A/N: Thanks for all the love, Bravers. Here is the next chapter. Enjoy!
Hannah greeted Jaz, Preach, McGuire and Noah at the elevators.
"Hey," she said as they walked up to her.
"Hey," Jaz replied a little grimly, no doubt worrying about Amir. The three agents, however, were a bit happier to see Hannah, especially Joseph and Noah. After they exchanged pleasantries the group stepped into the elevator and Hannah punched the ninth floor button.
"We gathered all the intel we have on Boothe, Patricia is waiting with it in conference room 3. Oh, and she called in Dalton," Hannah said as the elevator began to ascend mostly to Jaz. Who nodded her head at the information acknowledging it.
"Who's Dalton?" McG questioned, vaguely recognizing the name, but he couldn't place it.
"Captain Adam Dalton, the former CO of Special Operations Group 7," Jaz spoke up with a hint of proudness in her voice.
"Wait, Omega 7? They were the ones who dealt with that situation in Nigeria and Iran, right?" Noah asked surprised that the ex-leader of one of the most effective Special Forces teams in U.S. history is helping them with this case.
"And Mongolia, and Columbia, and Paris, and Turkey," Jaz listed off some the places where their most famous missions had taken place.
"Wait you were on that team?" McGuire asked, remembering why the name Dalton sounded so familiar. All the agencies knew about SpecOps group 7 and their greatest hits. But before Jaz could reply the elevator doors opened on the ninth floor. And they were greeted by the man himself.
As the group stepped out of the elevator Dalton greeted the three agents with handshakes, Hannah with a nod, seeing that they were just in the conference room strategizing. But when it came to greeting Jaz he went in for a hug.
"Top," Jaz sighted into the hug. Over the course of the three deployments Jaz did with Dalton before moving on to working with the CIA, Adam had become like a brother to her. And that bond grew only stronger after he wasn't her CO anymore. Hell Adam was the first person Jaz went for advice whenever she needed it.
"We're going to get him back," Dalton reassured Jaz and then let her go walking towards the conference room so they could start planning Amir's rescue as soon as possible, with the rest of the group following his lead.
But, while the others didn't pay much attention to Dalton's reassuring words to Jaz, Preach noticed them. And it sounded like Dalton was reassuring Jaz not only that they will get her partner back, but that they will get back someone who Jaz cares about deeply.
Once the group got to the conference room another round of handshakes were exchanged, this time with Patricia. And they got to work. The DIA had information packages ready and waiting for Jaz, Dalton and the three FBI agents. And the group worked out a plan to rescue Amir and arrest Boothe. Jaz, Dalton, Preach and McG are going to be the ground team going after Amir and Boothe, while Patricia, Hannah, and Noah will be their eyes and ears from the DIA.
The plan was risky, they were well aware of that, but it was the only one they had since Jaz's suspicions as to where Boothe was keeping Amir had been confirmed by Hannah. Satellite images showed Boothe's man dragging Amir into the house. And although Boothe was dumb enough to operate on U.S, soil, near D.C. no less. He was smart enough to hunker down in a house that was well-protected and hard to get into unnoticed and uninvited.
They decided to pull a double agent routine.
While the ground team was driving to Boothe's house, Hannah and Noah were making it look like the two men that Jaz took out before FBI arrested her were actually the FBI agents. So Jaz is going to show up at Boothe's doorstep claiming that she managed to get released from FBI custody and that Boothe's bodyguards are actually FBI not her and Amir. And Jaz's surprise arrival should allow enough confusion for her to spin the story in her favor, rescue Amir and get out of there before Dalton, Preach and McGuire, who will be watching it all unfold from the scopes of their rifles, breach the house's defenses, take out Boothe's men and capture the notorious arms dealer.
When the team of four neared Boothe's house they parked a few miles from the mansion, so they didn't get noticed by Boothe's men and got out.
"Gear up, we're going the rest of the way on foot while Jaz drives the SUV to the mansion," commanded Dalton.
The three men tacked up in full gear that Patricia had secured them. While Jaz switched the clothes FBI had given her after her capture for a tight-fitting dress and heels. She hated going in with only a small gun strapped to her thigh. But it had to be this way if she wanted to get Amir out alive since the covers Jaz and Amir had built were a rich, business-savvy and well-connected couple who got into the arms dealing business having been dissatisfied of the wealth that normal business dealings could guarantee them.
"What type of wire do you want?" Preach asked Jaz once she was done changing, "A button camera, a standard wire or.." he started listing off all the options available to him thanks to DIA, easily falling back into his Navy SEAL persona. But Jaz interrupted him.
"I wear nothing," she said in a certain tone.
"Jaz," Dalton trailed off, "You know that we can't guarantee your safety if you don't wear a wire. We won't be able to hear what's happening, only watch. And even that isn't guaranteed if Boothe takes you to a room on the other side of the house. What if you need us to go in sooner? Or we breach while you and Amir are still in the house?"
"I know. But I can't risk it. Boothe is paranoid. And he will scan me for a wire if he thinks I'm FBI, even if he is confused as to why am I there," Jaz explained.
Dalton clearly wasn't happy about this. It didn't sit well with him that the woman who is like a sister to him is going into Boothe's fortress of a house and trying to convince the man that she isn't FBI by selling him FBI identities that were built in an hour without a way of him hearing what is happening. Luckily Preach suggested an alternative seeing Jaz's determination and Dalton's worry.
"I can use one of the high-tech laser bugs that the DIA supplied us with. It should be able to pick up the conversation as long as Jaz stays in one of the rooms facing us," he told his newly formed team.
"Will it work from this distance?" McG asked.
"It should. It's as top of the line as it gets," Preach affirmed and that calmed Dalton down a bit.
"Okay, but you stay in the rooms facing east, got it?" Adam cautioned Jaz to which she agreed and went to get into the car. Now or never.
