Chapter 11-
So, Who Are You Guys?
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Alec-Alec-Alec-Alec-Alec *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*Alec slowly turned the door knob opening it slightly, just enough to peek inside.
It looked clear, from this vantage point he couldn't see the chairs Simon and the terrified young woman were in, but he could see most of the rest of the room and didn't see anyone else in the room, he was reasonably sure the other men were all accounted for. As of yet they had only seen Wallace, four other men, and the two guarding the door.
Deeming it clear, he moved forward, Magnus following closely behind him. Magnus pulled the door closed behind him, then, glancing over his shoulder, tumbled back into Alec, knocking them both to the ground, both just barely missing what seemed to be a pretty powerful blow from what looked like the leg of one of the chairs swung by the most definitely no longer terrified young woman.
"Hey Divya, wait! I know them! These are my friends, they helped with your brother, Oh my god, don't hit them!" Simon said frantically, dropping his own makeshift weapon, catching the chair leg, stilling her.
She lowers the makeshift club, looking between Simon and the two new men. Simon moved around her, towards Magnus and Alec. Magnus quickly surges forward, pulling the younger man into a tight hug, and pressing a quick kiss to his cheek, causing Simon to blush, slightly
"H-Hey Magnus, Alec, good to see you guys, umm… What are you doing here?" Simon asked Alec, leaning awkwardly around Magnus, who still seemed to be worriedly checking to make sure he was okay, like he just couldn't believe it.
Alec gave him a confused look,
"Umm… we're rescuing you? Well, we were rescuing you…though it looks like you guys kind of had it under control"
Alec shakes his head a bit with a rather astounded smile suddenly extremely proud of his partner. Magnus grinned over at Alec.
"I told you, darling, he was amazing."
He turned back to Simon, slipping his arm around him one more time, hugging him close.
"You were truly remarkable today, sweetheart" He exclaimed, leaning in kissing Simon's cheek one more time, causing Simon to blush brightly, ducking his head sheepishly.
"So… I take it this one is your boyfriend, who's the other guy?" The young woman asked glancing curiously at Alec
Looking over at Simon, Alec couldn't help a slight laugh; he really wouldn't have thought it was possible for someone to blush that much.
Simon shook his head, frantically
"N-No, no, this is Magnus, he's a friend, a really, really affectionate friend, but no, we're definitelynot together…oh… uh, no offense, Magnus" He hastily added apologetically glancing at said friend
Magnus chuckled slightly "I'll try not to take it too personally, sweetheart"
Alec smiled over at the girl shaking his head slightly,
"I'm Alec, his partner, work partner it's best to clarify… it's probably not healthy for him to blush any more than he already is."
She grinned back, nodding slightly
"I think you are most definitely right about that, Alec. I'm Divya, by the way."
She gave a bit of a half wave, then realized she was still holding the chair leg, dropping it with a clatter, before glancing over at Magnus
"Sorry about almost knocking you out, we weren't really expecting a rescue party."
Magnus waved her off, giving a bright smile,
"Quite alright, darling, no harm done"
Simon practically beamed,
"She was amazing! She got free and got me out and we were just waiting for an opening to slip out, but we couldn't get the door open cause you need the key and so…Hi"
Simon stopped, mid sentence, looking over towards the door, the others turned to see what had caught his attention, though Magnus and Alec had a pretty good idea what-or rather who- it was. They hadn't even heard the door open or close,
"Hey, Simon" Raphael said softly
Simon was across the room in a second flat, wrapping his arms around Raphael and pulling him into passionate kiss. The moment Simon kissed him, he seemed to unfreeze, pulling Simon closer, holding him tightly, reaching up, catching in Simon's hair, tugging him in, deepening the kiss.
"Oh, yeah, so, that's the boyfriend" Divya stated
Magnus and Alec both nodded
"Yes…they are annoyingly sweet together, you get used to it though" Magnus said, rolling his eyes affectionately
Raphael finally broke the kiss, talking to him softly, in barely a whisper, quickly in Spanish, seemingly unable to stop himself,
Simon hugged him again, pressing a soft kiss to his lips, silencing him,
"Hey, I'm okay, Raphael, I am, I'm alright… I'm right here." Simon assured him softly, between quick, short, kisses
Simon tugged him close once more, hugging him tightly for a moment, before pulling away slightly, just enough to get his bearings, glancing around, and suddenly remembering that there actually were three other people in the room with them.
"Oh, uh… Hey guys, um…" He started sheepishly, nudging Raphael and nodding towards the others.
Raphael seemed to startle, almost seeming to have forgotten as well. He pulled away somewhat, but kept his arm around Simon's waist, unwilling to let the other man too far away now that he finally had him back.
"Oh…Umm… So Raphael, this is Divya, Raj's sister; Divya, this is Raphael, he's my boyfriend."
