Mother’s House

An hour later, Jackson and I were walking into the base hand in hand. Now my mother has been taken by Mario, and Reece is in the hospital getting treated for being ambushed, Jackson was the boss. We needed a plan to one find where Mario has taken my mother but two, think of a way to bring Mario in without having what happened the last time. I'm led into a room which I had never seen before, it had people at desks filling the entire room. Who all turned to look at us as we walked in, paying extra attention to mine and Jackson's interlocked fingers. I know it seems highly unprofessional that we're doing this but let's be honest, we all knew it was going to happen at some point! Right in the middle of the desks was a circle desk, one big computer in the middle with a bunch of people having panicked conversations with each other. In the centre of those panicked people stood Alison, who also looked worried. But once she turned to look at us, I see relief wash over her senses. 'You're finally back, I've been trying to hold down the fort as best I can but that's hard when I don't really know what's going on." She tells us once we stop at the desk, the feeling of eyes on me still ever present in my mind. 'We've been able to locate my father, who is now in the hospital getting treated." I say giving her the first bit of news, a smile forms on her lips but I shake my head. 'But Reece and my mother were ambushed by Mario, Reece is in hospital and my mother has been kidnapped." I say dropping the biggest bombshell of them all, which does make the smile drop from her face and worry to replace it. 'So, what are we doing to do?!" She asked the panic in her voice returning, but Jackson shakes his head sending her a reassuring smile. 'The worst thing we can do is panic, we were trained by Joanna to handle any situation which is thrown at us. Let's prove to her we can handle the work even when she isn't here." He says attempting to calm his sister, she looks at him taking a deep breath and whilst nodding her head. 'We need to try and work out where Mario has taken her, see if you can track where Joanna's phone is." He says looking at one of the men stood by the computer, the guy nods and begins to type rather quickly into a computer but shakes his head. 'The last time her phone pinged was hours ago at what seems to be an office building." The guys say which was another dead lead, we were with my mother at that time. 'We were there with her." I tell Jackson where he nods, but one of the guys look over at me shocked that I had been there in the first place. 'Is it really surprising that Jackson and I have been secretly helping, everyone tells me I'm like my mother, like I would sit around and allow other people to work." I say when they thought I would just sit down and play dead, but when they all nod their heads and smile, I knew I was off the hook in a sense. 'We need to look in any files to see if Mario has another property he could hide there, check all of his aliases." Jackson says shouting orders at many people, who begin to run around doing what they were told. 'We have to somehow get in Mario's head, this obviously, wasn't the plan. He wasn't planning on my dad hiding a tracker in his leg or making a secret plan with that man. As you say, when Mario is involved in something like this, he plans ever last thing to the last detail. He didn't see any of this coming, so I bet it's messing with his head." I say walking over to sit on the closest desk to me, which does make Jackson nod his head and begin for think. 'This would be the perfect time for him to mess up, he doesn't have time to spend weeks planning out his next move, he has to think on his feet and from all accounts, he isn't very skilled in that." Jackson tells me, which was a great advantage for us, we have to keep our eyes peeled to catch one of his slip ups. I look around the desk I had sat on and see a photo, it was of Jackson and Alison smiling. It didn't seem like a recent photo which wasn't a surprise to me, Allison was missing for way over a year before Jackson and I were able to find her. I look away from the photo to see a tiny toy replica of Jackson's beloved car, wait is this his desk. 'You've found my desk, I haven't been back here for months, I was a little preoccupied with somebody." He smiles taking a seat at his desk looking over at me, I roll my eyes at his comment before they drop to another photo. It was of the two siblings again but another woman in the middle, they were all looking at the camera with beaming smiles. 'That's our mother, the day before she died." Jackson explains clocking what photo I was looking at, where I send him a tiny smile whilst taking his hand to in mine. 'You all seem really happy." I smile looking back down at the photo, I don't know what happened to their mother to cause her passing but at least before, she was surrounded by love and was happy. 'I miss her, whenever I had an issue which I couldn't see a way out of, I'd go over to her house and she'd help me where in the end, I knew what I had to do." He sighs still looking at the photo of his mother, I smile at his comment for a second before realisation soon hits. 'I think I know where he must have gone." I say now getting to my feet, the idea which I know must be correct getting clearer in my mind. 'It's just like you said, whenever any of us are at a crossroads and have no idea how to get ourselves out, where do most of us go?" I ask looking around in hopes someone else was catching the same drift, but everyone just looked at each other than back at me confused. 'His mummy's house." I exclaim really have to spell it out for these guys, really, I thought these are trained to work out this sort of thing. 'You're right!" Jackson says now raising to his feet joining me in my thoughts, finally! 'Whenever Mario has done something bad where he thinks he's out of his depths, he goes running to his mummy. When he kidnapped Alison, he went to his mother's house and hid that box which we found." Jackson says only adding more evidence onto my theory which now, seemed like the only plausible explanation. 'It was you guys who were sending the information in." The same guy from before says with a shocked expression, I look over a little shocked myself that he hadn't realised that. 'Yes, I thought we'd been over that fact." I say a little dumbfound in a sense, but I soon shake it off and look back to Jackson. 'I can bet anything as soon as he took my mother, he knew he was at the end of the line and ran to his own mother." I say which Jackson soon smiles at placing his hands on either side of my face. 'Your smart little brain did it again!" He cheers placing a huge kiss on my forehead, where an awe escapes Alison's mouth. 'We need everyone to get suited up to leave, we all know how unpredictable Mario can be when he's put in a corner." Jackson shouts to everyone who once again rush around to get ready, before he looks down at me. 'Let's get this bastard." I smile looking him in the eyes.