"Steve Please, I am begging you. I am literally now begging, for you to wait for backup," Danny turned to look at Steve as he slipped on his bullet proof vest, "Or at the very least we should wait for Kono and Chin's arrival."
Steve Looked back at Danny with a grin, "Come on Danny, you should know by now that you're my…"
"Backup. Yes Steve, believe me, I know that," Danny interrupted raising his hands in the air, "But the man we are currently searching for is a dangerous convict who has been in prison for the last five years for murdering three people, he also happens to have a place on the long list of people who seem to have personal vendettas against you." He finished pointing an angry finger in Steve's face.
"Look Danny," Steve said calmly pushing away Danny's finger, "for all we know this lead could be a dead-end anyway, so stop panicking," Sensing Danny's increasing dread he continued, "And plus Kono and Chin should be well on their way by now and they can be our backup."
Steve turned to look at Danny as he shrugged on his own Bullet proof vest, he let out a loud sigh when he saw Danny was still looking concerned, "Come on we'll be in and back out in five minutes, okay?"
Danny turned to Steve, "Please Steve, let's just wait for Chin and Kono to be safe," Danny looked towards the warehouse they were here to investigate and shuddered involuntarily, "I mean, who knows what could be in there…"
Steve couldn't help but chuckle as he started to jog towards the warehouse, "Danny don't be a scaredy cat, it's just an old warehouse!"
Danny turned toward Steve, "A scaredy cat? Did you just call me a scaredy cat? What are you, a six year old girl in the playground? I am not scared Steven I am rationally…" Danny stopped before he began a full blown rant, after noticing Steve had run on ahead, "Steven wait up!" he yelled as he jogged into the darkness of the warehouse, all the while sending Steve silent curses.
…..
Twenty minutes later Chin and Kono pulled up outside the warehouse, Chin jumped out of the car before it even had the chance to properly stop,
"Where are they?" Chin exclaimed looking at the abandoned car, "Please for the love of God, don't tell me they went in without backup!"
Kono turned towards him, "Of course they did, this is superSEAL we're talking about, he never waits for backup," she laughed, "but I doubt Danny went in without some kind of argument."
Chin joined in with the laughter, "Yeah right, he is going to be pissed off later," He spluttered as they both entered the warehouse, "Okay, stay together, let's just find Steve and Danny." Chin and Kono walked into the darkness guns pointed ahead of them, all the while shouting Steve and Danny's names into the dark emptiness.
…..
"Steve? STEVEN?" Danny yelled into the emptiness ahead of him, it had been over fifteen minutes since he had heard or seen Steve and he was beginning to get worried,
"I swear to God Steve if you do not come out in thirty seconds we will begin discussing new partners!" Danny continued to yell empty threats into the darkness in the hope that Steve might hear and respond.
Danny shrugged and continued walking through the warehouse searching for a sign of his partner; however the complete darkness ahead of him prevented him from seeing anything within a metre ahead of him.
"Steve?" he shouted once more, and then he proceeded to turn around another sharp corner, but was stopped suddenly by a noise behind him, Startled Danny swung around but was greeted by darkness again, now dangerously close to falling into a full blown panic, he turned back around. But before he could do anything he felt a sharp pain in the side of his head that left him dizzy and stumbling, and he felt the world tipping dangerously.
He swallowed down hard and managed to regain some kind of control, however as he turned back to face his attacker, he felt another sharp blow to his head that sent him into the oblivion he had tried so hard to avoid.
…..
Not five minutes earlier, Steve stumbled his way through the darkness of the warehouse, his gun held out in front of him he tried to see if he could make out anything in the consuming blackness of the warehouse.
"STEVEN?" he heard from the darkness behind him, "I swear to God…"
He turned back ready to yell that he was okay to his partner, but instead he felt a blow to his head that sent him reeling back in shock,
"D…Da…" He tried to shout back to his partner for help, or at least to yell a warning, but he was greeted with another blow to his head that sent him into unconsciousness almost instantly.
…..
"Wha…" Danny jolted back into awareness, prising open his eyes he looked dazedly into his surroundings. Reaching a shaky hand up to his head, he felt the blood already leaking from the wound in his head. He looked and found that he was tied to a chair in a dark windowless room which, he assumed, was still in the warehouse.
Peering across the room he was shocked to see Steve tied up in the same predicament in a chair opposite him.
"Steve?" he croaked, his voice surprisingly hoarse, "What the…"
Steve looked up with wide eyes, shocked to see Danny awake, he grinned across the room "Danno you're awake!"
"Why are you smiling?" Danny exclaimed angrily, "We're tied up in a room with no way out because of you!"
"Me?" Steve looked surprised "We came into this together…"
"Are you kidding me right now, I said 'let's wait for backup' but No, You had to go all Rambo and ended up getting us..." Danny stopped yelling when the door slammed open and a man in black stepped in.
"Hey man, let us go!" Steve yelled shaking the chair in an attempt to loosen his bonds, "We're cops you idiot, what do you thinks going to happen? People will come looking for us!" The man crossed the room and proceeded to kick Steve's chair hard enough to tip it sending Steve slamming into the hard concrete floor.
"Ugh" Steve grunted as the force winded him momentarily, "you son of a…"
"Try to escape again and I'll kill you, you piece of shit." The man screamed into Steve's face, spraying him with spit in the process, "Why are you here? How did you find out where I was?"
"We are just following a lead." Danny mumbled from across the room, "But you need to think this through man, we're cops this is a huge mistake," Danny glanced over at Steve who gave him a silent nod, looking behind him he could see Steve was using his penknife to cut the ropes tying him to the chair, "you realise you'll be sent to jail for a long, long time when you're caught,"
"Well I won't be caught …" He yelled throwing his arms in the air, "No one's gonna find me here! You can't tell anyone," he laughed, waving his hands around the room, "There's no way you're getting out of here, your dead men!"
"You son of a bitch, I'm going to kill you right here and now!" Shouted Steve as he jumped off the chair, the ropes fell discarded to the floor.
He floored the man, landing a few kicks to the convict's head. But the man turned back to Steve from his new position on the floor and proceeded to kick Steve's legs from underneath sending Steve crumpling to the floor. The man was clearly in the position of power, as Steve was weakened by his sudden fall and the previous blows to the head.
The man looked down at the floor and to Steve, "You've pushed me too far," he yelled pulling out his gun, "Now this ends here." He pulled the gun on Steve, finger on the trigger.
"STOP!" Danny yelled and kicked the man from behind, not with enough force to hurt him but enough to distract him from killing Steve.
The man growled turning to face Danny, "You first then I guess…"
And before Steve and Danny could do anything, he pulled the trigger and two gunshots rang out, piercingly loud in the once quiet warehouse.
