Maggie laughed, "he is picking the kids up at my mother in law's and heading here late tonight. He wanted to clean up the house a little. The kids and I are staying here until further notice, he is concerned some agency will be knocking in the next few days and he wants us not to be there. There are whispers that he was set up, that somewhere high up in the cause there is a rat. He isn't necessarily buying into that, but he wants to be careful just in case. The house is clean, and he always follows the rules, but here seems the least likely place for anyone to be harassed at the moment. This way I can also help Marilyn out, She shouldn't be alone and within the week I figured you will all be headed out to take care of Mark's affairs.
"Here is the safest, no matter what, he always made sure she was completely shielded. Nothing ever happened in this house, near his kids. She knows everything full well, but that was nothing more than the rantings of a crazy guy. He made sure nothing will ever lead here or to her and it shouldn't because other than being married to him she isn't involved in any way." he looked around. "Where is the closest meeting place?" suddenly another knock at the door.
Teresa went to look it was a gentleman in a County Sheriff's uniform. She opened the door slightly, Bobby stood behind it. "Hello m'am is Marilyn at home?"
"She is laying down can I help you?"
"Can I speak with Teresa Caber then?"
"I am Teresa."
"We got a call from your husband Paul asking us to do something about the press. I wanted to apologize to Marilyn that we had to get that call at all we should have been on it. We have made them move to the land across the street. We have warned them not to be on the property at all and to allow vehicles through. We are a small community, but local police departments are offering man hours to ensure a man 24/7 until this blows over. Well, until something else happens to take the worlds eyes off of the tragedy. Please tell Marilyn again we are so sorry, and I myself am sorry her kids are in class with mine I know her pretty well. If she needs anything please just ask. She doesn't realize how many friends she has here in the county" then the officer winked at her and started to step off the porch. He hesitated and then turned back and handed Teresa his card, tipped his hat and headed back down the driveway.
Teresa was a little shocked by the whole thing and it took a minute for her to realize that, she looked down at the card, George Wentz was part of the movement and apparently many in the county were. She closed the door and looked at Bobby.
"Call Paul, tell him what was said and thank him for reaching out. I need to check on her."
She was still in the tub when he knocked again, she told him she wasn't asleep and she wasn't ready to come out yet. The warm water felt so good, it was soothing her aching
muscles and the quiet was helping her relax. So he headed back to the kitchen. "OK again closest meeting place?"
"Dover Pond" Thomas answered. "I looked it up before we even left the house."
He looked at Thomas "Ok tonight 10 pm, Dover Pond get the word out representatives only, not general population, it will look to suspicious. It is a drive for any who are coming from a distance. It will be the ONLY meeting tonight, tell local chapters to stand down and go about their business as usual they will get word soon, but right now the call to stand down remains." Thomas nodded and headed out to the truck. Bobby headed back into the bedroom, as he entered Marilyn was coming out of the bathroom in a clean pair of over sized sweats and a tank top. He folded the bed down and pointed. She looked like she was going to argue but thought better about it, she only won an argument with him if he didn't feel like arguing. She knew with him here the girls were safe and that she should rest. She got in the bed and he laid next to her in less than 5 minutes she was asleep, he turned off the light and headed back to the kitchen once again. He looked at Teresa and she knew that Marilyn was asleep and she felt relieved. He saw that Thomas was back and with a quick nod Bobby knew everything was arranged. Reggie was headed up from the basement. "Everything OK?"
"yeah, there was a request for snacks and the movie was almost over so I watched the end and changed the DVD."
"OK if they are settled lets turn on the news. I want to see what is new if anything in the way this is being reported." Maggie turned on the TV in the Den and they all went in to watch. It was the major news on every news channel. it was looping everywhere. They could see the crowd protesting. What were they protesting the fact that once again our corrupt government had hurt innocent people and would not take responsibility for it; would Mark have been a supporter of this protest? Possibly, would the cause have been absolutely, but would any of them be in attendance? Absolutely NOT! The cause knew protesting was useless, all it did was get your name and photo added to watch lists, there were tons of watch lists and the one thing you didn't want was your name on one. Mark wanted this to be a quiet, private group that wouldn't be "known" until it was necessary and then it would be too late, the uprising would have begun and no one could stop it. That was his dream and now the question was will the cause die or would it ignite the revolution? They watched as Mark stepped around the barricade on his way to work. Officers yelling at him to stay behind the barricade. He calmly explaining he was not part of the protest and was late for work. Again officers screaming and making derogatory statements. Mark continuing to walk on the edge of the road almost at the curb, not in the middle of the street, he would not have made others late either. He continued to walk and explain they had no reason to keep him behind the barricade and it was his right to walk here where he was and he continued to walk. Then suddenly a cop that he had just passed by, not close enough for either to have exchanged any dialog took out his gun and yelled. Mark put up his hands and turned to face the officer and as he turned the officer fired and fired and fired until his gun was empty and Mark was a bloody pile on the street. There was nothing the City Police Department could do to try to pretend this was anything other than an execution. They were currently blaming a rookie who was overwhelmed by what was going on they were claiming many factors all rolled into the perfect storm. First he was a rookie, just less than a year on the force. Add in the heat, it was the hottest June on record, May had been hot enough, but since June started the temperatures had climbed into the double digits daily. The humidity compounded the uncomfortable heat, we were well north of Florida, but the daily weather was the same, hot and humid, when the air couldn't hold any more we would get a brief rain storm, but with no relief. The chaos created by the the protest itself, people yelling, crowds pushing against the barricade. Finally Mark walking outside the barrier, they were attempting to put the blame on him, but the video clearly showed what happened and there was audio so they couldn't even claim he said something that he didn't. What made it worse for the department was it was streamed live across the net so people saw it go down in real time, no time to claim doctored photo, video or audio. They were stuck with the mess and everyone was hoping it would not stick to them. Not even the Liberal media was buying what the department was selling. The only question that remained was this: was it an accidental execution or an intentional one? Many in the cause felt it was too staged, it looked like they were going to shoot him in the back until he raised his hands and turned around, then the officer looks like well that was not suppose to happen and shoots him anyway. Others felt it was wrong place wrong time, it could have easily been anyone and simply happened to be Mark. If it was intentional and Mark was the target then someone had ratted him out, because no one was better at staying under the radar. So now they had to worry, was there a rat? Were they all compromised? Bobby wanted to believe that it was a wrong place type scenario, but he couldn't completely rule out the set up. In fact he knew Mark would not. He would consider the set up long before the coincidence. So, he needed to figure it out and fast. On video it did look like the officers were trying to get reaction out of him, but how could they know he would step into the street on that day in that area? So many things he needed to sort out.
He only had about 5 hours before he had to speak at the meeting and they would want answers and actions, they
