Chapter 43: Plan of Action
It was well mid day and everyone was tired but no one was stopping. Beth rested her head on Mick's shoulder and closed her eyes for a moment to rest them still seeing streets mapped out in her mind. The new information they gathered on Ashton from Kimberly was helping but still no connection between Ashton and David could be found. Kimberly even had an old photo on her phone she had taken when he was resting and Candice didn't recognize him or his name from anything David had ever said to her.
Jerking her out of her lull Beth's phone rings loudly and she jumps seeing its her contact calling her back. "Thank God I need your help."
"I figured you might. You know Beth 15 calls in 9 hrs is excessive," he joked.
"I don't have time for games. I have two numbers I need you to run. I need anything you can give me on current location and I need it now."
"You know the favor I owed you is pretty much up. We're going to have to work out another form of payment if you want me to keep risking my job."
Josef could hear the conversation and promptly took the phone from Beth, "You are going to give the lady what she asked for and a nice donation of say ten grand will be in your account by the end of the night. Refuse the offer and you won't need money where you'll be going."
Startled by the new person Beth's contact stammered as he tried to think of something to say. Hell, ten grand was great he'd hoped for a couple hundred a number. "Sure man ten grand works. I'll text Beth my account number. What are the numbers you want?"
Josef gave the man the numbers, "Cool I'll text what I have in an hour."
"For the price I'm paying make it 10 minutes." Josef's voice was cool and collected as he handled the situation.
"Yeah sure tell Beth to keep an eye on her phone," the man disconnected and Josef handed the phone back.
Candice walks over to Josef giving him a hug, "Thank you Josef. I'll pay you back," she promised.
"You will do no such thing. Let's just bring David home," he pulled back and gave her a smile.
Ten minutes later as promised Beth got a text with the area the phones where showing up at. They were in the same area of Vineland Avenue and Aqua Vista Street. "Got the area."
Coop rolled over to his work area and began clicking around the map finding they would have gotten off on exit 12C. Checking the area on the map he looked for any buildings he could use for security footage on the outside. The digital age was wonderful and for someone who worked on keeping people secure it was easy to know which companies had cameras and which ones uploaded directly to the a secure server off site. Finding one at a computer repair shop he saw the van pulling into an abandoned warehouse next to a bakery. "I found them."
"Allie," Josef nodded towards Coop.
Nodding Allie walked over to Coop and asked him to fast forward through the footage from when the van first arrived until now. Her vamp abilities allowed her to process the information as it sped through. When she had finished she gave Coop's shoulder a squeeze, "You did great."
"So I estimate at least five men plus Mia and Ashton. Those were the ones I could see there may have been more already inside."
"What are we waiting for?" Candice paced in front of everyone eager to get to the warehouse with a truckload of men and get her David back. "We know where he is. Let's go."
Beth moved to Candice and gave her shoulders a squeeze, "We're going to get him. Trust us we will get him." She smiled as Candice nodded still shaking, "You know David better than any of us, he'd form a plan first. We have the forces but we don't want them to hurt him before we reach him right."
Candice hugged Beth tightly as tears slid down her face and into Beth's golden hair, "You're right." She sniffled, "I'm just so scared."
Beth comforted Candice while the rest of the gang worked on a game plan calling in help. Josef had put the cleaners on standby and was keeping them updated. Kimberly sat on the couch away from everyone softly crying her own tears for the man she loved.
After the building plans had been inspected Mick and Josef devised the best plan of action. "Mick will take a handful of men in through the front entrance, I'll lead a group through the back. There are windows along the side we'll have men on the perimeter making sure no one gets out." Josef looked over at Candice, "We'll bring him home to you."
"Like hell you will I'm going with you," Candice stomped towards them. "He's my David, my sire. And Mia…her ass is mine."
Mick looked at Beth who put her hands on her hips, "Don't even try." Mick shut his mouth knowing she never was one for staying in the car.
"You both can come but you follow our lead and stay behind us." Mick looked pointedly at Beth who nodded. "You both know how to defend yourselves but we have to work as a team. Candice can you control yourself?"
"I'll do whatever it takes to get him back," she looked at the others. "We have to hurry I don't want to think about what that bitch is doing to him." Candice knew Mia wanted David and was probably sick enough to force him to sleep with her. She loved David, she knew he'd never sleep with her willingly but if David felt as though her life was in Mia's hands… Candice shuttered knowing David would do anything, anything to keep her safe.
Josef looked around, "My men are in the garage. Let's go," everyone got up including Seth, Coop, and Kimberly. "Humans stay," he said simply and they stopped.
Allie smacked Josef's arm, "They're not dogs Josef." She walked over to Seth and kissed him, "But he's right. You all need to stay here."
"We understand," Coop went back to his computer. "I'll keep an eye on the place keep you updated of any changes."
Seth held onto Allies arm not wanting to let her go. Seeing everyone head out the door he knew he had to trust she knew what she was doing, "Be safe."
She walked backwards to the door as he let her go, "I will. I'll see you soon."
To Be Continued…
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