Walker Ranch.
When morning came, Alex was the first person to wake up. Once again, to her right, Walker was gone. She thought where he could've gone, then it finally hit her that Sydney, Erica and herself were in danger, and Gage, Trivette, and Walker were not going to let them get hurt.
As she got out of bed, she put on some jeans with a white sweater with some boots. As she went downstairs, she was met by Sydney and Erica, who were already awake, downstairs in the living room, talking to each other and their "now" bodyguards, Charles and George.
"Good morning, everybody!" Alex said with a bright smile.
"Good morning, Alex" replied Erica and Sydney.
Both of them were dressed in the same clothes they had on yesterday. Alex went over to the couch the other two girls were sitting at, and sat between them.
"We are about to leave to our houses, but we decided to wait for you. So, we made a little chit chat!" said Erica with a giggle.
"Um, Walker called a couple of minutes ago. He wanted to know if you were up, and as soon as you got up, we would be leaving." Sydney said.
Alex nodded and said, "Well, I'm up. So what are we waiting for!?"
She said with a smile, and Erica and Sydney were giggling as all five of them got off the couch, out the door, into a black Denali, and to Sydney's house, and Erica's house. Little did they know that soon that day, something terrible was going to happen.
Rangers Headquarters: Company B
Today at Company B, it was packed, and everyone was working rapidly, especially Walker and Trivette. Gage, on the other hand, was not present. He had to go to his cousins funereal. It was a distant relative that he and Julie barely knew. Gage did not want to go, as he was worried for Sydney, but Julie tried to encouraged him to go, saying,
''They were family. Even if we barely knew them, we should be there.''
He was also worried for Erica and Alex, but he feared mostly for Sydney. He loved her. There was something about her that made him want her. He was furious that someone had threatened the love of his life. Gage wanted to strangle or kill that person. Walker and Julie both tried to make him go and told him that the girls will be safe with Charles and George. Gage finally agreed, and he took Julie along with him. Before Gage actually left, Walker told him
"Gage, I know you want the girls safe, especially Sydney, but I think that you should take some time off for a couple of weeks. If anything happened to the girls, I will call you to return. Understood? I can't have one of my best rangers frustrated and wanting to kill a man."
Walker finally realized the last words he said. He too wanted to kill the man. Gage looked at him and sighed heavily with a smile.
"Okay, fine. I will. I'll see you soon boss." And with that, Gage and Julie left to New York for the funereal.
All the rangers in the building were working harder than they usually did especially Walker and Trivette. Walker got frustrated when he thought they were getting nowhere, until Trivette came up to him with some files.
"Okay, I went through some files of the victims that Alex put away, that threatened Alex and Sydney, just Sydney or just Alex. I didn't see any with Erica, though."
Walker nodded, and said
"Great. Now let's look through them all."
There was a huge stack on both the senior rangers' desks. Trivette agreed, and both took a file off the piles.
Erica and Trivette's House
The first house they stopped at was Erica's and Trivette's house, since it was almost close to Walkers Ranch. It was a two-story Dutch colonial- styled house that was painted brown and white. Charles, who was driving the car, parked in front of the house, and Erica said,
"I'll be right back I won't take long.", and jumped out of the car.
Erica opened her house door, entered her house, and closed the door. She went to a hallway closet, grabbed a light blue duffel bag with a small backpack, and ran up the stairs. She went to her bedroom, opened up her closet, and grabbed five pairs of jeans, six shirts, sleep wear, some undergarments, socks, and three pairs of shoes. She put all of that in her duffel bag. Then she went to the bathroom and grabbed some lotion, shaving cream, "lady things" toothpaste/toothbrush, and shampoo, and put all that in her small backpack. Erica left the bathroom, headed back downstairs and out the front door.
Erica locked her front door, and ran back to the car, carrying her small backpack and duffel bag, put it in the trunk and got back in the car.
Sydney's house
The next stop was Sydney's house. Her house was also a two-story, but it was a Bungalow-styled house that was painted light-grey and white. Charles parked the car in front of her house too. Sydney hesitated to leave the car for a moment when Alex spoke to her,
"Sydney, are you OK?" Sydney snapped out of her "trance" and replied with a
"Yes."
She opened the door to the car and left. When she reached the front door, she went to a flower pot and pulled out a key. With that, she unlocked her door. When she stepped inside she literally ran up her steps, skipping one step and grabbed a big purse. She grabbed some shirts, jeans, black leggings, shoes, socks, sleepwear, and undergarments. She put it in the purse, and continued on with the bathroom. Sydney packed the same things Erica did.
Sydney came out of her house, locked the door and put her purse in the trunk too. When Sydney got in the car, Erica began talking.
"Instead of being locked up in a house/ranch, can we go shopping and get some lunch?"
