The Red Light
Disclaimer: I don't own iCarly
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Chapter 44 (Destroying the Site)
An hour later, the men arrived at the Creations bakery, Douglas loved going there. Their food was his guilty pleasure. He and Carly used to go there all the time, one of their favorite things to share was the Black Forest Cake. However today, he just wanted a couple glazed and lemon filled donuts, two biscotti, and a strong cup of coffee.
He leaned against the wall next to the doors, and spotted Derek walking up from down the street. The computer genius didn't even look like a typical gang member. He had spiky red hair, a pale complexion, low muscle build, and wore an olive cameo shirt with cut jean shorts. His eyes were blue and he walked with a slight gait. He may not look it, but this was the guy that could hack into a national mainframe any chance he got. It was good to have him on your side.
"Finally you show up, Dex. I was wondering if you were going to show up at all!"
"Nah, I got caught up in traffic." Dexter stepped next to the building and looked up at the decorative sign. "So this is the place, I can't believe you actually eat here."
"Yeah, Carly and I came here all the time, got the black forest cake and shared it." Dexter lifted his eyebrows up and whistled a small tune, he couldn't help but wonder if Douglas was softening up. Doug saw the questing look fly in Dexter's eyes and he quickly smacked him upside the head. "Come on, let's go in. I need a coffee."
"Are you okay, man?" Douglas was actually relatively tired looking, which was odd for him. He was steel reeling from the effects of that nightmare.
"I'm fine. Let me just say, it'll be a cold day in hell before I enjoy porn again." Dexter's eyebrow arched as he followed his friend into the building. They made their way to the front desk where one of the cashiers was typing on the register. She looked up and smiled.
"How may I help you?" Douglas yawned and lifted three fingers up, ready to order his meal.
"I'd like two lemon filled donuts, one glazed, two…no, three biscotti…and your strongest cup of coffee."
"All right, sir. That'll be eight fifty nine." He smiled vaguely and pulled his wallet from inside his shirt. He had sewn a pocket inside each of his shirts in order to keep anyone from possibly stealing his wallet during a brawl or something similar. He pulled out a ten and handed it to her.
"Keep the change." He turned and glanced at Dexter with a vague smile. "If you're going to order something, I recommend their mint cookies. Those are really good." Dexter nodded and watched his friend walk to a table and prop open the laptop. He then ordered what he wanted, also opting to try the mint cookies, then walked to the table and sat down. "All right, so we're going to shut down this site. Is there a way you can make sure these videos aren't located on any other site?"
"Yeah man, I installed a code that tracks the videos, if anyone tries to put it on their site, they can't. It's impossible. It would take a computer geek to just hack into the video and put it on their site, but even still, I can detect it."
"Okay then. Now, once this site's shut down, what happens to all the videos?"
"They're gone man." Dexter moved a bit closer so he could turn the laptop and Douglas could still see it. He logged into the site and pulled up all the complex coding behind it, nobody could possibly crack all the codes he'd installed, there just wasn't anyone smart enough. "A team of scientists couldn't stop those videos from going away. It would be like they never existed."
"Great news…" He looked up at the sound of a familiar voice and saw Valerie giving Sam a tour of the facility. He cussed inwardly and moved his eyes back to the computer, but it was too late, Sam already saw him. Valerie was handed the tray for their pastries and she delivered it to them, showing Sam how necessary it was to ignore who the customer was. Sam walked over and folded her arms over slightly as Douglas took his pastries and the coffee with the creamer and sugar. As he dispensed the creamers and sugars into his coffee and stirred it up, he took in the wonderful cinnamon like smell. What a perfect way to start the day.
"What are you doing, Douglas?" Douglas sighed as he took a sip of his coffee. His eyes drifted up to Sam, she was so tense and uncomfortable, but she didn't seem to mind him all that much.
"I'm taking down the site, deleting every single video that's up there." Sam's jaw dropped slightly and she lowered her arms. It seemed almost too good to be true, but why would he want to do all that? "Not only do I want to…protect Carly, I don't want anyone else being able to see her online." Dexter chuckled as he started watching a video. Douglas closed his eye and raised his eyebrows.
"Are you sure, man? She's se-" Douglas punched Dexter in the face and the genius let out a sharp yell. Sam laughed once at that and Douglas continued to sip his coffee. He sighed and set the coffee down on the table.
"You know Dex, for a genius, you sure are an idiot. Don't talk about Carly like that, and furthermore, don't watch her videos!" It was bad enough she was working at the strip club, and now the damn Niño's wanted to cast their fucking dicks into the pot. He wanted to see them all die, starting first with Carlos. A slow, painful death.
