Escaping Ireland 4/11
Title: Escaping Ireland
Author: Hollie_1201
Pairing: Emma Muller & Jennifer Hartmann, Sinead & Aisling and Bo & Kenzi (Lost Girl)
Rating: M
Summary: Jenny goes to a rehab clinic in Ireland and Emma hires two people to break her out.
Word Count: 4,060
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Authors Note: Please comment. Your comments are worth more than you really know. Thanks to Datsme for being a wonderful and lovely beta.
( Part 1) ( Part 2) ( Part 3) ( Part 5) ( Part 6) ( Part 7) ( Part 8) ( Part 9) ( Part 10) ( Part 11)
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The cold morning dew hung in the air as the wind blew softly making the Ash and Birch trees sway slightly as their falling leaves gently moved with the wind, gliding down onto the wet ground below. The sun was rising slowly in the blue sky pushing the night away, signalling a new day had arrived. The only sounds that could be heard were those of soft footsteps walking down the path outside of the rehabilitation centre.
Sinead and Aisling were dressed in thick winter jackets to keep out the cold of the morning, as they studied the area around them discreetly. They kept a look out for anything unusual and for authoritarian figures; they didn’t want to be caught, something which Aisling had been worrying about lately.
Aisling blew into her hands, rubbing them together to try to get them to warm up. The brunette could see her breath in front of her as her teeth chattered from the cold. She looked at her watch quickly; it was almost ten past six. Aisling felt a hand on her right shoulder; she gasped in surprise and looked up to see Sinead looking at her with a concerned expression on her face.
“Are you okay? You have been more quiet than normal since last night and you usually don’t react like that when someone touches you either,” Sinead said worryingly, looking Aisling in the eye.
Aisling sighed and looked at the ground as she was unable to keep eye contact with the other girl, “I’m just really worried about being caught; it’s been nagging at the back of my mind for the last few days and has made me a bit jumpy.”
“Hey, we’ll be okay, I’ve got your back no matter what and we haven’t been caught yet. We have been doing this for almost five years and with another two years before that on the run. And, we have had only one or two close encounters. We’re pretty good at not getting caught, love.”
“Yeah, you’re right. I just need to calm my nerves and get the job done,” Aisling said; smiling a little smile as Sinead pulled her into a hug. Sinead held her tightly as a police car drove past them, hoping she wouldn’t see it as it turned the corner.
As they broke apart, Sinead searched her pocket and pulled out two mini cameras, handing one to Aisling. “I think we should start by walking around the perimeter, and if we see anything, we get some photos of it. We can also make a recording of the area as well so we have it for later,” Sinead said starting to walk forward, heading down the footpath.
“Sounds like a good idea,” Aisling said, nodding her head and turning her camera on.
They checked out the front of the building, looking for weak spots along the stone fence. Sinead checked the entrance gates to see if the electrical surge was still running through them and it wasn’t. They rounded the corner and into the alleyway; they took recordings and images of the tree branches hanging over the side of the fence. Sinead noticed an empty milk crate sitting across the alley and took it to stand on to get some images of the other side of the fence and of the building. Together they rounded the back of the building and it was three metres of concrete then an open green field filled with Oak trees; a photo was taken as they walked around to the last side. Sinead and Aisling walked carefully through the overgrown grass and weeds, stepping over slippery mud spots, down the last side of the building. About half way down they encountered an old brick wall covered in vines.
“Why is there a wall here?” Aisling asked in confusion.
“I have no idea, I guess we head back the way we came now after I inspect it,” Sinead said walking past Aisling and to the wall, physically examining it while moving some of the green vines. “It’s solid, let’s head back.”
The two girls walked back the way they came, slowly making their way through the tall grass. As they rounded the corner they walked along the concrete platform once more. Aisling slightly leaned up against the corner of the stone wall under some hanging branches, near the alleyway, “Today has been useless, and we’ve found nothing, Sinead,” the brown eyed girl said leaning her full weight against the wall. The wall moved back revealing a secret entrance as Aisling screamed slightly in fright and jumped back placing her right hand over her heart, breathing deeply.
Sinead looked at her and giggled softly to herself as she moved over to Aisling, rubbing her back softly. “Are you okay, sweetie?” she asked with a smile on her face.
“I’m good, I think we just found the emergency exit though,” Aisling said looking down the corridor which the now opened door revealed.
“Yeah, looks like it. We should follow it and see wher...” Aisling silenced Sinead.
“Listen,” she whispered, “I hear something.”
