Aiden sat at his computer going through all the data he lifted from Mack, but there was a lot of information on that drive. For two hours he sifted and sorted until he came across something he thought would make life so much easier, he found all the chip data that had been implanted into the girls. He scrolled through the list, but unfortunately he found two girls on the list that could be who he was looking for. First there was Alexandria Lynks, her photo looked to be like she was 19 at the most with blond hair and big blue eyes. The second was Alexia Collins, and as he was looking into her green eyes he thought this was her. He didn't know why, but he felt like she was the one he was looking for, or maybe it was because something was familiar about her. He dark hair had a red cast to it, and her skin was fair but a few freckles cross her cheeks. She looked to be in her early to mid twenties and something about her just struck him.

He decided to play it safe and trace both signals, hoping he'd be able to find them easily. He started tracking the location of Alexandria, she was easily found living in some penthouse downtown. He then tried to triangulate a location on Alexia, but every time he tried it would pop up showing three different locations, and each time they were different locations. This had to be her, she hacked her chip and made it impossible to get her location from it, but could it be undone? Could he know how, or more importantly know someone who knew how to find her by undoing her hack? He picked up his cell and dialed an old friend.

"T-bone, It Aiden, I think I have a job, are you going to be in your badger hole?" T-bone laughed hearing from Aiden, they hadn't talked much since Clara died.

"I thought you were leading a normal life now, one in the daylight." Aiden let out an amused sigh, he hadn't realized it but that was exactly what he was doing, leading a normal life.

"I am, but this is a favor for a friend. That's it. I'm not getting back in it, just helping. So, can I count on you or not?" T-bone thought about it for a moment before answering.

"Of course, I owe you for clearing my name, although I still rather people think I was locked away out in Pawnee." Aiden was happy to hear that T-bone was still on his side, after all he had stirred up a bunch of shit some six months ago.

Aiden found himself back on some familiar roads, back down again by where Tobias had his shack, but this time he headed out an old set of tracks. Just as if no time had passed, he hacked into the bridge, turning it so that he could cross it and get to the concrete island where one of the best hackers and code writers he'd ever know would be. He followed the tracks over the bridge and then over to a yard full of shipping containers, making his way into one before it was picked up and carried him away. A few seconds later he was opening the door on the container to find himself looking at the barrel of a sawed off shotgun leveled at his chest.

"Dammit T-bone, you know it was me." Raymond "T-bone" Kenney stood there with a wicked smiled as his dread locks fell over his shoulders. He relaxed his stance, letting the gun fall as he looked at Aiden Pearce.

"Well, I had to be sure." Aiden shook his head as he walked past T-bone, making his way back down into the domain of the grizzly bear of a man.

"I have something you might be interested in. One of the girls from Lucky's auction." T-bone cut him off, trying to get Aiden to smile.

"You bought me a girl from Lucky Quinn? I'm flattered Aiden I really am." Aiden just turned his gaze to the older man, his eyes serious but a hint of a smirk on his lips.

"Shut up and listen. One of these girls has been kidnapped, she had one of those chips in her neck but she's hacked it and now I can't get her location because of her hack that tried to stop her kidnappers from finding her in the first place." T-bone stood there trying to put Aiden sentence right in his mind.

"Wait so let me get this straight, this girl knew she was going to get kidnapped, so she hacked her chip so they wouldn't find her. But they found her anyway and now you want me to hack her chip again to find out where she is." Aiden closed his eyes as he nodded, look on his face he was happy Raymond got all that.

"Exactly, and while your doing that, I'm still going to try to find out who bought her at the auction, that is who she believes kidnapped her." T-bone had sat down at his desk, and now as he swiveled in his chair to look at Aiden again his brows were knit together in a scowl of confusion.

"Wait, so she knew who kidnapped her? Have you talked to her?" Aiden sat down, knowing T-bone would understand once he heard the recording she left behind. He pulled her cell phone from his pocket and then he played the audio file for the hacker, letting him hear the fear in her voice. After he had played the file he picked up her phone, putting it back in his pocket as he talked to T-bone.

"She left this behind, and her friend Poppy brought it to me. I met Poppy personally when I went to the auction, the night I got the code from Iraq's necklace, remember that." T-bone nodded in remembrance as Aiden continued. "Apparently this girl Alex was there and sold that night. The man who bought her wanted what he paid for, so he came looking for her. These guys were first-rate sleaze and I'd hate to see her end up dead all because she overheard something at the damned Merlaut." T-bone could see the familiar look of the vigilante in Aiden's eyes and he began to wonder if saving this girl was more because he couldn't save Clara.

"Alright, well let me start cracking at it, I'll see if I can't locate her for you and her family." Aiden gave him a grateful nod as both men turned towards their screens, typing away as the both started stripping away the information they didn't need, leaving only the essential information behind. Soon T-bone's voice cut through their silence. "Who is this girl, the code she wrote was fucking perfect. This algorithm is nothing like I've ever seen. It's a rolling code that each time you try to get a fix on her it pulls up a complete new set of codes, a new set of locations no combination ever repeating." Aiden pulled up her picture and put it up on the large screen on the wall in front of them.

"T-bone meet Alexia Collins." T-bone sat looking at the picture of this green-eyed girl carefully.

"She's one smart bitch, this program she wrote is not going to be easy to crack." Aiden eyed Raymond up, not sure if he'd ever said those words before.

"So you can't see where she is." T-bone spun around in his chair, leaning over with his elbows on his knees, his left hand dangling as he pointed at Aiden with his right.

"I never said I can't break it, just said it ain't gonna be easy." Aiden tilted his head back, smirk on his lips as he held up his hands.

"Alright, alright. You do that and I'll go check with Mr. Maus, see what he's up to." T-Bone gave him a speculative look, and Aiden explained. "It turns out that Mr. Henrick Maus is who purchased Alex, so I'm just going to go and get a feel for the place he's renting downtown. Don't worry, I won't get caught." T-Bone nodded as he watched Aiden get up and walk away, knowing that Aiden had gotten this life back into his blood, and he had been missing it.

Aiden rode into the city and soon found himself at The Southbridge, a large building formally owned by none other than Lucky Quinn. Even dead this man's name keeps coming up. It was an upscale condo building 16 floors high, and Henrick was renting a condo on the 12th floor. Aiden walked around to the back ally, finding a camera to hack into that looked up at a balcony of The Southbridge. He found an entrance point, hacking in past the fire wall and looking into the apartment of Henrick. He was able to look around through a series of cameras and laptops but he couldn't see Alex, or anyone else for that matter anywhere. He did though find an email on one of the laptops that may prove useful.

Maus,

Thank you for picking up the merchandise for me, I've had my eye on her for a while. I will sent you a message tomorrow telling you when and where to bring her. Once I see her in the location I will send you another message to transfer the cash to your account then I will collect my merchandise and we will go our separate ways.

The other Maus

The email was sent an hour before, so now Aiden just had to wait for Henrick to return so that he could hack his phone so that Aiden was sure to intercept the message. He calculated a plan, thinking he could find out when Henrick would be leaving with Alex and he coould interupt the convoy, saving her from whoever the other Maus was.

Two hours later, well into the late of evening Henrick returned alone. Aiden thought of course it can't be that easy, no he's keeping her at another location. He left the shadows and started walking behind Henrick, hacking into his phone so that every text and call when to Aiden's phone as well. He walked on as Henrick turned and went into the building, smiling as he felt the familiar rush through his blood, he did miss this.