6 a.m Prague
Will woke up as the early morning sun streamed into his hotel room. Beside him Frankie slept peacefully on her stomach, face turned away from him and the offending sunlight.
He smiled at how beautiful she looked, naked in his bed and desperately hoped this would be a regular occurrence.
He reached for his phone wanting to make sure the alarm didn't wake her. He made a mental note to have coffee ready for her at a reasonable hour, which she didn't think existed before 8.
He saw a missed call from Standish from the night before, New York time which made it 3 am in Prague. He shook his head and smiled as he dialed his voicemail, knowing he wouldn't have considered the time difference.
Will listened to Standish say it was Tina who killed Emma. He didn't have time to process that before his heart dropped when he heard a struggle and the call disconnect.
He immediately dialed his number. "Come on pick up" he said as the phone rang.
"I'm sorry Will your friend Standish can't come to the phone right now, he's tied up. Literally" Ollerman said.
"You son of a bitch. What do you want with him?" he said angrily.
"Revenge. He killed my girlfriend"
"Well to be fair she killed mine so what do you say we call it even?"
"Nope. I'm going to kill each and every one of your precious little team, starting with him. Feel free to come and try to find us, bring the gang with you. That will certainly make life easier for me. Bye now" he said and hung up.
"No!" Will said angrily and punched the wall, causing Frankie to wake up startled and reach for her gun.
"Hey, no it's just me" Will said quickly, prepared to hit the floor if she got a hold of her gun before she was fully alert.
"What the hell?" she asked still disoriented from sleep
"We have to go. Ollerman is alive and he has Standish" he told her.
"Fuck! How is that guy still alive?" she said angrily. "I should have blown his brains out when I had the chance"
He called Ray to alert the team while he raced around getting dressed and packing.
She called Jai to work on tracking him down.
"On it. Um Frankie? How are you with Will this early in the morning? Did you perhaps wake up there?" he asked teasingly.
"Can you focus please? We need to find Standish!" she said hanging up.
They went to the airport in silence. Both worried for their friend.
"I know this is going to sound odd coming from me but you're not talking and it's kind of freaking me out, you're never not talking" she said.
"I feel responsible. We thought Ollerman was dead and here we are hooking up in Prague while Ollerman was getting away AGAIN and attacking one of our team" he said angrily.
"Will, we couldn't have known and we were 4,000 miles away. We will get Standish back" she said assuredly.
"It's like we can't be happy for 5 minutes. Jai saved Ray, Susan admits she has feelings for him, we think we finally stopped Ollerman's tour of terror. And then you and me. God yesterday was the best day" he said reflecting happily on the previous day.
"Okay I don't really know how to handle sad Will" she admitted, causing him to chuckle softly.
"Luckily for you I'm usually puking sunshine all over you"
"Yes. I'm a very lucky girl" she teased.
They got home and went straight to the Dead Drop to meet up with the rest of the team. They had been working to pull GPS information and surveillance video footage.
"Give it to me" Will said as soon as they walked in. They hadn't gotten full details of the incident since they had been traveling home.
"Standish was on the phone leaving Will a message at 9:07 at this location Jai said pointing to the screen. Ollerman appears from between vehicles at 9:08 and grabs Standish" he said playing the video.
"He stabbed him with something. Were you able to tell what it was?" Frankie asked concerned. It had been hours and if he was seriously injured it wasn't good.
"No but he was awake and we went to the scene, there wasn't any blood" Susan said.
"So that's good news huh" Ray said, ever positive.
"But he could have injected him with something that will cause a slow torturous death" Will said bringing him back down.
"But we have to assume that he's still alive for now and go get him and kill this bastard once and for all" Jai said.
"We have to have a plan" Will said.
"The plan is we kill him. Violently!" Frankie said.
"This is an obvious trap. This is exactly what he wants, to lure us all to him. He literally said he wants to kill us all, we can't just walk in there and hand that to him" Will said
"I don't care. We've seen first hand what he is willing to do. We have to stop him before he kills Standish" Frankie said exasperated.
"We all know what's on the line here Frankie" Susan said.
"Do you? Because it's seems like you forgot how he murdered Paul right in front of us, how he was going to do the same to you" she said looking at Ray.
"He also shot me" Ray added.
Susan looked at him.
"Not helpful" he said and looked down, shoving his hands in his pockets.
"He killed Emma" Frankie said softer, appealing to them on a more personal level.
Will's jaw clenched "Tina killed Emma. That's what Standish called to tell me" he said.
Susan went to his side and hugged him in support.
Frankie was bewildered by their response.
"Well Tina's dead. Standish handled that. Now it's Ollerman's turn" Frankie said.
"Frankie we're all on the same team here, we just need to get as much intel as we can so we can go in prepared so nobody else gets hurt. I won't lose anyone else." He said holding her gaze for a long moment.
She scanned the room and instantly knew everyone noticed.
"We can't afford to be reckless." Will explained.
She nodded in understanding and Will, Ray and Susan went to work.
"Make the call?" Jai asked her.
"Yep" she responded.
"I'll get to work" he said and went to his lair.