They both listened intently and could hear the faint sounds of wheels rolling, like a cart was being pushed up the alleyway. Sinead looked around the corner quickly and looked back at Aisling, grabbing her by the wrist as she starting to run towards the tree line. Aisling stumbled a bit, but got her footing and kept up with Sinead. They ran to behind one of the larger trees as Sinead put a finger to Aisling’s lips to stop her from speaking as she pointed to two cleaners rounding the corner. The door had closed and the cleaners stood in front of it, talking.
Aisling looked at her watch, it was six thirty. ‘So it seems the cleaners are starting soon, maybe we could get in and pose as them, I do have my dart gun,’ she thought as she felt around her pockets and pulled out a little dart gun pointing it at the cleaners.
“Aisling, what are you doing?” Sinead asked, placing her hand on the other girls arm.
“We need more information; the only way we can do that is by going inside undercover and we have a perfect opportunity right in front of us. My dart gun is fully loaded with Propofol which should knock them out for thirty minutes up to a few hours. We can tie them up if you want.”
“Tie them up with what?” Sinead said quietly, removing her hand from Aisling’s arm, “Okay, okay, shoot them; we need to get inside.”
Aisling looked up and aimed her dart gun at the cleaners and shot them both in the upper arm. They pulled the darts out and collapsed to the ground. Sinead and Aisling ran over to them and picked the first one up by the arms and legs and moved her to behind the tree line followed by the second one.
Inside of the centre, Bo and Kenzi watched them closely through the window in one of the library rooms. They looked at each other with curious eyes both wondering about what exactly the two brunette girls wanted. The expression on Bo’s face changed, she was going to figure out what they were up to; she would use her succubus powers on them, if needed.
“We need to get changed into their clothing to pass as them,” Aisling said going back to the trolley and taking the uniforms off it. She went back behind the trees and handed a uniform to Sinead. She held her uniform up and looked at it with a ‘this is horrible’ face before getting undressed and changed into it. Sinead had finished getting changed and folded their normal clothes up placing them on the ground before she felt around the cleaner’s pockets and pulled out their I.D and keys.
“Now what are we suppose to do Aisling?”
“We get the cleaning trolley, go inside the facility and do their job while gathering information. We should also try to locate Jenny’s room, it will be of use when creating our break out plan,” Aisling said taking Sinead’s hand, who grabbed their clothing up off the ground, before being dragged over to the trolley.
Aisling leaned up against the wall once more as it opened. Sinead pushed the trolley along the closed in pathway as Aisling took pictures of the surroundings. They followed the path all the way to the end and to another entrance in the back of the building labelled ‘Laundromat.’ They scanned the I.D cards at the door and they opened.
The inside of the Laundromat was void of people and had washing and drying machines lining the walls with a cupboard containing brooms and disinfectants for cleaning. Aisling walked over to the computer in the corner and scanned her I.D once more. A list appeared on the screen of what she was suppose to do today with a map of the facility, ‘Too easy,’ she thought to herself.
“Sinead, pass me your I.D please,” She asked holding out her hand as she felt the I.D card being placed in it. She scanned it and the exact same schedule came up for her. “Looks like we are working together,” Aisling said, handing the I.D back as she looked up a list of what they would need and printed it off.
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Emma lay in her bed unable to sleep as she moved from side to side not being able to get comfortable. The blonde kept on looking over to her wardrobe; she could see her black clothing sitting there with the bum bag full of cash sitting on top of it, staring at her. Emma sat up and sighed, taking a sip of water from her glass sitting on her bedside table.
She kicked her legs over the side of the bed as she placed the cup back down. The bum bag was making her feel as though her stomach was in knots, she couldn’t quiet identify the feeling; it was neither good or bad. Emma walked over to her bedroom door, locking it so no one could see what she was up to as she felt like a thousand eyes were watching her.
The blonde walked over to the wardrobe and took the bum bag out of it, throwing it on her bed, while she went to open the curtains slightly to let the morning light into the room. She glanced out the window and noticed that another layer of fresh snow covered the ground below.
Going back to her bed, Emma opened the bum bag quietly. She took out Jenny’s purse, phone and charger and tried to turn the phone on, the battery had died. Emma placed the purse in her top draw, hidden under a red bra and set the phone on to charge hiding it as best she could.
Emma took the first wad of money out of the bum bag and placed it on the bed, counting it slowly, dividing it into two piles. ‘One hundred, two hundred, three, hundred, four hundred, five hundred; both piles equal. One thousand euro’s so far accounted for,’ she said to herself as she took out the next wad of money which equalled the same as the last one. ‘Two thousand Euro’s now, I can’t believe he had so much money lying around.’
