Chapter 2

Jean couldn't believe that his sister could be so foolish. They just heard that the Don had died and then she goes and drives off on her own. She can be such a child sometimes. He just hopes that when she married Alexei he will be able to ground her. She needs someone who will take care of her for a change; she has always taken care of them in one way or another. As he speeds down the road toward he know she is heading, he see that she is not that far ahead of him, so he slows down. Making sure that there are other cars between them just in case she sees him and she bolts again.

Marina not knowing that Jean is so close to her decides to drive slowly, her mind still on what happened back at the mansion. Suddenly she is jolted out of her own head when her phone starts ringing. Knowing that if she answers it will be Jean, Alexei or Vlad, going to yell at her, so she decides to not answer the phone for now. The more she ignores it the more it just keeps on ringing.

"Yeah, yeah, give me a break. I will answer you when I want to." She yells at the phone, just for it to stop, her to take short breath, then to start up again.

"What the hell, don't they ever stop, I can't even answer. I don't have the Bluetooth with me. They should know by now that I don't answer while driving anyway." She hates it when she talks to herself; she scares herself when she does that.

Getting a little fed up with the phone ringing, she pulls off onto the shoulder of the road, putting on her hazards and lifting the phone to her ear.

"Marina speaking and this had better be important." She barks into the phone, at first it is silence that she hears, then a siren going off and an old man yelling.

"Good, you decided to pick up, we need you to go to the plant. There is something wrong; we don't know what it is. We tried the others, but they don't answer. Please Marina you are the only one who can do this now." An almost known voice tells her, but still she can't figure out who it is.

"What do you mean there is something going on at the plant, you know that I am to be called only every other person. Why do I feel like you skipped everyone else and called me directly?" Marina yelled at the person, not caring that she sounded harsh in her own ears.

The other person didn't care, he just wants her dead, and therefore he called her first.

"Just get to the damn plant; I don't have time to argue with you over this." And then the line went dead. She could hear the dial tone, and that made her supper mad.

Being who she is, she would not leave this. Throwing the phone on the passenger seat, she looked to see if there were cars coming, seeing none, she pulled away taking off the hazards. Not really seeing that Jean was still behind her a few cars down the road.

Feeling as if something is wrong, she looks behind her and see 4 cars behind her, moving a little bit faster one passes leaving 3 behind her now, and it seems that they matched their speed to her. Looking for a better place to park, she sees the old duck lagoon where she went as a child coming up. She decided to drive into the parking lot, shutting of the car, 1 car sped off leaving 2 behind and both stopped completely. Grabbing her phone from the seat she calls Vlad to see if he sent security after her. Only for her to hear the dial tone. Not good at all. Throwing the phone back on the seat, she get out of the car and walks to the trunk of the car to make sure that everything she would need is in there. Just in case, you may never know.

Once the trunk is open the big gun case in there, she knows that she has all she needs. She even sees the smaller case with all of the ammunition in it. Knowing that Vlad had his vehicle's trunk stocked up just in case. Closing the trunk, taking a big breath of air, she sees her phone on the dashboard of the car and also the glove box. Knowing that inside there is also a small six shooter pistol. As she moves to the passenger side of the car, she hears a car accelerating, but not really paying much attention that it would be heading her way, so she just keeps on walking until the engine revving next to her and she has to duck back behind the car, landing badly on her left side, scraping her left hand on the gravel. For now noting register with her except for the car that almost ran her over. When she looks up, it is no coincidence that it did that, for the car stopped a few steps away, checking to make sure if they hit her or not, but not really staying to make sure.

When she is finally over the shock, she gets up, only to fall back down again. She twisted her ankle when she fell, and her hand is scraped open on the side, a small amount of blood is flowing from it. One more car stops next to her, but when she looks closely it is Jean. Two things happen at once, she starts crying because someone she knows is here and her shock is slowly going away.

Jean gets out of the car, looking sort of mad and scared at the same time. He has his phone to his ear when he reaches her.

