Chapter 11
Alexis was having a terrible night. She started out to gather intel on her targets. Theses men were very elusive. She was staking out the address that she obtained from her street contact. She was adjacent to the address in the building across the street. She had a bird's eye view of the coming and goings of Alvarez's team.
There was actually nothing to gather. They were very careful about keeping low and out of sight. Patience and they seemed to have a lot of it.
They were well equipped. She noticed they among other things they could be mobile in an instant. There was a military hum-vee parked outside of the location. She could only guess that it was armed with additional weapons. So she decided to play her trump card. Removing her burner phone, she dialed Alvarez's number. The phone connects...
"Mr. Alvarez" Alexis stated.
"Yes…Who is this? This is a private number!" He asks visibly agitated.
"Mr. Alvarez, please it's not that private if I can contact you on it." Alexis states.
"What do you want?" He asks visibly annoyed.
"I am going to give you the chance to come clean on your own." Alexis intones.
"What are you talking about? I am the Manhattan Borough President and I am a reputable one at that." He says reiterating the lie he tells to himself.
"Save it for the little people, Alvarez. I know that you're on the take." Alexis says.
"Are you so sure about that?" he asks trying to throw her off.
"Come on Mr. Alvarez, I know you are and I have the proof." Alexis says.
"I will crush you. You can not touch me." He arrogantly says incriminating himself.
"So Arrogant Mr. Alvarez…What happens when I release all your dirty dealings to the press? Oh you think those attack dogs you have will save you then think again. Oh Yes I know about them too." Alexis baits.
Alvarez is a little numb about the information that this caller might have on him. But he thinks that this is a big bluff. Whoever this is on the phone is just yanking his chain. So he gets bolder.
"Well, if you think you have the balls go ahead and try to leak whatever it is you have and we will see who believes who." He says.
The line goes dead. Alexis stares at her phone and can't believe he could be that brainless. Picking up her binoculars she focuses in on the entry door at the location across the street. She can see activity there just as she hoped. Four men exit the location and make their way across the street where she is.
She thinks to herself
"This is not good. How did they find out that I am here?"
Of course, Alexis has a back-up plan with a back-up plan for her back-up plan just in case. She grabs her phone and binoculars and makes a quick exit to the rear of the apartment. Opening the window that faces an alley and a lower building to her right she throws out the fire ladder and climbs down to the last rung of the ladder, the drop to the other rooftop is about 5 feet. She only needs to swing a little bit to the right to be able to make the jump the other rooftop. Using momentum, she swings effortlessly. Finding the right time she releases from the ladder then lands with a thud on the roof top below her. Tumbling to a crouching position, she hides behind an A/C chiller unit. Waiting she keeps an eye on the window she just left.
It takes a while but before long the team that she observed on the street is now where she was. She looks at her stopwatch and hits stop on the timer. 49 seconds. She knows now that this team might be more than she had anticipated. Waiting for them to finish she is patient. They clear the room finding no trace of her. She gives them a little more time before she leaves her cover.
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Using the response time it took for Alvarez's team to get to where she was, she now has a plan to deal with them. Now she needs to follow up with the ultimatum she gave Alvarez yesterday. She has a contact in city hall and calls her to see if he did actually admit to taking the bribes. Listening to the voice on the other end what she thought was now confirmed. He never did anything. So now the ball was in her court.
Little did Alexis know she might have inadvertently given up her secret? While she was observing the crew that was after her, the same photographer was observing her hiding behind the A/C chiller unit. When she left so did he. He followed her to Broom Street but lost her in the middle of the block. Returning to report his findings to the team they had quickly posted a surveillance team on Broom Street.
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Kate was hitting dead end after dead end. She knew that she recognized a person that was a dead on likeness for Alexis that day crossing the street but after searching almost every possible database there was only the fact that she had flew to Japan 5 years ago. There were no credit or debit card purchases, no cell phone footprint. There was no record of her returning back to the U.S.
She was frustrated. She was missing something. She needed to know what it was. Deciding to place a couple of calls overseas she had finally found a time line that made sense. She tracked Alexis to a martial arts school, but she had changed her last name to Rodgers. That's why she kept coming up empty. Armed with her new alias, she dug deeper and found that Alexis had been in two places during her time in Japan. She had taken advanced combat training at a retired Japanese soldier's compound for the last two years she was there. She found out that this was the last location she was. There was no trail afterward. Nor could she finds out when she had returned to the U.S.
