Billy and Lissa's Farm House
Chaos is awoken from his nap by the sounds of fire alarm and his computer screens flashing like strobe lights. Adrenaline pumps through his system, stronger than any caffeine he could drink. "Kim." He says and stumbles out of the cot he had set up in Lissa's computer room. He enters a command into the closest computer and then Kim appears on the largest screen.
"I've got her." Kim says. The petite red head looks tired and in need of a shower. Her red hair is pulled back into a greasy ponytail with her clothes looking slept in. From the little of her workspace Chaos can see, it's covered in foam coffee cups. "I've got Lissa."
"Where?" Billy asks, before Chaos can. The noise of the alarm must have caught his attention from down the hall.
"Downtown, you were right, they kept her in the police station." Kim says, but there's no excitement in her tone. She should be excited her job is done and a fellow hacker is free from the Korean's. Instead Kim looks stressed and on edge. "Chaos, can we speak alone?" She asks glancing to Billy and then back to Chaos.
"Show me the footage." Billy demands, "You can talk when were done, every second we waste is a second gone for Lissa. She needs our help. Now."
"Chaos." Kim stresses looking to him.
Chaos looks back and forth from Kim to Billy unsure of what to do, who to side with.
"Show me my wife now." Billy demands. His voice is firm and that of someone in charge and someone you don't tell no to.
Kim pauses, locking eyes with Billy before letting out a sigh, "Don't say I didn't try to warn you. Now my job is done, I'm moving out to a new city. Chaos you'll know how to reach me." She says and types a few things on her keyboard. The screen fades away from Kim and into a grainy surveillance camera feed.
Billy is aware of Hunter, Caesar, Toll and Jasmine all filing into the room, none of them speak, they just watch.
The footage shows Lissa standing in the middle of the street on one side of the police station. She's barefoot in the combat pants she was wearing the night she allowed herself to be taken, along with a tattered black bra. Even in the low light, Billy can make out the dark substance covering most of her face, neck, chest and hair to be blood. He can't make out any wounds that are hers and he can only hope that it is Korean blood. There's a medium size white patch on her stomach, where he can only assume the shocker was injected into her.
There's a flash in the video and Booker goes running by, yelling something to Lissa. She doesn't move an inch; she's just standing there, a sitting duck for any Korean to shoot. "Move." Billy finds himself whispering, even though he knows this is recorded footage and she couldn't even hear him if it was live.
Lee Christmas comes into view, speaking to Lissa. Billy wishes he could make out what Lee says for whatever it is causes her to pull a gun on him. Her arm shakes and the gun isn't even aimed towards his head or heart. "Something's wrong here." Billy says, feeling panic and worry rush through him. Lissa wouldn't pull a gun on a teammate unless she had good reason.
"She's what's wrong." Jasmine says stepping closer to the screen, "Put it down Lissa, you're okay. It's okay. You're out of there, we're here to help. Come on, Lissa." She lip reads from the video. "They've fucked with her head." Lee calls over his shoulder, "Alyssa! Put it down please."
Lissa finches and then seems to come to, it takes a few seconds but she lowers the gun and hands it off to Lee. Lee takes the gun and leads her to a black van. The vans speeds off and disappears into the night, away to a part of town without power which means no cameras.
"We need to find them." Billy says, "Caesar, Toll, I need you thinking of every place Lee would go in this area as a safe house. Jasmine you and Chaos look over the footage, see if you can find anything that could hint to where they came from. If there is anyone with them, I want to know who they are. Give the names to Caesar and Toll. Hunter, prepare for us to take off. We get a location, we go." Billy orders and leaves the computer room. He doesn't wait for questions or concerns; he can't focus on that right now. He doesn't stop walking till he reaches his and Lissa's room. He shuts the door and locks it behind him.
There behind closed doors he feels himself breaking down. The image of Lissa terrified, bloody and half-dressed out in the street keeps flashing in his mind. He's mind races to worse case scenarios of what it all could mean and he finds his stomach going sour. He just makes it to the bathroom when he finds himself throwing up. He hated himself for not preventing Garrett from nailing her hand down in the abandoned farmhouse over a year ago. Lissa tortured and hurt it disgusts him with himself. They suspected she has still in that police station, he should have gone in there days ago with guns blazing, he should have saved her sooner rather than waiting. Blind rage takes over him like pitch black darkness. Every Korean in that police station needs to die for what was done to Lissa. The only way to ensure he kills them all is to get the one man who will be just as angry. Barney.
Billy leaves their bedroom and heads outside to the garage. His mind his two missions get Barney, then kill. He grabs two duffle bags of weapons, without checking what they are and throws them into a stolen Humvee.
"Billy." Hunter says, "What are you doing?"
"They need to die." Billy tells him and rounds the Humvee to the driver's side. He opens the door just to find the passenger side open and Hunter pulling the keys from the ignition. Hunter grabs ahold of the keys and throws them from the garage and out into the front yard.
"You need to calm down." Hunter shouts to him.
"You don't understand." Billy shouts and finds himself climbing through the Humvee heading straight for Hunter. He delivers a kick to Hunter's chest and it knocks Hunter out of the Humvee and to the ground. Billy jumps down beside him, "Stay out of my way." He then heads for the yard in search of the keys. He's so focused on finding them that he doesn't hear Hunter come running up beside behind.
Hunter throws himself on top of Billy and knocks them both to the ground. "You need to calm down." He shouts and continues fighting as Billy tries to get up. In the process, Billy takes a blow to his right cheek. "She needs you. She needs you alive. Not dead on some suicide mission do you hear me?" He shouts.
The words 'suicide mission' break the rage and Billy finds himself thinking back to the promise he made Lissa. He unclenches his fist aimed for Hunter's head and reaches down to the necklace chain around his throat, there he feels Lissa's wedding ring. The anger seems to evaporate through his veins and he finds himself feeling weak, scared and lost. He's no different right now than the image of Lissa on the computer screen that still haunts his mind.
"We find her and then we make plans to kill them all, okay?" Hunter asks.
"Okay." Billy repeats.
Authors Note: In case anyone missed it, I have an idea for a Lissa prequel set before she was based by the FBI and made the deal to work for them instead of going to jail. It would be short, maybe a few chapters, and would feature an appearance by at least one Expendable. Would you be interested in reading?