Talking to Angels

"Vince, Leon you keep an eye on the gates. If you see anyone coming or going, especially that man and his shiny black Porsche give us the heads up. Jesse, stay in the car and keep an eye on the monitors. Once you get into their camera system page us once, then keep us updated on anyone near the records room."

"Can do Boss." Jesse said already starting the process of breaking into the Rostengburg security monitors.

"Dom, you sure you want to go through with this?" Vince asked. He had faith in his friend but worried about them getting caught, breaking and entering, then theft, those were some heavy charges that Dominic would not need held against him.

"I have to save her, V. If the only way to find out where that bastard of a step father lives is to steal files from this hell hole, then yeah, I'm sure I want to do it." Dominic pulled on the black back-pack he brought to put the files in, and then turned to Mystic, "You're sure you know where to find this stuff?"

"Positive, Gavin and I used to break into the files all the time to see what they were writing about Tianna, and to see what drugs they were using on her." She frowned at her mention of Gavin, she had no intention of telling that story, so she moved on. "The only thing I'm worried about is whether or not you'll be light enough to crawl through the ceilings."

"I'll manage." Dominic pulled on the gloves that would block his finger tips then he grabbed a hold of the links of the chain fence surround the property.

"I guess that means move out." Mystic said with a smirk, and began to follow Dominic.

"Hey Mystic!" Leon called after the woman as she dropped down behind the fence after Dominic, "Be careful okay?"

"Sure thing honey."

"Watch where you step Dominic, the ceiling isn't very sturdy and could drop out from beneath us at any moment." Mystic said as they crawled the space above the ceiling along side the air ducts.

"That's so encouraging." Dominic tried to laugh it was meant to be a funny comment, but he just wasn't feeling very humorous.

"Shh, were above the room." Mystic removed one of the ceiling tiles and looked down into the room below. It was dark, and wreaked of the scent of anesthetics.

"All right I'm in guys. If I might take a moment to say these people have shit for security, there aren't even guards in the security office." Jesse's voice sounded over the walkie-talkie, "Anyway, coast is clear guys, there isn't anyone in your wing of the building."

"All right, Jesse, good job." Dominic said, and watched as Mystic dropped down through the roof and into the records room below. Once she was out of the way, Dom followed, landing lightly on the tile. "We're in your territory now, lead the way."

Mystic was digging around in a desk, and suddenly slammed one of the doors shut and cursed, "Shit! They moved the key..." She took a deep breath, and grabbed a pair of scissors then walked over to the filing cabinet. She tugged on the first drawer labels A through D. "Yep, locked." She ran her fingers over the key hole, it was oddly positioned at the top of the drawer. "Look like they still use the cheap locks though," She commented as the shoved the scissors into the little gap between the drawer and the frame, and pushed hard to the left, breaking the lock. She set the scissors on top of the cabinet and pulled the door open. The locks were simple like the kind on floppy disk storage case, just a little hook over a little piece of metal. "Flashlight."

Dominic was slightly amazed at the laziness of the lock and the security. The doctors were either really arrogant and stupid or just didn't care if anyone broke in to their files. He didn't care, as long as they got Tianna's files nothing else mattered. He stood over Mystic aiming the beam of light on the files she was quickly shuffling through. "Is that it?" He asked when she pulled out a thick file and shoved the drawer shut.

Mystic thumbed through the pages, "Yes, and it's all here, her legal guardian-- Adian, his address phone numbers. Everything they ever treated her with, or diagnosed her with... most of which is bullshit, or only true because the drugs they pumped her full of fucked her over. Oh my god..."

"What? What is it?" Dominic tried to see what Mystic was reading, but she kept turning pages, and he couldn't tell which words she was looking at.

"These are all new..." She said absently.

"Meaning what exactly? You have to be a little more specific. I know a lot about cars and racing, but I know nothing about mental hospitals and files, except that the doctors here suck."

