Disclaimer and author notes: I only own my main characters Anjel, Denisha, and Kenny along with all of my characters' family and friends! Thanks for all of the reviews!
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Anjel sat in the back seat of the car and started praying, which was all she could really do at that moment. Every once in a while she would try to look back at her two friends in the distance and hope they were both okay.
"Hey don't be too sad. We're almost there so this will all be over soon." The harmful man with a maleficent plot said driving a bit faster to scare her.
Anjel felt numb as she thought about all of the things she could have done to prevent this event. She trembled as she heard the engine of the car purr more quickly.
"Please my mother's a judge. I'm sure we can end this a much more peaceful way." She said half begging for her life.
The harmless man with a gun stared at her for a while as the harmful man with a maleficent plot started to laugh.
"There will be no haggling. We've decided that you've gotten too close to the truth to let you go free." Said the harmful man with a maleficent plot.
The harmless man with a gun glanced at his associate before he turned to Anjel.
"Your mother has a best friend named Justice …right?" he asked. Anjel shook her head slowly.
"No, I don't think so." She said slightly puzzled but happy that at least one of them had decided to help calm her down.
The harmless man with a gun smiled. "Think harder, she moved away about a year ago due to a fire that burned down her house." He said.
Anjel frowned slightly. "I don't..." she paused remembering the fires. Her mother had a friend who had also been a judge but she retired after she almost made the horrid mistake of marrying a young girl to her guardian. Realizing that a piece of evidence had been in front of her for so long she smiled slightly. "Mrs. Strauss. Yes, I remember now but what does that have to do with-"
The harmful man with a maleficent plot cut the both of them off by parking their car so abruptly that they both flew forward and back into their seats.
"That's enough talk about useless judges!" he said angrily. He got out of the car holding a black hood and yanked the car door open.
Anjel wiggled as far away from him as she could but he pulled her out of the car. Even with her fighting back he was too strong.
"Stop it! Please stop!" she screamed seeing the black hood.
He smiled putting it over her head and throwing her to the ground. He held his head back and gave a loud cackle before taking his associate's gun. "Goodbye Anjel Ricards. I hope you've enjoyed your vacation thus far." He laughed.
Anjel shut her eyes despite the dark hood that covered her face. She figured there was no point in running since she already had no idea where she was.
After a few more seconds of listening to the harmful man with a maleficent plot cackle she screamed hearing gun shots. She sobbed though she didn't feel any pain. Her life seemed to flash before her eyes as she felt the hood gently being lifted from her face.
"I hope you've learned something from this experience." Said the harmless man with a gun. He helped her up, careful to make sure that she didn't turn to see the now dead man with a terrible wound.
"What's going on?!" she asked still frightened.
The man smiled leading her back to the car. "Before I was to save you I had to make sure you would never try something like this again. Our organization is very dangerous and well, I had to make sure you understood that." He said ready to open the car door.
Anjel backed away slightly. "How can I possibly trust you after what you let that guy do? I don't even know who you are!" she said fearfully.
He smiled again and thought for a moment. "I don't really have much proof since I was only mentioned in the… eleventh book so you'll just have to trust me until Lemony tells you himself." he said hoping that he was correct in guessing which book he was in.
Anjel looked at him uneasily she wanted to run back towards her friends but she knew it wouldn't do much good. "I'm listening." She said.
Quigley smiled softly before revealing his identity. "My name is Quigley. I'm here to take you to see Lemony and reunite you with your two friends Kenny and Denisha." He said.
Anjel smiled slightly though still a bit disappointed that he wasn't Klaus, or Lemony himself. Still she nodded, "Fine, I'll come with you. But you have to promise that you'll help my friends as soon as possible. I think Kenny is badly injured and-" She paused seeing him glance at his cell phone.
Quigley got into the car and opened the passenger seat door. "He'll be okay; my sister will treat his wounds when they arrive." He said as she got inside.
Anjel sighed in relief, not just because her friends would be safe, but also because she had been thought of as crazy for so long that she had almost given up hope. Turning to Quigley she wanted to cry and tell him all of the things she had gone through since the day she had picked up 'The Bad Beginning'.
Instead, she sat back in her seat watching the strange trees that waved in the breeze as they drove by. She closed her eyes and quickly drifted off to sleep.
