Hello and welcome to chapter 37, an EXTREMELY enjoyable chapter to write, I hope you all like it.

Thanks to my much loved loyal reader Yuleen, I love hearing your winner it makes me smile :D (though I think this chapter might prove rather… difficult to choose lol), I just want to ask because I am anxious, how are your Zaerith feels? They any good? Also is Reeve really one of your favourite characters? I don't think I've ever heard that before and this intrigues me greatly. Tell me moaarrr!

Also a big warm thanks and hello to you Chrono, to say my story is well written is a massive compliment to me and makes me feel really hyped and motivated to write. Also I won't give anything away but I have a very precise plan with Vincent Valentine that I've been burning to write, I'll see if I can do him justice for you :D :D

I'm so poor that when I found out the FF type-0 collector's edition that you need to buy to get the FF15 demo was £80, I cried :,( ... and therefore do not own any FF7 material belonging to Square Enix.

But seriously... £80!, I really wanna get it but dang, paying an extra £40 just to play the 15 demo? I dunno if its worth. Have or are any of you going to buy the FFtype-0 collector's edition? I'd love to know :)

Enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 37 Part 1- Just us

Heels flailing around in her hand, Jessie skidded bare foot around the corner of a nearby alleyway, running as fast as she could with Reno close in pursuit. Ducking into the dark dead-end corridor she slammed her back against the wall and took cover, breathing raggedly as she hid out of sight. Then waiting until she heard his footsteps were close, she lunged out and grabbed Reno with both hands to yank him in after her.

"Easy tiger!"

"Are... they... gone!?" she panted heavily, gripping the front of his clothing wildly.

"Those two useless fat goons? We lost 'em ages ago"

"Ho jeez"

Jessie released her hold, let out a big sigh and set her head back against the hard wall with eyes closed as her pounding heart slowly died down. Opening them again she met with Reno's light green eyes in the dark alley and looking at each other they burst into laughter.

"RENO YOU TOTAL LUNATIC!" she giggled and threw one of her heels at him which he caught expertly.

"I warned 'em yo, I said ten more minutes or else"

"Yeah but was a brick through the window really necessary?"

"Hey, nobody manhandles me or my date and gets away with it"

Jessie laughed some more and then stood up on her own two naked feet again.

"I can't believe they chucked us out! Just as I was about to win as well" she pouted unhappily.

"Keep tellin' ya'self that baby"

"It was sixty-three to sixty-five! I was two games off and totally had your strategy sussed!"

Jessie still couldn't come to terms with the fact that she had lost, she had never lost at that game before in her life. When Reno had challenged Jessie to her favourite two person fighter as they passed through wonder square, she had smiled smugly, thinking he had no clue what he had just put himself in for and couldn't possibly put up any kind of a real challenge against her in a game was close to pro at. Then when on the first round he instantly combo'd her into the ground and the big K.O. sign appeared on her screen, her face had dropped off the face of the planet and thus began a three hour long war that raged until the establishment physically had to remove them from the machine.

"Those guards were pretty big jerks about it" she admitted, secretly pleased that he had bricked the place.

"I'll be honest, weren't expecting it ta' set off that many alarms though, how ya' feet doll?" Reno asked as he looked down at her bare feet somewhat apologetically for making her run.

"I thought I stood on glass at one point but I didn't" she looked at the bottom of her dirty blackened feet and cringed.

"Soz 'bout that. Here"

Reno knelt down in front of her on one knee and Jessie felt a sudden rush of air enter her lungs as he took her bare ankle in one hand and the shoe she had thrown at him in the other. Her first reaction to the oddly intimate hold was the reaction that she didn't know how to react, then she saw again how dirty her feet were from running bare foot in the streets and tried to pull away in red-faced modesty.

"You don't have to..."

"I want to" he insisted and didn't let go.

