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sis…sister Ja…Ja…Jackie, Sar…Sarah, gone.  Taken.”  He lifted an arm and pointed to a two lane road leading west.
    Jackson felt the blood drain out of his face.  He was figuring out which scenario he’d walked into and it was the worst case.  These dudes had been hit by a group of mercenaries, or something like them, and the bad guys had kidnapped some of them.
    This is bad, real bad.  If these guys are on the war path, they could be a big threat.  Jackson considered not telling anyone about the PMC guy and the missing girls.  Maybe we could just get our supplies and get out of here.
    “Oh my God,” Theresa said from behind him.  He could see the look of shock on her face.
    “He’s going to be ok,” Jackson began.  “We’ll get him to Jen.  She’ll get him fixed up.”
    “I know, but what about the girl?”
    Damn.  “I don’t know right now.  Let’s get him to Jen first.  We’ll let Sergeant Brown figure out what to do.  C’mon.  Help me get him in the truck.”
    They dragged him into the back seat of the truck.  Jackson drove as fast as he could back to the vet’s office.  Theresa tried to render first aid.  Her efforts amounted to tying bandages around the young man’s body.
    “What’s your name?”
    “St…Steve,” he answered.
    “I’m Theresa,” she told him.  “This is Private Jackson.  Can you tell me what happened?”
    “We wer…were out for…foraging.  We saw th…the Jeep.  It looked li…like there was some…somebody hurt.  Aaron went to ch…check it out.  Ne…next thing I knew, he and Jose were dead.  I…I got hit in…” the young man coughed up a mouthful of blood.  “I went down.  I…I…I could hear them screaming.”
    “Who baby?” she asked softly.
    He began to weep.  “Jackie.”  He couldn’t control it anymore.  “My sister, Jackie and Aaron’s wife Sarah; they took them.”  He coughed up more blood.  “Oh God!  What about Tom and Alexis?”
    “Who are they?  Were they with you?”
    “Yes.  No.  Kinda.”  His breathing became rapid.  “They’re alone in camp.”  His voice became quieter, less panicked.  The slur in his speech was becoming more pronounced.  Theresa thought he was beginning to sound drunk.  “They’re not going to make it.  Jackie, Sarah, Tom…” his voice trailed off.  A hiss as the last breath escaped.  His muscles relaxed.  His mouth hung open in a silent scream.  He slumped over.  Theresa knew immediately, he was dead.
    “He dead?” asked Jackson.
    “Yes,” she replied.  She could feel the knot in her throat as she said it.  She thought about the young man in front of her.  He couldn’t have been much older than her brother Davy, maybe 20.  She wondered where he’d come from?  His accent told her he was probably local.  No ring meant he wasn’t married.
    Her thoughts went to his sister.  What was she like?  Was she older or younger than he was?  Who had taken her?  Why?
    “Who do you think took her?” she asked Jackson.  “Was that guy military or something?  He looked like a soldier in black.  Could he have been a cop?”
    “I don’t know,” he answered.  He doubted the body was a cop.  He couldn’t shake the feeling that the people who took the man’s sister and the other girl were bad news.
    He saw the LMTV, a panel van and a school bus in the parking lot of the vet clinic.  It looks like the other group had good luck.  Several of the engineers were busy moving boxes from one vehicle to another.  Mike was on the roof.  He waved at Jackson as he parked the Humvee.
     
    Valhalla
    “Where the fuck is my Humvee?” Thor asked Joe.
    “Someone else walked into the ambush before the military guys,” Joe answered quickly.  He knew his answers better be right.
    “Who, who the hell else sprung your trap?”  He emphasized the word your .
    “I don’t know.  There were five of them, three guys, and two women.”  He whistled.  Poncho Villa