Foster Mom [#Wattys2016] (completed) ✔️

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Ethan POV

I wake up to the door slamming shut. I reach into my bedside table and pull out gun. I put the bullets in the chamber and make my way out of my room. I aim my gun and move through the house.

In the kitchen I see the silhouette of my roommate. "What are you doing getting in late?"

He looks at me. "I had to go to Los Angeles with the boss. I saw my sister while she was there."

I empty the chamber of the gun and put it in my pocket. "How is she?"

Johnny looks away and shakes his head. "She's got this stalker following her and he sent her something this evening. It freaked her out."

Are my kids safe with her?

Johnny touches my shoulder. "Your kids are fine. She won't let anyone near them. She'd rather risk her life than those she cares about."

I lean against the counter. "What happened in LA?"

He jumps onto the counter. "I went with Owen and Lance to the warehouse where they keep the shipment. They will be delivering the drugs to the local shipping yard tonight. I called Director Shaw and he's put a team together that will be here soon. We bust the shipping yard at 8pm." He looks at me. "You should get some sleep."

I shake my head. "I was until you came in."

Johnny laughs. "You know your reaction was the same as my sisters when I snuck into my house."

I look take a closer look at him and I see a bruise on his arm and at the side of his face. I laugh. "She hit you with a baseball bat?"

Johnny nods. "I'm just lucky she didn't pull a gun on me. I don't know where she keeps her gun. But, I know she owns one. She's going to probably have to shoot the guy if he doesn't stop all of this."

I'll stop him. I want to keep my girls safe from a guy like that.

I straighten up. "I'm going to follow your sister when we get back to LA. I want to know if the guy follows her as well. I'm going to learn everything I need to know about that guy."

Johnny slaps my back. "Good luck with that. Laken's tried to learn everything she needs about the guy. It's not working for her."

"It's not working for her because she's the one that sticks to her schedule. If she did something differed she's be able to pick up the guy trailing her. You should tell her to watch the sunset with the girls on Saturday. You have to tell her about Harlow's passage."

Johnny smiles. "I haven't been there since we became agents. I think we should head back there and get some training done there."

I nod. "I miss that place." I yawn. "I'm going back to bed. Don't sneak in on people, Johnny. I don't want to see you in hospital for that." I exit the kitchen and make my way to my bedroom. I slam the door shut and crawl under the covers."

***

I wake up at 9am, I climb out of bed and make my way to the kitchen. I pull out a frying pan and make a lot of noise.

I hope this wakes Johnny up.

After five minutest Johnny enters the kitchen. He looks at me. "What is with the wake-up call this morning?"

I laugh. "It's getting late and you need to get up. I'm not going to let you get sleep after you snuck into the house early this morning scaring the shit out of me."

He laughs. "Fair enough. What are you making for breakfast?"

"Bacon and eggs. You can help yourself. I'm going to eat mine before it gets cold." I take my plate over to the table and start eating.

Johnny phone starts to ring and he looks at me. He puts his finger to his lip and I nod. He puts the call on loudspeaker. "Hello, this is Special Agent Santiago."

"It's Director Shaw. I'm calling to tell you that the team has arrived. They're at your disposal. Send out a 999 when you're ready to take down the guys."

"Yes, sir. Miller and I will be back tomorrow for the debriefing. Goodbye." Johnny hangs up the phone and he looks at me. "Are you ready to finish what we started three weeks ago?"

I smile. "Hell yeah. I'm in need of the LA sun and beach. The first thing I'm going to do after the debriefing is go surfing."

"I'll join you. But, I'm going to see Laken and the girls first."

"Why haven't I met them?"

Johnny crosses his arms. "I didn't want my sister to be like all the other girls you've been with. Laken is the type of girl that you fall in love with. Not someone to screw around with."

"Let's get the surveillance stuff ready. I want to have everything we need for when we leave. I don't want to leave anything behind. We can't screw this up."

***

After breakfast Johnny and I set up our surveillance gear. I check my binoculars to see if they work.

I don't want anything to fail with the hard work we've put into bringing this cartel down.

Johnny looks at me. "Everything's working. What about you?"

"Same here."

Johnny rises. "I'm going to scoop the place out. Do you want to come?"

"Sure," I rise and follow him to the car.

We climb in and make our way to the Shipping yard.

***

At the shipping yard I step out of the car and I walk around the place. I take in the ships around me and the set-up of the boats.

Johnny stops next to me. He points to the dock we need to go to tonight. "You see the mountain behind me on my six."

I look at the spot he's talking about. "Yeah?"

"That's where you're going to be. I need to be in the mix of things. I don't want you to compromise our true identity." Johnny moves away from me.

"I'm not going to compromise anything, Johnny." I look around the shipping yard and I see a three black cars pull up in front of a boat.

A group of people step out of the cars and they shake hands.

A guy looks up in our direction.

I hide behind a tree and watch them exchange some packages. I turn to Johnny. "What's going on, Johnny?"

He shrugs. "I don't know. I've never seen those guys before." He pulls out his binoculars and he looks through it. "There's a few guys from the bosses place."

I pull my binoculars out of the bag and look through it. I see our boss step out of the car.

He looks in our direction and he nods his head.

I put the binoculars back in my bag. I look around for Johnny and I don't see him. I hear Johnny whisper. "I'm sorry." I feel something smash against my head and then I black out.

***

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