To say that Regina was happy to be alone with Philip was considered a total lie, just the opposite she did not trust him at all, after what Emma told her that he was actually cooperating with Greg, but she thought that since there was another person present, there should be no problem with him. She didn't think Robert would ask her to accompany Philip and the computer technician and she was sure Greg had malfunctioned the computer servers. Regina was standing beside Philip as they waited for the technician to arrive at the base entrance; she kept looking in his direction and kept a reasonable distance from him.
When the technician came in the door he was wearing a jumpsuit and a hat on his head. He introduced himself to Regina and smiled at her. "Nice to meet you, my name is Casey and I am here to fix your main computer."
"Hello Casey, I'm Miss Mills and this is Philip but I guess you know him."
"Yes, we met before, in a previous job I did." Regina nodded her head.
"Through here, the computers are downstairs." She turned into the path leading down and the two men followed, if she turned around she could see Daniel's crazy smile.
The hallway leading to the main computer room was empty and had two exits.
One leading to the path where they came from. And the other leads to an underground parking lot in case of a fire or an emergency.
"This is the broken computer; I guess I'll let you work quietly, I'm outside the door if you need me." She said politely." You will stay here, along with him." She told Philip and left the room.
Philip waited for Regina to leave the room before turning to Daniel. "I'm glad to see you, how do you want to proceed?" Philip asked him.
"Everything is going according to plan, first I will fix the mess you caused and then you will arrange for us a getaway car that will take us out of here, preferably a relatively large vehicle. I want to keep her from being seen when we leave."
Meanwhile outside the room, Regina was sitting on the chair at the end of the hall waiting for Casey to finish his job. She put her hands in her pocket to take out her phone, but she remembered she had forgotten it in her room after talking to Robert. She thought she should go get him in case Emma called or Robert wanted a report, but told herself it could wait after the technician had finished his job and she could give a full report.
She wore the necklace Emma bought her for their second date and told Regina to never take it off. Because when she wears the necklace she can feel her. Regina was so excited about the gift and immediately agreed to Emma's request. And since then, Regina has been wearing the necklace everywhere, even in the bathtub. It felt to her like Emma was with her all the time. After fifteen minutes, Philip left the room and asked Regina to come into the room, "I'm going to the bathroom a second, he's about to finish, he'll explain exactly what he did, I don't understand anything about computers."
"It's okay, you can go, and I'll finish here. There's no need for us both to be here." She let him go.
"Great, thank you, I'll send Robert to see the result." He walked toward the bathroom on the entrance floor. She didn't think it important, just glad he wasn't around. She walked into the room and saw Mr. Casey standing next his briefcase; he seemed to be looking for something.
"I'm glad to hear that this is not something serious and you're nearing completion. I hope all the servers were found to be good and there was no problem with them." She said gently.
He turned half a round to her and smiled, "Yeah, I'm done connecting everything, come here so I can show you what I did." He moved a little and she came to stand next to him, he stood behind her and began to show her what he did, he explained the whole repair process to her and during the explanation his hand touched Regina's waist.
At first she didn't think it important, but the touches came back several times and eventually his hand stayed on her waist.
Feeling uncomfortable, she tried to move away, but each time his hand returned to her waist. "You're making me uncomfortable, please lower your hand." Regina said politely, but he didn't consider it important and kept putting his hand on her waist. She wanted to move, but he held her tight. "Leave me alone, let me go, what are you doing?" She struggled with him and tried to push him.
"No, no, no, Regina honey you are not going anywhere."
"What? How do you know my name? I never gave it to you."
"Really, I remember something completely different. Remember a few years ago, how they stopped our time together." She was shocked and didn't understand what was going on around her. "You know me by the name of Daniel Colter and we are finally together."
She almost burst into tears but didn't want to show weakness in his face, she started to fight him and managed to slip away, she ran towards the door but stopped when she saw Philip at the door. Daniel managed to get close to her and both men blocked her way out.
"You have nowhere to go, just come quietly with me and everything will be fine."
She was going to scream for help but Daniel's hand covered her mouth. He pulled the cuffs out of his pocket and held her hands behind her back. And together they went out to the door leading to the underground parking lot. Regina continued to struggle until they reached the vehicle, she managed to turn around and kick Daniel between the legs. Immediately he fell and screamed in pain, she took the opportunity to run away from him and try to call for help. She began to run toward other cars in the parking lot and tries to find a hiding place for the two men; she sat down after a row of cars and hoped they would not find her. "Emma, where are you, I need you now." She thought to herself.
She heard footsteps and tried to be quiet, she could see Daniel checking row by row to find her. She could see the front door of the building and thought she could easily reach it. She was on her feet an action that took her time because her hands were cuffed behind her back. She began to slowly approach the door without arousing noise and attention, the door was so close now and she decided to run towards her but as soon as she reached the entrance Philip stood in the door and grabbed her, she shouted for help but no one heard her.
He picked her up on his shoulder like a sack of flour, Regina kept wrestling and screaming to put her down and let her go, she started kicking him to make him lose balance but it didn't help, Philip is a big guy. Philip reached the vehicle and Daniel stood in front of him. He motioned for Philip to turn around so he could speak to Regina. She looked at him with a look of hatred.
"I really hoped we wouldn't have to get to that situation, but you don't leave me any choice." He took the anesthetic and syringe out of his bag, Regina immediately knew it would not end well.
"Why are you doing that?" She asked him. She didn't understand what he expected to happen.
