All Mal could do was obey the man for now. Clearly his age was real, but he was fairly able-bodied despite of it. He knew he could easily overpower him, but he remembered what he had said earlier. Something about someone named Juliet. Yes, he was beyond angry with this man, but he wasn't about to let a girl die because of it. The man had taken him to another part of the campground, where a second car was waiting. Obviously it was so people didn't recognize Mal's car, as surely people were looking for them now. The sun was already rising, he had been missing for hours now. An hour later Mal was forced into driving, the old man still diligently training his gun at him.
"You know, when you kidnap someone you usually at least tell them why" Mal said, trying to think of a plan as the man was distracted. He kept his eyes on the road, but knew the man was watching intently.
"Do you have children…?"
"Mal" he said "Mal Fallon. And I hardly think that's important".
The man sighed "If you do, you'd know that you'd do anything to protect them". The man's voice began to shake. "I did some bad things when I was a teenager, stupid things. One of them led to ending a man's life. I didn't know that man was a father…that I took him away from his only son. That child, he took my daughter away. He told me if I could find a replacement, he would kill them instead of Juliet. He's toying with me, he wants to see if an old man like me can take the life of another. See if I can kill again".
"So you'd let an innocent stranger die, just so you could save your child?".
The old man look taken back "You're obviously not a father".
"What makes you say that?".
"You don't understand. Understand that you won't let anything happen to your child, not matter the cost" the man said.
Mal briefly glanced over at the man, seeing now the stress lines that ran across his face. "I bet they told you not to involve the police either." The man nodded. "Then you picked the right man to kidnap. Normally you'd be shot dead right now, but I'm going to help you".
"You are?".
"I made a vow to protect the public, and right now, you and Juliet are the public".
Sorry it's so short…writers block on chapter two…not good. I know what I want to happen, I just can't seem to get what I'm thinking onto the page.