Part 6

Gail checked her watch as Kurt started the van they would be using. It would take another twenty minutes from their current location to get where they needed to be and then she and Alexander would have fifteen to thirty minutes at the most to get in and out with the body, assuming they could find it.

She glanced at Lucky, he was dressed all in black, much like she was herself. It was a good start but she was still a little unsure of the guy having never worked closely with him. But the same would have been said about Jason and taking Dieter with her on this would have been overkill.

"You ready?" She asked him as she sat in the passenger seat.

Alexander nodded and let out a deep breath. He knew what the body looked like, it was why he and Jason where at the bar tonight with Dieter. Going in and getting the right body was his part in tonight's plan, Gail would get them into the building and down to where the bodies were kept. Once he had found the right body they would both be racing to get back out before building security did their routine checks of the place.

"Here." Romi muttered as he handed Gail a black box that fit into her palm. "It'll work from about thirty feet but you should still stick together just in case." He explained as he reached over and switched the device on and it sat blinking in the blonde's hand.

"You sure about this?" Gail asked. Both she and Alexander would be wearing masks but it was better if there was no evidence at all of how many people broke in and stole the body.

Romi rolled his eyes. If there was anything he knew it was tech, and he'd never risk Gail's safety without being absolutely sure. "I've tested it, it works Bravo."

"Okay." Gail replied softly and tucked the box into her jeans. She pulled her gun out and checked it was loaded. While she wanted tonight to go smoothly, especially given she had Romi with her, it paid to be prepared.

And the building security patrolled armed.

She put her gun back at her hip and glanced at the passing scenery.

They were almost there.

As Kurt slowed and turned a corner to take them to the back of the building Gail turned in her seat and grabbed at Romi. "You step out of this van or do something stupid and you won't have to worry about what your brother will do to you, you got that?" She warned him as she glared.

Romi grinned. "Love you too."

Gail groaned and pushed him away from her as Romi laughed. And then Kurt was pulling up to a stop and it was time.

"Let's go." She told Alexander as she covered her face and got out. Alexander pulled the side door open and joined her as Romi closed the door back over.

Quickly Gail went to the door. She was well acquainted with the building and once she picked the lock she knew exactly where to go and how long it would take them to get down there and back, the only real variable was how long it would take Alexander to pick out the body they were after.

With a quick twist of the pick the door opened. Gail pulled it open slowly, wondering if it had been alarmed since the last time she was here, but they were in luck. "Fifteen minutes, let's do this." She told Alexander and then they both disappeared into the building.

xxxxxx

Holly yawned and hit send on the reporting system she'd spent the last few hours using before smiling and leaning back in her chair. With that over and done she'd just earned herself the next three days off.

She shut down the computer and reached over for her cup only to find the contents stone cold.

"Bleh." She screwed her face up as the taste hit her mouth and then put the cup back down and stood from her chair. She winced as her back protested and she had to twist her upper body to loosen her spine.

Pondering whether or not to make a fresh pot of coffee Holly finally decided it was probably a good idea given she had to now drive herself all the way home.

Taking her cup with her she exited her office only to be knocked to the ground by a moving body.

"Shit!" A male someone called.

Holly grunted as she found herself face down on the hallway floor, her cup and glasses having been sent skirting away from her. Just as she was reaching her hand out for her eyewear a set of hands grabbed at her pulling her up and slamming her into the wall with enough force to wind her.

Shit indeed. The figure holding her was dressed all in black and by the face mask Holly gathered she'd just run into a great deal of trouble. Right now she was wishing she'd gone home earlier and just come back in the morning to finish her report.

"What the fuck now?" Alexander asked Gail as he held the woman in place. They'd only just found the body and were heading back out to the van when the woman had come out of nowhere.

Gail's hands clenched at her sides, she recognised the brunette. Her eyes flicked around the hallway, it was empty which was good but a check of the time let her know they had eight minutes to get out.

"Bring her in here." She told Alexander as they left the occupied body bag in the hallway where they had dropped it.

