Adrenaline

By - TempestRaces

Chapter 72 – Get It On

This is how it's going to go down…

After delivering her statement Kat paused and looked at the pictures of the house where Sean was being kept. The inconspicuous house on that pretty little beach was where her best friend was being kept, where god knows what was being done to him. Some place under that roof, he was sitting. Maybe tied up, maybe hurt or even unconscious. No matter what state he was in he was wondering if she'd run away or if Sergei had gotten her. He was likely wondering if Connor was going to try and save him and worried that Connor and the rest of the guys would end up dead over it.

Now it fell to her to develop a plan to get him out, to get him home. She wasn't sure she could do it. Sitting on the floor, looking at the roof of that house in the satellite picture all she could think was she couldn't do it. She had no idea where he would be in the house or where the guards would be. How could she do it? How would they get in? What would they do with the guards they found? She had so many questions she felt her confidence in her ability shrinking away with every second she sat and thought. She wasn't strong enough to do it, to pull it off. She just couldn't imagine her being able to hold it together long enough.

She looked up and her gaze met Ivan's eyes first. Like he knew what was on her mind, what she was thinking, he moved to her side and crouched down beside her. He put his finger on the farthest corner of the pictured beach and tapped softly. "There is a road which runs down to this point. The road is on the other side of the neighbouring house so no one at our father's house will see us coming if we come up from the other way and turn down the access road. That is where we will park our vehicles. Then we will go onto the beach and cross over to Sergei's across the neighbour's beach. The back lawns of both houses are long and the security measures for neither place go that far down the beach. We will end up here." Ivan moved his finger over to the farthest corner of the beach front of Sergei's home. "There are trees all along the fence from this corner and they will provide us with some cover to work from. I was only there once but I remember."

"How can we trust him?" Danny Williams asked, angry with the whole situation.

"You've been to this house. Is he lying?" Kat asked, moving her eyes from her brother to the cop she was loath to trust, even though she knew they had no choice.

"No, he's not lying. That's how you'll find the lot laid out. But how do we know he's not setting a trap for us?"

"Because we all want our mother back. Listen, no one in this room has suffered at Josef's hands more than me. If I say I don't think he's setting us up then it's because I really don't think he is. I don't trust him, under normal circumstances I wouldn't even consider allowing him to help us in this, but in this case I know he wants the same thing we want. He's not going to screw us until he has what he wants. Since we can't go after my mother until the bitter end that means that Josef can be trusted until we have my mother back. When we have my mother back Sergei is as good as dead so there won't be a threat then."

"You haven't seen Josef in five years. You don't know what he can do, what he's capable of. If you'd seen him do what I've seen him do you wouldn't trust him now any more than I do."

"I was there when he tried to sell me rather then take care of me, remember? He was using me to further his business and was willing to get rid of me because taking care of me was a hassle to him. I was being raised by the staff and he hardly ever saw me anyway but I was still too much work to him. He wasn't even talking about killing me. At least that would be quick and relatively painless. He was going to sell me for money to someone who wanted to use me like a slave. I've suffered at his hands more then almost anyone else in the world and I still say we have no choice but trust him. Besides, Ivan's different."

"My father allowed me to think my mother was dead. He let me think that I failed to protect her and she died in a car wreck orchestrated by one of my enemies. I owe it to my mother to get her back from Sergei's clutches. She has had enough of her life stolen." Josef stood up tall and looked Danny in the eyes. "You have no reason to trust me, this is true. However, in this case my honour to my family is involved. I know from what I have seen her that loyalty to ones family is not all that important to you," Josef was clearly referring to Danny's abandonment of Nyssa, "however to me honouring my parents and family is very important."

Danny turned to Brian. "Now I'm getting lectures on family values from a man who tried to sell his sister to some old guy?" Danny was livid and clearly nearing the end of his patience. "I didn't sign on for this shit."

Kat broke in before Brian could say anything. "Listen," she said, still seated cross legged on the floor. "Josef has no right to comment on your situation with your sister, that much is true. It's also true that he wants to get his mother back. So can we just drop all the he said she said crap and get this done? This right now ain't about what Josef did to me or anyone else or what Officer Williams did to his sister. This is about getting Sean and Jesse first and foremost. So if we're going to land on the beach here," Kat pointed to a spot on the map," and use this tree line for cover, what do we do when the tree line ends?"

"We will need to stay close to the fence and take out the guards as we encounter them. Also, we will need to remove the bodies, hide them in the trees, or we will risk being discovered earlier then we would like." Josef answered.

"We cannot let anyone alert Sergei to our presence or we will not reach the other man in time. Sergei will either move him or simply kill him so stealth is vital." Danny added, calming down as he got back to work. Work was familiar. He was just planning for the other side this time.

