Don't touch them

Chapter 23

  "How are the plans going?" Liz asked Sebastian.

He looked grim and said, "We are slowly making progress. We at least know what they are receiving and how much, but we need to know what they are doing with them. All we can sadly do is wait until we receive more information".

"I know you must hate this. We don't know when they might make a move" Liz said sympathizing with him.

"You are right. I do hate this very much. I just want things to be normal like we were kids again" Sebastian said with a sigh.

"Me too. I miss those days, but we are older now and the head of our companies. We can never go back to those days again with another threat each day. We just need to stay strong as Danny said. I think things can still be fun if we think of it in the right way" Liz said while smiling.

"How can an army of people stocking up on weapons be fun?" Sebastian asked while looking at Liz as if she was crazy.

"Do you never play games? It is like cops and robbers. We are the cops and they are the robbers and we got to stop them to win. They try to get the off-limits objects and we stop them" Liz said like it was common sense.

"We are cops and they are robbers" Sebastian argued while looking at Liz with a look of boredom.

"Yes I admit that was kind of a terrible analogy, but you get my point right?" Liz said trying to change the subject and while looking embarrassed.

"Yeah," he said while leaning on the wall.

"Good. Just think of this as a game. It could be a shooting game then," Liz suggested.

"With our lives on the line. That is the perfect analogy to our situation " Sebastian said bitterly.

Liz smirked at him and then said, "I finally can do it" and she smacked the back of his head then continued to speak, "Danny said to smack anyone who was too pessimistic and you were just radiating pessimism. You need to lighten up or you will never get anywhere in life".

"What? You do realize that I got where I am now by not being positive as much as Danny and you?" Sebastian asked confused and rubbing the part of his head that was smacked.

"Don't worry about it. I am going to go to find more ways to win our game. Maybe Matt has any ideas" Liz said smiling and left the room.

Mark was furiously trying to come up with a way to get Danny back home while he stormed around the room in anger.

Matt sighed while watching him walk ad almost run the length of the room over and over again and said, "You need to calm down or you will burst a vein. Danny is perfectly capable of taking care of herself, so you can chill for a moment to think about what you are doing and how you can help her".

"The enemy is stocking up on weapons and you want me to calm down? Do you realize the words that leave your mouth? Sorry, but not happening. I am going to find a way to get her out of there with or without your help Matt. If you really care about her, then you will help me in getting her out of there, " Mark stated stubbornly.

"I do care about Danny and would do anything to save her, "Matt said while glaring at Mark for implying that he didn't care about his own sister.

"Then you are going to help me get Danny back one way or another," Mark stated.

"If you want to do that, then you need a way to stop the enemy. She said she is not coming back until they are stopped" Matt said as he tried to make Mark see to reason.

"Then we storm the place. We have enough people and with the help of the government, we have the weapons and protection. They have enough things to stop a whole army and still have extra" Mark stated, not listening to Matt.