Chapter 5: Alone and diffused in the dark
Zhalia's house
Zhalia
This was ridiculous. Was I really afraid of the opinion of my own hostage?
No, I refused to be. I had never cared for the opinion of others, and that wasn't going to chance.
I put my worries away, grabbed Dante's dinner, and walked downstairs.
When I opened the door I saw to my great surprise that he wasn't on the bed any more, he was lying on the floor, doing push- ups.
Dante
I had been here for 24 hours now (or at least I thought so, I had a watch but I didn't knew what time it had been when Zhalia had drugged me) and I was starting to feel a bit lazy. So I decided to do some push- ups.
"What are you doing?"
I startled, and stood up quickly. It was Zhalia, of course. I hadn't heard her footsteps on the stairway.
"Did I scare you?" She asked with a little smile.
I wiped the sweat of my forehead.
"No of course not…"
She put a new plate of food down on the bed, fold her arms and looked at me with an accusing glance.
"I believe you got something that belongs to me…"
I took the article out of my pocket.
"You mean this?"
"Yeah duh what else?"
She held out her hand but I wasn't planning on giving it back to her so easily.
"I'll give it back to you… if you tell me what happened and what it has to do with me."
I had said the words with confidence, but deep inside I wasn't feeling confident at all. I hope I'm not going too far…
I probably hád gone too far, because Zhalia's cheeks turned a bit red and she looked at me with an unmistakable angry look in her eyes.
"Are you blackmailing me?" She asked with an icy tone in her voice.
"A little bit."
"Not a little bit! Very much! May I remind you you're my hostage, I don't owe you any explanation… Now give that back to me!" She yelled angrily, and tried to snatch the article out of my hands.
Of course I wasn't going to let this opportunity for information walk past, and I put my hands behind my back so she couldn't reach it. Somewhere I knew it wasn't clever to make her angry, but on that moment I really didn't cared at all.
Suddenly she grabbed my shirt, and pushed me harshly against the wall. She was surprisingly strong for a woman.
"I said give it back to me, or you'll find out I'm not always nice." She whispered with again that icy tone in her voice.
Her a bit panting breath caressed my face, and I looked into her fierce gold- brown eyes, which were so very close to mine. I knew she was raging and probably enable to murder me, but weird enough I wasn't scared at all.
Swiftly, out of nowhere, and for a reason even I didn't quite understood, I kissed her.
I expected a slap in my face or perhaps something worse than that, but to my great surprise she started kissing me back, and strengthened her grip on my shirt. I slowly caressed her back, and our kiss became more and more passionate. I moved my chained left hand towards her-
Suddenly the lights went off. Startled she let go of me, and stepped back.
"Zhalia…" I didn't knew what I wanted to say to her, what was right to say, all I knew on that moment was that I didn't wanted her to go away.
I heard her breathing somewhere in the room, but because of the intense darkness in the basement without the cold light of the fluorescents, I couldn't see her, which annoyed me very much.
Suddenly I felt a soft hand taking the article out of my right hand. I saw a glimpse of her face, her eyes, confused and maybe even a bit scared, before she turned around and departed without saying a word, leaving me alone and diffused in the dark.
The organization headquarter, Prague, next morning
Lok
T.H. Prof & E. Essor, Lawyers
The black letters adorned above the glass revolving door of the building across the street. It was plain grey with mirroring windows and really high, about 42 floors. It looked like a normal law firm, but I knew it wasn't.
I took a deep breath and looked to my reflection in the shop window I was standing in front of. I re-attached the tie of my suit, and put on my dark sunglasses. I looked just like an organization suit, but that was the intension.
"You can do this little bro." Michael said with a comforting smile. "This plan can't go wrong, that's just impossible…. because it's mine."
Last night Michael had hacked the organization server. You wouldn't say it when you saw him walk by, but Michael was an amazing computer hacker. He'd hacked the organizations (and other) computers often before and easily cracked the headquarters workforce.
There we found out that a suit from Finland was just transferred to the headquarter. He would arrive this morning, had never been to Prague before, and was therefore perfect for our mission.
According to his passport he had short blond hair and blue eyes, so I looked most like him and would be the one who'd take in his place.
It was generally known that the Organization has several prisons spread out all over the world, but the files about that were so secret even Michael couldn't crack them. So there was no other option than to gather information the old fashioned way.
