My Kidnapper's Mistake

Chapter 25: Heist

Anya's P.O.V.

Nerve wrecking. That as what sitting in the van was like. Trying to piece together what was happening by following red and green tracking dots and listening to radio chatter from both friends and foe. Survalance cameras helped little because there was no way to decern our three from the rest of the armed force employed to keep the property safe.

"Remember to tag as many men as possible." I reminded our guys once again.
Later we had decided that for us to follow only our guys infiltrating the property would be useless if we didn't know where the other groups were, so we gave Brian, Jason and Tristan each a hand full of micro trackers.
You need to hurry up." I heard Julian hurry them along and I could his impatience at waiting in a car, unable to do anything.
"Nearly there." Jason's voice crackled.
I could see that he was moving down the corridor to the room where Nicolette had said the ledgers would be.
"I'm very thankful that you came up with a method of stealing these things that didn't involve me taking out everything protecting me from the bullets." Jason muttered.
"Focus. We;re almost inside the house." Brian scolded.
A troop of red dots containing a singular green dot moved slowly forward across the screen, closing in on a lone dot. My heart pounded in my throat even though I knew that there would be several walls separating them.
"I found the safe." Jason updated.
"How much time to crack it?" I asked, but was met with several minutes of silence.
"Got it." Jason spoke up.
"Good now hurry we're nearly there too."Tristan made his presence known.
"The first page?" Jason confirmed.
"Yes."
"Movement in the library." Came the crackle from the group radio.
"Jason I hope you're done because we're abut to breach the room." Brian warned.
"Just a sec..." Jason drawled.
"Jason get out of there. Leave the rest." I heard myself saying.
"Three...two... one." I heard the countdown and then a huge rucass.
"What the..." I hard the enemy voices.
"Did anybody see the intruder?"
"Who set the smoke bomb?"
"Wait the smoke is clearing up."
I felt nerves buzzing through my body. Please don't let them be recognized.
"What happened?" Julian wanted to know anxiously.
"I don't know." Tristan admitted.
"Chemical smoke bomb. I made a few for Jason, just in case." Stuart piped up, clearing out the confusion.
"Thee is nobody in here."
"Check outside. He may have gotten past us."
"Time to get out." Brian instructed.
The three green dots broke loose from the groups of red dots and moved to the border of our radar.
Hurry, Hurry. Hurry. I felt myself chant internally.
"Who are they?" I heard an enemy voice ask and only then did I spot the angry red dot at the border of our radar.
"Guys you've been spotted." I informed them. "Julian you'll need to pick them up closer."
"On it."Julian replied.

I watched the green dots disappear off the edge of the radar. My ears sang with the silence from the com's unit.
I heard somebody scream. My nerves were shot and I jumped at the sudden sound.
"What was that?" I all but screamed.
"Jason's been shot." I heard Brian say and my heart sank. I slumped into the other chair. So much for keeping Julian away from the gunfire.
"Julian you'd better hurry up man. The snipers have returned to their posts."
"C'mon Jason just put a little weight on your leg." Tristan scolded and my ears perked up. He wasn't dead!
I heard the feint sound of an engine over the com's unit.
"They're out of immediate danger." Julian informed me.
I sighed, suddenly very tired.
"That's a wrap." I heard Megan over the comma and her real voice. She shut her laptop, tucked it under her arm and opened the back door of the van.
"Where are you going?"
"My work here is done. I'd say see you, but I highly doubt that I would." Megan greeted and walked off, leaving the door open.
"Tristan your sister just left, should I go after her?"
"Don't bother. She does that."
"Guys, we're not out of the woods yet. Jason is bleeding out and we can't go to a hospital." For the first time I heard panic in Brian's voice.
"I know a guy." Kevin shouted. I had instructed him and Stuart to keep silent so that the lines wouldn't get crowded.

***

I had hardly parked the van, before getting out and sprinting to the door of the building Kevin had given me the address to. Our getaway car was already parked there.
The sign said closed, but the door was open. I barged through and to the secretary's great distress walked straight through to the surgery room. The prep room was crowded by the guys and I could see Jason sitting on a small operation table, with a man bent over his leg.

"This is a vet!" I roared at Kevin.
"Yes." Kevin shrunk back as much as the small room would allow him.
"Jason gets shot and you bring him to a vet!"
"He's still a doctor. How different can it be. Sterilizing a bitch and removing a bullet?" Kevin shrugged.
I inched closer to him, ready to commit murder. Fortunately Julian put his hand around my shoulders and held me back.
"The bullet didn't hit the important artery. Jason wasn't really in danger of bleeding out." Clive informed met matter-of-fact.

The full weight of today finally pushed through the shock and I sagged down to the floor. Watching as others went put themselves in danger and knowing that your plan was going awry was much more stressful than putting yourself in danger and acting out your own plan. Never again would I be waiting in the van. I'd find a way to be part of the active plan.

"Where are the pages?" I asked, wanting to distract myself.
"I put them in a safe place." Clive offered.
"And Nicolette?"
"She's at the house."
"Alone?" Julian asked in alarm.
"Yes, I didn't think that she would go anywhere." Clive shrugged.
"Wait. That safe place wouldn't happen to be the safe in the jacket cupboard?" Brian asked.
"Yes. Why?"
"Shit. I gave her that combination." Brian swore and stormed out of the room.
I got up and followed. There was nothing that I could do here other than wait and it seems that now another problem hat stuck it's head out. Would this day never end?