Jessie fell silent again, watching dumbly as he put the shoe to her foot and just as soon as her breathing had died down it started picking right back up again. Watching and feeling his every movement it took most of her willpower to do the two simple activities of pointing her toe to help him get it on and placing a modest hand to the base of her dress, wondering just how much he could see at that low angle and how it was possible that a man simply helping her put her shoes back on was putting her in this much of a daze.

"Other one"

"Huh?"

"The other shoe sweetheart"

"Oh!" Jessie quickly handed him the other heel she was gripping onto insanely tightly and let out a small pathetic attempt at a nervous laugh.

The next shoe sent Jessie's senses on the corner of a dark alleyway with Reno crashing in heightened waves as the gentle kindness of his action not only felt touching, it felt pleasurable. There was something in the way he did it, things that she knew he was doing intentionally but was powerless to resist enjoying none the less. Little precise things like the way he glided his fingers across the side of her foot softly, the way his hand ran lightly up her leg to hold her calves to push the heel on, the way he touched for longer than what was necessary or the way he took his delicate time with the strap.

"Thanks" she just about managed to squeeze out through erratic breath when he was done, feeling like she had a ten ton weight bearing down on her chest.

"Don't mention it" Reno winked, then got up and went to look out of the alleyway, signalling to her when he saw the coast was clear.

Stepping out after him Jessie looked around to get her bearings on where they were. It was the dark early hours of the morning and they were in the once lively but now completely deserted streets of wonder square.

"So how bout we call it a draw yo?" Reno gentlemanly volunteered as they began walking as slowly as they could through the quiet empty square together, neither of them wanting to reach their next destination and the end of the date anytime soon.

"Hey I don't want your pity victory, I'm going to beat you fair and square buddy" she poked him at arm's length.

"Fine. That just means we'll have to play again" he snapped his teeth cheekily at her hand, pretending he was going to bite and making Jessie pull her hand away with a laugh.

"Yeah, I'd like to"

Actually I'd really really like to but…

Jessie's slow footsteps faltered to a halt and her heart sunk as the true sense of what she was saying and thinking brought reality crashing back down. She had so much in common with Reno and was having such a time of her life that she had completely forgotten he was a Turk and that this wasn't a real date. She had forgotten that there was no second date or seeing him again soon, after tonight they would become enemies once more and she would never get to have this feeling again.

"Everything 'ite doll?"

"Perfect" she grinned and hurried along to keep up with him. She didn't need to accept that their time together was over, not just yet anyway.

"So tell me gorgeous" he swung his arm around her shoulders as they casually rambled along together, "d'ya still think ya' needed ta' bring that weapon along?"

"You noticed!?" Jessie gasped and moved her hand in embarrassment to the side of her leg, "Ugh, it wasn't my idea! Teef made me wear it"

He nodded, her response seeming to please him.

"When exactly did you notice anyway?" she pried out of curiosity, hoping the answer wasn't thirty seconds ago in an alleyway.

"'Bout the first five seconds I saw ya'"

"How!?" she asked perplexed, looking down at her red wrap dress that not even she could notice the electro-mag rod through.

Reno just stared around the empty square and teased her by not responding with a smile that was infectious.

"Tell me" she grinned and nudged the side of her body into him.

"It's the way you're walkin' darlin', your left leg is movin' stiffer than ya' right"

"Well how do you know I didn't just hurt my leg?"

"Coz ya' stride is even on both sides"

She looked up at him as they walked along with a questioning stare.

"People who've actually hurt 'emselves overcompensate with bigger steps on the other leg. Watch the lead player of Paralapse EDM, the one with the dodgy leg, you'll see what I mean"

"You like Paralapse?" Jessie asked casually but was secretly a bomb of excitedness ready to explode.

"To right I do"

She went off.

"So do I! They're my favorite!"

"Really? You're into EDM?"

"Only since I was like six!"

"EDM, video games and explosives, christ you're hot Jess. Ok, what 'bout favorite movie?"

That was easy for Jessie, "Selex down"

"Mine to yo"

"No way! No you're just saying that aren't you!?"

"Pfff to hell I am, the guy rides on the back of a freakin' nuke, it don't get any better than that"

"Oh god I love that scene!"