"What, it's not obvious, I want you and I know you want me. You're just afraid to make a move because of the girl you're with. You're a good girl, you don't want to break her heart, but I know you want to be with me, be mine." He explained and Regina was unable to digest the answer she received. This guy is psychic; she didn't understand his obsession with her.
"I don't know what you think but you are completely wrong. I don't want to be with you or near you. You are nothing to me and there will never be anything between us, you are wasting your time." She said angrily.
"You don't have to pretend when you're next to me, I won't judge you. Now you're going to be a good girl and act and I won't have to use this syringe." He waved it to her face, she didn't know what else to do, this guy didn't realize she wasn't into him. "Philip put her in the back seat, there is duct tape in the back, puts a piece on her mouth and cover her with a blanket so no one will notice her when we leave." Philip nodded and began to walk to the back of the car and Regina kept yelling at him. "You won't succeed, you will fail and Emma will catch you. You will never see daylight again in your life. You cannot do that."
Philip put her in the back seat and tied the seat belt around her so she couldn't move, he cut a piece of duct tape and put it on her mouth and then covered her with a blanket. Regina continued to make voices of resistance but with the blanket over her she could hardly be heard. The two guys got into the vehicle and Philip began driving toward the exit from the base, within minutes they were on their way to Daniel's building.
SQ
Emma was driving like crazy all the way to the base; she hoped she didn't miss the kidnappers. She was able to get back to base in half an hour; she immediately jumped out of the vehicle and started running to the entrance. She took the stairs and went up to Regina's room and knocked on the door but there was no answer. She used the key she had and went inside. The room was empty but seemed perfectly ordinary with no signs of disturbance. She saw Regina's phone on the table and all the missed calls. She could see an incoming call from Robert and immediately clicked on that to call him again.
After a few minutes Robert answered. "Regina I guess everything is fine with the technician." He said innocently.
"Robert is Emma; Regina forgot the phone in the room, where exactly did you send her?"
"Emma, you have already returned, Regina went to the main computer room. We had a malfunction on the main server; she and Philip supervised the computer technician."
"What's the name of the technician?"
"Mr. Casey, Philip recommended him; we needed someone urgently before the servers caught fire." Robert explained, he didn't suspect anything.
"Okay I'll go downstairs to give Regina her phone and I'll give you a full report."
"Waiting to hear from you Emma." They ended the call and Emma immediately went down to the main computer room, when she entered the room she could see that the servers had been taken care of but the technician, Philip and Regina were not there. So Emma called the security man at the front gate of the base. "George this is Emma Swan. I wanted to know whether Mr. Casey the computer technician has left the base."
"Yes, according to the record, he left the base 15 minutes ago."
"Thank you." She ended the call and immediately ran to Belle in the lab.
"Belle, I need your help, can you upload all the security films from the last hour."
"Sure Emma, what are you looking for?"
"Anything suspicious and different than usual."
Together they looked at the photographs. Emma caught Regina in one of the videos running in the direction of the cars in the underground parking lot, because it is a video from the security camera so no sound. Regina seemed scared and tried to run away from someone, but the person was not seen in the picture.
The way she ran was weird as if her hands were held behind her back. In another video Regina is seen running towards the front door but stopped by a big guy, the same guy Emma could recognize to be Philip, he carried her on his shoulders and took her to a big white commercial vehicle. Out of the vehicle came another guy but on his head was a hat that hid his face, he spoke to Philip and Regina was taken into the car. After a few minutes the vehicle drove away and disappeared from the scene.
Emma was angry and immediately kicked the chair that was next to her; she sat down on the floor and held her head in her hands. Belle tried to calm her down and offered to watch the videos and try to get information out of them.
"They seem to be in a hurry to leave, but I can see a vehicle registration number. Let me check the car owner's name." Belle said and went to work. After 10 minutes Belle returned with the information. "Okay the car seems to be commercial and leased by Philip Prince; no recent address has been left."
"So basically we have nothing on the other guy." Emma said sadly, angry at herself for not thinking of Regina alone.
"You can't think of any other way we can find them." Emma asked her, at that moment she couldn't think of anything.
"I tried to track Philip's cellphone but the device is not active, and Regina's cellphone is at the base here, and the license number of the vehicle they drive in is nowhere to be found, apparently they have removed it halfway so they can't be found. I'm sorry; I have no other way to track them." Belle explained and hoped Emma would be fine, it was hard for her to see her sad, angry and heartbreaking.
"Just a minute, if Regina is wearing the necklace I gave her, it will be possible to track them; the chain has a tracking device." Emma said and immediately there was a change in her face.
"You put a tracking device on your girlfriend?" Belle asked in surprise.
"It's not like that, Regina knows I am protective of her and to prevent such a situation again I put a small tracking device in the necklace just for such cases. I trust her with my eyes closed." Emma explained and waited to see if Belle would find anything.
"I was able to find the signal for the tracking device. They appear to be in a building in downtown Boston." Belle said and Emma immediately jumped on her feet, she had to get ready for a rescue mission. She asked Belle to send the transmitter signal to her phone so she could be constantly monitored. Emma walked into Robert's office and immediately reported everything that had happened.
"I can't believe they were able to do that and from the inside of the headquarters. You have to bring her back, it's all my fault. I asked her to be alone with them." He felt bad because of it.
"Don't worry, I'm handling the situation. I need a rescue team to join me." She asked and Robert approved everything she demanded. Emma promised to return Regina safely to them and most importantly to her.