"So how are you going to delete them all?" Sam asked as she looked from Dexter to Douglas. She turned her eyes to Valerie to ask if it was all right that she take a break and try to see what Douglas was up to. Since she wasn't on the job, it should be okay. Valerie and Sam sat down in the corner booth with the two and moved closer to the laptop to get a view. Douglas groaned and flicked his eyes upwards, he felt way too crowded. "Why do you care, anyway?"
"I just do, okay? I'm sick of Carly being involved it that whole lustful lifestyle, it'll destroy her if she's not careful."
"So…" Sam was astonished, and a bit impressed with him. He actually did have a heart, but that never explained why he dumped her so coldly that day. "Let me get this straight. You actually care about her?" Douglas continued to stare at the screen, reading the coding that Dexter had on there, and trying to comprehend it in the slightest. Dexter's head shot up and he grinned past Douglas.
"Sí muchacha, he just won't admit it. Están en amor. ¡Amantes! Él ama su y ella lo ama."
"Aww." Sam laughed and Douglas flicked his eyes over to Dexter, narrowing them with annoyance. Dexter just basically told Sam that Douglas and Carly were in love, lovers, and that he loved her and vice versa.
"Shut up and figure this out before I kick your ass, Dexter."
"Aw, the tough guy doesn't want to admit that he en amor?" Douglas smacked Dexter in the head and the genius quickly recoiled. "Okay, okay! I'll get to work!" Sam smirked and Valerie rubbed her chin. They both were thinking the same basic thing, if Douglas really was in love with Carly, why did he break up with her and did they actually reconcile.
"So Douglas, did you two make up or something? I know your break up was pretty harsh…" Douglas breathed in through his teeth, watching as Dexter highlighted a few lines of coding and started copying them and pasting them into a document. This was the tracker code, what he was going to use to see if any of the videos had been put on another site.
"She took that hard, but we've reconciled. I had to do it, it was either that or something very bad happening…it's become too dangerous for us to be together. I've already said too much, anyway."
"So, you do care about her then."
"Yes. I'm sorry for how I treated you, Sam. You, and all the other girls. I have a lot to make up for…and I'm pretty sure I won't be able to fix everything." Deleting this site and all the videos was one start. Sam knew the site had been Carly's shared idea with Douglas, and what was once just something small for entertainment purposes became way too huge for them to handle and it had just spiraled out of control. "My father, my brothers, they are part of a gang, the El Niño's. I'm not a full part of that gang, but they wanted me to be." Sam cupped her mouth and Valerie gasped, both had heard of them. They were still very small compared to other Washington gangs, however they were still a threat. If Sam was right in recognizing them for their drug trade and prostitution, then she knew without a doubt that Douglas breaking up with Carly the way he did was for her own good at the time.
"Why would they care about Carly, do you know?"
"Try not to think too much about them right now…and aren't you working?" He met her eyes, she could tell he was annoyed and frustrated, but she just simply did not care.
"Well tomorrow's my first day, so to answer your question, no I am not working."
"Oh. Great." He rolled his eyes and looked back at the computer. "Dexter, how's the search coming along?" Dexter kept his eyes positioned on the search results and took a bite of one of his cookies. He gasped with delight and licked his lips.
"Hey man, these are good!" Douglas motioned his hand in the air while grabbing a biscotti with his other hand and dipping it into his coffee. He bit into it and sighed. "Okay Douglas, search is ninety eight percent complete. Just a few more videos to search through." Thank god there weren't that many videos on the site, so it wasn't going to be too treacherous of a task. He could only imagine what it'd be like if their site had thousands to millions of videos like the more known and popular porn sites out there.
"Okay, good to know." He set his half eaten biscotti down and grabbed up one of the donuts. "Are any of the videos linked to another site so far?"
"Hmm, there are two that have been stolen from a smaller site, yet they aren't either Carly's or Sam's. It won't matter, once I run the Dagger program, they'll be totally erased. I'll even track and make sure."
"Okay good." He took another sip of his coffee while Sam and Valerie exchanged impressed glances. They didn't even know a thing like this was possible. "So I guess there is someone out there smart like you, huh Dex."
"Oh shut up." Douglas chuckled smugly and dipped his biscotti back into the coffee. "I created the code, so it pisses me off when someone screws with it." Yeah, you didn't want to piss Dexter off. A genius like that could easily fuck with you in several different ways if they got pissed.
