chapter 29 | car ride

"the right people stay"

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Blake POV

The silence in the car is deafening. We should still have a 10 minute advantage on whoever is after us but even if Aria is going insanely fast, apparently after a good night's sleep she's actually a decent driver.

"Where to?"

"I need to make a couple phone calls and until then drive towards the airport, Luton Airport, I'll set up the GPS in a few seconds"

"Thanks"

Apparently Dean was very prepared, there were quite a few phones in the duffle bags and I managed to set one for Aria and I was preparing myself emotionally for the incoming phone calls.

"Hello?"

"Hello, Chris."

Silence.

A bit of shuffling in the background and then a few doors closing. He must have gone to a more secluded room

"Blake what the hell? You know everyone is-"

"Looking for me? Want to kill me? Yes I know that, I wouldn't call you just for you to remind me of this."

"You know being sarcastic to people isn't going to help you out of this situation."

"Maybe not, but you will"

"Blake"

"Chris, you owe me, besides you know that Luca was working with members of the board to put me on time out for a few months now. This was just their excuse."

"You killed 10 of our best men"

"Well they couldn't be that good considering it was 10 against 1 and I still won."

"Blake"

"Yeah yeah sorry, Chris, I need your help."

"Of course you do, silly me thinking the great Cooper Blake would call me for a different reason."

"Come on man you know you owe me, besides I did call you for something else"

"A threesome invitation doesn't count Blake"

"I meant the bowling night, asshole"

"Sure Blake, whatever you say, so go on. What do you need?"

"Do you have the location of Aria's sister?"

"Out of the things I would never expect you to-"

"Do you?"

"Yes, we finished going through the footage this morning"

"Where?"

"Blake, Monique is already making plans to send a team, they are supposed to leave tomorrow morning. After you escaped with Aria she's gone rampage, checking everything herself and not letting anyone make any decision. She is micromanaging the entire MI6 and the last person who commented something was fired and banned from all state agencies for the rest of his life. She's a monster. If she ever catches you again I don't think you will make it out alive, she will kill you herself. And let's not forget about Luca, he somehow spinned everything to his benefit, he got some bullshit medal of honor and made it his own personal mission to hunt you down and get the girl."

"Get the girl? What does he have to do with Aria? I thought he just wanted to be put on her case to get back to me." At the mention of her name Aria turns her attention fully even though I am sure they both listened to every word I said but she mouthed 'speaker' and I put the phone on speaker just as Chris began talking again, her and Charlotte both leaned in.

"That too but somehow the footage of what happened in the cell made their way across the agency, unofficially of course. Everyone knows what he was going to do to you but was stopped by a teenage girl who not only escaped his handcuffs but also put a gun to his head. He's pissed, very pissed."

Charlotte whipped her head towards Aria, Aria just smiling a bit.

"He is out for blood, your and Aria's, he is on the team going to Copenhagen and Blake, if they get to Anabeth I wouldn't trust him alone in a room with her. He wants revenge."

"Copenhagen? That's where she is?"

Aria's hands tightened on the steering wheel.

"Yeah, but Blake be careful please I'll send you the exact address."

"Damn Chris is the sentimentalism I hear in your voice?"

"Very funny, all I'm saying is that it's hard to find friends that will invite you on a Wednesday night on a threesome in Bora Bora"

Aria bursted out laughing

"Is that Aria?" Chris askes.

"Yeah you're on speaker."

"God dammit man, I'm traumatizing the poor girl you should have told me I'm on speaker."

"It's okay you just made my day better." replies Aria still laughing.

"Well glad I could help also, I want to say that you have a lot of balls and after all this blows over and you're still alive I would love to sit down and talk because you're now somewhat a celebrity among us the girl who managed to- "

"Okay Chris that's enough. Take care. Bye."

"B-"

I hung up the phone before he could say anything else. I knew where the conversation was going and I don't think Aria would actually appreciate it after everything she went through.

"That's rude of you to turn off the phone like that" she said.

"Nah don't worry, I'm sure his feelings weren't hurt. A few more seconds and he would have been able to get our exact location"

She looked at me with suspicion: "You think he was tracking the phone?"

"I don't know, I just made a habit out of not trusting anyone and keeping all phone calls under one minute long"

Charlotte snorted from the back seat. "Like if someone from MI6 would want to track your phone he wouldn't be able to do it in under 60 seconds."

I rolled my eyes and turned back to look at her but before I could say anything Aria jumped in: "You know how to track phones? Why would I expect anything else, between that and the tracker in my back no wonder you're doing computing science and acing all exams without studying."

The smug look Charlotte had on her face quickly turned into one of regret: "You think I wanted to do that? I wasn't planning to but after the disaster on Halloween night where I thought I would literally fish your body out of a canal I wanted to make sure I knew where you were."

Aria didn't say anything, just looked straight ahead and a heavy silence was in the car. This piqued my curiosity, so something happened on Halloween night. I started watching Aria in January, so I didn't know what happened during Halloween. I wasn't expecting them to respond but it was worth a try asking.

"Would you like to elaborate on that Charlotte or should I just jump to conclusions?"

"Fuck you Cooper I'm not telling you anything."

"Come on Char don't be a bitch, it's not that big of a deal, I just did really bad in an exam because I didn't study for it and I got a bit drunk and walked around the city till the morning."

Aria doesn't make it sound so bad but by the way Charlotte is starting to get more pissed I have a feeling she's undervaluing the experience.

"A BIT drunk? Aria you didn't get a BIT drunk, you literally made out with everyone in the club and not only almost fucked someone in the bathroom but left with a frat guy. I turned around for one moment to search for your jacket and when I looked for you again you weren't there and Larissa of all people told me she saw you leave with some dutch dude."

Excuse me WHAT? I didn't want to have to add it to my list today but I will make sure to pay all those guys a quick visit after everything is over.

"Yeah and we didn't do anything because he went to the next club and I just kept walking he was more shitfaced than I was-"

"That's not the point I run all over town to-"

"You barely walked a bit"

"Aria, stop. Just stop. A week before was the moment I had to take care of the first guy. I wasn't able to-" she looks at me like she remembers I'm in the car. "I was stressed and you weren't helping the situation so I got a very small tracker and used it. Sue me."



A/N No promises on the next chapter