'Ahh!' echoed Rubi's voice as Raymond slashed a cold blade across her cheek.
Rubi felt the seering pain across her face as blood trickled from the wound. Trying to ignore the pain, Rubi kept cutting away at the rope that bound her wrists.
'Did that hurt cupcake?, Well there's more where that came from' Raymond mocked as a smirk creeped on his face. Rubi looked up at him and glared as she hacked away at the rope.
Raymond swapped the blade for a power drill and plugged it into the wall. Sweat rolled down Rubi's brow as she noticed she was running out of time, she needed a bit more .
Raymond chuckled as he walked toward her as he switched on the drill
'I'm going to enjoy listening to you scream..' Rubi cut faster as she felt the rope weakening as Raymond got closer. 'Almost,almost...come on' Rubi thought. Finally the rope snapped just as Raymond rammed the drill into Rubi's shoulder 'Arrrgh!' She screamed feeling the rotation of the drill tear up her shoulder, Rubi immediately swung connecting her fist with Raymonds face, knocking him and the drill to the floor.
Rubi slashed the rest of the rope on her and jolted from her seat as Richard fled from the room. She darted towards the door to follow Richard but hit the floor hard. Raymond rolled Rubi over and climbed on top of her to meet a second punch to his face, he blocked the third punch, then returned it bouncing Rubi's head off the floor. She brought her knee up into his groin and he rolled off of her in pain, she tried to get up but felt Raymond drag her back down 'You're not going anywhere, sweetheart!'
'Get the fuck off!' She spat as she kicked him off her. She attemped to get up once more, she managed to get to her feet again and swiped a knife off the the silver table, when she looked back Raymond threw himself at her holding the drill. They both collided with the floor and Raymond once again straddled Rubi holding the drill at her throat, Rubi restrained
Raymond's arm, holding the drill away from her throat as he attemped to push against her arm harder. 'This is going to get very messy..' Strained Raymond, grinning. Rubi spotted the knife she dropped and reached for it; and succsefully obtained the blade 'I know' she replied and slammed the knife into the side of Raymond's neck. He went limp and the drill dropped from his grip, rattling across the floor.
Rubi shooved Raymond off her and slowly got to her feet, gripping her shoulder as the blood dripped through her fingers. Rubi listened for a moment, she could hear heavy boots stomping through the corridors toward her location. 'Damn it!'She cursed under her breath, she was in no condition to fight armed thugs. Rubi spun around and scanned the room for an exit. She noticed a small window of the dark room and quickly darted for it, as she did the door smashed open and the henchmen spilled into the room aiming in her direction. Rubi dove straight through the small window just as the men fired. Rubi rolled onto the ground painfully and immediately got out of the area.
Two hours later Rubi arraived at the west London harbour to find her British connection when she comes to the UK. She spotted his boat house and shuffled towards it quickly. 'Milo!, Milo are you there?!' She yelled still clutching her shoulder. Without an answer she made her way onto the boat. She walked into his kitchen, his china tea pot was steaming so he must be here. 'Milo, dammit! Where are you?!' she shouted again as she went to leave the room someone slammed into her. 'What the-?!' They both fell to the floor, Rubi instatly sprung to her feet, 'Milo?, what the hell!, why didn't you answer me?!'
'Huh!' Milo replied removing his head phones
'Really? That's why you couldn't hear me' Rubi remarked holding her hand out
'Oh, Rubi I'm sorr-, W-what happend to you?!' Milo exclaimed jumping up ignoring Rubi's gester. 'That's why I'm here, I need your help'
'I can see that I guess, Come on lets get you fixed up'. Milo guided Rubi to his room to give her some medical attention, Rubi sat down on his bed as Milo wheeled his medical tray next to the bed. 'Rubi, take your jacket off I'll need to sew that wound up as soon as possible'. Rubi did as he said and slipped it off slowly as the jacket tugged at her wound 'ah!'
'What did that?' Milo asked soaking a cotton ball in alcohol and preparing the clean her wound
'Power drill' she answered throwing her jacket on a near by chair 'Since when did Rupert Phelem have a brother anyway?'
'Wait Richard did this?!' Milo exclamed 'How did he find out so fast?'
'You know of him?!, why didn't you tell me?!' Rubi yelled in surprise flinching from the pain of the alcohol touching the tender wound.
'I didn't know it would escalate so quickly, I was going warn you at some point' Milo shrugged throwing the used cotton ball away 'Richard was in Russia when this Phelem issue was going on'. Milo picked up a needle and thread and began to sew Rubi's wound.
'Warn me a some point?, When? after I'm six feet under ground' Scowled Rubi
'Sorry, like I said I didn't know it would get that bad that quickly' he replied finishing off the stitches and padding the wound up.
'Right I need to fix that broken nose of yours' Milo noted
'Great..' Rubi said rolling her eyes.
Milo put his hand on to Rubi's nose and quickly clicked it back into place 'Ah! Shit' Rubi spat clutching her fixed nose 'You should of warned me you gonna do that, jeez!'