She took hold of the heavier wad of money she originally counted quickly as two thousand euro’s. Emma divided it into four piles of five hundred euro’s but she had two hundred euro’s left. ‘I hope this extra money is from the other lot I have left to count, I don’t want to go back to the Bergmann’s to return it; it would be too dangerous. ‘Oh my god, Emma, you must have taken too much. Okay, okay, don’t panic. Just count the last lot of money. Four thousand two hundred euro’s so far.’
Emma counted the rest of the money quickly, she had six thousand and two hundred euro’s in total; two hundred more than she needed. ‘Um, I’ll just put the rest away for safe keeping; it’s only an extra two hundred. If I have to leave town with Jenny when she returns we may need it. Yeah, good idea, Emma,’ she thought to herself, rationalising a way to keep the extra money.
Emma went over to her computer desk and searched through all the papers on it until she came across two envelopes. She took a black pen and wrote ‘Two thousand five hundred euro’s,’ on both of them. The blonde took them back over to the bed and placed the right amount of money inside the envelopes, placing them both and the rest of the cash back into the bum bag before placing it in the wardrobe once more.
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They collected what they needed and left the Laundromat, going into the main building. Both girls decided to follow their schedules as best they could without being caught, while gathering information. It was the smartest thing for them to do. Aisling looked at the clock and it read quarter past seven as she dusted a picture frame while Sinead stealthily took pictures of the inside of the room they were in, looking for anything of value. They moved into the corridor next, with patient’s rooms lining either side. They read the names on the door as they passed through to go to their next destination, none of the doors read ‘Jennifer’, ‘Jenny’ or ‘Hartmann’.
The two brunettes entered the games room and done a half assed job of cleaning as they searched everywhere they could. They had not seen one resident or staff member yet; the place seemed eerily calm and spooky in the dim light.
They moved on, taking the elevator to the second floor. Exiting the elevator they turned right and passed the dining room which had a few people in it eating breakfast. Sinead’s stomach grumbled as she smelled the food and coffee.
“Hungry?” Aisling asked smirking.
“Not really, I just need a pot or three of coffee, it smells so good,” Sinead said smelling the aroma of coffee wafting past her.
“You can have some later, we need to collect the rubbish bins in the communal rooms and from the front desk first,” Aisling said in a hushed whisper.
Both girls moved down the halls collecting the bins as no one gave them a second glance. They got to the front information desk, were two nurses were seated. They both looked up at Sinead and Aisling with a confused look on their faces.
“Are you new cleaners,” the older nurse asked them.
“Oh, no, we are just filling in for them today. They both called in sick with a stomach bug but will be working tomorrow,” Sinead said in a friendly and calm tone.
“Okay; I need you to empty out the waste bin and then take the papers bin down to recycling and make sure you put them through the shredder before binning them. Some patient information didn’t print properly and it needs to be destroyed,” said the nurse as she handed Aisling the waste bin and Sinead, the papers bin.
Aisling emptied the bin and replaced the bag in it as Sinead did the same with the bin she was given. Aisling looked at the clock once more, it was ten past eight. They needed to get a move on before the real cleaners woke. They handed the bins back and moved on down the corridors.
“These doors aren’t labelled, how are we suppose to tell if Jenny is on this floor,” Sinead said quietly.
“She is on this floor; the white board behind the nurse listed her as a patient. We need to get a move on too, the Propofol in the darts may start to wear off, we have been over an hour,” Aisling stated with a sense of urgency in her voice.
“Let’s head back and hope there is something useful in these papers. At least we now know the layout of inside of here,” Sinead stated as she sensed the other girl was feeling stressed slightly.
Aisling pressed the button for the elevator repeatedly until it arrived; she moved the cleaning trolley inside and hit the button for the first floor. She felt Sinead wrap her arm around her shoulders and place a soft kiss on her cheek. The doors dinged opened and they made their way back into the Laundromat. They passed by the main reception desk for the first floor and it had no one attending to it. Sinead quickly took a look around the desk and found the staff rosters; she took pictures off them all, smiling to herself.
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Jenny lay restlessly in the middle of her bed as she stared blankly at the ceiling. The brunette rubbed her right arm from where she had blood taken from for a test the doctor conducted on her as part of her drug screening. ‘The new doctor seemed nice; I think I will have a bruise on my arm in the morning though. I wonder why he said he needed to send a blood work report to my parents, it seems rather useless to do, unless there is a new drug out which can only be detected in the blood, it would make sense then. I just want this all to be over,’ Jenny thought. As she changed position on the bed her thoughts wandered back to Emma.
