Chapter 5 : Fear
A/N : I really hope that you're not bored with this story. Thanks a lot to the people who review.
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And as for the other chapters, sorry for the mistakes.
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Elliot stayed on the landing a moment to observe the police car leaving the area before turning on himself.
"Damn this phone !" he shouted walking towards the still asleep hostages.
"He was right on time anyway." noticed Tom, talking about Jerry.
"What dya think ? That I haven't checked everything before starting such a thing ?" Elliot wondered a bit nervously.
Tom did as if he hadn't noticed the irritated tone of his friend.
"Dya think that he'd believed you ?" Tom risked to ask anyway.
Elliot who was calming himself down, sighed and replaced his mask on his head to hide his face, knowing that the hostages were going to wake up soon.
"I am not that sure. There was something in his eyes and there was that girl. She looked suspicious." he finally replied.
Tom bit his lips under his mask. He was glad that his mate couldn't see his anxiety.
"Anyway, we'd better take their phones away from them while they're still asleep." Elliot added.
And at this very moment, one of the employee opened his eyes.
"What's the hell is goin' on here ?!" he said staring at the two men.
Elliot looked at him and saw that he was the bank's guard security.
For that matter, the man immediately looked for his gun.
Tom smiled inwardly and said no with his head.
"Do you really think that we'd have let you your gun ?"
The guard was to answer when the other hostages began to wake up one after another.
Elliot closed his eyes waiting for the cries of fear, anger and incomprehension to stop.
Only Sam and Cassie had remained silent. They have finally been able to open their eyes freely, as the others had woken up.
Sam was almost sure that it was Janet who had called her as Cassie's phone had also rung. It made her feel a bit better, thinking that her friends would know that something wasn't right. At least she hoped so.
"Calm down everyone." Elliot said matter-of-factly. "Nothing's gonna happen to you if you don't annoy us. Do I make myself clear ?"
As some people nodded, he continued :
"well, very well, therefore I'll ask you to give me all the means of communication you could have with the exterior world. And no jokes. I could be not that nice." he added, touching his gun on purpose.
The guard glared at him, cursing and grumbling against himself for having let that happen in *his* bank.
Sam smiled to the pregnant woman who was caressing her belly with anxiety.
"Do you think that it could have affected my baby ?" she wondered almost crying.
"Don't you worry. I think that they didn't use a high quantity of anaesthetic. But as soon as we're out, I'll present you to the best doctor I know and she'll reassure you better than I can." Sam said with a reassuring smile.
"Thanks" she whispered snuffling. She also added that her name was Nawelle and that she was six-month pregnant.
As they were talking, Tom took everyone's phone and switched all them off.
Elliot looked at him and said
"Have a look to check how it's goin' on with my brother and Paul."
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Jerry asked his colleague who dispatched the calls that came to the central switchboard to verify if any demands for a ventilation fixing had been planned for this bank.
As he and Amy had feared, nothing has been asked by the headquarters of the bank.
Following the procedure, Jerry called his hierarchic superior to inform him about his doubts and fears.
His superior told him to stay quiet while he noticed the federal police chief of Jerry's report.
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Getting out of the elevator, Jack caught a sigh of Teal'c.
"Hey ! Buddy !" he called, running towards him
Teal'c stared at him with his usual stoic air.
"O'Neill."
"What are you doing ?" Jack wondered
"I'm walking" Teal'c replied knowing perfectly what his friend meant but even if they didn't know, he liked to tease them, in his way.
Jack raised his eyes to heavenwards.
"I can see that, but what I meant is what are you *going to do* ?"
"I wanted to visit Daniel Jackson and see how he was dealing with his ankle." Teal'c replied flatly.
"Oh, don't you worry, he's perfectly fine, already working on another rock or whatever....Wouldn't you prefer to play chess with me ?" Jack asked with a big smile.
"Really ? I will be honoured to play against you O'Neill." Teal'c replied with a little movement of his head.
And at that precise moment, Jack remembered that he had sworn to himself to avoid any chess game with Teal'c. He had tried once and had almost fallen asleep waiting for Teal'c to play.
But he'd asked him, now it was too late.
They sat in front of the other near beside the tv set.
Cautiously, Jack reached the tv remote and kept it beside him.
They began to play and as Jack had feared, Teal'c was really long to play.
After almost 15 minutes, Jack gave up.
