11: Dirty Night Work
Battling within herself, Sabrina has been walking back and forth in her hotel room as she was feeling uneasy due to something she learned.
"What do you mean about that Uncle?" Sabrina almost jumped on her bed when he received a notification of what the police government requested from their security personnel.
'I can't stop her from doing what he used to do when your parents died.'
"Uncle, you promise me not to let her involve in your dirty work." She sighed heavily as she went to the window of her hotel bedroom and take a breather.
'I am not. She just learned it and she's splendid…'
"I DON'T GIVE ANY FUCKING SHIT ABOUT HOW GREAT, SPLENDID, OR REMARKABLE SHE IS. YOU BROKE YOUR PROMISE, UNCLE!" she shouted at the top of her lungs while pressing the bridge of her nose. There are so many things happening on her plates already and ICE will be in danger again.
'You know you can't stop her and even if she promises you not to, don't trust it because she will involve herself especially when it concern you and the family again.'
"IF SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS TO HER, UNCLE…YOU'RE GOING TO REGRET MOLDING HER LIKE THAT! MARK MY WORDS!" she warned firmly her uncle from letting ICE do something dirty again even if it was for a good cause. Sabrina was indeed worried for ICE's safety.
'You don't know her then.'
"YOU ALL DON'T KNOW ME WHENEVER I GET MAD AND WENT DARK, SO DON'T WISH IT." She warned firmly her uncle who was about to say something to her.
'Sabrina what are you thi-!'
"DON'T WISH ON CROSSING IT!!!" She cut him off and cut the call as soon as she gets back inside the bedroom.
Sabrina frustratedly shouted and throw her phone which of course break apart. She groaned as she sat on the bed thinking about ICE and risky night jobs.
"You've been putting your life already on the line…please…be safe…" Sabrina sighed and pulled out her spare phone which only had one contact.
'I was about to call you.'
"Then what took you so long to do that?" Sabrina retorted but she could not deny hearing her voice and immediately calmed her down. Ever since she went away to study overseas, she began to have a temper that sometimes she could not control if she couldn't see or hear ICE's voice at all.
'Hmm, miss me already?'
Sabrina knew that ICE was teasing her but it didn't stop her from blushing. She took a deep breath before she act cool again.
"No, but pick me up here. I want to surprise everyone in the main Marques Hotel, so, don't you dare say no to me. I've got my own ways to know things." Sabrina didn't let ICE deny her request.
'Sudden changed…you learned something about my night job, am I right?'
Sabrina could already tell that ICE caught something when she said that to her and she could not deny it at all. ICE has the right to know things about her but at the same time not all especially her feelings for her ever since they were young.
"What is wrong for me to know about it?" she didn't deny or admit directly about learning her night job but it already sounded like that.
'No, but don't worry about it. I'm just gathering evidence and plan to capture the police's prey so…'
"ICE, just clear it to me when you pick me up." Sabrina wanted to drop the topic but ICE knew something that Sabrina was trying to hide from her.
'Who angered you?'
"Nobody." She simply answered while she rested her back on the bed again.
'I know you whenever you needed my presence. I could remember you ranting when you suddenly cried to me on our secret spot…'
"Even if you knew who was it, there's nothing you can do because our argument was about you. So, there's nothing to discuss." Sabrina smiled because ICE still remembered that moment whenever they were alone together.
But when Sabrina didn't hear anything on the other line, she began to feel uneasy again and anger was raising again. When she was about to snap again, ICE began to shout.
'FOUND YAH! HAHAHAHA!'
"ICE?" she wondered what made her laugh sinisterly that never failed to send shivers down her spine whenever she heard her laugh like that.
'I'll pick you up tomorrow. Rest well, Sab. sweet dreams.'
"ICE -! She hangs up." Sabrina sighed and let her back rest on the bed before sighing again.
"At least she's alive…that's all that matters to me…" she continued and sleep consumed her night once again.
Meanwhile on a very busy nightlife were neon lights began to flicker and break the silence in the middle of the deep night, there was a blasting music echoing on the neon streets. Smokes from grilled food where night hangouts get wasted filling the night. The wave of laughter from drunkards with their ladies hanging around their arms as they were ready for hookups or one-night stands.