"I know that, did you listen to what I said. Get me the doctor here now, I don't care with what he is busy with, our Donna needs his help. NOW" without saying good bye, he flips the phone close and takes a quick assessment of his sister/Donna.

"It just seems that you sprained your ankle and you scraped you left hand Donna, you need to be careful. If you had waited like Vlad has suggested, then none of his would have happened. You do know that Alexei is on his way here now. He would be beyond furious when he sees you like this."

"I know, but he can't know yet, I have to get to the apartment. I have to check why the power was cut and the security feed tampered with." Marina short of whispered back to him.

Jean just shaking his head looked at her, and thought to himself. 'Why would she do something like this? She knows better, is she that afraid of us. I mean it was 4 years ago that we all saw each other and Marina stayed away from both Alexei and I.'

"I don't care; you are supposed to have guards with you at all times, like your grandfather. Alexei is either going to come down here himself, or he will send the guard he picked himself to look after you, and trust me those four will never let you out of their eye sight. So be warned my little s-Donna." Jean tried to make her see, but she was really stubborn.

"Can't you just tell them that you didn't find me, that by the time you saw what happened, I got back in the car and drove off." Marina tried to plead with him, and she had a feeling that Jean was stalling her so that the guards can come to them.

"You and I both know that Alexei will kill me if anything else will happen to you." Jean said but in his heart he knows that he really can't let his little sister go.

"That is why you won't say anything to him. Just say that I forced you to let me go, because I threatened to kill you." Marina had said with a small smile on her face, getting up with the help from Jean, giving him a small kiss on his cheek. She turned around to the driver's side got in, started the car and drove off, not even once looking back at him.

Jean himself got back into his car, slamming the door closed that the windows rattled and started to hit the steering wheel. Picking up the Bluetooth device he called Alexei, he knows that he has to tell him the truth.

"This had better be good Jean, I was about to knock out a few guards for their stupidity." Came Alexei's voice hard through the device. Should he tell him the truth, or should he just lie like his sister had asked?

"She was in a small accident, someone tried to run her over. I was lucky close by and-" before he could say anything else, he heard real bad curses flying through the air.

"A SMALL ACCIDENT, dammit Jean, how badly is she hurt?" Jean could really hear his worry in his voice, even though they are Russian, sometimes another language tone comes out.

"Not that bad, just a sprained ankle and a scrapped left hand. She threatened to kill me if I didn't let her go; she was scared that you would do something, so she ran. I know where she is going, so I will follow her. At one point I almost told her who I really am." Jean confessed, knowing that he would be in trouble now.

"Dammit Jean, of all of the times in the world, you can be lucky you didn't tell her. Just follow her for now, I will send Zyle and Feliks after you. They are tracking your phone, seeing as they don't have her number yet. When you meet up with them, give her number to them, because those two will be her personal guards." He got the orders but he was not happy about it. Seeing as he knows that he will have to head back soon.

Slowly pulling away from the lake, checking to make sure that she is still going where she is supposed to, he follow her at a more leisurely pace. Almost twenty minutes later, he pulls up behind her car only for him to see that she is walking inside the building, with that heavy bag over her shoulder.

'What is going on in your head little sister, I know this is not easy for any of us, but please take care of yourself. I so long to tell you who I am, but for the safety of the family I can't. Maybe one day I will tell you, when we are both retired.' He so longs to just say those words to her, knowing that he can't.

Jumping when there is a light tap on his window, he looks to see that it Zyle and Feliks.

"Hey guys, she just went in, but make sure that she doesn't see you. I will text her number to you now. I guess my job is done, and Alexei is waiting back home for me right?" He asked with a very droll voice and the others just nodded their heads.

He starts the car after the texted her number to Zyle's phone and then drives off. Knowing that his sister is in good hands. He waits till he is good part away from the plant before he calls Alexei again, only this time there is only a dial tone. Taking a deep breath, he tries again only for the same thing to happen again. Quickly getting the two way radio out and tried there.

"Alexei, come in, this is important" knowing this can be very dangerous, but it needs to be said.

"I'm here, what's wrong?" Between his words he heard static, knowing that there is a big problem in the airwaves.

