Sideways

Chapter 22 Taken

"Taylor, get your stuff and get the fuck out!" Buck yells.

"Buck, I'm sorry!" Taylor yells back, "I didn't know!"

"This is the third time Taylor, the third time you have sold us out to further your fucking career!"

"Evan, you need to calm down and think this through." Cole says.

"What the fuck Cole!?" Buck barks back.

"I hate to say it, but that waste of life right there has information we need. Look at the big picture here, Evan."

"Waste of life! Excuse me, who the fuck do you think you are talking about like that?" Taylor says.

"Actually, I think a waste of life was pretty fucking generous," Eddie says, and Cole laughs.

Cole turns to Taylor, "I have known you for less than thirty minutes, and I can already tell what kind of person you are. You are a user. You take what you can from someone and then move on to the next person without a second thought to the damage you caused."

"That's pretty much the most accurate description of Taylor I have ever heard." Eddie says.

"Fuck you, Eddie."

"That's his job." Eddie says, pointing to Buck.

"Eddie, this isn't fucking helping." Buck says.

"Buck is right, and so is Cole. Ms. Kelly is going to give us everything we need, and she's going to do it with a smile on her face, isn't that right? Athena says.

"I don't have a choice, do I."

"None whatsoever." Athena answers.

"Athena, you said you had the other information I asked for?" Buck asks, really needing to divert his attention from Taylor before he kicks her out the front door himself, and Athena looks to Captain Maynard.

"Elaine?" Athena asks, and Captain Maynard reaches into the front breast pocket of her shirt, pulls out a USB drive, and hands it to Buck.

"This has everything we could find on them and the properties they own. Titles, Deeds, blueprints, any CCTV footage we could pull, and anything else we could get without a warrant." Captain Maynard says.

"Thank you." Buck says as he walks to the other side of the table where Wes is sitting with Karen. He pulls a seat out and sits next to them. He hands the UDB drive to Wes. "What do you need Wes?"

"I need Karen's mind to help me with some math and coding. I need to run the data through systems. See what it comes up with. I need Taylor too. Some of the stuff on her drive is encoded. I can crack them, but I could also corrupt the files. I also need the configuration data for her drop box to see what data we can get from their server. Realistically, what I need is time, Buck." Wes answers as he plugs the USB drive into the laptop.

"Do not trust her. Whatever she says to either of you." Buck says, and Karen smirks, and Wes smiles at him.

"I'm going to enjoy this." Wes says.

"Taylor, you are with them." Buck says, and she gets out of her seat and walks over to where Karen and Wes are sitting. "You will give him access to everything he asks for. If I hear one peep about you not being helpful, you are on your own. Is that clear?" Buck says.

"Yes, crystal. Taylor says, and she steps closer to Buck and reaches for his hand, and he pulls sit away. "I'm sorry, Buck; I never meant for this to happen." She says.

"I don't want to hear it, Taylor."

"I'm sorry, Buck."

"My son Taylor. You gave him access to my son."