Target: Celso Capris
Age: 55
Yet, there was a particular man who began stumbling on his footing which cause laughter around him. But his eyes were filled with fear that made him quickly turn his heels and run off somewhere.
Panting while sweating as he tried to look for a place to hide or even to secretly run to his car but he can't. Footsteps were suddenly echoing in his background followed by a singing voice from a cold and raspy tone.
"Cel~so Ca~pris." a taunting voice sang the name of the man who was running blindly in the dark alley away from the noisy neon street.
Feeling the fear all over his body, he kept running blindly to wherever his car was but reaching the parking space, he forgot something.
"FUCK! YOU'RE AN IDIOT! WHERE DID YOU PARK YOUR CAR!" He complained to himself while gritting his teeth and started checking every car.
He stopped in his tracks and drunkenly looked around but see nothing just a few cars and lights from the streetlamps. Nothing more. But when he went back on his tracks to look for his car, something blue flickered to his side. Like in any horror scene, he halted and slowly looked to where the blue flickering light where.
"Where do you think you're going?" a man asked as soon as he grabbed Celso's wrist.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!" he began on shouted out of fear but a punch landed on his face to snap from whatever scaring him.
"Idiot, don't you dare run away from not paying your bills at the bar." the man firmly said and dragged him back to the bar where he suddenly run away.
But the blue light flickered again and he panicked. He even tried to break free from the man who was holding him and when he did, he run like a tornado toward his car. He looked pathetic prey as fear ates his mindset. Then in the empty parking area on the side of the street, Celso began on hearing disturbing noise around again and it was from the same footsteps.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?! LEAVE ME ALONE!" He kept shouting while crying and even began throwing whatever he saw around him to where he could hear the footsteps.
The footsteps stopped from echoing and it relieved Celso yet the flickering blue light suddenly appeared to his side and waved the broken pipe to hit something. Yet, when he was pulling it away it was stuck and the blue light brightened up and he collapsed out of fear.
"Damn. I'm so dead." the cold raspy voice sighed heavily and pulled out the phone to inform someone about the location of Celso Capris.
Crime Unit Head: Nicely done and thank you. We'll take it from here and the amount already has been sent to your account. Rest well.
He was tied up with a chain and evidence was on the briefcase that he was holding then the police came to get him after waking him up. They were not sure what just happened but after checking all the evidence, they took him but there was something that caught their attention, a blue Iris flower on his right side.
"Spider Lily?" one of the police enforcers wondered when they saw the flower.
"I don't think so…" another one answered but their boss already knew the answer to it.
Nobody noticed a shadow of a lady slip away from the scene and quickly vanished as if she never existed in the first place. But in the familiar dark cave, a familiar voice from a lady groaned from the pain as soon as she removed her coat.
"That idiot really did hit me well though it's accidental." ICE pressed one button from her stainless glass table which opened all the security systems of her whole property which include the surveillance camera around the storage garage that she also owns.
'Milady, welcome back but notification alert.'
"Notification alert? Don't tell me…" ICE sighed heavily and before she could even finish her words, AI EM answered her already.
'Yes, Lady Sabrina is on her way here.'
"Then, I'm so dead. Thanks, EM. Let me know once she's closed her. I have to tend my wounds before she arrives. Watch her carefully." ICE had another heavy sigh but left command to her AI system to keep her posted about Sabrina's status.
'Yes, Lady ICE.'
ICE went to her office and began tending her wounds when a familiar scent came on approaching her. She definitely could tell who was it since Lexie and she was no different from each other.
"I thought you never get wounded." Lexie teased as she leaned her ass on the desk while crossing her arms.
"I know right and you'll be surprised what hit me." ICE amusingly responded and showed the broken pipe that managed to wound her.
"Seriously, a broken pipe on your dirty night work? Are you getting weak nowadays?" Lexie laughed as she teased ICE more.
"Very funny." she rolled her eyes and treated her wound while groaning to ease the pain.
"Need help then?" Lexie sighed and asked.
"What do you think?" ICE countered which made Lexie sigh and help her to tend her wounds.