Hotel Lobby, Wilmington, Saturday.

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They'd been waiting for Tyler Durden to come back a long time. The three soldiers of Project Mayhem seated in the hotel lobby could wait a little longer.

"What are we going to do when he comes down?" the youngest, most impatient one asked.

"We'll know," said the leader. He was burly and sporting a cast on one arm.

"But -"

"We'll KNOW," the guy with the cast said.

"In Project Mayhem we do not ask questions," the blond reminded him.

They all fell silent and went back to watching the bank of elevators.

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Finding the complimentary coffee in the room less than adequate-- mostly due to having already finished it all-- Tony made his was to the ground floor and lobby. He stepped out of the elevator at the ping that alerted anyone inside to arriving at their floor and...

Well that wasn't painfully obvious there.

Never mind that, he had a mission and a rather attractive woman at the desk to get to help him.

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"The other one's down here," the blond, who had once been Dave, said, sounding disappointed and turning his head rather stiffly to follow Tony's progress.

"So we get him," the leader, who had once been Jim, said. Like he'd been kidnapping all his life.

That may have been why he was the leader.

He signalled to the third man, Mike. At the nod, Mike walked briskly over to Tony. "You're here with Mr. Durden."

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Tony barely spared them a glance out of the corner of his eye. Either over confidence or very good acting, he wasn't going to say which.

"And you're in desperate need of a rhinoplasty, your point?"

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"We need to talk to him," Mike explained, bouncing on the balls of his feet.

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"I'll be sure to pass that message right along." Oh, say... never.

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"That'll be hard," Mike said, almost swaggering. "Because you're coming with us. You're a distraction. We need him back."

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"Uh-huh." Tony shook his head and headed back for the elevators.

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"I don't think you understand," Mike said, and suddenly Tony was surrounded, his path to the elevator blocked. "I mean you're coming with us now. Then we'll get Mr. Durden to join us, see?"

There was a glimmer of desperation in his features. "It's the only way."

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"Right. Because kidnapping his friend is sure to work for your cause," Tony said dryly. But he didn't move. He was just... looking for an exit.

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"It worked before," Dave said. He glanced around the lobby; all the female employees seemed to have vanished.

Good.

He flashed the gun in the waistband of his pants.

"Two choices -- you come now, or we make you."

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"You've just made the biggest mistake in your pathetic little life," Tony informed him, hands going up to show surrender.

At least he wasn't shot int he chest this time.

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"We'll remember that," Jim deadpanned, then stepped to Tony's side. Mike took the other side, Dave had the back, and they escorted him to a waiting van.

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Tony was beginning to think this was some sort of karmic payback for Tyler's visit to his home right about now. "Where are we going?"

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It probably was.

"You'll know when we get there," one of the men said, as they drove off.