Alex smiled brightly, and replied with,
"Yes! Charles, George? Can we? Please?"
Charles looked at George, and said,
"Sure, but not too long."
Sydney smiled, along with Alex and Erica. Sydney didn't like this at all. There was something about that look Charles gave to George. She decided to let go of the thought and thought about Alex, Erica and herself shopping together.
Erica, Sydney and Alex spent nearly 2 hours shopping that they forgot track of time. Each store they came out of, the three of them had at least one bag from that store.
"Oh my! Look at the time!" Erica exclaimed and then said, "We should be heading out to eat now!"
And with that being said, the three left to go walk down a couple blocks to a fancy French restaurant. But before they went, they put all their shopping bags in the black Denali. Alex had convinced Charles and George that they would be able to go down a couple blocks to the restaurant and they don't have to follow them. George hesitated to answer, but Charles answered quickly with a "yes." George and Charles drove away around downtown while Erica, Sydney and Alex walked to the restaurant.
When nighttime approached, the girls didn't realize they stayed out too late. When they left the restaurant, they wondered where Charles and George were.
"I wonder where they are" said Sydney.
She had a bad feeling about this.
"We should walk to where we shopped last"Alex started.
"That way Charles and George might be there waiting."
Erica and Sydney nodded, and walked to the store.
It was pitch black at night, except for the lights on the light poles, and the cars lights passing by. The three girls had to take an alleyway to get to the store quicker. As they walked through the alley, a car approached them. Alex, and Erica got startled, but Sydney didn't as she could see like a hawk. The car stopped in front of them, and George and Charles stepped out.
"Where were you guys? We were looking all over for you three!" George exclaimed.
The girls rushed to the sides of the doors and got inside. Charles smiled and drove to Walkers Ranch.
When they pulled in to the driveway of Walkers Ranch, Erica jumped out of the car first, saying
"It's so cold out here! Hurry let's get inside!" as she was followed closely by Alex and Sydney and went inside the house.
Charles and George stayed in the car, as they watched to guard the house. George got bored from being in the car for one hour straight. Erica was right, though. It was cold, but not to Charles. Charles pulled out a pair of black gloves from his coat and placed them on his hands.
"So, George" Charles started.
"How long have you been doing this job?"
George looked at him then chuckled. "Well, I've been doing this for 2 years."
Charles nodded his head and then said,
"Have you ever been to jail?"
George shook his head and said,"No, otherwise I wouldn't be doing this job. Have you?"
Charles looked at him and smiled while looking down.
"No, but I know this person named David Lancaster and he murdered blonde-haired and black-haired women. He was sent to jail for 15 years, but they had to narrow it down to one year, because they didn't have enough evidence. He was released 5 months ago. Nobody knows where he is now, but he changed his name."
As he went on, Charles slowly pulled out a knife from his inside coat pocket, oblivious to George.
"His new name is now" and as he said this, Charles stabbed George in his heart. "Charles Evans."
George looked at him in disbelief and terror, and then everything seemed to be fading black around his eyes. Charles smiled manically, and took out his cell phone and made a call.
"It's done. Get ready" He said, while pulling on a black ski mask.
When Erica, Sydney and Alex got inside, Sydney immediately suggested she make the three of them coffee. Erica and Alex agreed as they went to take a shower, separately, and put their sleepwear on. When the coffee finished, Sydney served them each a glass of coffee, and went to take a shower herself. When she finished, she went back downstairs, where she was met by Alex and Erica, who were sitting on the couch waiting for her. Sydney smiled as she sat between then, and put her knees up to her chest. The girls talked for awhile and then decided to watch a movie. The movie played for awhile, and then something hit the window. That made Sydney get up and look out the window.
"What are you doing" Alex said in a concerned voice. Sydney tilted her head to the side, and squinted her eyes, while looking out the window.
"The car is gone." Sydney said.
Erica looked at her worried, then said with a nervous smile,
"Maybe they went on a little drive?"
But before she could continue, she was interrupted by a large knock on the door. Sydney looked at the other two girls, and started walking towards the door. But before she could get there, it burst open; ten men all dressed in black with black ski masks broke in. Alex and Erica screamed and tried to run, but they were captured from behind. Sydney fought two of them off with a roundhouse kick to the stomachs.
"Come on boys, you could do better than that!"
She spoke as she fought off one more. She was then distracted as she saw Erica and Alex held from behind in a chokehold position, and they were injected with a needle to the neck, and they passed out.
"NO!" yelled Sydney.
She tried to run to help her friends, but she too was grabbed from behind like her friends, and was injected with a needle in the neck.
"No…." Sydney whispered as her surroundings faded to black.
Her last thought before she drifted off was Alex, please be safe. I promised Walker I'd protect you from danger….."