Since she had her real name she decided to run financials on her. What she found out was mind blowing. Alexis was wealthy beyond any and all means. Apparently when Rick and Martha had died she inherited his fortune from his portfolio. He had amassed quite the portfolio. With what Martha had in her savings Alexis had come close to receiving just below 650 million dollars. This was just the liquid assets. She had millions in real estate too. The Hamptons summer house, the loft and then she noticed 2 properties that were unfamiliar to her. And since she was the sole heir to his fortune she had been receiving quarterly payments from all of Rick's books. Not to mention the biography that Black Pawn had cashed in on after his passing.
When she opened the account that had been receiving the quarterly payments she almost fell off the chair. The total of deposits from the last check was a little shy of $365,000.00. All she could think was wow. Coming back to the 2 addresses that she found she decided to run them. The first was a storefront in Brooklyn. The next was a hole in the wall apartment complex in the Bronx. Deciding that she might find some answers she writes both addresses down and heads to Brooklyn.
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Pulling up to the first address she cautiously gets out of her unit. Not too sure if she is at the right address she checks it again and it's the right place. This place is not what she had imagined. Checking it out shows it has been unoccupied for years. Moving rather quickly back to her car, she can't see why Alexis would have property here. This is probably one of the most undesirable neighborhoods she has ever been.
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Heading over to the Bronx, she arrives at the second address. This address is a little better, but not by much. Since Alexis owns the whole building she needs to knock on a couple of doors to get some information. Arriving at the first apartment number 2, she knocks lightly on the door. Hearing footsteps she backs up a step and places her right hand on the butt of her gun. The door creaks open slowly and an older woman pokes her head out.
"Yes can I help you" the elderly woman asks.
"Hello ma'am, I am Detective Beckett. I am wondering. Have you seen this woman around here recently?" Kate asks then shows the photo of Alexis.
The woman studies the picture.
"She could be a little older now..." Kate states.
"How much older?" the old woman asks
"She would be about 5 years older." Kate states as she is hopeful.
What the woman says next was far beyond her expectations.
"Come to think of it I have seen this girl. She has only been here a couple of times. I remember because the day we met it was raining out. I had just returned from the market. I was having trouble getting all my bags into my apartment. She was so nice. She helped my get everything in my apt. Then she stayed to help me put everything away." She recalls.
Kate had tears in her eyes. This was just like Alexis never turn anyone away in need.
"Would you tell me what apartment she is?" Kate asks hoping for a good result.
"Why yes, she was in apartment # 12 on the top floor." The old woman stated firmly.
"Thank you so much Ma'am for your cooperation." Kate says leaving to head upstairs.
"It was my pleasure my dear." She says as she shuts the door.
Kate climbs to the fifth floor. Walking over to the door she picks the lock.
Alexis looked at her phone and sees the alert. She could press the button then allow the charges to destroy everything and everyone in the apt. Her finger hovered over the button then she decided to see who it was that breeched her door.
Kate enters and she sees what shouldn't be here. It's a base of operations for someone. There are at least 4 laptops, recording and surveillance equipment. Walking over to the closet in the main room she opens the door and there right in front of her is a floor to ceiling safe. It has a digital combination pad and she has a thought.
Placing her finger on the combo pad she enters 4-1-3-1-9. The safe unlocks and Kate is now horrified. She has found out that Alexis has been her unknown visitor. No one else would use her shield number as a combination for a safe. Opening the safe is what really she scares her. Alexis is armed to the hilt with every type of weapon she could get her hands on. This includes Sniper rifles, handguns and even a crossbow.
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Securing everything back exactly the way she had found it Kate backs slowly out of the room. Getting back into her car, her cell phone scares the crap out of her when it rings.
"Beckett" she says.
"Detective we need to meet again." The electronic voice says.
Kate now knows the truth about the voice and her identity.
"Ok where and when can we meet?" Kate answers.
"Detective, there is a small office building in mid-town. Can you be there in 1 hour?" The voice asks.
"Yes I will be there." Kate said.
"Good, I will text you the address." The voice says then hangs up.
Alexis forwards the address to Kate. Alexis gets ready to leave and makes sure that the alarm is reset at the property in the Bronx. She knew Kate had found it since she was alerted and watched on video what Kate did then recorded it too. Setting the alarm for the loft on the keypad she enters Kate's badge number then leaves.
Walking to the elevator she thinks she sees something out of the corner of her eye. Turning quickly she sees nothing but remains on alert just in case. The door slides open and she steps in.
Reaching over to press the ground floor button Alexis spies two men from Alvarez's team rush the elevator. Alexis suspecting an attack was in a defensive stance. The doors close and that's when all hell breaks loose inside the car.
A/N Thanks Phnxgrl, your the best! :)