‘Emma, my lovely, beautiful, adorable and sweet Emma; I miss you so much. I just want you here with me or to just be with you. I miss everything about you; the sound of your voice, your laugh; the way you smile and look at me with your hazel eyes, so full of love. I just want to be with you once more, to even talk to you would be amazing. I just want to feel your body next to mine and to feel you while loving you, the way you deserve to be loved,’ Jenny thought, as a single tear rolled down her cheek. She wiped it away, trying to think of anything but Emma, as thoughts of the blonde made her sad and broke her heart in two.
Jenny got up from the bed and walked around her bedroom, pacing back and forth. She needed to collect herself and try to find a new way of escape. She headed for the door and opened it. The brunette made her way down the corridor, greeting some other residents as she passed the lunch room and headed towards one of the rarely used study rooms.
She opened the heavy oak door to the room, hearing it creak as she shut it behind her. The room was of average size with a high ceiling, painted all white with one wall lined with bookshelves full of fiction novels. There were two old style desks placed at each end of the room with some dark red leather lounge chairs placed on either side of the window.
Jenny walked over to the bookshelf and ran her finger along the spines of the books. The only books in there she could notice by sight were the Harry Potter series and the Twilight books. She had read both sets of book before and thought they were heaps better than the movies, which she didn’t enjoy as much. Jenny stopped running her finger along the books and pulled out a newer book, “The Mortal Instruments, book one, City of Bones,” Jenny said softly to herself as she turned it over and read the blurb.
Jenny walked over to the seats with the book in hand and turned one of the chairs so it faced the window, allowing her to look out of it. She curled up in the chair and started to read the novel. She turned the pages, reading every word as she started to get drawn into the book and the life of Clary Fray.
Soft muffled voices whispering brought her attention away from the book; she looked around the room and was alone. Jenny moved over to the door and opened it and saw that the corridor was clear. She could still hear voices whispering faintly as she moved back over to the chair and tried to pinpoint where they were coming from. The brunette looked out the window, which didn’t have bars, and saw the two new security guards talking to each with rushed hand gestures. She listened intently but couldn’t understand what they were saying to one another, Jenny resigned to just watching them for now, hoping to overhear something.
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Aisling and Sinead entered the Laundromat, taking their clothing from underneath the trolley as they unloaded all the cleaning supplies from it. Sinead grabbed the bag of papers from the reception area, which needed to be shredded. The door opened as two other cleaners walked in and nodded to them, asking if they were finished with the trolley. They handed the cleaning trolley over as they walked over to the paper shredder, trying not to draw any suspicion to themselves or what they were doing.
Sinead pulled out a blank piece of paper from the bag and put it through the shredder as the other cleaners loaded the trolley up for their cleaning rounds. Aisling started to sort through the papers, handing the blue eyed girl all the useless pieces, putting the few papers aside which were about Jenny. By the time the other cleaners left they had sorted through all the papers, only finding three of interest; one of Jenny’s health records, screening results and daily plan. Sinead folded them up and placed them in her jacket pocket before she took it off and changed back into her own clothing.
Once they were changed they hid the cleaning clothes in one of the dryers high up on the wall, hoping no one would notice them any time soon. Aisling checked her pockets to see if she still had her camera and dart gun on her. Once she confirmed they were there she made sure Sinead had her camera as well before they exited the building and started back up the path to the back exit.
“I think that was a mission well done, don’t you Aisling?” Sinead said looking at the taller brunette.
“When we get home, then I will think it’s a mission well done. It has gone our way so far though,” Aisling said though not as positively as Sinead was hoping for.
“Oh, come on Aisling, we did well. We know the layout, we have a rough idea where she is and we also have images of all the staff rosters for the week,” Sinead stated wrapping her arm around her girlfriend’s waist.
“I guess you could be right,” Aisling agreed, wrapping her arm around Sinead’s shoulders and placing a soft kiss on her temple as they walked up the last part of the corridor and to the door.
“So how do we open this?” Aisling said looking at the stone wall, releasing the other girl.
“Maybe by the same way it opens. Try leaning against it, love.”
Aisling leant up against the door for the third time that day and felt it open. They exited the facility as Sinead quickly went over to the tree line and looked behind the big Oak tree. She saw the bodies of the two cleaners, sleeping peacefully as their chests rose slowly with every breath they took.
Sinead joined Aisling back at the door which had closed as they started to walk down the alleyway, ready to go home. The weather had gotten slightly warmer but the clouds were still dark and heavy-looking in the sky; sounds of cars could be heard in the distance.
Sinead and Aisling stopped dead in their tracks as they came face to face with the tall brunette security guard, Bo. They felt a hand grab the front of their jackets as they were picked up off the ground with incredible strength and thrown across the alleyway, their backs slamming into the wooden fence bordering the house next door. They both crumbled to the floor as pain shot through them from the impact; they tried to get up but it was to no avail.
