No one really knew what to expect with Sky sharing her blood with me, even Kat wasn’t sure how my body would react to it. But it was the only way. Samantha was on the video with Bridgette, right from before hooking Sky and myself together, making sure everything was being done just right. This was the first time for Bridgette doing this on her own, though she had helped Samantha before on a couple of occasions.

Jennifer stayed on the other video screen, along with Misty and Galyna who were on each side of Jennifer giving her support. This was hard on her not being with me at this time. Kat was now in the other small room with Aari and Dawn, working on their wounds. Those two were the most seriously wounded of our team, next to me, so she needed to help them quickly too.

Suddenly Bridgette called Kat, “Steve died! He died Kat!” Kat went running into our room and told Bridgette to leave, she would take over now. Bridgette looked up at the screen and told Jennifer that I had died. There was a chilling silence in the plane when she said this. Cristy called Mandar right away, but he was in a business meeting at his office. However, Richard put the call through.

“Richard, I said no calls whatever,” said Mandar. “It’s Cristy Sir, you will want to take this call,” said Richard. He did and was completely silent. He then ordered everyone out of the room and cancelled the meeting. Cristy then called Jazzy and told her the news. Jazzy is a tough, very hard woman, who, with her late husband Toledo, spent a long time trying to kill me.

Yet, hearing this news actually caused her to cry. She then called someone. “Warren, now is the time,” she said, “kill Rico and whoever is his number 2 man, and do it now.” “It won’t be cheap Jazzy,” he said, “rush orders cost more.” “I don’t care, do it now,” she said again, choking up a bit. “You okay Jazz?” he asked. “Rico killed a good friend of mine,” she said, “don’t worry, you will have your money as soon as it’s done.”

“I never worry when you hire me Jazz,” he said, “Rico is dead when he arrives at his club later today.” Sure enough, Rico arrived at his club like he always did at 4pm. Both Rico and his new right hand man got out of Rico’s car and as they began to walk away from the car, with 8 bodyguards, a nearly silent shot was fired and Rico fell.

A second shot immediately followed and Luis, Snakebite’s replacement, fell also. Rico and Luis died at the same time by making two big mistakes, being punctual and arriving together. “I got them both for you Jazzy,” said Warren, “and thanks for the prompt payment, I already checked.” “I told you it would be there on time,” she said.

“I also heard some news today,” said Warren, “Rico was heading to Honduras tomorrow to take control of the whole cartel from his brother Carlo. It appears that Carlo was out driving his brand new sports car, lost control and went over a steep drop into a ravine and died in the crash. So, Rico figured on an easy takeover. Now I guess their cousin, Jorge, will take over everything.”

“Not if you can get to him,” said Jazzy. “That will be easy,” said Warren, “Jorge doesn’t have the sense of a rabbit.” “Good, then go rabbit hunting Warren,” she said. “I’ll let you know when it’s done Jazz,” he said. That’s getting a little ahead of things now, so we will go back to us on the plane. Kat had come into the room with Sky and I still hooked up together.

Bridgette had done everything that Samantha told her to do, but nothing had worked to get my heart beating again. Bridgette went out to the main room and began to check on the wounded that were in beds there. The only sounds were that of the jet until Bridgette called some of the cats to come and purr for the wounded team members, just to help them feel more comfortable.

Several of the girls had their cats with them and Sherry was cuddling Fluffy. Cynthia had stayed behind at home but sent her cat, Midnight, along with us. He spotted Sherry and Fluffy and came over to them. Meow.= Me want to help Fluffy cuddle you. Sherry smiled and picked him up and cuddled both of them. The jet had landed in Florida to refuel and then was off was again.

After 2 hours Kat came back out, looked up at Jennifer and smiled briefly. “You need to relax and get some sleep little sister,” she said, “and stop worrying. Steve is alive and I think I can keep him that way.” Carine had been helping with Aari and Dawn while Kat was with Sky and me. Carine doesn’t have that “healing touch” that Kat has, but she can still help with some things.

Kat had already gotten things started with Dawn and Aari, so she was just keeping things going. It’s a good thing our ghosts don’t need to rest like we do, so Kat was still quite fresh and able to run back and forth easily between patients. Sienna collapsed under the pressure, blaming herself for all of this. There is still a long flight home and no one knows exactly what is in store for me…

To Be Continued.

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