Chapter 94Terminate Tears

Sleep. The calmer of rage, sadness and sorrow. I awoke with a clear head and knew a course of action I must take. Though I wouldn't be able to destroy the brotherhood completely or get to all of the members of the circle. I could at least cripple them severely.

With a little help of course.

Refreshed of mind I got myself dressed and headed upstairs. Kai was there, good.

"Kai, I've got a plan and I'm going to need your help."

Kai smiled. "My, aren't you looking cheerful today. What do you need?"

I grinned. "I've got 'A Plan' with a capital P. I want to cripple the Circle by hitting the orphanage. I want you to make sure they lose all their computer-data somehow."

Kai frowned. "If I just delete it, they'll restore a backup. It looked advanced enough for off-site backups."

A flash of insight. "And if you slowly corrupt it?"

Kai laughed. "Naw, that would never work, same problem... backups..."

I grinned. "No, I mean slowly. Not all at once."

Kai frowned and smiled. "You mean putting a sort of virus there to slowly corrupt the data so it gets put to backup as well? That might actually work. If we make sure the virus-scanners and data-integrity systems don't trip over it we could let it run for days, even weeks before they figure out how much they've lost."

I giggled. "See? I knew you could do it. Still got the card-data of last time?"

Kai nodded. "Yeah, and if we make a small fire we can even destroy most of the drugs. I downloaded the drug's specifications. It's partly enzyme based and even heat close to boiling water would destroy it."

A big smile. "Good, then all we need is erase the security tapes while we're in there and destroy the papers as well. After, we can free all the children inside. Can you look up a large proper orphanage and prepare?"

He shrugged. "Sure, give me about half an hour or such."

Khuna walked up from the spiral staircase, looking slightly surprised. "Amy, you look happy! What's going on?"

She was very surprised as I walked over and hugged her. "I made a plan. We're going to save the children from the orphanage. And you, Kai and Val are going to help."

Hugging me back she smiled and gave me a kiss on the cheek. "I love that plan. I'm in!" She released me and headed downstairs. "I'm going to wake Val and tell her."

I smiled and looked as she headed down again. Another thought. "Kai, the security guy. Can we subdue them somehow without them really seeing us?"

Kai looked up from packing his backpack. "Good question. Would it be too much to knock them out physically? Or do you want to drug them?"

That wasn't an easy choice. I guess the best we could do is knock them out and tie them up in the basement or somewhere they wouldn't see what we were doing. "We need some rope."

He grinned and opened a closet behind him, getting some strong thin rope out of there. If we tied them up properly they wouldn't be able to escape before we were long gone. No traces, as little as possible. He also got some thin gloves and some more advanced equipment than last time. I wondered if we had the time to make a full backup of everything they had before we left there. I guess I'd leave that up to Kai.

Khuna and Valerie returned upstairs, both smiling and giggling against each other. "Khuna tells me you have a plan, Amy?"

I nodded. "Yeah, a good plan too I hope. When I woke up I had the whole picture crystal clear in my head. Now I just need to get it right for you guys."

Khuna and Valerie sat down on the sofa, opening their arms for me to sit between them. Smiling, I snuggled between them and got a big warm hug. So beautiful how things can change in a simple night of sleep. Thoughts unwinding and completing for you. Conclusions readily presented at sunset.

For the first time since I had become a vampire, maybe even longer, I felt in control. Completely in control. I knew what to do and how to do it. And it felt good. NOt to rule over others but simply rule yourself.

"Kai, you listening as well?" I called out to him.

He nodded and walked over, sat down on the other sofa, smiling to the three of us. All of them looking at me, waiting for me to speak. Trusting me to think. I truly felt like one of them.

"Alright," I said. "This is what I came up with..."