Living A Dream

Chapter 24

     You know when you'd joke about the man in the white van that's going to give children candy only to steal them. Well this is pretty much that can, only with black paint and tinted windows.

     Dalton was driving, apparently that's his main job, he gets the details of a job, gets put in undercover, or drives the van. Think of him as the brains of the operations besides Ash.

     Ash was in the passenger seat, apparently her usual spot. Depending on the job she's either the distraction or a runner. Apparently she was a distraction the last time and got caught. The job was still a success though.

     Meghan, Leo, Christen and I were in the back, the seats were like benches on the inner perimeter of the van. There were different tools in the back surrounding us.

     Leo is an all time runner, he's more of the brawn, the guy who'll be subduing guards while the others continue. He's muscular and big, making it hard for him to be as agile.

     That's where Meghan comes in, she's small enough to sneak through smaller spaces. She's also very smart when it comes to technology, making  her job to either cut power or monitor cameras from the inside.

     Christen is usually the person to take the bag of whatever they needed to get. She's the golden girl, if anything happens to her, the entire thing could be compromised.

     "Alright, let's go. People don't pay top dollar to see us fail." Ash said, turning back to look at us. We all nodded our heads. "This is just a test run, easy job, there shouldn't be any complications. There are boxes full of random shit in there but one of them has documents that we need to get. Very few guards, Leo, I think you'll have an easy time with them."

     "Ash and I will be here for this run, when you get the documents, go to the garage area, that's where we'll be. Tobin, you'll be with Christen, if anything were to happen to that bag, we'd be done for, got it?" Dalton said raising his voice at the end. I looked at him and tried to hide the fact that I was starting to hate him.

     "Yea. I got it." I said in response. Leo opened the door and hopped out, Meghan following behind. Christen slipped a bag that had a strap crossing the front of her body. She held one out for me.

     "Think of it as a decoy if something happened, if they get a hold of the wrong person, then we'd still be okay." she said to me. I nodded my head and slipped the bag around myself.

     We caught up to Leo and Meghan, the van took off and we were outside looking in through a window. We started looking for a good way in when Meghan got our attention through the coms we're wearing.

     "Hey, there's a back door here but its locked, I think it's our best shot in." she said causing Christen and I to run over to her. "We can't bust it open, it would make too much noise."

     "This about how?" Leo said, holding up a key card. Meghan grinned at him and he returned the expression. She slid the card through the slot and a little green light came on.

     We stepped inside and shut it carefully. There were three guys upstairs and two down. Leo pointed to the ones downstairs and started sneaking around to get to them.

     "I need to get to the monitors down here, Tobin, you seem like a fighter, you'll need to get Christen to the documents, I'll send Leo back up when he's taken care of the guys down here" Meghan said quietly to us. Christen nodded and I stood there. Three vs one who happens to be a little injured. I guess I'll have to take my chances.

     "We'll have to try to get around them, as much as I believe in you, I don't think we'll both be able to make it out if we attract them." Christen said quietly as we were walking up the stairs. We hadn't gotten word of the exact room they were in.

     We slinked around and hugged the wall, I was in front with Christen directly behind me. I looked around the corner to see one of the guards from before pacing around in the hallway where we needed to go.

     "I've gotten the box number, now I just need the room, going as fast as I can." came Meghan's voice through the com. I snuck up on the guy and put him in a choke hold. He wasn't too big or strong so I bought him down easily.

     He relaxed and I released him. I went back to Christen, she was right where I left her.

    "It's clear." I said and she nodded in response. We walked down the hallway and stopped when I heard movement in front of us. I stopped and backed into Christen, putting myself in front of her. I could feel her breath on my neck.

     There were footsteps coming toward us, It was too dark for our eyes to see into that room. We couldn't move without definitely assuring us getting caught.

     Suddenly the sound of flesh hitting flesh could be heard, followed by a thud. A different set of footprints, these faster than before started coming towards us. Leo emerged with a bit of blood on his face.

     "Going keep." he said staring at me. I nodded as to say 'Thanks' and then started walking with Christen. Finally Meghan's voice was heard again.

     "Alright, third door on the right, box 1503. It doesn't look like there's anyone in that room." she said Christen and I picked out pace and went into that room. We looked at the shelves and pulled out our flashlights, looking at the labels.

     "Got it." Christen said. She came over to me with a bunch of papers in her hand. She searched through them finding the ones we needed and put them in the bag. "Let's go."

     We headed to the stairs were Leo was. He gave us a smile and started walking down.

     "Okay Meg, were on our way out." Christen said into the com. There wasn't a response. "Meg?"

     Nothing. Not a sound. Leo stopped in his tracks and looked up at us. We were all getting worried. A shot rang out followed by a groan. Leo went down on the stairs.

     "Shit." I said out loud. This was supposed to go smoothly. I ran down to check on him. We see people running towards us woth masks on.

     "Tobin we need to go!" Christen yelled, taking off. I looked back at Leo and then to where Christen was going. God I hope I won't regret this.

A/N:
getting those holiday feels