I have been on a roll with this story so here is the next chapter :) Hope you enjoy it. Hopefully I will have the next one up in a day or two.
Owen had only been gone for a day and Keira was already feeling very anxious. She had spent most of her time in her room sketching and had eaten her meals in the mess with Alex. This particular morning she had decided to go to the mess hall by herself as Alex was busy running the mission with Ryan up in Ops.
She was sitting quietly at a table by herself eating her breakfast when a guy in recruit sweats sat down opposite her. Glancing up from her plate she recognised him as the guy that was mouthing off the first time she came to the mess hall with Owen. Immediately she felt scared and threatened. She quickly glanced around the room for a familiar face but couldn't find one.
"How are you enjoying division recruit?" he asked with a smirk.
Keira felt like just ignoring him but decided to speak up instead. "I'm not a recruit" she said quietly.
"Oh really? Could have fooled me" he laughed. "Where's Owen? Isn't he usually following you around like some love sick puppy?"
The way he said Owens name really pissed her off, but she remained calm and continued to eat her toast silently. She knew that he was just trying to get a reaction and she wasn't going to take the bait.
"If you ask me, you are way out of his league anyway" he told her as he looked her over, it made her sick.
That was the last straw for Keira. She couldn't sit there and listen to the douchebag mouth off about Owen. She dropped the last of her toast back down on her plate and got up from the table. She walked past him without saying another word. Just when she thought she was free of him she felt a hand grab her wrist and she panicked as she was pulled back around and came face to face with the recruit.
"You know you are perfect division material. Pretty and damaged. Just the way they like them" he laughed.
"Let me go" she said quietly as she tried to tug her hand free.
"Why don't you show me what you got girl? You must have some strength in there. Some fire huh" he said as he gripped her wrist tighter.
Keira only started to panic more. She felt like she was back in that basement, being restrained and taunted. "Let go" she cried, more panicked now.
"Why don't you make me? C'mon I know you got some fight in you, why else would they keep you around" he sneered.
People were starting to stare and she could feel everyone's eyes on them. Her breathing was rapid and her heart was pounding in her chest. She needed to get out of there. She tried to pull her arm away, struggling against the strength of the guy. Keira felt trapped and she couldn't stop the tears that started to well up in her eyes.
"Finn! What are you doing?" Sonya called out from across the room where she had just entered the mess hall.
"Chill Sonya, I'm just making friends" he replied as he pulled Keira close and put his arm around her. That only scared her even more and she snapped responding by striking him really hard in the chest with her elbow, followed by a hard kick in his shins and she ran as fast as she could. As she sprinted from the room she could hear Sonya calling after her but the last thing she wanted to do was stop. She wanted to get to her room, her safe place. She wanted to hide away.
She tore through the facility until she made it back to her room where she slammed her door and locked it behind her, barricading it with her desk chair for good measure. Keira walked quickly across the room and curled up in the corner and tried hard to control her breathing.
A few minutes later she heard footsteps in the hallway followed by a knock at the door. "Keira, are you ok?" Sonya called out from the other side as she tried the door handle. "Keira?" she called again, but she gave no reply. She stayed in the corner, her arms wrapped tightly around her legs. After a while she heard Sonya's footsteps again and they slowly faded away.
Alex was in Ops with Ryan and Birkhoff as they were giving instructions over comms to the guys on the ground. Sonya came rushing in all flustered and everyone looked around at her. "Alex, we have a problem" she told her.
"We're in the middle of the Op Sonya, can it wait?"
"It's Keira"
"Wait, what about Keira" came Owen's voice over the comms.
"Shit" Alex cursed quietly. "It's nothing Owen, complete your objective I've got this handled" she replied. "Ryan have you got this?" she asked as she turned off her comm unit.
"Yeah, you go" he said as he turned back to the screen and continued to direct the operation while trying to tell Owen not to worry and focus on the mission.
"What happened?" Alex asked Sonya as they quickly made their way to the recruit rooms where she was staying.
"I'm not entirely sure. I walked into the mess hall and saw that Finn had her by the wrist and was trying to provoke some sort of reaction from her. He obviously had her panicked, she looked scared as hell. I yelled out to him and asked what was going on and that when he told me he was making friends and pulled her close putting his arm around her. It totally freaked her out and she elbowed him and then kicked him until he let her go then she ran" Sonya explained. "I followed her to her room and she has locked herself in and won't answer me. I'm really worried".
"Finn, that stupid son of a bitch! I warned him" she growled.
"What should we do?"
"We just need to know if she is ok. It doesn't matter if she doesn't want to come out at this stage. I don't blame her. She has been through a lot and this is the last thing she needs" Alex said as they rounded the corner approaching Keira's door.
"Keira? It's Alex, are you ok?" she called out as she knocked on the door.
She was met with nothing but silence, so she tried again. "Keira? Talk to me please. Are you alright?"
On the other side of the door, Keira was still struggling to calm herself down. She was terrified. What would they do to her? She had just hit one of the division recruits. Sure he had grabbed her first, but would they understand? She felt like she was having a panic attack, all she wanted was to see Owen.
"Keira, are you hurt?" Alex asked. She waited a while and heard a faint 'no' come from the other side of the door.
Alex and Sonya looked at one another. "Thank god" Sonya whispered.
"Are you ok?" she tried again, and received another quiet 'no' in reply.
"Can you let me in? I want to help you" Alex called out, but was met with nothing but silence. "Shit" she cursed quietly. "There's no way she is going to trust anyone but Owen" she told Sonya.
Alex and Sonya headed back towards Ops. "Sonya, can you have someone put Finn in one of the holding rooms until we get this figured out" Alex requested. "We don't need him causing any more problems"
"Sure" she replied as she went off to find one of the other senior Agents.
"Ryan, where are we with the mission?" Alex asked as she entered operations.
"We have three agents wounded and Brandt in custody, all though by the sounds of it he is a little roughed up" Ryan replied.
"Owen?"
"Yup" Birkhoff replied. "Sounds like Mikey had to pull him off the guy".
"Are the comms still on?" she asked.
"Yeah, why is everything ok?" Ryan asked.
"Not really. One of the recruits attacked Keira. She is terrified and locked herself in her room. She won't let in and would barely speak to me. We need Owen" she told them.
"Owen, are you there?" Alex spoke through the comm unit.
"Alex. What the hell is going on with Keira!?" he practically yelled back.
"Calm down. There was a situation. It's under control now, but we need you to get back here asap"
"What do you mean a situation?"
"It was Finn. Look I will fill you in when you get here ok. Just hurry up" she stressed.
"We are at the transport plane in Colombia now" Michael said over his comms. "We will be touching down back home in a little over five hours"
"Ok see you guys soon" she replied and cut the communications before she could get another lecture from Owen.
Locked up in her room Keira felt like the time was dragging on. Alex kept coming down to check on her, but she didn't feel like speaking to anyone. She stayed in her corner where she had dragged her blanket and was drawing away on her sketch pad. Sonya had come by earlier and tried to talk to her, telling her that Owen was on his way back. So she just waited, curled up in Owens shirt that she still hadn't given back to him. It still smelled of him, and it made her feel a little calmer and safer somehow.
She couldn't stop running the events of the morning through her mind. To feel that vulnerable and terrified again made her feel weak and angry. She had been starting to get used to division, even started to like being there. Now all she felt was scared and alone. There was no stopping the tears that fell from her eyes, so she didn't even try. She just lay there and cried until she fell asleep.
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