"Where are we going to get into the house at?" Kat asked with a look that took in both her brothers and Danny.

"There is a basement window on the side of the house nearest the fence that will not be a problem to work around. It will be locked but it's small and as such was never fitted out with motion sensors for the alarm system. The lock it has will be no challenge for us to circumvent with a glass cutter. As we have said, this house is not as secure as most of Sergei's other properties."

"If I can get through to the back door I can disarm the system. Unless he's changed the codes I still know them all. He never once changed the codes in all the time I've been working for him so unless he's on to us I don't think anyone will have thought to change them now." Danny admitted with a grimace. He was getting more involved then he would like. He didn't want any of Sergei's men to see him because if they somehow managed to relay his presence to Sergei it would be a big head's up to the older Russian that something was up.

"The only catch with using the basement window is only the girls and perhaps the slim man will fit through it." Josef pointed to Leon when he said slim man. "Then they will have to journey through the house and allow the rest of us in the back door after disarming the system. If we go in any other way we will risk setting off the alarm. It may or may not be reported to Sergei if the alarm is triggered. It would be far better to simply have the girls and that man," Josef pointed at Leon again, "go in via the basement, trip up the stairs and disarm the system. They can then open the back door for the rest of us once they have the alarm deactivated."

"I don't like the sound of that." Dom broke in. "Just Letty, Leon and Kat? Kat's the only one who has much experience with weapons."

"Ivan would also fit through the window."

"What if it's me, Letty and Ivan then?" Kat offered.

"I'm in. I'm not going to sit back and let other people take all the risk. I'm in this thing too." Leon shot down her plan to leave him out. "I can take care of myself."

"Ok, then the four of us will go in the window. Do we have a floor plan for the house anywhere in this stuff?"

"Right here." Danny moved some papers and handed Kat a set of blueprints for the house. The basement was two big rooms, one on either side of the stairs. "We have the schematics for the alarm system too." He handed her another set of prints, these ones showing the location of all the cameras.

"It looks like if we hug the walls right under the cameras it'll be hard for them to pick us up." Leon said, looking at the schematic drawing.

"Yes, and the man watching the feeds can only see two at a time. Unfortunately one of the main one's he's going to watch is the one in the kitchen. You'll have to work fast to get the system disarmed and the door open for the rest of us. If you go to the key pad while the camera is on it's far sweep you might have about 30 seconds to get the door open and get back on the basement stairs before the camera sweeps back to a point where the door will be visible. Now, he might be watching that camera and he might not. We have no way to know until we get to the security control room and take the guard out. So we'll have to enter the house during the 30 second window where the camera is pointed away as well."

"There is one problem." Kat said as an issue dawned on her.

"What's that?" Dom asked when no one else seemed inclined.

"Danny has to leave here at 3 to meet Sergei's plane at 4." She turned to Danny. "You can't be with us when we go get Sean because we can't go until it's at least twilight and that won't come until 6 pm. You'll be long gone. You'll just have to make sure I know all I have to about both long beach and Bel Air before you leave in," Kat checked the clock, "half an hour."

"That could be an issue. I forgot I had to meet him so soon." Danny sighed. He couldn't do anything about it. He had to meet Sergei and that meant that the Toretto team and the Tigers had to know all he had to tell them and they had to know it all within the next half hour as Kat had pointed out.

"You're either going to have to tell us the best you can or you're going to need to try and get away from him by six and get back here to come with us." Kat didn't see any other way to get around the issue of Danny being the one who really knew the lay out of the properties, or at least being the only one really familiar with the long beach property.

"Ok, well, you already know how to get into the house and how to get the team in. I'll write down the codes for the door before I go and you can still just disarm the system and let the rest of your party in the back. Once that's done you'll need to move to the control room. There will be two men inside it. You're going to have to take both of them out before either has time to radio a disturbance to anyone else. That shouldn't be that hard because there will be a few of you in the house by then. This is the control room." Danny pointed to a small room off the study. The study was down a long corridor from the kitchen. "Once the control room is under your control leave someone there to defend it."

"How many guards are likely to be in this house?" Letty asked, trying to take all the information in as she knew when it was only her and Kat with Leon in the house they were going to need to have a good grasp of it all. Letty knew that both she and Kat would feel like they had to take care of Leon. Leon was a martial artist and in hand to hand he could likely out fight them all. But when it came to firearms he was under trained and they all knew it.

