Marina sighed as she shook her thoughts from her head as she walked down the hall towards the medical wing as she sipped on the red bull in her hand. It was her morning routine everyday and somehow it felt off.
Something wasn't right the air was full of tension and made her a bit anxious as she sped up her pace the knot in her stomach growing with every step she took. She spotted her friend Leon a guard in the prison leaning against the nurses station waiting for her as he did every morning.
He was average height with short black hair that he had spiked into a fohawk with a bandana tied around his forehead always aiming to be resilent to the system. He looked over at her with his silver eyes and smirked as he straightened up and faced her.
"Morning see your off to a good start." He teased noticing how on edge she looked already. She rolled her eyes and sighed.
"You know you don't have to wait for me like an over protective brother, I already have one of those." She countered a bit of bitterness in her voice. He chuckled form beside her as they walked towards the medical wing. He looked her over and smirked.
"Defying the system today are we?" He asked curiously as he noticed her blue jeans and black tank as they reached the coat closet where she grabbed a white coat and gave him a playful glare.
"No but if one more guard tries to get frisky with me I'll castrate them." She informed making him laugh openly knowing that she probably would.
"Well can you blame the poor souls you make anything look provocative." He teased and flinched as she punched him in the arm. "Geeze, its true." He laughed rubbing his arm as she rolled her eyes in annoyance and tossed her empty drink can in the trash as they walked by it.
"Could have done without those damn converse and upped the anty with some heels." He teased making her laugh.
"I like my shoes thank you and I don't see you complaining." she said indicating their identical shoes. Granted hers were to ones that laced higher up and his laced up lower.
"Hey I never said I hated the shoes just that the heels would make every guard in here besides me drool." He confessed.
"Sorry I'm not seductive enough for you." She said in exasperation making him shake his head and glance over at her.
"Never said that just don't want your brother to kill me." He teased and stepped away as she went to hit him again. "I'm kidding you know I've got me a good girl at home." He reminded making her smile at the thought of his overly buoyant girlfriend. She still didn't see how the poor girl dealt with leon and his goofiness but he was happy.
Marina stiffened as she heard a crash coming from up ahead where the patients were and then loud angry voices. Leon looked over at her and she nodded before they both rushed towards the sound of the commotion.
They both rounded the corner of the infirmary just as the man who was in the bed beside Murphy crashed to the ground and three of the guards stood laughing. Two were holding Murphy who was bleeding from his wound again and struggling against them to try and get free.
"Hey," Leon yelled angrily rushing towards them as Marina rushed towards Mr. Cade, the man who was on the ground, and checked his pulse. He was still breathing luckily but there was blood on his lips and hand.
She felt her anger welling up inside her so fiercely that before she realized what she was doing she had pushed past Leon yelling in the face of the guard in charge and punched him square in the face sending him flying backwards reaching for his jaw as he braced himself on the bars of the hospital bed beside him.
"Shit, marina…," but before he could stop her she came at him again before he could recover and began hitting him mercilessly over and over again as he tried to block her but to no avail.
"You bastard he's sick and you fucking provoked his illness, do you realize what you've done." She yelled as she delivered one final hit before Leon grabbed her from behind and pulled her off of him still reeling with anger.
The guards friends released Murphy who was staring at her in shock and disbelief as the other guards helped their friend to his feet. "You crazy bitch!" One cursed at her and she lunged towards them only to be stopped again by Leon.
She shrugged him off and took a deep breath as she spoke. "If he dies, you can kiss all of your jobs goodbye." She said angrily as she pointed to all of them slowly. "Now get out before I really get mad." She warned, and get your friend to a hospital because he needs it.
They grumbled under their breath as they left with their friend groaning in pain. She was standing still trying to catch her composure. She watched Leon and Murphy put Mr. cade back in his bed and make sure he was comfortable and to her surprise he was started to laugh.
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." He teased forcing a smile to find it's way to her lips. Leon shook his head and sighed as he glanced over at her.