'Oh quit complaining and get cleaned up, you're getting blood all over my bed' Milo stated, ushering her off his bed. Rubi rolled her eyes again and made her way to his bathroom.
Rubi locked the door and stared at herself in the mirror for a moment, examining her bloody face of cuts and the newly fixed nose. She sighed to herself and wet the cloth by the sink and began to wipe all the dry and wet blood off her.
She came out 15 minutes later drying her face with a towel and met Milo in his small compact living room accompanied by scattered paper and tea cups.
'So, what you planning to do Rubi?, Milo asked, pouring a small cup of tea
'I dunno yet, I might go back to my hideout for the time being, I know I'm not one for backing out of a fight but I don't exactly have any weapons to hold my ground'.
'You've made a wise decision for once, usually I have to beg you not to do anything stupid and you just do it anyway' Milo noted after sipping some tea. Rubi smirked at the comment and dissapered into Milo's room and collected her jacket, she came back and slipped it on and made her way towards the front door. 'You leaving so soon?' Milo asked cocking an eyebrow 'Yeah, I got new guns to order remember and a new sword' She smirked, 'See ya' And she marched out the door.
An hour later Rubi stepped out of a cab and made her way toward the private airport.
Just before she walked through the door she heard aggressive violence coming from inside, She stopped at the door and peered in to see what the problem was.
'Where is she!' screamed a short stubby man, waving a gun around at a smaller man who appeared to work there.
'I-I don't k-know what y-you're talkin about' the scrawney man cowered 'please don't hurt me, I haven't done anything'
'Shut up! you worthless runt!' the man yelled he started to loose his patience.
Rubi decided to put a stop to this as she reckoned the protaganist was looking for her and she needed to get home as soon as possible. She walked into the door way and got the man's attention 'Hey! dickwad!, You lookin for me?' she cheeked standing in the door way.
'You!' he exclaimed, without question the man fired his pistol at Rubi, she rapidly dived across the room toward the man and brought her foot up smacking the gun out of his hand.
He froze as Rubi grabbed his collar of his shirt and slammed him against the desk.
'Who sent you, huh?, Richard phelem I presume!' she intergated him slamming into the wall again.
'Uh-I' he stuttered 'I'm just given orders to find you! Please don't kill me' he begged holding his hands up in defence. Rubi glared at him seeing how much of a coward he is, if there was one thing that pushed Rubi's buttons it was little bad boy wanna be's hinding behind a gun.
Rubi stared at his sweating face for a second and brought her knee up into his stomach and followed through with a sharp punch to his face, instantly knocking him out cold.
'Faggot!' She spat then turned to the cowering assistant.
'Thank you so much! I thought he was going to kill me for sure' he breathed pulling himself from the floor.
'Don't metion it, really''I just want to get home' She assured
'Seeing you saved my life you can fly free of charge, any other bugger would of left me to die' he stated fliddling with some paper work behind the desk. 'Here fill your details out and I'll get a pilot to set a plane up for you' he said handing her a small card and a pen.
'Thanks' she half-heartedly replied filling out her details.
'Um before you go, you think you could get rid of that guy on the floor?, I'm not sure he'll be happy when he wakes up' he asked pulling a concerned face.
'Sure I guess, I bet he won't be needing this' she noted picking up his pistol off the floor.
Rubi holstered the gun and grabbed the unconcious man's legs and dragged him out of the building. She walked back inside and locked the door 'Don't unlock the door till he's gone, he most likely won't come back in without his toy' she stated
'Ok thanks, your plane is ready by the way, the pilot is waiting out back'.
Handed her the ticket and Rubi made her way onto the runway, where a small plane awaited her. 'Bloody planes..' she muttered at the thought of flying, Rubi prefered to have both feet firmly on the ground. She climed aboard and readied herself for take off, 'here we go'.
Eight hours into the flight, Rubi woke from her nap and peered out of the window. She could see dawn starting then she checked her phone for the time, it read 6:46. Strangly she had an unread message. She opened the inbox to see who it was, It was an unknown number 'huh?', she opened the message and her face widened in shock 'shit!'. She jumped to her feet and made her way to the cockpit. 'Tell me how long till touch down!' she demanded
'Not for another hour ma'am' the pilot answered 'What's the sudden rush?'
'Personal inportance' she repsonded
'I can go a little bit faster if you want, but that's all' he offered
'Yes as fast as you can go, And when we land can you re-prep the plane I'll be needing to go back to London as soon as I get back from my Boneyard' She added.
'I'll need to call someone else to fly the plane, I can't do two nine hour flights in a row'
'That's fine by me' she replied and made her back to her seat. She grabbed a glass from the shelf and a bottle of whiskey and poured herself drink. She took a sip and looked back at the message on her phone it read; If you care about your little Scottish pal, you best get your little Texan ass to the old fish line in eastern London, you have 48hours. She closed the phone and sighed and took a swig from the bottle.