Mistakes

Angela shivered a bit, when she felt the cool wind 
breeze. Yes, Jacob had been right. It was cold at 
the east cost this fall. So much had happened the 
last months. Angela had gotten acquainted with 
Jacob, the seventeen year old boy, who was the 
mysterious Sorcerer. At first, she had had some 
problems with the thought, but in the whole time 
they’d gotten friends. The Praetorians seemed to be 
quiet in the last time. They’d only had one 
confrontation... well... actually two, but the 
diamond story had been more another story. 
Angela had met Trelawney once again, when she 
had been in that group “Harvest Sun”. He had 
been, as he’d always been before. There was no 
difference, and Angela had finally given up hope 
that he really felt affection for her. At least she 
wasn’t pregnant. She’d been afraid at first, because 
it was possible, that she’d get a baby, but that 
wasn’t case. So she‘d started to fight again. Jacob 
hadn’t told her of any new plans of the praetorians, 
so she just relaxed at the moment. She and Jacob 
had a little room in a youth hostel. (Actually Jacob 
had it, but she lived there, too.) He was happy, to 
get rid of his grandma for at least two weeks. 
Angela yawned. It was good to have a break since 
so long time. But at this time she couldn’t know, 
that Jacob had some trouble and her break 
wouldn’t be as long as she’d planned.
“Where is she?” – “Who?” Jacob lifted his hands. “I 
don’t know, what you’re talking about!” – “Sure 
you know! Your cute friend, that little Angela! I met 
her yesterday evening and she broke my nose.” – 
“I guess, she broke your nose because of any 
reason!” Jacob stayed as calm as possible. “But we 
don’t like if our men are broken the nose by a 
wanted terrorist!” Trelawney stepped out of the 
shadow, followed by Mr. Oliver and Anna Kelly. 
“Jacob! Nice to meet you!” Jacob looked at 
Trelawney, then he suddenly turned and ran to the 
exit of the barn, but from there another man 
entered the barn with a gun. Greg Hearney. He 
grabbed Jacob. “So...” Trelawney started and 
smiled. “Let’s see, how much time it is going to 
take until our sweet little angel starts to search for 
you.” – “You’ll not be successful!” Jacob snarled 
and cried out, when Hearney turned his arms on his 
back. “We’ll see which result we’ll get!” Mr. Oliver 
said coldly and then they took Jacob with them.
Angela read her newspaper and looked up time and 
again. She was furious. Why did Jacob always have 
to be late? And today was his record. One hour and 
12 minutes. Finally, she got up and paid her coffee. 
“If my friend comes now, please tell him, I am at 
home! His name is Jacob!” she ordered to the 
waitress. Then she made her way along the street. 
She looked into the windows of some shops and 
noticed, that all that stuff was much too expensive 
for her. And when she reached their youth hostel, 
she’d completely calmed down. She’d simply ask 
Jacob, where he’d been and then think about a 
revenge. Yeah, that was what she’d do! But when 
she entered their room, there was nobody. “Jacob! 
I don’t like these kinds of jokes! You forgot our 
meeting!” she said loudly, while she threw her 
shoes into a corner of the room. “Jacob?” When she 
looked around, she suddenly noticed, that Jacob’s 
laptop was missing. She sat down on a table and 
took a strawberry from a plate in the middle of the 
table. While she ate the fruit, she opened her own 
laptop and saw, that she had an e-mail. She 
opened the file. Help! I'm in bad trouble! Come to 
the barn, that we discovered yesterday! Jacob. 
Angela caught breath in disbelieving. “I don’t 
believe, what I read!!!” She got up and took her 
jacket and her shows, when she suddenly realized 
something important. Why had Jacob send a 
message to her? Where did he get the energy 
from? In that barn, there was no energy! She 
stared out of the window. Could it be...? She sat 
down and started to press some keys of her laptop. 
