The ride back was relaxing because, as far as everyone knew, they got their guy, they were going to kill him and then get their lives back. Amanda hoped this was the case because she wanted to go with Jensen to all of his niece's soccer games. For once in her life she was actually thinking about settling down.

When they were back in the warehouse, Pooch walked up to them.

"Fellas, you are not gonna believe this shit but Wade was there." Pooch said and Amanda's heart sank. "He made me, Clay." Amanda had to look away because tears were forming in her eyes. There went her shot at a normal life.

"Who is he?" Aisha asked.

"We ran counter-guerilla ops with him." Pooch said.

"Let's just say he is a bad man." Amanda said not turning around.

"I thought you guys were bad men." Aisha said.

"That mother fucker is worse." Amanda said. "So much worse than any one of us."

"All right, but right now we need to deal with the heavily armed evil genius inside this truck." Roque said and they all agreed.

Jensen walked over to Amanda but she shook him off and went to stand by the truck.

"You ready?" Clay asked and they all nodded as Aisha climbed on top of the truck and attached a hose to the top of the truck.

"Open the valve." She said and Clay did. They heard yelling inside the truck and the people tried in vain to get out.

"All right, let's unlock this thing." Clay said. He walked up and pulled the plug Jensen shot onto the door off and them men in uniform stumbled out and pointed their guns at both Amanda and Clay.

"Hit the ground or I'll blow your heads off!" The leader said.

"Yeah, I don't think so." Clay said pulling out a lighter.

"First and final warning," The guy said.

"You guys are just so stupid aren't you?" Amanda asked walking up to the guy and getting inches from his gun. "Gasoline, muzzle flash, think about it before you blow something off your wife will want later."

The man signaled for his men to put their guns down and they did.

From around the corner came everyone else with tranquilizer guns and knocked everyone but the leader out.

"Where is he?" Amanda asked. "I'm kind of pissed off right now so you really want to answer this one." Clay nodded to Cougar who climbed inside the empty truck and pulled a box forward.

"Where is who?" The man asked.

"Max you idiot, where is Max?" Amanda shouted getting in his face.

"Who the hell is Max?" The man asked and Amanda walked away as she felt the tears flowing down her face. Aisha had lied to them. "You bitch!" She screamed running for her but Jensen caught her and held her back as she sobbed. "You lied to us and now you have ruined any chance we had at getting our lives back! I'm gonna kill you!"

"Jensen, take her out back." Clay said and Jensen nodded.

Jensen hugged her to his chest as she bawled.

"Everything was going so right! We were going to get our lives back. We could watch your niece's soccer games together and maybe have a life but now it's gone and it isn't fair!" She ranted.

"I know." Jensen said rubbing her back. She finally broke away and walked away as they tied Aisha up and brought her over. Cougar walked over and hugged her telling her it was going to be okay which opened up a new wave of tears.

Clay saw red as he saw how upset his sister was. He knew she would eventually want out but never thought it would be taken away from her this way.

"Jensen, open the box." Clay said.

"It's a hard drive." Jensen said as he picked up the small box looking thing. "It's from Goliath, the multinational manufacturer of… everything." He walked over and plugged it into his computer and tried to hack his way in.

A little while later he was still no closer than he was to begin with. Everyone stood around him but Amanda who was sitting off to the side glaring at Aisha, her face still wet from the tears.

"I'm completely locked out." Jensen said as he kept trying different codes. "Without a decryption key, you're looking at a really cool paperweight."

They all looked at Clay for a clue as to what to do next.

"Shoot her and burn everything." Clay said and Amanda was the first one with a gun drawn with Roque as a close second.

"Don't you wanna find out what's on it?" Aisha said unfazed by Amanda's gun in her face.

"No I don't." Clay said still walking away.

"Clay! I can't find Max. No one can." Aisha said. "But I knew he was moving something that was very valuable to him. Whatever it is we can use it against him as leverage!"

Amanda saw her brother stop and knew at that point he wouldn't let anyone shoot her.

"The drive is proprietary technology built by Goliath." Jensen said. "The algorithm's probably on the mainframe."

"Come on!" Roque yelled as he saw the wheels in Clay's head turning. "We're not considering that!"

"Wait, wait, wait," Pooch said trying to calm Roque down.

"Oh, no, come on, man." Roque said. "We are not the good guys anymore!"

"25 kids," Clay said trying to reason with him. "Twenty-five innocent lives were lost because of this guy. Remember?"

"Yes I do!" Roque said.

"You were there just like the rest of us." Amanda said.

"Yes I was there, Amanda." He replied getting on edge.

"Max is going to pay." Amanda said putting her gun down and walking up to him.

"Is this a guilt trip? I don't want Max to pay. I just want my life back." Roque said.

"Well in order for that to happen you need to follow my brother." Amanda said.

"No, I'm killing her right now." He said pulling Aisha away.

"Find the door if you don't like the way my brother is running things!" Amanda yelled at him causing him to stop.

"Where the fuck would I go, Amanda?" He said getting in her face. "We are fugitives because of your brother. You are so far up his ass and so far down on Jensen's dick you can't see what is really going on here!"

Amanda's fist cracked against his skull before anyone could react. He came right back at her and she just kicked him in the chest sending him to the ground.

"You ever talk to me like that again; I'll rip your goddamn head off." She hissed in his face before walking over to Jensen who was glaring at Roque.

"I'll saw your damn head off, Clay!" She heard Roque say and she turned around to see Clay had stopped him from coming after her while her back was turned.

She watched as Jensen tried to break them up so no one got hurt or did anything they would regret. Amanda walked over to Aisha.

"You just ruined my family and my life." She said.

"I'm sorry," Aisha said but Amanda's backhand cut her off. "I didn't mean for it to happen this way."

"Well it did and now everything bad that happens from now on is your fault." Amanda said leaving and going to her crate. A few minutes later the door opened and she saw Clay walking in and he sat next to her on her bed.

"All I ever wanted for you was a normal life." Clay said. "I wish it hadn't gone this way. I want you to have a normal life and have kids, a house, be married to… Jensen," He struggled with Jensen's name causing Amanda to smirk. "I never wanted any of this for you. I knew it would be different with you because you grew up without dad."

"Clay," She said hugging her brother. "I wanted this life and look what it has given me. It's given me a whole new family and yes a possible husband out of Jensen but I am happy. I could be happier, yes, but as long as I am with you guys I know I am safe and secure."

Clay kissed her temple. "I love you, small fry."

"I love you too, jerk." She replied causing him to laugh.

"Get some sleep; we hit Goliath in two days." Clay said as he walked out and Jensen walked in.

"Are you ok?" He asked as he sat in the spot Clay previously occupied.

"I will be. I just got my hopes up." Amanda said as he rubbed her back.

"We all did, Mandy," Jensen said and caught her smile. "What?"

"You haven't called me that in years." Amanda said.

"Because you no longer needed it to smile." Jensen said as he lay both of them down. "When this is over and we have our lives back," He started as he fiddled with something inside of his pocket. "I'm hoping we can start a life together."

"What are you talking about?" Amanda said her eyes narrowing. She gasped when he put a black, velvet box in her hand and when she opened it, tears sprang to her eyes. It was a deep blue sapphire surrounded by smaller diamonds with a silver band. "Holy shit," She said as she looked up at him.

"What I'm trying to say is, if we live through this, will you marry me, Mandy?" He asked and smiled as she tackled him off the bed.

"Yes I will!" She said before kissing him hard on the lips and straddling him as he put the ring on her finger.

"If I had known I would get this reaction from you, I would have asked sooner." Jensen asked.

"God, you are such an idiot!" Amanda said before no more words were needed.