The search of a dream ( Thomas Muller FF)

Chapter 12 - A Shem is set in motion

18 June 2014, Campo Bahia (Haus 2)

Thomas and the rest of the Die Mannaschaft were gathered in the living room in one of the houses that the players shared. It was midnight and everyone was still awake, they had to deal with one important thing before it got in the wrong hands.

"You're telling us what we think your telling us," Mats said, still stunned with the story that both, Thomas and Bastian, had told the group.

He sighed, sitting back on the couch, " Yes, I know this sounds crazy and straight out of a movie but...this is the current situation."

"Any of you have any ideas on how to stop this," Manu asked, he was lined in the window frame of the living room.

"No, I mean... what can we actually do," Thomas asked putting his arms up.

" We could always let Lenny meet her dad," Lham suggested, he knew that would hurt her but there wasn't much they could do.

"No way," Thomas said defensively.

"Why not," Andre asked confused, " There isn't much we can do."

"Lenny meeting him wouldn't guaranty that he keeps his word. Imagine that their conversation doesn't go well, and he, for revenge tells the papers about the Wolfgang deal," Thomas explained. They needed to take action, they couldn't let this threat go any further.

"And he can keep saying the same thing and get what he wants until the World Cup ends," Bastian added, calmly. He was sat next to Thomas; it was their idea to gather everyone. They were a team after all, and they need to solve this together.

Lham sighed, " You're right, but what can we do?"

"Thomas you said her dad was a hotshot lawyer from Berlin, what the name of that bastard," Boateng asked serious, everyone was furious with this threat to the team.

" It's a guy called Derrick Baten," Bastian replied instead of Thomas. Lena had once told him.

"Oh shit!" someone in the room said out loud. All the eyes were now focused on the guy that shouted, by his reaction, he should know something about Lena's dad, and it didn't look good for them.

"What do you know Durm?" Lham asked him, while the rest of the team waited his reply.

Durm sighed, " My girlfriend knows him."

Thomas rolled his eyes, " Durm, just be a little more explicit. The fact that you're pretty girlfriend knows him isn't much if you don't develop"

"Ok," Erik took a deep breath, " Alice is taking a law degree in Berlin, she's in her last year and one of her professors was this guy...Derrick Baten. She hated him, she once said that he was the worst person she had ever met...but the thing here is, Derrick is a very important lawyer not just in the city, but also in the country. He even knows people from the government and the DFB."

Everyone suddenly got tense; this guy was dangerous and had amazing resources, that how he got to the Wolfgang deal between Thomas and Lena, he had good connections.

"That explains how he got the information," Kroos intervene for the first time tonight, "Now we are more then screwed."

"Maybe we aren't," Hummels said thoughtfully, everyone looked at him and expect him to develop whatever was his idea, "He plays dirty so let's show him some of his own medicine."

"What are you saying," Thomas asked as he sat straight on the couch.

"A guy with that reputation hides things, that I'm sure and that's were we could strike," Mats began saying while everyone in the room listened to him carefully, " We just need to find some dirt on him and than we can do what he did with Lenny. Play fire with fire."