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Jem…Chapter 55

Chapter 55

I get dressed and let Mike in with the computer and his recordings of stuff. It’s mostly audio except for the stuff in public areas and there’s some scenes where we catch Justin and Lucas bullying some of the kids that would kind of fit into the less than up to their social standards.

They’re not hitting but both of them are big guys and hooked up with Adam…well not just hooked up. Justin’s Adams closest “Friend” and Lucas is almost as sycophantic.

“That’s Justin and the other one’s Lucas, or as I used to call them Adams right and left testicles.”

Mike does a spit take of his coffee. I grin and shake my head.

The bullying is pretty much them using their physical size to intimidate without touching. And there’s several times. They use. “Look what happened to Jason.”

Justin’s actually smarter than Luke and he actually has a notebook that he’ll scribble into like he’s keeping score. Him writing makes these kids really nervous especially when he’ll ask them about their families, like where they work. It’s like that kind of scared and paranoid you get when the cops are writing stuff. He’s asking it kind of like he already knows so…

“That’s classic intimidation stuff right?”

“Borderline extortion.”

“The C.P. can use this?”

“No, not really but at the same time it provides context that there’s something going on.”

“Like establishing a pattern of behavior.”

“Actually yeah, right now this stuff’s all circumstantial stuff. We’d need a lot more for it to be anything.”

“But it’s a start.”

“Yeah I guess but this is all Tweedle dee and Tweedle dumb.”

“Yeah but Mike…this is a start, no one gets a start on the Marshals.”

“Honestly Angel that’s still got me on edge.”

“Yeah tonight…you think that was Adam?”

“It wouldn’t be the first guy with cash to hire thugs.”

I smile and knock on the wall. “Goons…hired Goons.”

Mike steeples his fingers and does this Adam imitation. “I prefer the personal touch you only get with hired goons.”

I snerk.

You know that’s one of those things about Mike. You get hot guy, but how often do you get Hot, Caring, Smart and Brave and a Sense of Humor.

I’d be lying if I wasn’t attracted or rather see that Mike’s that kind of guy and part of me likes being here with him on this boy girl level. But also there’s me actually having a male friend which still means something to me despite being Trans. I’ve never really had guy friends as Jason of not since I was a little kid and there’s that same feeling there of being with a male friend.

Maybe we don’t throw stuff like that away. I’m not, I don’t feel becoming the real me should really be a rejection of who I was.

And there’s that Mike’s really the closest thing I really have ever had to a brother. And the fact I don’t really have to hide from him is really good too, I can be me around him and that helps me inside. I really don’t get all of the why, but it does.

I don’t edit the stuff but instead I write down a report kind of thing with the times on the disc and then for each time I write down what each kid’s parents do or might do and what some of the kids do. One’s on the school paper, another two are in the office. Another’s dad runs a pizza place.

Adam’s got a goal here a stake in things somehow.

We watch and we listen to stuff and there’s a long of just day to day stuff and general bullshit and who’s dating who and who’s wearing what and all this back stabbery going on. I’ve actually lost track of the number of times I’ve heard one girl call another girl something nasty.

God why the hell do they act like that?

Some are pissed about him fucking Summer.

Others are pissed he’s seeing her, that she’s older.

The way that some of them talk about Adam like he’s Prince fucking Charming makes me just pissed. They are just so blind really. But I figure he’s got seven or eight girls on the go, he’s buying them from what I’m hearing…some gossiping about getting their Adam cards…oh of course he gives them credit cards.

It’s actually making me feel kind of bitchy because they’re selling themselves to him. It’s the other card girls that are the most pissed off about Scummer. They’re not happy about getting take down a peg.

Then I heard one of them say to her friends. “I guess, I’m going out with Jerry Munroe tonight.”

“Jerry? Why he’s like a total asshole.”

“It’s a favor to Adam.”

“He’d make you go out with Jerry?”

“He’s not making me…” She doesn’t sound convincing… “It’s a favor…”

I sit back and hold my coffee. Mike’s frowning. “That didn’t sound good.”

“No, she wasn’t happy about doing Adam a favor.”

“And this Jerry?”

“Teenaged Rush Limbaugh, he thinks all women are bitches and whores and he’s pretty free with that opinion…the thing is usually the girls won’t touch him.”

