I need some writer's stopper… or something like that. Hope you guys liking this story cause it just got out of control on my part, I'm such a good person and I can't really say no to good plot. Well, let's continue shall we.
The Look in Her Eyes
Scene 1
"They are all dead right," Zack said after a while, like waking up from a bad dream. He had never been in such a difficult scene in which he could literally watch how a man died.
"Yes, they are." Ivy wouldn't show it but she wanted to cry, but only managed to hug her little brother.
"Well it was either them or us," Carmen said as tranquil as ever. "These things happen in my world, I'm used to it. My apologies for the mishaps, but this was actually a risk you guys took. It really can't surprise you that in my work environ I wont' get to shoot at people. It's part of who I am."
Kevin only looked at her with angry eyes. So this was his wife, an uncaring dirty bitch. He couldn't understand what he saw in her to fall madly in love with her all those years ago. Carmen knew he was looking, that intense stare was burning on her face and she felt it. Some minutes passed and Kevin relaxed. He had been thinking about the betrayal and planned to act on it.
"You should…" his voice felt a bit short. "You should turn on the next exit. We had a change in location for the drop off, it won't…."
His words were cut off when he saw they were gaining up on what appeared to be Sarah's van. In a bit they had gotten up to what actually was Sarah and Hugo. Hugo was driving and Sarah was on the passenger seat her Baretta XX-treme pointing directly at Kevin.
"I don't understand what is going on?" Kevin sounded desperate. Click. He felt the cold metal of a gun on his neck. He didn't reacted as he heard Ivy breath deep and he knew they were being kidnapped.
Carmen had pulled her gun to his neck and as he turned his head to look at her he got a clear glimpse of her face. The look in her eyes was dangerous, one he had never seen before. Ivy was in the back seat protecting her little brother, but Zack was actually quite mad with exhaustion. He intently looked at Carmen and wondered if maybe.
"Calm down and everything will be alright Zack." Carmen had a sixth sense when it came to these things. She enjoyed every second of it.
But he couldn't take it anymore. Zack launched himself towards Carmen's arm, but she knocked him back. She hit him on the face with her gun and blood started to pour out his nose and broken lip. Kevin went to react but heard Hugo's gun click and stopped. Ivy went for Carmen's neck when Zack got hit, BAM.
"Aaahhh.." Ivy screamed in pain. Sarah had shot her on the thigh. The bullet only grazed her thigh but still hurt a lot. The bullet embedded itself on the door with Sarah's laughter on the van.
"You shot me." Ivy was freaking out. "Oh my god, it hurts so bad."
"Sis, you alright, ouch, man this hurts. Ivy, your bleeding… please, make it stop…please.."
"SHUT UP!" Carmen pushed her gun on Kevin's neck making him whimper as she was causing pressure on his neck. "I DON'T TAKE BETRAYEL THAT WELL." She punched Kevin on the neck making him scream. He curled as waves of pain scoured his body. Zack was bleeding heavily as well as Ivy. She was applying pressure on her bullet wound while trying to clean Zack's face. He wouldn't let her; he was applying pressure as well to her thigh.
"You guys think I'm stupid enough to let myself be caught by you guys in this fiasco of a theft." Carmen holstered her gun and kept driving, indicating Hugo to get behind her. "I'll make the drop off alright, but under MY terms. You guys will be the insurance, since I don't know to whom I'll give this item to. I could care less if it was Chief or Dustin himself. I will wash my hands from this nonsense."
She kept driving like mad, rushing the V10 past 160mph, making it difficult for the van to keep up. All three passengers were injured in one way or another. Ivy was sobbing lightly and Zack for the first time was the one holding her. Kevin only dared to look outside the window, in a way he felt he had let everyone down.
A little after morning they stepped out of the highway into a dirt road. Some hours passed traveling on rough terrain that made the bimmer loose some of its plastic moldings. They came up to an open space with a wired fence, two concealed armed guards on the entrance that startled Kevin a bit. They didn't even come up to the car, they both knew who it was on the driver's seat. They opened the gate and the car rushed past them with Sarah and Hugo shortly after.
The road started to descend and on the lowest part a metal door opened letting both cars inside. It was a massive concrete structure with steel trusses high above the ceiling. On one side it housed an helicopter and two planes. Personnel were on the other side, sorting all kinds of cargo. Kevin knew this was one of Carmen's base, where all her illegal operations took place, what got him even more worried was what where on the boxes he could see weapons, drugs, exotic animals and stolen goods.
"Needless to say you're my prisoner's now." Carmen said parking the car in the middle of the place. She got out and was greeted with respect. Personnel walked to her awaiting her orders. "Take them to holding, but first treat their wounds, the hard way. That will teach them never to mess with me again." She said this looking straight at them, the look in her eyes was one of death.
