An Agent's Weakness
"Holly, we meet again," smiled Sophie. "For the last time."
They were under a large stone bridge which appeared to be in a park. There was freezing cold and deep water racing in front of them and they sat on a bed of stones.
"So what?" Holly asked defiantly as she shook Darren awake. "Why didn't you just shoot us?"
"Now now Holly," laughed Sophie. "Matt's death was a one off. Yours is going to be painful."
"Why? Why don't you just kill us already?" Darren yelled. While he didn't want to die, dying a quick death would be better than dying painfully and slowly.
"I want to see how strong your love is," cackled Sophie. "I want to see if you would sacrifice your own life to save Holly's, same with you for Darren."
"Burn in hell," spat Holly.
"First of all, let's see, who would you rather I burn?" Sophie asked. She pulled out a lighter. Holly tried to run but before she could, Rivera chained her and Darren together.
"Me," said Holly. "Burn me."
"No, me!" Darran replied.
"Darren!" Holly hissed.
"On second thoughts, I'll burn you both!" Sophie grabbed Holly's free hand and turned on the lighter.
"No! Please!" Holly begged. She let out an ear piercing shriek as the fire burned into her knuckle.
NCIS
"Gibbs, Metro Police found the car near Rock Creek Park," explained Ziva.
"No reports of stolen cars in that area," McGee replied. "So either they had another car or..."
"They're in Rock Creek Park," Gibbs replied. "Which part of Rock Creek Park?"
"The part near where the creek joins the Potomac," said Tony.
"Bring it up on the plasma," ordered Gibbs. McGee complied. "What is that?" He pointed to a straight grey line very near the mouth of the creek."
"A bridge, old stone bridge." Tony remembered going there.
"That's where Abby goes for her lunch break," Gibbs said. "She likes the nature."
"She's on her break now," Ziva realised.
"Call her, get her to watch the bridge, we'll try and get there soon," Gibbs said.
NCIS
"Owwwwww!" Both Holly and Darren moaned.
"Do you want some ice for that burn?" Sophie asked. "I don't have any, although...the river is cold."
"It's too deep, we'll drown," Holly protested.
"Bring out the raft," ordered Sophie. Rivera rolled out a small wooden raft and set it on the water.
"Unfortunately there's not enough room for you both, so someone will have to go in the water," gasped Sophie in mock horror.
"I'll go," Holly volunteered.
"No, I will," Darren said back. "You've still got to recover from the wounds."
"Darren," begged Holly.
"It's just a bit of water, what harm can it do?" Darren laughed.
"Water that's currently minus 4 degrees," Sophie said.
"I'll live, if push turns to shove we can swap," Darren said.
"To stop you from escaping, we anchored the raft to the riverbed," Sophie replied. "Don't worry though, we'll be back for you."
"I hope so! It's freezing cold," Darren muttered to himself.
Holly climbed on the raft and Darren winced as he got into the water and slowly the raft drifted out to the middle of the wide river.
"Missing you already!" Sophie and Rivera laughed.
For the first time, Holly could see how large their force was. There were the three men that abducted them plus six or seven more that neither Holly or Darren had seen before.
"God! She wasn't kidding about the cold," Darren said, his teeth chattering. "It had better not snow."
"Darren, we can swap if you want," Holly let her burnt hand slide into the water and almost immediately she felt better. But she was still cold.
"No, not yet," Darren said. "The things I do for you..."
The End.
Next Time: The team arrive at Rock Creek Park and shit goes down. Multiple deaths occur.