"Can I just say how glad I am that you're not one of Carlos's supporters?"
"Who, him? He's a prick, thinks only for himself. I think all that coke he's snorting has fucked his brain over too much. You right man, Carly doesn't need to be subjected to that lifestyle at all."
"She should never have been subjected to a sexual lifestyle, period." Douglas placed his elbows on the table and leaned forward, pressing his fingertips together in front of his face. He closed his eyes tightly and recalled that vivid nightmare from earlier in the morning. "None of those girls should have been subjected to it. Those demons…" His voice lowered to a whisper and he slowly shook his head. "Damn it Carly, why did we ever start into that shit…"
"Okay man, search is complete, there are no other videos on any other site. If you're sure about this, I'll run-"
"Just do it."
"Okay, running La Daga, the dagger now. Say goodbye to the site and all videos. Any replica of any of the girls online that you've worked with will be forever gone." Douglas and the girls smiled as Dexter started up his program. The Dagger was filled with nearly hundreds of lines of coding, he took great pride in that program. Dexter watched as the progress bar started up, it could take some time before it finished up. "You realize there are current viewers on this site? They're going to be in for a shock."
"What'll happen when the site shuts down?"
"Well like I said, all videos will cease to exist, they'll go blank. When the site itself is completely shut down, everything will freeze. Anyone that has it open right now will think something's wrong with their computer, probably, but they'll just have to close the browser or go somewhere else. If they try to get back, they'll just be met with a domain name error, as it no longer exists."
"Great. As for the videos on the other sites?"
"I'm about to show you what happens then. It is only one other site that has the videos on there, and only about two to four videos. When this site crashes down permanently, the videos on there will just black out, no matter if they're being viewed or not." Sam lifted her eyebrows as Douglas took a bite of his donut, smirking as the lemon filling went down his throat.
"Have I ever told you how much I like that oversized brain of yours?"
"Ay man, brains before brawn I always say. I'm a lot more lethal than you are." Douglas laughed brazenly and pat Dexter on his shoulder.
"Yeah, I'd like to see that." Dexter smirked and pulled a small device from his pocket, then shocked Douglas one time, causing him to lose consciousness. Sam gasped and Valerie's eyes widened.
"What did you just do to him?" Dexter shrugged and returned his eyes to the progress bar, whistling as he waited for it to finish.
"Just gave him an electric shock from a former stun gun that I amplified times a hundred. He'll be fine, but I've probably pissed him off and he'll probably want to kill me when he wakes up."
"Geez…I don't think he was serious when he said that, you know."
"Oh I know. I just like to have some fun sometimes. Dude owes me big time. You know how hard I worked to create this thing?"
"Yeah. You know how much pain the site created?"
"Point taken." Sam smirked smugly and folded her arms over as Dexter tapped his fingers on the table.
"Thought so.
An hour later, Douglas woke up and rubbed the back of his neck, cracking it to the side. Dexter was still there, watching the progress bar, it was almost completely. Sam and Valerie had been helping customers and employees. When Sam saw that Douglas was awake, she moved over to him. Douglas groaned and looked at Dexter, then promptly delivered a punch to his face. "Don't do that again!"
"Sorry man, you told me…"
"I have things to do, I don't have time to mess around."
"I already called up a few of the girls you worked with and told them that they didn't have to worry about shooting porn videos any longer." Douglas nodded appreciatively as Dexter flipped over to the site with the videos, each of them were tabbed in his browser. "I do have some bad news, however."
"What's that?" Valerie walked over to Sam, who was listening intently, whether Douglas wanted her to or not.
"Well, good news is every single video and the site is finally done. Processing." The browser screen flashed and Dexter grinned. He showed them the tabs that had the videos and the videos stopped playing, they went black and the tabs froze. "It's all cleared up."
"Great!"
"And now for the bad news, which is somewhat related to your site. El Niño's was using that site, monitoring the various models." Douglas started to pale, immediately he knew what that meant. The gang had been using him for prospects. "They've been taking several of these girls and forcing them into prostitution." Sam gasped and Valerie's eyebrows shot up, they really had to watch her then.
"Shit!" Douglas slammed his fist on the table and started cursing himself, why were they doing this? Was it Carlos's orders? Did they just want more people to screw or something? "Those girls are innocent, decent women, Niño's doesn't have a fucking right to take them!"
"It's Carlos's orders man, all of his supporters are already following him. You know how bad things can get, man."