She’d find out, where the resource of the e-mail 
was. For five minutes, she tipped her keys and 
gazed on her screen, when she suddenly nodded. “I 
knew, it is a trap! The resource is quite another 
place!” Her screen showed her a place not far away 
from the barn. She would go there! Determined she 
took her laptop and left the youth hostel.
Despairing, Jacob tried to free himself from the 
shackles. A strong rope held his hands and ankles. 
He was in the barn again. Trelawney and Hearney 
had brought him back here, after they’d send a 
message with his laptop from that damned house. 
They wanted Angela to come to that house. And as 
he knew Angela, she’d go there. And than 
Trelawney had won. The more he thought about 
that possibility, the more furious he got. There had 
to be a way to free himself. Suddenly he 
remembered of a repair kit, he and Angela had 
discovered yesterday. But how to get into the other 
corner of the barn, which seemed to be much 
larger than yesterday to him. Slowly he started to 
roll on his back, and then to the other side. So he 
went on. After five minutes he looked to the corner 
and sighed. “This is going to take until Christmas!” 
But he kept going.
When Angela approached to the house, she was 
very careful. She didn’t know, who had kidnapped 
Jacob, and she didn’t know how dangerous these 
guys were. When she finally reached the white 
house wall, she pressed closed to it and lowered 
her face to a window. Carefully she looked inside, 
but nobody was there. The room was absolutely 
empty. There weren’t even furniture. She went 
around the house, trying to see anybody. Then she 
reached the front door. When she opened it 
hesitating, it gave a loud squealing and Angela 
stopped feared. It didn’t seem as if anybody was 
here, but she didn’t know for sure! She remained 
totally calm for a moment, but she didn’t heard 
anything. Slowly she entered the house. It was 
dark and seemed to be uninhabited since several 
years. “The only habitants seem to be spiders!” she 
said for calming herself down, but somehow it 
didn’t work. She had a strange feeling, that another 
person was in this house. “Hallo?” Her voice was 
shaking. “Jacob?” The door behind her closed and 
Angela spun round. It had only been the wind, that 
had slammed the door. The woman breathed in 
broken tension. Then she started to investigate the 
rooms. They were all empty, at least in the ground 
floor. She carefully started to make her way up the 
steps to the first floor, when she heard a strange 
sound from downstairs. The front door opened and 
she heard people come in. “I’m sure, she’ll come!” 
– “But if she doesn’t think of looking for the 
research of the e-mail?” – “She will, I’m sure!” – “I 
warn you, Trelawney! You know, if it was me, I’d 
already killed her! I had killed her at the first 
moment, I met her. I’ve let you your fun to play a 
game with her, but Kelly told me something about 
an affaire!” Angela caught her breath and went 
silently the last steps up. Then she hid behind a 
little cupboard. “An affaire? That’s nonsense! There 
was nothing with Angela! At least nothing serious!” 
Angela covered her mouth with her hand and tried 
to stay calm. But a deep sadness took possess of 
her heart. Why? She wasn’t able to understand her 
own feelings. When she heard the men come 
upstairs, she pressed closer to the wall and held 
breath. “and what do we do with that guy, Jacob?” 
– “If we have Angela, we’ll kill him! He’s a witness!” 
Trelawney suggested. Angela could identify the 
other man now. The one was Greg Hearney and the 
other was Mr. Oliver. She had to come out of here, 
but she didn’t know how yet. The three disappeared 
into another room. Angela looked carefully round 
the corner of the cupboard. The door was half 
opened. She got up and tiptoed to the door. Then 
she looked round the corner. They stood with their 
backs to her. Angela went silently to the stairs, 
when Greg Hearney suddenly turned around. 
“STOP!” Angela heard a gunshot, then she started 
to run downstairs. She stumbled and fell to the 
ground, but she got up again. “Stop!” Trelawney. 
Angela turned around for a little moment. “Angela! 
