Dancing With The Devil (part two)

Chapter 25: The Bonnie To His Clyde

By the time the two got back to the house, the three men in their lives we're stood around the kitchen in silence. By the looks of things, Jim had just whispered something into Seb's ear as Dominic had turned around to pour himself a glass of water.

After the girls got back, they all sat around the kitchen table to talk about the plan once more before they would embark on their mission.

"So, Faith and Dominic, you go first. Jim you follow up a few minutes later, Seb and I will go straight after you," she ordered, "We're not gonna have a lot of protection. Not unless you have guns hidden somewhere in this bloody house."

"Well..." Jim began and Astrid's eyes widened.

"Seriously?"

"Yeah."

"Where?"

"In the loft," he said and stood up, "come on I'll show you."

"Fine. Seb, you come too," she stood up, "you two can decide what you're gonna do when you get there."

"Okay." Said Faith.

The three left the room and followed Jim upstairs and up a stepladder into the loft. He walked to the corner where there was a loose floorboard. He lifted it up, producing a large metal box. He took it out of the gap in the floor and opened the heavy looking lid, revealing two identical hand guns and several ear pieces. Astrid raised her eyebrows.

"These have been here the whole time?"

"Um, yeah."

She leant forward and picked up the gun. She handed one of them to Seb and examined the other herself.

"You could have mentioned these in your little fair well video?"

"Yeah, sorry."

"Wow, another apology." Astrid smirked, "I can't keep track."

Jim rolled his eyes and took out the earpieces. He put the now empty box back in the loose floorboard, before following the other two back out of the loft.

They went back into the kitchen and placed the equipment on the kitchen table.

"Two hand guns and two earpieces," Astrid sighed, "It's not a lot but it'll do. Me and Seb will take the guns, obviously, Faith you have one earpiece 'cause you can hide it with your hair, I'll have the other. How sensitive are the mics?"

"Very, you'll be able to hear everything that happens in that room." Jim answered

"Perfect." She said as she handed Faith the earpiece, "what are you two gonna do?"

"We're gonna knock on the door and say we got lost, if the lanky guy you were talking about shows up then we ask if he could help us figure out where we are. We'll try and make small talk, you know, ask him how long he's lived here and he'll probably say that he just works there."

"And then what?"

"Well, we'll have to hope Jim shows up by then."

"Okay fine." she took a breath.

"So we get the poison and the what?" Asked Seb.

"We kick my dad out of his own company," she said, "Jim can be the great Jim Moriarty again."

Jim frowned at the woman who just shrugged and continued.

"Let's go," The five didn't move. They all took a big breath before Astrid sighed and walked out the house, "come on."

One by one they followed her out the house. Faith and Dom walked to the end of the drive way. they stopped and turned around. Astrid went up to them slowly and smiled.