INSOMNIAC: ALAN SMITH #2 (Alan Smith series) (39 page)

‘Mr. McRae’ said Kevin. ‘There they are. You better be ready’

‘Yes I’m, I’m’ said McRae.

‘Then go ahead, what else?’ said Ryan. ‘And make sure you keep in mind what we said’

‘Yeah yeah I got it’ he said and opened the door of the car. He was nervous for sure.

‘Here take the suitcase’ said Kevin and gave it to him.

‘Yeah’ McRae grabbed it.

Then he didn’t look back. He walked straight up to that car on the other side, trying to keep his body and his hand steady from shaking. As he walked a few more paces, the nervousness gradually went away and he felt strong. Yes, he could do it. He would have to do it. At least for Jake’s sake.

By now the opponent party had came out of their car. The men in the front were slim, lean, tall and elegant looking, with a pair of expensive shades stuck on their eyes. He was dressed in all black .Behind him on the both sides of the car two more men stood , one had a brown moustache which was not at all looking good on him, and wore a torn pair of jeans and a half sleeved jacked kind of thing. The other one wore a normal grey three-piece suit. He also wore shades. Both of them had heavy high quality machine guns, which were all loaded and ready to fire anytime.

Ryan and Kevin watched carefully as McRae walked up to them. They didn’t wanted to miss a single moment as they would have to jump in at the right moment and would have to be extremely cautious about certain things.

McRae walked slowly but at the end, he picked up more speed and covered up the rest of the space between him and the black suited man quickly. He wasn’t sure if these men had noticed his nervousness or not, he hoped not.

As he reached the place, he stopped a few metres away from the man as the suited man himself came forward and started saying something.

‘Ok, so far so good’ Kevin muttered looking at them.

‘What’s there to talk about?’ said Ryan.

‘Beats me’ replied Kevin.

‘Maybe they are asking if McRae bought the right amount of money or not’

‘That’s possible sometimes they do talk about such things, just to warm up’

‘But that’s really stupid isn’t it?’ said Ryan. ‘If a person can bring such a big amount of money them of course he will bring the correct amount.’

‘Then maybe they’re talking about something else’

‘Yeah’ replied Kevin. ‘And I mean have you ever seen an action movie where the villain didn’t talk any shit before trying to kill the protagonist?’

‘Can’t remember really’

‘That’s what I’m saying’ said Kevin. ‘These people I don’t know why, have these bad habits of gossiping and trying to sound clever before they kill the main character’

‘And they don’t succeed do they?’

‘How can they?’ said Kevin. ‘The wastage of time gives the other person an opportunity to escape or kill the villain.  Or so they shows in the movies’

‘Right’

They turned their attention again towards the black car area as the two men stood in front of it.

The man gestured something to McRae and McRae answered it quietly .He didn’t talk or use his hands to answer it, he just nodded and let them know the answer.

The man again asked him something, this time he also had a slight smile in his face, in answer McRae bought the suitcase forward, showed it and pointed at it. After looking at it the man turned back and said something to the grey suited man signalling him to do something.

‘Yeah so now they’re asking for money’ said Kevin and looked on eagerly.

Ryan kept his eyes fixed at the spot. ‘Sure they are. The main thing is that we will have to act quickly as he handovers the suitcase’. Ryan watched along as the grey suited man came forward keeping his machine gun steady, he took the suitcase from McRae, and McRae without any hesitation handed it over as politely as he could.

The man took it and placed it on the roof of the car, and tried opening it. They failed to open it at the first attempt but they found two switches kind of thing on both sides, they pushed it and the lid opened.

McRae stood there watching the face of the man as he came back with the open suitcase towards him without saying anything.

First, he was quiet as he gave the news to the black suited man who was the main in this three man team and was doing the talking. Then they took exactly one and a half minute to absorb the things before they blurted out random things and yelled at McRae. McRae had no words to calm them down.

‘It’s time for action’ said Kevin checking his gun if it was loaded or not.

‘Yeah’ said Ryan and suddenly his phone buzzed with a ringtone that Kevin hated, Ryan received it and said ‘Raglan’

He waited for some seconds then said ‘Perfect timing’ disconnecting the call.

‘Who was it?’ asked Kevin.

‘It’s Alan’

‘What did he say?’

‘They got the kid’

‘Great, let’s roll then’

‘Yeah but just a minute’ said Ryan, and before Kevin could ask what, Ryan started dialling a phone number and put it on his ear. Then he said ‘Yeah this is Ryan Raglan form the detective Bureau Homicide department, badge number 5775. This is to file a report regarding a mass shooting that’s going on currently at the Bronx area. We need some immediate back up, do you copy me?...Great. Thank you’

He hung up as he looked back at Kevin who had a surprised face.

‘Now that was a clever twist’ said Kevin smiling and Ryan gave the smile back but held back the laugh.

Then Ryan took out his gun, which looked like a Beretta, but it wasn’t one, cocked it and held it in his right hand. They looked ahead and saw that the shouting was still going on, McRae trying to defend himself , though there was nothing to defend, and was occasionally looking back , and the black suited man now had his gun out.

Ryan and Kevin without holding back any longer came out of the car and ran in the middle pointing the gun at the opponent party and yelling ‘NYPD, NYPD!’

Kevin also shouted, ‘Put your hands behind your head’

‘Now, do it now!’

They both settled on the both sides of McRae and tried to cover him.

The other members of the team were all taken aback including the main man in the front.  But they didn’t take too much time to regain their senses and when they did they all laughed.

‘Is this a joke, huh?’ the black suit said laughing then his face flushed with anger as he shouted the same thing ‘IS THIS A JOKE?!’

McRae took two steps back but Ryan and Kevin held their position pointing the gun at his chest area.