Scene 2
"No sign of the package, over." The radio sounded on the base.
"Where are they, they should be here by now." Sebastian was looking intently at the horizon. "Chief you said there was a problem on the heist but they all got out of it. Where are they?" Sebastian was getting inpatient.
"I don't know I lost GPS track on their coms just after they left the building. I know they are on the road, they probably got detained a bit. Carmen will pull through you will see." Somehow he wasn't sure of it, and strangely enough he was relieved they hadn't arrived.
"Patience, they will arrive. I know Carmen, she is not really interested in the item." Mass wasn't worried he had sent two of his best units after them on equipped SUVs.
By mid morning tensions where high on the base. Sebastian had called the other higher ups to it to discuss further actions, as it looked like the mission was failed. They needed to search of the detectives and Carmen without making a fuss out of things.
Santos Xuan, Lana Torres and Edward Camps where the only ones that could make the reunion. They were all hustled up on the meeting room of the base having the others on conference call. Mass stepped outside for a moment, while the argument heated inside.
"Carmen betrayed us, that is the only explanation." Camps shouted over everyone's discussion.
"We have no confirmation of that." Lana said. "All we know is that we got tipped off and our team got jumped on the inside. The last we know of them was that they were being fallowed by two SUVs that have no connection to anything we know off."
The discussion went on and on about what was the next plan of action. Sebastian noticed that Mass was missing. He wondered why his old mentor was acting so strange as of late.
Scene 3
"We have a problem sir," Mass whispered on his cell phone. "The heist and ambush went as planned but Carmen is no where to be seen and the object is on the wind."
"I don't tolerate incompetence." A grutural voice was heard over the phone. It belonged to a well dressed man sitted along side a pool where topless women were bathing. Dustin loved a good cigar while he watched his harem enjoy themselves. "We had a deal Mass, you gave me the item and I give you Carmen. This was an easy task, no hastle and we both would get a lot of money."
"Yes, however it hasn't been confirmed that we lost the packages and two of my best.."
"NOTHING." Dustin got up, making one of his hookers fall to the ground. "I DON'T accept any excuses. I have paid your luxurious home in LA all these years to feed me information and what do I get…NOTHING. Now I have to clean up your mess, Mass. And in the mean time, I'll clean you. Have a good life."
Dustin threw his phone on the seat and stretched. He unbuttoned his pant and waved to the hooker that was on the floor to do her magic with him. As he was enjoyed being played with by the hooker's tongue he called for his main man with his fingers.
"Start the hunt for Carmen Sandiego. Keep it between us, I don't know what she is playing at….oh yes… since apparently stealing the item wasn't her priority…. Oh, deeper baby, you can go deeper… Kill the detectives but watch her closely, she has something up her sleeve. Tell her I'll negotiate the item for what ever she is planning….Yes, take it all in, that's it.."
Scene 4
Mass started to sweat a little. He had just been sentenced to death and he knew it. He knew his family was in danger and called them.
"Hey honey, hope you make it back on time tonight, I made your favorite pork shop with vegetables." His wife was his angel.
"Hey, baby, hum… remember what we talked about Dustin?" He heard her inhale deeply. "Things went bad on this mission, baby… I need you to… pack something and wait for me at ACME. We need to leave now." He heard her sobbing and the line went dead. "Baby… honey…." He put his phone back on his jacket and turned around to enter the meeting.
"You were the one that betrayed us from the start." Sebastian and Camp where standing at the door.
Mass was startled by his colleagues. He had betrayed them for so long he didn't felt any shame at all, he only felt exhaustion and his demeanor crumbled.
"Yes. It was me."
In a fit of rage Sebastian hit Mass on the face with a fist and he smashed hard against the wall before falling to the floor. Mass put his arms up in defeat and Camp held Sebastian back.
"There are three of my finest detective's lives at stake here. Why have you done this?"
"Money." Mass said, he finally went crazy. "You think I care at all about this stinking law enforcement thing. He He He." He started laughing manically. "Dustin offered me much more, so much, that you can't even dream off." He watched as Sebastian's face changed to horror and enjoyed it.
"How many more of my agents did you put at risk? How many more operations did you sabotaged?"
"You ain't got a clue of who is really running this agency kid. If your going to arrest me do so, I'm a dead man anyways."
"I'll see you stocked up on a cell, all alone." Sebastian handcuffed him. "I also will love to see your face when I tell you your wife died in prison."
Mass' eyes widened. "She didn't do anything. She is innocent, It was all me."
"Don't worry I have much more to offer you, that you can't imagine." Sebastian said giving Mass to the officer that came to answer Camps call. "She will be much safer in prison than out, or so I have heard. Take him away."
By late afternoon, both Mass and his wife where sent to jail on a special location for ACME purpose.
"Now let's get our people." Sebastian concluded the meeting.
