It had been 21 hours 15minutes and 19seconds since Larry and Willow had been abducted.
The place of the exchange was eerie
It was like the wild Wild West.
The only thing that could be seen were rusty tires and dead plants. Chris never knew a place like this existed.
The building was abandoned, Chris drove in he was skeptical about this place.
He came alone and left lory in the police station in the hands of the commissioner.
He didn't trust him, but it was better than dragging her to a gun fight.
"Hart Island, located near the Bronx, NY,"
It was an abandoned reformatory house from the 18-60's.
Chris felt uneasy, why would the culprits choose a place like this as the switch point?.
I was suspicious.
He could scream and nobody would come for him.
He patted himself on the back for being wise enough to call for backup.
He had them fooled. The deal was to come alone but he had called the cops they were 20minutes behind him and they disguised has normal citizens. They would never see them coming.
His phone rang and he answered.
"God job Chris, hope for the sake of your little brother you came alone." They used a voice changer. The voice coming from the other line sounded husky and bass.
"Where are they?". His anger was about to erupt, but he had to stay calm and follow his plan.
"Woah. Be patient, you see that rusty old tank by your left"?
"Yeah I do".
" I want you to quietly walk over to it, there is a phone lieing there, play the video".
Chris did as instructed.
The video played and it was the same video of Larry he saw earlier, were they messing with him?
Was this them trying to rile him up?.
Who ever they were. He wanted them behind bars like a an hungry infant wants breast milk.
He had to stay calm. He placed the phone back on rusty old tank.
He could here cackling from the phone.
"I'm just messing with you man the kidnapper confessed. Anyways if you look left my guys are probably walking out with your sweet little brother. He hung up.
And just like he said, Chris turned around and looked left.
He saw two guys walking towards him with Larry in the middle, they wore ski masks and they looked like amateurs.
his hands were tied together in front of him and a sack was over his head, they both held his two arm.
At this point he was positive they were tryna piss him off.
He looked around, where was willow?.
STOP!!!!
He yelled.
The men stoped.
"Where is the lady"? He asked.
The men looked at themselves.
"We don't know man, this guy just told us to bring this little kid over here, he said it was for a movie and after that he would give us a 100 bucks each, can you believe it"?
"Tell your boss, that there would be no exchange if I don't see both the lady and the boy" Chris announced and walked back to the direction of his car.
He hoped they don't call his bluff.
He got into his car started it he was about to drive off.
His phone rang.
"Are you really going to leave your brother behind"?
"I don't clown around, you brought out a kid with a sack over his face, how am I sure that's even my brother, it seems you are not ready for the exchange ,so I'll be off"
He hung up.
.
He picked it up again, but was quite this time.
"Get the money ready, they are walking over to you."
He told himself he wouldn't get down from his car until he saw both of them,
After awhile, he saw another set of men dragging Willow with them.
He sat up and hurriedly came down.
She looked beaten up, what had these men done to her?
It was all his fault she suffered this because of him and his family. If they hadn't called her on a Saturday to go to hospital with them she would probably be okay in the comfort of her home.
His hands were shaking.
She had a bruised up face and she was unable to stand properly.
Was she unconscious?
Anger boiled from his bones.
Chris walked to the back of his car and opened the trunk.
There were 10 brief cases in the trunk.
He brought the out one by one.
It was time for the exchange.
The four men walked closer with both Willow and Larry as Chris stood were he was with the brief cases around him.
" wait!" He ordered.
He walked up to the boy and removed the sack.
It was Larry, he breath a sign of relief as he hugged his brother.
"Don't worry you are safe now he whispered".
Chris opened his car and they took both Willow and Larry in.
He didn't have anything against these men they seem like they had no idea what was going on the real orchestrator was somewhere around here, dancing and smiling at the disastrous music he has created making him and everybody dance to his tunes.
But that tune was about to change.
In a matter of seconds two vans pulled up behind Chris's car and two dozen men in full gear rushed down. They were loaded with weapons and they had bullet proof vests.
"Hut Hut Hut"
They shouted and made a formation.
Immediately tackling the four men who were busy carrying the brief cases.
They didn't think to run,
They probably tought this was also part of the movie.
Someone lured them out here and made them take the fall for them.
"Check the buildings" he ordered.
As he went back to check on both Willow and Larry, Larry seemed to be lost in a trance.
With the corner of Chris eyes he saw a dark figure moving past him.
"There" he pointed by his right.
A man had jumped down from the second floor and limped towards the bike resting by the wall , hurriedly sitting on the bike that was there earlier, starting it up and driving off.
With impulse Chris ran after him with his foot, but it was of no use the man had gone further away.
(RING)
He slowly placed the phone on his ear
"You bastard, you are more cunning than I tought you were, but this isn't the end I'll be back."
"Where are you? Come out you coward!"
Chris screamed all his anger were erupting.
"Hahaha" the man cackled.
"Watch your back, next time will be death" he said and hung up.