Stay! I promise, we’ll not kill you!” Angela shook 
her head. “Why should I believe what you say, 
huh? You betrayed me before!” – “You should 
better believe me, because I am going to shoot, if 
you try to flee!” Angela turned and reached the 
door. When she stepped outside, she closed her 
eyes for a second, but she didn’t stop to run. Jacob 
wasn’t in that house, but where had they hid him? 
“ANGELA!” The woman heard the sound of a shot, 
but she didn’t stop. She passed through a field of 
corn, trying to hide somewhere, when she suddenly 
ran into a person. Both fell to the ground, and 
when Angela opened her eyes, she looked into the 
eyes of Jacob. “You?!?” she whispered. “Where are 
you coming from?” – “They kept me prisoner in 
that old barn, but I was able to escape! I came to 
warn you!” – “A little bit too late!” Angela said. 
“I’ve already met Trelawney and the others! We 
have to get away from here!” – “But where? I’m 
sure, that praetorian woman... Anna Kelly... is here 
somewhere! She followed me!” – “Great!” Angela 
sighed. “Well... let’s go back to that barn! I’m sure, 
they’ll search all around this place, except the barn, 
because you escaped from there. They’ll think, it 
would be foolish of us to go back!” – “Okay! Come 
on!” They passed the field and looked around. 
When they saw, that nobody was in sight, they ran 
over to the next field. Five minutes later, they 
reached the barn. “Oh my goodness!” Angela 
gasped. They hid in the barn behind an old tractor. 
“Jacob! I expect an explanation! How did you get in 
that trouble?” Angela was really angry. Jacob 
looked at her. “Remember that guy yesterday, who 
wanted to dance with you?” – “Sure!” – “He called 
me to come here and I did! How could I know, that 
he was ordered to call me by the praetorians.” 
Jacob defended himself. Angela shook her head. 
“Why didn’t you say anything? We had a deal, 
remember?” – “Yeah!” Jacob lifted his eyes to the 
ceiling. “Sure Mom!” They kept silence, until Angela 
suddenly turned. “I’m glad you’re all right!” she 
smiled. Jacob smiled back. “I think, we should try 
to reach the main street for going back to the city, 
don’t you think?” – “Agreed!” Angela got up and 
gave her hand to Jacob. “Come on!” He took her 
hand and she pulled him up, which ended in both 
lying laughing on the ground. “You should do a little 
training! You weigh too much!” Angela wasn’t able 
to stop laughing. They were still laughing, when 
they came out of the barn. But suddenly, Jacob 
grasped Angela’s arm and caught his breath. 
“What?” Angela was still giggling, then she noticed 
the four persons standing ten meters away. “What 
a surprise!” Anna Kelly said. Jacob turned, grasping 
Angela and pulled her with him back into the barn. 
But Angela wasn’t prepared for that quick escape 
and so she fell to the ground. Before she was able 
to get up again, she felt a strong grasp that pulled 
her up. Greg Hearney. “Here we have number 
one!” he said, while Kelly was after Jacob. Angela 
tried to free herself and get up, but Hearney 
pushed her to the ground. “Damned bitch! You 
were a problem to us for so long, that I’d like to kill 
you myself!” – “HEARNEY!” Trelawney voice was in 
a tone, that Hearney relaxed the grasp a bit. “Sir?” 
Trelawney looked at him warning. “She’s a lady, 
remember that. And maybe we are still in need of 
her!” some minutes later, Anna Kelly came out of 
the barn. “I’m sorry, but he disappeared.” She was 
out of breath. “That damned boy fooled us! The 
barn has a second exit! He must have escaped into 
the forest!” Mr. Oliver took breath. “JACOB! COME 
OUT, OR WE’LL KILL YOUR LITTLE GIRLFRIEND!” 
Nothing happened. Oliver nodded at Hearney, who 
pulled Angela up. “This is your last chance! We’ll 
not kill any of you, if you surrender now!!!” they 
waited two minutes, then Mr. Oliver nodded at 
Hearney. “Kill her!” Hearney took his gun. “Sir!” 
