Hello there! I know I'm not your favorite person right now due to how much it took me to write this chapter and post it. I've been having a hard time emotionally these past few weeks and, also, work is stressful! But, I realized today that I could continue to ignore my passion and drown on self pity or I could keep using this mean to let out my frustration writing… so here I am again!
I really hope you guys like this knew update! It's full of action!
This is where we left off last chapter:
After that minute, she got up and readjusted her clothes while fixing her ponytail. She recovered her knife and took both guard's weapons so she could give them to Danny and Steve. She tucked the second guard's gun on the waistband of her jeans and hung the straps of the machine gun around her shoulders. Then she went to the door and peeked outside. There was no one.
She exited the room and walked slowly through the hallway, listening for any sign of approaching footsteps. She couldn't hear anything so she kept going until she reached the door that connected the hallway with the open space of the compound. She knew the stairs would be to her right once she was out, but she needed to take care of the remaining guards first.
She turned the handle of the door slowly, trying as hard as she could not to make a sound, not really surprised that the door wasn't locked. There was no need to, right?
Once the door was opened, she set off to do what needed to be done.
- Hey! You worthless punks! – yelled Danny, banging on the door – Get us out of here!
- Hey! – Steve yelled too.
- Hey! Some… - continued Danny but was stopped abruptly by Steve.
- Wait – he whispered – I think I heard something.
They both pressed themselves to the door to try and hear whatever was going on on the other side. They heard the sound of keys and footsteps approaching and stepped away from the door.
- Get ready – ordered Steve – I think it worked.
While the person on the other side introduces the key into the door lock, Danny straightened on one side of the door while Steve did the same on the other.
When the door swung open from the outside, Steve lashed out with his leg on a round house kick, but the person entering the room was fast enough to avoid that by falling to the floor and rolling to the side before getting back up again.
What the person failed to notice was Danny approaching and so, before anyone realized what was really happening, the two bodies were sent tumbling to the ground.
When she felt Danny's body connecting with hers she tried to protect her left arm as best as she could, but that didn't mean the hit didn't hurt as hell.
- What the hell Danny!? – she whispered-yelled, still not wanting to attract unnecessary attention. She had taken care of almost all the guards inside the compound on her way back to them, but she knew there were more outside
- Annabeth! – both Steve and Danny exclaimed at the same time, looking a little perplexed between her, the open door and the two guards outside sprawled on the floor.
- What happened? Are you okay? – asked Danny, helping her get up from the floor.
- Yeah – she answered – no thanks to you though! – she exclaimed. Instantly they could see a bit of the confident Annabeth they knew and loved.
- Where's Sho? – asked Steve, already grabbing the pistol she was handing him – did he hurt you? Did he do anything to you? – she could see the anxiety written all over his face.
- Relax – she answered, trying to sound more confident than what she really felt – that pig was never going to land a hand on me ever again. Now, enough talking and more escaping the hell out of here.
- I hear yah! – exclaimed Danny while adjusting the machine gun in his hands and stepping closer to the door.
They soon went back to business and Steve took up the front, Danny the rear and Annabeth the middle of their little formation to assure the maximum amount of backup they could to each other while getting out of there.
- How many guards did you count on your way back here? – asked Steve.
- None. I took care of them all, at least the ones inside the compound – she answered calmly. She had to stop herself from running into Steve when he suddenly stopped.
- You took care of all of them? – he asked surprised – how?
- I'm a spy remember?
- Yeah but still… - tried to say Danny but he didn't get very far.
- I'm a good spy, alright? Can we leave this talk for later?
The both nodded and proceeded to keep walking.
Annabeth really didn't want to get into the details of how she had taken care of the guards. They were going to see them anyway on their way out.
The fact that she seemed more in control of herself now didn't mean she actually was. Her hart was still pounding a hundred miles per hour and she was fidgety and jumpy.
When they rounded the first corner to arrive to the flight of stairs that would lead them down, they saw the first fallen guards, not counting the ones outside the room they had just left behind.
From the top of the stairs they could see the ten or so bodies on the grounds scattered on different places. Some were just on the threshold of the main entrance of the compound, some were near a few rows of industrial size boxes, some were on a corner and one was in the middle of the staircase.
- Are they all dead? – asked Steve while bending down on top of the guard from the stairs and feeling his neck to find a pulse.
- I don't know – answered Annabeth.
She knew.
- You did all of this without a single shot being fired? – asked Danny incredulous.
- Can we just keep going? – she said while walking the rest of the steps down and reaching the floor – we're just sitting ducks here, come on! – she insisted.
- That… - said a voice coming from the door to their left - … you are – finished Sho Wun as he fired his gun and Steve jumped to push Annabeth out of the way.
That's when all hell broke loose.
Okay… so maybe there wasn't that much action, but more is on the way! Don't worry, I don't think I'll take that long to update this time! I'm writing next chapter right now so maybe I'll finish it and post it sometime during the next few days!
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Thank you so much for sticking with me!
P.S: I think I might change the rating back to T because the last few chapters are as intense as it's gonna get in terms of mature content. Of course there's still going to be a lot of action, drama and ass kicking, so we're sticking to T to be safe!
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