The plane journey had been organised quickly, which Luke assumed had something to do with either Ari or the Director speaking to someone at the landing strip they were heading for in Tel Aviv. He didn't really speak to either Taylor or Christian the whole journey, despite the fact Christian was very willing to tend to and hold his granddaughter when Luke was tired, they didn't say much to each other.
Taylor offered some insights into how Sophie has been as a child, and Christian spoke about raising Jade a little bit- but Luke just slept or stared stoically out of the window.
Jade was in the middle of being briefed by the time they landed.
'The rebels think they are dealing with the Americans to get back 'a valuable asset', they believe that Aliyah is an asset to the Americans, and that they are willing to pay American money in a trade off'.
Jade knew what 'American money' meant, it had nothing to do with dollars, it meant huge sums of cash.
She was aware that these people were ruthless; they had taken a trained agent when her back was turned, and now they were asking what they thought was the FBI for huge sums of money to return what they thought was an FBI informant.
Ari had met them at the airstrip and taken Faith back to his own house, where he and his family were going to look after her. Ari hadn't wanted to speak to any of them about what Jade was doing and where she was, clearly pissed off that they had come and possibly endangered the life of his granddaughter.
Ari had muttered a few words to Luke as he'd taken Faith, but that was all, before Luke, Taylor and Christian were escorted out to where Daniel was. It was an inconspicuous flat in a dingy area of Tel Aviv; inside however the whole thing was full of computer screens, humming monitors and three men in headphones, staring at the screens. Daniel was wearing black jeans and a loose shirt, barely looking up as the three of them came in. Instead he stayed fixatedly staying stared at the screens, writing a few notes down every now and again, headphones firmly in his ears.
When Christian, Luke, Taylor and Faith arrived at the location where Daniel was, it was already too late, Jade was already on her mission. They'd been told that she'd had some changes made to her appearance for the mission, but Daniel wasn't really prepared to speak to any of them, clearly in a mood.
The location Daniel was at was wasn't far from where Jade was expected to meet the rebels and roughly where they expected Aliyah was being held. He wasn't happy to see the three of them at all but chose to say nothing, not wanting to start an argument.
The three of them were there for about twenty minutes before Daniel received a call, speaking quickly in Hebrew to the other Agents in the room and they all sat up quickly, taking more notice of their screens. Taylor simply glanced at Daniel who nodded back at him before Taylor looked back at Luke and Christian 'she's on the move'.
Daniel saw the worry on the three men's faces and pulled out the plug on his headphones, meaning that they could all hear. It was just a rustling, ambient noise and Daniel turned back to them 'She's wired up, it's a miniscule camera in one button and another has a…what's the word- microphone in it. We have cameras all over the place but if Jade goes somewhere we can't see her then we'll use the button camera. What you can hear now is just Jade walking, she should come into view on the cameras in a few minutes'.
When Jade eventually came into view, Christian, Taylor and Luke all gasped slightly at the transformation of her.
Jade's hair was light honey brown, contact lenses making her eyes dark blue, and she looked much less Israeli than she usually did. She was wearing dark grey jeggings, a blue long sleeved top, black converse and a brown jacket. She was walking along a busy street, glancing around at her surroundings.
Taylor glanced at Christian uncomfortably as they spotted someone following Jade at a shortening distance, hands in his jacket pocket. 'Has she seen him?' Daniel turned to look at them 'she's noticed him'. He didn't offer an explanation as to how he knew, turning back to the screens.
Jade turned around sharply and pinned the man against a wall, eyes darting up and down the street, where no one was paying much notice. The man was small, with rounded shoulders and sharp eyes that had a dark look in them. Jade noticed the scratch across the man's cheek, the lightly blackened eye and the slight tear on his beige shirt.
The man looked over her intently, speaking in Hebrew 'you're the American aren't you?' she nodded, dropping her arms and taking out her fake FBI badge and showing it to the man. He nodded curtly and looked over the badge and details for a few seconds before he handed it back. 'Come, we haven't got long. The girl is still refusing to speak'. Jade nodded, diligently following the small man.
Taylor glanced at Luke, seeing how pale he looked as Jade disappeared off their screens and into a side street, Daniel speaking quickly to the other agents in the room.
Jade was inwardly shitting herself as she followed the small man, who identified himself as Shai after walking down an ever increasing number of back streets before they got to a dingy looking building.
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