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Seasick and the Wind

Richard looked beside him. Elise was on her knees, trying to focus on the wall across from them. There was a thin line of sweat beading at her hairline. The skin around her lips was white. Her entire body was stiff. The plane had taken them to a port and dropped them off. Richard and Elise had been led to the bottom of the ship in the cargo area. Both were bound so they couldn't move far from where they were at. He wasn't sure how long they had been out to sea, but he could see that something was wrong with Elise.

"Are you okay?" He finally asked.

She gave a slight shake of her head. "I'm fine." The boat just has to stop rocking, she thought desperately.

"You don't look okay."

"How would you like me to look?" She asked. Elise felt the boat shift and her stomach lurch. Good god, she was going to die before they even got to their destination.

"Less like you're going to die." He replied.

"Hard to do when that's what your brother is going to do to me."

"Good point." He sighed. Sitting back against the wall, he looked at her side profile. Other than the little things he had noticed looking at her face, nothing else on her body gave away the problem she was dealing with. "That was a ballsy deal you made there."

"There was no other way." Elise said. "You know Ortega would have killed all of us."

"Probably." He nodded. "What do you have that he wants?"

"Everything he needs to put him back on top." Focus soldier, she ordered herself as she felt herself rebel against the steady rocking of the ship.

"You're going to kill him?" He asked.

"Yes."

"Good." He sighed and shut his eyes. "No one will have to suffer at his hands anymore."

They sat quietly, the only noises coming from the ship. Occasionally a guard would walk into the cargo area and look at them to make sure they were still where they had been left. Richard simply flipped the guard the bird every time he came in. From the looks he was receiving back everything he was doing was being reported back to Chris. Well, he thought snidely, that was just fine. He and Chris were already scheduled to have a long talk. If Elise didn't kill him, then he would himself.

"Any idea where he's taking us?" Elise asked finally.

"You don't know?" Richard looked at her. "Isn't that your job?"

"My job was to neutralize Marcus Cortez and get him to the authorities. As you can see by the way the events turned I clearly didn't do that." She snapped. "He took my baby sister."

"Marcus Cortez." Richard thought quickly. It made sense. Chris was not likely to do anything shady under his own name. He knew his brother was up to no good, had been that was for years. "Everything you found was under that name wasn't it?"

She nodded and closed her eyes. Richard kept talking, keeping her away from the problem she was dealing with. "This was all in Columbia?" She nodded. She was a little surprised that Richard didn't know all this already. Chris was his brother. "Fuck. I know where we're going."

"Where?" She demanded. "He can't get to any of his properties there."

"Not the ones listed under Marcus Cortez." Richard replied. "But he can get to a property that's held under the name of Benito Ortega. My father."

Elise's eyes opened and she looked at him. "You father is dead, right?" When Richard gave a nod, she asked, "It went to your brother?"

"No." Richard sighed. "It went to our sister initially. When she died her will had it going to me. I was underage, and Chris got the lawyer to alter things so that he could take it back. He put it back under our father's name, to honor him." He spat the last part out. "Fuck. If I'd thought about it I'd've realized he was probably doing something corrupt."

"Can't dwell on that now." Elise said. "We have to focus on the problem at hand. Do you have anything that we can use against him?"

"No. I know very little about his operations, other than I'm sure he has them." Richard leaned his head back against the wall. "How do we plan to get back to the states if we're in Columbia?"

"My men are on it."

"And they plan to do that without all the information we have?" Richard asked.

Elise looked at him and grinned. "My men are the best. After my father's men that is. And since all of them are together, I know they'll be working on it and will get us out alive."

"What makes you so sure they'll succeed?"

Finally unable to handle the rocking of the ship by sitting on her knees, she sat back on her bottom leaning back against the wall of the ship. While it looked like they were in a very precarious situation, she realized that Richard had helped keep her from getting sick. He had kept her focus off the fact that she was getting seasick. And while it was still a strong possibility that whatever she had eaten in the last day or so would resurface, it wasn't going to happen soon. She had to give him credit for that.

"What has Cami told you about our family?"

"She said that you're an Army Ranger so was your father. Your mother used to be a bounty hunter and you all have a slew of uncles and aunts."

"Right." Elise nodded. Her lips curled into a grin. "Stories go around through the Rangers about our dad and our uncles. They're legends in the business. Best of the best. They may have been out of the game for some time, but their skills are still there. My men are also the best of the best. Combine the two sets of teams and your brother will never know what hit him."

"What will they do?"

"Ahh, that depends on what Dad lets them get away with." Elise shrugged. "I've never strategized with Dad seeing as how he had retired shortly before he and Mom got married. He's all about control, whereas Mom has always thought outside the box. It definitely made life fun whenever we went on family vacations."

"You were on vacation when Cami was taken." Richard said. "She told me you just got out of the Rangers. She said your mom was struggling a lot with the fact that you had joined."

"Yeah." She sighed. "I'm not surprised."

"Is your mother going to be coming with them?"

"I doubt it, why?"

"You said she thinks outside the box. I didn't know if that meant she was going to be coming to help rescue us."

"No." Elise shook her head. "No, she won't be coming with them. I know that much. Dad really won't let her."

"Then what if the control your father uses doesn't work?"

Elise laughed. Richard almost shuddered. The laugh was almost evil. "That's where my men come in. They know me. They know what I expect."

"And what do you expect?"

"I expect hell to break loose."

"Are you trying to get us killed?" Richard demanded.

"Nope." She smiled. "I expect for you to get out of there the moment I get you free."