She shook her head a bit, with a slight laugh
"Uh, yeah Simon, I kind of already put that one together myself."
Magnus raised his eyebrow at her slightly, chuckling
"You are rather sassy; I quite like you, dear."
"Cool, same… I think. So, not that this meet and greet isn't lovely or anything, But does anyone have any idea how we are going to get five people out past the four heavily armed men and their psychopathic boss out there?"
"Seven men to get past, actually" Alec corrected, not wanting to forget about the guards out front
"Five" Raphael amended
Alec looked over at him, somewhat nervously,
"What about-?"
"Don't worry about it detective, I said I got it, I did. There are five in the building, let's just focus on getting past them. Any ideas?" he finished assertively, effectively ending the line of questioning, he looked around the group
"We actually have a way… Alexander? You do still have what I gave you, correct?" Magnus asked him
Alec seemed to shake himself out of whatever confusion he had, though he kept glancing over at Raphael somewhat disconcerted, reaching into his pocket he produced the Small greenish-black object.
"Yeah, Magnus found this as we were on our way in. He said that it's some kind of sleeping gas grenade, It'll probably knock them out pretty quickly, if we can get as close to the door as possible, then throw it back at them and slam the door, I think we should be good."
Divya's eyes widened, glancing around the group, moving back a bit further.
"And Magnus, you know what it is because…?" she asked, looking a bit worried
"Well, that's what it said on the shipping manifest, I believe they got it from the port of Santa Barbra, Though, in all honesty, most of it was written in Quechua, and I am rather rusty at it as I have not been to Peru in years, But I do remember enough to make it out"
Raphael shrugged,
"Yeah well why would you remember a language from a Country you've been banned for life from for almost half a decade…?" he muttered, rolling his eyes slightly.
Surprisingly, this did not fill Divya with confidence
"Umm… so, just, you know, out of curiosity… who are you guys, exactly?"
"Oh, I'm a psychic, I work with the SBPD, I also recently started my own psychic detective agency." Magnus started cheerfully
"I'm the head detective for the SBPD" Alec said, shooting confused glances between Magnus and Raphael
"I'm his partner, as of almost three months" Simon boasted proudly
"I'm a pharmaceutical Rep" Raphael said with a shrug
Divya just stared for a second
"Oookay… Well… I don't really know what to do with all that…Not exactly the most reassuring rescue party ever, but I've been here for close to ten hours now, so, what the hell, I'll take what I can get.
So…who's going to throw the sleep grenade thing?
I've been all city in girls softball for the last three years, just saying…"
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Alec-Alec-Alec-Alec-Alec *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*They manage to make it to the door of the warehouse without being spotted, cracking the door open and slipping out one by one, Alec is the last out, quickly throwing the thing over towards where Wallace and the others are still working, slamming the door shut quickly and using the chair leg Divya had insisted on picking back up, jamming it through the door handles, effectively locking them. There is a bang as it hits the wall and some surprised shouting from Wallace and the men, then a hissing sound and a few thumps of them falling, then total silence.
Sending Magnus, Simon and Divya up towards the road, Raphael and Alec make sure the door is secure and double check the perimeter of the building to be sure the loading door is secure. It had been closed, and the knockout gas seemed to work almost instantaneously, but they wanted to be sure there were no more surprises today.
Moving over onto the left side of the building, Alec notices the two guards on the ground out cold.
He glances over at Raphael, raising his eyebrow,
"So, I take it 'Plan A,' didn't work?"
Raphael gives a careless shrug
"It did… it was, but I got impatient waiting."
Alec just stares
Okay, yeah, so, not just a show.
Alec is, as always, REALLY glad Raphael is on their side
"We should however have back up soon; they had radios. I used one, called the station, the FBI at the scene, and Vandenberg Air Force Base about 20 miles down the road, as one of the imbecile guards had mentioned it.
I had intended to call in and say that the suspect in the bank robbery, hostage situation and bomb threat was at this location, but those damn things are so spotty…
They may of just heard 'bomb', 'hostages', and the Address," he shrugged
Alec stared at him uncomprehendingly for a moment,
"So basically you just called in another bomb threat?"
Raphael gave a, blatantlyfake, affronted look
"Detective! That would not only be completely illegal, but devious, manipulative, and morally reprehensible…you don't think I'd do something like that, do you?"
He flashed a slight, barely there smirk, as if on cue they hear sirens and cars speeding up the road from a few directions
Yeah, Alec made a mental note to NEVER get on Raphael's bad side
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* _End Of Chapter Notes_ *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*Okay, one chapter left, I should have it up by tomorrow afternoon.
Yeah, I know the shipping manifest didn't really make sense, but I wanted to bring up the Peru thing to confuse Alec more, so…
Hope you guys like how it's going
I couldn't really see the guys actually getting into a hand to hand fight with the heavily armed men, it just didn't seem likely, especially with a teenager in tow, I think it works like this fairly well though…