"It's done, the mission is cancelled." That is all he said before he turned the radio off again. Knowing that his friend will understand and if they were ever intercepted the people won't know what they were talking about.

Driving back home making sure to look back every few minutes to see if anyone was following him, when the coast was clear, he floored it back to the plant. He has to make sure that she is alright.

Marina meanwhile took the bag she needed and walk/ran toward the plant building. Not knowing where the problem could be, but she made sure that she has everything. As she walk passed an office that had seen better days, all you smell was gas and petrol as if someone opened a gas valve and poured gasoline out on the floor. When she looks closer she sees an old man passed out on the floor. She drops everything and ran to where he is. Not knowing if he is alive or not, she checks for a pulse only to feel none, she decides that this will not get her down, so grabs her bags and start for where she think the problem is, only for the next second people star running out of offices and heading for the main door. She decides that would be a good place to start. She heads for the second floor, knowing that would be the worst place to stash something.

Once in the deserted corridor, she sees a plate in the wall sticking out, 'Yeah, that is so not creepy', she thinks to herself. But still going to it, something is telling her that that is what she has been looking for. Getting down to her knees, she sees it is one of the bobs that she has no knowledge about. How will get it defused in time. She doesn't have her laptop and if the tries to bypass it, it will explode automatically. Not really knowing what to do, she just sits there. Feeling like she could cry, but not really allowing her to do that.

Jeans comes back to the plant just in time to see how the people start to run around like crazy, not really knowing what is going on. He decided to get out of the car and start to run. Seeing that both Feliks and Zyle just a few steps ahead of him.

"Why hadn't they entered when I left, had Alexei told them to wait outside? Or is there something else going on that I don't know about?"

"Guys, why are they running out of the building, what the hell is going on?" Jean yelled as he catches up to them, only to see that it wasn't them, it looked like them from the back. So did he unwillingly give her number to the wrong people?

They turned around and he felt a hit at the back of his head, next thing, and his world turned black and he passed out.

"There, that will teach him not to meddle in our business for a while. Even if my son tries to help out, he will never find her. I rigged this place with so much tnt that it would start a chain reaction, straight from the fuel depot right down to the dome, which is what I really want. Because once that is out of the way, the entire plant will fall." Andrei sneered, looking at Jean with disgust.

"Boss, wouldn't it better to start at the water plant, I mean, if you take away the water, everything else will build up and once there is enough pressure, the entire thing will blow. Wouldn't that cause an even bigger chain reaction?" One of the underlings asked Andrei. Knowing that if he really messes this up, things will not look good for him.

"You are right, it would be better, but oh well. What's done is done. She is inside and she will die along with that insipid old man Ivan." Andrei sneered again; he can't take it when people think they are better than him.

"Boss, not to be a pain, but didn't you say that you want to marry her, and therefore you need her to be alive? So I am just wondering why you want to let the place explode with her inside if she is the key to getting the family in the end." The same underling asked. He just didn't understand Andrei, if he destroys the girl, his chance to take down the family from the inside will be gone.

Andrei just gave him a look and that was all it took for him to keep his mouth shut. Next time he is to go with Andrei, he will tell the family, it hurts him that he has to lie and be deceitful to them.

Marina still just sat there, not knowing what to do, she tried everything she could, but it didn't help much. Her mind still wondered to back to the lake, why would someone want to hurt her. Is it because that she will take over the family soon? I mean if they wanted to take it, they can have it, she only said yes because her grandfather asked her. But now that he is dead, she has to take it over, not if's or but's about it.

Taking a deep breath she decided to try one more thing, and hoping to hope that it will work, otherwise they are all screwed. She slowly opens the back plate only to see that the wires have been tampered with.

"SHIT" she screamed. Slowly letting the cutter fall out of her hands, she backs up slowly. Not even seeing that she had triggered the timer and it is slowly ticking off one second at a time. Now is the time that she really wants to start crying.

The next second, she feels a hand grabbing her arm and it is starting to drag her away from where they are. Slowly but surely she gets back to reality and want to struggle, but the person has a very strong grip on her arm.