Chapter 9

After almost deciding to give up Nell finally found a pipe just a few feet away from the chair, which she was bound to and thought: This might be my best chance to get rid of this robe, so I am finally able to move my hands freely again. But there was still one tiny problem left, her legs were also bound to the chair with a robe and she didn't was so sure if it was such a good idea to make so much noise. Nell tried the best she could to listen into her surroundings, trying to find out how far away her kidnapper was from her prison and as she didn't hear anything, she finally decided that it was worth the risk and took all the strength she got inside of her to move the chair on just his two rear legs nearer to the next wall.

Meanwhile Steve Marks was meeting up with his buddy that had helped a lot in making this operation successful. He wore a casual business outfit, completely in black and in his hand he was carrying a suitcase with the money for Joe, his long-time friend and always had been a very reliable business partner. Joe's black sedan finally parked just a few feet away from his current position; he got out of the car, greeted Marks with a simple handshake and said: "So do you have the money with you?" Marks just did one of his charming smiles in return, opened the black suitcase, placing it on the hood of his car and replied: "According to our deal, you now get the first half of the cash as I was able to finish the first phase of my plan with your help."

"Excellent Steve and rest assured: I tied up all lose ends that could lead those Navy Cops to your location, that way I'm pretty sure that those guys will be busy for a while trying to find some clues to get their colleague back and when they do it's definitely going to be too late." An Evil Grin now spreading on Joe's face as he took the suitcase from the hood of Marks car and put it in the back his black sedan. "Good, now if you excuse me I've still got a lot of preparations for the final phase of my plan to take care of and I will call you soon to give you your new orders." Marks said after he shook hands with Joe again and before his friend got back into his car he answered: "Of course, I'm always so glad to be to your service my old friend."

Back at the OSP, Hetty was talking with Callen briefing him on the news that she got on getting closer to find Nell: "Considering Miss Jones kidnappers were are still totally in the dark Mister Callen, Mister Deeks finally got the report from his contact on the examination of Miss jones Mini Copper from the LAPD and it turns out that there were no prints found in the car besides the ones from Mister Beale and Miss Jones."

Callen wasn't surprised to hear this from the Operations Manager, because his gut feeling had told him from the very beginning that they were clearly dealing with Professionals here and those messed up not so often. With all the strength she had in her right, Nell had finally arrived at the pipe on the wall right next to the door of this dark torture chamber and tried very hard to loosen up the robe, which bound her very tight to the wooden chair. Come on! This needs to go a lot faster because I don't know when Steve is going to be back and he surely won't like that I'm trying to get rid of the robe. She thought as it didn't seem that rubbing the robe against the metal have any effect on it, she took a deep breath and tried it a little harder.

It took quite a while but then she finally got at least her hands free again, but she quickly had to realize that her feet were also shackled to the chair and that meant she had to find something to get the cuffs open. She quickly had to pick up a little plastic piece from the ground as she heard some noise outside the door and someone was apparently about to open up the locked door. She finally put the little plastic piece into her pocket, then quickly positioning the chair that way so she would able to conceal the fact, that she had been able to get her hands freely moving again.

The Gunman that apparently guarded the door in Steve's absence finally got into the room, opened a water bottle for her and said with a grim expression on his face: "Here drink this."

"Thank you for the bottle of water, I really have been thirsty." Nell replied with a faked smile on her face, even if she hated to be forced to play this game but it was necessary under the current circumstances and any wrong move would cost her very dearly. The gunman took the water bottle from her after she sipped on it and put the robe back on. He finally left the room again and as he had finally locked the door behind him Nell thought: That was really close! For one short moment I thought that my little charade was over sooner than I expected.

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