Charlie hasn't seen her family in six months. She doesn't know if they are dead or alive. How she found herself in this situation is still a mystery to her. A mystery that she continues to ponder as she follows Sebastian Monroe through the crowded bar that smelled of stale liquor, body odor, and bad news. Once again they were meeting with a shady cartel lord to see if his men might have seen or heard something that could give some clarity to how Miles, Connor, and Rachel seemed to have disappeared into thin air. As they pass through the small hallway into the office of the man they were here to see, Bass is suddenly thrown in a chair opposite side of the desk of Juan Reyes himself. Before Charlie can pull her knife, she is pushed roughly up against a wall with a blade pressed to her throat. "Hey!" Bass starts to protest as he starts to rise out of his chair to help Charlie but the cold metal of a .22 pistol stops him in his tracks. The man behind the desk lets out a laugh that makes Charlie's blood run cold. What had Monroe gotten them into this time?
"I understand that you are looking for your family young lady, Reyes said to Charlie leaning back in his chair folding his hands in front of himself, lucky for you I am in a bargaining mood today." Before Charlie had the opportunity to form a reply around the cold metal harshly digging into her skin Bass spoke up. "What is your price?" Reyes hadn't looked at him once, keeping his eyes trained on Charlie. After a silence that seemed to stop time he finally replied, "Her." Bass set his jaw, "No." A smirk curled its way up on the sweaty man's face as he laughed once again. "I don't want to keep her, he stated as he got up from behind his desk and walked over to Charlie like a predator stalking its prey, just for the night you see." "I said no," Bass said again with more venom no longer looking at the gun pressed squarely against his forehead but instead staring at the man who was gazing at Charlie like she was a piece of meat. "I'm not bargaining with you, Reyes said causally over his shoulder now nose to nose with Charlie and she was fighting the urge not to head but him as hard as she could, I am bargaining with her." Reyes waved his hand in the general direction of the knife pressed to her throat and told his henchman to remove weapon for it hindered the girl to speak. Once removed, Charlie took a deep breath, "Information first," she stated. Bass stiffened in his seat. Reyes laughed and clapped his hands together like a gleeful child watching fireworks for the first time.
Bass curled his hands up at his sides as he listed to the accounts of one of Reyes men, by the end of it he was furious, so was Charlie, "What the hell do you mean it just happened," she roared at Reyes. The man shrugged his shoulders innocently. "That the information doll, I fulfilled my end of the bargain, now it's your turn." Charlie made a move to grab the knife at her waist but before she could get a solid grip Reyes pinned her up against the wall once more, keeping her hostage with his own body pinning her so, a knife back at her throat. What was it with these people and knifes? "Now, now, now Ms. Matheson you don't want to anger me now dear, he whispered as he slowly pressed the blade into the skin of her collarbone, causing a small stream of blood to run down her chest disappearing into her cleavage. Charlie held in her flinch as the man leaned forward and licked the small river of blood and pressing a sloppy kiss to her skin before leaning back up to look her in the eye, "Oh I am going to have fun with you." Stabbing the knife into the wall just out of Charlie's reach he grabbed a handful of her hair and turned her head to the side lightly biting at the sensitive skin of her earlobe and neck. Charlie felt her face flush realizing not only was this about to happen but that this was about to happen in front of Bass. She closed her eyes and willed her subconscious away to a time when she was happy, when Danny was still alive and the only thing she had to worry about was being home before dawn so her father wouldn't sit her down with another lecture of how dangerous the real world is and how she wasn't as strong as she thought she was. What she wouldn't give to sit through another one of his lectures today. He would probably lecture her now she thought. The only reason she is in this mess is because she got in another fight with her mother and stormed out into the woods to pout. Sebastian and Miles decided to divide and conquer, Miles talking to Rachel and Bass trudging into the woods after Charlie. Bass was once again separated from his son all because was unable to see eye to eye with her mother, Charlie pushed the guilt away. Suddenly the probing fingers as well as the hot mouth was off of her and a loud crack forced Charlie's eyes open. Before her Reyes laid crumped on the ground his head turned at an unnatural angle and the henchman all in similar conditions strewn out of the floor around her.
Charlie turned her eyes to Bass as he looked over her, his chest heaving. "Are you okay?" He asked, his voice gruff with anger and adrenaline. All she could do was stare, yeah she had seen Bass kill before, he had tried to kill her once upon a time and had killed with her and for her since but this was different. He was shaking with emotion, his body vibrating with pure rage, "Charlotte, are you okay?" She felt a bite of mild annoyance at being called by her full name and it shook her out of her trance, "Yeah, I'm okay, I'm fine," she said locking eyes with Bass. "Good, we have to go like now," he put his hand at the small of her back leading her away from the blood soaked office. The pair slipped out the side door and ducked under the cover of the woods putting as much distance between them and the men that would soon be searching for them.
"What are we supposed to do now?" Charlie asked staring into the fire. Bass looked at her through the flames, he knew at they were running out of time. That she was desperate because for the first time she actually looked like a scared little girl. "Now, we find a town rest up, get the supplies we need, and we head to Louisiana."