Guess what!

I still have nothing but my imagination.

Undisclosed Location

Brady had no clue what happened one minute he was in heaven with Chloe, the next he was locked in some room. That was bad enough, but what was worst was that he was no longer with Chloe, and he was more worried about his diva then anything else.

Tuscany

"Hey, John have you seen Brady?" Lucas walked up to his future father in law, and tapped him on the shoulder. "We're looking for Chloe and e was the last one she was with, but I can't seem to find either of them."

John scanned the room, and a bad felling began to form in his stomach, not only didn't he see Brady or Chloe, but he didn't see any of the DiMera's. This was very strange because Stefano and Tony had been playing gracious host all evening, and now they were gone, as were Christian and Mac. "Lucas, go find get Bo, something going down?" He looks back at Marlena and kisses her cheek. "I want you and the girls to go to the pent house, and don't let anyone in." He turns to Shawn. "Tell Maggie to get all the gust out of here."

Lucas finds Bo on the dance floor with Hope. "Bo, sorry to interrupt, but John says something going down, Brady and Chloe are missing."  

"Isn't just possible that they ran off together." Hope could only imagine what would happen when Brady and Chloe had seen each other again, after their last visit with each other, but seeing the look of confusion on Bo and Lucas' face and realizes that she is one of a small group that probably knows what really happened at Brady's loft, and that it's best to keep her cousins confidence for awhile longer.

Bo sees the look on her face and knows she has some information that she shares, he turns back to Lucas. "Is it?"

Lucas shakes his head, he wishes that Brady took Chloe and ran off, but he doesn't like the vibe he's getting, and remembering Christians look before he went back to the office, and fear enters his eyes. "No, something going on, we can't Christian either."

John walks toward the group when a strange and unreadable look in his eyes, and O'Neil following him. " None of the DiMera's are around, and that's a bad sign."

Something catches Bo's eye and look and when he realizes what he saw, he confirms John's fears. " Well there goes another bad omen." He nods his head in the direction of Paul, one of Vicente's bodyguards. "Why is Paul Serrano, a known gangster at a DiMera Party?"

John follows his gaze and narrows his eyes. "Because someone wants muscle." He turns back to the group. "Someone is trying to move up in the world."

DiMera Mansion

Walking into the mansion Mac could already feel the difference. Tony and Christian has taken control, they guards all around, and Elena wasn't answering the door. Mac saw her old friends Paul and Frank and winked at them, because no matter what her father and brother thought she wasn't afraid, if today was her day to die, then someone should tell the devil to watch his back. As soon as she entered the she saw the two traitors standing behind her grandfather's desk in the library, Alexandra was sitting by the fire place her allegiance not yet named, her grandfather sat in front of his deck his face a mask of anger, but the sight that froze Mac's blood was Chloe sitting by the bookcase, her face pale and tears evident. It was that moment when Mac made her decision.

She would have to protect Chloe, and that meant that her brother and father would have to die. Mac felt no remorse at the prospect of killing Tony or even Alexandra, but the thought of having to kill Christian made her sick. Had she been a better sister he wouldn't have been susceptible to the maniacal plans of her psychotic father.

Mac walks into the room smiling and heads over to the bar where she fixes her a drink, she turns and smiles at the group assembled. " Drinks anyone?"

He had seen her check out the room, put her mask in place, and begin to play a game of chess that he was sure she was going to lose. Tony DiMera refused to be denied what was his, and not even his bastard daughter was going to interfere. "No, thank you Machiavelli, why don't you take a seat by your friend Chloe."

Mac takes the seta by Chloe and smiles at her; once again she taps the spot over her heart twice. "So, what's with the new security?"

Christian took the large chair behind the desk, and looked at his sister as if she were a servant being called into the office to be fired. Everything about Mac was making him angry, the way she walked into a room full of enemies as if they were friends, the way she continued to support his unfaithful fiancée, and especially the way she looked at him as if she was still going to win. "There is new security, because there is a new family patriarch, Father and I are now controlling the DiMera Empire."

Mac laughs and looks at her grandfather. "So, the boys want to play monopoly with real money now." She looks back at her brother and narrows her eyes." That's okay, we can rebuild the empire once you done playing."

Christian jumps to his feet and snaps his fingers, the doors open and Vicente Sims and some more of his associates enter the room. " Dispose of them, and make sure you get my ring back form the girl."

O'Neil's SUV

"Wolf pack, come in this is Wolf One, any sign of the Boss?" Patrick glances sideways at John Black, and sees the man has slipped into mercenary mode, checking the rearview mirror he sees that Mike and Lucas looked tense and ready to fight.

"Wolf One, this Wolf seven, we have confirmed Mac presence at the DiMera Mansion in the library, but the place is crawling with armed thugs. " There is a pause. "Just received confirmation on Chloe Lane, Brady Black is assumed to be present also, but we have no visual on him, orders?"

"Surround and secure the area, wait for assistance by Salem PD, make no moves that may endanger the hostages, Wolf One out." O'Neil puts down his phone and turns down the road to the DiMera Mansion. "Lucas, Mike you are only here to make sure your sister is okay, you are not interfere or try to do anything heroic."

" I just want my sister, you want kill everyone else, that's your business." Lucas turned and looked back out the window, praying once again that Chloe makes it out of this.

DiMera Mansion

Mac looks at her grandfather and catches his eye. "Can you believe that after all we've done for this two spoiled brats that they going to have us killed." She looks back at her father with contempt. "Well it's like you always say Grandfather, sometimes even good breeding fails."     

Tony moves to stand in front of her and pulls her up by her shoulders. "Funny, that's what I was thinking."

It happened so quickly that no one was prepared for it. Mac pulled her father in front of her by holding his neck, and pulled her guns taking out Sims and his associates, they fired back but Tony DiMera took the bullets as Mac had predicted he would. Holding her dead father in her arms Mac drops him, and turns toward her brother guns raised, as Christina pulls his gun and aims it toward Chloe.

Christian laughs. "Mexican Standoff didn't see that coming."

Mac pulls back the hammer. "Soon, you won't see anything coming."