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She opened her eyes to see nothing but darkness. Either way she turned her head it was all she saw. Most people would have been scared to be in such a place. Kanani though, was not like most people.

She actually quite enjoyed the darkness, it was so calm and peaceful.

And safe.

Kanani knew where she was, in a warehouse that had been abandoned years ago. That wasn't what had scared her and led her to hide where she was. No, what scared her was what had happened in the warehouse.

The sound of distant voices drew Kanani out of her thoughts to focus on listening to the voices. From what she could hear, there were two male voices and a female voice. She could hear one of the men's voices and heavy footsteps slowly moving closer. She jumped at the sound of sheet metal scraping against concrete, realizing that someone was pulling at the opening into the dark small room she was in.

It was jerked open a moment later, sunlight flooding in, blinding her momentarily. As soon as she could see, Kanani bolted out past the man that found her and across the catwalk towards the stairs leading down. The man was chasing her, but with the distance there was between them, he wouldn't be able to catch her. Now all she had to do was avoid the other two that were with him. Kanani could hear the man talking into what was probably a mike. Alerting the other two to her presence. Shit.

She assumed that since she couldn't see either of them that they were behind her, and that her best chance at escape was a straight shot to the large doors of the warehouse leading out. Her assumption was promptly proven wrong when one of them stepped out and into her path, causing them to collide and Kanani to fall.

She rolled to break her fall and stood up, watching the man she'd run into warily. He was definitely older, his hair was gray, and he had a concerned, yet empathetic look on his face.

"Pride, are you okay?" Kanani's eyes darted over to the owner of the voice. As her eyes studied the woman, her mind, grateful for a distraction, gnawed on the man's name. Pride. It rang a vague bell in the back of Kanani's mind. Even as her mind continued to puzzle it out, her eyes darted between Pride and the woman who introduced herself as Brody. Kanani took a small half-step back as she noticed Brody moving slightly forward. She was so focused on moving away, keeping an eye on them both, her mind partially distracted with puzzling out the vague familiarity of Pride's name, that she failed to remember that the other man in the group wasn't there, until she felt a hand on her shoulder. Instinct kicking in, Kanani spun around raising her arm at the same time, ramming the point of her elbow into his face. Immediately his grip weakened enough for her to move away.

She looked to see the man's nose dripping blood. 'Damn it'. She hadn't wanted to hurt him... but he had scared the everliving shit out of her.. so he might've had it coming. That didn't stop her from wanting to help him though. Remembering that she had some napkins in her pocket, took them out and hesitantly walked toward him.

Stopping a few feet away from him, she held out her hand, offering the napkins to him. He looked at her warily, but she merely stood there waiting for him to take them. "Thank you. I'm Chris LaSalle."

Kanani nodded, tensing as she realised that was her que to introduce herself. 'Houston, we have a problem.' She tried to use her hands to indicate that she wanted something to write on. LaSalle, however, didn't seem to understand what she was trying to communicate. He gave her a confused look. Kanani tried again to communicate using gestures, but he still looked confused. 'I'd hate playing charades with this guy, I'd win to easily.'

At that moment, Pride walked over, looking at both of them. "Everything alright? " LaSalle blew out an exasperated sigh. "It's like she can't speak. That or she just doesn't want to." Kanani glared at LaSalle. Of course she wanted to speak! She just couldn't at the moment. Pride turned to face her.

" You can speak, correct?" Kanani nodded. "Can you speak right now?" Kanani looked down, shaking her head. Pride looked at her a few moments longer. Long enough for Kanani's mind to wander to what had happened in the warehouse.

Kyle trying to protect her, him getting hurt in the process and then being killed, Kanani watching the killer hide the gun-

She flinched away slightly feeling a hand on her arm shaking her from her thoughts. Kanani realised she was moving toward where she knew the gun was. She wondered if these people knew as well, when a beeping noise had her looking over to see Pride looking at his phone.

"Doc Wade has something on the body, you two take her, " he pointed to Kanani, "I want you to take her back to the office and find out what she knows."