‘What sort of joke is this?’ said the man looking at McRae ‘Mr. McRae you bought cops with you?’

‘Actually it’s the opposite’ said McRae weakly. ‘Actually the cops bought me with them’

‘Shut up!’ the man yelled hearing this.

‘NYPD, drop your weapons’ Kevin  yelled again.

But the man totally ignored them and kept his eyes on McRae. ‘No, you bought them with you right?’

‘No you’re wrong’ this time McRae spoke more strongly ‘I was with them all along’

‘Terrific’ said the man scratching his jaw with the muzzle of the gun and walked in the area.  ‘Your son’s life is in danger; I thought you were aware of that’

This time Mr. McRae remained quiet. He just turned left to look at Ryan.

‘How doltish they can be’ said the man turning to his partners.

Ryan nodded to McRae and said ‘You don’t need to worry about anything, Mr. McRae we got this’

‘You got this? Seriously?’ said the man sighing and making a weird face then started laughing. When Ryan and Kevin didn’t say anything except moving the point of the gun from his chest area to his temple , he went on ‘And this was also the a part of the plan , wasn’t it ? To bring an empty suitcase?’

McRae just stared.

‘I knew it was’ said the man finishing his own sentence.

‘Enough of this nonsense’ now Kevin yelled in a controlled voice aiming his gun at everyone. ‘This is gonna be the final time I ask you to drop your guns’

‘You order me?’ the man thought that Kevin was out of his mind. ‘Are you aware that I can make a call and have the child killed?’

‘I’m aware of everything; now drop your gun dammit!’

This time the black suited man couldn’t control his anger, he went straight to Ryan took him by his collars  and pushed him away a little further. Kevin quickly stepped in between them and in turn gave a solid punch in the man’s face.  Kevin was healthy and lean; his blow could be hard and painful. The man pressed his finger on his lip and saw a few droplets of blood coming out as his index finger became red.

‘You might want to visit a doctor now, this area is dusty, that cut might get infected’ Kevin jerked.

He was furious than ever, but still he managed to keep his cool and held his lips to keep the blood in check and he also considered Kevin’s advice maybe, that the cut area might get infected . He didn’t wait anymore, he just said softly to his men . ‘Finish them’

Within seconds the machines guns were all ready as both the gunmen came forward and started to fire.

‘Take cover!’ shouted Kevin as Ryan quickly jumped behind the nearest car that was parked there. And Kevin found a large dumpster and rolled behind it.

The machine guns roared just like the black suited man should have roared when Kevin hit him , and the bullets came flying towards them from all the sides but the men never got an perfect shot.

The bearded man with torn jeans aimed at the car and fired recklessly trying to shoot the whole car down, as the mirrors and windows burst out and pieces went flying everywhere, getting smashed when they hit the walls on the other sides.

‘They ain’t stoppin’ ’ Yelled Kevin from the other side , it was tough to talk now as maybe a piece of glass or bullet might enter your mouth anytime.

‘Let them clear their magazine’ shouted back Ryan. The bearded man took out another gun, even before this gun was empty and pointed both the guns now at the dumpster as the bullets kept hitting the edges of the steel cans and sides of the dumpster instead of hitting Kevin.

The other grey suited man reversed his gun towards the car and kept squeezing the trigger to the furthermost position.

‘Where the hell is McRae?’ Kevin yelled as he tried peering his head out to see what was going on but he didn’t want to give them a perfect head shot.

‘I don’t know, he was there in the middle’ Ryan answered back with much effort.

‘He will get shot’

‘What can we do right now?’

They waited for some more time, they knew that they couldn’t act unless they stop shooting and they would not stop unless they need to reload again. So they had to wait, their Glock stood no chance in front of some high quality machine guns. The MP5, one of the man was carrying was making more noises hurting their ears, but they knew this MP5 wasn’t going to last longer. It would probably stop after 40 rounds or so.

‘Wait for them to finish all the rounds, after that we do what we can’ instructed Ryan from the other side.

Kevin gave a thumbs up sign and looked away letting the bullet bounce of, and just like they had expected, after two minutes of so, the flow of bullets dried up as both the men started reloading their guns. And reloading a machine guns takes a lot of time when compared to normal pistols.

‘Now!’ Ryan said and they soon took this opportunity to stand up and shoot targeting their legs.

They couldn’t fire wildly just like they were doing, their guns contained less bullets and when they fire it they had make it count.  And they knew if they missed their target in these few seconds they would reload their gun and this time they would surely kill them. Just as they thought they took their aim at the both pair of limbs and shot two to three bullets at a stretch. But it was too unfortunate that they missed it as the bullets hit the ground and tossed off.

‘I only have seven left in me’ said Ryan.

Now that the gunmen were busy reloading, the main black suited man came forward and pointed his gun at them. Although his lips were bleeding, he still managed to give them a smile as if nothing had happened. ‘Give it up, man’ he said.

Ryan saw that McRae didn’t get shot, he was standing at one far corner and was watching the action that was going on, he was at least well out of the main shooting zone. And now no one was even bothered to look at him or shoot him, they knew that if they could shoot the cops down it would just be a matter of time before they take the aim at McRae.

The man shot another bullet pointing at Kevin but Kevin was alert so he easily ducked away and the bullet sped away past him.

‘Take cover, Mr. McRae’ said Ryan out of precaution but McRae didn’t hear that, he just stood there.

Kevin fired two more shots, then checked his gun and saw that he had only three left in him. He stopped shooting and turned to Ryan. Ryan usually held his position and sometimes moved from one side to another so that the opponent doesn’t get a clean shot at him.

‘Man I’m bleeding bullets’ said Kevin.

‘Don’t worry mate, me too’ Ryan replied back swiftly.