"Sergeant Parker?" An officer asked. By the look of everyone's face, I wasn't the only one who didn't notice the young officer approach.
"Yes" I hear Greg reply.
"We have delivered the food and in return they sent out three hostages" he said.
"Okay thank you." He said and the officer left. "Spike I want you and Ed to go and talk to those hostages. Try to find out what's all going on inside." He ordered, and me and Ed Headed over to where the hostages were.
"Hi there ladies, my names Constable Lane and this is Constable Scarlatti. What are your names?" Ed asks.
"My names Alyssa and this is Megan and Jennifer." Alyssa answered
"Okay, what can you tell us about the two robbers? Did they seem agitated?" Ed asks
"Well –"Alyssa replies and looks over to Megan.
"One of them, I think his name was Danny, seemed on the edge. And he kept walking over to one man and just stare at him with disgust, kick him in the leg then walk away and whispers something in his partner's ear." Megan say's
"Yeah and I noticed that at times his partner seemed kinda distant to what was going on inside. Almost like... I don't know, what do you say Jennifer?" Alyssa asks
"He seemed, well it was almost as if he didn't want to be there, that he had other things or people on his mind."
Jennifer said. The three girls all nodded their heads while looking at each other. Then Jennifer looks over to me.
"Does that help?" Jennifer asks
"Yes it does, we have one more question than you can go" I say" How does the man that was sitting away from you look?"
"He doesn't look very good. Danny would keep telling him something 'like your team will never get to you in time'... and he would make him agree." Jennifer replies " there were a couple of times where the man on the floor would look over at us with sorry eyes and sometimes pleading eyes, almost like he was begging us for forgiveness."
"Thank you ladies" Ed said and we walk away
"What the hell is Danny playing at?" I hear Ed whisper to himself. He has that look on his face like he is ready to murder anybody who gets in his way of saving Sam.
"Hey," I place my hand on his chest to stop him and I go and stand in front of him "I know that look Ed, You need to stay objective."
"I know it's just hard. I feel like were not doing enough to get Sam out" Ed says
"I get it, and trust me I feel just like you and maybe worse-"I went to continue but Ed interrupted me
"How the hell can you feel worse than I do?" Ed asks in an angry tone.
"How do you think I feel, originally I was Suppose to go on this Undercover. But then we suggested Sam and that's who we ended up sending in. It's killing me to know that we could have completely avoided this if I went in. Plus I'm the only one on the team who has seen Sam. Seeing him, sitting there, Bleeding, pale and in pain and there was NOTHING I could do to help him. Now tell me that I don't feel worse than you." And with that I turned around and walked away from him. I head straight over to the team and tell them what the ladies said and I explained how I think we need to call team 2. I was just finishing explaining my idea about team 2 when Ed finally come over and joined in on the conversation.
"What's the response time for team 2?" Wordy asks
"About 15 minutes nut we don't have any other choice" Ed Replies.
"I call them," Jules said. Out of all of us, Jules seems to be the most calm. Heck, she barely seems worried about Sam and the state that he is in, makes me wonder if something bad happened between the two of them.
"Winnie, we need Team 2 here as soon as possible-"Jules started but Winnie interrupted her
"Team 2 is out on a call but team 3 is here" Winnie says
"Send them immediately." Jules say's then she hangs up
"Kay, when hey got here, we need to set everybody up and get in there ASAP. Do you copy?" Ed Orders
"Copy." Everyone answers
"I'm going to try and contact Danny again," Greg say's "And Winnie, I want you to patch in through."
"Copy that" Winnie replies. I watch as Greg walks over to the phone and dial the bank
We here the phone ring and after a couple of seconds we hear the phone being answered.
"WHAT?" Danny screams into the phone
"Danny this is Sergeant Parker again. How are things doing in there?" Greg asks
"you now its not that bad, my partner is having fun kicking Sam and we are getting ready to take things up a notch," Danny says "but you, Sergeant Parker, are not who I want to talk to"
"Who do you want to talk to?" Greg asks, I can tell that he is afraid of the answer
"I want to talk to a guy named spike" All eyes are turned to me and I have a bad feeling in my stomach "And I want to talk to him in private" Danny orders. Greg looks over at me and I nod my head and I grab the phone
"This is Constable Scarlatti" I say
"Well, so this is the name that Sam keeps whispering. How do you feel about having Sam in here when it was suppose to be you originally" I widen my eyes in shock, how the hell did he know that "oh yes I know all about this plan you SRU team had planned. You must be feeling pretty bad right now, knowing that you could have avoided this. Well, at least for a little while, we would of gotten him sooner or later. Isn't that right Sam?" Danny Say's as he waits for Sam to answer. When he doesn't I hear him kick Sam and I cringe at the pain full Moan that comes out of Sam.
"Why are you doing this?" I ask trying, and failing, to keep the worry and fear out of my voice.
"HE KILLED MY BROTHER," He screamed in my ear "And I want pay-back to what he has done."
"If you kill Sam," I cringe at that thought "Then what? You will be killing someone's brother, someone's Son and someone's friend. Is that what you want? For somebody to go through the exact same pain as you are going through. If you had an order to shoot, without knowing that your best friend was down there, you shoot without hesitation. Then you walk down there to identify the bodies and your friend was lying there. How would you feel? I'm sure you would feel horrible, wondering why you even bothered with life. Cause I know that Sam did. Only you are not only endangering Sam but what about all of the other people you have in there, look at them, look at the fear in their eyes. What did they do to you to be where they are? Nothing, those are innocent people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time, just like Matt was." I finish saying, Hoping that by some chance i got into his mind.
TBC...