To be continued..
Author: Hollie_1201
Pairing: Emma Muller & Jennifer Hartmann, Sinead & Aisling and Bo & Kenzi (Lost Girl)
Rating: M
Summary: Jenny goes to a rehab clinic in Ireland and Emma hires two people to break her out.
Word Count: 4,060
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Authors Note: Please comment. Your comments are worth more than you really know. Thanks to Datsme for being a wonderful and lovely beta.
( Part 1) ( Part 2) ( Part 3) ( Part 5) ( Part 6) ( Part 7) ( Part 8) ( Part 9) ( Part 10) ( Part 11)
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The cold morning dew hung in the air as the wind blew softly making the Ash and Birch trees sway slightly as their falling leaves gently moved with the wind, gliding down onto the wet ground below. The sun was rising slowly in the blue sky pushing the night away, signalling a new day had arrived. The only sounds that could be heard were those of soft footsteps walking down the path outside of the rehabilitation centre.
Sinead and Aisling were dressed in thick winter jackets to keep out the cold of the morning, as they studied the area around them discreetly. They kept a look out for anything unusual and for authoritarian figures; they didn’t want to be caught, something which Aisling had been worrying about lately.
Aisling blew into her hands, rubbing them together to try to get them to warm up. The brunette could see her breath in front of her as her teeth chattered from the cold. She looked at her watch quickly; it was almost ten past six. Aisling felt a hand on her right shoulder; she gasped in surprise and looked up to see Sinead looking at her with a concerned expression on her face.
“Are you okay? You have been more quiet than normal since last night and you usually don’t react like that when someone touches you either,” Sinead said worryingly, looking Aisling in the eye.
Aisling sighed and looked at the ground as she was unable to keep eye contact with the other girl, “I’m just really worried about being caught; it’s been nagging at the back of my mind for the last few days and has made me a bit jumpy.”
“Hey, we’ll be okay, I’ve got your back no matter what and we haven’t been caught yet. We have been doing this for almost five years and with another two years before that on the run. And, we have had only one or two close encounters. We’re pretty good at not getting caught, love.”
“Yeah, you’re right. I just need to calm my nerves and get the job done,” Aisling said; smiling a little smile as Sinead pulled her into a hug. Sinead held her tightly as a police car drove past them, hoping she wouldn’t see it as it turned the corner.
As they broke apart, Sinead searched her pocket and pulled out two mini cameras, handing one to Aisling. “I think we should start by walking around the perimeter, and if we see anything, we get some photos of it. We can also make a recording of the area as well so we have it for later,” Sinead said starting to walk forward, heading down the footpath.
“Sounds like a good idea,” Aisling said, nodding her head and turning her camera on.
They checked out the front of the building, looking for weak spots along the stone fence. Sinead checked the entrance gates to see if the electrical surge was still running through them and it wasn’t. They rounded the corner and into the alleyway; they took recordings and images of the tree branches hanging over the side of the fence. Sinead noticed an empty milk crate sitting across the alley and took it to stand on to get some images of the other side of the fence and of the building. Together they rounded the back of the building and it was three metres of concrete then an open green field filled with Oak trees; a photo was taken as they walked around to the last side. Sinead and Aisling walked carefully through the overgrown grass and weeds, stepping over slippery mud spots, down the last side of the building. About half way down they encountered an old brick wall covered in vines.
“Why is there a wall here?” Aisling asked in confusion.
“I have no idea, I guess we head back the way we came now after I inspect it,” Sinead said walking past Aisling and to the wall, physically examining it while moving some of the green vines. “It’s solid, let’s head back.”
The two girls walked back the way they came, slowly making their way through the tall grass. As they rounded the corner they walked along the concrete platform once more. Aisling slightly leaned up against the corner of the stone wall under some hanging branches, near the alleyway, “Today has been useless, and we’ve found nothing, Sinead,” the brown eyed girl said leaning her full weight against the wall. The wall moved back revealing a secret entrance as Aisling screamed slightly in fright and jumped back placing her right hand over her heart, breathing deeply.
Sinead looked at her and giggled softly to herself as she moved over to Aisling, rubbing her back softly. “Are you okay, sweetie?” she asked with a smile on her face.
“I’m good, I think we just found the emergency exit though,” Aisling said looking down the corridor which the now opened door revealed.
“Yeah, looks like it. We should follow it and see wher...” Aisling silenced Sinead.
“Listen,” she whispered, “I hear something.”