"You know they're releasing the second one in a coupl'a weeks right? Pretty hype"

"I am so hype!"

"Ok ok, what 'bout favourite color?"

"Purple"

"Red. Damn we were doing so well"

Jessie cracked up laughing again, something she seemed to be doing an absurd amount of during this date.

"Your favourite color is red?"

"After tonight it is" Reno replied, making eyes at her dress as they strolled along and Jessie shoved him away playfully.

"You're hopeless"

"They hired a doctor to try and make me less good lookin' for this undercover mission once, he said the same thing"

"Smoothe" Jessie chuckled shaking her head and making her curls bounce, there really was no other person quite like Reno.

Unexpectedly the man suddenly stopped walking next to her in the middle of the street and paused, making her stop as well and turn in confusion.

"Well we're here yo"

Jessie drew a blank on that statement at first but then looked around to see that they were only one street away from the tube entrance to the ghost hotel and if she had felt her heart sink earlier, then it had just hit the bottom of the sea bed now. Her date with Reno was now over.

"I guess it's that time of the night" she spoke casually as she exhaled slowly, saying anything that came to mind in an attempt to hide the gut wrenching feeling of disappointment from showing.

"Yeah... guess it is" he returned sullenly not even bothering to try and disguise the same feelings she had just put so much effort in to conceal.

It made Jessie gaze up at him in surprise, wondering if she could have ever anticipated in a million years that on a date with Reno, she would have been the least open and honest of the pair in displaying their emotions. It made her feel terrible, he had spoiled her, shown her an amazing time and had put real effort into this evening, the least he deserved now was her honesty.

"I've had the best time ever tonight Reno, you've made me really happy. I don't know how to thank you enough"

"Don't s'pose catching Selex down two is an option?"

The eighteen year old engineer felt a lump form in her throat and she shook her head, trying not to openly well-up in front of him.

"Didn't think so" he stared at the ground but then lifted his head with a difficult grin that was far from infectious this time, "well it was fun yo"

She forced her smile back "yeah, it was fun" she nearly whispered.

Boldly placing her hand on his arm she stepped up to Reno and stood up on her tip-toes to place a long lingering kiss to his cheek, feeling her eyelashes wetten against his skin.

"Bye Reno"

"Yeah, cya Jess"

Finding his goodbye too horrible to listen to she quickly turned and started walking away, not needing to look back to know he wasn't moving from the spot which made her exit feel all the more unpleasant. She liked Reno, she liked him a lot and now she swore angrily at herself for ignoring the miniature Tifa in her brain all night and allowing herself to become more emotionally attached to the man.

"Please just go, please just go" she trembled inaudibly over and over under her breath as she walked away with arms folded across herself, unsure whether she was begging it of herself or him.

With the clatter of her heels being freakishly amplified by the echo of the quiet empty streets, every step Jessie took away from him she felt her chest tightening more and more, becoming closer to tears until it was too overwhelming and she stopped. Turning back on the spot she didn't know what she was doing, all Jessie knew was she didn't want this to end and she marched back over to Reno at an urgent uncontrollable pace.

"Jessie?"

"I don't care anymore"

She threw her arms around Reno's neck and pulled him down to her mouth, greedily forcing their lips together in an entire evenings worth of pent up feelings and passion that she couldn't hold back any longer. Crashing into him her will to resist had finally broken and as Reno responded without hesitation to kiss her in return and wrap his hands around the back of her dress, she shuddered vigorously in his arms. She knew this was insane, she knew this was a huge mistake but it didn't matter anymore, Reno had her locked once again in that perfect fit against his body and no force on Gaia was going to give her the strength to break away from the irresistible heat of his body.