The plan was simple: Wait for the Finish guy and eliminate him, steal his staff card, enter the building, find one of DeFoe's suits, ask him subtle where they detain Dante, and then walk calmly out the building again.
"I've got it!"
Sophie just came walking along, holding a little white card in her hand.
"What have you done with-" Michael took the little card and looked at it. "- Jari Hämäläinen?"
"He'll be unconscious for at least one hour. I've put him in a phone booth under a blanket, so passersby will think he's a hobo or something like that. "
"Great!" He said, and gave the card to me. "It's show time Jari!"
With a pounding hearth I crossed the street, and walked into the small dark alley between the law firm and the building left from it. My footsteps made a pealing sound on the dirty moist street tiles. The alley suddenly made a turn to right, leading to the back side of the building. There I saw a shiny metal door, with some sort of an incheck- system next to it. I studied it a few seconds and drew the card through the scanner. A little green lamp went on. I assumed that meant that it was okay to go inside, so I opened the door, stepped inside the dark hallway, and closed it behind me.
For a second it was completely dark, but then, a couple bright fluorescent went on. I immediately noticed the security camera at the end of the white hall, and realized I had to look like a normal suit. I straightened my back and walked through the hall like I did it every day. When I reached the end of the hall a metal sliding door opened automatically. The hall I entered then was gigantic and very busy, suits were walking everywhere, doors opened, doors closed, phones were ranging, people were talking…
There are so many suits here… which one's a part of DeFoe's team? I thought, and I took the paper Michael had given me earlier out of my pocket. It was a list with pictures of all suits who were a part of DeFoe's team, and present in the headquarter today. I tried to bear all the faces, while I walked through the chaos of people. Suddenly I saw four elevators, and in front of the one at the far right a big guy with short brown hair, a round face, and a nose which appeared to be broken at least one time. 'That's one of them!'
He stepped into the elevator and I quickly went after him. I stepped in just in time, right before the doors closed. The guy pressed on the 39- button, so I pressed the 40, to be sure I'd have enough time to talk with him, but wouldn't have to step out on the same floor as he.
"Hi, I'm Jari." I said with a terrible Finnish accent. "I'm new here, on which department do you work?"
I hope he has never met someone from Finland before….
"Hi, I'm Rick, a member of DeFoe's elite team. Are you that Swedish guy? I've heard you would come today."
"Well… Actually I'm from Finland."
There was a moment of silence.
"So...one of DeFoe's huh? You like working for him?"
"Not really… he's crazy man, never satisfied and always complaining… but ah well, we aren't working here for the fun right? I'll do anything he asks me do to, if the big boss keeps paying me as much as he does now." He burst out laughing.
I laughed to. "But he hasn't much to complain now right? I mean, he has finally captured Dante Vale."
Rick frowned. "How do you know about that mission? That's secret."
"Oh I've heard a few things in the cafeteria a few days ago…"
"But you've just arrived."
"I mean… a friend of mine who works here has heard those things, I've heard it from him."
Sweat ran down my spine, but fortunately he seemed content with that explanation.
"Ugh some people should be more careful with what they say. If the big boss finds out people are talking over their mouths…" He shook his head.
"So.. where are they holding him?" I asked.
He frowned again. "Seems you're not that well informed after all. That bitch was faster." He sniggered. "It was actually pretty funny, you should have seen DeFoe's face."
"I don't understand it."
"I'm actually not allowed to tell you this but… Zhalia Moon, you know, that ex- organization spy, is holding Vale captive. I guess she wants to use him to blackmail the Organization or something like that… I don't know."
"Oh yeah.. I've heard of her." I lied. "What a surprise."
"Not really. I'd already thought she was going to cause trouble someday…"
Suddenly the elevator stopped, we had reached the 39th floor. The doors opened, but Rick remained standing.
"Ehm.. . Isn't this your floor?"
"Yes but I'll guide you to the staff centre. That's where you're going right? The staff centre at the 40th floor? To report yourself?"
"Yeah… I'm going there, but you don't have to come with me, I don't want to waste your time."
"Nonsense, it's no trouble at all." He gave me a slap on my shoulder. "Besides, this building can be real labyrinth, and I don't want you to get lost and be late on your first day."
"Wow… thanks… that's so kind of you…"
The doors closed and inside I started to panic. This is not a part of the plan… how on earth am I extricate myself from this?
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Jep nothing's going the way it was planned… XD
Next chap Lok will try to save his ass, and are D&Z struggling with the past events
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