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He was going to need Jeremy's help for this. He needed to purchase the cars so they couldn't be traced back to his name. "This is better than prison," he mumbled to himself, overwhelmed with everything he had yet to do.
He knocked on the computer room door, not wanting to surprise Jeremy. "Hey, you got a second?"
"Give me two minutes." Jeremy didn't even look over at him. "Just got to make sure no one can trace that I was in this system."
D watched as Jeremy typed what looked like gibberish across the screen. He'd seen Carter and Trenton do the same thing, but never asked. He was sure he wouldn't understand if he did.
It took only a few minutes before Jeremy quit typing and turned around. "What's up?"
"I'm an idiot. I wasn't even thinking, but we need cars for the stings. Back with the old team, we all had a car that wasn't traceable back to us. If the plates were run by the police, it came back as a state motor pool vehicle. We'd have license plates to change for when we were on a sting. I don't have a clue how Carter and Bryon set all that up. Do you?"
"Yeah, actually. Carter walked me through it. I forgot to mention it with everything else going on. He told me so much. I'm supposed to call a guy Carter knows and let him know what we want. I have a fake identity to use. Carter said this guy won't ask questions. Might take three days to get the car at most since the guy is out of town, but it will be delivered to a lot near here. We just have to pick it up. Licensing it will be easy once I have the information. DMV records are some of the easiest to hack into."
D blew out a long breath.
"Don't worry, I know what we need to do. I will need to open a post office box also in a fake name so we can have documents sent there. One of those that is a street address, not a box number kinda place. We'll rotate addresses often so they aren't as trackable." Jeremy turned and reached for a binder that sat beside his desk. "Carter gave me this. It's filled with information. I was working my way down the lists, but then got distracted with this case we've been watching. Sorry, I should have told you about this earlier and kept my focus on it."
D flipped through pages of information. It covered everything. Many things he hadn't even thought about. "No, it's okay. I asked you to follow this case. I really want to take this asshole down. I just wasn't thinking about everything we'd need. I'm so used to just having it there already. This will get so much easier once we have everything in place." He handed the binder back to Jeremy. "Let's get the cars ordered. We'll need at least two, maybe three. Go with a dark color Toyota Camry or similar. Something that is common and won't draw much attention. Tinted windows are a must, but besides that, I don't care. I feel like you're doing all the work. What can I help with?"
"Nothing, honestly, I've got this. It won't take long to do. You focus on what you need to do," Jeremy insisted.
"Which is find us a team." D sighed. "Okay, I need to run out to a hardware store and get string. I haven't found any in the boxes, and we'll need that for the stings. I also need to check out in the garage and see what is out in those boxes. I'm hoping the torches are out there, or I'll have to buy them as well."
"Do you want me to go? You might be recognized," Jeremy offered.
"I think I'm okay. I saw a small hardware store, not too far from here. As long as I make it quick and stay out of well-populated areas, I feel safe. I'll grab some burgers while I'm out. Anything you need?"
"Nope, I think I'm good." Jeremy nodded to the computer. "I'll get working on this stuff. Hopefully, we can get everything situated. I think we need to take a step back and organize before we think about going in for those kids."
D shrugged. He refused to give up hope that he could get in there soon. "We'll see. The longer we leave them there, the bigger the chance he moves them or worse. I can do this without everything in place, but we need to be careful, and I do need another vehicle or I need to park a few blocks away and walk in, which is risky. We'll figure it out. It's not like I can go in tonight. We have time."
Jeremy nodded.
"Hey, I swear I won't take any unnecessary risks, okay?" He didn't blame Jeremy for being nervous. This was all new to him. D had been doing stings for years, and while he had been arrested on his last one, there was no hesitation in going in again. He was confident in what he did. Chances of getting caught were slim if he stuck to the rules that Bryon had put in place. "I'll be back later and we can walk through the whole process then. We'll go through every step and make sure we have everything covered."
"I'll get used to this, I promise." Jeremy sighed.
"I know you will. It's a lot to take in. You do your job, I'll do mine and we'll make it work. See you in about an hour." D stood and headed out the door.
Agreeing with Jeremy that they needed to slow down was hard. He wanted to get out there, get back to work, but he wouldn't rush. Wouldn't put the whole thing in jeopardy before they really even got a new team off the ground. He'd do a little shopping, then do some more research. There were team members out there. He just needed to find them.
