Thank you DS2010 :) Chapter 3
Alicia dried a tear and drew a deep shaky breath. Something had to happen and it had to happen within the next 24 hours otherwise the case would be closed and the undercover shut down. 12 days into undercover and FBI had managed to work their way through and give a deadline… She hated them with passion, why would they want the operation off? It was their own man who was missing.
"A… Chloé" Abby said, looking around herself, no one had heard her almost slip up. The dress fit so perfectly on Abby, it even fit her personality, not only her under-cover's personality but also Abby herself.
Alicia looked up at Abby "Am I on soon, Gaël?" Alicia asked as she discretely dried her tears.
"8 minutes." Abby leaned onto Alicia's shoulder. "What did Director Vance say?" her whisper was so low that if Alicia hadn't known the question was coming she wouldn't have heard it.
"24 hours" She whispered back as she door was opened, both girls looked at the door.
"You both ready?" The man, their 'manager' said. They knew getting away from him would be hard.
"Give me 5 minutes and I'll be ready." Alicia said and as the man closed the door behind himself Alicia looked at Abby. "I donno why I let you convince me to go through with the singing. But we only got 24 hours, I really hope we'll see one of them, either the men that got mom to leave and disappear and Lauri himself." They nodded at each other and walked out of the room.
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"Ziva? Where are you?" A voice asked.
"Following your guys, like I done the last 12 days" She said nonchalant.
"Ziva" The owner of the voice sighed "I'll have them stop, it's Marcus and Ali who got him. Why can't you take my word for it? He is safe."
"Let me in and let me see that for myself, last time one of yours was here, he killed people and was killed himself." Ziva bit of, beyond pissed of at the person she talked to. "Why didn't you just call me? You waited for my call."
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Alicia stopped and looked at the empty microphone stand, the microphone in her hand, it was her first time to sing alone. She knew they couldn't see her yet as the music began to play. She walked forward, the microphone up against her lips.
She couldn't believe she was doing this, she had seen Abby do it before, she had even seen Ziva sing and move like this, the lyric that left Alicia's lips didn't even stay in her mind; she just focused on doing what she had to do.
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"I understand" Lauri whispered to the man next to himself. "I'll tell Ziva when I see her."
"Just stay safe, we'll get the girls out. Just be careful, don't let her see you, either of you…" One of the men, either Ali or Marcus, said. "Don't worry about Ziva. My boss told me she's joining us, so she'll be at the car when you come back" The same man said and added "Be careful."
"I'll do what I can, I just have to let the girls know I'm safe. You are the good guys, working with good guys, they are the bad guys, working with the bad one." Lauri whispered back, listening to the song, Alicia's voice, he couldn't tell what she sang, just that it was in Spanish, as he walked further into the pub. He looked over his shoulder, the two men, Ali and Marcus had left the pub, hopefully unseen. They had decided where to meet later, he wished he could call the others, let them know he was safe. At least he would be able to let Alicia and Abby know that he were safe, he was waiting for the right moment, hoping for a song he knew. He looked up at the stage and met Abby's gaze.
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Abby smiled for herself, she knew Alicia would do good, she really was good at doing what she was doing. Suddenly her eyes laid on someone, she gasped, Lauri was there, listening to Alicia singing. Abby caught his eyes, just a second and then she had to turn and go up to Alicia. The song was over.
Abby walked over to Alicia as everyone was still applauding, she noticed that Alicia hadn't seen Lauri yet. Abby touched her shoulder, but when she looked at the place Lauri stood before he was gone… Abby nodded at the guitar player, she began to sing
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Out in a car not far off Tony was listening, Bianca sat next to him. "They're good." Bianca said softly, Tony was so focused, trying to block out the voices.
"They are, but my main priority is to make sure my daughter and Abby are safe and to find my wife and your twin." Tony said, his eyes on the pub. "That van's there again, take a photo, I can't tell where I seen it or the two men before." He added.
"Done that, just sent it to McGee." Bianca said
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Suddenly Alicia and Abby looked at each other, Bianca and Tony looked at each other in the car. Good lord that voice…
"That's Lauri, I know it is" Bianca gasped as she looked at Tony. "How did he slip by us? What's going on? Why haven't he contacted us if he is safe? WTF?"
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Alicia almost stopped breathing as the male voice came through. She walked up to her microphone, knowing the course would come soon. Lauri came walking up between her and Abby.
Alicia reached for Lauri's hand as they both sang. He touched her face with his other hand.
Abby stood at the back of the stage, her microphone in her hand, but she didn't sing, this was one moment she knew was special, she couldn't step into that moment if she so wanted or tried. Tears formed in Alicia's eyes, her voice reflecting the emotions.
While singing Alicia locked her eyes in Abby's with one single handmove she showed Abby that she should sing. Alicia held onto Lauri's hand, her eyes locking into his. "What happened?" her lips move but no sound came out, still he got the question, she had signed in his hand. Abby was singing.
Lauri moved the microphone to his lips and pressed her hand, the four letters 'S-A-F-E' pressed into her hand as he sang
He leant closer to her, holding the microphone to her lips, whispering in her ear "I can't stay long, bbtm" she knew he meant be back tomorrow
They let got of each other's hands as Lauri moved the microphone to his own lips
Walking further from each other Alicia leaned against Abby's shoulder, both girl's singing as Lauri stood on the other side of the scene. Emotion's filling the room, the entire room was so silent, only their voices and the music was heard.
Out in the car someone knocked on the window, looking up Tony smiled. Gibbs stood there. Tony opened the door. "How did you know where we were?" Tony asked.
"Sarah." He answered as his phone rang.
Lauri's voice became more and more distance and soon there were only Alicia and Abby there, both singing the course again.
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Elena almost jumped the brake when she saw Lauri exiting the pub and stepped into a car. Kaisen, who sat in the passage seat snapped photos as Elena talked with Gibbs.
"Lauri stepped into the van that dragged of with him 2 and a half week ago. We're following on distance, I don't think they seen us. Wait" She said and took Kaisens phone, took a photo and sent it to McGee. "McGee, check the registrate numbers I just sent to you from Kaisen's phone, call me back when you know." Elena said.
"Don't hang up" McGee said quickly. "Sarah, isn't that Christopher's plate?" McGee asked, Elena didn't hear her answer. "It's Christopher Hakala's." McGee said. Elena hung up, put down the phone on the seat and picked up her own phone and went back to the phone-call she had with Gibbs.
"Christopher followed the van, much closer then us." Elena said and dropped the phone as she had to panic-break.
"Conway? ELENA? KAI?" Gibb's voice was heard, he shouted their names multiply times while Kaisen put the camera down and got the phone up.
"We're still here, Christopher stopped in the middle of the road, we had to panic-break. We lost them" Kaisen said grimly. Beyond pissed of at Alicia's husband.
"Go back to the pub and check out the girls." Gibbs said.