They both listened intently and could hear the faint sounds of wheels rolling, like a cart was being pushed up the alleyway. Sinead looked around the corner quickly and looked back at Aisling, grabbing her by the wrist as she starting to run towards the tree line. Aisling stumbled a bit, but got her footing and kept up with Sinead. They ran to behind one of the larger trees as Sinead put a finger to Aisling’s lips to stop her from speaking as she pointed to two cleaners rounding the corner. The door had closed and the cleaners stood in front of it, talking.
Aisling looked at her watch, it was six thirty. ‘So it seems the cleaners are starting soon, maybe we could get in and pose as them, I do have my dart gun,’ she thought as she felt around her pockets and pulled out a little dart gun pointing it at the cleaners.
“Aisling, what are you doing?” Sinead asked, placing her hand on the other girls arm.
“We need more information; the only way we can do that is by going inside undercover and we have a perfect opportunity right in front of us. My dart gun is fully loaded with Propofol which should knock them out for thirty minutes up to a few hours. We can tie them up if you want.”
“Tie them up with what?” Sinead said quietly, removing her hand from Aisling’s arm, “Okay, okay, shoot them; we need to get inside.”
Aisling looked up and aimed her dart gun at the cleaners and shot them both in the upper arm. They pulled the darts out and collapsed to the ground. Sinead and Aisling ran over to them and picked the first one up by the arms and legs and moved her to behind the tree line followed by the second one.
Inside of the centre, Bo and Kenzi watched them closely through the window in one of the library rooms. They looked at each other with curious eyes both wondering about what exactly the two brunette girls wanted. The expression on Bo’s face changed, she was going to figure out what they were up to; she would use her succubus powers on them, if needed.
“We need to get changed into their clothing to pass as them,” Aisling said going back to the trolley and taking the uniforms off it. She went back behind the trees and handed a uniform to Sinead. She held her uniform up and looked at it with a ‘this is horrible’ face before getting undressed and changed into it. Sinead had finished getting changed and folded their normal clothes up placing them on the ground before she felt around the cleaner’s pockets and pulled out their I.D and keys.
“Now what are we suppose to do Aisling?”
“We get the cleaning trolley, go inside the facility and do their job while gathering information. We should also try to locate Jenny’s room, it will be of use when creating our break out plan,” Aisling said taking Sinead’s hand, who grabbed their clothing up off the ground, before being dragged over to the trolley.
Aisling leaned up against the wall once more as it opened. Sinead pushed the trolley along the closed in pathway as Aisling took pictures of the surroundings. They followed the path all the way to the end and to another entrance in the back of the building labelled ‘Laundromat.’ They scanned the I.D cards at the door and they opened.
The inside of the Laundromat was void of people and had washing and drying machines lining the walls with a cupboard containing brooms and disinfectants for cleaning. Aisling walked over to the computer in the corner and scanned her I.D once more. A list appeared on the screen of what she was suppose to do today with a map of the facility, ‘Too easy,’ she thought to herself.
“Sinead, pass me your I.D please,” She asked holding out her hand as she felt the I.D card being placed in it. She scanned it and the exact same schedule came up for her. “Looks like we are working together,” Aisling said, handing the I.D back as she looked up a list of what they would need and printed it off.
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Emma lay in her bed unable to sleep as she moved from side to side not being able to get comfortable. The blonde kept on looking over to her wardrobe; she could see her black clothing sitting there with the bum bag full of cash sitting on top of it, staring at her. Emma sat up and sighed, taking a sip of water from her glass sitting on her bedside table.
She kicked her legs over the side of the bed as she placed the cup back down. The bum bag was making her feel as though her stomach was in knots, she couldn’t quiet identify the feeling; it was neither good or bad. Emma walked over to her bedroom door, locking it so no one could see what she was up to as she felt like a thousand eyes were watching her.
The blonde walked over to the wardrobe and took the bum bag out of it, throwing it on her bed, while she went to open the curtains slightly to let the morning light into the room. She glanced out the window and noticed that another layer of fresh snow covered the ground below.
Going back to her bed, Emma opened the bum bag quietly. She took out Jenny’s purse, phone and charger and tried to turn the phone on, the battery had died. Emma placed the purse in her top draw, hidden under a red bra and set the phone on to charge hiding it as best she could.
Emma took the first wad of money out of the bum bag and placed it on the bed, counting it slowly, dividing it into two piles. ‘One hundred, two hundred, three, hundred, four hundred, five hundred; both piles equal. One thousand euro’s so far accounted for,’ she said to herself as she took out the next wad of money which equalled the same as the last one. ‘Two thousand Euro’s now, I can’t believe he had so much money lying around.’
