"Working With an Angel"

Chapter Five

As John was walking out of the dining area he spotted Star. She waved at him and winked. John smiled at her and began walking toward her. Once in front of her he smiled just enough to show some dimple. She sighed and began to fan herself. “Danger you just know how to get to me.” She said to him.

“I’ll take that as a compliment.” He said. She smiled at him and licked her lips. “So,” he said to her. “Have you seen Angel?” Her eyes filled with disappointment and her smile faded.

“Oh, last I heard she was upstairs making friendly with Tank.” Star said with an eye roll.

“Tank the security guard?” John asked.

“Yeah, only he has the graveyard shift so he’s not working right now. She went to the ring area, you know where you fought that weasel fellow, to let out some feeling through kickboxing. Tank was there and I guess she decided to let out her feeling a different way.” Star said with a smirk.

John felt a bit of jealousy kick in but he blinked it away. “She do that a lot?” he asked Star.

“Never, she’s really been surprising me lately. Word also is someone saw her coming out of the stair well. No one goes into the stair well for anything good.” Star said with a head shake. John sighed and Star laid a hand on his chest. “Don’t you worry your sexy little head Dan. They would never be in your room. Angel is more… cautious then that.”

John nodded his head and smiled at Star. “Trust me,” he said “I’m not worried.” With those words he winked and walked away. If Angel was out with Tank then the room would be empty. John hurried to the elevator and took it straight to his floor. He pasted everything and every one on his way to his room and opened the door. Once inside he closed the door and made sure to lock it. He removed the book bag and placed it on his bed.

John opened it and looked at the file needing to know it was actually in there. He took it out and opened it. He wanted so bad to figure out what it was about this file that made Angel go pale. John looked at the picture of the girl and focused hard. He noted the facial features that were very similar and then it hit him. Maybe the fact that they looked alike wasn’t some coincidence.

John looked at her contact information and her address. IT was not very far from here and it was in a good location. This made him wonder why such a girl from a good neighborhood wanted a fake ID. John remembered the note that fell out of the file and began looking for it. He looked through the file and then the book bag but he could not find it. John looked at the neatly written “Annie Fairwhether” on the application. There was something about this girl.

John began looking through the tiny drawer that sat between Angel and his’ beds. Finally he found a pen and a note pad. He closed the drawer and held the pad in his hand. With his left hand he wrote down the phone number Annie had given the Illegals. He ripped the paper off the pad and put the paper and pad back in the drawer. He stuffed the file in the book bag and hid it under his bed. He made sure it wasn’t visible and left his room.

Walking down the hall he bumped into some one new. “Sorry,” he said and started walking. Suddenly, John stopped and said “Hey!”. The person stopped and turned around. He looked at John and waited for him to say something.

“My name is Dan what’s your?”

The man simply looked at him weird and muttered “Villain.”

Inside his head John laughed at some of the names these people had. What was so horrible about knowing someone’s real name? “Well, Villain… I was just wondering if you could tell me where I could find a phone.”

“Hit P on the elevator… You can’t miss them. I should warn you though, the conversations are being monitored.” John nodded his head and gave his thanks. He told Villain he’d see him around and moved for the elevators.

John hit P on the elevator and waited for the doors to open. When the doors opened John saw rows of phones with seats in front of them. It was like telephone central. Only about four people were using phones and John saw that they looked like they were planning to stay on long. John stepped out of the elevator and moved for the nearest available phone. He took out the paper with Annie’s number in it and picked up the phone. He heard a dial tone and began to dial.

While the phone rang John looked around. He stretched and searched until he spotted the three cameras that covered all angles of the room. Security was tight in this place. Finally some one answered. A woman’s voice greeted him “The Bankers resident, who’s speaking?”


“The Bankers???” John mouthed to himself not saying a thing. John hung up the phone and leaned back in his chair. Annie Fairwhether was living in the Bankers home? John sighed and considered maybe he dialed the wrong number. He tried again and the same voice answered with the same greeting. John hung up yet again and stood up.

After some thought John decided that maybe it was really nothing. Even if the girl had gave them the wrong number it didn’t matter and this sort of investigation wasn’t worth his time. John threw out the number on his way out of the room and into the elevator. He was being ridiculous.



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Angel sighed as John entered the room dressed for bed. He gave her a half smile and she just stared at him. She didn’t have strength to smile and neither did she want to smile at him. He moved for his bed and lied down. “I’m so tired my eyes couldn’t stay open on the way over here. Job upstairs get hard.” He said to her. Angel nodded her head and leaned back on her bed. She grabbed a blanket and hid under it. “Good night.” John said to her.

An hour later Angel was still under the blanket. She looked at her watch and thought now was a good time to leave. She had Tank’s hours memorized and she knew for sure he would be working right now. Angel sat up in bed and looked at John whose eyes were closed and he looked relaxed. Angel got out of her bed and changed her clothes making sure to watch John. He moved to scratch his nose and she froze. He rolled over in bed and she sighed. After ten minutes of dressing and getting her shoes on she opened the door to her room and walked out.