"There will likely be at least 10 and maybe 15 men left in this house. When Sergei is done using it there will be none but while Sean is there he will leave at least that many. I don't know where he'll have Sean, but it will likely be in one of the upstairs bedrooms. You'll just have to search and neutralize any of his men you encounter on the search. You'll have to leave either Ivan or Josef behind when you're done just in case someone tries to raise the house on the radio."

"Ok, so we basically need to take out every man in the house then?" Kat asked. She didn't look entirely happy about it.

"Not really. You need to subdue them all. You will likely have to kill anyone you meet before you take the control room, and you will have to stash all the bodies of anyone you need to take out. But you could theoretically simply subdue all the others you find after you have the control room under your control and leave them for me to pick up later. They'll all do hard time for organized crime related offences."

"We'll keep that in mind." Kat had enough blood on her hands in her mind. She was willing to do what she had to, but she also thought that if she had the chance to leave people alive she might want to take it. Some of the men working for Sergei likely had families who'd miss them. It was a harsh fact of reality in the mob. Sometimes men who were evil in their work were loving husbands and fathers at home. But the life and death nature of their job was also something they were aware they were getting into. But that didn't mean that Kat wanted to have more unnecessary deaths on her hands. She didn't know if it would be better for their families to know they were dead or to know they were in jail but she wasn't going to play god unless she had no choice. "What about Bel Air?"

"Well, we can cut across the Bel Air Country club grounds to reach the back corner of the lot. The lot is expansive so we'll have a hike through wooded terrain to reach the lawn. I don't know how worried about patrolling the lot Sergei is going to be since he's not expecting trouble and he'll need some of the men he'd normally have there moved to the 'Dragon's Gate.' But the house it bigger and there are more places he could have Jesse hidden."

"Where do we go in?" Kat asked, looking at the pictures of the outside of the house.

"The best way would be for you to climb the trellis on the back of the house up to the master bedroom balcony. Getting up to the house without being seen will be a challenge but obviously there are no cameras in the master suite."

"Where is the security room in this house?" Connor asked as he perused the blueprints of the house.

"Upstairs. That is the other beautiful part of going in via the master bedroom. But the security guard has the option to watch up to four cameras at once in the house and you can rest assured that he's often looking at the one outside the door of his room."

"So we have to bust the door open and take him out quick." Kat summed it up with a frown.

"Yeah, that would be the plan." Danny sighed. He didn't see how they were going to remember where all these rooms were without him. They couldn't stop to read out the plans in the middle of the houses. Like Kat thought of the same thing she looked up from the blue prints.

"How are we going to remember the layouts when we get to the houses? We can't take the blueprints with us after all. We may as well just hand ourselves over and let them win." Her face fell. She couldn't see a solution to the problem. She watched as Danny took out his cell phone and dialled.

"Yeah, this is Williams." He said, making it clear the call had been picked up at the other end. "I need some further assistance. I need about 10 headsets and someone to come help them run a command centre. I can't stay to do it, I have a meeting with the subject and I have to leave for it now." Danny paused as someone spoke on the other end. "Yes, if you could have him here in a half hour that would be perfect. I need someone here with those who remain home, someone who can read blueprints and feed the team who goes to the houses the info they need that they can't take with them." He again paused. "Yes, he'll do fine. Thanks Serge." Danny turned back to the group. "He's going to send over someone from the bureau who can talk to you all over two way headsets. They'll allow you all to communicate in hushed tones when you spilt up to search the houses and also allow the agent to communicate information to you while you're out there."

"That sounds like just what we need." Dom was clearly relieved by the information he was being given. "Too bad they don't have some computer expert who could hack into the security systems from here and alter the feeds so we couldn't be detected."

"That is a good idea." Danny picked up his phone again but looked up before he dialled. "Won't work in Long Beach because the system is stand alone. But in Bel Air, the system can be remotely viewed and controlled so I can't see why one of our computer experts couldn't breach the firewall and loop the feeds in critical areas to buy you a window of time. I'll see what I can do." Danny made his call. When he hung up he told them that someone was working on it and would contact the agent who came to run their radio if they managed to successfully rig the security.

"Things are certainly coming together." Kat said with a small smile, the careful planning making her feel much better about the whole situation.

"Yeah, it's looking better for everyone." Connor said, also sounding relieved.

Kat looked at Brody, one of Connor's men. "Take Sean's Triumph and hide it down that road. Don't be seen and come right back here. I want him to have his bike when we get out of the house."

Brody left to do as Kat asked and Connor moved to her side. "I don't want you riding that bike Kat. You drive better then you ride. Take your car."

Stacy, Kale and Leon all looked on like they were in total agreement. "You'll be safer in the car." Kale said as he met Kat's eyes with worry on his face.

