Chapter twelve
Emma opened her eyes; she could feel her head against Michael's chest opening her eyes, her fingers running up his bare skin. "Oh snap…" she shook Michael as he opened his eyes, his eyes going to her shoulder, skin, naked, oh God.
"Yeah I think we stopped, and we kinda need to be not naked…" Emma added while finding her clothes quick while keeping the blanket over her chest, Michael doing the same before the knew it they was dressed and getting out off the truck when the man opened the doors giving them a funny look.
"Ok thank you…" Michael said to him as Emma now slipped a few notes into his open hand.
"Just be safe now…" the man added as Emma and Michael walked away holding hands.
Lincoln was on the on the phone, everything was going wrong, and Katt could of told them all that, but no, no one listens to the only one to make any sense, but then Lincoln glanced to her as they were all in the hotel room again, it was strange but they didn't even know what team they were on anymore.
"I told you she had it, but do you listen, no, cos you have a piece of stake in your skull where a brain should be!" Katt snapped and sat down folding her arms.
Alex was quick to get Lincoln's attention.
The phone rang, but Lincoln kept a glare at Katt, it was the General, and now Lincoln walked out the room to take the call.
"You really are ... Horrible to Lincoln." Alex watched her. Katt then nodded with a pleased smile. "Being honest. When you spend a few months on dead row with someone, you tend to know a lot of mean things." She then grinned.
In a summer house, Emma explained, "My friend ... Lives here in the summer. She's taking some extra hours at work. She said I could use it." She lied. It wasn't her friend it was her parents beach house.
Michael nodded kissing her cheek lightly. "Great." He looked around it was missing pictures... It was strange.
"Okay. So we plan." Emma put a bag down looking around the house she'd been to once.
"We plan…" Michael placed a hand on hers, but her eyes found his quickly.
"What we going to do Michael?" She asked while he sat down on the chair near the counter.
"I don't know, find out who has Scylla, make some arrangement to destroy it…" he spoke in his calm voice squeezing her hand, but he knew that's not what she meant.
"Michael, I, this is really confusing." she said while moving her hand and quickly rushing over to the fridge pulling a photo down.
Michael had now looked to a piece of paper he had bee holding since his escape from the cabin, he didn't want to remember what he did to a man who tried to kill him in the woods, his hand looking to codes on a piece of paper, and then looking back to Emma.
"I know, but right now, we can focus on this…" he said before going back to the paper.
Lincoln returned looking to Katt and Then Alex, his eyes were wide but he knew that there was something they had to do to get Scylla.
A beep broke the silence as Lincoln looked to his phone, and then to Alex, "It's Michael he wants to meet…" he said before glancing to Katt, "Can you do it?" he asked as Katt got to her feet quickly it made her a little dizzy.
"Oh yes!" she grabbed Alex hand starting to pull him towards the door.
"Where is the meeting point?" Alex asked trying to ignore the pulling in his arm, and Lincoln sighed.
"The Marina…" he whispered before Alex got his keys.
Emma stood with Michael at the meeting point, she felt nervous, but Michael placing an arm around her waist pulling her close to him, she wanted to move away, if Lincoln saw them like this, it would kill him, but she felt relaxed in his arms, it was weird, she knew this was the worst thing to do in her life, it was horrible, but Michael was rubbing a hand up her arm before kissing her forehead.
Katt was been driving, because she could. She pulled up at The Marina.
There was only one other car, in working order there. Katt slowed. She parked in front of it. She stared swallowing. Her heart fluttered.
Alex looked at her, as she got out of the car first. Emma watched seeing Katt. She pushed open her door quick as well. They stared at each other though.
"Where's Linc?" Michael's asked, but kept his arm around Emma, her eyes kept looking to Katt who seemed in complete shock.
"His not coming Michael, but I'm here to warn you." Alex's tone was dry, his eyes going to Emma, and the way Michael was holding her.
"Well Alex, isn't that nice, but I don't need your warnings." he now pulled Emma a little more closely to him, but she kept still, it was strange seeing Katt, her eyes wide.