Angel walked down the corridor quickly and took the steps. She ran up the steps and got off on the floor C. She stepped out of the stair well and looked around. Everything on this floor was abandoned. Walking further in when she heard the elevator go ding. She stood against the wall next to the elevators. The doors opened and she waited for some one to step out. When no one stepped out but the doors stood open. Angel stepped in front of the elevator and there was no one in sight.

“Come on out…” Angel said to the hiding person. “An elevator just doesn’t show up at a floor on its own.” She waited a couple nervous minutes until finally John stepped out from the side of the elevator and smiled at her. “Danger! What are you doing? Trying to give me the creeps?! Are you following me?!”

“Of course I’m following you.” He said stepping out of the elevator. “What are you doing?”

“Don’t follow me Danger! I’m not doing anything. Just go back to the room.” She said crossing her arms.

“No thanks, besides I don’t want to miss what ever it is you’re doing. Mind telling me what exactly you are doing? Because it looks to me you’re on the same floor where I work.” He said with a smirk on his face.

“Stop smiling…” she mumbled.

“Come on, you can tell me.” He said nudging her.

“Fine, I wanted to get that file of that girl we were looking at earlier.” Angel admitted angrily. She knew he wasn’t going to back down and most of all she knew he knew where the file would be.

“What do you need the file for?” he asked. She didn’t enjoy all his questions. It wasn’t his business and most of all he shouldn’t have been following her!

“Look, I just need it ok. Go back to bed and leave me to be.” She said to him pointing to the elevator. She turned around and walked toward the office. John didn’t move to follow her but he didn’t move to leave. Just as she reached the office door and her hand grasped the door knob John said “It’s not there.”

Angel sighed and looked up at him. “Where IS it then?”

John walked toward her and spoke at the same time. “What ever it is you’re doing I want in on it.”

“Why?” she asked angry at him and disgusted with his demanding tone.

“Because I know you are doing something. You have some kind of plan and I want to know what it is. Just as much as you know I don’t want to be here and I’m pretending to blend in I KNOW that you’re also pretending. I want out of here and if following you and being sneaky is what it takes then I’ll do it.”

“You don’t know me!” she yelled at him throwing her hands in the air.

“You won’t let me!” he yelled back at her. Angel bit down on her lip so pissed at him that he had the audacity to want to get to know her and go with her and anything that had to do with her.

“Fine, you come with me and then you leave and I never have to see you again!” she yelled. She let out a breath and lowered her voice “But first I need that file.”

John nodded his head and reached for the back pack that Angel noticed on his shoulders for the first time. He opened it and handed her the file. She opened it and saw her sister’s picture and couldn’t help but hug the file. “I’ll hold onto it for safe keeping.” She said to him.

He nodded his head yet again and said “So why is it important?”

Angel thought for moments whether she should tell him then decided on it. “This is my sister. Tonight I’m going to see her.”

“Oh…” he said. “Well the number is bogus I already tried it and the Bankers answered not the Fairwhethers.”

“No, after they took me my sister was sent to a foster home only to be adopted by the Bankers.” Angel said simply. She looked at him and rolled her eyes “You are so nosey I can’t believe you called.”

“Well, I’m a determined fellow.” He said with a shrug. Angel laughed and nodded at him.

“Well, we should get going. Tank is expecting me.” She said walking around John and John following her. “He’s going to give us guns and hoods. You are to keep the hood on at all times. He’ll give s glasses to but since its night they’re night glasses. They look like sunglasses but they work like night vision goggles.” She said hitting the elevator button.

“Really?” he said with fascination.

“Yes, we have some good technology Danger.” She said. The elevator doors opened and they both stepped in. She hit the star.

“Cool… so how do you plan on getting past Tank?” he asked. She opened her mouth to reply but he put his hand up and stopped her. “Forget it.” He said “I remember now.”

“Remember what?” She asked.

“Star told me that you went and slept with Tank. Now I see why.” He said with a shrug.

“WHAT?! I did not have sex with Tank!” she said pushing him. “It just so happens that Tank and I got here around the same time. So we’re good friends. We watch each other’s back and do favors for each other. Kind of like how you and Weasel went and teamed up.” She said bitterly.

“Weasel…” he said softly. “We have to bring him with us! I promised I’d get him out. He’ll hate me forever if I just ditch him now.” He said reaching for the stop button.

Angel smacked his hand away and said “I’m pretty sure he hates you already. Besides, we can’t bring him with us. They’ll start getting suspicious if he’s missing. He’s important… Remember dish duty?”

“I remember so what? Won’t they notice us missing too?!” he said.

“Not really… seeing as how we’re in the same room they’ll just assume you and I… you know... and its way easier to let rumors spread about us then to have to stop people from sniffing around about Weasel’s where about.” She said. “He stays and that’s final.” John sighed and leaned against the Elevator walls. The door opened and Tank greeted them with a smile. Angel hoped everything went by smoothly. She would get to talk to her sister and she would get to stop her from making the biggest mistake of her life.