Giving into fate, Jessie kissed him over and over in a fiery open mouthed exchange, completely clueless and unpracticed at what she was doing but continued nevertheless, working on raw instinct alone to satisfy the craving that had been painfully building inside of her since the mines to taste and feel the Turk again. His hands were on the tight fabric of her clothing, his face so close she could feel his gorgeously hot breathing on her cheeks and that familiar firm and intoxicating sensation of making out with the assassin was making her stomach cramp giddily with butterflies. It felt like an instant relief to be with Reno like this again, a drug with an immediate kick but it still wasn't enough to satisfy the physical urge she had to be closer to him. Leaving one hand up on his neck that moved to clench lightly through the back of his softly spiked hair, Jessie took her other arm and slipped it inside of his always lazily unbuttoned jacket to hook around his waist while they kissed unendingly. She wanted to tell him, to scream it to him and show him how he made her feel. To prove to him that this was what she wanted and make him aware of just how much he had been filling her thoughts night and day for weeks. With mouth moving unthinkingly over and between the powerful rhythm of his, Jessie looked him straight in his delicious sea green eyes the entire time they kissed and it was making her heart pound fiercely that he was looking straight back into hers while she moved in whatever way felt natural.

"Ya' couldn't just walk away baby?" he teased against her lips while they caught their breath between kisses, scattering Jessie's shattered resolve even further as the deep rumble of his chest tremored pleasurably through her small frame.

Every time tonight that he had called her 'baby' she had been powerless to resist biting her lower lip, so now it was no surprise that his seductive goading was making her bite lightly down on his in an aggression that only he seemed to provoke out of her.

"Fuck the Turks and fuck AVALANCHE remember" she pushed back, pinching the front of his shirt as she closed her mouth on his again with even more enthusiasm for countless blissful minutes before breaking away to grab Reno's hand and look around.

Despite her brave claim that she didn't care anymore, she still didn't want to get caught by a probably patrolling the streets Tifa or any other member of AVALANCHE who might be out looking for her because she hadn't returned at the agreed upon time yet. An expectation that Jessie had given up on meeting well over two hours ago.

Taking her professional enemy by the hand she pulled Reno into the entrance of a dark side-road that they were stood near to and once they were out of sight she offered her mouth back up to him. He accepted and as if he had read her mind on what she wanted next, he placed her back against the wall, took both of her wrists in one hand and pinned them overhead. It was exactly what she wanted, to feel him in charge again, to be in that position where he could do whatever he wanted with her because for Jessie, there was something about feeling controlled by the red-head Turk that made her dizzy with lust.

With her body heating up at a thousand degrees a second and when exchanging mouths could no longer satisfy the desire between them, Reno started kissing at her neck, sending her hormones into immediate overdrive and making her heave. Drowning in the delicious sensation Jessie hugged both of her arms around his head as he buried his silky smooth face into the side of her throat, clutching onto the motorcycle goggles at his fringe.

"Tell me when it's enough baby"

Jessie made a sound in her throat that sounded something close to acknowledgement as his hands curved up from her hips and she let herself be taken in by the satisfying contact. She didn't think that with Reno it could ever be enough and as his hands continued up and pushed at the underside of her rapidly rising and falling breasts to meet what exposed cleavage she had with his mouth, that opinion still didn't change. Every touch from him felt expert and incredible, escalating the tension in her body until Jessie wanted to moan from it but she felt too embarrassed to do so. It made her feel bashful that she was heating up this much from simple over the clothes foreplay alone but knew if he kept this up for much longer, it wouldn't be long before he enticed the sound out of her that she was fighting to keep down. She had never experienced anything like this before, even during their last encounter at the mythril mines. Sure it had felt above satisfying and beyond exhilarating back then but it was nothing compared to how her body was reacting to him now. She had seen a whole new side to Reno tonight, a side she not only liked but adored to be around and it was as if having a stronger emotional attraction to the Turk was now amplifying the physical one tenfold. Arching up the wall she let him slide his hands around the back of her bare legs to lift her and while he held her up effortlessly, Jessie wrapped her legs around his midriff, no longer caring about the decency of her dress as she buried her hips against him.

"Do you have a room?" she breathily groaned, digging her fingers into the back of his shoulder blades as he continued toying with her in places she had never had the pleasure of being touched previously.

