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Chapter 4 - Unbreakable Bond

Nick, Elena, Alex, and Victor crept around the side of the main entrance heading in the direction of the pool hall. One of the only buildings in the God forsaken shelter that had anything fun to do. It was filled with Billiards tables, hockey, and ping pong. There were Premium Bose speakers mounted along the corners of the wall, and in the back tons of game systems and games to play to your hearts content. They all neared the side door, out of view of the cameras posted near the foyer.

"So, how are we gonna do this El. You got some kinda secret passage huh?" Nick asked while making prominent air quotations and looking around at his friend for approval.

"No, just sit back and watch doll face." She retorted.

"Oooooo, Doll face. Oh wait thats not really a burn is it?" Alex sighed as he realized that no one was even paying attention to his antics.

Elena had already pulled out the black pouch containing her black handled lock picking set. Each pick and tension bar was crafted with a flexible but durable titanium alloy. She hooked the tensioner at the bottom of the core slightly adding pressure to set the torque, She then selected the hook pick for the simple Master lock. She inserted the pick and began setting the pins perfectly on the shear line one by one, her highly trained hands and ears feeling smallest of movements and hearing the faintest of clicks. Soon she had reached up and pulled the lock loose.

"Abra Cadabra and... Vwalah." She teased as she pulled the lock free from its shackle and away from the bracket. "That magic enough for ya Nick?" She jabbed as she went to work on the second lock. She had finished the second lock in no time at all and turned around to find all three boys with there jaws practically on the floor.

"What the...but the lock was...and she.....what the fuck bruh?" Alex stammered and scratched his head in awe of the precise technique that he had just witnessed.

"Yo, that was dope El. Where'd you learn that?" Victor questioned.

"It was nothing really. Anybody can learn stuff like that on JewTube." Elena misdirected, not really wanting to explain to her "cool" friends that her dad was a OCD cop who overprepared for everything and made her learn an assortment of dangerous skills ever since she was eight.

The only one who wasn't bombarding Elena with questions as they walked into the pool hall was Nick, who walked silently in the back watching the three with a contemplative look on his face.

They went crazy raiding the snack bar. Soda, Chips, and candy were strewn along the sides of the pool table. They danced as they played their music and shot pool. Elena not even winning one game against the guys. She was having so much fun though so it didn't bother her.

They had circled to the back of the pool hall and went into the game room on Elena's suggestion. The guys were surprised by her willingness to play video games and were ready to take advantage of her lack of skill. Little did they know that Elena was a video game fanatic, and knew her way around any system. They selected MK and she couldn't help but laugh.

After Elena decimated them in every match with Mileena of all characters, they got tired of playing with her. She was obviously good, and there was no way they would ever come close to her skill. Plus she kept bragging as she executed fatalities, screaming. "Yeah, you like how i rip your fucking faces off dont you huh?" laughing maniacally.

"Ok, big shot." Nick sounded annoyed. "We can't defeat ya, you the best here so quit hyping ya self up."

She had just finished wrecking him for the umpteenth time today.

"You really are a beast at this Elena." Victor admitted. "You must really like games huh?"

"Are you kidding me Vick, i love games more than life."

No sooner than she had finished that statement, and powerful surge of energy had welled up in the controller in her hand. A large pop could be heard as the energy travelled from the controller, to Elenas left hand giving her a painful shock.

"Ahhhh." she screamed as she shook her hand and dropped the damaged controller on the floor.

"What the hell was that?" Nick asked "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, i'm straight. it must have been a short circuit or something." She rubbed her pinky where the largest concentration of pain was, and underneath her fingers the heart shaped ring glowed with an ethreal blue light for but a momment before returning to it's normal golden luster.

"Well hey, i think we all can agree that you definitely belong here El. With the talent and skill you have we can go places together. Trust." Nick started.

"Agreed." The other two said.

"Look." Nick said catching her attention.

"I've been looking at your fine ass all day ya dope" Elena thought as she stared into his hauntingly beautiful green eyes.

"I wanna bring you in on somethin that could potentially change all of our situation up for good." Nick explained.

" We've been taking in under the wing of a powerful man on this side. He's called D and he is the branch head of the South Park Mafia. He offered us endless supply of drugs and funds, and a nice place to shack up. I don't mind you being a part of this, since you said that things fell out with you and ya fam, but i need your help."

Elena's ears perked up at the sound of being truly free of her Dad, but the SPM were a dangerous group. Her Dad was working homicide cases involving supposed members of the South Park Mafia and they were all brutal killings. "What do you need me to do?" She asked.

"Alls ya gotta do is help us hit a lick on this jewlrey store that owes D money. You don't need to be afraid of being associated with the gang or anything like that. leave all that to us, but we need those skills you got. It would make shit go a hella lot smoother." Nick Assured her.

Elena thought about it for a couple of minutes. She knew her Dad had been chasing the guy "D" for years, but his public record was squeaky clean and he was in a powerful posistion on the city coucil. He also owned multiple buisnesses and kept all his movements covert. How would he feel if he knew that she was going to be doing second hand work for the very man that her Dad despised? He would feel betrayed. He would feel just like she had felt two years ago when he dropped the adopted bomb on her.

"Ok, im down. when are we doing this?"

*****

Present day

Elena had listed all the names of her "friends" who were apart of the burglary. She gave them as much information as possible minus the gunshot to the chest and the freaky game panel she was seeing.

"What's going to happen to me now Dad?" Elena sobbed. They were walking back down to the holding cell.

"I'm going to get you out babygirl. Just sit tight and don't cause trouble. I'll work as fast as i can. Understand?"

"Yeah, ok." she cried as she gave him a hug.

"I'm so sorry, i was so stupid. Even after hearing D was involved i went through with it. I'm sorry Dad?

"D? What did Dereck gray have to do with this? You never mentioned that during the interrogation." Damien said.

"Yeah, he was apparently the one who set the whole thing up." Elena answered.

Suddenly Damien took on a stern expression. "I've gotta go. I"ll be back soon El."

Damien practically dashed from the county jail and again hopped into his trusted sidekick putting the pedal to the medal.

*****

Dereck Gray looked up from the computer on his desk to the quirky assistant that was giving him news that he didn't like one bit. He closed his eyes for a momment and took everything that she had said into to consideration before he responded.

"Sir, what's our next move?" She said inquisitively with a happy tone to her voice.

"Well if she's not dead, send the hounds after her."

Lyla, the quirky assistant smiled wickedly as she said. "Will do sir."