Trelawney looked at his boss. “She knows Sorcerer! 
If we kill her, we’ll never get him!” – “We won’t get 
him, if we don’t kill her either, because she 
wouldn’t say anything!” Oliver said. Trelawney 
looked at Angela. “Well... you’d better say us the 
name of Sorcerer, honey!” The woman looked into 
his eyes. “I don’t know him!” – “Angela! Don’t lie at 
us! We know, that you had contact to him several 
times!” Trelawney said and went round her. 
“Hearney! Let her go! I wouldn’t say anything if I 
was treated like that either! ...Well... Angela? What 
about Sorcerer?” – “I don’t know anything, but 
even if I knew, I would surely not tell you!” Mr. 
Oliver turned. “Hearney! Kill her!” Angela started to 
fight. “No... you’ll not achieve anything, if you kill 
me!” She said and Trelawney looked at Hearney. 
“I’ll do that! I’ve been waiting for that moment for 
so long!” He took his gun and smiled at Angela. 
“Well... Angel... I think, that’s in which it ends up!” 
– “Trelawney!” Oliver lifted his eyebrows. “Please... 
deal with that inside of the barn. We don’t want to 
finish her life here, with witnesses, do we?” 
Trelawney nodded, took Angela and pulled her into 
the barn. She fought against the grasp and tried to 
free herself to escape. “NO! Please!” – “Angel!” – 
“If you do that... you’ll never find him...” – “Angel, 
listen to me!” Angela stopped. She felt Sean 
Trelawney’s mouth at her ear. “I am going to shoot 
to the ceiling, and you’ll run to that exit, 
understood? Hide yourself as good as you can!” – 
“What?” Angela couldn’t believe, what she heard. 
“Is that another game, Trelawney?” He pushed her 
against the wooden wall of the barn. “I think, I’d 
really miss you, if you died...” His mouth covered 
hers in infinite passion. Angela  softened in his 
arms. She wasn’t even sure, if she was able to hold 
balance if he let go of her. She flung her arms 
around his neck and pressed his body close to hers 
to deepen the kiss, but he softly pushed her away. 
“Angel... Angela!” His eyes closed, he whispered 
this words and wasn’t sure, if he’d really spoken 
them. “Angel! You’ve got to go!” He stroke her 
cheek and her lips with his fingers and leaned his 
forehead against hers. “We’ll see again!” he 
promised and smiled. “At the latest if you mind our 
business again!” Angela shook her head. “Not your 
business, Trelawney! If you murder, it is business 
of all!” – “So we’re enemies again?” he asked and 
sighed. “Well... what a pity. I’d like to replace Anna 
by you.” The woman looked into his eyes. “I’ll not 
work with murderers! So we are enemies again, if I 
am outside!” Angela went hesitating a bit away and 
her hand disengaged from that of Sean Trelawney. 
“Thank you!” she whispered, and smiled a bit. Then 
she started to run toward the door. She heard a 
shot behind her and ran faster. When she came out 
of the barn, she decided to turn left into the forest. 
It would be the most save way. “Angela!” Without 
warning, a hand pulled her back. Jacob. “What are 
you still doing here?” Angela asked. Jacob looked at 
her furious. “I wonder, what you’re doing here! I 
saw you... and that... guy! Are you working for 
him? Is that, why he let you escape? Did you have 
to say him, who Sorcerer is?” Angela shook her 
head. “Jacob! I’m going to explain everything to 
you, but... we’ve to get away from here!” – “I’m 
not going anywhere, until I know, which joke you 
play to me!” – “Jacob! I’m... not sure, why he let 
me escape! When he... was with me... you know... 