Reno grunted his yes and was back to kissing her lips, once again knowing precisely what she wanted and never leaving any part of her feeling neglected which made it nerve wrackingly clear to Jessie that he knew exactly what he was doing and was well experienced. A surge of scared-excited nerves of what they were going to do... of what she wanted to do flooded Jessie's burning body and just when it seemed like Reno was about to put her down so they could leave together, he stopped, pushed closer against her body and tensed.

"... huh?... Reno?... what is it?"

"Shhh, keep your eyes on me"

Jessie did so, becoming immediately alert as the tone of his deathly quiet voice and the serious look on his face told her he wasn't joking and something was wrong. Not taking her eyes off him, Reno slowly started kissing her again and she kissed him back in an almost robotic like fashion as if they were simply going through the motions while she watched him listening out intently. She tried listening to, but above the sound of her erratically beating heart and their combined deeper breathing she couldn't hear a thing.

And then she saw it, a flicker across his face that made her realize they were not alone and were being watched. Taking a deep breath close against his mouth and resisting the urge to look, she felt his hand travel up her dress and felt him gently usher the words "trust me" to her lips.

Jessie nodded and Reno's hand continued further up into her dress, brushing all the way up her leg and making her swallow hard as she felt him undo the leather belt at the top of her thigh and slip her concealed electro-mag rod discreetly out to press it into her hands that she placed behind her back. Casting her one last serious look he set her down gently on her own two feet then turned his head slowly towards the end of the alleyway that was concealed in a pitch black veil.

With casual idol steps Reno strut a few paces towards the darkness, smartening his outfit or more accurately, messing it up to just the way he liked it.

"Whoever the fuck you jerk offs all are, you'd better have a real good fuckin' reason for bein' over there"

Jessie nervously gripped her electro-mag, straining to see who was out there and then shrank in alarm as a big group of sinister looking men stepped out of the shadows on one side of the alleyway, punching Jessie's lungs with icy dread when she saw that they were all carrying weapons.

"Ahh Corel prison rats, so I'm guessin' this ain't about the arcade window yo?" Reno sniggered without the faintest sign of fear. "Now sumin' tells me you fella's didn't all win the Chocobo races to be allowed up here. If I were you, I'd take the chance to run while you have it"

Among the group of dirty looking criminals, a tall dark man with one disturbingly clouded over eye stepped forward carrying a crowbar and Jessie backed away frightened, tugging fearfully at her dress to try and cover herself up as much as possible as a number of the men leered at her with dangerously perverted stares.

"Hey honey! Don't stop on our account!"

"Fancy gettin' it on wiv' a bigger man now ya' all warmed up princess!?"

"Look at tha' tits on her!"

"They're so hot when their young, reckon she's even legal?"

"I hope not", "Not that tha' would matter"

They all started laughing.

"Next cunt who talks or looks at the girl again won't be leavin' this alley"

Reno sounded severely pissed off and though the creeps didn't back down, none of them were daring to speak or stare at her anymore.

"Hey! Ya' ain't in any position ta' be makin' threats asshole"

Jessie heard the knuckles on Reno's hands crack and knew this was not going to end well. But why? What did these men even want? Money? Just her!? If so she was in some serious trouble.

"If even one brain cell exists in that fuck ugly head'a yours, you would walk away now because pal… you really don't know who ya' messin' with here"

"Shut it Turk! We know exactly who ya' are. Now you an' ya' bitch are comin' with us!"

Reno started inhaling deeply and though she couldn't see his face, the anxious faces of the other ten or so men told her that the insult hadn't gone down too well with him.

"Jess, go the other way. Now"

Jessie had no intention of leaving Reno but still she quickly looked behind her towards their only other hope of escape and choked when she saw just as big and angry a looking group of armed men waiting at the other side. This was no random attack.

"Uhh Reno…"

He looked around briefly and his pupils dilated, then Reno backed up to place her protectively close behind him.

