The Passwords: Part 5

Rocky and his partner entered the Marriott and headed to the elevator. They already knew which room Brian occupied. Rocky's partner has his hand in his jacket pocket, clutching a pistol. When the elevator arrived, they took it to the third floor.

The two men exited the elevator, walked down the hall and stopped in front of Room 310. They looked down the hall to ensure that no one else was around. As it was clear, Rocky placed his thumb over the peephole in the door and then knocked.

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Brian finished filling his ice bucket and walked from the small room into the hall. He immediately noticed the two gruff looking men standing at his hotel room door. It took Brian only a second to realize he was in trouble. They had to be here for the evidence he had recovered in Bolinas.

Reacting, Brian leaped forward and pulled the fire alarm in the hallway. The loud alarm blared and the two thugs turned and quickly scanned the hall. They noticed Brian at the end of the hall, maybe eighty feet away. They began to walk toward Brian.

Some of the guests began to open their door, to see what was happening, and to evacuate. Brian bolted for the door to the stairway and the two thugs then began to run, although they had to maneuever around the others in the hall. Brian was glad for a bit of lead.

Brian ran upstairs hoping that the thugs would not know which direction he took as other people would soon be taking the stairs. He did hope that the thugs chased him rather than try to enter his room. The evidence was still in the room and Brian needed to recover it. Brian went up one flight, to the fourth floor, and then went into the hall. He planned to find another stairway, take it back to the third floor and then go back to his room.

Brian passed by people emptying their rooms and found another stairwell. He went down the stairs, with the flow of traffic and then broke off to enter the hall on the third. Brian carefully walked down the hall, looking ahead as more people walked past him. As he cautiously turned a corner, Brian could now see down the hall to his room.

No one was waiting there. The thugs had to be pursuing him. Maybe one had gone downstairs and the other up. Whatever they had done, Brian knew he had little time. He raced down the hall, unlocked the door into his room and rushed inside.

Brian quickly scooped up the evidence and left the room. He did not waste him time grabbing any of his other possessions. Each second he remained in his room was dangerous. People were still in the halls walking around so Brian tried to blend in with them. But where to go now?
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Rocky met back up with his partner in the hotel lobby. Roger was furious that Brian had eluded them. Rocky spoke to his partner and they both then exited the hotel. They had to cover the outside, to see when Rocky exited the hotel. They could not let him escape and trying to search the hotel would be futile. If Brian somehow escaped, Rocky knew his employer would be quite irate. Deadly irate.

Twenty minutes passed. Rocky then saw Brian leave the hotel, out the front doors. But Brian did not go far. He stopped only a few feet outside the doors and began to scan the parking lot. Rocky was not worried as he was secure in the shadows. Brian would not notice him.

Rocky made a quick phone call to his partner and told him of Brian's location. Rocky's phone had been specially modified so it did not light up when opened. It would not give away his location. He then told his partner to enter the hotel through another entrance and move toward the lobby, to block off Brian's escape route. When his partner was in place, Rocky would move toward the front entrance, toward Brian.

They would take him no matter who was around. Rocky could not permit failure.

To Be Continued....