* As usual I do not own Charlie's Angels or the characters except Ella, Sarah and other people you haven't seen in the show. This story is for entertainment/enjoyment purposes only.

* The story takes place after my other stories. I do look back a lot, and it's less confusing if you've read past stories ^^
* The small quote here in the beginning comes from a song named "The snake", I don't know who wrote it first :P
* I haven't written much from this story yet, so here's just a teaser. More to follow, of course.

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Crotalus scutulatus

"Oh shut up, silly woman," said the reptile with a grin
"You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in"
- "The Snake"

Prologue.

As stiffened as he felt the needle being pressed in through his skin in his neck, into his jugular, and he felt panic rise within his body.

He tried to move around, but his hands and feet were tied, and the hand that covered his mouth made it impossible to scream. He tried to bite his attacker's palm, but the hand was covered with a thick leather glove so there was no use.

The dangerous toxin entered his body, and he felt the sweat drip down into his eyes as his heart rate increased. He knew what was about to happen and he couldn't stop it. He was going to die, and he was going to die soon. He wished that he had left something behind him, something to let the rest of the world know who had done this to him, but now it was too late. He hoped that someone would find him and that the police would be able to track this psycho down.

As the person let go of him, he fell down to the floor. He couldn't move since he was still strapped down and now he just laid waiting for the effects of the toxin. He knew what he had to expect and he prayed with that his life would end fast. He closed his eyes and thought of his sister. She was the only one he had left in the world, and she was going to be alone now, due to his awful mistake of trusting the wrong person. A mistake he now paid with his life.

It didn't take long before he felt pain, burning pain in the neck that spread with help of the blood throughout his body. The body then turned numb, he wasn't able to move his limbs, and he felt how it got very, very difficult to breathe. Severe respiratory failure.

He didn't fight it. He knew the toxin caused severe tachycardia, and his pulse was fading, fast. He also knew that the toxin would cause edema around the bite, and since the toxin had been injected into his jugular, the swelling was closing his airways. He knew he was going to be dead within a few minutes, and he didn't fight it. He knew he would die, it was too late to do anything about it, even if he got to the ER within a minute, they still wouldn't be able to save him, and he had decided to embrace the darkness. He couldn't change anything now anyway. He made a mistake, and it turned out to be very fatal.

He closed his eyes harder when his entire body started quivering, shivering and trembling, and when he opened his eyes he watched his murderer stand close to him, wearing a smile. Well, he actually saw the killer in several copies, and he knew that the toxin was getting to his brain.

´Rather sooner than later` he though, as he felt his chest tighten and a sharp pain was sent through it – he knew his heart was giving in. He couldn't feel the rest of his body, all he felt was the excruciating pain, and he finally exhaled as he passed out to never wake up again.