"Dominic, it means she's here. The admittance date says she was committed again on the fifteenth of June. That was the night Romeo died. There's no release date, Dominic she's still here." Mystic looked up at Dominic as she flipped to a photograph of Tianna from that night, with the stitches closing up her wounds, and all cut and bruised from the crash. Before the man with raging eyes could react though, the light bulb above them, which had been off, surged with light then popped glass falling to the floor.

"Dom, I don't know what is going on but all the cameras are cutting off, it looks like a power surge." Jesse's voice sounded over the walkie- talkie. "You better get out of there now."

The lights were flickering out side the room as if the power was draining from the building and a loud electrical buzz reverberated through the walls. Mystic pulled the back-pack off Dominic's shoulders and shoved the file into one of the pockets. "Get up there now." She commanded but as Dominic was climbing on to the desk to pull himself back into the ceiling space a scream of pure pain and anguish echoed through the halls and room. "Oh no..." Mystic murmured and turned her head to the door.

"Tia..." Dominic ran to the door fighting as Mystic tried to pull him away and push him back. "Tia!" Dominic yelled, he knew it was her, he had to get to her. "Let go! They're killing her damnit! I have to help her!"

"You can't help her!" Mystic screamed at Dominic and smacked him hard in the face. "There is nothing you can do for her while she's in this place. The best thing you can do for her is have some faith in her ability to survive and wait until she's back with Adian. Then you play hero, but not now. If you do it now you'll loose any chance of getting her back because you will be back in jail rotting your life away wondering what would have happened if you didn't rush into it stupidly." Dominic had stopped fighting, and Mystic glared at him. "She will die if you don't get out of this building and back into that car of yours." Mystic looked past Dominic and saw there, sitting in the chair behind the desk, a little girl. Blond, with a precocious gaze. She shook her head, and pushed Dominic back. "I have to find her journal, you go. I'll be out shortly."

Dominic reluctantly turn and climbed onto the desk, Mystic watched as the little girl glanced up to Dominic but he didn't appear to see her. He just climbed up into the ceiling and made his way back out of the building. When the girl turned her gaze back to Mystic she spoke in a tone that was all too familiar to Tianna, and distantly familiar to Mystic. "The journal is in the cage, with his guitar. You should take them both. She would want them."

"I'm not talking to you. As soon as I do, you stay in my head and you wont go away." Mystic growled out but she did turn to the cage, it was like a closet, storage unit, more than a cage. The patients belongings were kept within. She tugged on the door and it opened right up, the doctors hadn't locked it back after last using it. She dug around in a box, and found Tianna's journal. She stuffed it in her bag, then turned to shut the door. She paused though looked at an old guitar with a worn strap and thought about leaving it.

"You know she'd want it." The girl child said again.

"Shut up." Mystic hissed, then reached back into the cage and grabbed the guitar. She turned furiously toward the child and glared venomously, "I suppose you're going to tell me I should take his files too?"

"Yes actually," the girl smiled, "but I thought you weren't going to talk to me."

Mystic didn't say anything, just ran quickly over to the filing cabinet as the scream that had died out grew in her ears again. The scissors were once again used to break the lock of the drawer. This one had been marked E through H. She thumbed through the files and pulled at one equally as thick as Tianna's that was labeled ilFalco. The new file was crammed into her bag, and quickly, as she didn't want to wait for the girl to speak again she climbed back into the ceiling and as quickly as possible made her way out of the building.

"What they hell is all that?" Dominic asked as Mystic climbed over the fence, and instead of just a back pack, had a guitar hung around her shoulders as well.

When her feet hit the ground she turned, "Things she would want. I got the files, and the journal. Don't worry about the rest of it. Now let's go." Before anyone could further question her she placed the objects in the back seat of Leon's yellow Skyline and climbed into the front seat. She wanted to get away from this place as soon as possible, and as fast as possible. It wasn't healthy for her to be at Rostengburg. It wasn't healthy for anyone, she thought, praying that Tianna would survive like she had survived before. She prayed that Tianna would be all right and win Dominic played hero, that he would come out the winner.