"Sometimes I wonder if she's not secretly a man." He teased making her glare at him playfully.
"Piss me off and you might find out," she informed, "now get to work on the paperwork and get out of my hair." She ordered annoyance starting to find it's way into her voice. He nodded and held up his hands in defeat.
"Alright just please be careful rambo," he teased and walked towards her. "Always," she said with a sigh and shook her head as he grabbed her by her shoulder and gave her a quick peck on the forehead.
"That a girl," he said in relief before walking away and leaving her to clean up the mess. She could feel Murphy's eyes on her and knew he probably had a million questions for her so she braced herself for them as she turned towards him and walked over to check on mr. cade to see him fast asleep. He was proably worn out form the events that had just occurred and needed to get his rest. She sighed as she flinched inwardly in hesitation before turning and meeting murphys hazel eyes. She walked towards him and began putting everything she knew he was going to need to redo his bandage as he spoke.
"What no cute nurses outfit today?" He asked trying to lighten the mood and make her smiled but instead made her laugh at how leon had just asked her damn near the same thing as soon as he saw her.
"No I'm afraid I might castrate the night guard if he makes one more pass at me." She explained simply as she grabbed the scissors and began cutting off his old bangade careful not to graze him. He chuckled and shook his head.
"I'm sure every guard here thinks the same thing he does." He argued making her roll her eyes and sigh.
"Alright Leon jr. I am not having a repeat of the same conversation again. She informed making him stiffen a little at her words. They were silent for a moment as she peeled off the old bandage and clucked her tongue against her teeth in annoyance as she saw a slow blood flow coming out of his wound again.
"Damn," she cursed under her breath, "I need you to lie down on your back for me." She informed a bit seriously and he did so without any objections as she walked to the other side of him taking her tools and supplies with her on the tray and placing them beside her on a vacant stool.
"So is that Leon fella yer boyfriend?" He asked looking away from her as he asked. She smiled slightly and slowly began applying pressure to the wound to stop the blood and making him flinch each time she did so.
"Why would you think that?" She asked curiously but not surprised seeing as how her and Leon were with each other. Murphy shrugged and grunted in pain as she applied more pressure to the wound.
"You two just seem to have something between ye is all." He explained defeat in his voice. She chuckled and shook her head.
"Sorry to disappoint you but Leon is far from my boyfriend."
"He is a childhood friend of my brother and I, I guess you could say." She explained trying to figure out how to explain things.
"So he's kind of like an over protective brother which is annoying since I have one of those already." She said frustrated as she removed the bloody gauze she had used to apply pressure to his wound and saw that there was no more blood coming out.
Murphy was looking at her now relief evident on his face but she was oblivious to it as she began cleaning the old blood away from the wound.
"Good thing means your real boyfriend doesn't have to worry as much about ya," he ventured a bit unsure him self as to why he was so curious. She smirked and shook her head.
"That would be a relief, but I'd need a boyfriend first." She informed never straying from her task of cleaning his wound. He high-fived himself mentally as he accomplished his goal of finding out if she was single or not without being obvious. Now was the harder part of the mission he'd given himself.
"So I didn't know you could fight." He said nonchalantly.
She hesitated for a moment making his curiosity of her grow even more as she began applying an antibiotic to his wound gently but it still made him wince in pain every once in awhile.
"I don't like to fight if I can help it." She lamented evenly but he could feel the tension growing around her.
"So then what was all that about?" He asked standing his ground even as she looked up at him her eyes full of emotion as she spoke.
"I guess I was overcome with anger at what they had done to Mr. Cade and you."
"Two helpless victims outnumbered and out matched in their condition."
"They put Cade's life at risk for sport and I guess I just snapped." She explained calmly, he swallowed hard and nodded mutely in understanding.
"I guess it's similar to how you feel when your out there killing the evils." She added as she looked away and began threading the needle in her hand. Murphy chuckled and shrugged as he propped himself up on his elbows.
