Chapter 9
Seth had ordered breakfast for his two women and they ate in a pleasant atmosphere. Lilly was a little on edge and he picked up on that with his expert eyes. "What's the matter? You don't have to go back to him, you know?"
"What? Oh no, it's not that. It's just nerves I guess. I want to go back to Dean. Really."
Seth looked at her for a moment. Something was not right. Claire was calm as ever so she wasn't in on it. But Lilly wanted to go back to his brother. Well…
"Okay, just wanted to make sure."
A little before 8 am they left the hotel to the rendezvous point. Dean was already waiting. It was his turn to get out of the car and lean inside Seth' window.
"Quiet night?" he asked and Seth nodded. "Yes. Update us in 6 hours." "Will do. Doll, let's go."
He opened the back door and let Lilly in the back of his car.
Again he waited for Seth to leave. He turned around to her.
"You have the watch and the bobby pin?" He checked her hair which was a messy bun at the back of her head.
"Everything on me. Dean, I am not scared for me, but for you. What if they…"
"When I get killed the pin will send a SOS signal in 6 hours. The guys will not know who sends it but they will come for you. And IA is right behind us. If they don't mess up they will follow you. You are safe. Just make sure the man behind all this wants to kill you himself yet doesn't until we show up. Stay safe. And you are a brave woman Lilly. I wish I could be the man you need in your life."
"Stop." Lilly sniffed remembering the heartfelt talk with Claire the night before. "You are everything I need Dean. And right now I need you to stay alive and get me out of there." She kissed him deeply and when one of her tears hit Dean's cheek he nearly lost it. Only his years of training and iron will made him move back from her. "Let's do this, okay? I will stop in a quiet street with a supermarket. Don't try to get away too hard, they will hurt you otherwise. Remember what I taught you."
"I will. Go."
They drove off and Dean easily made the car that tailed him since he had entered Manhattan.
Like he told her, he stopped in front of a little supermarket and steeled himself.
"This ends today doll. Take care." He told her without turning around. He got out and helped her out when three men jumped him and one grabbed Lilly.
"No, let go. Dean! Let go!" She struggled and the guy hit her once. Dean saw that and wanted to kill him so badly for hurting her. He announced that move openly and the guy in front of him, build like a tank, struck him down effectively. He could have gotten up, but that wasn't the plan. When their kicks rained down on him his eyes fixated on Lilly. "Stop struggling." He mouthed and she became quiet in the arms of her abductor. With tears in her yes she watched him getting beaten, barely able to shield his head from the kicks.
She was thrown inside a van and the three guys stopped kicking Dean when he stopped moving. They ran to the van and shut the door in her face. That was the last she saw of Dean Ambrose. He was lying on the asphalt, his hands over his head and didn't move.
"You bastards!" she shrieked and someone knocked her out from behind.
Dean slowly uncurled. Breathing was hard. One kick had cracked a rib or two. His back felt like it was on fire. They had landed some blows in his face as well and his lower lip was split and bleeding. He spit out the blood and leaned against his car to catch his breath for just a second. He pulled himself up and got into the car, driving to the Ebony tower.
By the time he got there his lip almost had stopped bleeding but his ribs were killing him and he couldn't lean into the seat of the car anymore.
He took the private elevator in hopes of avoiding Claire. Just his luck that she walked out of Seth office right as he entered the floor and she looked at him and rushed towards him.
"DEAN!" She was with him and put an arm around him.
Seth was out of his office, Roman hot on his heels.
They relieved Claire from Dean and helped him into his office. Inside he got free of their helping hands and walked to his desk, getting out some Vicodin.
He took three because he needed to function without pain.
"What happened?" Roman asked, as always the reasonable one with the quiet aura.
"We got jumped, they took her." Dean explained and walked into his bathroom to clean his face up.
"And? You are here so calmly?" Seth inquired.
"She is bugged." Dean explained and put some glue on his lip and came out of the bathroom again.
"You set her up as BAIT?" Seth got louder with each word. "Yes, this needs to end today. I am tired to sit around and wait for the cops to scratch their asses. She was down with it."
Later he would say that his hurting body was the reason that Seth landed his straight right hand blow directly on his mouth. Truth was, he saw it coming and even turned towards the blow. It send his head back and he staggered a few feet back. His lip, just glued shut was open again, and blood was gushing from his nose.
"You ASSHOLE!" Seth screamed and wanted to come after Dean but Roman got between them, putting his handkerchief in Dean's hand who was bleeding on the floor.
"Seth stop it. That doesn't help right now. Let him tell what his plan is, so we can help."
"Help? You blew it! Why do I even defend you all the time? My father is right, you are a lunatic fringe!"
Deans blue eyes zeroed in on Seth. And they were cold as ice. "Shit, no…bro…Jon…I didn't mean that. I am just so frustrated that you pulled one of your stunts. She is a civilian. God damn it. Jon, sorry. Have a free blow at me." Seth stepped closer to his brother and he shook his head. "It's cool. Cool. It will work. My plan. You are not the only one who can come up with a plan, you know?"
And in the next second Seth' head snapped back from Deans right hook to his face.
"Now I am cool." He held up his hands when Roman wanted to interfere and went to his couch and plopped down.
Seth collected himself from the floor, declining Claire's try to help him up.
"So talk brother. What went down?" Seth said and sat down on the desk, while Roman remained standing between them and Claire busied herself bringing Dean a bottle of water and Seth a towel for his bleeding lip.
And Dean told them what had happened in the last 12 hours…
"After you took Lilly I turned around and drove to a bar I know is frequented by cops. I lucked out finding the guy I was looking for right there. His name is John Cena, he works for IA. He is the guy working on Lilly's case. We talked and came to the conclusion that we had to force the hand of the guy behind all this. His name is Paul Levesque, he is the Captain of the 10th precinct. His right hand man is a young guy named Randy Orton. John has already started to build a case. The two dead cops are the nails in the casket for Orton. He did the hit on them. But John needs Levesque and we hope that he will take care of Lilly himself. She has two bugs on her in the watch and in her hairpin. Boot your system Roman, I'll give you the data. John followed her after the kidnapping. We should get ready, I want her out of there asap."
He got up and shrugged out of his bloody T-Shirt, revealing the badly bruises the cops had put on him. Claire inhaled sharply and excused herself out of the office. She couldn't see Dean in pain.
While Roman punched in the numbers in his GPS Dean threw at him Seth had grabbed a first aid kit and wordlessly started to wrap up Deans ribs.
After that the three ex SEALS decided on a plan to get Lilly out and Levesque behind bars.
