“Pete, can you pull up the aerial view of the location, so we know what we’re dealing with, and find me a safe place to put our cars?”
Pete nods, “Already on it. I can direct you to a safe place to park once we are closer to the location.”
“Great, thanks man,” Trick replies.
Cash interrupts their conversation, “Before you tell us what you can about the location, let me call the other car, they’re going to need to know too.”
We wait as he dials the other car using Trick’s phone.
“Hey, we’ve got the location; she’s got quite a head start on us, so we need to be prepared for what we might find,” Cash says, brutally honest as always.
“Understood,” Atlas replies.
“Hopefully, Hunt is once again one step ahead of us, and he’s not there, which means Emmerson will be safe and just pissed off,” Luc suggests, his voice coming through the speakers clearly.
“I think that’s the best outcome that we can hope for,” Riot replies from the other car.
“Alright, let’s stop the speculation for a moment. I don’t want to distract us from what we have got to do,” Trick interrupts.
It’s a good job too, because we all need to be focused on what is happening now and not the what ifs, just like every job that we do. Of course, not focusing on the what ifs is a little bit harder than it usually is because it is Emmerson, we all know and like her.
I am kicking myself; I knew that there was something off with her when I saw her. I even mentioned it to the guys, and we just put it down to the fact that she had just lost her mom. I should have asked, I should have made certain that she was really okay.Of course, when we saw her, she hadn’t yet heard Mr R and Rylie talking, but she wasn’t herself and I just wish that I had done something or said something.
Peter nudges me slightly, a knowing look as he shakes his head silently, telling me that there is nothing that we could have done about it.
“Alright, Pete,” Trick says, interrupting our silent conversation, “what can you tell us about the location?”
Peter clears his throat and looks down at the screen, “I can show you all properly when we stop, but it looks like it is in the warehouse district, so there shouldn’t be too many people around since they all shut down for the workday. The warehouse that we are looking at is one that we have suspected belongs to Hunt, but we haven’t had any solid evidence that he is actually there.”
Cash interrupts, “We’ve had so many more definite leads that we’ve not bothered to check this one out yet, but when we got intel that Hunt would be there it was decided to check it out.”
“That makes sense,” Rage says.
“Anyway, the warehouse where he’s supposed to be is a pretty standard one, there’s three entrances that we can take so I suggest that we split up and come at it from all angles,” Peter continues to explain, “I don’t like the area, there’s a lot of places that we could be ambushed from, so we’re going to have to move as quickly and carefully as we can.”
“Understood,” Trick says, while everyone else makes sounds of agreement as well.
It has been a long time since it has happened to me, but hearing that Peter doesn’t like the area, makes a shiver of apprehension go down my spine. I steel myself, we have got this.
Emmerson will be fine because she has to be.
Fortunately, she has made a great impression at headquarters in a short amount of time, and everyone is reallyquite fond of her; she has proven herself incredibly valuable and an actual genius when it comes to all thing's tech and weaponry, and we know that she is a victim. We know that she had no choice but to help Hunt and that as soon as she was somewhere that she could fight against him, that is what she chose to do, which says a lot about the kind of person that she is.
It is for all of those reasons, that she is not going to get in trouble for getting out of Headquarters when she is supposed to be staying put, and going after Hunt. Don’t get me wrong, I am sure Mr R is going to have a long discussion with her about how dangerous it was to go after Hunt with absolutely no training and knowing how valuable she is to him, but that is about it.
I kind of feel like Mr R is going to insist on her training as an agent after this, at least for his own peace of mind. Everyone who works at headquarters has a certain level of training just in case something happens to the place, and because they are all highly sought after and know a lot of important information, so it would be to the organization's detriment if they didn't know how to protect themselves and weren't property trained.
Of course, all of this is assuming that she is okay, there is a chance that Hunt really was there and has either taken her, or killed her, for escaping him in the first place. Neither option bears thinking about.
The drive is tense, and I feel like it is taking forever, even though Trick is driving as fast as he can possibly go safely. My knee is bouncing up and down, and Rafe’s big hand lands on my thigh. He doesn’t try to stop my nervous bouncing, acknowledging that I need to let my excess energy out somehow; all he does is offer me his support, and rubs circles on my leg with his thumb. It is surprisingly relaxing, and it makes me take a deep breath and calm my unease. It does absolutely no good to go into a job nervous; the only thing that does is cause you tomake mistakes, and in our line of work, you can’t afford to make mistakes. It could cost lives.
I glance outside the window just in time to see a road sign, we haven’t got long left until we get to the town where the warehouses are.
“Peter, can you navigate from this point?” Cash asks.
“Yeah, sure,” he says, as he turns his tablet on again and pulls up the map of the town. “Take the next left.”
Rage