"Emma, are you and Michael…" she put a pointing finger into a O made with her other handing. Michael rolled his eyes.
"Katt I think we're all out of grade school…" he added while Emma bit her lip lightly.
"Just don't tell Lincoln please…" Emma added while Alex ignored this part of the conversation.
"Michael, you need to let this go, we are all on the same team…." Alex said trying to convince Michael, but he was having no of it.
"Tell Lincoln, that he needs to watch his back, I am going to find Scylla, and when I do, it's going to be destroyed once and for all."
Katt made a dramatic scream. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
It made all three of the others looked at her. "Sorry." She then smiled.
"Freak." Michael muttered before glaring at Alex.
Emma looked at Katt shaking her head. "We're not backing down off this you know."
"Neither are we Emma." Katt whispered.
Emma narrowed her eyes. "So were ... Warning?" She asked.
Katt nodded. "I guess we are..." She swallowed.
That didn't sit right in their stomachs and neither was little Sara. Katt patted her stomach.
Emma felt the feeling again in her stomach, "Michael I need a minute…" she whispered while he kissed her cheek watching her walk away.
"So how you treat you brother, pick up his girl…" Alex muttered, and Katt then nodded with a dark glare.
"Look, for now, just tell Linc this, tell him I am going to get there first, and he should remember I am so much smarter than he is…" he turned around getting ready to walk away.
"Just know, one thing Michael, you shouldn't underestimate us!" Katt snapped, but Michael ignored walking away to find Emma puking in a dumpster.
Michael's hand went up her back softly and slowly rubbing her back, brushing her hair away.
"I'm fine!" Emma squeaked throwing up again. Violently like projectile vomit.
"Ewww." Michael muttered his eyes having caught a look.
"Oh fuck you." Emma muttered getting sick again.
Michael laughed before helping her walk back to the car, it was going to be a hard thing to do, but as soon as they get back to the house, the sooner they could piece the puzzle together.
Getting back to the hotel Katt couldn't look at Lincoln, it felt weird to feel bad for him, but he was right at explaining a plan he set together, after finding that the sniper had a phone contact, and they had to go check it out.
Katt didn't like this; she was going to stay back from this plan, Alex now kissing her softly.
"You going to tell Lincoln?" Katt asked, Alex turned around to look at Lincoln who wanted to go, his face was dark, it wasn't nice to see him looking the way he did.
"Why, I don't see a point in doing that, but while we're gone, can you keep looking things up?" he asked Katt as she pulled the Macbook close to herself. "That's my girl…" he kissed her again before following Lincoln.
Emma was rubbing her stomach settling it, Getting back to the house. She ran getting some Canada dry. Quickly she downed it.
"Okay Emma..." Michael looked to the windows computer. He turned it on listening to the annoying start up sound from hell.
Emma was behind him. She rested her head on his shoulder, watching the Thing boot up. It took too long for their liking.
"Yeah must be all this stress no good for me…" she whispered softly and Michael took her hand with his carefully.
"Well I've got something, we can check it out." he got to his feet turning to face her, his eyes connected with hers before brushing his hands into her hair, she kept still.
"You do that; I just need to find something…" Emma now brushed her lips quickly onto Michael's before heading to the bathroom, and then her bedroom she used when visiting her parents, it was her room, it had her old school books, her Jane Austin collection, her eyes going to the bed, rushing she took out a box from under the bed, it was only a shoe box, but opening it she could see a pregnancy test unused, she checked the date, just in time, it runs out in a months time, she now pocketed the test putting the box back. A knock on the door jolted her as she fell off the bed.
"I got what we need, you ready to go?" he asked as Emma got to her feet.
"Rock and Roll…" she called her hands with the test safe in her pocket.
Smoothing her hands down her jeans she shook her head for the longest minute at the door.
Michael was watching her as he fixed his shirt, grabbing some keys. He looked back to the Windows computer.
Emma followed his gaze. He was staring fixed on the black screen. She looked to the tower noticing the orange light. She was fixed herself before shaking out of it. "Michael? Ready?" She said again.
