Gokudera and Raven were leaning over Gokudera's table, staring down at a blue print of the torture house. They were leaving in a few hours and were just finalizing the plan when Raven noticed the small black phone that Phoenix had given to Gokudera all those months ago.
"Is that…?"
"Hm?" Gokudera looks up and sees what Raven's looking at. "Yeah. Don't know what good it is now? It's not like Aydan will be able to call people."
"Phoenix is a pickpocket, and she can hook up to her phone through any cell."
"You mean…I can…talk to her? Why didn't you tell me sooner!"
"Because it's not a sure fire thing. She'd need to have the idea and steal a phone and find the time to check it before whoever she stole it from realizes what happened."
"I don't care! What do I have to do!"
Raven sighs.
"Just send a text."
Phoenix stumbles and falls at the guards push her into the apartment. One of the cruelest things that Declan had done since he took Gokudera from her was not moving her into a different apartment. So no matter where Phoenix looked, she was reminded of her boyfriend.
"I'm gonna see him again. He promised he'd come get me and he's going to keep that promise. I am gonna see him again."
It was those words that Phoenix repeated time and time again to get through the never ending tortures. And today she had made a major move to helping Gokudera get her out, she stole a cell phone. The girl grins as soon as the bedroom door is shut and soon she is working on hacking into the phone and hooking it up to her own cell using the method that Robin has taught her. As soon as the two phones are linked a text message comes through. A text titled
"Aydan, if you can see this, please let me know..."
Phoenix breathing hitches. The text was from Gokudera. She quickly opens it.
"Cara mia, I love you. I'm worried as fuck right now. Raven...Raven told me that Declan is planning on...Tch. Nevermind. Just...I need to know how you're doing. If you can see this, please respond. I want to know that you're safe. I promised that I wasn't ever gonna leave you and...I failed. I'm so sorry. But I swear on my life that I'll come back for you. I'll save you...I promise."
Gokudera was at the airport when the text came through.
"I don't have a lot of time, I stole a phone and my guards will be back soon. I love you and I know you're coming for me, just like you promised. Mo grah, please don't do anything rash, please just stay safe. Please. I love you, never forget that."
Gokudera leans his head back and bite his cheek to stop himself from crying.
"She's still alive, she's well enough to text me back. I still got time."
Phoenix was lying on the bed, trying not to inhale the scent of her lover that still came from the sheets. She knew that the guards would be back soon, she only had fifteen more minutes before the tortures started again. As lost in thought as she was, Phoenix jumped with the phone vibrates.
"Oh thank God, Aydan. I was so worried. Thank you for getting back to me. Raven and I are just preparing something's. We're getting on a flight back to Chicago in half an hour. Just...get back to me if you can. I'll be storming in there and just want to know where you'll be. I'll run straight there. I love you. Please, try to stay safe. And I wont to anything rash. Everything I do has a reason. Especially for you...I love you. I'll see you soon."
Before Phoenix can reply her two guards burst into her room and pull her off the bed, punching her in the stomach.
"What do you think you're doing! Huh! Stealing my cell phone!" The guard picks up his cell and read through the message, a smile forming on his lips. "Oh the Boss is gonna love this."
Phoenix struggles against the hold of her guard but can't get away and soon she is chained to the wall of one of the torture rooms, waiting for the knives that would inevitably come.