"Your turn Murray." he said with a sigh.
Teal'c glanced at him and even if he was a bit surprised, he didn't let it show.
"I'm thinking O'Neill. Major Carter told me that it was the aim of this game."
Jack sighed again and turned on the tv.
He channel-hopped trying to find an interesting program, without success.
He finally chose to have a look on what was happening around the world.
After the presentation of the international news, Jack turned his eyes on Teal'c.
This one was observing him with a shadow of a smile over his face.
"What ?" asked Jack.
"It's your turn." Teal'c replied as calm as ever.
"Already ?" asked Jack ironically.
He looked at the chessboard and after less than a minute of thinking he knew what he had to do.
With a big grin he looked at Teal'c.
"Okay, your turn."
Jack looked back to the tv as the journalist was commenting the images of a bank's hold-up.
Jack watched the very short report but came back to his game as Teal'c had already played, which was quite a surprise for Jack.
They went on playing and it occurred to the colonel that he had to focus his attention on the game if he wanted to win. Therefore, he turned off the Tv.
He had almost forgotten that Teal'c's teacher was Carter, who was with no doubts an excellent chess player.
"Doctor Frazier" welcomed Teal'c as the petite doctor was coming into the room.
Jack turned his head to look at Janet and he immediately noticed her worried look.
"What's wrong doc ?" he asked.
She sighed but as she really needed to speak to someone, she told him the reason of her anxiety.
"You may say that it's the maternal instinct, but I'm worried about Cassie. I had asked her music teacher to tell me if Cassie missed her lesson coz she'd missed it several times... I have just received a call from her teacher saying that she wasn't present for the music lesson and I can't join her or Sam on their phones."
"You know Carter and Cassie, they must be talking about girls' things." Jack said tempting to comfort her.
"Maybe..." replied Janet who wasn't really convinced.
"Would you have some coffee ?" she added reaching the coffee machine.
"No, thank you Doctor Frazier." Teal'c replied
"Colonel ?" Janet asked.
Jack was looking into the emptiness, lost in his thoughts, looking shocked.
"Sir ?" Janet asked with concern in her voice, coming towards him.
He turned his eyes on her, slowly, very slowly.
"Did Carter say that she had to go to her bank before ?" he managed to articulate.
Janet nodded, as a strange and disagreeable feeling was invading her.
Jack switched on the tv again and looked for an channel that would deal with the local events.
Janet rolled her eyes as the report about the bank was on.
"Do you think that they're in this bank ?" she asked under her breath
Jack remained silent. He had learnt to notice details during his military training and was cautiously observing the backgrounds of what the camera was showing.
He closed his eyes briefly as he recognised Sam's car parked in front of the bank.
He looked at Janet and knew that she had understood.
"Oh my God ! "she said letting some tears rolling on her cheeks.
She knew how to keep a professional behaviour on the base but not when her daughter was in danger.
Jack and Teal'c got up and Jack placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"Let's tell Hammond, and we'll go over there." he said. I'm sure that they are fine." he added almost whispering.
Janet nodded and followed him to Hammond's office.
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Jerry couldn't believe it. The special troops had just had the time to come and to be briefed about the situation, they were just on position when the first TV car had arrived.
Even if he'd tried to make them leave the area, the journalists who were coming in a high number, didn't let him the chance to act.
"How did they do ?" he repeated for a hundred times. "Who told them about it ! I can't believe it !!!" he added to no one in particular.
Amy shared his point of view and nodded to every comment he made.
They were both aware that now the men inside the bank knew that they knew and they wouldn't be taken by surprise as the special agents had planned to do.
Jerry knew that there were people hold in hostage into the bank. He tried to guess how many they could be. He thought that they would be about ten, including the employees and the guard.
He was quite glad because most of people was working at this hour so that the bank couldn't have been full of people. It was the only good point he could see by now.
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Elliot swore as he noticed the vans of the TV channels coming in front of the bank.
He was glad to have planned all the possible situations, and the C4, that his friends had placed in the building was a good way to prevent any police attack.
He took his walky-talky and told his three friends, who were in the vault trying to open the safe, about the situation outside.
It was not useful to try to give a normal appearance to the bank anymore. Therefore, Elliot pushed the button that closed the mechanical shutters of the bank, leaving the room enlighten by the neon lighting which made the only noise heard in the silent room.
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