Note: Okay soon was a long time ago but it's not my fault, I've had projects galor that, even when I worked on them all the time I'd be up until 2 am trying to finish. Not only that but my computers been going cookoo and not letting me save so, finally after it seems all is against me and my story I've got this part done, YEAH! *Faints from exhaustion*
The figure moved slowly and quietly towards the two.
Claire stood up "Well not like this we're not."
Darien dropped the piece of wood "Okay…" He stood up and stretched a little "Lets get going."
The two turn around to find Jareth directly behind them. In a split second he threw Claire across a nearby desk. She hit the desktop and slid across it to come to land on the floor on the other side with a crash.
"Aw crap..." Darien said as Claire grunted from her hard landing and before he knew it Jareth punched him in the lower jaw then in the stomach sending him flying across the room to smash into the far wall.
The door nearest Jareth opened as Alex and Bobby walked in.
Jareth glared at the two for a moment.
Darien picked himself off the ground. He stared at Jareth as he rubbed his lower jaw.
Claire picked herself up off the ground as Alex and Bobby both drew out their guns and aimed at Jareth. "Bloody…" She ducked back down behind the desk.
"Aw CRAP!" Darien ran from his position next to the wall, and dived to the opposite side of a desk, successfully keeping himself from getting shot. He covered his ears, ready for the gunfire to erupt.
Alex and Bobby let off five shots between the both of them, hitting Jareth with four of the bullets. Jareth toppled over clutching his midsection, where the majority of the bullets hit him. He breathed deeply and stood again looking down at his now ripped and blood stained black shirt, Jareth touched one of the wounds and withdrew his fingers, which where were heavily coated with his own dark colored blood.
Darien peeked up over the desk he had used for cover to stare in disbelief at Jareth, who seemed to have just shrugged the bullets off. "Why didn't that work Claire?" Darien shouted.
Claire stood up and stared at Jareth's sulking form "His adrenaline has already stimulated his muscles so much, he can't feel anything we do to him." Claire said as Jareth stared at his bloodied fingers.
"You mean we can't kill him?" Alex asked sounding distressed.
"No, his body is being damaged, and he will die from injures but he won't feel a thing until then… His body will just…shut down." Her voice was shaky with fear.
"So we just pissed off an almost unstoppable psychopathic killer?" Bobby asked taking a step back towards the door, Alex following suite as Jareth turned towards the two, furry building in his milky white eyes. He took a large step towards the two.
"Aim for his head and his body will shut down a lot faster!" Alex yelled taking aim and letting off three more shots, followed closely by several shots from Bobby.
Jareth ran from the room as he received two more bullets from the two attacking agents.
Darien watched as Jareth made his way through the broken door.
Bobby turned towards Darien and Claire "Are you two okay?"
Darien rubbed his neck "Fine…" he glanced over at Claire who nodded in agreement.
"We should go after him, make sure he doesn't get out and do more damage then he already has." Bobby stated motioning towards the door Jareth had run out of.
"How are we going to find him?" Alex asked looking at the dark doorway.
Bobby shook his head "I know where we can find out."
Darien and Claire shared a concerned look.
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The four entered a small room with a number of computers and monitors placed about.
"This is the security room. The video monitors can display the whole complex, hopefully when we restored the power, these things came back on." Bobby began to search a large board of switches.
"And if not?" Alex questioned a little dejectedly.
"Then we're going to be searching this whole complex until we find him." Darien stated from behind her.
Bobby looked the switchboard over "Here it goes." He flipped one switch "Wait." He flipped another "Oh…wait…"
Alex sighed as Bobby fiddled with the board.
Bobby flipped one more switch on and the monitors flickered to life "There we go." He turned towards Alex "You see I have it all under control."
Alex quirked an eyebrow at his comment.
"Oh look." Claire pointed at a monitor near her. "It's him."
The other three all turn towards her.
"Where is he?" Darien asked
"In lab 21." She answered and turned towards him "That's just a few halls down."
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Darien followed Bobby down the hallway that Claire said would lead them to lab 21.
"I do not like this…something nefarious is going on here my friend." Bobby stated continuing down the hallway.
"Nefarious?" Darien questioned as they came out the opposite side of the hallway.
Bobby turned towards his partner and nodded "Yeah nefarious, you know infamous by way of being extremely wicked."
"My partner, the human dictionary." Darien muttered under his breath.
"It's good to know that sort of stuff." Bobby added.
"Hey listen I know what nefarious means okay, I just didn't know that you knew." Darien explained as they walked into another hallway.
"Well I do know," Bobby spun around and stared Darien in the eye's "why does that shock you?" Bobby half glared half stared up at his partner.
"It..it doesn't shock me I just have never heard you say it before." Darien stammered a bit.
"What I can't use complicated grammar?" Bobby asked getting a little angry.
"It's not that…you know what, lets just get back to trying to find him okay?" Darien walked pass his partner and away from his intense gaze to continue the search.
"Fine, whatever you say, partner."
Darien shook his head as Bobby caught up with him. The two walked side by side down the hallway in silence. Darien rubbed the back of his neck again.
"Your neck bothering you?" Bobby asked in concern
"Not realahhhh…." Darien held the back of his head for a few seconds.
Bobby grabbed Darien's right arm and looked at his wrist "whoa…"
"Whoa, whoa what." Darien pulled his arm back and looked at his wrist "Aw crap." His wrist monitor read 7 red 2 green segments.
"That's not good partner."
TBC, in a few seconds, thankfully…