"See, ya' outnumbered Turk, now come quietly and we promise we'll be extra gentle with the lady"

"Hey fuck face, you wanna try bein' a little less prison scum cliche? Now whatever ya' problem is, we can scrap this out as much as you want… but the girl walks"

"Reno no!"

He cast her a 'this-is-not-up-for-discussion' glance.

"Awww hear tha' lads? The Turk wants ta' be a hero, isn't tha' sweet?"

"Makes me 'art wanna bleed!" another man holding a scarily big knife parroted back making them all snigger revoltingly.

"Well as admirable as tha' is Romeo, it's actually the girl we came here for"

Reno's hand tightened around her wrist and the other stroked at her other hand to check she was still holding the electro-mag rod and to tell her to be ready.

"What do you want me for!?" Jessie mustered the courage to bark back making the man's single eye narrow in on her.

"The boss has been following you and ya' little AVALANCHE friends since ya' came into Corel. It seems he don't much like one'a ya pals and you're gonna be tha' bait that brings 'em to us. Now I will admit, sadly he did say we had to bring ya' alive..."

The whole gang started boo'ing.

"… but he din't say shit 'bout bein' unharmed!"

Now they all started cheering and Jessie gulped but didn't cower away, she had become stronger than that.

"And what if I say ya' can't take her?" Reno challenged in her defense making them all go quiet again.

"Then this is gonna become rather unpleasant an' we'll take her anyway"

"Oh really… and just how willin' are ya' to die tryin'?" Reno's eyes flashed a deeper shade of venom as he stepped up to the one working eyed man who courageously squared back up to the Turk

"Quit the tough guy act punk, ya' can't take us all on"

The man made to shove Reno but in one deadly and effortless movement the Turk dodged, locked the leaders arm under his and Jessie's stomach turned violently when a loud snap cracked through the alleyway, followed by the man's painfully hysterical screaming as his arm was broken in half.

"You really don't have any idea who you are fuckin' with!" Reno bellowed in the man's face and with the arm he had intentionally kept free, he pulled his own electro-mag rod from the inside of his jacket, flicked it open and buried the vicious crackling sparks into the crook of the shrieking man's neck.

Jessie quickly swung her own version of the weapon from behind her back and as the lead Corel prisoner was thrown spasming across the ground, the rest of the gang came at them from both ends.

Both Jessie and Reno took up similar fighting stances and when the first two aggressors to get to them were swiftly dealt with by a throat closing punch to the jugular and a thousand volts to the groin, she could immediately see that Reno was not the kind who played pretty or nice. Watching the Turk in action for too long, the red-head engineer was painfully punished with an agonizing whip across her bare legs from a heavy chain that was swung at her from behind. The lash stung like hell and nearly brought Jessie to her knees as the corner of her eyes pricked with tears, knowing that was going to become a horrific bruise come tomorrow. Clenching her teeth angrily Jessie spun around and ducked as the same guy tried to whip her across the face. Hand touching the recognition sensor on her rod it sparked to life and she jammed the instrument into the foul looking guys chest in fury, vaulting him away inanimately upon contact.

Using what fighting skills traveling with AVALANCHE had taught her, when the next attack came she had to sidestep a punch from a man who had crudely attached razors to metal knuckle rings. The evade was clunky in the cursed heels she swore never to wear again but it did the job and when the next punch came flying in she had enough room to apply what Cissnei had taught her. Using the man's own weight and momentum against him she moved, grappled and accelerated him headfirst into the brick wall behind her then zapped him in the back for good measure to ensure he wouldn't be getting back up anytime soon.

Moving straight into focusing and channelling the fire materia she had crafted into the mag-rod, Jessie didn't waste any time in preparing for the next attack. The green materia glowed to life and when she turned, a man swinging a bat her way was ready to receive the scorching wave of heat that sent him running in the other direction yelping with second degree burns.

