Ayla was about to loose it when the giant of the three men was staring at the copy machine, or at her. But apparantly he didn't notice Ayla for he strode on, without looking back.
The dark-haired girl could barely get her breathing under control as for a moment the danger had diminished. She decided to take her chance, if that guy would find the bathroom empty he would alarm everyone.
Quietly she crawled from her hidingplace and started to run as silently as she could to the other end of the corridor: only looking back if Mord didn't see her.

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Unfortunately for her, Mordakai wasn't the only one out looking for her. From around the corner, an arm suddenly looped around her neck, gripping tight.

"Hey Mord!" It was Luke's voice. "Look what I found!"

(( my stupid translator isn't working... >,< ))

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Ayla gasped, which she actually couldn't with the gag in her mouth, so it must have been an odd sight. She froze when she ran into someone who grasped her by the neck. It was one of them. Ayla felt like she couldn't breath, the gag in her mouth prevented her from breathing well. She inhaled irregularly through her nose, desperately trying to spit out the gag.

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O children, lift up your voice, lift up your voice,
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It doesn't matter you don't believe in God, He believes in you.

Luke stared at her struggling for a moment, then did something that, in contrast to the behavior of his comrades, might have seemed rather odd.
"In a second," he said calmly as Mordakai lumbered up towards them, "I'm going to let go of you. I have a gun. So does Mord. And we're both excellent shots, so I suggest you don't do anything stupid." His speak was clumsy and awkward, and he had to pause several times to find his words. He ended with a nod that punctuated his statement, then unlooped his arm from around her neck.

"What are you doing, blbec?!" Mord rumbled, his pistol immediately out.

"Relax, ze nebude mozne spustit (she won't run)," Luke replied to his accomplice as he carefully released the gag from Ayla's mouth. "She's not that stupid, are you, puvabny?"

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Ayla gratefully breathed in the fresh air as the man removed the gag. She seemed to calm down a bit now she was able to breath and her head stopped spinning. With wide eyes she watched both man as she was released. She stumbled over her feet until she stood with her back against the wall. All her hopes for escape were crumbled.. and only fear remained. She didn't run, like the man said: she wasn't stupid. Ayla could only wait for what they had in store for her now.

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O children, lift up your voice, lift up your voice,
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It doesn't matter you don't believe in God, He believes in you.

Jenya hesitated for a minute before answering, "Yes. My apologies, sir." She was trying very hard to swallow the venom in her voice. She could only think of what she would do to him once they've taken control of the situation. She quickly swapped the name tags, repeating her apology once more.

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Mord reached to grab her, but Luke caught his arm and held him back. "Don't touch her," he ordered, as though he were commanding a dog, and Mordakai practically growled at him.

"Milos is in charge, not you," he retorted. "Said to secure her."

Luke rolled his eyes scowling hotly. "Nema nic spatneho. Byla na spatnem miste ve spatny cas. Byt civlny (She hasn't done anything wrong. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Be civil)," he snapped back in rapid Czech, too frustrated to dig through his english to find the right words.

"Why don't you stop being a kocicka," Mord grumbled, but Luke ignored him. Instead, the smaller of the two men gestured at Ayla with his pistol.

"C'm on now," he said, pointing at her and then at the stairs.

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Ayla hesitated. Did this mean they were not going to hurt her? The small one perhaps intended to say that. The Giant didn't agree with this though.. Slowly she started moving towards the stairs, not wanting to give those men an excuse to shoot her. "So.. you can let me go can you?" she asked softly, almost pleadingly.

Of course not! A voice inside her replied. They put you in those bloody clothes in the first place.. you must be part of their plan. But Ayla refused to believe this. This was just her job, she didn't do anything wrong. Unfortunately for her, she was too unimportant to understand anything that was going on. If she had a more important job, she would have known the purpose and content of the meeting of tonight.. then she would understand that these people weren't just prepared to let go of this just yet.

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Bill looked judgingly at Jenya, thinking her to be incompetent for the job. "Very well. I still want to know the name of your superior Miss...?" In the meanwhile he took papers from his briefcase, putting them in an orderly manner on the table while waiting for his guests to arrive.

[I pmed Eru. She said that she was quite busy so I hope she can post soon]

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O children, lift up your voice, lift up your voice,
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It doesn't matter you don't believe in God, He believes in you.

"Not at this moment," Luke said flatly, then waved his gun at her. The cold steel nudged against her lower back. "Now go on, or I'll have to have Mordakai use force. I don't have to be nice." He gave a wicked smirk at her.

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She followed his orders and ascended the stairs carefully and silently for she almost walked noiseless on her bare feet.
"I want my shoes back." she suddenly said abruptly, realising that if she couldn't bargain about her release she could instead try to bargain about her situation. "And my clothes."

As she arrived at the higher level she turned to the two man, as if she wanted to ask if they had to climb even more steps.

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O children, lift up your voice, lift up your voice,
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It doesn't matter you don't believe in God, He believes in you.

Aaron walked into the building through the front, two bodyguards behind him. He walked to the reception desk in the front.
"Where is the ____ meeting taking place, miss?" he asked. The receptionist just handed him a slip of paper, and pointed to the stairs, making the point that the elevators were out, all the while a phone stuck to her ear with the help of her shoulder.

Aaron just nodded and walked over to the stairs, a bodyguard opening the door for him. He was about to start going up when he turned to see the guards were about to enter as well and he shook his head.

"You won't be needed, just wait here in the lobby. This meeting will probably be long and boring and nothing will happen like most the others," he said, and started making his way up the stairs...

(not sure what the name of the meeting is... and if anyone else is in the front/lobby, sorry, I don't really have the mind set today to read and catch up completely...)

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ooc: Just a quick note... I had intended for them to go UP the steps to the where the meeting room floor... Unless that's a prob, can you fix that?

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(Are the hostage takers in the steps? I thought the hostage taking stuff was going to really start happening after the meeting starts...)

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Married Cloud Strife 9/17/08

[Eru: Just for you to catch up. Ayla was in the building first and ran into the hostage takers, so she's stuck with them. The elevators are down and don't work. In the mean time Bill and Amy are in the meeting room not aware of anything suspicious while Jenya (a hostage taker) took over Ayla's job and is there to assign places to the guests. I hope that's what you needed to know..

Sojo: I edited ]

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(what was Alya's job? And... assigning places to the guests? Do you mean seats in the meeting room?)

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Married Cloud Strife 9/17/08

[ Yeah.. her job was nothing special. Bring coffee, prepare the meeting room and yes, assigning the seats in the meeting room ]

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