“And yet she’s going out with him.”

“Maybe he’s gonna take her card away if she doesn’t.”

“She’s that greedy?”

“Most of the card girls are and mean too, I mean some were okay but it’s like the longer they’re with Adam the worse they get as human beings. Getting chosen as a card girl makes you part of his social elite club.”

“Or guys like Jerry are paying for it.”

“Oh shit, you think he’s pimping them out?”

“Could be we should look at these girls more.”

I’m staring into my coffee and frowning. It’s a start but why do I have this feeling that this has gotten bigger than me.

*** Jeremy Powers……

I hang up and rub my face and my eyes. I was on the phone all night. These guys from the stuff I heard from Harry Stevens are down here on Mike.

Both of these guys got word of Mike from some guy here in town about him being here. They’ve got family in jail over the school thing with the drug gang. The little bastard reached out with his cash to look into Mike.

I know it’s that Marshal kid.

Little sociopath.

I head to the kitchen and get some coffee and go outside and sit and think. I’m not really able to get involved. I know too many guys that’d be pissed. Mike’s family though, Mitch and I went through stuff as teenagers and he’s like my brother. Happens when you best friend takes a knife in the guts for you.

But Mike’s a cop, well a cops kid but he’s gotten involved in cop business. That’s the thing some would be okay with Mike being left alone, others not. Most would see this as a personal score between Mike and these guys.

But they involved my kids. Brook nearly got ran over by these guys. I need to do something and I take out my phone.

It takes awhile for it to get picked up. “Hello?”

A woman’s voice? “Uhm sorry, is Johnny there?”

“Uhm…yah…sorry…” She sounds like I woke her up. I hear her wake him up. And the phone change hands. “Yeah this is John.”

“Johnny, it’s Remy.”

“Hey, sup how’s things.”

“Still weird, leveling out but weird.”

“You sound really awake Remy what’s up?”

“You still know those bikers?”

“Yeah my daughter’s friends, well family but yeah.”

“I need them to get the real story of why I’ve got two members of Spokes bike club down here. They’re out for payback about their family over the school bust Mitch’s boy was involved in. Mike’s made an enemy of the local Ewing bastard and if he’s paid them off that changes things from being just payback.”

“Yeah…if there’s money involved it’s not about family payback. I’ll ask I think one of them’s from Ontario.”

“Thank’s Johnny I just got to check y’know.”

“Yeah get it cleared with the club before you get into a war.”

“Yeah I’ve got enough going on with this little bastard and Angel.”

“I’ll do what I can, tell her I said hi.”

“I will you do the same for Jenna.”

I hang up and exhale, hopefully Johnny can find some stuff out. Even if I’m asking the bikers I know it’s still me asking and if Johnny’s daughter’s friends can ask that’s different it’ll be asking from the inside.

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Cool, now thngs are starting to get into gear

... on the Adam front.

I loved the testicle thing :).

There is this whole web of intrigue brewing here which will be fascinating to see how this all plays out and hopefully see the Ew ... Marshalls finally get their comeuppance. At some point I suspect we will get to JR ... err Adam's father, the headcheese ;) himself.

Kim

I've been planning a JR scene.

It's staring to get heated up as the mixture of forces are coming to a mix. It's going to be interesting to write for certain.
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Bailey.

Bailey Summers

YAY!

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So another chink in Adam's armour is exposed with his little extortion and possible pimping racket. It's rather amusing that putting pressure on Adam's 'testicles' could be the answer to finding out what Adam is up to! *giggle*

I get the feeling the fight back started here. :-)

Thank you for another chapter of Jem, Bailey!



"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

There's definitely a chink started and while Angel's excited

Mike's careful, there were thugs over him being a thorn in Adam's side he fact that people haven't really gotten far VS the Marshal's has his Spider senses tingling. But the fight starting here...

Yeah I'm seeing Jem taping up her knuckles.
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Bailey.

Bailey Summers

Friends of friends

It's nice to see it's not just the bad guys who have connections.

The plot thickens!

Penny

troops

it would be nice to have troops on our side too.
now is Casey going to be Mitch's cousin?
great job, thanks

thnings are cooking now

getting the start on the Marshals is a good thing.

