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Donnie whimpers. “I know nothing, man. This morning I woke up to a manila envelope in the driver’s seat of my cruiser. I was provided with the syringe and instructed to get her to the airstrip. I got $25K cash for my trouble, and another $25K on delivery.”
“Where was the plane headed?”
“I don’t know for sure, but when I carried her onto the plane, I overheard the pilot complaining about how humid it is in Georgia.”
Jackson throws his hands up. “Was that so hard?”
Bending down close to his face, I lower my voice and drop a little truth bomb on him. “If anything happens to her, I’m coming back here. And I’m going to fuck you up so bad you’ll wish you were dead every day for the rest of your pathetic existence.”
Not wasting another second on the sorry bastard, we leave him to bleed and walk out. Just to be an asshole, Jackson shuts the lights off and pulls the doors closed.
Bennet and Lukas are waiting for us in the hallway. We walk out of the precinct together.
“Anything?” Bennet asks.
“Nothing concrete, but it’s looking like another trip down South.”
“I’ve got a plane on standby. We can head there now.”
Agent Tova meets us outside. “Figured you wouldn’t take long. Mind if a few of us ride with you? We can get our own ride, but it’ll take a couple of hours to ‘rush’ the paperwork.”
Bennet nods. “Let’s go.”
We get a police escort again, making it to the airstrip quickly. On the way, we compare notes about the likelihood of Atlanta being the right destination. Between what we learned from Madison and the FAA flight records from the airport, we’re pretty sure we’re on the right track.
Bennet’s private plane is waiting on the tarmac.
“If I never see another plane, helicopter, or airport again I will be a significantly healthier person mentally,” Jackson mutters when we get out of the vehicle.
Once we’re in the air, Tova runs us through what the mission will look like if we get clearance to raid the lab. He uses a tablet to show us the blueprints for the lab and how the SWAT team will gain access and secure the building.
“I will provide you with protective gear, but no weapons. You have the hardest job, staying behind the lines with me.”
“Oh, hell no. We—”
“Let me make this perfectly clear; you are not going into that building. I don’t know what happened in Raleigh, and I don’t want to know. But you need to let the professionals handle this.”
I stew over that for about an hour until we get a call from Tony.
Bennet answers. “Hey Tony, you’re on speaker. We’ve got Agent Tova and some of his team here with us,” he warns, I suppose in case Tony has anything incriminating to say. “We’re about an hour and fifteen minutes from landing in Atlanta.”
“Sounds good. Hello again, Agent Tova. Hi all. Letting you know, I've got eyes on Six. I’ve forwarded the visuals and information to Tova’s team in Georgia, so they’ll be able to monitor the situation and get appropriate clearance to get the go ahead to raid the building.”
“How is she?” Jackson asks.
“She looked okay, no worse for wear anyway. One of the guards escorting her can’t say the same, though.”
I relax a little, knowing she is at least unharmed. “What do you mean?”
“One of the guards has a busted nose.”
“That’s our girl,” Jackson grins.
It’s hard to find anything good about this situation, but knowing that she’s holding her own and protecting herself definitely takes some of the edge off.
Even so, I’m going to kill every last one of them if I get the chance.
Bennet