Scene 5
Ivy screamed in pain as the doctor and nurse treated her wound. The bullet had crossed from side to side on the side of her thigh and it was very painful. The doctor cleaned and prepared to close the wound with stitching while the nurses hold Ivy down. Zack was on the other side of the room guarded by two henchmen and the nurse that was treating his face. He couldn't stand to hear Ivy scream like that and even tried to get to her, only to receive a punch in his stomach.
Kevin was already in the holding cell on the basement of Carmen's lair. Pondering to himself why him of all things. Who betrayed who? Why was this happening? Are they looking for them? He kept on with his thoughts until he realized he was walking in circles on that small cell. The cells where open on the sides with bars, and a big locked door on the front. The only wall was the one on the back and there were no windows on site. The only source of light was a small florescent bulb on the center.
There were ten cells in there, and many of them had evidence of resent use, something that disgusted Kevin even more. He thought the worst, from human trafficking to tortured captives. At that time the door to the cells opened and they brought Zack in and placed him on a cell opposite to Kevin. The men looked at each other and watched how the henchmen locked the main door and left them there.
"Hey, kid. How are you? What did they do to you? What about Ivy?"
"They are stitching her up something badly." Zack said grabbing the bars of his cell. "She is crying and I can't do anything about it."
"It's alright, we will manage. Don't worry, I'll get us out of here. You will see."
"I can't imagine how. It is not like you hold any power over Carmen." Zack retired to the back wall where there was a single bed. "The way I see it, she would rather use you than pair up with you. So, please you and your 'I can catch her' thing, is just making it worse." Zack crumbled on the bed and both men remained silent.
After some time which seemed like hours to them, the doors opened again. They brought in a sobbing Ivy and placed her on a cell. She was on the same row as Kevin but a cell apart, so as not to encourage interaction with any of them. The guards left and locked the door, leaving them all in silence.
"Ivy, how are you?" Kevin asked, seeing that Zack had his mouth shacking.
"They… got me treated. It wasn't that painful, but I was just scared." Ivy said getting on the bed. "If you guys don't mind, I want to take a rest."
"Sure thing, rest."
"Ivy, we are going to be ok, I promise." Zack said in such a clear voice that made Ivy turn on the bed and look at him. She had never seen such determination on his face and she smiled weakly at him before attempting to sleep.
At what they presumed was nightfall, the single fluorescent light bulb was turned off and they heard the guard say goodnight to them. The room was pitch black and they couldn't see anything. After a while the only source of light was a slim line below the door, their only hope for a tomorrow.
Scene 6
"Kidnapping ACME agents, that was brilliant Carmen." A voice was heard over the telephones speaker. "I imagine the plan is coming along nicely."
"Oh it is, those ACME guys will never know what hit them. The third phase is being prepared as we speak, I imagine my greatest theft ever will be done sooner than I expected." Carmen said relaxing on her desk chair.
"Well now about business, this shipment of yours, where do you want it sent and when?"
"That is how I like it, Esteban, you serving me for once." She laughed.
"You know I always love to serve you my lady." They both laughed at this and started doing business.
"So, can you tell me the details?"
"Yes, there will be three medium sized crates. Will be live stock and will need to be ventilated and be marked as fragile. They will be shipped from France to Los Angeles and it must be expedited immediately once received."
"Live cargo? Hum, that is new for you Carmen, what are you smuggling?"
"If I suck your dick harder tonight, will you stop asking questions?"
"For that price, yes. He He!" Esteban laughed, he knew she was actually going to pay that request. "Your place or mine?"
"Mine as always, you have a nasty habit of inviting other females on the party and frankly, I don't want any girls on me tonight."
"Very well then. No questions asked, and the business will be condoned in secret. Deal."
"Deal." They both hung up.
Carmen leaned back on her chair, she didn't wanted to admit that the thought of having a night with Esteban was actually making her anxious with glee. However there was a little longing for Kevin, sleeping alone in the dark downstairs. This was not how she envisioned things would happen, but now she can't turn back. The fire kept crackling behind her and she fell asleep to its spell, only to be awaken by Sarah announcing Esteban was in her room.
"The things I do for love."
"Don'tz we all." Sarah said, as both friends walked down the hallway.
"Prepare the prisoners for an early morning routine. We are going live tomorrow at 7:00. Have them brought up to me on the platform. I will offer them the chance to be free, or die as heroes."
"Willz you really zhreaten zhem?"
"If front of everyone… yes, I will. Once I finish you send it to ACME, leave those sons of bitches a parting gift from me." Carmen smiled at Sarah, and they both laughed. Sarah would deny this any day but, she respected and feared Carmen more than anything in the world.
End of Chapter 11
What a strong chapter, zomg.. so intriguing. Atleast I solved one of the subplots.. that is progress, no?
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