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This'll is just the warm ups...

the real fighting will be much more than this.
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Bailey...A Proud Big Brother.

Bailey Summers

Lovely

That twists and turns can resolve and straighten a characters way through a story is a conundrum of concise conception and correlation so says this commentator.

Draflow

That's a whole lot of C's:)

But you're still right there's layers on layers of stuff like with Angel's dad...he can call and ask but getting someone to ask that's in the bike club is another set of layers just like the fact that they're by biker law entitled to go after Mike, but Angel's....well there'll be yet more layers.

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Bailey.

Bailey Summers

Extortion

Yup, that's exactly what it is. Courtesy of Chapter 46:

No he actually believed that most of them believed in their “game” that much that they were really able to do that kind of stuff. He’d seen it all the time too. It’s why he was so good at getting them to fall completely in his thrall. He used their bullshit they thought and believed in so much like summer and all the others to get themselves so deeply buried into him and his traps that they became his little playthings.

Later...

Adam smiled and he took out a company credit card. “Mmmm, so you want to go shopping?”

She squealed and actually snatched the card from him like lightning. He offered his arm and she took it almost bouncing along with him. She had no clue that she’d already signed on for the card…it just was one made for the company but the account to the card was in her name. The bills would come to the studio and he’d pay the minimum balance but the trap was already starting to work.

It always works.

Except little does he know he's woefully underestimated his latest target:

And when he finds out just what’s what with Starlight Butterfly and their money situation he’d get Angel into his trap too and he’d make her just as much his little whore as the others were.

I somehow doubt that Angel (or, indeed, any of Starlight Butterfly) would venture anywhere near Adam's traps other than to do the equivalent of sticking a big warning beacon next to them (not to mention Mike training CCTV on them!)...

Incidentally, also in chapter 46: the two thugs Adam recruits to 'do over' Mike subcontract the work to others, but one of them appears to have a plan to wriggle out from Adam's grasp...

“Marshal want’s Mikey dealt with or fucked with at the very least, these two morons don’t like Mike so we get them to do the job for us.”

“Okay, so what about Marshal you know that little shit’s going to hold this over us.”

“Yeah well I’m not really worried about that.”

“So you have a plan?”

“Oh I have a hell of a plan.”

...which of course, Bailey is keeping as a Noodle Incident for the time being :)


As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!

Noodles are tasty things sometimes:)

Remy has plans, Mike and Angel are making plans, Adam has plans and the bikers have plans. There's slowly more and more coming together with this. But yeah there's a lot in 46 wasn't there.
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Bailey.

Bailey Summers

Wheels within wheels, Bailey!

Actually I like that heading, a good name for a story.

Remy is on the ball and playing it nicely, he will have Adam's balls very shortly. Then again who would want them, but I can guess where he'd put them!

I agree Adam needs to be short circuited ASAP, his scheme of credit cards for the girls then when they can't pay the debt forcing them into prostitution and increasing the debt and hold over them is more than evil.

A body change and a taste of his own medicine would be a fitting end; please Bailey.

I know you won't disappoint us whatever the outcome.

Thanks Bailey, ‘Jem’, is a Jewell of a story!

Ps.
It’s a good idea to be friends with the bikies, that’s why I’m always nice to them!

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Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter!
(Mark Twain)

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Rita

That would be a good title for something Rita.

You've actually given me some good ideas though through you comments Rita honey one of them will be coming along soon. Bikies, Bikers are always good to know. Our local chapter does a "Ride for sight" as a charity for vision impaired and "Bears on Bikes." Which is a toy drive for X-mas and other great charities and yet...i know some of these guys and they're still dangerous.

It's a culture all it's own like law enforcement, or the military types.
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Bailey.

Bailey Summers

Why do I lack any empathy for

Why do I lack any empathy for thoe card girls? There is no such thing as a free lunch. Well maybe a free lunch, but certainly no free credit card. Oh well, I doubt they'll ever be this naive again.

Thank you for writing this captivating story,
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Beyogi

Hmm God help those guys if

Hmm God help those guys if Taylor gets involved, good stuff.

Big hugs

Lizzie :)

Yule

Bailey's Angel
The Godmother :p