Michael focused again. "Oh! Yeah!" His fingers brushed around her opening the door.
"You just wanted to touch me right then." Emma whispered.
"Yeah." Michael smiled. He lent in and shared a kiss with her.
Emma giggled, but felt a twang of guilt trying to forget what she was doing, they was looking on the note, and knew the address, when they got there it was a parking garage. Michael found the right spot where a fancy car was, he took a piece of slip pipe metal pushing it into the little opening of the car door and Emma laughed. "Looks like Nando had a good impression on you…" she spoke with a sarcastic tone, but Michael laughed it off.
"I left a good one on him too…" he got the door open while Emma rolled her eyes waiting for him to let her in too. He reached over opening the passenger seat, Emma started to look around the back seat before finding a briefcase under her seat, and she opened it slowly hoping it wasn't a bomb.
"Keys," She passed them over to him with a smile, "A map, to an airport, and" she lifted something up cringing back from it, the shiny metal, and the ammo. "A gun…" she whispered hoping it wouldn't hear her.
"So now who is this VS…" he said slowly, but her hands shut the case before feeling sick, she still and will always hate guns.
"Well get to the air port and we will find out who he is…" she now watched as Michael started up the car, it was going to be a long drive, but it was a nice calm drive, so Emma didn't feel like being sick.
"So, your tattoos, you like them right?" She asked while playing a finger down his exposed arm, her eyes travelling the memory of seeing the whole thing, and remembered why he got them.
"They grown on me, I designed it myself, so…" he shrugged and Emma held in a giggle. "What?" he added while she shook her head lightly.
"Just you still walking around with Blueprints to Fox River on you…" she now laughed hearing a phone was ringing, "not me…" she shrugged, but Michael rolled his eyes.
"It's coming from the briefcase…" he pointed, and Emma felt dumb opening the case, her hands pushing stray pieces of brown hair behind her ear, and then took out a phone holding it up.
"Private number…" she whispered while glancing to the screen feeling scared of the unknown person.
"Put it on loud speaker…" Michael said quickly while keeping his eyes on the road, and Emma nodded while clicking the phone. "Hello…" he spoke darkly into the phones direction.
"Michael…" a woman's voice could be heard from the phone, the car went silent as Emma heard the phone go dead and the call was ended.
"Was that your mother?" she said in a calm voice, but Michael just kept quiet and kept driving until they got to the airport.
"I need to use the bathroom…" Emma said when they arrived, and Michael rolled his eyes, "I need to pee…" she added while finding the sign that said ladies, and Michael waiting outside for her.
Emma glanced in a mirror at herself, she felt dizzy, it wasn't a feeling she wanted to remember going into the stale, she felt like a teenager hiding a test from her parents, but her hands shook opening the test, and after she took it she cleaned it off before putting it back into her pocket, she didn't want to look just yet, and now she stepped out the bathroom with Michael looking to her funny.
"Ok so what ever happens it happening in thirty minutes…" he whispered, and then took a deep breath, "We need to get a look at the flight records…" he whispered while Emma patted his head.
"You need me to distract?" she asked brushing her hands down his arms as he nodded with a smile quickly kissing her. "I'll do that for you, cos you asked so nicely…" she turned around now looking to the sign, leaned forward on the counter with her most flirty smiles. "There's a sigh there saying I can learn to fly here, do you have a pamphlet I can look at?" her eyes sparkled as she fought the need to feel sick again, the dizzy spells are just no eating, she kept repeating to herself.
"Yeah I can get you something…" he looked away, and Michael used this time to take what he needed and Emma joined him shortly looking to the information she was given.
"Ok I got what we need…" Michael said as Emma glanced out the window to see Company goons entering the parking lot, parking and walking towards them.
"Michael we need to get out of here, or they will kill us…" Emma said grabbing his arm; he pulled the page out following Emma.
Katt stared up as T-Bag entered the hotel, his face looked like it had been a punching bag, but she laughed pointing to him. "Oh sexy look…." she kept laughing while T-Bag glared at her wetting some clothes and glared to her. "oh you know I am joking Teddy…" she said with he deep southern twang, he glanced to her watching her starting to make him a cup of tea.