"I'll be too conspicuous in the car. I couldn't hide that car to save my life. It's too flashy, to obvious and too well known. Sergei has seen my car. It was because I was posed with it in a magazine that he found me, remember? He sees that car anywhere then we're fucked here."

"She's right."

Kat looked up in shock as he supported her position on the whole car or bike situation. She couldn't believe that he was agreeing with her in any case, no matter what it was about.

"Kat's car anywhere near either neighbourhood we're dealing with is going to be a dead give away that something is up. She can't take her car anywhere near either house. Her car has tigers in a jungle on either side. That kind of flash is going to attract notice."

"Sergei doesn't know anything about the Tigers. Not unless Sean told him something." Connor pointed out. He was still doing his best to try and make sure Kat didn't ride her motorcycle.

"Sean wouldn't tell him anything and you know it." Kat snapped back at Connor, upset that he would imply Sean would snitch them out under any circumstance. "I'm riding my bike and that's final. I'll put the silencer in the exhaust and I'll be practically invisible on it. I can't silence the car or make it blend in."

Connor threw up his hands. "Fine, you win! Kill yourself on that damn bike if you want to."

"Connor, I'll be fine. It's not like you can drive up in the Mustang either you know!"

"I know, I'm taking the bike." Connor looked chagrined to admit it, feeling like a hypocrite since he'd never been as good at riding as Kat in the first place and since it had been just as long since he'd been regularly riding too.

What are you going to do about clothes?" Danny asked Kat. "You really can't show up to meet Sergei at 'Dragon's Gate' wearing a leather jumpsuit."

"I know. I'll wear something under it. We'll have time between getting Jesse and meeting Sergei anyway. If I have to I'll change then."

"I'm still not sure how we're going to keep Sergei from knowing something's up. This just sounds too easy." Danny ran a hand through his hair and sighed agitatedly.

"He won't do any of his own radio contacts. He doesn't deal with that stuff. Ivan and Josef will be able to maintain the radio contact enough to keep him in the dark about what's going on." Kat stood up. "I'm going to go get ready." She walked up the stairs and into the room that Connor still clearly considered hers.

She put on a pair of short shorts then pulled her leather pants on over them. She added a tank top next and pulled the jacket of her protective leather suit on. She moved into the bathroom and French braided her hair, knowing it was vital the white blond strands stay hidden and out of her way. She headed back down the stairs, helmet under her arm. She returned just in time to see Danny Williams getting ready to leave. It was quarter after three in the afternoon. She didn't know how she was going to make it through the three hours until they could leave the house. Danny left, promising the agent and his communications team and equipment would arrive soon.

"Are you guys all ready to go?" Her question was met with a chorus of variations of yes, but none of them were uttered with much conviction. She nodded. Kat noticed that Brody was back. The large black man looked upset with the turn of events. Kat walked over to him and looked up, feeling like a midget next to him. He was of a similar size to Sean. "What's wrong?"

"I didn't like knowing I was so damn close to him with nothin I could do. I just wanted to beat the front door down and take him back while I was there."

"I know, but we're gonna get him. I don't know what Danny Williams thinks or wants to have happen. As far as I'm concerned shoot to kill everything in this place that moves and isn't Sean. Ok?"

"I hear ya Kitten." Brody's eyes softened. "Why don't you stay here with the other girl, Mia isn't it? Don't wanna think about you doin this baby girl. Once upon a time it was how you lived. You're different now and it's better for you. I don't wanna see you back in this life Kitten."

"After this I'm out for good, you have my word. But this is something I need to do."

Brody nodded like he understood. Of course he understood as well as Connor and Stacy did. It was just more of the same for all of them. It was deeper then their normal shit but really when it was all boiled down to the lowest common denominator it was just more of the same daily struggle. "I'ma hold you to that. I don't ever wanna see you around down here again unless it's just to chill, ya hear?"

Kat giggled. "I hear ya. This is all over I'll be busy enough with my car. I got race wars and the rest of the import shows coming up real soon anyway."

"Good."

They all sat around and did their best to relax as they waited on the designated time for the start of their missions. Around four thirty the equipment arrived and the new agent, who identified himself as Miles, started to set it up. When he was done he started handing out headsets and showing people how to put them on. He had also brought with him body armour. When he was done the ten people going out on the mission were dressed up just like a swat team. They consisted of Kat, Leon, Stacey, Brody, Letty, Dom, Vince, Trey, Mike, and Connor. While more people from Connor's had wanted to come, they'd ultimately decided that any more people would just make it harder to get around and to hide.

With a glance at the clock Kat realized that getting ready to go had brought them to six pm. Go time. Kat turned to the assembled group of black clad temporary soldiers.

"Ok, it's time. Let's do this thing."