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Wyoming and all of the former Marines
that make up Drake Security live there with their families.
    Damian and Eric love looking through all of
the pictures of their heroes, the former Marines that make up Drake
Security, Dylan Drake, Damian’s father otherwise known as Scoot,
Barry Farrady, Eric’s stepfather otherwise known as Farrie,
Reginald Willingham also known as Goose, Clarence Kincaid Jr. also
known as Stump, Clarence Kincaid Sr. also known as Bear, and Keith
Williams, also known as Pinky.
    Slowly paging through file after file of the
photos, they are laughing and joking about each one. So Damian is
very surprised when Eric screams, “Oh no!” and jumps up out of his
chair and bolts down the stairs without a word of explanation.
    Stump, Clarence Kincaid Jr., is just coming
out of his bedroom after a shower and is drying his hair with a
towel. He asks Damian,
    “What’s up with Eric? He looked like he saw a
ghost.”
    Damian replies, “I don’t know Stump, we were
just looking at these pictures and when he saw this one he jumped
up and ran off.”
    Stump steps over to the computer and peers
over Damian’s shoulder at the picture in question. He sees a
picture of his buddy, Pinky, when he was a lot younger and a
beautiful girl with shoulder length auburn hair and green eyes
dressed in a pretty dark green party dress. Shrugging his shoulders
he says,
    “It beats me Damian. I don’t know what could
have upset him about that picture.”
    ******
    Eric runs as fast as he can across the ranch
yard and back to the main ranch house where he lives with his
mother and Barry Farrady, his step-father. He bolts through the
door yelling at the top of his lungs, “Mom, Barry! Where are
you?”
    Barry sticks his head out of the study and
says, “In here Eric, what’s going on? Why are you yelling?”
    Eric runs to the study, breathing heavily
from his sprint across the yard and breathlessly says, “Barry, Mom,
I saw a picture on the computer in the office of Pinky and
Jasmine!”
    Eric’s Mom, Melanie Brentwood Farrady was
kidnapped as a fifteen year old runaway and imprisoned in a militia
compound in Idaho for ten years. Eric’s biological father, Darren
Calloway, was the head of the group and was killed in a
confrontation with the Drake Security team shortly after Melanie
and Eric escaped from the compound. Barry rescued Melanie and Eric
from a blizzard during their initial escape and he and the other
former Marines saved them from Darren Calloway. Soon afterwards
Barry and Melanie had married.
    Surprised by her son’s words, Melanie asks,
“Jasmine? The same Jasmine we knew at the compound in Idaho? Eric,
are you saying you saw a picture on the computer of Pinky and that
Jasmine?”
    “Yes Mom! I saw it. She looked a lot younger
and didn’t have the ugly scar but I know it was Jasmine,” answers
Eric.
    Confused Barry asks, “Who is Jasmine?”
    Melanie answers, “Jasmine was one of the
women at the compound in Idaho and my best friend. She is a couple
of years older than I am and had already been at the compound for a
year or two when Darren first carried me there. She helped me
adjust to life in captivity. She convinced me I needed to stop
fighting and accept my situation before I died from the abuse. She
was a good friend to me and I will always be grateful to her. The
man she lived with, James Bixby, had a major disagreement with
Darren and they left to move to a different compound a year or so
before Eric and I escaped.”
    Barry looks at his stepson and asks, “Eric,
are you absolutely certain you saw a picture of that Jasmine with
our Pinky?”
    Eric emphatically nods his head and says,
“I’m positive!”
    Barry continues, “Can you show me?” Barry is
very curious because as long as he has known Pinky he has never
been involved with a woman, any woman. In fact, Pinky is one of the
most unemotional men Barry has ever met, always cool and calm,
unflappable in the heat of battle. It is one of the