Richard stared at her for a long moment. He realized then that she already had plans forming. It didn't matter if she had never been to his father's home. She was already mapping out her plan. "And you?"

"Voy a estar bailando con el diablo en el infierno." (I'll be dancing with the devil in Hell). The grin on her face made him realize that she was planning something big.

"You're a couple knocks shy of sanity aren't you?" He finally asked.

"That really depends on what your definition of sanity is." She answered.

"Not likely to do something crazy and potentially life threatening." Richard fired back.

Elise looked at him and laughed quietly. "No, my friend, I'm definitely not sane. In fact, I'd have to say none of our family is sane. It'll make for an interesting life for you and Cami."

"I'm not looking to get out of there." He said with finality.

"Why not?"

"He'll kill her."

"So you'll let yourself be miserable to keep her safe?"

"If it keeps her alive."

"Fucking A." She grumbled. "You're as bad as our father." Sitting forward, she looked at him. "Richard, I'm killing your brother. Make no mistake about that. Then you are going home to Cami. I know my sister. I don't know you, but you've proven yourself to me and to our family. I'm getting you back home to her."

/\/\/\/\/\/\

"Good job, Donahue." Diggory muttered with satisfaction as he looked at all the information that Victor had pulled off the disc. It had everything Ortega would need to put himself back on top of the drug underworld. He looked at Ranger. "Manoso, I'm guessing you're going after your daughter and the younger Ortega?" At the slight nod he received, Diggory smiled. "Good."

"Wait," Dillon spoke up, "Manoso, you've been out of the game for some time. We can't guarantee…" He drifted off at the cold look he received from Ranger. Fuck, he thought. He wasn't going to win.

"He's the best, Dillon. You've said it time and time again over the years." Diggory glanced at him. "We know he'll bring them both back. Besides, Ortega will find out firsthand how it feels to mess with a pissed off father."

Dillon couldn't help but nod. He was surprised at Diggory's change in attitude when they had found out that Cami had been kidnapped. The anger he had toward Ranger over the years had dissipated. Hearing that Elise had surrendered herself to keep everyone else alive and unharmed had surprised both of them, but ultimately they knew that they shouldn't have expected any less from her.

"I hear you have a plan, Manoso." Diggory sat back and looked at Ranger expectantly.

"Rather, Elise's men have a slight plan going on." Ranger replied. "Billy seems to feel that a whole army of Rangers would give Ortega a bit of a surprise."

Diggory and Dillon both laughed. Diggory spoke first. "He's got that right. I'd definitely expect that out of your girl too. She's pulled off some of the most ridiculous plans…" He trailed off and shook his head. "Never fails to impress."

"Her men seem to think you're gunning for her." Ranger folded his arms over his chest and glared at him. Diggory met his look and knew why Ranger was glaring at him. For years of misplaced anger.

Dillon looked between the men and stood. "I think I'll go start calling in Rangers who are not in the field. I'm looking forward to seeing how this plan falls into place."

The moment they were alone, Diggory said, "I let go of my anger toward you a long time ago, Ranger." He stood. "I push Elise because next to you she's the best. The only thing she's got on you is her speed." He shook his head in disbelief. "It's almost inhuman that she can move that fast. There is one thing you should be aware of." Ranger raised an eyebrow at him. "The Ortegas' father is Benito Ortega."

Ranger's eyebrows shot upward. "He was never part of the underworld in Columbia."

"No, he was a damned good informant. Your wife found the connection and caught Dillon and I before we got up here. Christopher seems to have fallen off the wagon with his family." Diggory looked at the computer and all the information sitting on it. He shook his head again. "Elise is like the wind, Ranger. I have no doubt that we'll get her back."

They walked out of the room as Julie walked toward them. Her phone went off. She looked at the caller ID and frowned. "Yes, Abel?"

"Chica." Abel drawled. "I got info for you."

"What?"

"Seems Cortez took a boat earlier this evening." He said. "Some of my men saw him hauling a couple people at gun point."

Julie froze and looked at her dad. Ranger saw the look on her face and strode toward her quickly. "Are you sure?"

"Yeah, Chica. He's floating along the ocean now."

She disconnected and looked at Ranger. "They're on a boat." She relayed the conversation she had with Abel. Stephanie and Cami wandered over. They had returned from the hospital and began helping dig up information on Ortega the moment they could.

"Wait, he put Elise on a boat?" Cami giggled.

"Why is that funny?" Billy asked from the conference room.

"Because Elise gets violently seasick." Cami couldn't stop giggling. "Chris will be lucky if she doesn't kill him for taking her on the boat before they arrive at their destination."

"Then it's safe to assume he's taking them back to Columbia." Randy said from a position on a wall next to Tank. "He can't access his properties though. Elise destroyed that for him."

"But he can get to his father's." Ranger said.

/\/\/\/\/\/\

It took a day and a half to gather fifty Rangers at Rangeman Miami. The entire time had been spent planning. As soon as all the men were there, Diggory and Dillon had everyone in a room where they could be apprised of the situation.

"Men, most, if not all of you, have worked with Donahue at one point or another. You know how good she is." Diggory looked around. The men were nodding. "The enemy has her now. We're going to get her back."

"If we can't impress upon you the seriousness of the situation as it is," Dillon spoke up. He pointed at Ranger and his team, "That's Carlos Manoso. Donahue's father."

Diggory grinned when he heard several intakes of breath and quiet murmurs. "Failure is not an option, men. You'll be following Manoso through this mission. If you fail to get her out alive, you answer to him."

Elise's team grinned at each other. Yeah, this was going to be fun.