three of us yet?" O'Donnell asked as he was joining them and Lizzie looked up at him. "Other than Snipes who was knocked out pretty cold when I found her." He amended quickly as Lizzie groaned softly at the words, rubbing her head.

"Ow." She mumbled quietly.

"You were in the woods with your family, no one can ever find me and maybe they just hadn't gotten around to Neagley yet." Reacher was ever the optimist and Neagley was putting up many fingers for Lizzie, who got each one correct.

"You're following my fingers, but you've still got dizzy spells." Neagley remarked as Lizzie grumbled assent at the words. "There might be something that we just don't know about Snipes, so you're just going to have to be extra careful..." Lizzie scoffed at the words.

"Extra careful?" She asked as she winced. "Around all of you? Two extremely and clearly contradictory recommendations if I have ever heard them." Lizzie muttered and she was checking the bullets in her clip.

"You aren't wrong." O'Donnell admitted and Lizzie stared at him.

"Hey... O'Donnell, could I get that in writing?" Lizzie asked just to be a dick and then O'Donnell was glaring over at her, but she just smirked as she leaned back in the passenger seat.

"Hey." Neagley interrupted their bickering suddenly and without warning as the two bickering humans were turning to look at her. "They were in our hotel rooms, maybe to grab us or take us out, but then had to bail for some reason."

"It could be because they thought they were leaving a message for you two, just by seriously injuring Snipes with malicious intent." O'Donnell pointed out and Lizzie grumbled at the words as he glanced at her, seeing that she was holding her head. "Do you need another ice pack?" He asked and she grumbled.

"Anyone got any pain medication? It feels like my brain is being smacked repeatedly with hammers." Lizzie admitted and Tommy tossed a bottle to her and she missed the catch. The bottle hit the ground and everyone looked at each other, before Kilo picked up the bottle very carefully in his jaws and the belgian malinois placed it carefully into her lap. "Thanks buddy." She murmured as she scratched his head again.