Thanks to my wonderful beta, Jadenanne7, for helping me with this chapter.
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Liz was in shock...complete and utter shock. Why in the world would her own father and brother be trying to kill her? She found her voice after a moment of trying to process this new information. "Why kill me?"
The young man, who now she knew was her brother, laughed again. "You were supposed to die in the fire, along with Raymond Reddington, but here you are, living and have a sexual relationship with him."
"Wait!" Liz exclaimed. "You think I'm having a sexual relationship with him? I told him that's what people think!"
The man looked at her in anger and confusion at her outburst.
"Inappropriate?" Liz asked sheepishly.
He nodded.
"I'm sorry. Continue on..."
She knew that Red would be able to get out of whatever they were holding him in or Dembe or Mr. Kaplan could get him out and then he would come and be her knight in shining whatever. Then she could tell him that people already thought that they were having a relationship so he could just shut up and kiss her.
"You were an annoying young girl, always in the way," her brother continued. " It was the plan to kill you in a simple house fire while I was shipped off to boarding school. But it really isn't the fact that you survived the fire, it's the fact that you partnered with our organization's biggest enemy...Raymond Reddington. Thaat is why we want you dead."
"Why not just kill him and let me live?" Liz questioned defiantly.
"We can't kill him. If we do, we get attacked and he has more allies than enemies, all willing to die for him. So instead, we took away the one thing of major importance to him...you."
"You don't have Reddington?" Liz was super confused. She thought that they were both going to die, but now it didn't even sound like they had him. And if they didn't have him, where the hell was he?
"Reddington left to visit his dear friend Madeline."
"Her father?" Red repeated Mr. Kaplan's words back to her in disbelief. He thought he put that fool in his place years ago.
"Yes."
"Have we tried Liz's tracking chip to find her location?" He glanced down at his hand, now covered in half-dried blood and tiny pieces of glass.
"What chip? I didn't put one in her."
That was Mr. Kaplan's job, to keep track of Red and his people and clean up any less than legal activities.
"But I did." Red smiled and winked, brushing past her as he entered the house.
Liz smiled confidently, having come up with a plan to save her ass and get back at that bastard she had been sharing a house with for a year. "I have a idea that would benefit you and myself. Are you willing to consider it?" She liked having a slight amount of power.
The man looked upward into a glass window to the man in charge, their father, who gave him a slight nod, agreeing to listen to her idea.
"What if I became an informant for you? I gain information and get close to Reddington, then once a month you take me to an undisclosed location and I give you what I have learned. You can decide if the information I give you is worth my life. How does that sound?" she smirked.
She heard a slight clanking from the metal staircase on her right. It was an older man in his late fifties/early sixties, with blue grey eyes and grey hair. "Elizabeth." His voice was low and intimidating as he said her name, completely different from how Red said it. "You have yourself a deal."
"Great. How soon can I get out?"
"Oh...well we are going to keep you just a little while longer to figure out where your true loyalty lies before we officially decide."
Red pulled a small flash drive from the carved out pages inside a copy of Romeo and Juliet and handed it to Aram.
"What is...?" Aram started before Red cut him off.
"It is the tracking software for Liz's tracking chip." His voice was cold and stern. All he wanted was to wrap his arms around Lizzie and never let her go, and it was killing him to know that it it was because of his own selfish actions that she was in danger.
The program took a moment to download and find the satellite, but Aram quickly shouted out, "Red Oak!" All eyes turned to face him. "She is in Red Oak, Oklahoma."
"Let's go," Red exclaimed, whipping out his phone to call the pilot.
"I think I made you a great deal...I give you information and if I don't, then you can kill me! I can even figure out how to record the information!" Liz pleaded.
"Fine, we will let you go." Her father nodded toward a burly man sitting in the corner, then started to turn the key in the lock, attempting to release her before she stopped him. "You have to let him think he saved me. It will help my plan."
"You, my dear, are a difficult person to deal with, even with a gun pointed at your head."
"I don't need to live, I only would like to live. But go ahead and kill me if you don't get your information." Liz felt like she was actually playing puppeteer and was loving it.
"Fine, Elizabeth, we will let him save you."
The town had less than 600 hundred people, making it almost like stealing candy from a baby to find the building where Liz was being held. It was originally the old town storage, when Red Oak was a larger town. But then the population numbers began to decrease until the company went out of business and sold the building. Because it was such a small town they couldn't place people outside the building with guns or even without guns unless the goal was to call attention to themselves.
Red and his team made a plan on how to enter the building. He told his men not to shoot unless it was entirely necessary, because it would be what Liz would want. They entered at night, again not wanting to attract the attention of the surrounding small town.
Once inside, the first few guards, aware of Liz's request to be saved by Red instead of being released right after the deal was made, knew that they were going to die protecting the building. Red's men shot as the four guards raised their weapons, and continued moving forward and deeper into the building.
Because of Liz's plan, which she had to describe in full detail to justify why Red needed to save her, the security was low. They placed her in one of the modified storage units near the main entrance. After they placed her inside the storage unit, the adrenaline in her system started to lower, and she could feel the full effects of her injuries.
Dembe was the first to know where Liz was being held, mainly because he could hear her soft whimpers of pain.
The lock was shot open and a few low level security members ran over in defense, and were immediately handled by Red's men.
As soon as the door was open, Red bolted over to Liz, who was sitting in a metal chair in the center of the room, half slumped over.
"Lizzie! Sweetheart! What happened?" His hands were everywhere, trying to access her injuries.
The pain was becoming almost unbearable, and Liz, despite all of her anger toward him, was thrilled he was finally there. "Red?" she whispered quietly as her eyes fluttered shut.
"Lizzie! No! Open your eyes! Now!" Red scooped her up into his arms and made his way to the exit.