With three down she prepared for a fourth but a loud bang went off and in that moment of dread Jessie's first instinct was to look to Reno and was relieved to see he hadn't been shot. The red-head male was on the armed man in deadly efficiency, disarming the thug of his gun and then sent him packing with a kick and a blunt swing of his rod to join the large pile of bleeding and unconscious men that the Turk had created.

Seeing that Reno was taking out their allies at twice the speed Jessie was, the prisoners focused their efforts on overwhelming him so Jessie used another piece of technology she had been working on and set the electro-mag to a very different kind of setting all together. If anyone knew just how many countless night-time hours she had spent working on this particular invention they would either laugh at her or be impressed. Then as the chamber charged with a heavy buzz and unloaded a stream of crackling airborne electric that buried another attacker just as he was about to hit Reno, she got her answer when the man looked over at her impressed. Essentially wielding a bolt of thunder certainly felt awesome but not nearly as nice as seeing Reno's approval and she smiled back at him as they made eye contact for the briefest of moments.

"Jessie!"

Getting stupidly distracted again, suddenly the roots of her hair were spitefully pulled back and the eighteen-year old girl yelped as she was grabbed from behind, locked into a lung crushing grip and the sharp edge of some type of blade she couldn't see was put to her throat ready to slice.

"Drop the electric thingy's or I cut her!"

Reno paused in his advance to help her and everything froze, time standing still as nobody moved.

"I said drop 'em!"

Jessie couldn't help yelling out in pain as the man holding her hostage pulled her hair even harder and her weapon slipped from her fingers.

Reno snarled, encircled by the seven or so prisoners who remained and were aggressively pacing around him waiting to pounce. She could see his mind working on a strategy to get out of this but then when Jessie hissed as the knife at her neck drew blood, his eyes turned petrified and he stood upright and started backing down.

"Ok, ok!"

He held his electro-mag up in the air.

"Toss it" her captor demanded.

Reno growled angrily then looked directly at one of the nearby attackers and threw the rod at him.

"You! keep'a hold'a this, I'll be expectin' it back after I kill ya'"

"Now on ya' knees!"

"Reno I'm sorry!" Jessie cried as he slowly got down on his knees. It was all her fault for getting so stupidly caught off guard and not defending herself.

"Ya' did good doll, don't worry ya' hear, I'mma come get you baby… Any of you lay a finger or do anythin' to her an' I swear to fuckin' god, I'll do more than just kill you"

With that final warning and as tears rolled from Jessie's eyes, Reno was finally down on the ground and they rushed in to attack him, kicking and punching him as hard as they could over and over again in hateful revenge.

"NO! STOP! DON'T HURT HIM! RENO STOP FIGHTING!"

"Shut it will ya'!"

The back of Jessie's legs had a boot planted into them and she was forced down onto her knees, watching and screaming as they beat Reno viciously unconscious.

"STOP! LET HIM GO! STOP HITTING HIM!"

"Hey! Get this one out too! She's doin' ma' head in!" the harsh man restraining her called out to one of his friends.

"Please! I'll go wherever you want just please! Please don't kill him! If you do I won't tell you anything!"

Jessie panicked as the man who had been called to looked over at her and then went to take a bottle from a bag, unscrew the cap and spill some of its contents onto a rag and approach her.

"JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT! WHO IS YOUR BOSS!? WHERE ARE YOU TAKING US!? WAIT STOP! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!?"

The dust and dirt covered man carrying the cloth knelt down on one knee and stared at her in malevolent amusement.

"Where we're takin' you girly, you might not wanna keep askin' so many questions, your tongue won't last very long in ya' head if ya' do that"

He chuckled in enjoyment from her reaction and then his hand shot out in a flash and slapped the rag over her nose and mouth. The chemical sting was instant, hurting so bad that she tried to recoil but her head was being held and she had nowhere to escape.

Soon after came the choking, then the dizziness and then everything quickly started to fade.

The last thing Jessie heard before the darkness took her completely, was one of the men towering over her speaking on what she guessed but couldn't know for sure was a PHS.

"We're on our way back. Tell Dyne we got 'em"