"Hey, listen I-"

"Shut the fuck up!" Alexander hissed at the woman as he dragged and pushed her after Gail. "What now?" He asked the blonde as she stood in the middle of a lab.

Grateful for the gloves she had on, Gail searched in several drawers before finding what she was looking for. "Sit her down." She instructed Alexander as she pulled out a roll of tape from the drawer. "We'll tie her up."

Alexander paused with the woman and turned to Gail. "The fuck we will!" He told her then pulled his own gun from his jeans. "We should just kill her and go." He said as the woman whimpered and tried to pull out of his grasp.

Angry at Alexander for pulling the gun Gail stepped over and quickly pulled Holly out of his hold and pushed her in the direction of the chair in the corner of the room.

"Sit." She ordered Holly before looking back to Alexander. "Put that away now." She hissed at him before turning back around to tie Holly up. As she pushed Holly to sit down she knelt, doing her best to keep any eye contact to a minimum with the pathologist.

Alexander started panicking, witnesses were the last thing they needed, and even with the masks it was clear there was two of them taking the body and that one of them was male and the other female just by the height difference and their voices.

And the woman had heard them both speak which meant she could probably identify them.

There was no way they could leave her alive.

His feet started moving forward as he watched Bravo tie the woman's legs in place against the chair. As he got to the blonde his hand went back to his gun. He'd never killed anyone before but there was always a first time for everything.

Holly watched the figure approach her and even if her eyesight wasn't perfect without her glasses she could clearly see the gun in his hand. Her body started shaking as she realised what was about to happen to her.

With tears stinging her eyes Holly looked down and glimpsed a set of crystal clear blue eyes that sent a shockwave through her body. "Gail?" Her voice trembled with fear.

Gail heard the in breath of shock from behind her just as she leapt to her feet and spun towards Alexander. As she suspected he had his gun at the ready and was shifting his arm to aim at Holly.

She reacted without thinking. One hand grabbed the barrel of the gun and twisting sharply to trap and pin Alexander's finger and therefore hand. Her other hand came up with her movement and she connected viciously with the heal of her hand to Alexander's face, snapping his head back as she pulled the gun free allowing him to stagger away from her.

Gail watched as he stumbled into the autopsy table and fell to the ground with a groan. He stayed there kneeling away from her and she took the opportunity to get back to securing Holly while tucking Alexander's gun into the back of her jeans.

Her eyes met Holly's and they both knew the pathologist understood who it was tying her up.

Gail put her head back down and continued, she was running out of time. As she was working on Holly's hands she heard Alexander get to his feet. "Hallway. Now!" She spat at him and after a moment of hesitation his footsteps retreated.

Taking a deep breath Gail stood and pulled her mask off, revealing herself to the brunette.

"They have cameras in here." Holly warned the blonde unconsciously.

Gail almost smiled. She leaned over and studied Holly. "I need you to listen to me very carefully. You didn't see how many. They wore masks. They took a body. They tied you up and threatened to kill you. They left."

Holly swallowed nervously at the intensity in the blonde's eyes as it hit home that the man out in the hall had just tried to kill her.

Gail did her best to ignore the tears that were starting to fall from Holly's eyes. "Holly, do you understand?"

Blinking the tears free Holly finally gave a short nod.

"Good." Gail muttered then pulled something free from her pocket. It was a hood, the type that was used in kidnappings and beatings in Gail's world.

Holly saw it and started panicking all over again. "No, please, no." She begged as her head shook and she started to struggle against her bindings.

Gail held Holly's face in her hands and forced them into a stare. "You need to trust me. Please Holly, I don't have time."

Holly let out a whimper as more tears fell, but she stopped trying to get free and lowered her head, no longer able to look Gail in the eye. She was powerless, the man in the hall wanted her dead and right now Gail could do anything she wanted and there wasn't much Holly could do to stop her.

Gail sighed silently and got to work.

She placed tape as gently as she could over Holly's mouth and, after what she hoped was a reassuring look, placed the black hood loosely over Holly's head.

Gail then put her own mask back on and moved away, only to stop and go back. She leant over and whispered. "You're okay, the guard's due any minute in this section. You'll be okay Holly."