She took hold of the heavier wad of money she originally counted quickly as two thousand euro’s. Emma divided it into four piles of five hundred euro’s but she had two hundred euro’s left. ‘I hope this extra money is from the other lot I have left to count, I don’t want to go back to the Bergmann’s to return it; it would be too dangerous. ‘Oh my god, Emma, you must have taken too much. Okay, okay, don’t panic. Just count the last lot of money. Four thousand two hundred euro’s so far.’
Emma counted the rest of the money quickly, she had six thousand and two hundred euro’s in total; two hundred more than she needed. ‘Um, I’ll just put the rest away for safe keeping; it’s only an extra two hundred. If I have to leave town with Jenny when she returns we may need it. Yeah, good idea, Emma,’ she thought to herself, rationalising a way to keep the extra money.
Emma went over to her computer desk and searched through all the papers on it until she came across two envelopes. She took a black pen and wrote ‘Two thousand five hundred euro’s,’ on both of them. The blonde took them back over to the bed and placed the right amount of money inside the envelopes, placing them both and the rest of the cash back into the bum bag before placing it in the wardrobe once more.
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They collected what they needed and left the Laundromat, going into the main building. Both girls decided to follow their schedules as best they could without being caught, while gathering information. It was the smartest thing for them to do. Aisling looked at the clock and it read quarter past seven as she dusted a picture frame while Sinead stealthily took pictures of the inside of the room they were in, looking for anything of value. They moved into the corridor next, with patient’s rooms lining either side. They read the names on the door as they passed through to go to their next destination, none of the doors read ‘Jennifer’, ‘Jenny’ or ‘Hartmann’.
The two brunettes entered the games room and done a half assed job of cleaning as they searched everywhere they could. They had not seen one resident or staff member yet; the place seemed eerily calm and spooky in the dim light.
They moved on, taking the elevator to the second floor. Exiting the elevator they turned right and passed the dining room which had a few people in it eating breakfast. Sinead’s stomach grumbled as she smelled the food and coffee.
“Hungry?” Aisling asked smirking.
“Not really, I just need a pot or three of coffee, it smells so good,” Sinead said smelling the aroma of coffee wafting past her.
“You can have some later, we need to collect the rubbish bins in the communal rooms and from the front desk first,” Aisling said in a hushed whisper.
Both girls moved down the halls collecting the bins as no one gave them a second glance. They got to the front information desk, were two nurses were seated. They both looked up at Sinead and Aisling with a confused look on their faces.
“Are you new cleaners,” the older nurse asked them.
“Oh, no, we are just filling in for them today. They both called in sick with a stomach bug but will be working tomorrow,” Sinead said in a friendly and calm tone.
“Okay; I need you to empty out the waste bin and then take the papers bin down to recycling and make sure you put them through the shredder before binning them. Some patient information didn’t print properly and it needs to be destroyed,” said the nurse as she handed Aisling the waste bin and Sinead, the papers bin.
Aisling emptied the bin and replaced the bag in it as Sinead did the same with the bin she was given. Aisling looked at the clock once more, it was ten past eight. They needed to get a move on before the real cleaners woke. They handed the bins back and moved on down the corridors.
“These doors aren’t labelled, how are we suppose to tell if Jenny is on this floor,” Sinead said quietly.
“She is on this floor; the white board behind the nurse listed her as a patient. We need to get a move on too, the Propofol in the darts may start to wear off, we have been over an hour,” Aisling stated with a sense of urgency in her voice.
“Let’s head back and hope there is something useful in these papers. At least we now know the layout of inside of here,” Sinead stated as she sensed the other girl was feeling stressed slightly.
Aisling pressed the button for the elevator repeatedly until it arrived; she moved the cleaning trolley inside and hit the button for the first floor. She felt Sinead wrap her arm around her shoulders and place a soft kiss on her cheek. The doors dinged opened and they made their way back into the Laundromat. They passed by the main reception desk for the first floor and it had no one attending to it. Sinead quickly took a look around the desk and found the staff rosters; she took pictures off them all, smiling to herself.
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Jenny lay restlessly in the middle of her bed as she stared blankly at the ceiling. The brunette rubbed her right arm from where she had blood taken from for a test the doctor conducted on her as part of her drug screening. ‘The new doctor seemed nice; I think I will have a bruise on my arm in the morning though. I wonder why he said he needed to send a blood work report to my parents, it seems rather useless to do, unless there is a new drug out which can only be detected in the blood, it would make sense then. I just want this all to be over,’ Jenny thought. As she changed position on the bed her thoughts wandered back to Emma.
