Fixing the Mistake?

Chapter 11

Kayla's POV:

"Use me as bait."

Did I hear her right?

"Hell no!"
"Are you insane?!"

Hearing these responses, I know I heard her right. "Please tell me your joking!" I exclaim, overwhelmed from the shock and hurt from her idea.

We all are standing in the room, shocked about the fact that this is the idea that's been brewing in her head all this time. Why does she need to become a sacrificial lamb in her head to get those monsters out?

"Aria what the hell are you thinking?! How is it a good idea to dangle you in front of these people?!" Dean asks, showing his frustration towards her for thinking any of us would be okay with using her as bait.

I'm relieved that Deans responded this way, I honestly thought he may consider the idea, but it's apparent from his face and body movements how pissed he truly is by the thought.

Does she not realize how much we all love her? None of us would ever sacrifice her, why would she ever think this was a good idea?!

I look over at Spencer and just see the hurt that he's trying to hide behind his emotions.  You see the relief in the fact that none of us think it's a good plan, he'd probably kill the person who'd side with the woman he loves.

"You know how hard it is to get someone back who gets taken, there's no guarantee you'll be safe and the odds are that if they get you then you're gone." Michael says, almost pleading with her to end the conversation, and then looking at me as if I was some fragile doll who couldn't handle hearing this, which angers me.

I may have been through a lot of bad things in my life, and sometimes break down from them, but after months of running, training and having Aria with me, I have gotten stronger. I currently feel betrayed, though, by Aria who thinks I'd be okay with something happening to her. She's my sister and I will protect her. She hasn't had to experience all that I have, and I'll be damned if she starts to anytime in the future.

"Can you keep listening to me for just a minute? There's obviously more to my plan then me just playing bait. I'm not stupid and I'm not going to just risk everything to be taken and giving them and even better chance of getting Kayla after and winning. I've been thinking this through and my idea is good." Aria exclaims, frustrates by the fact nobody wants to continue discussion about her stupid plan.

She's looking at all of us, telling us with her eyes that there's a lot more for her to say, before she stares at Spencer who is obviously trying not to grab her and lock her up so she can't go through with anything she may say.

I want to hear what she has to say to get out of this head space where we'd willing give her up. "Fine sister, if your so confident that you aren't having a psychotic breakdown and it's an actual good idea, which I don't think it can ever be, then go on." I answer for the group. I also want to now if there's any good information I can use to find ways to protect her.

The second she starts to explain her plan, I hold my breath, anxious to what she's going to say, "I think that if I go out for a minute here and there on occasion, heavily guarded, they may think we're starting to underestimate them. One day I go out for an hour, still guarded but not as heavily to the eye. That's when they'll make there move, knowing that's there best shot to get one of us. What they don't know is that I want to inject a tracker somewhere under my skin, so they don't I have it. I will have a tracker necklace as well, because they'll expect something, but they'll get rid of it somehow. Follow me the whole time, and when we stay in one place for 15 minutes, that's when you attack. You will probably be lead to one of there compounds, but since they are so desperate they will probably be there to ensure they make the deal quickly to get rid of me and get the money. Which means you'll have the chance of a lifetime to capture my parts and the seller. This may be the best and only opportunity we can do something like this, and this is the best solution." She finishes confidently. As much as I hate to say it, it's a good plan, but I refuse to let her know that, so I put on a poker face to hear everyone else's reactions. I think we all are sharing similar thoughts, but none of us want her to know.

While we're all thinking about what she's said, Spencer has obviously made the prowl over to talk some sense into her.

"No way will we ever leave you as bait! You may be right about this crazy idea in a time perspective, but they could start immediately torturing you, you could be beaten and raped in the car, you may be immediately taken to the seller as is and then on a plane! You could be killed immediately for frustrating them and they could just go for Kayla! You are not doing this and that idea is now being trashed because your life will not be put in jeopardy, not on my watch!" Spencer growled out, letting us know he's pissed and not okay with anyone agreeing with her. Dean goes over to Spencer to try and calm her down, but I'm starting to think about a plan that could help us. Michael still thinks of me as fragile, so I don't want him to be suspicious that I'm handling this better then what anyone would think, so I need to keep that front around everyone.

While everyone is leaving the room, I make a scene to tell Aria to forget about the plan before heading to my room with Michael. Before that, though, I leave my phone in the conference room, an excuse to leave Michael. Someone had to have liked her plan, and I know that someone is going to try and go through with it with her, so I need to have my game face on. Before making it to my room, I tell Michael quickly that I forgot my phone in the conference room, and he told me he'll go wait for them to get out and grab it for me.

I quickly run over to Aria's room and wait to see if anyone will enter before she gets there. Long and behold I was right, and now it's time for me to come up with a plan.