A heart of ice can still be melted one
Sheldon Jeffery Sands sighed in depression, as he sat at the bedside of his sweet heart Alexia Hartman. She had been in a car accident. He was sitting whilst she slept unknowing that the one person who she had worried about their well being for the past two weeks was safe and well, if more then a little on the depressed side.
He thought back to the night he had been taken or more like kidnapped by his new employer the CIA. It was because of them thrusting him into this dangerous life style, that he was being forced to leave the women he loved, knowing she would be in constant danger if he were to stay with her.
He had arranged for an evening for just the two of them, alone. They were to meet at her place, then on to see a movie at the local theatre. He had just been about to get into his car, when he was jumped from behind, and a cloth with some kind of sleep inducing drug on it , was rammed over his nose and mouth. He was out cold instantly and slumped heavily with in the arms of his kidnapper.
Unfortunately for Sands and fortunately for his kidnapper, Sand was yet to discover or fine tune his sensitive hearing and senses; that he would later find would save his life countless times. But as it was, that sense had not been discovered yet, and he was very much easy pray.
He woke four and half hours later with a splitting head ache, like he had never experienced before. He froze when he heard a very familiar voice quip sharply "so finally you decided to wake your lazy ass up did you. About fucking time, I was going nuts with just the wall to stare at and my own thoughts for company."
Sands asked groggily "Chris is that you, where the fuck are we? And what was that fucking shit they used to knock me out with?"
Christian Sands, Sheldon Sands twin brother commented irritably "The fuck I know, I'm in the same shit, as if you hadn't noticed. I was at the Witherspoon. I and Lily were on a date and her younger sister Ginny was working her regular shift.
I think the both of them were taken as well. I heard both Lily and Ginny cursing something bad before I was out cold, Ginny especially." He asked "where the hell were you when they kidnapped you, because this is exactly what it fucking well is, kidnap?"
Sands silently cursed before answering "I was about to get into my car, to drive to Alexia's. We were supposed to go on a date, to see a movie. Then afterwards I planned to take her back to the loft."
Christian snorted at this, he knew exactly what is twin meant, when he said he was taking her back to the loft after their date. He and his girl fucked like rabbits during mating season.
He added "it was dark and some fucker got me from behind and practically gagged me with some toxic crap that knocked me out when I went to see who was behind me."
Sands asked again "and I'll ask again where the fuck; are we?" Christian sighed and glared at his twin who was now sitting up propped up against the metal head board.
"I don't honestly know Jeff. We seem to be in a hay loft similar to our own; back home at the farm. We're not alone either. There are twenty four of us in here alone. Whoever took us better fucking well show them selves soon, because I want dam answers."
And as if by magic, a man in his mid thirties appeared. He was walking up the hay loft stair case. He commented "ah Misters Sands, you are both finally awake, as I'm sure the rest of you fellow gentlemen will be soon" he gestured to the other twenty two males in their late teens and early twenties.
Sands asked "where the hell; are we and what did you do with my girl?" The man who was unknowingly to them at member of the CIA answered "she is fine, she is right where you left her, safe at home. She is of no use to us, but you and your brother on the other hand are."
He continued "when the others wake I will explain everything to all of you. But I will say this and only this, welcome to the CIA training programme."
He then turned on his heel and went back down the stairs. The Sands brothers stared at each other incredulously. They both mouthed 'the fucking CIA training programme'
Sands shook his head as if clearing his head of unwanted memories. He sighed sadly and stood from his sitting position beside her bed, unknowing that Alexia's older brother Kyle was standing in the corridor out of seeing distance, listening.
He whispered "I'm so sorry you were made to worry about me, I'm sorry you had to endure whatever shit you did whilst I was away. But we can't be together I won't put your life in danger. I've been chosen to do something, something dangerous.
I love you to much to subject you to such danger. That's why I must say goodbye here and now. I need you to forget me and get on with your life, find someone else to love who won't be putting your life in danger."
His eyes filled with tears, the last tears he would cry for another fifteen years. He leaned over her gently and kissed her gently and lovingly on the lips and swallowed a sob as he whispered against her lips "I love you."
He then turned on his heel and exited the room, taking the first steps to becoming the cold and sharp witted and deadly CIA agent that he would become. He stopped dead in his tracks when he was met with Kyle Hartman. He quickly scrubbed a hand across his face and said coldly his voice like ice "do me a favour I don't fucking know how long you've been there, but do me this one favour. Don't ever tell her what you heard or that I was here. It will only make it harder for her in the long run other wise."
Kyle asked "and what about you, what about it being hard on you?" Sands shook his head "it doesn't matter about me; I'm going to know just the same. At least if you cooperate she will never have to know and she will be able to move on. I want; no I need for her to move on. Her dwelling on me will be a waste and will just end up destroying her."
Kyle shivered as he watched the cold emotionless mask slide over Sands features, the mask that he would become well known for in the up and coming years, the mask that would invoke terror in even the bravest of men and women.
Sands left the hospital silently vowing to never love another; it wasn't worth it, if it always ended like this. Plus with his new and permanent line of work, a relationship, especially with a civilian was destined to go down the shitter.