A/n: Oh good Lord. I've left this pending for so long. Mainly because I'd lost all my inspiration for bloody, gory stuff, but now I'm back. And yeah, I should probably post it somewhere else, but even though it has no characters of C.I.D, it is very much related, and there is hardly anyone else I know who gives a s*** about the show.
P.S. Swearing ahead for this chapter, so buckle up and brace yourselves.
P.P.S. I'm a very clean teenager, and I do not swear in real life, although I always look forward to using more polite, clever, yet massively insulting alternatives.
For the first time in a long time, Saara doesn't feel the rush of excitement when she kills. She flashes her sword back and forth, but it doesn't strike anywhere important. She's sure that with such little concentration, she's destines to slash herself somehow, and she seethes inwardly, curses herself, but does nothing.
Vraj is right behind her, and she can practically see the glee on his face when he kills, even tough he wears a mask to conceal his identity. Vraj isn't really allowed on the battlefield, with him being a double agent and all, but he is one of the very few that Adi trusts for the mission.
"Cavalry, three o'clock!" Vraj yells from behind her and she ducks just in time to escape the gleaming blade. Saara plunges her sword to the right, and she hears the all too familiar clink of metal against metal. When she retracts her swords, she waits a second for the enemy to attack first, so that their weapons are rendered useless when she strikes again. Sure enough, it plunges straight through his arm. With a sharp cry, the man's sword falls to the ground, with him following swiftly after. Saara doesn't wait to gloat. She's riding off just as his body hits the ground with an ear-splitting scream.
"Seriously, I thought you were going to kill him," Vraj says; now riding beside her. Saara shakes her head and looks straight ahead. She can barely see from under the bulky helmet, but she doesn't bother to take it off, too distracted by the tasks at hand. She can hear Vraj's sword constantly at battle with others and he groans and groans in frustration with the ever-increasing number of people.
"It's like they're just waiting to die!" he says irritated and Saara smirks. Not that he can see, but it's more for self-satisfaction than anything else. "Do they ever stop?"
"You don't have to scream, Choksey," she says, "The intercom works, surprisingly."
Vraj laughs then, for no apparent reason, and she's compelled to hit him over the head with the hilt of her sword.
"What?" she asks.
"I can hear Shergill breathing," he chuckles quietly, his sword handing in a somewhat awkward position over his horse. Saara shakes her head.
"I'm glad he's at least breathing," she says and Vraj looks over at her for one second before he looks ahead again.
"I'm glad you care," Adi says into the intercom. Vraj has the heart to say something smart. But Saara doesn't say anything, so he guesses that it's best to shut up altogether.
They ride for god knows how much longer. At this point they've long passed the enemy lines, and that isn't even what they're supposed to do. They're supposed to stay on the battlefield and kill, like they always do. But every mission that Adi heads, Saara seems to have a mind of her own, and Vraj is there to back her up, so he doesn't have much choice but to follow her.
It almost seems to him that she is trying to prove a point, but to whom, and what, he hasn't got a clue. Vraj wants to help her figure it out, like he wants her to help him, but he's hardly ever around, and she doesn't seem to give a damn.
"Guys, we have a bit of a situation," Kenny says into the intercom, and Vraj nearly falls off his horse. No one has been talking for so long and in all their pondering, he sort of had forgotten that they were there at all.
"When do we not have a situation," Saara mutters.
"There's a safe house, I'm sending you the locations now. We think Mandy and Viny are there."
"Well unless you have some sort of mind link with me, I'm not going to get the damn location because my transmitter was snagged."
"Right," Kenny mumbles. "34.5 latitude, 89.45 longitude north-east in fifteen kilometers."
"Give us five," Saara says and she shuts off her intercom. Vraj can hear Kenny and Adi going bonkers because of that and he sighs.
"She's alive," he says, "Just having one of her moods."
To say that the house is huge would be and understatement. Because it's fucking ginormous. Vraj stares at the house, half in admiration as he dismounts his horse, and Saara looks uninterested.
"Its—"
"We know."
"Are you sure they're here?" Saara asks, "Because this place is pretty easy to find."
Kenny shrugs. "Mandy and Viny aren't high level operatives. It wouldn't matter if they are found."
"I just hope they weren't tortured for information," Adi says sadly.
"It wouldn't matter even if they were. They've both been tortured plenty times before. They know how to take it. And even if they don't, it's not like they knew anything."
Adi looks at Saara surprised, and it seems for a moment that he is about to say something, but he just shakes his head and looks away. Vraj tosses Saara an I.C.E.R. from his piston and she scowls.
"Don't you have anything more powerful?" she asks and Vraj raises an eyebrow.
"So now you want to kill?' he enquires. Saara simply rolls her eyes and stashes the gun in her hostler.
"Do we have a plan?" Vraj asks. Adi nods stiffly.
