Home At Last

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Jarad, called his employer. He was getting tired of having to smuggle a race horse around and not getting his money now as promised at first. "When doo we getz zee money?" he demanded in his sharp Russian accent
"You will get your money soon enough. Not take the colt to California, down by San Fransisco." said a male on the other line.
"WHAT?!? My men and I just got this Stoopeed Hows up to Micheegeen and you want us to take him THERE!?"
"Yes you fool. I need him there to become a stud on my west coast ranch."
"No!" Jarad snapped. "Geev meh deh money NOW !"
"You go there and I'll give you the money!" said the voice.
"NO! and as you American's say, 'scr** Y**!'" he slammed the phone down. WIth an angry stride he threw open the stall door and The Heist dashed out, and away from the scary men.
"What was that for!?!" demanded one of the other men.
"Mr. R isn't going to pay us anytime soon. the colt is too hot an item. We get caught with heem and our whole operation crumbles. let's go. we have a show jumper to take to Canada.." with that the men packed up and set off to their next high pay job as horse smugglers.

-Nikki walked out of the main house and head to the normal barn. Glances to her right she finds, what looks like a bay. She stares at it for a moment, and it sensing her eyes upon it, turns around quickly and gallops of into the forest. Nikki walks into the barn and grabs the prettiest mares, Lativa and Ila, and but them in their designated paddock. Nikki, deciding it would be best to keep the rest inside walks into the house, up to the office and sits at her desk. She quickly opens her laptop, and starts searching for a horse that missing that fits the description of the horse she just saw. She started looking through all the ads, when Sully threw the doors open.
-“Why is everyone in the barn but Lativa and Ila?!?!?” he yelled.
-“Ee have a visitor, that’s why.” Nikki glared at sully before returning back to her computer.
-“That makes no sense!”
-Nikki quickly squealed with delight, having just found the ad that fit him the most.
-“Lucky for me, I just found him, and lucky for you I don’t have to explain my logic!” Nikki yelled then left the room. Sully followed her.
-“What are you going to try to do?”
-“Catch him of course!” she thought it was obvious.
-“Don’t you think you should call his owners?” sully asked looking at her.
-“Him not going to call someone, then get their hopes up by it not being the horse.”
-Sully nodded his head.
-They made their way outside, and saw the bay horse on the other side of the fence of Lativa. Nikki found herself praying a silent thanks for Lativa loving to have every stallion she sets her eyes on. Nikki quickly walked inside the Colour barn and grabbed Nazzima’s halter. Seeing the sad look on Nazzima’s face, she quickly rubbed her between the eyes, then walked out, silently promising her a treat. She approached the pasture from the opposite side, slowly approaching Lativa and her friend. The colt looked over at Nikki, suddenly becoming nervous. Lativa trotted over to Nikki giving a high pitch neigh for a greeting. Nikki gave her a hello pat and rubbed her between her eyes. Lativa then began to prance away, and Nikki followed her. Nikki slowed down however, when she noticed that Lativa was going to the bay. Lativa touched her muzzle to his, showing him she was fine, then nickered to Nikki. Nikki approached after her previous pause, and stopped at Lativa’s shoulders. Nikki scratched her neck nervously, waiting for the colt to make a move. He approached with caution, his head hanging over the fence. Nikki slowly put one foot in front of the other, until she was in front of him. She offered him her hand to sniff, and when he was satisfied he put his muzzle against her hand. She slowly pulled the halter up her arm, up his head, and over his ears. She clasped it closed, and slide between the fence rails. She walked him to the Normal barn, and set him up in the stall next to Lativa. Sully was standing at the end of the barn looking shocked.
-“You may want to pick your lower jaw off the ground and bring in Lativa.” Nikki gave the colt on finally pat and walked into the house, where she quickly printed the add out and grabbed a phone. She walked back into the stable and looked at the colt. He looked more brown the sooty bay, so she quickly walked into the tack room and grabbed a few brushes, detangles, and a hoof pick. She entered his stall and set to work of seeing if he was brown from dirt or his coat color was brown. After about an hour of work, she stepped back looking at him. Yep he was defiantly brown from dirt, as his sooty bay coloring shown. His hair was straight and silky, and his hooves free of dirt and debris. The one thing that had to be right, the eyes. She looked into his eyes, and the were blue with gold flecks. She quickly dialed the number on the flyer. It took two rings before someone answered. It was a groom. "Miss Silver? yes i think she's here now. She just got back....

Heather had just finished her leg of the Spring Bash relay race at Faridoon Stables. Once she returned to the barns with her Teke mare, Akial, a groom came runnign up with a phone. "Heather Heather!" she said nd quickly shoved the phone into the stable owner's hands.
-“Hello?” said a voice that was overly stressed with worry.
-“Hello, is this Heather Silver at Iron Dune Stables?” nikki replied politely.
-“Yes this is, may I help you with something?”
-“Yes, it appears I have your horse. I saw him standing not to far from the woods around my stables and I managed to catch him.”
-”Are you sure its him?” she asked her voice suddenly having lighten.
-“Yes Ma’am. He is the same color, and his eyes are blue with gold flecks.” Nikki heard her give a sigh of relief.
-“Yep that’s him. Is he injured? Is he starved, is he okay?”
-“He is very fine Ms. Silver, he was just a little dirty, but I cleaned him. When can you come by and get him?”
-“Where is your stables located?” she asked, suddenly scared again.
- “We are located in Oosida Soquilee, Michigan.” she let out a groan.
- “We are all the way in Georgia.”
- “Well, until you can come up here and get him, I will keep him in my stables, fed and warm.”
- “Thank you so much!! Really thank you, you don’t have any idea what this means to me, to us down here at IRS.”
- “Don’t worry about it, call me when you can come get him?”
- “Of course!”
- They exchanged goodbyes and nikki patted The Heist on his neck and walked out of his stall to go get him some feed and hay.

Within the next two days Heist was back home and let's just say his unrelated brother, Fight Club, was extremely happy to have his pasture buddy back!
the whole IDS staff has taken a step up, the cameras were reinstalled and 2 guards were hired to help keep an eye on the horses at night.
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most of this story is by
all charries other than Heather, groom, Heist, Fight Club, and the IDS staff are hers