Chapter Four

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Chapter Four

"Damn this all to hell! It's been too long!" Penhall cursed, his temper frayed as still no word came of his partner's whereabouts.  Judy squeezed his shoulder, offering the only reassurance that she had to give.

"Doug, Tom'll be just fine. Hanson's a natural fighter he'll get through this just fine, and all this worrying will be for nothing.

"Yeah well, I just hope you're right" Penhall replied, before skulking off determined to cover every possible angle to get his best friend back safe and sound.

Tom groaned as he came awake once more, he carefully opened his eyes and pulled himself into as much of a sitting position as he could manage. He bit on his lip to prevent himself from yelling out as agony flared through him. He took a moment to get his breath back, even that slight exertion had tired him considerably. He leant back against the cold wall and just concentrated on drawing each tortured breath. When he had recovered enough so that the room no longer swam in his vision, when he finally opened his eyes gain he came face to face with Toby Mackintosh.

"What do you want?" Tom whispered, dismayed by the weakness in his voice.

"Man I am sorry. I didn't know they'd do this to you! I swear I never meant for this to happen"

"Then you shouldn't have sold me out" Tom responded, far too tired and in too much pain to pad his words. He winced as pain pulsed through him. "Do you know where we are?" he asked when the pain had faded to a continuous throb.

"Yeah, but it ain't gonna do us no good. We're locked in here man, I tried everything I could think of while you were out, but the whole place is sewn up. Do you think they'll be back?" the young man asked, his fear clearly evident in his voice, yet Tom was not in a forgiving mood, and wasn't intending on pulling any punches when it came to his treatment of the young man that had betrayed him.

"How the hell would I know?" tome retorted angrily, unable to keep his tone clam, however he soon regretted his reaction as he doubled over in pain. His torso screaming out at him, he wrapped his arms around his mid-section and collapsed down to the ground, tears streaming down his pale dirt streaked face.

"Christ Tom! I'm sorry man! How can I help?" Toby asked, his face a picture of pure fear and panic, yet Tom had no answer to give, his pain had already carried him once more off into the darkness. Toby's panic was only heightened when he saw the ever growing pool of blood surrounding the young police officer.

"Penhall are you coming or what?" Fuller yelled out to his subordinate. Doug got to his feet, grabbing his jacket and appearing besides his Captain in one swift movement.

"Well are we going Captain?" he asked almost as an afterthought, for he believed that he already had a good idea where they were going.

"We finally got a warrant for the arrest of Brent Williams, we're gonna pick the kid up. He'll talk" Adam told the younger man, hoping his voice carried more certainty than he felt.

"How can you be so sure? The other kid didn't utter a peep!" Penhall frustrated, he was all too aware that they stood no chance whatsoever of getting Hanson back unless one of the youths opened up and told them where they had taken the young cop and Penhall was also aware of how unlikely that was.

"Look Doug, I know you're worried, and I sure as hell am too! What's worse is that I know it ain't unjustified, chances are that Hanson is hurt, and probably fairly badly from the amount of blood we found, but standing here doing nothing ain't gonna get him back. I don't know about you, but I'd much rather try and get the kid to talk than stand around here moaning about how he ain't gonna tell us anything before we have even asked" Fuller told his colleague Penhall looked suitably abashed and shuffled his feet slightly.

"Sorry Captain, you're right let's go and pick him up!" Penhall agreed, newly invigorated and ready to kick some ass.

End Chapter Four

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