"I know. Fuck, I know…" Douglas ran his hand through his hair and tensed his muscles up. How the hell was Carlos getting past his father? Surely Rafael wasn't sanctioning all this.
"At least now the gang can't use your site to try and find potential prostitutes." Dexter leaned back and stared at the screen, reading over his numerous lines of code. He had been deathly proud of that site, even though it became something of an evil thing. "But there's something else…"
"Now what?"
"Carlos is sending a gang member to Iran."
"Ira-why do I care?" Dexter sighed and began typing on the computer, hacking into Carlos Rodriquez's personal email. He turned the computer towards Douglas. As Douglas read, his eyes widened to the size of saucers. This worried Sam and Valerie. "That motherfucker!" Douglas exclaimed and rose up violently, heading for the door.
"What about your computer?"
"Keep it! I have more important things to deal with!" Douglas charged out the door and the girls looked worriedly at Dexter, who was staring at the computer screen with hazy eyes. He had a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach, something bad was coming their way.
Sam quickly sat down and pushed Dexter to the side, surprising him and causing him to nearly fall out of the chair. She turned the computer towards her and read the email, her face slowly paling and shock growing in her expression.
From:
To: Emilio_Gonzalez
Now is the time to fulfill whatever hits have been left from Rafael Madison. Then, we will begin the process that will enable me to take over El Niño's. My first order to you is for you to clear up the hit Rafael has on the military man who took away that prostitute many years ago. Colonel Steven Shay must die. He's applied for early leave and will be returning home within a week to take Carly Shay. You must prevent this from happening, you must kill him. Any interference will not be tolerated.
Once you have killed him, return to the states and we will take out Rafael, but we must work fast. Once Rafael is dead, that would make his son the leader of El Niño's by default. That bastard isn't even active, you know this. The motherfucker chopped off my nuts for screwing his girl, so I want you to chop him up. I don't actually give a shit what you do to him, if you leave him to die and give him a slow painful death, that would be enough. Once he's out of the way…I will let you know what is next on our agenda…I want Steven Shay dead by Friday at noon, no later."
Sam looked up at Valerie, her eyes started to water and her heart throbbed painfully. She didn't want Carl's dad to die. She heard a car speed off and quickly glanced back. "Where's he going?" Dexter frowned and closed his eyes, his heart mourned for Douglas.
"My guess, to warn Carly and try to stop Emilio. Emilio is Carlos's number one hit man, he never leaves a job undone. His prey is almost always…destroyed."
"Oh my god!" Sam cupped her hands to her mouth and shook her head. Douglas wouldn't die, surely not. How was he going to stop Emilio, though? This was getting to be too much, too fast. She never possibly fathomed that her lifestyle would lead to something like this. Fear gripped her, gutted her like a knife. "I-I'm not going to hide out if these gang members want to try to get me, but…"
"Aren't you staying with your friends?" Sam nodded and Dexter leaned back, placing his hands behind his head. "Then you're fine. El Niño's may be ruthless, but they're not that violent. They won't try to get you when you're with your friends, they'll try to get you alone."
"But I'm never alone…Jonah and Valerie made sure of that." She chuckled nervously and looked up to Valerie, who was becoming deathly worried about her friends.
"Then like I said, you're fine." Dexter rose up and closed the laptop down, he had some business of his own to take care of. He was going to turn himself in. He was claiming sole responsibility for the creation of that porn site and sole responsibility for allowing the videos on there from before Sam and Carly were fully eighteen years old. This meant Douglas would not have to worry about that aspect. He would never do these things again, Dexter knew this already, he'd learned his lesson. There was no reason for him to go to prison over this, but if Douglas was going to go to Iran, he might encounter something far, farworse than prison if he wasn't careful. "Adios."
"Now where are you going?" Dexter pressed his lips together and started towards the door, stopping only to close his eyes and shake his head at them.
"Avoiding the hell sure to follow. The rise of El Niño's. He won't survive Emilio…Carlos will win…" Sam clenched her hands and quickly shouted a protest, much to Valerie and Dexter's surprise.
"You're wrong!" She saw that look in Douglas's eyes when he spoke of Carly, he honestly did care about her. If he was going to save her father, then he was going to save her father. "If he loves Carly, he won't die!"
"I hope you're right, senorita. I hope you're right…" Sam watched with tearful eyes as Dexter exited the building. How did she actually believe Douglas. If he was the one that made Carly happy, then so be it. He seemed to be changing for the better, but only time could tell.
Well here we go, you're in for a bit of a bumpy ride
