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Alex rubbed his temples as the crazed crowd around him argued and debated on how to figure out how to solve the crisis they were currently in. They weren't getting anywhere. Besides the intel that Elliot and Olivia had provided, they were still in the dark as to how, why, and who these people were inside the White House. Although he would never accept defeat as an option, they were only losing with every second of this useless battle between tired and stressed diplomats. He was about ready to shush all of them when he felt his phone vibrating in the pleated pocket of his black slacks. He pulled it out and nearly cracked his ribs against the table from sitting up so quickly. "Everybody quiet! I'm getting a call from Red Tail."
The room fell silent as Alex answered the call putting it on speaker. "Sutton? Is that you?"
"Yeah, it's me, Alex." Sutton said through the receiver. Officials around the room visibly relaxed hearing the voice of the President's daughter. "I'm in the bunker."
"That's good. Are you okay? Are you hurt?" Alex asked as he motioned for someone to make the call to the troops standing outside the White House, waiting for the go ahead to move in or get an order about what to do next.
Sutton took a shaky breath over the line. "No, I'm okay. I'm just freaking out. I haven't seen Mom and Dad."
Alex sat back down in his chair, letting his phone rest on the hard wood table in front of all of them. "They are in there looking for you. Listen to me. We need to get you out of there. Once you're out, we can focus on getting your parents out. Do you think you can get to the exit off of the basement kitchen?"
"I don't know if I can before they come down here. They've been sweeping the building for Mom and Dad." Sutton said before looking up at the closed door of the bunker. She looked around and remembered what Frank had once told her. "There's always a way out." She breathed before seeing the vent above her that led to the air duct system, allowing her to go anywhere in the White House undetected. "Can you pick me up on the west side?"
"How are you going to get there if you can't get out of the kitchen exit?" Alex asked referring to his mental image of the White House floor plans.
Sutton pried the metal door open, leaning back as the door swung down towards her, hanging up by the two small hinges. "Just trust me. I'll call you when I've made it."
Alex heard the annoying tell tale sign of her end being hung up. He looked down, eyes closed, as he smiled. Like mother, like daughter. He looked back up as someone hurried in with a headset connected to a secure line to their head of command outside of the White House. "Who am I speaking to?"
"Captain Munch, sir. My men and I are awaiting your orders." John Munch said into his end of the line, staring up at the White House. It looked like the infamous monument as always on the outside, but he could see the damage behind the glass on the inside. It was a war zone fifty yards from him, and he couldn't do anything at this point to save the two most important people of power this country had.
"Good, we have located Red Tail. She is inside, but will be making her way to the west side of the building. She will call me when she arrives. The President and Vice President are okay as far as we know. So, just stand by for further instruction." Alex explained as someone brought him a blue print of the White House. He started looking at it and wondered how Sutton was going to make it to her pick up station from where she was at.
John sighed on the other end, not liking that he was going to have to wait longer. "Copy that, sir."
Alex put the line on silent before looking up at the other officials in the room, all looking at him for something to go off of. "Does anybody in here know how to get to the west side from the bunker easily?"
One of the secret service members stepped forward from behind his diplomat. He used to work with the Vice President many years before. They were still good friends. "I believe I know a way, Speaker." Odafin Tutuola spoke up, his hands clasped in front of his body.
"I'm all ears." Alex said as he gestured to the blue print.
Fin took a step towards him and looked at the blue print for himself, pointing to the lines indicating the heating and air conditioning vents that went throughout the house. "The President, VP, and their head SS agent, Frank, know this house like the back of their hand. They've drilled both Blue Jay and Red Tail to know how to escape in any situation. I believe Red Tail is using the air ducts as her means of escape."
"She'd be completely invisible to anybody if she was in there." Alex stated before clapping Fin on the shoulder. "That's gotta be it. She could go anywhere without risk being seen." He looked back to the people behind the glass. "Any eyes in the White House yet?" Somebody gave up a double thumbs up before turning to get his team to work on getting photos of the people inside. "Finally, we're getting somewhere."
Elliot clenched his teeth together as he peered around the corner to find the recently painted portrait of his family had been butchered by a wave of bullets. "These assholes will be lucky if I'm too impatient to pull the trigger right away."
Olivia huffed out a breath, a stray strand of hair moving away from her face in the process. "We need to figure out why they're here."
"Well, it'd be nice to know who is here first of all." Elliot whispered before they slipped inside the bedroom, getting out of the vast hallway that gave them no cover. They had made it up another floor without being detected. No one had even bothered looking for the man Olivia had shot yet.
Olivia walked over to the window while Elliot watched down the hallway. When she looked out, she felt her heart nearly beat out of her chest. The world outside the White House seemed to stop. Everyone was crowded around the black iron fencing that was supposed to protect the White House from the very people that were inside it. Troops surrounded the very front of the crowd, keeping them back and assessing the situation from the outside. A line of gunman were all ready to fire when the command was given. "Shit, El. The world seems to have froze outside."
Elliot looked over at her. "That's because they need their leader to come out safe and sound before another President goes down in history as one who was assassinated."
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