With that Gail raced into the hallway and, ignoring the glare she was getting, picked up her end of the body bag and started for the exit at a quick jog.

xxxxxx

Heaving the bag into Romi's hands Gail climbed into the back after the body bag to prevent any more time being wasted.

"Drive Kurt, now!" She called out even before she had slammed the side door closed. But once she had she felt the van already in motion.

The atmosphere inside was tense and silent as Kurt drove back road after back road on route to where they had to leave the body and the van for another team to dispose of.

Romi looked at Gail as she pulled her mask from her face and ordered her hair back into place. The blonde didn't look at all happy. A glance behind them into the back of the van showed Alexander shifting his weight back and forth as he stared daggers into Gail's back.

"What's wrong?" He asked quietly, concerned for his friend.

Gail turned to look at him and shook her head, she wasn't going to talk about it right now and she wanted him to drop it. He got the hint and settled shoulder to shoulder with her as they looked out the windscreen as Kurt continued driving them further out of the city.

Alexander had already pulled off his mask, gloves and even his jacket. But he couldn't get over one thing. That woman tonight knew Bravo's name and they had left her alive, Gail had left her alive.

No way was he going to jail.

"Give me my gun." He told Gail as he continued to glare at the blonde. She was the one that screwed up not him.

Gail scoffed and sent him a look over her shoulder before ignoring him. She had more important things to worry about, like the fact she wasn't sure Holly would keep her name out of it and also more importantly for her and by extension Wolf…

"You're bleeding." Romi said to Alexander as he turned to keep an eye on him after the way he had just spoken to his friend. Right now, with the way he was acting, Romi didn't want him getting his gun back either. But he did wonder why Gail had it in the first place.

Alexander put his hand to his face, sniffing, he pulled his hand back and spotted blood.

He glared at Gail again. "Bitch."

He wiped his arm across his face and stepped forward, holding his hand out again even as Gail remained facing away from him. "Give me my fucking gun!" He told her. "You fucked up, not me."

Romi eyed his friend curiously. He didn't know what Alexander was talking about but he didn't like the direction of the conversation or the accusation that Gail had done something wrong.

They had come for the body and it was there on the bed of the van, so everything was good, wasn't it?

Gail chuckled and turned to finally face Alexander. "I screwed up?" She asked with a grin. She let her eyes drift to his nose which was still bleeding. "I'm not the one that left something behind for the cops to find and trace back to me."

Alexander paled at the smugness in the blonde's tone and the realisation that his fall against the metal table may have caused him to bleed on it or the floor as he knelt to get his bearings back after Gail had hit him.

"You don't know that." He offered shakily. Just because he was bleeding now it wasn't proof he had bled at the morgue.

Gail straightened and took a step towards him, her movements steady, even as the van rocked with Kurt's driving. She shrugged. "Can we really take that chance?" She asked him with a cock of her head.

Alexander's eyes widened.

Gail smiled at him and then quickly reached behind her and pulled out his own gun only to fire it at him. She emptied the clip into his chest in a tight radius over his heart area just as his hands came up to try and stop her.

He staggered back and fell to the floor of the van in a muffled thud.

Gail eyed the blood frothing at his mouth and the twitching movement of his limbs as he spluttered and groaned before it all stopped. His eyes stayed open, staring at nothing. She dropped the gun onto his chest.

They now had two bodies to dispose of but it didn't really matter did it?

"We good?" Kurt called back as he continued driving, never bothered about his own safety around Bravo.

"Oh, yeah." Gail replied, then she moved back over and resumed her place beside Romi who looked slightly dazed by what had just happened.

She offered him a smile. "You going to stay home next time?" She asked him.

Romi eyed her then the body of Alexander. Then he offered her a shrug. He might not know what was going on but he didn't really regret being by the blonde's side.

His eyes went back to the body and then he nudged his friend's shoulder. "Guess he ran out of luck tonight."

It earned him a chuckle.

"Nice." Gail replied, the tension at Romi seeing her kill quickly relaxing.

It was just bodies and guns.

He'd get used to it.

Now she just had to worry about Holly.