three months ago... well... I didn’t tell you the 
truth. I... We... had a little more than just playing 
cat and mouse.” – “WHAT?!?” The boy looked at 
her as if she was a green-haired alien. “You... and 
Trelawney...?” He got silent, then he suddenly 
started to laugh. “I can’t believe it! And I thought, 
we’d be friends! How could you do that?” Angela 
put her hands on her hips. “Listen. With who I 
spend which night is just my business. And your 
reaction is exactly the reason why I didn’t tell you 
before! Well... I don’t know, what you’re planning 
now, but I’m not going to wait until they get us 
here!” She went away. Jacob looked at her, then he 
ran to follow her. “I didn’t mean it!” he said in a 
soft voice. “You’re right! It’s none of my business!” 
Then he suddenly realized the tears flowing down 
Angela’s cheeks. “Angel? For heavens sake... I’m 
sorry. I didn’t want to hurt you, I...” Angela started 
to run. “Stop talking, Jacob!” she said, despairing 
trying to stop her tears. And Jacob remained calm. 
As soon as they reached the highway, they found a 
trucker, who took them with him back into the city. 
Angela had never felt as bad as now.
“I am sorry! I don’t know, how many time you 
expect me to say that. I am sorry!” Trelawney sat 
on his chair, looking into the face of Mr. Oliver. “Mr. 
Trelawney! There’s just one think, I can’t 
understand! How could she escape? We had her! All 
you had to do was shoot! But she won once again! 
Maybe I should replace you by another security 
officer, who is more able than you are!” Trelawney 
got up. “With all due respect, Sir, but if you don’t 
trust me, just say it!” The men looked furious into 
each other’s eyes for a moment until Anna Kelly 
cleared her throat. “Excuse me Sir, but I’m sure Mr 
Trelawney is an excellent man for this job!” Oliver 
looked at her. “Sure he is! But if my men loose 
their objectivity because of affection for any of our 
enemies, I am not in need of them!” He turned and 
went towards the door. “I hope, you’ll not make a 
mistake like that a second time, Trelawney! I have 
many men, who’d like to have your job!” He 
slammed the door with a bang. Trelawney sat 
down. “Damned!” he hissed furious. “Who does all 
this work, huh? Who is doing his best for getting 
that Sorcerer guy? And then I’ve to hear things like 
that!” Anna stepped behind him and pulled his head 
against her tummy. “But he’s right, Sean! You did 
against an order! That... bitch turned your head, 
didn’t she?” Trelawney sighed. “Anna, leave off!” – 
“What do you think about spending this night with 
me?” Anna giggled. “I enjoyed our time so much!” 
Suddenly, Trelawney got up and turned furiously. 
“Know what, Anna? Get lost! Leave me alone! 
NOW!” His voice was piercing and Anna nodded. 
“Well, Trelawney! Okay! But don’t expect me to 
protect you again, when you make another 
mistake! I’ll await your next! And know what? I’m 
about to get your job! If I where you, I’d be 
damned careful the next time!” With that words she 
went to the door, opened it and laughed. “Good 
night!” And then she shut the door with a louder 
band than Oliver had done it before. Trelawney 
sighed. “Angela... what are you doing to me?” He 
opened the file of Angela Bennett on his personal 
computer and projected it to the view screen. She 
was the most beautiful woman, he’d ever seen. Her 
brown hair went perfect with her face, which was of 
a natural beauty. He got furious. The first time he’d 
seen her, he had just been angry, that she had 
discovered data about Praetorians. He really should 
have killed her at the first time! “Damned!” He 
slammed his fist on the table, then he suddenly 
took his gun, aimed and shot the picture on his 
computer screen. It crashed loudly and sparks flew 
around the screen, then the picture on the large 
screen disappeared. Trelawney opened his eyes 
and was as cool as before. “Hearney!” He said 
loudly trough his intercom. “Tell Mr. Oliver... that 
I’m in need of a new screen!” And with that words 
he took his coat and left the large building, which 
was the headquarter of the Praetorians.

THE END

09/23/00