"I sometimes think you are the only one of our family that turned out right!" he said with a sad hint in his voice, but Katt froze.
"I don't…" her eyes going to the door as Lincoln, Don and Alex come back into the hotel looking to T-Bag.
"Where's Scylla…?" he asked while Katt could see they didn't have it, but Lincoln held up a yellow piece of paper. "I got my face busted open for a post it note!" he glared and Katt took a deep breath.
"It's something to help us!" Lincoln glared while placing it down on the table, and Alex went to typing on the Macbook before smiling, "Vincent Sandinsky is on a flight heading to old memorial Airport, but we've got fifteen minutes to get there…" Alex said as everyone got up to leave, but T-Bag waved them off.
The walked quickly. In a fast pace trying to be casual at the same time. It wasn't working out to well. Michael grabbed Emma's hand and broke out into a run. She followed him not that she had a choice they were clinging to each others hands so tight blood flow was nearing impossible...
Michael went James Bond and kicked in a radio operation door. Pulling out a gun he pointed it at the radio guard. He looked up frozen, putting his hands up. "I need you to get a message to a plane." He was serious.
"I ... Uh huh! Anything you want!" He nodded shaking a bit; after all he was a radio control officer but a GSG9 Agent.
Emma had closed the door, locked it and was catching her breath. Her stomach bubbling unsettled feelings again, she pushed passed Michael getting sick into the trash can.
"Behave!" Lincoln warned him pointing an unloaded gun at his face.
T-bag hissed. "I always behave." He tsked his teeth putting a cloth on his face.
"Fifteen minutes. The Pregnant whale drives." Don said throwing the keys at Katt who caught them with a glare.
In the SUV Katt adjusted the seat to be able to reach the gas and break.
Lincoln snickered looking up as they drove nuts.
Emma was now being driven to the airplane, she smile seeing the man get off the airplane, "Mr Sandinsky, would you like to come with me please…" she placed a hand on the arm of the man stepping forward, her other hand went to his side pocket taking out a cell phone.
Michael now pulling up in the car and got out with the gun making Emma stare a little freaked out.
"Get in the car…" Michael snapped through his teeth seeing that the goons had clock onto them, and Emma quickly got into the driver's seat as Michael got into the back with Vincent Sandinsky, who was looking terrified, but Emma now started to drive like a spazz down the run way, she could see the goons on her tail as she tried to swerve and slid out the way, but another SUV blocked her path.
"Get out the car now!" a man yelled, and Vincent started to freak out, and Michael glanced to Emma. "I said get out!" the man yelled again.
Michael and Emma stepped out slowly "Get o your knees!" he barked to them as Emma and Michael did as they were told. Vincent got out the car, a man took him walking away.
"What we do with them?" the man holding the gun asked as Vincent was walked away.
"Kill them!" he said as the man with the gun aimed to Emma's head, a loud bang caught her attention, the man holding the gun fell down, and the other two got killed. Michael getting to his feet saw Alex holding a sniper rifle.
Emma quickly threw her arms around Michael feeling tears burn down her cheek, he patted her head slowly before kissing her forehead. "It's going to be ok, no one is going to hurt you."
Don was dragging Sandinsky off toward the SUV.
Michael was holding Emma close to his body it was kind of obviously that.
Katt appeared behind Alex, Taking the PSG1 away from him. She petted the Rifle.
Lincoln saw Michael and Emma. His heart broke. But he was glaring.
Michael looked up. "What are you going to do?" He questioned, Still holding Emma.
"Dunno." Lincoln said casually. "You should go." He was serious. He turned to leave.
"Lincoln please…" Emma said softly as he turned around watching her eyes, his heart squeezed tight in his chest, she looked scared, his eyes going to his hand to her face again.
"No Emma, just, no…" he then looked to Michael.
"You know this isn't over, not by a long shot!" Michael added while glaring darkly to Lincoln and Emma turned her head away feeling scared of Lincoln.
"I told you not to come Michael…" he added while he got into the car and the drove away.