23 Chapter 22: Phase 2

" You guys ready?" I hear Nick question through the earphones connecting the team.

" Yup!" Riley beams as she tightened the harness around her waist.

" We're good to go." Alexander says a bit tense. I pat his head to try to easy his nerves.

Nick and Sophia are in the building across from us. We used that buildings roof to get on this ones roof top.

Riley, Alexander, and I are on the roof of the building belonging to the company collaborating with Johnathan. Johnathan is a mere executive, he needed someone with more power to hide the blueprints of the new aircraft we stole for him.

" Start on my count. Five, four-"

" Yeehaw!"

" Riley jumped, Nick!" Alexander informs him as we watch Riley jump down the building. The rope holding her slithers like a snake as it straightens out.

" Sigh, go, just go." Nick gives up on controlling Riley. Though young, she managed to climb to the top of her field, so he isn't that worried.

I throw one of the bags I'm carrying down the elevator shaft that opens to the roof. It's going to land on top of the elevator that's locked on the first floor.

Riley had jumped down to break in from one of the windows. Nick bribed a janitor to keep a widow open for her. Once she gets in she'll head to elevator control board in the electrical maintenance room. She just needs to pick the lock to enter, there's no guards near there at this time. Alexander was also intercepting the surveillance camera feed to the control room the guards were stationed at.

Alexander and I waited a minute for Riley to open the electronic lock on the door.

" Beep. Clink." It unlocks.

I open it. " Come on." I softly nudge Alexander, who's still stiff from nerves.

He takes a deep breath before striding in before me. We head towards the elevator to hitch a ride down. The doors pertaining to the stairs were locked and it's quicker to just use the elevators.

" Ding." The elevator doors open. " Welcome aboard gentlemen. Safe travels." Riley mimics a flight attendant. Alexander chuckles at her antics.

She helped easy Alexander's nerves, so I'll return the favor owed later as thanks.

I once again ruffle his soft, curly, black hair.

" Hey! No PDA! Focus on the mission man!" Riley complains seeing our intimacy through elevator camera on the laptop she currently has with her. Nick also has one to keep an eye on everything, since Alexander put his away to focus on his externship task.

" Then don't watch." I look at the camera in the corner and roll my eyes.

I mute both of our earphones before I pull Alexander into a hug. I wrap my arms around him as he puts his hands on my back.

Snuggling into his collarbone area, I ask, " You still nervous?"

" Hm-mm. But don't worry, I just need to get used it again." He breaths out.

" Again?"

" Oh, uh, I kinda of dabbled in the shady field in my original world."

" Uh-Huh. Tell me more." My baby isn't as innocent as I thought. How interesting. I want to know how he spent his life, his childhood, and his adolescent age, on that planet.

" I also want to learn more about your past too. But later. We have all the time in the world to talk."

" Later it is."

" Ding." The elevator doors open. We walk out hand in hand as I remotely turn our earphones back on. Perk of being a system.

We stop at the 21st floor. Based on their schedule, the guards won't be patrolling this section until half an hour later. The cameras are also in our control. A frozen feed is being sent to the guards control room to obscure our presence in the building.

We turn left and then right to reach the server room.

" An 8 digit passcode. I need a couple minutes." Alexander announces to us all through the earphones. He starts to connect a home made gadget to the padlock of the door.

Crossing my arms, I lean back on the wall next to the door. How boring. There's literally nothing for me to do.

By the time my foot taps the ground for the hundredth time, Alexander's gadget was only half way done.

Tap. Tap. Tap. I'm bored.

Will it finish by the time I tap my foot a thousand times? I would've done it in its stead, but that's not my role, I'd be overstepping the already strained boundaries of this body allowed by this worlds will. Attracting it's attention could get annoying.

Speaking of overstepping boundaries, when can I fuck my lover?

We literally haven't had the time. We have heavy, heavy, make out sessions but we get interrupted, since we have three other roommates, especially by that pest that keeps running to my host like a lost kid.

And I feel like I've somehow forgotten how to take a romantic relationship to the third base. All my playboy days are useless right now. Should I wait until we finish this worlds mission? Or just ask him? Or...

" Sigh-"

" Boss, the number of guards in the control room decreased!" Riley interrupts my brooding moment.

" The guards are going up?!" Sophia asks bewildered, through the earphones. " They still have 25 minutes until their next patrol."

" Alexander- and Oliver- need to get out of there!" Riley worries over Alexander mainly, she added me out of curtsey.

" Why are they...?" Nick ponders as he looks his screen filled of surveillance cameras. " Hmm." He spots a sports channel on the tv. " Ah! The playoffs. They wanted to watch the NFL playoffs on time. That's why they're early."

" There's two groups. One's taking the elevators to the 21st floor. The others are starting from the 2nd and then going up." Riley uses the elevator control pad and surveillance on the small laptop with her to report the situation.

" Alexander, how much longer?" Nick questions with urgency.

" Just one minute, I'm almost done." Alexander answers clutching at his gadget, silently urging it to hurry up. He seems nervous, his first handmade gadget is failing him.

How adorable. I place my fingers on the back of his neck, my palm under his ear as my thumb strokes his cheek.

His teary eyes turn to me. Upon making eye contact, relief floods in his eyes as his tension easies up.

My heart beats against my chest in exhilaration. That's right, depend on me. Need me, and only me.