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"Rebecca!"
"What is it, Caitlin?"
"I've caught sight of the Zog Deti on the radar. We should be able to land in 5 minutes."
"Good, take out the camo-chutes. When I say now, we jump and head for the side of the boat." Rebecca said, directing the last part to Xarissa and Caitlin. "Sarah, you stay behind and fly the plane. When I tell you to come back, land on the boat, we'll get in, and fly off. We won't call you until after dark." She walked toward the plane entrance where Caitlin and Xarissa were waiting for her. The door opened. Rebecca waited, then cried, "Now!"
And the three jumped simultaneously off the plane.
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Laura looked around. She thought she had heard something, some kind of yell. It seemed oddly quiet out on the deck for the moment. She looked around, but couldn’t see anyone around her. That didn’t make any sense. There should have been sailors guiding the boat and attending to daily duties. It seemed like all the life on the boat had stopped. She breathed out into the cold sea air. Something wasn’t right about this.
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“Our connections are down!” Sarah yelled over the sound of the wind. “I can’t lock into their positioning!”
Enver slid the door shut. He knew this was bad. As soon as they’d landed, the systems connected to them had shut down automatically. There must have been an EMT on board. That could only mean one thing. The enemy was expecting them.
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Laura yanked on the handle, but the door wouldn’t open. She couldn’t go below deck. What is going on? It was so quiet she could hear her own thoughts like voices echoing off the wood. Why is it so quiet?
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Enver knew what he had to do. He’d suspected this would happen ever since the day he escaped from Kosovo.
The HIA had kept it a secret. They put it on Laura’s file that she knew the combination so that he could stay undercover and take the gang down from within Kosovo. There had been him and five others that day in Kosovo. Only two people had made it out: him and Laura. Only one of them knew the combination: him.
The HIA had done it to trick the terrorists, to put them on the wrong track. Laura could never tell them something she didn’t know, but they wouldn’t kill her because they would think it was only her that knew the combination. She was worth too much. They could torture her as much as they wanted, and she would never give it to them. She simply didn’t know.
Now Enver realized how sick that trick had been, how much danger it had put the young agent in. Shouldn’t the HIA have seen this coming? Shouldn’t they have known?
Now he had to take responsibility for what they had done. He couldn’t let this go on for much longer.
He had to turn himself in.
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Suddenly, the door burst open. Laura jumped back into a fighting stance only to see Rebecca standing in the doorway. “How did you…” She looked around, but the boat deck was gone. She was in the same old gray room she had started out in.
“We have to hurry!” someone cried from the hallway. Is that Caitlin? Laura wondered.
“No! You guys shouldn’t be here!” Laura yelled. She could hear sirens.
“You’re sorry butt, we’re not!” Rebecca said, grabbing her wrist and pulled her outside. Laura spied Xarissa and Caitlin running with her as Rebecca dragged her down the hall.
“You took them in here?!”
“We didn’t know how hard this was going to be!” Rebecca answered, running up some stairs. “I didn’t expect you’d be so ungrateful!”
The door to the deck was ajar, and the four agents ran out without a problem. “How did you get here?” Laura asked, raising her voice so as to be heard over the sirens. It was dark outside, but she could see a lot of shadows running towards them in the dark.
“No time for questions! Jump!” Rebecca screamed. She leaped off the edge of the boat, and Laura barely had enough time to take a breath before she was dragged off, too.
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