‘Emma, my lovely, beautiful, adorable and sweet Emma; I miss you so much. I just want you here with me or to just be with you. I miss everything about you; the sound of your voice, your laugh; the way you smile and look at me with your hazel eyes, so full of love. I just want to be with you once more, to even talk to you would be amazing. I just want to feel your body next to mine and to feel you while loving you, the way you deserve to be loved,’ Jenny thought, as a single tear rolled down her cheek. She wiped it away, trying to think of anything but Emma, as thoughts of the blonde made her sad and broke her heart in two.
Jenny got up from the bed and walked around her bedroom, pacing back and forth. She needed to collect herself and try to find a new way of escape. She headed for the door and opened it. The brunette made her way down the corridor, greeting some other residents as she passed the lunch room and headed towards one of the rarely used study rooms.
She opened the heavy oak door to the room, hearing it creak as she shut it behind her. The room was of average size with a high ceiling, painted all white with one wall lined with bookshelves full of fiction novels. There were two old style desks placed at each end of the room with some dark red leather lounge chairs placed on either side of the window.
Jenny walked over to the bookshelf and ran her finger along the spines of the books. The only books in there she could notice by sight were the Harry Potter series and the Twilight books. She had read both sets of book before and thought they were heaps better than the movies, which she didn’t enjoy as much. Jenny stopped running her finger along the books and pulled out a newer book, “The Mortal Instruments, book one, City of Bones,” Jenny said softly to herself as she turned it over and read the blurb.
Jenny walked over to the seats with the book in hand and turned one of the chairs so it faced the window, allowing her to look out of it. She curled up in the chair and started to read the novel. She turned the pages, reading every word as she started to get drawn into the book and the life of Clary Fray.
Soft muffled voices whispering brought her attention away from the book; she looked around the room and was alone. Jenny moved over to the door and opened it and saw that the corridor was clear. She could still hear voices whispering faintly as she moved back over to the chair and tried to pinpoint where they were coming from. The brunette looked out the window, which didn’t have bars, and saw the two new security guards talking to each with rushed hand gestures. She listened intently but couldn’t understand what they were saying to one another, Jenny resigned to just watching them for now, hoping to overhear something.
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Aisling and Sinead entered the Laundromat, taking their clothing from underneath the trolley as they unloaded all the cleaning supplies from it. Sinead grabbed the bag of papers from the reception area, which needed to be shredded. The door opened as two other cleaners walked in and nodded to them, asking if they were finished with the trolley. They handed the cleaning trolley over as they walked over to the paper shredder, trying not to draw any suspicion to themselves or what they were doing.
Sinead pulled out a blank piece of paper from the bag and put it through the shredder as the other cleaners loaded the trolley up for their cleaning rounds. Aisling started to sort through the papers, handing the blue eyed girl all the useless pieces, putting the few papers aside which were about Jenny. By the time the other cleaners left they had sorted through all the papers, only finding three of interest; one of Jenny’s health records, screening results and daily plan. Sinead folded them up and placed them in her jacket pocket before she took it off and changed back into her own clothing.
Once they were changed they hid the cleaning clothes in one of the dryers high up on the wall, hoping no one would notice them any time soon. Aisling checked her pockets to see if she still had her camera and dart gun on her. Once she confirmed they were there she made sure Sinead had her camera as well before they exited the building and started back up the path to the back exit.
“I think that was a mission well done, don’t you Aisling?” Sinead said looking at the taller brunette.
“When we get home, then I will think it’s a mission well done. It has gone our way so far though,” Aisling said though not as positively as Sinead was hoping for.
“Oh, come on Aisling, we did well. We know the layout, we have a rough idea where she is and we also have images of all the staff rosters for the week,” Sinead stated wrapping her arm around her girlfriend’s waist.
“I guess you could be right,” Aisling agreed, wrapping her arm around Sinead’s shoulders and placing a soft kiss on her temple as they walked up the last part of the corridor and to the door.
“So how do we open this?” Aisling said looking at the stone wall, releasing the other girl.
“Maybe by the same way it opens. Try leaning against it, love.”
Aisling leant up against the door for the third time that day and felt it open. They exited the facility as Sinead quickly went over to the tree line and looked behind the big Oak tree. She saw the bodies of the two cleaners, sleeping peacefully as their chests rose slowly with every breath they took.
Sinead joined Aisling back at the door which had closed as they started to walk down the alleyway, ready to go home. The weather had gotten slightly warmer but the clouds were still dark and heavy-looking in the sky; sounds of cars could be heard in the distance.
Sinead and Aisling stopped dead in their tracks as they came face to face with the tall brunette security guard, Bo. They felt a hand grab the front of their jackets as they were picked up off the ground with incredible strength and thrown across the alleyway, their backs slamming into the wooden fence bordering the house next door. They both crumbled to the floor as pain shot through them from the impact; they tried to get up but it was to no avail.
To be continued..