Frauds

Chapter 8

Aniyah didn't feel scared like she used to before she went on missions. She waited for the fear to set in but this time around, it was actually like feeling nothing.

She guessed it was only a quick recon mission, the other two boys didn't really need to come along but then again, always at least 3 on a mission, never less. That was a recipe for disaster.

Flynn was the right decision, keeping him around looked like a positive point. She noticed how when he had went to the 'toilet', by the time he came back, there was a slight bulge in the side of his coat, where he had probably kept a gun or two for him and Damon.

Impressed that Ismail hadn't noticed it sooner, she decided that keeping the boys around might have not actually been such a bad idea. They didn't mean any harm anyways, their curiosity got the stronger hold over them.

An hour drive had passed and now they were standing next to what seemed like a run down shop but with Ismail's extensive missions from before lead to him finding out La Morte's hideout.

The boys were quiet in the back, not sure what to do in this situation; Aniyah could feel their awkwardness from a mile off. That was one thing that had changed about Rider, he wasn't as charismatic as he used to be. Aniyah planned to change that.

They all got out. During the car journey up, Flynn must have managed to give Damon a gun and a clip, the bulge in his coat considerably less.

Ismail bought a finger to his lips as he ditched the coat in the car. They boys and Aniyah followed him road to the side of the building.

Ismail pointed upwards, leading everyone's visions to the one security camera that was pointed directly at the door to the place. Instead of trying to disable it or go around it like Aniyah thought he would, he walked in the opposite direction, going around to the back if the run down shop.

He then pointed to the garage round the back which also had a camera pointing right at it.

Just like before, he walked around the garage. From the corner of her eye, she saw Flynn eyeing the slight ledge that seemed to come out from the side of the building. He nudged her, bringing her full attention to it as well.

A ledge like that wasn't usually there when it came to old stores like this. That was one of their first clues, showing that this building wasn't exactly what it seemed.

Flynn's skinny fingers held onto the ledge as he pulled himself up, his careful balance key to whether or not he'd come crashing down and blow our cover.

Ismail followed him up to but before the other two could climb up as well, voices came around the side of the building.

"Shit they aren't going to make it up." Ismail said, trying to keep it to himself but Aniyah heard it loud and clear.

For the first time on this mission, Aniyah felt something stir in her chest. She and Rider were going to be taken by these men again, the men that truly changed her life for good.

She looked pleadingly up at Ismail, begging him through her eyes to get her out of this situation. She couldn't go through with it again. If they were willing to do something that bad to a group which had two 14 year olds, she knew that now they were 17, they weren't going to get away with it like they did last time.

She recalled the guns trained on Rider and herself, the deal being that the Captain had to surrender himself or it was a bullet to both of their brains. It was him or us. That was the point where her respect for her Captain had truly hardened, when he decided that he would give himself up to make sure that nothing happened to the two 14 year olds that were being held at gunpoint.