A/N: It's a short conclusion to the last chapter. I couldn't leave you hanging like that until tomorrow. :)
Ana
"Mia, I need you to meet me at 1630 36th Ave. Just walk right in." Ana spoke into her cell phone quickly. She had a plan. Christian and Ana had just moved into Ana's house in East Queen Anne after the bank took Christian's penthouse and other properties around the globe. Ana wasn't going to let this last for long, but she needed Mia's help.
"Sure, I'll be there in a half an hour." Mia said. Ana could hear her rushing around trying to get ready.
"Can you bring the big thing of salt in the cabinet above the fridge? We'll need it." Ana was talking very cryptically, but Mia knew what Ana was getting at.
"Sure. Anything else?" Mia asked.
"Nope, just yourself and every bit of positive energy that you can carry."
"Well, I've got plenty of that! See you in a bit." Mia hung up the phone. Ana quickly ran up the stairs to check on Christian. He was still sleeping soundly. It was the middle of the afternoon and Christian was still in his funk. Ana didn't know what else to do besides put a spell on him, but she would never cross that line. True to her word, Mia pulled into the driveway in what looked like a brand new Mercedes Benz.
"New car?" Ana asked as she opened the front door.
"Dad insisted." Mia smiled. "This place is incredible! WAY better than the penthouse in my opinion." Ana brought Mia inside and grabbed her a bottle of water.
"Food before we get started?" Ana offered.
"No, lets do this. I can't wait to make these fuckers squeal." Ana smirked at Mia's tenacity.
"Alright. Follow me." Ana grabbed a large box of candles and had Mia follow her to a greenhouse that was connected to the house. She forgot how much she missed the one at the Holmwood Academy.
"Wow, It's just like the one at Holmwood." Mia noticed.
"Yeah, I don't have as many plants though. Okay, make a circle with the salt and I'll take the chalk." Ana drew a pentagram within the circle of salt. She drew an eye, a heart, a hand and an ear around the pentagram. Each symbolized the way Ana would take over the body of the individual who took a part of Christian away from her.
"How does this work?" Mia asked.
"Okay. I need you here to watch me and lend me some of your energy. I've never done this before and I'll be leaving my body for a small amount of time. If I somehow lose myself, blow out the candles immediately. I should come back. If not, I'll need you to take this…" Ana handed Mia a vile of liquid. "...and pour it down my mouth. It's a binding elixir. It will bind my spirit back to my body. Got it?"
"Shit, Ana. I don't know." Mia was nervous.
"Do you want Christian to get his life back? He's miserable, Mia." Ana was desperate to get Christian's life back and she needed Mia for the extra energy and the watchful eye.
"Okay. Let's get this over with." Mia stood back and let Ana take her position in the middle of the salt circle and pentagram. Candles circled the space. Ana stuck her finger with a needle and dripped five drops of blood on the eye that was drawn before her. She did the same for the hand, the heart and the ear.
"Mia, tell me what to do next." Ana requested.
"Face the eye and call on the winged goddess. Invoke the channel." Mia flipped the page over. "Then… kick some ass." Ana smiled at that, then took a deep breath.
"Winged goddess,
Wherever you are,
I appeal to you
On the wings of words that fly,
Whatever the distance,
Traverse time and space
And appear in my presence."
The air grew thin and the breeze picked up. Ana lifted her head and looked towards the sky. She felt the Winged goddess and she opened herself up to take her through the channel. It was time to invoke the channel.
Guarders of the Channel, I invocate thee, I implore thee with all the strength of my mind, that by thee, my present thoughts, actions, and conjurations be given and wheresoever wicked spirits are called, in the virtue of thy names, they may come together from every shore, and diligently fulfill the will of me the conjurer; carry me to the offender that ails my mind.
Mia watched as Ana's body stilled. She had been taken through the channel to the other side. Ana's consciousness was looking through the eyes of the coward that took Christian's life's work. She knew mercy, but would she give it?
"Jack." A woman called the offender.
"What is it, woman?!" He answered.
"The news is picking up. I don't know how long we'll be able to hold back the servers. We're already running hot." She informed him.
"It won't matter anymore. The money is in the account and we're about to leave. Just stop getting into my head." Jack's body felt tense to Ana. It was now or never.
"Jack… Why are you so red? Quit stressing." The woman said. Ana used Jack's body to access his computer. His free will was disabled. Ana was his free will. Jack was trying to fight it, but Ana held strong.
"Why can't I move?" Jack's thoughts reached Ana.
"You fucked with the wrong guy, Jack." Ana returned his thought. "What's your full name? Give it to me. Or I'll strip you naked and put you out into the middle of traffic." Ana willed his thoughts to speak.
"Jack Hyde."
"Well Jack, Time for you to make history as the worst thief in the world. Reverse the transaction. Do it now."
"What's going on? Elizabeth? Why can't she hear me?!" Jack's thoughts grew nervous.
"Follow your thoughts Jack. Reverse the transaction, or face the consequences." Ana didn't know what she would do. She didn't really think that part through. She decided to go with the flow.
"I can't. It's too late. It's already in the Bahamas." Ana had a feeling he would say it was the end of the road. He was so desperate for an easy life.
"Bullshit. I guess I'll have to do all of the work then." Ana used him to open up his accounts. She logged into the Central Bank of the Bahamas and took a look at the account.
Jack Hyde
Address: 23 West Bay Street, Nassau, Bahamas, 13005 (Secondary Address)
Primary Savings: $12,756,675,340.24
Transfer/Deposit Funds: [Click Here]
Ana had Jack click the transfer button to route the deposit to a private account she had set up in Christian's name at the Bank of Seattle. Once transferred the account would freeze while the transfer was processed due to the large sum of money. Jack would be stuck in limbo while Christian could contact the authorities. Ana watched through Jack's eyes while he submitted the information slowly. His hands were shaking.
"Come on now." Ana said sweetly into his head. Jack hit 'transfer' and began to cry. "Don't be so sad Jack. Whatever you have against Christian Grey, you better work that shit out, because I can always pay you another visit."
"JACK!? What the fuck did you do!?" Elizabeth screamed and Ana chuckled in Jack's head as her connection dissipated from his body.
Mia watched as Ana took a massive breath, reanimating her body.
"HOLY SHIT!" Mia was in shock. She had never seen something so intense.
"Mia!" Ana fell over. Her weak body knocking over a candle and spreading the circle of salt.
"Ana!" Mia blew out the candles and went to cradle Ana's head. "Did you do it?!"
"Yeah, the money is transferred. I know who did it. We need to get to the bank. Wake Christian. Now." Ana slid into unconsciousness.
Ana didn't know how long she had been asleep, but when she woke she found Christian holding her in their bed.
"Baby? Ana?!" Christian's looked relieved.
"Christian?" Ana was trying to wake up from her fainting spell.
"You did that for me?" Christian was full of emotion.
"Of course I did. We're a team." A small smile spread across Ana's face.