"So I guess that means we are not as different as I thought." He implied making her stop what she was doing and meet his gaze.
"How so?" She asked curiously. He smirked and leaned towards her a little as if he was about to tell her a secret.
"Because we both get angry when good people get hurt." He reasoned. She shook her head slowly and snorted in amusement at his logic.
"So you think that just because it makes me mad that we are all of a sudden alike?" She asked in amusement making his confidence falter. He opened his mouth to reply and jumped in surprise as they heard the sound of outraged voices heading towards them.
"Stay still." She ordered as she placed down the threaded needle and slowly got to her feet as the voices got louder. He obeyed and watched as she grabbed a scalpel from the tray and moved towards the curtain.
He watched her amazed at how much her demeanor was different from their first encounter, She was deadly almost. He heard a small tune get whistled before she finally relaxed and threw back the curtain to reveal Leon on the other side heading towards them with his brother who was pissed off and Romeo trying to calm him down as he followed.
Leon shook his head with a smile on his face as he saw her. "Ready to cut me to ribbons were you?" He teased as a small smile graced her lips.
"Maybe, guess you'll never know." She confessed as he let Conner and Romeo through.
"Wait," She ordered making them stop and look at her in surprise, "you may talk to him but not touch him, I'm not done closing his wound yet." She informed firmly pointing at them in warning.
"Understand?" She asked.
"Got it," Conner said and without another word rushed over to his twin.
"Christ Murph, what the hell happened to ya?" Conner asked in concern seeing the bruises on his brothers chest and sides.
"Crooked cops." Leon muttered bitterly before turning and walking towards the door to stand guard.
"Bunch of bastards." Romeo muttered sitting at the foot of Murphy's bed. Marina sighed and sat back down on her stool as she grabbed the needle.
"Afraid your going to have to talk around me, I have to finish and get to my other duties since I'm running behind from this mornings activity." She informed as she leaned towards Murphy and began stitching his wound closed again.
"It's fine lass, we don't mind such pretty company." Conner said smoothly and marina shook her head at his attempts.
"Better watch it Con she might beat you like she did that guard if your not careful." Murphy teased causing a small smile to grace her lips.
"Wait that guard they practically carried through the prison, you did that to him?" Romeo asked in amazement. She smirked and nodded silently as she stayed focused on her task at hand.
"Damn right she did would've been worse had she not been pulled off of him." Murphy complemented.
"Damn you're my kinda girl." Romeo confessed.
"Hardly." She replied as she finished stitching him up and placed a temporary patch over the wound.
"That'll hold you for now, I'll be back later to wrap it properly." She informed formally. Murphy nodded in understanding and she looked around at them as she stood to leave. "It was nice to meet you all." She said with a warm smile before she left.
Conner watched his brother as he watched her leave and punched him in the arm. "Christ Murphy that's one hell of a distraction." He admitted as his brother glared at him and slowly sat up.
"You don't have to tell me twice believe me." "She's not like any girl I've ever met." Murphy informed with a sigh as his mind thought about the girl that had just left.
"Well if your not to busy drooling over the babe, we need to hurry and find our target cause shits gonna hit the fan in four days, in case you forgot." Romeo informed snapping Murphy out of his thoughts and focusing back on the business at hand. He couldn't get distracted now no matter what the cost.
"Well look at you room getting all serious on us now." Conner teased eyes raised in surprise with a playful smirk on his lips. Romeos face fell as he realized what he had probably just sounded like.
"Yeah Rome maybe we should let you come up with the plans from now on." Murphy joined in making Romeo shake his head in disagreement.
"Alright, alright shut up let's get this briefing over with so lover boy here can get back to his mission." Romeo urged waving his hands for emphasis.
"Alright well this is all I've got at the moment." Murphy started as he began to fill in his brother and partner in crime on what he had learned from his stay so far.