"All of you monitor and report. No one attacks until I say so. Saara, just follow orders, okay?"
Saara smirks as she removes the I.C.E.R. from the hostler and gets ready to go in.
"Sure."
"Choksey, go with Saara. Kenny and I will take the back. You guys can go through the front. Clear?"
"Clear."
"Saara, just remember to follow orders, right?"
"Right."
Just as Adi and Kenny start to go to the back, Saara replaces her Maxine with Grade A I.C.E.R. refills. She tosses the other refills to the side. Vraj watches her, but says nothing. As she's about to start moving in, Vraj grabs her arm.
"Just do what he says, alright?"
"Yeah, right."
"Listen, Cavalry," Vraj hisses sternly, "I'm sick of having your back when you decide to not follow orders and Fuck up, okay. I'm not going to drag you sorry arse back to the headquarters if you die on me. So just follow the fucking orders and do as he says. Because I have no interest in dying because my partner couldn't repress her urges to kill."
Saara snorts, and then looks at him, "Since when do you follow orders?" she says and she turns back to the safe house. "Just follow my lead. Unless you want to die. Then you can follow orders."
Vraj doesn't say anything as he stares at her back. Then, he stupidly follows. There's just something about this girl, that is so sick, and yet so charming in its own twisted way. He doesn't know if he's supposed to stop her and call Adi to just get stuff sorted or follow whatever the heck she does and put himself in trouble with both the enemy and the headquarters. So, he decides to do what Saara always seems to do. He goes with the flow.
The inside of the not-so-safe house smells like dust and sweat. People had been here not long ago, and there are probably still people here. He just doesn't know which kind. He watches and follows as Saara hides behind a wall, blocking them from the room.
"Switch off your intercom," she says softly, peering around the edge of the wall cautiously. She quickly comes back, as if she's seen something. Vraj does as she says.
"There's six people in that room," jerking her head towards the wall, "all men."
Vraj nods and holds up three fingers, indicating that they'll both take out three men each. Saara nods curtly before she barges in, her gun held up in front of her. She's already iced five by the time he comes in, even though he's right behind her.
Out of the corner of his eye, he sees a bulky man run towards him. With a swift blow of his elbow, Vraj strikes the man in his stomach. The man coughs, splutters, but is back up in the blink of an eye. The man's fist connects with his face sooner than he anticipates it, and Vraj stumbles back with lack of balance. Before he can react, however, Saara has already hit him over the top of his head with the back of her I.C.E.R. Vraj stands up, wiping the blood off the corner of his mouth.
"I thought we were going to take three each?"
"Please. You couldn't even handle one."
And she's off, walking through doors in the house as if she's lived there all her life. Vraj doesn't understand about Saara sometimes. Maybe all the time.
"You might want to switch your intercom back on," She says as she does the same.
"Did you die?"
"Nope," Saara says, picking up a pistol lying on a barrel, "just looking around. The signal reception here is pretty bad. I couldn't hear you breathe either."
Vraj can practically hear Adi rolling his eyes. Suddenly, there is a monstrous metallic burp, the sound of metal scraping against metal, and Saara pulls out her I.C.E.R. again.
"The heck was that?"
"You heard it too?" She questions and Adi mumbles a yes. Vraj can hear the sound of footsteps and people crying, and about three minutes later, he can hear Adi and Kenny's softly thudding footsteps as they near them. They come in not another second later.
"What is it?" Kenny asks, slightly alarmed. Saara doesn't say anything. She walks closer to the large brick wall directly ahead of them.
"It's a false wall," she says then, turning back to look at Adi.
"Well, then knock it down!"
Vraj can swear he sees Saara smirk, but even if she does, it's gone by the time he can really see. She turns back to the wall and her fingers ghost over the bricks calculatingly.
"No need," she mumbles as she pushes a brick into the wall, and the barrier rises, seemingly magically.
"Bloody hell," Adi says, cautiously stepping closer next to Vraj.
Inside the Basement like room, it's completely dark. They can make out a faint silhouette of a chandelier from the ceiling, but besides that, there's nothing else. Past a certain point on the floor, the marble is stained yellow, and a harsh line divides it from the wooden flooring of the room outside. The minute he steps over the border, the lights turn on.
"What the heck." Kenny says, but it's more of a statement than a question. And that, is precisely the thought on everyone's mind.
A/n: Isn't Saara just full of Sarcasm. Let me know if you saw it. ;)
Right, definitions: And I.C.E.R is a sedation gun, and its bullets, or Maxines as they're called, are split in three grades, A to C, with A having the heaviest effect and C being pretty mild. It doesn't in any way kill a person, unless you unload more than three whole Grade A Maxines into them.
Also a clarification, All the past chapters have been in flashback and will continue that way until I mention that it's the present.
Also, I have great plans for this story, and I can't wait for it!
Review if you liked it!